Sean Skunk-Cabbage (Chou-Puant) ⚓

With every item I become more powerful

Our launch party at Seaweeds was packed and the first print run of New England Review of Boats issue 1 is SOLD OUT!! But a second print run is on the way!! Thanks to everyone who joined us to celebrate and to everyone who ordered copies! Get yours here: newenglandreviewofboats.square.site

Mogged! at the Whaling Museum

US garment workers helped pioneer multi-ethnic labor unions, which united people across racial, religious, gender, linguistic, and cultural divides. Also native-born citizens and immigrants. I think about that sometimes when I see people suggest such divides are unbridgeable.

Anybody wanna go to a local mycology conference in November? umass.irisregistration.com/Register?cod...

“We don’t have enough water” is a common excuse for opposing new housing in Massachusetts. Since 1970, the MWRA region has added 810,000 people while cutting daily water demand in half, from nearly 400 million gallons to 200 million through leak repairs and efficient fixtures.

Note: EPiC does not endorse candidates, but we love highlighting organizations we admire!📣 We are thrilled to see that @pvdstreets.org endorsed so many East Providence leaders. While we don't make endorsements, we do celebrate anyone committed to safer streets and better transit across RI. 🚲

This is a really good explanation of why credit ratings agencies prefer states like RI where the legislature is nonprofessional.

Space gun space gun

Wait! Not opening just this year, the new station is opening THIS WEEK! Great project: 1. Moves station back to community walkable downtown from highway offramp adjacent park and ride 2. Does a bunch of urbanization/walkability work 3. Builds in easy transfer to BDL airport We do love it

Steve Ahlquist: Blue is not Green: Vote “No” on Question 3 ...what, exactly, is the money for? The phrase “[e]ligible uses include, but are not limited to” is extremely broad. A literal reading of the phrase could include any imaginable expenditure. steveahlquist.substack.com/p/steve-ahlq...

I was a dyed in the wool KDE hater for 17 years and then a year ago stuck at home for weeks woth COVID and bronchitis I had a feverish vision to test out like 2dozen Linux distros and anyway I'm a KDE guy now like I have a soft spot for konqueror and everything. Also Falkon is maybe the best browser

I wish I was a turnip

More, MORE

My favorite graphics in "Transportation and the Shape of Cities" #1: Motorized transportation (trolleys and then cars) changed the scale of cities.

That and climate change.

Last day of Newport ferry season = go do the cheapest twilight cruise in Rhode Island.

New England Review of Boats Issue 1 is available for pre-order now. (You can pick up in-person at our launch party if you’re in Providence!) A few highlights… newenglandreviewofboats.square.site

This Day in Labor History: October 11, 1979. OSHA fined the chemical company American Cyanamid $10,000 for coercing women workers into sterilization if they wanted to work in jobs where they would be exposed to lead and chemicals. Let's talk how companies forced women to be sterilized in the 70s!

2nd busiest passenger rail corridor in the country if it were a freeway, even redundant to other freeways, it would be fixed immediately like the 10 after the fire in LA

Finally made it out to Reykjavik last week to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of Cooler & Warmer

Weeded! By the librarian

By the Buddha's jeweled hands is this what finally gets new England off heating oil??

I've been saying we should legalize loitering: www.concordmonitor.com/2026/10/09/n... #NHPolitics

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.” ― Anatole France

I would wear this every day

This Day in Labor History: October 10, 1947. African workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway in modern Senegal went on strike with the demand that they be treated equal to French workers. This is a hugely important moment in both African labor history and the anticolonial struggle in west Africa!!!

Ok foamers here's the real question. If I'm paying the same or more for an Amtrak ticket to DC than I would to fly, why will the bathrooms on the NEC train all be fuckin no man's land whereas the head in the plane would be passable if not kinda clean? Despite a much better head to passenger ratio?

tentpolegame.com/m/qnVSq0NRmKRT This would be a banger though

Attention on Deck: New England Review of Boats Issue 1 is now available for preorder! Shipping out on October 25. Get it here: newenglandreviewofboats.square.site/product/-pre...

Quahogger documentary is out. Big news youtu.be/n40d0GyJp48?...

Sucks that search engines are just for shopping now

in this world, head winds are far more prevalent than winds from astern

I posted about my row covers, my plastic derangement syndrome, and that damn bike trailer again. noosup.blogspot.com/2026/10/beat...