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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · 22h

Open Streets Boston Mattapan (Blue Hill Ave.) happening this Saturday, October 18th from 10:30 am to 3 pm!! 🎉🚶🏻‍♂️🚶🏻‍♀️🚲🛴🛹

boston.gov/open-streets

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · 17h

Simple repaving not enough to make Hyde Park Avenue safe, Forest Hills residents say
www.universalhub.com/2025/simple-...
#Boston #JamaicaPlain #Roslindale #HydePark

Walkers pause at horrible Ukraine Way intersection

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 1d

Actress Diane Keaton

#RIPDianeKeaton

Photo of a woman riding a cruiser bicycle in front of a corrugated metal wall.

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Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 22h

I enjoyed a few minutes of #OpenStreets Morrissey Boulevard this morning as the Firefighters 5k/10k road race was winding down

Selfie in a bike helmet on a stroad highway beside Boston Harbor

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Neponset River Greenway Council @neponsetgreenway.bsky.social · 1d

The fall foliage appears to be at or a bit past peak, so check it out soon if you haven’t already!

#NeponsetTrail #HarvestRiverBridge #foliage #NewEngland #Boston #RailTrail

Colorful foliage behind the Harvest River Bridge linking the Neponset River Greenway trail between Milton and Boston Massachusetts

Colorful foliage behind the Harvest River Bridge linking the Neponset River Greenway trail between Milton and Boston Massachusetts. A person is riding a bicycle across the bridge

Colorful foliage and sunset skies behind the Harvest River Bridge linking the Neponset River Greenway trail between Milton and Boston Massachusetts

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Neponset River Greenway Council @neponsetgreenway.bsky.social · 1d

It’s twenty minutes before high tide and Tenean Beach is mostly underwater

High tide floods the Neponset River Greenway trail

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Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings from Shawmut Station in Dorchester - on the walls they display a bit of local agricultural and industrial history

#MBTAbyBicycle

A pink Brompton bicycle in front of a subway station sign in Boston

A subway station sign - Shawmut - in Boston, describing local farming and industrial history

THE FIRST GRIST MILL WAS STARTED ON THE DORCHESTER BANK OF THE NEPONSET RIVER BY ISRAEL STOUGHTON IN 1634;
OTHER MILLS FOLLOWED INCLUDING WALTER BAKER & Co., THE CHOCOLATE MANUFACTURER. SHIPBUILDING BEGAN ON THE RIVER AS EARLY AS 1640.

A new subway car approaches a station, with a bicycle leaning against a wall in the foreground

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Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 2d

First frost - a few frames from this morning’s #bikecommute here in scenic Massachusetts

Crystals of ice dot small green leaves on a chilly morning

A colorful roadside scene where the morning sunlight peeks through the trees and sidelight a frosted grassy area

Grass, some of which has gone to seed, is frosted on a chilly morning. It is illuminated by the morning light against the dark background of the trees behind it.

Crystals of ice line the edges of an oak leaf and the grass around it

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Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 3d

Lake Cochituate in Natick

A view of seats in a passenger train, with a lake and trees visible through the windows

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Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 3d

‘Holy Hydrophilic Empire’ 😂
Also, might as well add in Ceuta and Melilla and buffer zones around them too

Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 3d

Today’s status update on the South Station fare gates installation process.
#MBTA #MBTACR #Boston

Stainless steel fare gates partially installed at South Station in Boston

Fenced off areas of the South Station platform beneath the South Station Tower arches, illuminated in purple light before dawn

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 4d

The President of the United States is living in an alternate reality and it's long past time for media outlets to start talking about it.

We're beyond "Trump said without evidence." Trump is governing a world that only exists in his warped mind.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 4d

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 4d

Posobiec claim: Antifa is so clearly real that it “has been going on for almost 100 years … going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany.”

Analysis: it’s… difficult to position yourself as the good guys if you’re aligning yourself with the Nazis in your historical analogy.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 4d

ANALYSIS | Trump just hosted an ‘Antifa roundtable’ at the White House ... it was so much worse than you’re imagining

Trump’s ‘Antifa roundtable’ was so much worse than you’re imagining

www.independent.co.uk

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Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 4d

(or someone just like him)

Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 4d

I know that guy!

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Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 4d

Breaking and entering should be legal if it’s to replace a smoke detector battery

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Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 4d

I haven’t seen the new Amtrak Acela Avelia Liberty trains doing trial runs since they launched into service but I do occasionally see them preparing for the first daily departure when I head to work early.

A new Amtrak Acela Avelia Liberty train at South Station in Boston

Front view of a new Amtrak Acela Avelia Liberty train at South Station in Boston

Side view of a new Amtrak Acela Avelia Liberty train at South Station in Boston

A new Amtrak Acela Avelia Liberty train at South Station in Boston, with a Brompton bicycle standing on the platform in front of it

Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 5d

As seen earlier this morning, the first of the fare gates have arrived at South Station and were waiting to be installed.

Stainless steel fare gates sit on wooden pallets while awaiting installation at South Station in Boston

Bolts and electrical cables stick up out of the concrete platform while new fare gates sit behind them, waiting to be installed. In the background are the arches of South Station Tower illuminated in purple.

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Matt Davies @mattdaviescartoon.bsky.social · 5d

Chilling. Newsday.com/matt

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Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 5d

Now that the rain is coming down in buckets my coworkers are saying I should get a pedal boat with an umbrella. "You can take the Sudbury River to the aqueduct"

Guys, that's why I got in early while it was still beautiful outside!

A blue and white boat with two seats and pedals to drive the propeller. It has an awning for shelter from the sun.

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Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 5d

One might think that if they looked around they might be able to find someone in the public realm acting unethically. But no, they seem to have difficulty with that.

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Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 5d

Scenes from this morning’s #bikecommute - Ewoks huddle around a campfire ahead of #Halloween and I detoured a bit for a short spin on the BWALT #railtrail .

BWALT is the Boston to Worcester Air Line Trail, on the right-of-way of an century-old abandoned trolley line.

A pink Brompton bicycle stands in front of a Halloween display

A trail follows an old trolley railroad right-of-way through a forest in Massachusetts. Autumn leaves line the ground.

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 5d

Speed safety cameras are astonishingly successful. We know the tools that reduce traffic violence. Legalize them.
www.sfmta.com/blog/our-spe...

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Lee Toma @leetoma.bsky.social · 5d

“groundbreaking new study”

a bald man with glasses is holding a glass of wine and laughing while saying i see what you did there .

ALT: a bald man with glasses is holding a glass of wine and laughing while saying i see what you did there .

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