Councilor Hardt asks where the money in the tree fund comes from and OH BOY IS THAT A GREAT QUESTION TOO.
It's the updated tree ordinance - fees and fines under the permitting process bring in money that we can use to care for our urban forest.
www.somervillema.gov/departments/...
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Item 6: "Requesting approval to appropriate of $46,500 from the Street Tree Stabilization Fund for FY 2026 Ash Tree treatments."
We do a treatment every two years - we inject neem oil into the healthy ash trees to protect them from beetles.
That's what the paint marks on some trees means.
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Bluesky user Jason Rabinowitz posts "heck of a venue for a corporate event, lemme tell you." With an image, quoting his 4-mo old post with the same text and also an image. Except bluesky is having trouble with images and so the images are just large grey-blue boxes, which seems like the venues were censored or all dark.
This seems like a joke post when bluesky isn't loading images 😂
Same. I uninstalled and unsubscribed. Can't tell yet if that worked
Can you appeal the denial?
But what about the bike home? 🥶
I cancelled my plans to socialize after work because I was dressed for 70 degrees.
- the Loomis truck waiting patiently for the truck to move, which the city worker accommodated
- the private construction vehicle who waited at first and then just backed all the way up our one way street
- the next door neighbor waving at the worker
- my husband asking if someone was down there
Also a very interesting array of human nature as other drivers try to get around the large vehicle:
- the person in the small car, too timid to try to sneak by
- the guy in the pickup too lazy to get out and help and instead yells from two cars behind at the small car driver to go around
There's a vehicle scooping out mud and muck from the sewer drain in front of our house and it's very interesting 👀
Doesn't she mistreat her staff?
Eyes On the Street: Bikes, Pedestrians, and Buses Get More Space In Sullivan Square
mass.streetsblog.org/2026/04/13/e...
Proposed raised intersection and extended curbs projected on top of current satellite view of Washington St, Washington Terrace, and Merriam Street. Curb extensions will be added along Washington St on both sides of the intersections.
Especially this one, that extended curb in front of the house west of Washington Terrace! It's so narrow currently and I complained about it. Good to see they came to the same conclusion I had, to take a bit of that travel lane and extend the curb, with a protected bike lane!
So excited about the intersection improvements coming this year on Washington Street and Bow Street! www.somervillema.gov/intersection... If you're not signed up for the @somervilleinfr1.bsky.social newsletter, you should be. And if you are, the latest one ended up in my spam folder.
I think another bicyclist tried to make me crash. He was coming down the bridge into Revere Park and I was about to start going up. I kept right and at the last minute he swerved to his left head-on into my path. I braked hard and fishtailed a bit. Not sure why he did that. 😡
It's what I call "fake it until we make it" weather, where I'm definitely under-dressed for the weather but I'm going to pretend I'm warm anyway.
Somerville has a textile recycling program, but before that I'd look for bins that did both donations and recycling. The MBTA has a local supplier of rags that are made from old T-shirts, for example!
Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...
A photo of the live NASA tv coverage of the Artemis capsule hanging from its parachutes. My cat Pablo is reaching up the tv screen to try to swat Artemis out of the sky.
#Artemis almost had a disaster.
Have we tried sneaking it into the social media age verification bill? /Sarcasm
As it turns out, @mayorwu.boston.gov possessed more robust polling data that debunked those claims. There is, in fact, broad support for bike and bus lanes among Boston residents.
We're now making that polling data public for the first time. Read it here:
mass.streetsblog.org/2026/04/09/i...
Yesterday, the House passed a ban on social media accounts for kids under 14. I support the intent — but I voted “No” because the legislation didn’t include best practices for data privacy or data minimization. It would enable Big Tech to retain your driver’s license and biometric data indefinitely.
2028 or 25th amendment?
I think I'm more agnostic rather than atheist, but I do know I'm definitely not Christian, even though I now know a lot of lovely people who are Christian. Just too scarred by the Texan Christians.
I do go to funerals and weddings I guess.
My parents never said anything bad about Christianity, but growing up in Texas I certainly developed my own view. To this day when random people in Boston ask me to go to church I am revolted "definitely not!" and I can't even listen to organ music.
My parents are Buddhist but apparently were unable to politely decline an invite to something they also disagree with. When I was older I asked my dad about this: "we were going to be miserable going there so you had to go too" 😂
Okay I hate this but also at a young age I attended some sort of Korean Baptist Church thing and they told a story from the Bible and "I was like that seems dumb and hypocritical of them, why is this a story we like? Do not care to hear more thanks."
