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  1. Tonight at 7 p.m. ET, join Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon for a live Dharma talk: What Makes Life Meaningful? The Key to a Good Life.

    We’ll explore love, compassion, gratitude, healthy boundaries, and how Zen practice helps us meet ordinary life with greater clarity.

    Watch live: youtube.com/watch?v=xG-rpHTU_94

    In person: 86 Joy St., Studio 5R, Somerville, MA
    July 16 | 7–8 p.m. ET

    #Zen #DharmaTalk #Meditation #Somerville

  2. Tonight at 7 p.m. ET, join Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon for a live Dharma talk: What Makes Life Meaningful? The Key to a Good Life.

    We’ll explore love, compassion, gratitude, healthy boundaries, and how Zen practice helps us meet ordinary life with greater clarity.

    Watch live: youtube.com/watch?v=xG-rpHTU_94

    In person: 86 Joy St., Studio 5R, Somerville, MA
    July 16 | 7–8 p.m. ET

    #Zen #DharmaTalk #Meditation #Somerville

  3. It's the start of a heat wave in Greater #Boston today, and, at the top of a steep hill climb in #Somerville, some kind soul neighbor had set out a cooler of water beside the sidewalk.

    (Incidentally, if you're walking from #CambridgeMA, to or through Spring Hill, I've found School St. is much more leisurely than Lowell St., for example. And you can get more affordable groceries at Market Basket on the way back.)

  4. It's the start of a heat wave in Greater #Boston today, and, at the top of a steep hill climb in #Somerville, some kind soul neighbor had set out a cooler of water beside the sidewalk.

    (Incidentally, if you're walking from #CambridgeMA, to or through Spring Hill, I've found School St. is much more leisurely than Lowell St., for example. And you can get more affordable groceries at Market Basket on the way back.)

  5. (blue News) Vom Welthit zur queeren Ikone: So kämpfte sich 80er-Star Jimmy Somerville aus der Alkoholsucht zurück

    29. June 2026 Mit "Smalltown Boy" und seiner unverwechselbaren Falsettstimme wurde er in den 1980ern zur Stilikone und zum offenen Sprachrohr der Schwulenbewegung: Jimmy Somerville hat immer noch viel zu sagen. Direktlink Hier den Artikel weiter lesen...

    bachhausen.de/blue-news-vom-we

  6. To start with, let's take a look at how #CambridgeMA and #Somerville scores have changed (graph from cityratings.peopleforbikes.org)

    👀

    Somehow when P4B updated their methodology this year, Cambridge and Somerville specifically were massively negatively affected. I can confidently say that both cities have made biking improvements over the last year, so there is something else going on.

    #People4Bikes #BikeTooter

  7. To start with, let's take a look at how #CambridgeMA and #Somerville scores have changed (graph from cityratings.peopleforbikes.org)

    👀

    Somehow when P4B updated their methodology this year, Cambridge and Somerville specifically were massively negatively affected. I can confidently say that both cities have made biking improvements over the last year, so there is something else going on.

    #People4Bikes #BikeTooter

  8. It's 4:45, I look up #Somerville USPS hours, says they're open to 7. Great. Haul my pack of boxes down to the office - nope. They close at 5:00.

    Fuck you, haul your pack of boxes home again. Enjoy, moron. Why would our office post hours correctly? Why would you even expect that? Are you a fuckin' fool? You believe what we say about our own hours? Fuck you.

    I was suspicious because they scraped the closing hours off their door paint, so I SPECIFICALLY looked it up to get the correct hours.

  9. It's 4:45, I look up #Somerville USPS hours, says they're open to 7. Great. Haul my pack of boxes down to the office - nope. They close at 5:00.

    Fuck you, haul your pack of boxes home again. Enjoy, moron. Why would our office post hours correctly? Why would you even expect that? Are you a fuckin' fool? You believe what we say about our own hours? Fuck you.

    I was suspicious because they scraped the closing hours off their door paint, so I SPECIFICALLY looked it up to get the correct hours.

  10. The ad hoc group I've been organizing with has submitted a petition for a public hearing about #Somerville #bodycameras. Per city charter, City Council must hold a public hearing within three months.

    Please stay tuned!

    #surveillance #policing

  11. The ad hoc group I've been organizing with has submitted a petition for a public hearing about #Somerville #bodycameras. Per city charter, City Council must hold a public hearing within three months.

    Please stay tuned!

    #surveillance #policing

  12. Up until now, Somerville's official 2026 conversations about #bodycamera policy for #Somerville have largely occurred in non-public executive sessions because the negotiations were tied to the police collective bargaining process, and we are now in budget season, which means that there's danger of the process being fast-tracked without properly public deliberation.

  13. Up until now, Somerville's official 2026 conversations about #bodycamera policy for #Somerville have largely occurred in non-public executive sessions because the negotiations were tied to the police collective bargaining process, and we are now in budget season, which means that there's danger of the process being fast-tracked without properly public deliberation.

  14. The memorandum of understanding on body cameras also still gives police the right to review footage before filing reports, which is problematic because:
    1) #bodycamera footage offers a distorted low quality view of what happened,
    2) human memory is mutable so officers' memories of what happened may change to accommodate what they think they see in the footage, and
    3) it gives the opportunity for an officer acting in bad faith to check what misrepresentations they can get away with.

    #Somerville

  15. The memorandum of understanding on body cameras also still gives police the right to review footage before filing reports, which is problematic because:
    1) #bodycamera footage offers a distorted low quality view of what happened,
    2) human memory is mutable so officers' memories of what happened may change to accommodate what they think they see in the footage, and
    3) it gives the opportunity for an officer acting in bad faith to check what misrepresentations they can get away with.

    #Somerville

  16. There's another update on #Somerville #BodyCameras posted here: docs.google.com/document/d/e/2

    We finally have the memorandum of understanding on body cameras, and unfortunately it still says the data will be controlled by the police, with civilians only able to access the footage through public records requests.

    #MAPol #SomervilleMA #surveillance

  17. There's another update on #Somerville #BodyCameras posted here: docs.google.com/document/d/e/2

    We finally have the memorandum of understanding on body cameras, and unfortunately it still says the data will be controlled by the police, with civilians only able to access the footage through public records requests.

    #MAPol #SomervilleMA #surveillance

  18. There was a large shockwave that just shook the region about 20 minutes ago. It's already old news.

    But what I find most interesting is that I checked here to see if anyone had information and there were already a slew of posts. Most of them were just asking/ speculating what it was. But the fact that there was an almost instant local/regional discussion about it here shows this space works.

    #Boston #Cambridge #Somerville #NewEngland

  19. There was a large shockwave that just shook the region about 20 minutes ago. It's already old news.

    But what I find most interesting is that I checked here to see if anyone had information and there were already a slew of posts. Most of them were just asking/ speculating what it was. But the fact that there was an almost instant local/regional discussion about it here shows this space works.

    #Boston #Cambridge #Somerville #NewEngland

  20. WTF exploded in #Somerville or #Cambridge? Reports coming in from all over the area and dust fell from the ceiling.

    EDIT: Current theory is a bolide / meteor reentering over Cape Cod Bay. Was felt from New Hampshire to Rhode Island.

    nitter.net/NStewWX/status/2060

    star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sect

  21. WTF exploded in #Somerville or #Cambridge? Reports coming in from all over the area and dust fell from the ceiling.

    EDIT: Current theory is a bolide / meteor reentering over Cape Cod Bay. Was felt from New Hampshire to Rhode Island.

    nitter.net/NStewWX/status/2060

    star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sect

  22. Always striking to see how multi-faceted some of the great scientists of the past were ( #Gauss, #Faraday, #Maxwell, #Newton, #Somerville, #Lovelace etc.). The boundaries between disciplines were much more fluid back then, and the same person could contribute to multiple fields, even though they might be remembered for only one today.

    #Neuroscience #Physics #ComputerScience #Mathematics #Biology #Astronomy #Geophysics #ScienceHistory

  23. Always striking to see how multi-faceted some of the great scientists of the past were ( #Gauss, #Faraday, #Maxwell, #Newton, #Somerville, #Lovelace etc.). The boundaries between disciplines were much more fluid back then, and the same person could contribute to multiple fields, even though they might be remembered for only one today.

    #Neuroscience #Physics #ComputerScience #Mathematics #Biology #Astronomy #Geophysics #ScienceHistory

  24. #BostonWeekend for May 9&10, 2026. Sat rain and the 50s, Sun fog/clouds but hitting 70. #Porchfest #Somerville, #Steampunk festival, #HatsuneMiku Live, go go go! Enjoy, enjoy your #NewEngland - a thread
    #boston #WalthamMA #Massachusetts