FlyingToaster

Jared lost money as a *Somerville* landlord.

[Somerville, MA and Allston-Brighton, Boston, MA is where grad students rent apartments]

Talarico has a penis. That is all.

Yes, it was 75 degrees in Boston on Tuesday, and we're predicted a couple hours of "wintry mix" on Thursday afternoon.

But somehow climate change is a hoax...

And Hooray! The Feeds R Back!
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Heads up to all the Jackals:
The Feed is a couple hours behind.
Feel free to use the List instead.

I blame Trump.

The only places in IL I ever heard it (cough Quincy cough) are suspiciously close to Missouri.
The early 1800s influx of German immigrants to the Ohio and Missouri Valleys is probably a large input.
Later it seems to have become a Shibboleth, similar to "Missourah" vs "Missouree".

I can attest to it covering the length of the Missouri Valley (my Grandad from NW MO and my Dad from KC.
I was given the "benefit" of speech therapy after kindergarden, but I still can't hear the difference between "pen" and "pin."

True, one goes scootering (faster! faster!) into Isengard.

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

You would need to gut rehab that structure, which might be impossible.
Union Corner was thick 200+ year old wooden beams (how the fire spread), masonry, plaster and lath. Too many failure points to "add" a sprinkler system, without a metal load-bearing frame.

a man in a black jacket is holding a gun and the only prescription is written on the screen behind him . Alt: Christopher Walken on SNL: I got a fever. And the only prescription... is more cowbell!

Where the fuck is my 🔕 $10/gal gas?

That looks a lot like my block down the hill from Tufts (1995-2002). I lived in the middle deck; we had ~15 ft between houses accomodating a driveway.
Of course, much of Somerville looks like that!

I remember being at the UN (Palais des Nations) in Switzerland during Bush II, and telling the intake guy, "American, from Massachusetts. WE didn't vote for him."
Back then, he laughed.

Let alone having to activate all the National Guards for the local states.

I can't speak to Michigan, but Pappas is probably correct about his district. 🤬

Or a northern city. Boston playgrounds look like this.

Had an IDBuzz 7 seater with 400 mile (winter) capacity existed, I'd consider trading in my Sienna. Alas, the 250 miles/charge is a dealbraker, and they're not continuing them in the US.

Cargo bikes are, well, not ideal for ~12 ft boards. You made a wise choice, there.

It's a largish minivan. 7 seats plus cargo and a roof rack. Used to carpool kids to school and string quartets to performances and gardening/snow equipment to storage.
A Prius would be more efficient, but useless for what I need to haul around.

en.infinisys.co.jp still makes the screensaver!

My '22 Sienna is a hybrid, averages ~30mpg, replaced a '07 ICE Sienna that got about 12mpg. Usually city driving, a couple long trips w/in New England every year.
Driving to Connecticut or the Cape with an EV? No Problem.
Driving to Vermont or Maine? Oh, fuck. Hence the hybrid.

To drive from here to either Florida (Mom) or KC (niece) would be at best difficult, and worst a nightmare.
There's decent charging between here and DC/Northern Virginia, but then it gets dicey.
Going west is worse. After Albany, I'm not counting on anything.
Hybrids are 'way more compatible. 2/2

The US is big. Like, seriously, big.
It's a 3-day drive to my nearest relatives.
While I live where there is great infrastructure for charging (Hub of the Universe, aka Greater Boston), northern New England and much of upstate New York are a nightmare for finding anything but overnight charging. 1/2

Massachusetts does a straight 4% surtax on net income over $1M (on top of our 5% flat income tax). And we got more millionaires out of it!
Wealth taxes are easier to dodge, so I don't recommend them.
Mind you, we provide "services" for our taxes, unlike the red states.

Tuberville.

Kennedy's act is shameless pandering to the rubes.

And y'all wonder why 4B is a thing.
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Murkowski, probably.
Collins, not a chance.
Idiocracy, kleptocracy, kakistocracy.

Massholes fire back:

It went from $2.85 to $3.05 overnight in suburban Boston.

They started coming out of the woodwork on Wednesday night. I suspect we've got another few days of this wave. Yeesh!