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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 2h

TFW you have arepas for lunch, and then get home and your family just wants to punt on cooking and order more arepas.

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Girl's Mischievous Tee Hee Smile

ALT: Girl's Mischievous Tee Hee Smile

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cars, welcome to The War on Cars.

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 29/09/2026

The storm clouds may have blown out to see, but there's still this heavy mist blowing around. It's like after three days of near-constant rain, the air has forgotten how to not have water in it, and it's going to need a day or two to dry out.

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

HAPPY DOLLY PARTON DAY, ERRBODY!

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 24/09/2026

Apparently one of our neighborhood eyesores burned down this morning. I _thought_ I smelled smoke when I was getting up.

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Fire rips through vacant home in Somerville

A fire damaged a vacant home early Thursday in Somerville, Massachusetts.

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 23/09/2026

We should make sure Kash Patel gets a complimentary 90-day subscription to a credit monitoring service, just like the rest of us get when this happens to us.

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 23/09/2026

I found this to be a very thoughtful article on a few of the problems of AI in higher ed. Archive link because the Globe doesn't have a concept of general-purpose gift links the way the NY Times (e.g.) does. archive.is/b0Wzi

archive.is

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Then walk out. Talk is cheap

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Jim Aloisi @jimaloisi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The #mapoli MAGA candidate for governor wants to suspend the state gas tax when prices go over $4/gallon. His plan for responding to federal foreign policy folly is to disinvest in our transportation system. A better plan would be to make commuter rail free while gas prices exceed $4.

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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 18/09/2026

My favorite moment in @nytimes.com history was when owner Henry Raymond set up machine guns on the roof to defend the paper against a mob protesting his support for the draft during the Civil War. Let's see A.G. Sulzberger top that! werehistory.org/gatling-gun/

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Richard Jordan Gatling and His Gun

The Gatling Gun was perhaps the most under-utilized weapon in the Union’s arsenal.

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 18/09/2026

Unfortunately, there's a correct answer to the Kennedy Center thing: Put the cry-baby's name on it, and take it back off in three years when he's out of office. It's not like court orders telling him he can't destroy things do any good with this vandal. Do you want to save the building or not?

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 18/09/2026

My youngest sister and her kids lost their dog, Lulu, tonight. RIP sweet girl. But you can tell which niece takes after me: M has already asked if anyone minds if she send's Lulu's skull off to be macerated and cleaned so she can keep Lulu on her bookshelf. 💀

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Charles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 17/09/2026

Damn.

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 16/09/2026

The most tiring thing about GenAI at work isn't the bots themselves, but the true-believers who trust the bots over my expertise. If the bot is wrong when I ask it to do work, I can correct it. Many humans get huffy and defend the bot's answer as having some sort of intrinsic correctness.

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 16/09/2026

Ishtar Y'all weren't expecting that one, were you?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And here's the opinion, in case you need that too, @apnews.com. The judge made it clear this wasn't some sort of "dispute." It was the board ignoring express terms in FEDERAL LAW, bc the board is comprised of sycophantic Trump loyalists. Covering this correctly isn't hard!

courtlistener.com

Order on Motion for Injunction AND Order on Motion to Stay – #77 in BEATTY v. TRUMP (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-04480) – CourtListener.com

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER granting in part and denying in part Plaintiff's 67 Emergency Motion. See full Memorandum Opinion and Order for details. Signed by Judge Christopher R. Cooper on 09/15/202...

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 15/09/2026

This is unquestionably good news. But I don't trust the rat-fuckers not to try to fuck rats, so I'll be casting my ballot in person in November.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Honestly whichever PR company that this firm has hired should charge double - absolutely none of these features are interesting, they make terrible television, 'Tilly' is boring and creepy, and yet networks keep running her!

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 12/09/2026

"Wonderfully rich and nutty" could describe some people's perfect college boyfriend as well.

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think getting older means having more you want to say, but less desire to express it

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 11/09/2026

Stuff like this is why I can't take anyone seriously who both claims to be both halachikally observant and also a Trump supporter. This is just textbook avodah zarah. You have to pick: Torah or Trump. Anyway, Shanah Tovah everyone!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

imagine being a menswear writer and having to go back to writing about this fall’s best socks after reading anthropic employees say AI might destroy humanity in a few years

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 07/09/2026

TFW it's your parent's yahrzeit, and you didn't even realize/remember until after 5PM. 😔 And I only remembered because of @blank.org's skeet about where a recruiter got their number (because my mother would give my number out to any random weirdo who asked for it, and probably my SSN, too).

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My ‘Protect Trans Futures’ shirt gets more compliments than any other piece of clothing I own.

A white man wearing a tie dyed shirt that says ‘protect trans futures’ in front of Seth Moulton’s office.

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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 03/09/2026

Update: @cambbikesafety.bsky.social notes that Rose is the 5th person to be killed walking or biking along Memorial Drive since 2014. They've set up an online petition calling on @massdcr.bsky.social, which controls Memorial Drive, “to make major, permanent safety improvements now.”

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 03/09/2026

Story time! I grew up in South Texas, about 5 miles from South Padre Island, so we went to the beach regularly. Sometimes we'd have big influxes of Portuguese man o' wars. Hundreds of them would end up on the beach, drying out in the Texas sun. 1/6

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Portuguese man o' war - Wikipedia

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Darren Buck @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

there's a big latent demand to live here, and meeting that is the morally right thing to do

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026

moulton is a good example of someone who fucked up his career because he misread 2024. many such cases.

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 01/09/2026

This is a really good analysis of the now-abandoned proposal to build a residential tower in Somerville, MA.

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 31/08/2026

Five artists I've seen at least twice: The Damned Killing Joke Battlefield Band Altan Ozomatli

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Ilene Tatroe (she/they) @murphgrrl.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google now has Lake Ontario as Lake America (but only for those of us in the US). Let Google know this is THE DUMB. Click the three dots next to "Lake in North America" and Send Feedback. I told them the information is Incorrect and it is Lake Ontario.

Screen grab showing Google search for Lake Ontario returns Lake America and how to send feedback (at least form my laptop).

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 30/08/2026

Just a quick reminder: If I'm ever killed by a motorist while cycling, I usually have a couple of video cameras on my bike (a GoPro Hero 10 on the front and a Garmin RCT-715 on the back). And make sure the cops check them. So... other than that, how was everyone's Saturday?

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Cillian Kelly @cilliankelly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s perfectly fine to feel great sadness and empathy for Pog while also taking some happiness that this bike race will be more interesting as a result. Bike races are complicated. People are complicated. It’s possible to feel two things. It is normal.

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 29/08/2026

You never think about how good modern LED lightbulbs are until one burns out, and you realize that bulb had been in daily service for at least a dozen years.

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League of American Bicyclists @bikeleague.org · 27/08/2026

ACTION ALERT 🚨 Right now, the Senate is considering adding language to the transportation reauthorization bill to restrict bike lanes. Tell Congress: funding for bike safety projects MUST continue! Take action: action.bikeleague.org/page/101946/...

Action alert graphic. A man holds a sign next to a bike lane that says "Everyone deserves safe streets!" Below the image is white text on a black background: "Tell congress: Funding for Bike Safety Projects MUST Continue! bikeleague.org/action-center"

Action alert graphic. White text on a black background: "Congress Must Save America's Bike Lanes
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy erased the data that shows bike lanes reduce crashes and don’t cause congestion. Then he asked Congress to defund all bike lanes — and even remove bike lanes from busy roads.

Now, Congress may be listening: the Senate is considering adding language to the transportation reauthorization bill that would restrict what kinds of roads could have bike lanes on them at all.

We need everyone in Congress to hear us clearly: bike lanes save lives and bicyclists have a right to ride on the roads and get home safely.

Tell your elected representatives: vote NO on any transportation reauthorization bill that would restrict the ability of federal funding to be used on bike safety projects. bikeleague.org/action-center"

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 28/08/2026

Seriously, NBC, you need to get Bobke to stop saying dumb shit like "I thought I detected a Scottish lilt to [Onley's] English accent." Oscar Onley is Scottish (raised in Kelso). He does not have an English accent. This is not hard. Say what you will of Phil Liggett, but he'd get this right.

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 27/08/2026

Time to mobilize the hug_ops crews for everyone at Twitch, who are having a very "GTA6 launch" kinda day.

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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 27/08/2026

Lake Ontario - Aug 27, 2026 (bike for scale)

Photo of the front half of a green and white gravel bike leaning next to a fallen tree on a beach on the shores of Lake Ontario

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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Can Canada adopt Ohio? We'd be "OH, Canada."

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 26/08/2026

I see Cambridge has put new flex posts on the bike lane in front of Harvard Law School. I'm taking bets on how long they last.

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Georgia Dunn @georgiadunnbcn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And that’s why it has endured for so many years, in addition to the humor, the camp, and the fun, and so much of that sentiment was earnestly carried by Tim Curry. Who put 1,000% into every performance he ever (and always) nailed perfectly. youtu.be/1NeWEs4qQG8?...

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I'm Going Home

YouTube video by llulluss

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Georgia Dunn @georgiadunnbcn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“You’re good exactly the way you are, in fact, you’re GREAT. And it’s going to be ok, but you’ve got to go be yourself and live life on your own terms, and you’ve got to do it now because this is all fleeting.”

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Georgia Dunn @georgiadunnbcn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a movie that starts off fun and silly and campy and then 2/3rds of the way through quietly takes all the queers and weirdos aside and tells them… (1/3)

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 26/08/2026

I can't tell if Worldle is messing with me or if my screen has some schmutz on it.

A worldle map showing two vertical lines with a couple of dots on either side of them. Or maybe there's just dust on my screen.

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Darren Buck @bikepedantic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don’t know that I’ve ever wanted Donald J. Trump to not tweet anything more than I don’t want him to tweet one goddamn word about Dolly Parton.

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 25/08/2026

My controversial take on Dolly Parton: she was *way* more interesting as a Bluegrass artist than as a Country & Western artist.

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Dolly Parton - Little Sparrow.

YouTube video by 머니다이어리

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R. S. Y. Buchanan @rsybuchanan.com · 25/08/2026

Greater Boston cycling friends: Does anyone know of a shop that does maintenance work on turbo trainers? Our Wahoo Kickr Core has >10,000km on it, and has started making a little "tink tink tink" noise, the source of which I have yet to pin down. Someone has to service these, right?

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