Not now, exploding manholes!
Boston Fire wants every car off NEWBURY ST between DARTMOUTH n EXETER, anything parked over a manhole. Tow trucks are rolling.
No pedestrians allowed from COMM AVE through NEWBURY–EXETER–DARTMOUTH blocks.
Everyone STAY AWAY.
#621pm
#ActiveScene
No pedestrians allowed from COMM AVE through NEWBURY–EXETER–DARTMOUTH blocks.
Everyone STAY AWAY.
#621pm
#ActiveScene
February 4, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Not now, exploding manholes!
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Cold weather has crippled a big chunk of the MBTA's Red Line fleet, which is mainly comprised of antiquated cars that break down in very low temps.
www.dotnews.com/2026/mbta-co...
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MBTA: Cold-weather, older trains to blame for major Red Line delays - Dorchester Reporter
It's been a particularly tough week on the Red Line. T officials say old cars and freezing temps are to blame.
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January 29, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Cold weather has crippled a big chunk of the MBTA's Red Line fleet, which is mainly comprised of antiquated cars that break down in very low temps.
www.dotnews.com/2026/mbta-co...
www.dotnews.com/2026/mbta-co...
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No one asked — but if you have premium transit (American version thereof) in your town, you have something that’s very scarce.
If you don’t allow growth around it, you are hoarding that scarce asset.
If you can’t minimally comply with the super-permissive MBTA Communities reqs, you should be sued.
If you don’t allow growth around it, you are hoarding that scarce asset.
If you can’t minimally comply with the super-permissive MBTA Communities reqs, you should be sued.
Massachusetts is in a housing crisis – every community in the state has a responsibility to step up and do their part.
The courts have been clear: compliance with the MBTA Communities Law is mandatory. My office will assist any town working to come into compliance.
The courts have been clear: compliance with the MBTA Communities Law is mandatory. My office will assist any town working to come into compliance.
January 29, 2026 at 5:21 PM
No one asked — but if you have premium transit (American version thereof) in your town, you have something that’s very scarce.
If you don’t allow growth around it, you are hoarding that scarce asset.
If you can’t minimally comply with the super-permissive MBTA Communities reqs, you should be sued.
If you don’t allow growth around it, you are hoarding that scarce asset.
If you can’t minimally comply with the super-permissive MBTA Communities reqs, you should be sued.
Reposted by Glowria Shine
Happening now! Massachusetts unions standing up in solidarity with everyone in Minnesota! Also, telling Home Depot, Target, and other corporations to stop helping ICE violate peoples' rights! #AbolishICE
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Happening now! Massachusetts unions standing up in solidarity with everyone in Minnesota! Also, telling Home Depot, Target, and other corporations to stop helping ICE violate peoples' rights! #AbolishICE
Dang, you miss one evening of live reactions to… what turns out to be a plane with bog-standard electrical problems? …And now the morning timeline is just post after post of fond future-nostalgia/fantasy for the celebration we all hope to see and be a part of. I should lay in some bubbly.
January 21, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Dang, you miss one evening of live reactions to… what turns out to be a plane with bog-standard electrical problems? …And now the morning timeline is just post after post of fond future-nostalgia/fantasy for the celebration we all hope to see and be a part of. I should lay in some bubbly.
The funniest thing about the hockey show Heated Rivalry (which contains lots of sex and romance, but very little hockey) is the continual discussion of whether Gritty exists in that universe.
January 17, 2026 at 3:19 PM
The funniest thing about the hockey show Heated Rivalry (which contains lots of sex and romance, but very little hockey) is the continual discussion of whether Gritty exists in that universe.
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A Winter Tết Market (Vietnamese Lunar New Year) happening in Dorchester, Boston! 🐎🌼🌸🧧
Sat. 1/31, 4-9 pm & Sun. 2/1, 12-5 pm
DOT Tire - 1160 Dorchester Ave.
If using transit: MBTA Red Line to Savin Hill 🚇
Sat. 1/31, 4-9 pm & Sun. 2/1, 12-5 pm
DOT Tire - 1160 Dorchester Ave.
If using transit: MBTA Red Line to Savin Hill 🚇
January 16, 2026 at 4:53 PM
A Winter Tết Market (Vietnamese Lunar New Year) happening in Dorchester, Boston! 🐎🌼🌸🧧
Sat. 1/31, 4-9 pm & Sun. 2/1, 12-5 pm
DOT Tire - 1160 Dorchester Ave.
If using transit: MBTA Red Line to Savin Hill 🚇
Sat. 1/31, 4-9 pm & Sun. 2/1, 12-5 pm
DOT Tire - 1160 Dorchester Ave.
If using transit: MBTA Red Line to Savin Hill 🚇
Man, it’s been a bit fewer than 84 years, but…
youtu.be/umEX9qzrnJw
youtu.be/umEX9qzrnJw
Flight US1549 Miracle on the Hudson | Radar + Radio Audio + CVR Transcript
YouTube video by VASAviation -
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January 16, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Man, it’s been a bit fewer than 84 years, but…
youtu.be/umEX9qzrnJw
youtu.be/umEX9qzrnJw
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#onthisday in 1919 2.3 million gallons of molasses flooded the North End when the Purity Distilling Company's tank ruptured. View more photos of the flood at: ow.ly/xx2Y50XS8aV
Image 1: Molasses tank from the elevated rail
Image 2: Molasses flood, destruction
Image 3: Molasses flood, tank section
Image 1: Molasses tank from the elevated rail
Image 2: Molasses flood, destruction
Image 3: Molasses flood, tank section
January 15, 2026 at 3:04 PM
#onthisday in 1919 2.3 million gallons of molasses flooded the North End when the Purity Distilling Company's tank ruptured. View more photos of the flood at: ow.ly/xx2Y50XS8aV
Image 1: Molasses tank from the elevated rail
Image 2: Molasses flood, destruction
Image 3: Molasses flood, tank section
Image 1: Molasses tank from the elevated rail
Image 2: Molasses flood, destruction
Image 3: Molasses flood, tank section
One of the problems with noise-canceling headphones is that they got clever and will pause or turn down the volume when you speak. Great feature! Until you sneeze and the headphones can’t tell that that’s not speaking.
January 13, 2026 at 11:55 PM
One of the problems with noise-canceling headphones is that they got clever and will pause or turn down the volume when you speak. Great feature! Until you sneeze and the headphones can’t tell that that’s not speaking.
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Someone has attached giant googly eyes to a building right across from the Common. 151 Tremont is watching you.
January 12, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Someone has attached giant googly eyes to a building right across from the Common. 151 Tremont is watching you.
I am watching the Golden Globes for some reason and all of the silk looks like polyester under that lighting? How do you make that much money look cheap.
January 12, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I am watching the Golden Globes for some reason and all of the silk looks like polyester under that lighting? How do you make that much money look cheap.
Hey, it’s 4:25pm and the sun is still up!
January 8, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Hey, it’s 4:25pm and the sun is still up!
Boy, today is the day to disable video autoplay!
January 7, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Boy, today is the day to disable video autoplay!
I regret to inform you that potato chips smothered in dark chocolate are the best snack in the world (while also being terrible for you). Specifically potato chips with ridges, and I don’t think they would be as good with milk chocolate, though that is otherwise my general preference.
January 7, 2026 at 3:49 PM
I regret to inform you that potato chips smothered in dark chocolate are the best snack in the world (while also being terrible for you). Specifically potato chips with ridges, and I don’t think they would be as good with milk chocolate, though that is otherwise my general preference.
TIL, listening to a book about Eisenhower: he played football against Jim Thorpe during his college days! Also he might have been the last US president who rode horses without affectation, having been born in 1890. During his early Army years, a mule was the best way to get around rural Panama.
January 6, 2026 at 11:33 PM
TIL, listening to a book about Eisenhower: he played football against Jim Thorpe during his college days! Also he might have been the last US president who rode horses without affectation, having been born in 1890. During his early Army years, a mule was the best way to get around rural Panama.
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One of my leitmotifs: a view of First Parish Dorchester atop Meeting House Hill #boston #dorchester #silentsunday
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 AM
One of my leitmotifs: a view of First Parish Dorchester atop Meeting House Hill #boston #dorchester #silentsunday
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Sunny day tidal flooding, Dorchester Bay, Boston.
January 3, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Sunny day tidal flooding, Dorchester Bay, Boston.
You know what would be great in this parcel right next to the 1650 house? An orchard of Roxbury Russet apple trees (a chance seedling from about 1640)! it’s a pretty small parcel, but 6-8 trees would surely fit!
Neighbors led by the former top archivist for the city of Boston are looking to create a “history garden” inside an underused public park next to Boston's oldest house in
#Dorchester
www.dotnews.com/2025/garden-...
#Dorchester
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Garden eyed for Dot history lessons in Edward Everett Square - Dorchester Reporter
Neighbors led by the former top archivist for the city of Boston are looking to create a “history garden” near Edward Everett Square and the Blake House, Boston's oldest existing dwelling.
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December 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
You know what would be great in this parcel right next to the 1650 house? An orchard of Roxbury Russet apple trees (a chance seedling from about 1640)! it’s a pretty small parcel, but 6-8 trees would surely fit!
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I propose that, when the urbanists win and we rip out Storrow Drive to make more parkland on the banks of the Charles, we have a festival every Labor Day where we gather to ritually sacrifice a box truck on what was once Storrow.
December 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I propose that, when the urbanists win and we rip out Storrow Drive to make more parkland on the banks of the Charles, we have a festival every Labor Day where we gather to ritually sacrifice a box truck on what was once Storrow.
These cats hate each other, actually, but they both like me so much that when one is in my lap the other will come up on the back of the couch and climb onto my arm to be “in my lap” too. importantly, they cannot notice on another or the magic falls and one of them leaves.
December 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
These cats hate each other, actually, but they both like me so much that when one is in my lap the other will come up on the back of the couch and climb onto my arm to be “in my lap” too. importantly, they cannot notice on another or the magic falls and one of them leaves.
Oh the feeling of the season: you’ve pounded the pavement, done all the errands, purchased all the gifts, and then you get home and realize you can’t find the scotch tape that you know is somewhere in the house. (Yes, I will go back out; no, I am not crazy enough to use electrical tape on presents.)
December 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Oh the feeling of the season: you’ve pounded the pavement, done all the errands, purchased all the gifts, and then you get home and realize you can’t find the scotch tape that you know is somewhere in the house. (Yes, I will go back out; no, I am not crazy enough to use electrical tape on presents.)
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Officials from MassDOT presented two primary concepts this week for replacing the Beades Bridge on Morrissey Boulevard: a modern movable drawbridge or a taller, fixed bridge that would no longer open for boat traffic. #Dorchester
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Two options floated to replace key Morrissey drawbridge - Dorchester Reporter
State transportation officials on Tuesday laid out early design options for replacing the nearly century-old Beades Bridge on Morrissey Boulevard, drawing pointed questions from residents about cost, ...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Officials from MassDOT presented two primary concepts this week for replacing the Beades Bridge on Morrissey Boulevard: a modern movable drawbridge or a taller, fixed bridge that would no longer open for boat traffic. #Dorchester
www.dotnews.com/2025/two-opt...
www.dotnews.com/2025/two-opt...
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On the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, demonstrators retraced the historic march from Old South to the Boston harbor tonight and dumped ice into Boston Harbor, declaring: No Kings, No Tariffs, No ICE.
📹: @we.jamsa
📹: @we.jamsa
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
On the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, demonstrators retraced the historic march from Old South to the Boston harbor tonight and dumped ice into Boston Harbor, declaring: No Kings, No Tariffs, No ICE.
📹: @we.jamsa
📹: @we.jamsa