Notices by mem_somerville (mem_somerville@mastodon.social)

Well, I am definitely headed for the gulag now. But Fuck ICE.

#SomervilleMA #RumeysaOzturk #PowderAlarm

https://www.cambridgeday.com/2025/03/26/thousands-rally-for-scholar-rumeysa-ozturk-taken-from-somerville-street-by-federal-agents/

A friend of mine is getting used car newsletters from a large vendor. They noticed that lately the thing is FULL of #Tesla cars going for ridiculously cheap prices and there are tons of them every time.

It's working.

Some photos from the #Ukraine rally today in #Boston.

I met Abby the Garden Store cat the other day at Mahoney's.

"Today I'm not in a good mood, and there's a pretty good chance I may scratch".

Same Abby, same.

#Caturday

So, so unnecessary.

Pathogens suck, people. They really suck. They don't want you to be "healthier" from raw milk. They want you dead.

Get me off this ride.

#RawMilk

https://apnews.com/article/raw-milk-california-cats-bird-flu-c3f6201216efb2a7e98ca143329a631a

Looks to me like democracy dies right in the light and the open air.

I really thought it was going to be less visible.

Godspeed, good man. Godspeed.

Separately, I was planning to launch this project in January, after the holidays. But BECAUSE REASONS it makes sense to launch now.

I'm recruiting #Wikipedia editors for lace pages, and got a grant for it from @wikipedia .

#lace #BobbinLace #NeedleLace #tatting #lacemaking

https://youtu.be/5boV146lm_k

I don't know if y'all can access this story, but @404mediaco has a piece that I helped with. It is:

"AI Comes for a Centuries-Old Craft" and the proliferation of #AIslop beginner books. Preying on beginners who don't know what's real or not is loathsome, and underway.

#BobbinLace #NeedleLace #tatting #lacemaking

https://www.404media.co/email/623759d6-610f-49dc-90cb-3454d3ca8e71/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

I call this Still Life with Cat and Gourd as a joke with my friends. This cat is never still unless she's asleep, and even then not very still.

The light and the moment just cracked me up.

#Caturday

I never heard of the #4B movement until today, and now I've heard about it from several sources.

I was way ahead of my time....

"Boycott men? #SouthKorea's 4B movement gains traction in the US after Trump's win"

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/08/nx-s1-5182888/4b-movement-trump-south-korea

Whoa. 300+ #sewing machines.

"Auction ‘of a lifetime’ features nearly 300 sewing machines, unique fabric 100 years old"

Avid quilter and seamstress from Brock, Nebraska, loved the history behind the heavy machines that date back to 1850

https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/10/31/auction-of-a-lifetime-features-nearly-300-sewing-machines-unique-fabric-100-years-old/

@Gargron thanks so much to the team--I noticed the bundling thing on a popular tweet before it was official and it was wonderful! Thanks so much everyone. Good call.

https://mastodon.social/@mem_somerville/113087527968007024

There's a lot of bad news from #Florida and #HurricaneHelene, but here's a story of planning that seems to have worked.

"How the AquaFence protected Tampa’s hospital during Helene"

https://wapo.st/3XCH5y6

I was just looking out the front door and saw the woman across the street checking the mail. She is an older #Haitian woman, who has been the home health care aide for the much older woman who lives in that house. For years.

She is always there, taking care of our seniors, and these guys punching down at these important members of my community really makes my blood boil.

These guys need to be shut down so hard.

Did I miss any climate change questions yet? I just went to the kitchen and I didn't recall any....

#USpol #Debate

Honestly, this is impressive even to me--living in the land of the #Storrowing

Hat tip @HenricoPolice.

Ok, it's now overdue, but it's going back today--I swear.

The Other Significant Others by Raina Cohen.

Loved it. At first I thought it would just be a series of vignettes of people who lived out-of-bounds like I do, and I almost didn't press on.

Glad I did. She uses the quirky life scenarios as a way to illustrate the hurdles and barriers to life outside the cultural boundaries.

1/n #Bookstodon

I got German #Measles in the 1980s (not sure why, I was vaxxed, also had mumps later). I remember them bringing in all the trainee docs to see it because nobody except the older doc on service had seen it before. Sigh.

Don't let's go there again. Please. It's unnecessary.

"Isolation, extreme fatigue, lingering misery: What it’s like to survive measles"

https://wapo.st/3RVXw6F

So, today I was here. This was one of the most unusual historical marker signs I have ever seen.

Charming. Serious. And #NinjaTurtles. #TMNT
#DoverNH