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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈

@ojc.bsky.social
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🇺🇸🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈 | Tend to talk about climate, bikes, transit, infrastructure, politics | Opinions my own. 📍MA

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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Me watching from Worcester while Somerville cooks 😭
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Uuuggghhh 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very helpful video summary of the MA ballot questions. Vote NO on 3!!! Don’t let rich creeps buy our elections!! Don’t like Democrats? - Fund multiple D candidates to split the vote - Bribe any R candidates beyond 2 to drop out
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gah! Cambridge does so many things well. Finally made it over to see the new parking protected bike lanes on Broadway! So good!! I used to bike this a ton when I lived just off Broadway in 2019. This is so much safer and better now! 👏👏👏
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I love this quote from Edith Cavell. She was a British nurse who famously treated soldiers from both sides during WW1 in occupied Belgium. The night before she was executed by the Germans she said: “Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone.”
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_ra...
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m seeing these invasive lantern flies *all over* Worcester this summer..
Lantern fly
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you everyone who has come along! ❤️🙏
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
They should have a charity auction where the winners get the right to sledgehammer a section of the ballroom and take some commemorative bricks home kinda like the Berlin Wall. Sign me up!
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Commission approves my expansion plans 🙃 🇨🇦 should totally join. Europe is a state of mind more than a continent 🙂 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’m so very curious what I could have said to get blocked by Michael Mann 😅 I wondered why I hadn’t seen any posts from him..
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I couldn’t believe when I visited London last week and Hyde park looked like an actual desert. Always been hard to make the incremental impacts visible..
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I appreciate the city’s transparency and the efforts of DTM but this Is so bad (I doubt they’d disagree). Our real problem is most of our council who are car brained and will sacrifice any number of people if it means keeping the status quo and helping people get across the city 30 seconds faster 😡
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Tons of people!!
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Big crowd forming for critical mass tonight ❤️
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Vehicular cyclists get their way (left) Or Build infrastructure (right)
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Demands from the open letter: benjaminsiegel.github.io/enough-is-en...
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Not surprised to see shit door zone, paint only bike lane on Tremont. Awful.
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Labour, Tories, Lib Dems and Greens: I demand you stand down in Clacton.  I will be a unity candidate and pledge to build at least one affordable house.

Nigel Farage says he wants The People versus the Establishment. So be it.

Leave him to me.
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Melt Gelato and crepe cafe at Chandler and June is finally open!
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The issue as always is parking. But if this project gets derailed over a reduction of 9 parking spaces that would be just unforgivable. & of course, this includes a protected bike lane which will set off the reactionary councilors because they're insistent on keeping you in car dependency prison.
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
*So* much better.
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Oof at least this % went down but that’s disturbingly high still.. For me, learning about the math of gambling was one of the best inoculations against betting. It feels pointless when you know how it works. Heavy YMMV warning..
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I'm just surprised by this slate of supporters. I don't get it (Except the "Nonpartisan" former chair of MassGOP - that makes sense).
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
70% of Worcester Residents favor living in a mixed-use neighborhood and 92% (!) say walkability is important or very important. From a survey commissioned by the Worcester Chamber of Commerce in 2019 (not some woke urbanist org). www.worcesterchamber.org/wp-content/u...
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This economy? 🙄
Economist cover describing the us economy as the envy of the world
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Amazing sunset this evening 😍
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New multifamily housing starts cratered in May, almost to Covid April 2020 levels. Not good.
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Haven’t been here in a while.. How is so much of Comm Av by BU still very dangerous door zone bike lane?? @mayorwu.boston.gov this is going to kill someone (probably a kid) at some point.
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Pride blue bikes are back! 🥰🏳️‍🌈🚲
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Yeeesss!!! The RRFBs are going in at Chandler and Coolidge!! 😀 Sooo needed.
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Concept that I need to remember.. The lump of labor fallacy. I suspected this intuitively when debating with a MAGA acquaintance a while ago but I didn’t know it 🤦‍♂️
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Hooray! I can hear work underway at Cordella’s! 😍 Phew! I was worried because when I’d walked by recently I hadn’t seen much going on.. Love the new bike racks from DTM too!
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Auchincloss, Trahan, and Clark voted for this trash bill.
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I took our sensor outside.. looks fine.. I guess there was a problem with their data for some reason..
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
This should be a reminder that MTG is a total nut and just because she occasionally feuds with Trump, this does not make her any ally.
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
With his trademark snark, @nerd4cities.bsky.social does the calcs and shows that to replace the Lexington Av subway, you’d need THIRTY lanes *in each direction*. This is why cars can never be a transit replacement, no matter how good the automation. youtu.be/bdCyZSIRhww?...
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
New bike parking in front of Cordella’s! 😃🚲 I hope their renovation finishes sooon 🙏🙏🙏
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Trump’s “600% off” is very like the Brexit Bus £350M lie. The scam: Tell a lie about numbers that exaggerates something you want to publicise. - People correcting it spread the thing you want to publicise. - It casts your opponents as elitist nerds. @sturdyalex.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Why is there an abandoned engine and propeller on mass av in cambridge??
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Spectrum upload still totally broken. And download pretty awful. Can’t believe how long this has been going on for. Totally unacceptable.
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Never mind! CM Batista decided against it 🎉🎉🎉
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
In SF so I have tried a Waymo. Tech is very impressive. They obeyed the traffic laws better than virtually all human drivers. That said, it’s not the solution. It’s not a public transit replacement. Cars are simply too expensive and space inefficient.
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Bollards. Everywhere. H/t: @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Omg, It’s even worse. - The victim blaming headline - Saying at the beginning of the article that the victim was wearing headphones. - Burying *this* practically at the end of the article:
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Use of coal for electricity has shrunk 6% in the last decade. He's probably got 20-30 years left and solar is accelerating. His statement seems highly unlikely to be accurate (needless to say), and it's ignoring the plummeting use of coal.
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Just endless use for this these days..
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Oliver 🏳️‍🌈 @ojc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
[Worcester only post] Nu seating at Nu kitchen! I kinda liked the dark leather banquettes in that section but they were pretty beat up. Always nice seeing folks able to find fixing things. 🙂
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