is summer. another #bostodon, fediverse meetup soon #boston?

I'm thinking a weeknight, something outside in the evening for food and beverage socializing. Thoughts/venues/events? #massachusetts

I lol’d but as a Mexican I can attest that they’re not lying about the good vibes.

I’m in Mexico City for this one, which means that, even if I always hated soccer, my emotional stability today depends on my people winning. #worldcup

It’s T-3ish to the Mexico-England game and I am in the best possible place to witness this moment: Mexico City, my beloved hometown, and also the BEST city in the world. A historic #worldcup game on a Sunday afternoon? Ambiance is completely nuts. Here begins my report!

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@knizer Excellent idea - have you been to High Street Place yet? I haven't but might be the kind of venue that's good for a meetup

is summer. another #bostodon, fediverse meetup soon #boston?

I'm thinking a weeknight, something outside in the evening for food and beverage socializing. Thoughts/venues/events? #massachusetts

#SilentSunday #SomervilleMA

#BarakObama #PresidentObama

#BostonWeekend Sun CELTIC #Harvard Square / #ClubPassim hosts a #Celtic music festival https://www.passim.org/live-music/festivals_summer_series/summer-bcmfest/ #BostonMusic

#BostonWeekend as usual, this roundup is brought to you by me, a human, who takes no funding and uses no AI - I do it the hard way, going through the listings for an hour and posting a thread of what looks fun. double check your event is going to happen if, where, and when I claim it might, as weather might reschedule or I may have made a mistake.

here's some of the places I sourced info from this week, please let me know if you find some great event I missed:

https://www.thebostoncalendar.com/
https://www.bostonartreview.com/weekly-happenings
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/things-to-do/weekend/
https://www.bostoncompassnewspaper.com/happs
https://www.pleasurepie.org/bspn.html#current
https://www.bostonbikeevents.net
https://bostonshows.org
https://pvdeye.org/culture-calendar/#/
https://www.instagram.com/bostonimprovcalendar/
http://www.bradleysalmanac.com/
https://www.bostongroupienews.com/index.html
https://ra.co/guide/us/massachusetts
https://fan-listings.neocities.org

#BostonWeekend thru Sun BOATFEST #Maritime festival in #QuincyMA https://www.quincyma.gov/specialevents/maritime_festival_.php #Boston #Boats #SouthShore #Boating

#BostonWeekend Sat HISTORY A: This National Treasure belongs in a Museum. Friend, go see this cool historical thing in #CambridgeMA which @overholt helped put together!
https://glammr.us/@overholt/116857343465155901 #harvard #libraries #boston

#BostonWeekend for the first wknd of July 2026 - a long weekend for not enough of us, and a hot snap here in #boston #Massachusetts Your roundup of local events worth the trip is back - there's always tons going on, take care out there, and enjoy, enjoy your #NewEngland

#BostonWeekend Sat DARTY down in #QuincyMA an anti-fourth cookout social https://www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/fuck-the-fourth-the-cookout #Boston

#BostonWeekend Sat BIG BOAT GO OUT The #Constitution goes into the harbor, 21 gun salute, and comes back. Lottery to ride! https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/underway/ #BostonHistory #USSConstitution

#BostonWeekend Sat 4pm doors FIREWORKS the #esplanade in #boston /#CambrigeMA hosts some fireworks along the #CharlesRiver Sat night. BSO to play. Delayed opening (from noon) due to heat emergency. Pops Concert 7-930 https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather-news/articles/heat-soars-organizers-last-minute-114301704.html https://www.bso.org/boston-pops-fireworks-spectacular

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

"Fellow-citizens; above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them."

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/What_to_the_Slave_Is_the_Fourth_of_July%3F

First big heat wave of the summer, and the City of Boston is already failing its most vulnerable citizens: https://write.as/brendanhalpin/boston-fails-its-citizens

#Boston #BosPoli #MAPoli

Also, if anyone in the #CambridgeMA #Boston #SomervilleMA metro area is interested in this vintage #MBTA #Transit sign, you can have it for $300 delivered.

Get in touch with me to inquire!

#PublicTransit #Trains #Subway

I'm so excited to share that my books are now available at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA! I dropped them off yesterday! It's a temporary arrangement, so I need readers like you to help me keep the energy up and bring my books to more bookstores!

https://portersquarebooks.com/

#portersquare #portersquarebooks #booksbooksbooks #reading #readingcommunity #fantasy #scifi #fable #disabilitypride #DisabilityRepresentation #lgbtqia #LGBTQStories

You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them. Not the people. The room.

I now travel with a portable CO2 monitor. Outdoors it reads around 400 parts per million. In a closed meeting room with a handful of people in it, I have watched it climb past 2,000. The photo here is a real reading: 2,143.

That number matters more than it looks. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory put people in a chamber and varied only the CO2. At 1,000 ppm, performance dropped significantly on six of nine decision-making measures compared with a clean-air baseline of 600. At 2,500 ppm, seven of the nine fell substantially, some into a range they called dysfunctional. A separate study out of Harvard found cognitive scores declining as CO2 rose, with the steepest losses in exactly the domains you called the meeting for: strategy, planning, and using information under pressure.

Continue reading on my blog because it's too long for here. https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/