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Angry old woman. intersectional urbanist, fascinator wearing cyclist, storyteller/poet; distributed systems dev. @marie.tech’s wife. PVD via OAK,BOS&PIT. she/her
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Aimee Mann (and Jonathan Coulton opening) a few minutes from home? Yeah, sounds good.

Went to snap a pic of the new Acela Avelia trainset passing through Providence yesterday and an arriving MBTA commuter rail engineer recognized me trackside. Locally infamous railfan😬

It was 100 years ago, today, that the North Shore Line opened their fast line up the Skokie Valley, cutting the time it took to go between Chicago and Milwaukee!

Look what they did to my boy! 😭

I lost my partner in early 2018 when the overtaxed mental health care system let her down; seeing us do this, self-inflicted, to ours, hurts a lot, not to mention it being a horrible way to treat your employees.

Shit, I don’t even live in New York and I’ve taken the subway more recently than that.

Whispering this in the ear of every Rhode Island politician, wondering if they learned anything from what Hasbro said.

Hit a bunch of personal records on my ride back to Providence today but somehow not the longest one; only 2nd best. How much was I off? … Oh.

In the earliest days of nuclear power for feeding into the grid, they actually attached a small reactor to an existing coal-burning plant because it already had a way to convert steam to power. Saxton (PA) Generating Station, now gone. Reactor ran 1962-1972. cdn.vintageaerial.io/file/va-publ...