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2023 Boston Globe Magazine Bostonian of the Year

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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 7h
Dewterium oxide
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 18h
Not bad for a pilot
wwlp.com
Limited bus camera pilot found 26,000 violations
An automated camera enforcement pilot program on four MBTA buses captured 26,000 violations during a 30-day period in February.
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People will look at an 1899 electric bicycle and be like “ooh it’s heavy” “ooh it’s bulky” “ooh you’re riding around with four unsealed containers of sulfuric acid between your legs” and frankly this is why we are in a civilizational decline
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looking forward to this afternoon's meeting, with colleagues at the Railway Work, Life & Death project's partner institution, the @mrcwarwick.bsky.social. We're planning a project exhibition later this year, drawing on records of the ASRS/NUR Union (now @rmtunion.bsky.social) - watch this space!
Charity flag, sold by the NUR, to raise money for its orphans fund. Rusty metal pin, with white paper flag. Front shows a green steam engine, with 'Railway orphans' in red written around it.
Charity flag, sold by the NUR, to raise money for its orphans fund. Rusty metal pin, with white paper flag. Rear shows red text, reading 'National Union of Railwaymen. 2253 children supported in 1916. Annual cost £12,739. 1s. 9d.'
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Average Boston driver
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Rare solo Type 8
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Viaduct in the rain
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
CRRC build quality in action 🥴
A window on an orange line MBTA car. There is a gap between the top of the glass and the rubber seal and water is pouring in from the rain
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AHEM
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The chase
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Old Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Northwestern pasted Colorado and I saw this van in Cambridgeport so, good Saturday,
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The whole play, appreciate fox removing the scorebug before he did it
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Northwestern football
Every autumn I am shunned by my friends and neighbours. But I think I've finally broken the curse
Adrian Chiles
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Triskelion!
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gm
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
RP with ur home river
Sudbury River aerial shot, a meandering river through a wetland with forest on either side
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
More red light running at Ruggles
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Heretical take I know but the avanti is an *ugly* car The studebaker commander was a better loewy design by miles
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“The magazine of WHAT???” - Ms. HorselessAge
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max @bluebookvalue.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
if you’re looking at a ghibli or levante you should just give up on liking cars
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Absolutely wild endorsement on the back of this kids’ book
An endorsement on a picture book from “private varnish: the magazine of privately owned railroad passenger cars” which no longer exists sadly
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Don’t talk to me or my son ever again
A 30hp Packard and an 18hp Packard in a garage with their hoods up
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
More fine art
An English earthenware jug, c.1813. The body of the jug is in the shape of a snarling, sharp-toothed bear wearing an orange muzzle. The bear holds in his hands a monkey dressed in a blue military coat and an orange and yellow bicorn hat inscribed “boney.”  Around the bear’s neck is a collar reading “Bonaparte and his friend.”  The plaque text identifies it as a satire of napoleoons relationship with Russia in the aftermath of the invasion of 1812
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Now that’s art
An etching by Philip kappel of boxcars stacked in a ships hold
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
More red light running on Ruggles street directly outside BPD HQ 👍
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is peak
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
More highjinks in the woods
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The boneshaker route 🫨
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My weekend 😌
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Crossing Draw One with your rolling-bascule bestie >>>>>
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Your TV comes with a car now
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We’re so back
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Great sign for the commute when Acela rolls by at 10mph 😵‍💫
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We can stop 👍
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026
14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I saw an actual mummy driving a C4 corvette today And not a Boris Karloff type thing either I’m talking Ptolemaic at least
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/08/2026
20 books in the aubrey-maturin series, one season per book, eight to ten episodes per season, we're building a new hms surprise from scratch to film in and those actors are getting press ganged into a full decade of public service in the king's navy
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Gotta drive gotta drive Gotta drive to the beach Gotta drive on the beach Gotta drive
Bird protections frustrate Duxbury beachgoers at every tern
Duxbury is among the places in Massachusetts battling over beach access, as restrictions to protect nesting shorebirds have worked, and created more restrictions.
Billy Baker • Updated August 14th, 2026, 9:51 am
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DUXBURY — As Andrew Marshall drives up to the barrier on Duxbury Beach, he shakes his head. In front of him is miles of open sand.
For generations, the quintessential image of summer in this town was to see the shoreline of this 7.5-mile barrier beach lined with vehicles, tailgates down, surrounded by beach chairs and coolers, maybe a campfire at sunset.
"Closed for least terns," he says with a practiced frustration.
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Seaport in a nutshell - two Fisker Ocean courtesy cars illegally parked in the bike lane
Two fisker ocean electric SUVs wrapped in blue-and-orange advertisement for “GOloop” with “sustainable local transport & commerce” across the tailgate. They are stopped in a green painted bike lane
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Woah, never seen this style of bike rack for a coach bus before
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
12 year old subway surfing? Jesus
wcvb.com
Boy injured after climbing onto roof of Red Line train
A 12-year-old boy was hurt after reportedly climbing onto a moving MBTA Red Line train, prompting a police investigation.
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Peter Cheung @bostonaruban.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The data show that Somerville and Cambridge increased bike ridership while reducing crashes involving bikes. Boston reversed it's progress on this front in 2025.
brooklineinsights.com
Safer Streets Now: How Brookline Can Learn from its Neighbors to Achieve Vision Zero — Brookline Insights
Somerville, Cambridge, and Boston offer insights as Brookline strives to eliminate crashes resulting in deaths and serious injuries.
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hellooooo
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/08/2026
A decade ago, Florida stripped a teacher of her license for sexually abusing a 16-year-old. Last year, she opened a private school there with ease. As private schools fueled by taxpayer dollars proliferate, states are choosing not to closely regulate who runs them or what they teach:
propublica.org
Barns, Go-Karts and Strip Malls: The Wild West of Private Schools That Collect Taxpayer Dollars
As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Some of the most egregious red light running I’ve seen on Ruggles Street directly outside BPD HQ
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Gm
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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026
Concur. But more precisely, people believed that *mixed-traffic streetcars* were outdated. There was plenty of grade-separated rapid transit built during the postwar era: BART, the CTA Congress and O'Hare branches, the MBTA Green Line D branch...
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