Erik
@eomac.bsky.social
Supply chain person
Big on:
- the outdoors
- local vivacity
- sustainable futures
Big on:
- the outdoors
- local vivacity
- sustainable futures
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Erik
@eomac.bsky.social
· May 16
Hi BlueSky! I figure it might be polite to introduce myself. Outdoors enthusiast in the intersectional sense, hyperlocal Somervillian, everyday environmentalist. Likes circularity, friendlier cities, fermentation, public media, life; dislikes asphalt, billboards, greed, and confidently bad drivers.
While on most days I’m supremely disappointed by the amount of red light running at the busy School/Broadway intersection, I finally witnessed some solid enforcement by SPD today.
Add automated enforcement and “yield to ped x-ing” signs for those exiting School St and we’ll be getting somewhere…
Add automated enforcement and “yield to ped x-ing” signs for those exiting School St and we’ll be getting somewhere…
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
While on most days I’m supremely disappointed by the amount of red light running at the busy School/Broadway intersection, I finally witnessed some solid enforcement by SPD today.
Add automated enforcement and “yield to ped x-ing” signs for those exiting School St and we’ll be getting somewhere…
Add automated enforcement and “yield to ped x-ing” signs for those exiting School St and we’ll be getting somewhere…
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"Does our plastic actually get recycled?" The #CamberVille newsletter is always excellent, but this one is truly a must-read: a deep dive into the recycling processing plant where all of Somerville's recycling winds up: mailchi.mp/bostonglobe....
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"Does our plastic actually get recycled?" The #CamberVille newsletter is always excellent, but this one is truly a must-read: a deep dive into the recycling processing plant where all of Somerville's recycling winds up: mailchi.mp/bostonglobe....
Wow it’s a gorgeous afternoon for a meander through the Fells! Apparently the deer agree, as I’ve come up on more today than I have in the last year or so.
Pictures: not a deer, *just* the Fells… though I do think I caught a couple of them on the Holga 120.
Pictures: not a deer, *just* the Fells… though I do think I caught a couple of them on the Holga 120.
July 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Wow it’s a gorgeous afternoon for a meander through the Fells! Apparently the deer agree, as I’ve come up on more today than I have in the last year or so.
Pictures: not a deer, *just* the Fells… though I do think I caught a couple of them on the Holga 120.
Pictures: not a deer, *just* the Fells… though I do think I caught a couple of them on the Holga 120.
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Locals: "More car trips are awful! Traffic is bad! We can't build any more stuff!"
Also locals: "I gotta drive my car to the grocery store that is physically closest to me, but that's not the problem I'm talking about!"
16/?
Also locals: "I gotta drive my car to the grocery store that is physically closest to me, but that's not the problem I'm talking about!"
16/?
June 6, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Locals: "More car trips are awful! Traffic is bad! We can't build any more stuff!"
Also locals: "I gotta drive my car to the grocery store that is physically closest to me, but that's not the problem I'm talking about!"
16/?
Also locals: "I gotta drive my car to the grocery store that is physically closest to me, but that's not the problem I'm talking about!"
16/?
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⏰ Based on sightings of other suspicious vehicles around 81 Highland Ave, there is concern that the ICE agents will be going to Somerville High School around pickup time (2:30). Somerville Rapid Response team members will be at the school to monitor and walk with students, if desired.
Stay safe. ✊
Stay safe. ✊
May 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
⏰ Based on sightings of other suspicious vehicles around 81 Highland Ave, there is concern that the ICE agents will be going to Somerville High School around pickup time (2:30). Somerville Rapid Response team members will be at the school to monitor and walk with students, if desired.
Stay safe. ✊
Stay safe. ✊
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I ran home because it was COLD in the chambers, and got online just in time to see this slide showing that if property owners can locally sequester just the first 3/4" of rainwater in a storm, it has basically the same impact as redoing all our sewers.
18/?
18/?
May 23, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I ran home because it was COLD in the chambers, and got online just in time to see this slide showing that if property owners can locally sequester just the first 3/4" of rainwater in a storm, it has basically the same impact as redoing all our sewers.
18/?
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Buy local! Buy fresh! If they’re going to see a bad year on the grant funding side of the equation, at least we can give them a good year on the sales side.
The USDA is rolling back programs intended to strengthen local food supply chains. Small scale farmers like Reunity Resources in Santa Fe are feeling it the most.
Small farms struggle under Trump's cuts to USDA grant funding
Under President Trump, the USDA is rolling back programs intended to strengthen local food supply chains. Small scale farmers are most affected.
mktplc.org
May 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Buy local! Buy fresh! If they’re going to see a bad year on the grant funding side of the equation, at least we can give them a good year on the sales side.
Hi BlueSky! I figure it might be polite to introduce myself. Outdoors enthusiast in the intersectional sense, hyperlocal Somervillian, everyday environmentalist. Likes circularity, friendlier cities, fermentation, public media, life; dislikes asphalt, billboards, greed, and confidently bad drivers.
May 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Hi BlueSky! I figure it might be polite to introduce myself. Outdoors enthusiast in the intersectional sense, hyperlocal Somervillian, everyday environmentalist. Likes circularity, friendlier cities, fermentation, public media, life; dislikes asphalt, billboards, greed, and confidently bad drivers.
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
![the "stop doing math" meme except it says "STOP DRIVING CARS". the meme reads:
* PEOPLE WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ISOLATED IN CAGES
* YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for building ONE MORE LANE
* Wanted to travel large distances anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "TRAINS"
* "Yes please give me NO GREENERY. Please give me INFINITE PAVEMENT" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK at what Civil Engineers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the concrete and asphalt we built for them
(This is REAL Civil Infrastructure, done by REAL Civil Engineers):
? [Image of the infamously hideous Breezewood truck stop]
?? [Image of a gigantic mega parking lot with thousands of cars]
??? [Image of the infamous I-405 gridlock photo with tens of thousands of cars not moving]
"Hello I would like [Image of a graph of global surface temperatures] climate please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ywbm3iywnhzep3ckt6efhoh7/bafkreihghfkhhhasmr6sn5mj7uxs53v46wu2cns5saeln64grjp3ltfvpm@jpeg)
May 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
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Donate here: wgbh.donorsupport.co/page/protect...
May 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Donate here: wgbh.donorsupport.co/page/protect...
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The protest in Chicago is massive!
Over 50,000 protesters have shown up for the May Day march and International Workers' Day.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Over 50,000 protesters have shown up for the May Day march and International Workers' Day.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
May 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The protest in Chicago is massive!
Over 50,000 protesters have shown up for the May Day march and International Workers' Day.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Over 50,000 protesters have shown up for the May Day march and International Workers' Day.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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I went to the Senate floor to tell a story about Trump’s first 100 days - a story of daily, norm shattering corruption.
I laid out 40 different corrupt acts - each one alone could have taken down previous presidents.
1/ A 🧵 of my speech. People need to know this story.
I laid out 40 different corrupt acts - each one alone could have taken down previous presidents.
1/ A 🧵 of my speech. People need to know this story.
April 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I went to the Senate floor to tell a story about Trump’s first 100 days - a story of daily, norm shattering corruption.
I laid out 40 different corrupt acts - each one alone could have taken down previous presidents.
1/ A 🧵 of my speech. People need to know this story.
I laid out 40 different corrupt acts - each one alone could have taken down previous presidents.
1/ A 🧵 of my speech. People need to know this story.
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What stanza is it in the ‘then they came for’ poem when they come for the judges?
April 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
What stanza is it in the ‘then they came for’ poem when they come for the judges?
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WaPo reports that "the State Department determined that the Trump administration had not produced any evidence showing that she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization, as the government has alleged."
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
WaPo reports that "the State Department determined that the Trump administration had not produced any evidence showing that she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization, as the government has alleged."
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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In the spirit of calling things by their correct names, Musk’s project is not about ‘efficiency’ at any level.
Efficiency is the ratio of (useful) work performed per energy consumed.
A wood chipper doesn’t make a tree more efficient.
It kills it.
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Efficiency is the ratio of (useful) work performed per energy consumed.
A wood chipper doesn’t make a tree more efficient.
It kills it.
1/?
February 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
In the spirit of calling things by their correct names, Musk’s project is not about ‘efficiency’ at any level.
Efficiency is the ratio of (useful) work performed per energy consumed.
A wood chipper doesn’t make a tree more efficient.
It kills it.
1/?
Efficiency is the ratio of (useful) work performed per energy consumed.
A wood chipper doesn’t make a tree more efficient.
It kills it.
1/?