#boston area

[wiserebeltiger]

Rhode Island is a place where the stupidest, most obvious psychos get away with the stupidest, most obvious crimes.

[merl-merl]

At counter protests I wish they’d chant, against the pro-lifers, ‘women die’ instead of just ‘people die’

….but I made sure to say women die instead!

Grateful that the counter protest had a good turn out.♥️

[timmurleyart]

A night in the city. 🚌🌛🌃(mixed media collage)🌟✨

[fieriframes]

[These days, they're still singing the same tune. Moussaka. This is Greek Corner. Salt fish kebab. If you want authentic Greek food in the Boston area, this is the place to come.]

[fidgetyhands]

Last winter I didn't use my snow shovel. There was little enough snow that it was easier to sweep it off the sidewalk.

My friend says a cherry tree is blooming near her.

I am wearing a sleeveless shirt and shorts. In November.

it is november, and yesterday it felt like it was supposed to be snowing. in boston, november used a winter month, not a fall month. it is supposed to be chilly; rarely capping over 45F. it is a sweater-and-jacket month. it is a "maybe a scarf too" month. in my childhood, november meant blizzards and sleet.

it did not snow. tomorrow the weather predicts a high of 76.

i have spent so many years of my life studying the longterm possibilities of climate change - the culmination of capitalism wreaking havoc on the bodies of people, animals, plants - but every so often i am still shocked by something small and personal.

in a hundred years, when someone goes outside in boston - will they know the feeling of "snow in the air"?

i know it's a learned feeling, a sensation that maybe only longterm experience can teach. a few years ago, i was walking with my friend who had just moved up from the south. i said it smells like snow and she gave me this look like - what the fuck. i said it feels like snow too, which didn't help. she looked up to the bright blue sky and then back at me and then back at the sky. 12 hours later, we had 3 inches. you can just tell if it's going to snow.

except i can't tell, anymore. i stand outside in a tee shirt and watch my dog dance around a lake. we're in a drought and the skin of the water has peeled back twenty meters. the lake is tamed, quiet, puddlelike and sour. my pokemon go app warns there's a weather condition in my area.

my dog gets too hot from running and sits in the water and i want to laugh about his long frame and how awkwardly he sits - and i can't. some simian part of my brain is scratching the walls. it was supposed to snow. it was supposed to snow, but now it's warm instead.

during the last full solar eclipse, the dogs and the birds and the crickets went crazy under utter darkness. we laughed at them then, promising it will all be okay in a moment. but some part of me is still locked in that long night: some animal sensation.

something is wrong, my body says. i can't afford eggs or rent. i go outside to watch a sunset and listen to birdsong. i don't bring a jacket. allergies are killing me this season, allergies i didn't have as a kid. everyone comments that halloween has started to feel strange, offkilter. that it's hard having "holiday cheer." my body thinks it's april, and then it thinks we're in september, and then june.

something is terribly wrong, she whispers. go outside. it is supposed to be snowing.

[talesofthenine]

Porch Front Yard in Boston Ideas for a significant craftsman front porch renovation

[wearetekkenrp]

Porch - Front Yard huge front porch idea in the arts and crafts

[setaflow]

People in the comments of the Assassin's Creed: Shadows trailer becoming armchair historians trying to explain why Yasuke shouldn't be a protagonist actually are hilarious. Like besties this is a franchise where people can control eagles with their minds and a good 5% of the population are descended from evil psychic aliens. I THINK we can expand on a story of Japan's only-recorded African koshō without it jumping the shark.

[palamidezh]

bawhstonian miku in her fahkin puffah halfway through cleaning fahkin snow off her fahkin cah mid noreastah so she can go buy scratch tickets and tailgate that shithead from fahkin connecticut who dares to go the fahkin speed limit on fahkin i-95

(translation: bostonian miku in her fucking puffer (jacket) halfway through cleaning fucking snow off her fucking car mid noreaster (regional term for specific type of snowstorm) so she can go buy scratch tickets and tailgate that shithead from fucking connecticut who dares to go the fucking speed limit on fucking i-95 (it's a highway))

[mer-se]

vegan food is boring

[pansyfemme]

there really arent enough freaks in new england . sigh

[vriska-serketboard]

I love Massachusetts. Massachusetts forever and ever btw. Idfc I love my state, I’m going to be a Mass resident for life even if I move out of state

[timmurleyart]

The backyard get together. 🟨🏮🔶♦️🟠🌛🍷

[essektheylyss]

me, has a year and a half left in my masters: I need to apply to a PhD program IMMEDIATELY

[silentstudiosyt]

"What if Magnus was raised in the Greek world-" WHAT IF ANNABETH WAS RAISED IN THE NORSE WORLD??

[doctorwhoisadhd]

also for the record for people in the us who would like to get back into playing a concert band instrument, you can look into pride / freedom / gay and lesbian bands via the pride band alliance, and then the association of concert bands has a find-a-band directory that you can look into (though this won't have every community band in it). sometimes universities have community bands that are open to the community also, and idk about this with other types but with universities you may be able to borrow an instrument from the school as well! also, another place you may be able to find lists of community bands is some state music educators associations may keep lists (for example PMEA does), and you may also want to look into instrument specific things such as flute choirs or tuba christmas