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knizer

@knizer@toot.boston

As a way to build local community here, I compile a #BostonWeekend thread most weeks, sharing New England-ish events, and I hope you'll follow/use that tag yourself if you find the posts to be useful.

Eldritch, feminist, neuro-spicy, anti-fascist, pinko. Quadragenarian, born @340ppm. Product manager.

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knizer, to boston
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The is almost upon us! Top tier stuff to do in the coming days:

See that Scottish by on the - Free - 8pm - most nights through 6 August

https://commshakes.org/production/macbeth/

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- - Fest Saturday, July 22 noon-6p - Free - Mary Hannon Playground, 621 Dudley St

https://creativeculturalarts.org/

lineup:
From Boston- 12:00pm
- 1:00pm
- 2:15pm
- 3:30pm
&
featuring - 4:45pm

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knizer,
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& - Saturday 7/22 @1130am - pack a lunch, and take the ferry out to to watch Old Timey baseball played to Civil War era rules in historic Fort Warren. What? The game is free, but the ferry ticket costs.

v.

https://www.bostonharborislands.org/event/vintage-base-ball-3/


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and has an after-work street party - starting FRIDAY 7/21 around 5pm in https://www.harvardsquare.com/harvard-square-bastille-day-celebration/

Eat some , sip some wine, and enjoy live music with fellow francophones at this rescheduled event. (3/?)

misc, to random
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Does having money turn people into assholes or is it the other way around?

knizer,
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@misc I know zero people who do not have assholes so I can't speak to whether that results in turning people into money.

knizer, to boston
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I am willing to drive an hour from for really, really good takeout biscuits and gravy, on a rainy July today.

Where am I going, ?

knizer,
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@nuncio right? And fwiw, redbones has biscuits with peach jam on the menu.

Hmmmm. The nearest Waffle House is 5 hours away... https://goo.gl/maps/Zr3qgQjFBSUWVn6k7

knizer,
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@nuncio totally still is, and it is a viable option, but there has to be better biscuits somewhere, worth the drive.

knizer, to boston
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Eyyy its time! These folks live in/around and I always look forward to their posts here:

@brucy
@itamarst
@BryanLastRedDrop
@max_in_somer
@vida_latina
@mem_somerville
@wx1g
@crschmidt
@bikepedantic

This week I put together a events summary - please give it a boost if you're local: https://toot.boston/@knizer/110707237846806375



knizer,
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@wx1g you do good toots! Keep up the good work :)

knizer, to boston
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Hey - Let's talk weekend of July 15-16

Number one on my list is - on Saturday July 15th - 1030am-9pm

Music, dance, food, crafts, community: This year's theme is
https://somervilleartscouncil.org/artbeat/2023

knizer,
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Friday-Sunday is
in - if you're a book reader in , a bunch of your favorite creators hip to the fediverse will be there - @jeffvandermeer @Annvander18 @charliejane @annaleen @clarkesworld

I'm also happy to report that the event has a rigorous mask/vax policy because . Thanks, organizers.

https://readercon.org/ (2/?)

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Open Street in 's on Sunday July 16 (and every Sunday through October) https://www.boston.gov/departments/transportation/open-newbury-street (5/?)

knizer,
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EDIT - Rain reschedules, ths Bastille Day celebration is now on 7/21!!!

Friday the 14th is and has an after-work street party - starting around 5pm in https://www.harvardsquare.com/harvard-square-bastille-day-celebration/

Eat some , sip some wine, and enjoy live music with fellow francophones. (3/?)

knizer,
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Open Streets Saturday July 15 10am-330pm

https://www.boston.gov/calendar/open-streets-boston-roxbury
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knizer, to boston
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what's your first weekend of summer plans?
Here's a thread of stuff to do Friday-Sun June 23-June 25 2023.

Pack your ☔ umbrella, though, 70's-80s cooled down by some rain rolling through.

knizer,
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- Saturday night 730pm start @

https://www.facebook.com/WNBRBoston

knizer,
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Tonight - free - Guardians of the Galaxy - in - outside, free, 7pm doors, movie start at sunset https://www.eventbrite.com/e/friday-flicks-outdoor-movie-night-at-boynton-yards-free-tickets-643040871557

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Do you enjoy different kinds of 🍕 pizza? Drinking outside with a bunch of random people, in ever-so-romantic City Hall Plaza?

Mamma Mia, Saturday and Sunday, Boston has the https://www.bostonpizzafestival.com/

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Tonight - Free - - outdoor dance party - 6pm https://www.cambridgema.gov/citycalendar/view.aspx?guid=34e881f9afc94611b82820f82c5e217e

knizer,
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Maybe Pizza ain't your thing, but you overthink ? Its the first annual down on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Saturday, 11-5

https://beantownbeanfest.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZWQMvHNOnI

misc, to random
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Wow, my beehaw application got rejected

knizer,
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@misc oh snap, they let me in just fine. I guess they really do have an admin read the account request.

Mine kvetched about bad experiences interacting with users at kbin.social, idk.

knizer, to random
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Hey there! If you've lived in for a while, you might have unclaimed money that the state wants to give back to you. Pop your last name in here: https://www.findmassmoney.com/ and find out!

knizer,
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@misc wahoo! Today's your lucky day - congrats! I hope the claiming process is straightforward for you and am curious of the outcome :) Best luck!

knizer,
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@misc @wx1g There's gotta be someone in your orbit who's got unclaimed money there. Also if you've moved around a bunch like I have, you've got to check other states. Try https://missingmoney.com/ too!

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I have something on the order of 70K Chrome bookmarks. OK, that's a fair number. But I'm at a loss as to how to get them to sync to an Android 13 tablet again after they just suddenly vanished from that device. There isn't even a Bookmarks section per se anymore, just "Mobile Bookmarks". Needless to say, I've tried all the tricks like turning sync on and off in various ways, logging out of Chrome, resetting Chrome back to its base version and reupdating, blah blah blah. Nothing works. You'd think a "simple" function like bookmarks sync would be dependable, but ... and yeah, you can see people complaining about this on G support forums to no end. And to be clear, "factory reset" is NOT a viable option. Anything I've missed? Thanks!

knizer,
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@lauren 70k bookmarks is Extremely Online.

Like you, I live or die by my collection of bookmarks (I throw everything in Pinboard.in for convenience: cross browser/platform support, tagging, and archival purposes).

Perhaps these links can help?
https://www.androidpolice.com/google-chrome-bookmark-sync-limit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/123fmih/new_chrome_feature_causes_users_with_large/

best luck!

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The Appalachians are an old, worn-down mountain chain that runs down the eastern side of North America. The ecology of the Appalachians is fascinating. For example:

Ecologists have tested many species of Appalachian trees to see how much cold they can survive. As you'd expect, for many trees the killing temperature is just a bit colder than the lowest temperatures at the northern end of their range. That makes sense: they've spread as far north - and as far up the mountains - as they can.

But for some other trees the killing temperature is much lower than that! For example white and black spruce, aspen and balsam poplar can survive temperatures of -60° C, which is -80° F. Why is that?

A good guess is that this extra hardiness is left over from the last glacial cycle, which peaked 20,000 years ago - or even previous glacial cycles. It got a lot colder then!

So, maybe these trees are native to the northern Appalachians - while others, even those occupying the same regions, have only spread there since it warmed up around 10,000 years ago. Ancient pollen shows that trees have been moving north and south with every glacial cycle.

I learned this cool fact from Mountains of the Heart: a Natural History of the Appalachians, a great book by Scott Weidensaul. I got this book before a drive through the Appalachians.

knizer,
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@johncarlosbaez I just requested Mountains of the Heart from my local library thanks to you, for telling me about a book I didn't know existed. Huzzah! Have a great week :)

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