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2023 Boston Globe Magazine Bostonian of the Year
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And the BU shuttle!
BU “the B U S” shuttle
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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It’s happening again
A pink two story house with a sign “the kelo house” out front. The owners of the home sued to prevent the city of new London from taking their home by eminent domain for an economic redevelopment project benefitting Pfizer. In 2005 the Supreme Court upheld the taking. Pfizer left new London anyways
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Bzzzt wrongo
Tavern in the Square inside south station, Boston
November 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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The getaway car
The Nissan S Cargo, a whimsical snail-shaped micro van in white with blue fenders and bumper
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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I love that ford recycled the “24V DOHC” badge from the SHO on my duratec-equipped wagon despite it being a completely different engine
2004 Taurus wagon with a “24v DOHC” badge
November 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Is this fitzcarraldo’s track
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Here’s some pre-BERy ones! West End Street Railway cover in Brookline, and the Bay State Street Railway in the north end
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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A circa 1908 “cyclon” - a three wheeled cycle car made in Germany. A two-cylinder inline water cooled engine with a substantial flywheel is mounted transversely directly above the front wheel, which it drives via chain. Steering is via a preposterously long tiller on which is mounted a bulb horn and what I think is some sort of air reservoir for pressurizing the fuel system. The car is being driven by a man in a bowler hat with a goatee and elaborate mustache, while another bowler-hatted elaborately mustached man rides in the rear with a young girl wearing earmuffs
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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Minor detail but why does the space force have so many campaign streamers
November 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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There’s a reason why LSU (almost) always wears white jerseys! They look ridiculous otherwise!
LSU player in purple Jersey with yellow pants
November 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Feel like pure shit.. just want her back
The cover of The Horseless Age issue #1, November 1895. Billed as “a monthly journal devoted to the interests of the motor vehicle industry”
November 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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The 1960s were a bad time for monkeys
The majority's 109-page ruling scrutinized the theory and its history, going back to the origins in 1968 with neurosurgery experiments in car accident whiplash injuries involving monkeys. Though this
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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South shore line single-levels should get an honorable mention!
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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I don’t respect Rounded-Back Rear-Engined Car Engine Lids. Square-Back Rear-Engined Car Engine Lids are clearly superior.
November 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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La croix should bring back these glass bottles
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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During the drive to the station, prosecutors say she made statements to officers about immigration enforcement, including, "Why are you doing this to your people?" and "What are you going to tell your children about what you do?"
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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We did this until the 60s! And William Calley was cashiered
November 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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The people involved in this need to be drummed out of the military at minimum. Public humiliation ceremony
Two soldiers drummed out of their regiment in the U.S. civil war. They are in civilian attire with feathers tied behind their ears. Escorted by a sergeant and followed by a fife and drummer Two soldiers drummed out of the Union army. They are in their undergarments, heads shaved and hands tied, with a sign “thief” around their necks. They are being led at bayonet point followed by a drum line
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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RIP to that dog
From “They Flew” by Carlos Eire: ing. "It is not a unique, unheard-of thing lor lie devil to bang around and haunt houses, he affirmed. "In our monastery in Wittenberg I heard him for sure.... The devil came and knocked three times in the storage chamber as if dragging a bushel away." 13 Similarly, the devil could cause quarrels between people or fool them into seeing or hearing the most preposterous things."* He could trick hunters into thinking he was a hare or show up as almost any animal!5 especially an ape. 16 Once, Luther told of a man who was attacked by the devil in the form of a goat. The man wrestled with the beast, ripped off its horns, and watched it disappear.!? On another occasion, Luther found a dog in his bed at the Wartburg castle and flung it out the window, convinced that it was a demon. 18
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Sad to say it
MBTA commuter rail train. Purple yellow and silver was already a rough combo (sorry not sorry Atlantic coast line) but having the zig-zag transition into a weird purple and black swoop is just incoherent
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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The West Roxbury & Roslindale Street Railway Company operated this wacky streetcar with a perfectly cylindrical interior. Ever seen one of these before @interurbanera.bsky.social?
West Roxbury & Roslindale Street Railway Company car #40. It looks like a conventional 1890s single-truck streetcar with a clerestory roof, pedestrian catcher, open-air motorman stand, and center mounted trolley pole. The only indication it’s weird is the convex windows along the side. The car is photographed on an unpaved road with two employees A second photo of the exterior of #40 with an “oakdale” destination sign. The two employees are now posed at either end of the car The interior of the car, showing the perfectly cylindrical cross section. Curved glass windows arch up to a curved roof with hand-holds; no sign of the clerestory roof on the inside as far as I can tell. Wicker benches on either side of the aisle are seated with two men in uniforms, two men in ordinary clothes, and two women
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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It’s cold out! Share someone stylish wearing gloves
A ~1906 advertisement for Laphner, Skinner & Co.’s men’s auto coats. A man in a drivers cap steps to the running board of an open touring car. He’s wearing a humongous double-breasted raccoon coat that runs to his ankles, with an enormous collar. He’s holding a leather driving glove with an oversized cuff; the other glove is on his hand
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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It’s literally patty and Selma’s car tho
Patty and Selma are about to take brat and Lisa to duff gardens in their olive green VW Thing.
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Is the engine just clamped in place? What’s going on here
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Things you couldn’t trust American passengers around
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM