bookmarks

cool blogposts/papers/whatever

bits about money — charitable donations and the infrastructure supporting them — a fascinating article about donor advised funds (time travel mechanism for rich people to do more tax deductions)
allowing bicyclists to follow leading pedestrian signals is safe, according to nyc dot
access to gender-affirming healthcare (statistically significantly) reduces suicidality (archived on tris.fyi, updated 2023-09-08)
open transclude for networked writing — a neat way of using iframes to cite other content

music

adele mcallister — come to the water
don't you know we were made to nurture the earth?
to feed the hungry and to bind up the hurt
to fight injustice, to aid, not to judge
and above everything else, we were made for love
miles morkri — ventifact — pretty cool mostly instrumental album! hard to pick a favorite track
aivi & surasshu — the black box (10th anniversary deluxe edition) — some really cool bonus tracks! i remember listening to the original album on the bus in high school. makes me feel kinda old. honestly check out all of the infloresce records stuff. aivi does not miss
emperor x — suggested improvements to transportation infrastructure in the northeast corridor — very cozy memories from when i heard the first and last tracks on this one for the first time, at a college radio station. hopefully y'all know who you are, thanks for a great birthday <3

sidequests

surveying all boston fire department fireboxes (medford/somerville boxes included too, but the medford list isn't complete because i haven't found any authoritative-looking list)

data

helpful openstreetmap tools

opening_hours evaluator
taginfo, check if you're using a tag correctly, discover new tags
notesreview, find nearby notes that have been open for a long time
osmcha changeset validation tool

places

gender

all of my other weird jokes (in alphabetical order)

bisexual (dot) lighting
corn on the c (dot) observer (corn on the cob server) — pretty sure this domain name is yafah's fault
entirely (dot) red
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (dot) website
jeff sessions (dot) online
nothing (dot) delivery
ransomware (dot) link
rotating (dot) fish
rotating (dot) horse
turquoise (dot) website
zero is a natural number (dot) party

random other stuff

that one time i went to yell at legislators about trans rights, learned that only one person was going to be allowed to speak per issue, and then went uhhhhh, trans... portation policy! transportation policy. (32:53)
nist srm catalog (2023-05-15)
policy on the naming of mbta stations (updated 2018-08-13)
metrofire mutual aid running cards (archived on tris.fyi, updated 2023-08-09)
changes to transit service in the mbta district, 1964-2023 (archived on tris.fyi, updated 2023-08-09)
atkinson hyperlegible, the font used on this very page!!!
tortellini.gif (mine)
blackboard transact charge protocol reveng docs (mine)
mit guide to lock picking
radio station call origins
johnvertising
the 12-bit rainbow palette
light pollution atlas 2020 (david lorenz)
a toki pona dictionary (nimi.pona.la)