Turlach MacDonagh

Some recent pictures of a rainy day in Boston.

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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Feel free. If it helps get the MBTA more money to fix things and improved the system, then go to it!

The T has its problems but Phil Eng has been working miracles in how much it has improved over the last couple years.

I thought I heard the dolphins say “So long, and thanks for all the fish.”

#HGTG

Kind of hoping they would beam those of us more evolved off of this rock.

Specially if it helps the MBTA get more funding. Eng has been doing a great job. The system is substantially better.

Go for it. To be clear I didn’t get hit with it. An MBTA employee was there as well and was already starting to clean up. But the clearly visible rebar shouldn’t be too hard to spot. This was close to the Park st end of the tunnel.

When does the @mbta start handing out hard hats? A nice chunk of ceiling fell in the tunnel between Park st and Downtown Crossing. Nothing like the ones that have come down in Harvard Sq station but it was still enough to have caused some decent damage to one’s head.
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Boston No Kings! won't be your average protest.

Yes, we’ll have speakers-but also live music, theater & art, & more than 30 resistance groups ready to turn your outrage into action.

Peaceful? Yup. Passive? Never. Join us!

#NoKings #Boston #Unite #Resist

www.mobilize.us/commoncause/...

@mbta.com assuming if this were a real fire or emergency trains wouldn’t be running and people we be told to get out of the station?

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Bostonian abroad.

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

What a crock of shit from Marc Benioff — who appears willfully ignorant of news and facts and so thirsty for approval and attention from the Trump tech bros (who in the past mocked him relentlessly) that he is soiling himself in public www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

A little throw back to June of 2022. BU was finishing up on the Duan Family Center for Computing & Data Sciences
Building. It is a pretty cool addition to Boston’s skyline.
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Boston’s completed South Station tower. It’s also the major train interchange in the greater Boston area.. The same one the feds were threatening to take over.

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Elevar La Cultura A Tribute to Hustle by Victor Marka27 Quiñonez on Boston’s Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway.

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Opinion | ‘Reading Rainbow’ returns to a country far more hostile to books — and diversity "Reading Rainbow" returns after 19 years and, fittingly, lands a day before 2025's "Banned Books Week."

‘Reading Rainbow’ returns to a country far more hostile to books — and diversity: "Reading Rainbow" returns after 19 years and, fittingly, lands a day before 2025's "Banned Books Week
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

They largely want the studios & sports and don’t care about the news org. In fact, they would love it gone. Why? Because rich men, especially tech men, think they deserve no criticism and also need constant fluffing. They value a mirrortocracy over a meritocracy and welcome a mediocrity.

More architecture in the MIT area. So many new buildings sitting next to old buildings makes for a nice contrast.

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Trump threatens Portland after police arrest a MAGA influencer

Trump threatens Portland with funding cuts and a DOJ investigation after police arrest a MAGA influencer

The old Fireproof storage on Mass Ave in Cambridge has been fully renovated.

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Chicken or rooster?

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Police Log: Threatening Flyer Left at Home, Suspected Organized Crime Scam Used at Nike, Shoplifters Busted The following information was provided by the Watertown Police Department. Sept. 11: A man was seen taking $539 worth of merchandise from Marshalls. Sept. 11: Police responded to Target for a woman wh...

Watertown resident with a 'No King, No Tyranny' lawn sign gets a flyer calling for the extermination of liberals (scroll to Sept. 12)
www.watertownmanews.com/2025/09/26/p...

MIT land. Stata center in the background.

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The fiercest guard dog in all of Bernard Maine.

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#ICE drove their General Lees around Harvard Square on Friday as part of their Boston-area tour. www.cambridgeday.com/2025/09/09/f...
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Saw this at Bass Harbor Head Light at Acadia National Park. Thought it would be funny to text “let’s meet a thunder hole” with a pic of an anus.

STATEMENT ON DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LAWSUIT AGAINST BOSTON This unconstitutional attack on our city is not a surprise. Boston is a thriving community, the economic and cultural hub of New England, and the safest major city in the country — but this administration is intent on attacking our community to advance their own authoritarian agenda. This is our City, and we will vigorously defend our laws and the constitutional rights of cities, which have been repeatedly upheld in courts across the country. We will not yield. MAYOR MICHELLE WU

We will not yield.

The boss cat of the wharf at Thurston's Lobster Pound in Bernard Maine. Clearly this cat knows what’s up.

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ICE released this Mass. mom with no phone, 30 miles from home in the rain after detainment for a sealed marijuana conviction Federal authorities refused to tell the Canton woman's husband or lawyer on what grounds she was being detained until shortly before her release.

The cruelty is the point: ICE releases woman it had locked up for 10 days by shoving her out the door of its Burlington hole in the pouring rain, with no phone, 30 miles from home; she walked over to the Burlington Mall and begged for help at the Cheesecake Factory. www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...