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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 22d

My spouse still talks about what a perfect phone that was & I'm honestly shocked we're not the only people on this earth who remember it.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 23d

I love taking trains. And at the YIMBYtown conference, when a woman from AR said I was living the dream taking the train every day, I thought yes. I am. Connecticut is a great place to live.

But it could be a bit better if the boards were right & folks didn't have to guess/go on vibes.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 23d

Being an urban planning researcher, I of course approached folks on the platform to chat. 😂 They confirmed yes, the boards do this. Yes, they just go on vibes -- "you get a feeling for when they'll be late" (FTR: you can go to the Hartford Line website and see updates and sign up for text alerts).

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 23d

There are signs in Meriden telling you to listen to announcements for track assignments -- but the announcements don't list tracks, and because the north and southbound trains came at the same time the southbound never got an announcement.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 23d

The trains came! On time! But you have to dig to find alerts. The app's link for service alerts leads to a dead Twitter page -- not the buried page on the Hartford Line website.

Picture of CT rail app with HL service alerts

Picture of ctrail Hartford line alerts page on Twitter saying "this account is no longer active"

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 23d

Hey @ct-ptc.bsky.social could you look into the issue that the Hartford Line stops of Berlin and Meriden remove train info at least 15-30 minutes before scheduled departure time? Pics taken at 9:24 and 7:42 aren't showing 9:40 and 7:58 departures.

Picture of rail departure board. Earliest train departure is listed as 11:35.

Picture of rail departure board. Earliest New Haven train departure listed as 9:03.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 23d

I saw some in Bushnell Park in Hartford so yes, on their way. TOH seem to be everywhere in highway and rail right of ways.

a close up of a man with a beard and long hair saying they are coming

Alt: a close up of gandalf from lotr saying they are coming

media.tenor.com

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · 23d

Reupping this message after seeing about 30 spotted lantern flies on a short stretch of Chapel in New Haven today 😬 felt good to stomp on them but geesh, awful.

Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · Jun 7

I need a lot less focus on "illegals" and a lot more focus on invasives.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · Aug 5

Nothing helped me understand how much energy a car uses like having solar on my roof. On a good day my house generates enough for my house + a comparable house -- or my house + my car going 200 miles.

200 miles in an EV = an entire hot summer day of AC, hot water, dishwasher, dryer, etc.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hello to everyone else who turns into an irrational fire breathing dragon when the heat index hits 100+, I highly recommend hiding in a dark room for an hour in the afternoon to self regulate. 🫠

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · Jul 30

My kids are at camp with a family from Houston that thought they would come up north for a week to get away from the heat and he was like wtf is this nonsense.

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Bob Duff @bobduffct.bsky.social · Jul 24

Elections matter and public policy can make a difference. Work we did in 2020 to remove non-medical exemptions in Connecticut has made our state safer for children and hopefully a continued place of good health for all.

ctnewsjunkie.com/2025/07/24/d...

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thrilled that this is how you chose to celebrate my birthday, good job.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · Jul 23

Choosing 2025 as the moment to change your registration from Democrat to Republican says a lot about some West Hartford folks.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · Jul 14

The incompetence might be the renovation contractors about a decade ago. HVAC was installed with water collection pans -- but the sensors were installed incorrectly so they don't ever empty/alert anyone that they need emptying.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · Jul 14

Sadly I'm not on campus enough in the summer (the only time this happens) to empty it. The office next to me has one -- and just leaving it for a week grew an extraordinary amount of mold.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · Jul 14

This is the third year in a row that my office has grown mold (I caught it early -- trust, it would have been worse in a week). Every year, EHS comes and cleans it. And every year, university/college/state declines to do anything about the building.

Because who cares about books at a university.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · Jul 11

This is the real reason we need density -- and the real reason fascists hate it.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jul 11

ICE got turned away in
Carpinteria. ✊🏽

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · Jul 3

We just put it on the house. Eversource is allowed to take roughly forever to upgrade your transformer and then roughly forever to turn it on -- and no credit until it's on. Hopefully it gets turned on this year. 🫠

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · Jul 3

But what about the male loneliness epidemic, surely girls and women should be required to respond to ChatGPT flirting? 🙄

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jul 3

AI is deskilling our young people to the extent that they no longer have the ability, or at least resolve, to craft their own *texts.*

The widespread adoption of these technologies is actually a form of child abuse. We are systematically destroying human potential

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Weeks earlier, when I’d messaged Alex, he had said that everyone he knew used ChatGPT in some fashion, but that he used it only for organizing his notes. In person, he admitted that this wasn’t remotely accurate. “Any type of writing in life, I use A.I.,” he said. He relied on Claude for research, DeepSeek for reasoning and explanation, and Gemini for image generation. ChatGPT served more general needs. “I need A.I. to text girls,” he joked, imagining an A.I.-enhanced version of Hinge. I asked if he had used A.I. when setting up our meeting. He laughed, and then replied, “Honestly, yeah. I’m not tryin’ to type all that. Could you tell?”

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · Jul 2

Mike Kennedy (R-UT) talking about how his children benefited from Medicaid and he himself grew up on SNAP and is now explaining why fewer people should have access to these benefits that helped him so much.

Perfect Republican.

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · Jul 1

Waiting for the fare hikes for the money losing highways.

Connecticut Public @ctpublic.bsky.social · Jul 1

The state Department of Transportation is proposing a fare hike for Metro-North services in Connecticut, as well as CTrail’s Hartford Line and Shore Line East. Under the proposal, fares would increase by 5% in September of this year and another 5% next July. www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-06...

Fare hikes could be coming for train commuters in CT

Under a state proposal, a 5% increase for both Metro-North and CTrail services would take effect in September, with another 5% increase slated for July 2026.

www.ctpublic.org

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Tab Combs @drtcombs.bsky.social · Jun 25

#PedBike people!!! The amazing @pedbikeinfo.bsky.social is building a national database on the monetary costs of different kinds of #pedestrian & #bicycle #infrastructure, and needs data from professionals across the US. More info & how to contribute ⤵️
#BikeSky #RoadSafety #ActiveTransport

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Mary Donegan @drdonegan.bsky.social · Jun 24

Cuomo using chatGPT to write housing policy & CT Gov Lamont endorsing Cuomo after vetoing housing policy (that was passed by both houses of the CT general assembly, and backed by advocates and academics) helps understand the endorsement: neither cares about affordable housing.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Jun 24

Andrew Cuomo was the US Secretary of Housing and is now running for mayor, where one of the largest agencies they manage is NYC's Housing Authority.

And yet Cuomo literally had ChatGPT write his campaign housing policy.

This is who the media and establishment want you to think is "serious"

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