Brendan Herr
@brendanherr.bsky.social
Buildings and cities. Dogs, too.
Found some of that missing snow
December 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Found some of that missing snow
Did a triple take this morning because I thought a P&W locomotive had been parked at the downtown skating rink
December 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Did a triple take this morning because I thought a P&W locomotive had been parked at the downtown skating rink
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Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Walter Payton uses a paper transfer to ride public transit on the 1979 RTA commercial.
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Pascoag, Rhode Island
Pop: 4,824
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Pop: 4,824
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascoag,_Rhode_Island
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November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The only way I know what the Pats are up to is seeing unusual aircraft movements to PVD.
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The only way I know what the Pats are up to is seeing unusual aircraft movements to PVD.
Got some glow in Providence
November 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Got some glow in Providence
I really hope this means the existing WF store becomes available for redevelopment. A 1-acre, C-2 site could easily yield 100+ new homes.
The former Eastside Marketplace in Providence will be the new home of grocery chain Whole Foods, city records show.
No word yet on what that means for the nearby location on Waterman Street.
www.wpri.com/business-new...
No word yet on what that means for the nearby location on Waterman Street.
www.wpri.com/business-new...
Whole Foods to lease former Eastside Marketplace in Providence
Eastside Marketplace closed down on Halloween last year, and speculation has been brewing over which business would take its place.
www.wpri.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I really hope this means the existing WF store becomes available for redevelopment. A 1-acre, C-2 site could easily yield 100+ new homes.
Maybe I’m a little more down the “he’s deep into suffering dementia” rabbit hole than I should be, but putting up signs in happy fonts to help someone find their own bedroom or own bathroom is exactly what you do for someone with dementia.
dawg not the steakhouse wedding font
New sign outside the Oval Office..
November 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Maybe I’m a little more down the “he’s deep into suffering dementia” rabbit hole than I should be, but putting up signs in happy fonts to help someone find their own bedroom or own bathroom is exactly what you do for someone with dementia.
I look at the sky a lot and this is by far the strangest thing I’ve ever seen up there. Was definitely a rocket, maybe the Sentinel satellite that went up this afternoon from French Guiana
November 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I look at the sky a lot and this is by far the strangest thing I’ve ever seen up there. Was definitely a rocket, maybe the Sentinel satellite that went up this afternoon from French Guiana
Oh yes, I Stan a cobblestone house.
November 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Oh yes, I Stan a cobblestone house.
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
Look at CMR 521
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
October 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Look at CMR 521
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The Boston Globe Editorial Board is running a whole series on the state’s excessive building code regulation over the next three weeks – single-stair, Massachusetts’s unusually low high-rise definition, and the mess of different septic system rules www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/21/o...
Roll back regulations to lower housing costs - The Boston Globe
The sheer volume of Massachusetts’ regulations can drive up the total cost of construction in significant ways. But some rules are no longer necessary.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The Boston Globe Editorial Board is running a whole series on the state’s excessive building code regulation over the next three weeks – single-stair, Massachusetts’s unusually low high-rise definition, and the mess of different septic system rules www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/21/o...
I love condensation ghosting season 👻
September 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I love condensation ghosting season 👻
I spent the whole holiday weekend with some people who live in a very rural, vacation-y place and I got like 2-3k steps each day. My daily average over the past year is about 13k.
The whole MAHA thing is funny. I don't doubt that we could do with fewer plastics and color dyes. But isn't the real problem obvious? Humans evolved to walk long distances, every day, and eat whatever trash we found along the way. But contemporary Americans literally never walk.
September 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I spent the whole holiday weekend with some people who live in a very rural, vacation-y place and I got like 2-3k steps each day. My daily average over the past year is about 13k.
I went to Lake George Village today and I’m pretty certain I will never go back.
September 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I went to Lake George Village today and I’m pretty certain I will never go back.
This is a RIPTA appreciation post
August 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is a RIPTA appreciation post
Appreciation for this Duck
August 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Appreciation for this Duck
That’s about as close as I like to be to a hurricane.
August 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
That’s about as close as I like to be to a hurricane.
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BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.
www.thecity.nyc
August 21, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Providence is where they mill the road surface and the ride quality for biking improves
August 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Providence is where they mill the road surface and the ride quality for biking improves
Checks out that Andrew and Betsy Wyeth designed this place
August 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Checks out that Andrew and Betsy Wyeth designed this place
Ok, so what you’re saying is Triggs should be closed, made mostly into an actual public park, with like 10% of the area made available for housing development.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/m...
A strip club, a golf course, and the most Providence lawsuit ever - The Boston Globe
Desire Gentlemen’s Club is suing Triggs Memorial Golf Course, the public course owned by the city of Providence.
www.bostonglobe.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Ok, so what you’re saying is Triggs should be closed, made mostly into an actual public park, with like 10% of the area made available for housing development.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/31/m...
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![Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic4f56ywseq7bqc7zza3y76pxyzn5c5htebrior6jdbrfszhuiquy@jpeg)
July 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM