Wholly Diver
@aluminumeighty.bsky.social
Boston lover, maker of charts & graphs, pedaling enthusiast. I'm all set, pal!
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Time to post this banger again
January 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Time to post this banger again
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Worth noting that cycle advocacy isn’t arriving from the cycle community alone.
A Better City is a “business-league” nonprofit deriving roughly 75% of revenue from business members, serving as an advocate for those members.
In other words, the corporate sector has embraced cycling.
A Better City is a “business-league” nonprofit deriving roughly 75% of revenue from business members, serving as an advocate for those members.
In other words, the corporate sector has embraced cycling.
OPINION: Bluebikes ridership has soared in Greater Boston. While there is no single solution to our many transportation challenges, the growing popularity of Bluebikes is showing that the region’s public bikeshare […]
E-bikes are supercharging the Bluebikes system - and that's a good thing - CommonWealth Beacon
Bluebikes ridership has soared in Greater Boston. While there is no single solution to our many transportation challenges, the growing popularity of
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November 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Worth noting that cycle advocacy isn’t arriving from the cycle community alone.
A Better City is a “business-league” nonprofit deriving roughly 75% of revenue from business members, serving as an advocate for those members.
In other words, the corporate sector has embraced cycling.
A Better City is a “business-league” nonprofit deriving roughly 75% of revenue from business members, serving as an advocate for those members.
In other words, the corporate sector has embraced cycling.
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Thank you to Ironheart for reminding me of this absolute banger youtu.be/rcAv1cGAeXE?...
Ain't Nobody
YouTube video by Chaka Khan - Topic
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November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Thank you to Ironheart for reminding me of this absolute banger youtu.be/rcAv1cGAeXE?...
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I like these sidewalk-level bike lanes that also have separation from pedestrian space on the sidewalk with pretty materials like cobblestone and/or trees.
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I like these sidewalk-level bike lanes that also have separation from pedestrian space on the sidewalk with pretty materials like cobblestone and/or trees.
This begs the question: where did the soft serve come from, kid?
How Massachusetts am I? Just ate soft serve in the car in the Market Basket parking lot. It's 39 degrees out. You know you can hear the accent this information is conveyed in.
November 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This begs the question: where did the soft serve come from, kid?
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"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter."
Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"A city's priorities become as clear as the spaces they choose to maintain in the winter."
Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
Creative done with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
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🎃 Curious what do with your pumpkins after Halloween? Don’t trash them, smash them!
In partnership with Garbage to Garden, Mothers Out Front, and South Street Youth Center, join us this Saturday, November 1, from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at English High School.
More info: www.boston.gov/calendar/202...
In partnership with Garbage to Garden, Mothers Out Front, and South Street Youth Center, join us this Saturday, November 1, from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at English High School.
More info: www.boston.gov/calendar/202...
October 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
🎃 Curious what do with your pumpkins after Halloween? Don’t trash them, smash them!
In partnership with Garbage to Garden, Mothers Out Front, and South Street Youth Center, join us this Saturday, November 1, from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at English High School.
More info: www.boston.gov/calendar/202...
In partnership with Garbage to Garden, Mothers Out Front, and South Street Youth Center, join us this Saturday, November 1, from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at English High School.
More info: www.boston.gov/calendar/202...
@thebugle.bsky.social Another example of sport conquering all?
Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.
October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
@thebugle.bsky.social Another example of sport conquering all?
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Agreed! We should be empowering our cities and towns to take action to address local challenges, not hobbling them. #mapoli
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu calls for state to repeal Prop 2½ law limiting annual increases in property tax collection - The Boston Globe
The law allows municipalities to increase the total amount they collect in property taxes every year only by 2.5 percent, not including tax revenue from new developments.
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October 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Agreed! We should be empowering our cities and towns to take action to address local challenges, not hobbling them. #mapoli
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/24/m...
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Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one
October 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one
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Just a periodic reminder that #CityofBoston cannot afford to lose a single square inch of its better and safer walking, cycling, and transit infrastructure. We actually need to install much, much more of it as fast as humanly possible.
October 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Just a periodic reminder that #CityofBoston cannot afford to lose a single square inch of its better and safer walking, cycling, and transit infrastructure. We actually need to install much, much more of it as fast as humanly possible.
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Bluesky is real life.
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
October 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Bluesky is real life.
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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Biked home from Open Streets on Blue Hill Av in Mattapan via Cummins Highway & the road reconstruction includes the sidewalk level bike lane 😍. This is world class micromobility infrastructure! @jfh01.bsky.social @mayorwu.boston.gov @ruthzee.bsky.social @bikeboston.bsky.social @mattapan.boston.gov
October 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Biked home from Open Streets on Blue Hill Av in Mattapan via Cummins Highway & the road reconstruction includes the sidewalk level bike lane 😍. This is world class micromobility infrastructure! @jfh01.bsky.social @mayorwu.boston.gov @ruthzee.bsky.social @bikeboston.bsky.social @mattapan.boston.gov
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Mayor Michelle Wu at the protest today: “What scares them about Boston is that we are the America they say is impossible.”
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Mayor Michelle Wu at the protest today: “What scares them about Boston is that we are the America they say is impossible.”
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Stop by one of our free vaccine clinics open now through mid-December. Check the schedule and find which vaccines are available at boston.gov/vaccineclinics. #Boston #PublicHealth
October 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Stop by one of our free vaccine clinics open now through mid-December. Check the schedule and find which vaccines are available at boston.gov/vaccineclinics. #Boston #PublicHealth
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October 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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What a perfect formulation:
“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
What a perfect formulation:
“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
“This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
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Instead of the next judicial education session, all the judges watch this tiktok instead.
September 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Instead of the next judicial education session, all the judges watch this tiktok instead.
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The cowardice of the elites is a defining feature of America in 2025
Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
September 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The cowardice of the elites is a defining feature of America in 2025
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Prop 2 1/2 is terrible policy. It was bad back when it passed during the peak of anti-tax fervor, and it's even worse now. It's an assault on basic city services. Glad to see Michelle Wu call it out. massterlist.beehiiv.com/p/in-front-o...
Poking at Prop 2 1⁄2
Plus: Healey-backed nonprofit One Commonwealth launches ad campaign
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September 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Prop 2 1/2 is terrible policy. It was bad back when it passed during the peak of anti-tax fervor, and it's even worse now. It's an assault on basic city services. Glad to see Michelle Wu call it out. massterlist.beehiiv.com/p/in-front-o...
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Just a periodic reminder that #Boston can’t afford to lose a single square inch of our better and safer walking, cycling, and transit infrastructure. We actually need much, much more of it as fast as it can be installed.
September 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Just a periodic reminder that #Boston can’t afford to lose a single square inch of our better and safer walking, cycling, and transit infrastructure. We actually need much, much more of it as fast as it can be installed.
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Echoes of Enrique Peñalosa's “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation."
Mamdani: We need to make public transportation so good that “no matter how much money is in your pocket, you say: I’m gonna use this.”
September 7, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Echoes of Enrique Peñalosa's “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation."
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I want to see massive upzoning of San Francisco's affluent low density neighborhoods and commercial corridors. I don't care about neighborhood preservation generally. I do care about further displacement of working class communities. 1/2
California will do anything to save democracy — except build housing
OPINION: Republican states like Texas are undergoing building booms and positioning themselves for a demographic takeover. Meanwhile, California dithers, the Editorial Board writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I want to see massive upzoning of San Francisco's affluent low density neighborhoods and commercial corridors. I don't care about neighborhood preservation generally. I do care about further displacement of working class communities. 1/2
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Parents writing indignant letters about an elitist and exclusionary public school goes back hundreds of years, and I’m in good company.
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Chuckling at this nugget in the new Charles Sumner biography – this about his father Pinckney.
The more things change the more they stay the same, I guess!
I see you, Pinckney Sumner!
The more things change the more they stay the same, I guess!
I see you, Pinckney Sumner!
September 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Parents writing indignant letters about an elitist and exclusionary public school goes back hundreds of years, and I’m in good company.
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