aquaticpotato

aquaticpotato, 1 month ago to Massachusetts

some hammond pond parkway construction pics

cc: @streetsblogmass

#dcr #newton #massachusetts

View southbound standing on the bridge over the D Branch. The pavement over the bridge is intact, showing the former double yellow line dividing the two halves. The edge of the new pavement is just past the old double yellow.
View southbound just north of the intersection with the driveway to the Towers and the Chestnut Hill Mall. Same views as before, newly paved road taking up a little more than half of the right of way to the left, and an unpaved mess to the right.

Alon, 1 month ago to random

Fedi: cis men call me a mansplainer when my pronouns are right there and then refuse to back down

Bluesky: anti-Zionists who are (or say they are?) Jewish ask me what my grandparents did in WW2 when my username is my obviously Jewish real name and then don't engage when I bring up the Kaunas ghetto

(A five-minute video fragment of my grandfather's testimony, with English subtitles, can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK2aBS_aYJY; one of the turds on Bluesky went eerily silent when I posted the link)

Alon, 8 months ago to random

TIL American high schools cram all of world history into a one-year course and all of American history into another one-year course.