knizer

knizer, 2 days ago to boston

#Boston - Weekend events thread: Memorial Day 2024 Edition. There's a ton going on around town, but what's on your radar, #NewEngland?

Friday's going to be hot again in the mid 80s, but Saturday and Sunday should be cooler/cloudier in the mid-upper 70s. Memorial Day Monday might have rainy afternoon cookouts, in the upper 60s.

(Promote this weekend's events with #BostonWeekend to play along 1/?)

knizer, 3 days ago to cooking

It’s hot this week, early in the year.

don’t what to have the oven on. What’s your go-to hot weather minimal stove usage/heat up the kitchen meal prep #recipe? #cooking #summer #weather

knizer, 5 days ago to cycling

look its the fediverse's own @bikepedantic featured on the local #BikeBus https://www.cambridgeday.com/2024/05/18/the-bike-bus-rolls-on-each-friday-in-cambridge-but-a-recent-kids-ride-was-more-like-a-parade/

#biketooter #cycling #cambridgeMA

knizer, 8 days ago to boston

This weekend of May 17th-19th, what's going on, #Boston ? What's the can't-miss event(s) you hope to enjoy?

(The #BostonWeekend Thread 1/?)

knizer, 14 days ago to boston

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

knizer, 16 days ago to boston

#Boston - What's happening this May 10-12th weekend? (besides Saturday's #SomervillePorchfest)?
#Massachusetts #NewEngland (The #BostonWeekend Thread (1/?)

knizer, 1 month ago to boston

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, #Vermont 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 #SomervilleMA and #boston - with all our high-density triple deckers.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Brabantia-Wallfix-79-ft-Outdoor-Dryer-Metallic-Gray/25896871 #solarpunk

knizer, 2 months ago to newhampshire

More terf nonsense passed, in the #NH House, headed to the #NewHampshire Republican controlled Senate, seems likely to pass. https://www.nhpr.org/education/2024-03-21/nh-house-votes-to-ban-trans-girls-from-girls-sports-teams #Sigh #NHpol #LiveFreeOrDie #USPol #sports #trans #NewEngland #TitleIX

knizer, 2 months ago to boston

#Boston - Should you see a lost cosplayer or otaku struggling with our #MBTA system, trying to get to #PAXEast con at 415 Summer St, approach with a soothing voice, saying 'hello comrade geek, the Silver Line is a bus, yet not a bus.'

If they're already at South Station, let them know that they could walk over Summer Street bridge in about the same time as it would take to figure out the Silver Line. The scenery is better, too. https://east.paxsite.com/

knizer, 2 months ago to random

I dislike the part about firehose ephemeral social media where you see something, scroll away, and since infinite scroll is a thing or you otherwise navigate away - its ....gone, poof. And you might be able to re-find it if you're lucky, but Search is inconsistently applied.

Q: Are there any Mastodon apps/interfaces/forks that keep tabs on, like, your last 1000 posts seen (e.g. actually displayed on your viewer for more than .5 sec), maybe across the enhanced web interface? #AskFedi

knizer, 3 months ago to random

Y'all, there's ~6 days left to get your mail-in-ballot for the March Presidential Primary on #March5th https://www.somervillema.gov/departments/elections #MApoli

knizer, 3 months ago to random

hey we're getting a bookstore again? Welcome #NarrativeBookshop to #DavisSquare #SomervilleMA (in March, maybe?) https://www.cambridgeday.com/2024/02/12/narrative-bookstore-prepares-march-opening-filling-a-davis-square-void-and-owners-dream/

knizer, 3 months ago to random

🚨 🍩 Pączki Day is tomorrow, Thursday February 8th 2024! 🍩🚨

Polish friends, prepare for inbound #donuts. #TłustyCzwartek #FatThursday

knizer, 3 months ago to random

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

knizer, 3 months ago to somerville

Somerville Wire shutting down https://somervillemedia.fund/editorial-somerville-wire-shutting-down/
#SomervilleMA #Somerville #Massachusetts #Boston

knizer, 3 months ago to random

Rabbit Rabbit!

knizer, 4 months ago to internet

#Broke & in the USA? You've got until this Feb 7th to enroll in the Affordable Connectivity Program, which knocks 30$/month off of you #internet bill, and offers a 1x tech hardware purchase benefit.

There's a variety of ways you can qualify besides having HH income >200% of the Federal #Poverty Guidelines, including receiving

• a recent #PellGrant
• Federal #Housing assistance
• discounted school lunches
• #Medicaid
• #SNAP
• #WIC
• Veterans Pension/Survivor Benefits
• #SSI
• assorted #Tribal Lands/ #Native benefits

Full details:
https://www.fcc.gov/acp

knizer, 4 months ago to boston

One can now borrow an air quality monitor from the #SomervilleMA Public Library https://somerville.minlib.net/Record/.b42409299

#LibraryOfThings #Minlib #Boston #massachusetts #library #covid

knizer, 4 months ago to boston

Who's making #KingCake near #Boston?

knizer, 5 months ago to somerville

When /r/somerville on reddit was asked: "What is the most used #Somerville online forum?" one user wrote the following take:

"As others have noted, facebook tends older and more conservative (the Davis Square group is -legendary- for toxicity), Reddit tends younger and more hyper-online, Mastadon is great if you want to talk exclusively with people who agree with you (not a bad thing, just something to be aware of), Bluesky is still a walled garden, Nextdoor -is- a trash fire, Instagram can't figure out what it wants to be, and nobody uses Threads."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Somerville/comments/18fnbsd/comment/kcxezm1/ #SomervilleMA

knizer, 6 months ago to graffiti

Recent #Graffiti seen in at least 2 places along the GLX Community path. I think these are really abstracted, simple letterforms, but I could use some help. My best transcription is:
BOD
SICK

Does anyone recognize this specific writing style or the artist? #Boston #Massachusetts #art #letterform

knizer, 7 months ago to random

Achievement unlocked: #Novavax in the arm.

knizer, 7 months ago to random

Despite breathless reporting by our local media outlets, I continue to not see the big deal about the gauge issue for the #GLX .

The problem is a bummer but it sounds super fixable, and folks are making a big deal over a nothingburger story. Folks seem to be getting outraged for reasons I don't understand. Y'all had bad requirements document and now have bad results, so to be safe you've got to move a bunch of rail over a eighth inch. #MBTA #MAPoli

knizer, 7 months ago to boston

Avenue Victor Hugo Books, beloved #BackBay #bookstore that was a fixture on #NewburyStreet for nearly 30 years, was the place in #Boston to buy used #books And in 2016, they closed up shop and moved into a a 250-year-old post-and-beam barn in #newhampshire .

Friend, its time - they're thinning the herd and closing up their retail storefront, with the aim to move to online-only sales after the end of October 2023.

Head on up to browse the shop in #LeeNH - 50% off all books, Fridays and Saturdays, through the end of the month.

https://www.avenuevictorhugobooks.com/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1282819179272299/1282819192605631/

knizer, 7 months ago to Massachusetts

50 years ago today: the great fire in #ChelseaMA - 18 city blocks burned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chelsea_fire_of_1973
#Massachusetts #Boston #TIL