mem_somerville, to climate
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In other news, this surprised me. I knew that they were planning it, but it is actually today!

New England's largest fossil fuel electric plant is shutting down today | Mystic Generating Station

"shuttering the plant shows the era of burning fossil fuels for electricity may have peaked, at least in New England"

https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/30/mystic-electric-station-massachusetts-closing

nygren, to random

here in tonight!

knizer, to boston
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#boston if you can’t see #aurora where you are try taking a picture with your camera. #somervilleMA

swachter, to science
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swachter, to cycling
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knizer, to boston
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Using the dryer rather than...just hanging things up is a not-eco-friendly American addiction, and I appreciate a well-built drying rack.

I saw a house in St Johnsbury, with 4x of these wall mounted rotary clothes airers on their porches and thought they were a great idea, and finally found the right search terms today for a source.

These should be everywhere in and - with all our high-density triple deckers.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Brabantia-Wallfix-79-ft-Outdoor-Dryer-Metallic-Gray/25896871

inliuofjoan, to random
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Hey what's that turkey doing up there!

swachter, to random
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Spent most of the last two days cutting out and interfacing a huge stack of messenger bags. I’m hoping to have these ready for on May 4-5 - I’ll be selling stuff in the Armory and will have lots of tote bags, aprons, and messenger bags for gamers, bicyclists, and nerds of all varieties!

mem_somerville, to random
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doormouse, to random

My union, the Somerville municipal employees association, has been without a contract for 650 days now. And the last time we got a raise was July 2021. We are the people who work at the public libraries, we are the people who clean and maintain the streets, we are the school nurses and the city hall clerks.

If you live in Somerville and have feelings about this, please consider contacting the mayor. The mayor is the one who ultimately decides whether we get a contract or a raise

lkngrrr, to boston
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swachter, to random
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I love the questions that living in brings up. Questions like, “Are squashed rats compostable?”

knizer, to random
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jeffluszcz, to random
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Found just enough snow on Prospect Hill to do a single and surprisingly dangerous ceremonial sled ride on the sled I bought yesterday in anticipation of the storm.

nygren, to somerville

The Public Library just digitized the Somerville Journal from 1870 to 1907 and I could spend days reading through articles in it…
https://somervillema.historyarchives.online/search?t=46665&i=f&d=01%2F01%2F1870-12%2F31%2F1996&bcn=1

Here's a fun story published in 1903 about the rise of automobiles in , including a debate over steam vs gasoline (steam was more popular but gasoline car owners were sure they were right). Also included is a comparison of the price of owning a horse. So much has changed, but so little has changed.

knizer, to random
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Did you know that between and , there's at least 8 different venues with machines? Check out the Pinball Map, an open source, crowdsourced worldwide map of public pinball machines.: https://pinballmap.com/map?address=somerville+ma

knizer, to somerville
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mem_somerville, to random
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This really is a story that feels like old . This guy was my alderman for years, and I was not sorry to see him go.

But the rest of the story...zoiks.

https://commonwealthbeacon.org/politics/the-last-of-somervilles-old-guard/

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lambdageek, to random
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From the former bird site:
February 13th, starting at 6:30PM
@MassDOT
will be hosting a public information meeting to share the current design for the long-awaited grounding of the McGrath Highway between Broadway and 3rd Street in
@CambMA

https://www.mass.gov/event/somerville-roadway-reconstruction-project-on-mcgrath-hwy-route-28-2024-02-13t183000-0500-2024-02-13t200000-0500

https://twitter.com/SomervilleInfr1/status/1747996367513907257

knizer, to boston
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itamarst, to random
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TooGoodToGo is an app that lets you buy excess food from restaurants and grocery stores.

We got a bag from Pemberton for $6:

  • $20+ worth of stale bread (sell-by-date of today). In the freezer now, will become a few weekends' worth of french toast.
  • Two freshly prepared foods with sell-by-date of today. Will eat tomorrow.
  • One packaged food with use-by-date of a few days ago. Probably fine but that will get composted.
  • One large pear that had a couple scratches.

mem_somerville, to random
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I wasn't relying on the NYT snow predictions, but I wanted to see how well they did.

It's not good. Do not rely on NYT predictions for a number of things, this included. I joked to my housemate that this was worse that their election ones.

mem_somerville, to random
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