Shane Woolley
@shwoolley.bsky.social
Back-to-back Spy Pond Scummers Stone Skipping Superscrum champion, "Scottish Skim" category, 2023/24 🌹 Benevolent Cave Developer 🕳️
📍Boston area
📍Boston area
Visited a brutalist church in Boston and wrote about it on my blog: whereamiandwhatisgoingon.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/p...
Punchlist 1: First Church in Boston
The first entry of the Punchlist series is, fittingly, the First Church in Boston.
whereamiandwhatisgoingon.wordpress.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Visited a brutalist church in Boston and wrote about it on my blog: whereamiandwhatisgoingon.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/p...
At the elections board hearing this morning, the lawyer for the group that brought these anti-democratic objections argued that the ballot question's premise of Israeli occupation of Palestinian land was "fake" because, and I'm quoting her rhetorical question here, "What is Palestine?"
This morning, I submitted testimony to the Somerville Board of Election Commissioners — asking them to overrule the anti-democratic objections to the Palestine Solidarity ballot question and to proceed with placing the question on the municipal ballot today.
October 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
At the elections board hearing this morning, the lawyer for the group that brought these anti-democratic objections argued that the ballot question's premise of Israeli occupation of Palestinian land was "fake" because, and I'm quoting her rhetorical question here, "What is Palestine?"
Can't wait to see Bonehead at MetLife Stadium on August 31
August 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Can't wait to see Bonehead at MetLife Stadium on August 31
Me 6 years old: Wise One, teach me the Sacred Truths that I may survive this infernal plane and understand its awful beauty
My grandma: There used to be this song on the TV that went "Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't. Almond Joys got nuts. Mounds don't"
Me: I will never forget it
My grandma: There used to be this song on the TV that went "Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't. Almond Joys got nuts. Mounds don't"
Me: I will never forget it
July 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Me 6 years old: Wise One, teach me the Sacred Truths that I may survive this infernal plane and understand its awful beauty
My grandma: There used to be this song on the TV that went "Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't. Almond Joys got nuts. Mounds don't"
Me: I will never forget it
My grandma: There used to be this song on the TV that went "Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't. Almond Joys got nuts. Mounds don't"
Me: I will never forget it
Soon enough someone's gonna successfully challenge Moulton, but who's gonna step up to unseat Auchincloss, one of the Democrats' most conservative, warmongering hacks?
He only beat progressive rival @jessemermell.bsky.social by 1.4% in 2020. It can be done. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/26/n...
He only beat progressive rival @jessemermell.bsky.social by 1.4% in 2020. It can be done. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/26/n...
Two Mass. military vets in Congress break from Democratic consensus of outrage over Trump’s Iran strike - The Boston Globe
Representatives Jake Auchincloss and Seth Moulton struck a different tone on President Trump's Iran strikes than many of their Democratic colleagues.
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June 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Soon enough someone's gonna successfully challenge Moulton, but who's gonna step up to unseat Auchincloss, one of the Democrats' most conservative, warmongering hacks?
He only beat progressive rival @jessemermell.bsky.social by 1.4% in 2020. It can be done. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/26/n...
He only beat progressive rival @jessemermell.bsky.social by 1.4% in 2020. It can be done. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/26/n...
Providence has so many good buildings
June 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Providence has so many good buildings
Thank you President Trump for opening the streets of Our Nation’s Capital to pedestrians and cyclists! NUMTOT stands with you 🫡
June 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Thank you President Trump for opening the streets of Our Nation’s Capital to pedestrians and cyclists! NUMTOT stands with you 🫡
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“New York, Hatherley argues, has been in the grips of a hidebound dogma for roughly the past sixty years.”
Samuel Stein reviews Owen Hatherley's “Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects,” out from repeaterbooks.bsky.social, in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/mod...xe
Samuel Stein reviews Owen Hatherley's “Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects,” out from repeaterbooks.bsky.social, in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/mod...xe
June 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
“New York, Hatherley argues, has been in the grips of a hidebound dogma for roughly the past sixty years.”
Samuel Stein reviews Owen Hatherley's “Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects,” out from repeaterbooks.bsky.social, in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/mod...xe
Samuel Stein reviews Owen Hatherley's “Walking the Streets/Walking the Projects,” out from repeaterbooks.bsky.social, in NYRA no. 45. nyra.nyc/articles/mod...xe
First time checking out the new grand hall at South Station. Not bad, but if they keep the old hall as shuttered and dark as it’s been since they started building this thing, it’s lipstick on a pig
June 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
First time checking out the new grand hall at South Station. Not bad, but if they keep the old hall as shuttered and dark as it’s been since they started building this thing, it’s lipstick on a pig
Reposted by Shane Woolley
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
May 25, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Barely any mainstream coverage of this. Worcester cops help Trump’s gestapo rip a woman away from brave neighbors and her weeping 16 year old daughter, abduct her without a warrant, and it’s not even up on the main page of the @bostonglobe.com. Nothing at all from @wbur.org or @wgbh.org
A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...
They don't need a warrant
A federal kidnapping in Worcester
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May 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Barely any mainstream coverage of this. Worcester cops help Trump’s gestapo rip a woman away from brave neighbors and her weeping 16 year old daughter, abduct her without a warrant, and it’s not even up on the main page of the @bostonglobe.com. Nothing at all from @wbur.org or @wgbh.org
Thinking about moving back to ward 7 to run against this guy. #SaveThePitInTeele www.cambridgeday.com/2025/05/05/t...
Teele Square resident Michael Murray plans run for Somerville councilor to see the ‘Pit’ developed - Cambridge Day
The “Teele Square Pit” has been an unwanted landmark in West Somerville for more than 13 years. As a candidate for Ward 7 city councilor, Michael Murray intends to see the site developed.
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May 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Thinking about moving back to ward 7 to run against this guy. #SaveThePitInTeele www.cambridgeday.com/2025/05/05/t...
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Ice Agents in Worcester, MA RIGHT NOW attempting to take 2 women and a baby. City Council Member @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social attempting to help her. Please share far and wide ASAP!
May 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Ice Agents in Worcester, MA RIGHT NOW attempting to take 2 women and a baby. City Council Member @etelhaxhiaj.bsky.social attempting to help her. Please share far and wide ASAP!
Ugliest, most visually obstructive vehicle on the road and this guy couldn’t be bothered to park it within a two feet of the curb
May 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Ugliest, most visually obstructive vehicle on the road and this guy couldn’t be bothered to park it within a two feet of the curb
Reposted by Shane Woolley
Come see my band at Porchfest somervilleartscouncil.org/view/porchfe...
Porchfest – ITBAND, Kerosene – Somerville Arts Council
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April 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Come see my band at Porchfest somervilleartscouncil.org/view/porchfe...
This year’s Porchfest is being run on the premise that Guster could materialize on any porch with an army of 3,000 sweating millennials at any moment
April 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This year’s Porchfest is being run on the premise that Guster could materialize on any porch with an army of 3,000 sweating millennials at any moment
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Good Night New England! - Sunset from Boston Harbor!
April 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Good Night New England! - Sunset from Boston Harbor!
Wrote too much about the YIMBY book everyone's talking about over on my blog whereamiandwhatisgoingon.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/t...
The Search for New Pie: The Politics of Abundance, and its Alternative
This past month two liberal luminaries broke hot onto the podcast scene with a book that lays out a new agenda they hope will take Democrats back to the halls of power: Abundance. It’s the name of …
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April 1, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Wrote too much about the YIMBY book everyone's talking about over on my blog whereamiandwhatisgoingon.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/t...
If blanket upzoning is about to take off, cities need to adopt requirements for developers to pay for residents directly displaced by conversions and teardowns to temporarily relocate while construction takes place, and then move back into affordable units in the new denser buildings
February 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
If blanket upzoning is about to take off, cities need to adopt requirements for developers to pay for residents directly displaced by conversions and teardowns to temporarily relocate while construction takes place, and then move back into affordable units in the new denser buildings
Wrote a bit about planning school for my blog whereamiandwhatisgoingon.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/r...
Reflections after a semester of planning school
For the last few months I’ve been studying urban planning at Harvard University. Did you know that the president of Harvard was present when humanity first split the atom? That’s right—when, as one…
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February 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Wrote a bit about planning school for my blog whereamiandwhatisgoingon.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/r...
Question the motives of any “urbanist” who is against fare free transit because it “doesn’t actually work”
MeVa – the regional transit agency for Haverhill and Lawrence – used to collect $1.5 million a year in fare revenues. But going fare-free has produced over $2 million in benefits to the agency, its riders, and the regional economy.
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MeVa Study Finds Benefits of Axing Fares 'Far Exceed' Lost Revenue - Streetsblog Massachusetts
The MeVa Advisory Board voted on Thursday to adopt a "permanent" fare-free policy on all its routes.
mass.streetsblog.org
February 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Question the motives of any “urbanist” who is against fare free transit because it “doesn’t actually work”
For the last 5 years every time February rolls around and the snow starts sticking I am haunted by visions of a future that might have been… they guide me onward to one that could still be….
February 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
For the last 5 years every time February rolls around and the snow starts sticking I am haunted by visions of a future that might have been… they guide me onward to one that could still be….
Peter Navarro, Trump's senior counselor for trade and manufacturing who's leading the charge on protectionist trade policy, is yet another evil moron churned out by third-best-school-on-the-Red-Line Tufts University, up there with Anthony Scaramucci, Dan Crenshaw and Scott Brown. Roll bos!
February 2, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Peter Navarro, Trump's senior counselor for trade and manufacturing who's leading the charge on protectionist trade policy, is yet another evil moron churned out by third-best-school-on-the-Red-Line Tufts University, up there with Anthony Scaramucci, Dan Crenshaw and Scott Brown. Roll bos!