Surely, surely we do not need $21M for policing next year.

I, for one, PROMISE not to go on a large crime spree IF we promise to use that money for housing support, teacher salaries, school buildings, the arts, and work on addressing food insecurity. (6/6)

#SomervilleMA #SomerPoli #MAPoli

We’ve only spent $13M so far on policing this year, and the word “only” in that phrase is doing a ton of work, let’s just say.

It is June, the final month of the fiscal year. If we manage to spend another couple of million of dollars on policing this month, I have … questions.

#MAPoli #USpolitics (5/?)

This budget proposes to lower health and human services. We are not keeping up with inflation on money put toward housing support. We’re not giving our teachers their well-deserved raises. We’re not paying them enough to keep up with inflation – some teachers aren’t getting any raise at all, apparently. This is banana-pants to me, I gotta say.

#MAPoli #SomerPoli #politics (4/?)

Where are we putting our money? We apparently propose to invest only trivially in important public resources such as, you know, food security assistance, housing assistance, education, and environmental justice work. We are giving tiny amounts of money to the arts and building maintenance.

#MApoli #SomerPoli #SomervilleMA (3/?)

I’m just starting my review of the proposed budget, but so far, it kinda feels like things proposed to have a cut should get an increase, and almost everything that’s proposed to have an increase should instead go down … maybe not everything, but holy bananas, I do not see the values of Somerville reflected in this budget proposal. I think MAMAS has spent more money on food insecurity than the city itself proposes to next year, actually. That is pants on head.

#MApoli #SomerPoli #USpol (2/?)

Tonight was public comment night on the municipal budget in #SomervilleMA. Here's how I spent my 2 minutes.

Hi, my name is Crystal Huff and my pronouns are they/them. Y’all know that I have spent the past 5 years doing mutual aid work with MAMAS and the community fridges. I care a lot about how we spend our time and our money in Somerville.

#MApoli #SomerPoli #USPoli (1/?)

@FredricT noooooooo 😭

I'm a grad student and really pissed at how AI is impacting my experience at school. Last semester, I had to clean up unforced errors in a group final project because one of my classmates used AI for their entire contribution. It was a messssssss. 😬😬😬

@jasonkoebler @pluralistic

@SeaFury @scroeser please thank your colleague for me -- this is exactly what I asked my architect friend about a month ago!! Now I have data to read up on with her! 😍

I like to sleep it, sleep it.

Btw, I've confirmed that Connexion's event space is wheelchair accessible and stepless. However, the two sets of doors are heavy (in my opinion, as someone with wrist issues) and there are no automatic door openers.

@knizer argh, I had the opportunity to maybe go in person and I didn't even realize it??? 😭 ARGH.

Idk if you saw my "Wait Wait" parody for American Indian Law class final project, but I finished the captioning and posted it last week on YT.

https://youtu.be/q-pbJWokNpQ?si=BohpOsTqZZHK4YoC

@broadwaybabyto

I am always masked when indoors unless I'm at home. In 2023, I asked a professor if she would please mask and ask the other students to mask in my 8-person (non-remote) class, because I didn't want to get covid and kill my housemate.

"None of us would want to kill your housemate, Crystal!" she said. She did not start masking, nor did anyone else in that class. 🤯

She and the other students got norovirus at the end of the semester. I did not. 😶

I'm looking forward to this book talk next week! Copaganda: how the police and media manipulate our news. Wednesday, 6/4 at 6:30 pm at Connexion in Somerville, MA. #MApoli #Somerpoli #policing #politics #SomervilleMA

Today I learned about the "vanilla ice cream-hating Pontiac car" story, which is apparently actually a real story! It's on Snopes! And it says things about approaching a problem with an engineering mindset! Fascinating!

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cone-of-silence/
#TIL #car #icecream #data #engineer

Damn. This is a 24 hour stream of reading the names of children who've died in Gaza. They started over 90 minutes ago in Harvard Square, and are still on children age 1 year old who've died. #Gaza #Palestine #Harvard #MAPoli #politics #CambridgeMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJcK00XJ6qU

Not gonna lie, it warms my heart that my local solar installer has been fast-tracking the training for their company to be able to install Franklin solar panels and batteries because so many folks in Mass. do NOT want anything to do with Tesla. Here's hoping that company stays independent! Tesla totally bought our solar company years ago. Gotta vote with wallets when we can. #Tesla #solar #MAPoli #USPolitics

@attoparsec omg, I should have predicted that you were also a map geek. Amazing.

I went looking for the projection you're talking about. Initially, I was discouraged by this: https://community.esri.com/t5/map-projections-questions/what-is-the-projection-for-russia-and-alaska-area/td-p/795292

But I think maybe you're talking about this?
https://surferhelp.goldensoftware.com/projections/Hotine_Oblique_Mercator_Projection_2_Point.htm?TocPath=Coordinate%20Systems%7CSupported%20Projections%7C_____12

@wmd @prk omg this is so amazing. Such analysis. Chef kiss.

Argh, apparently I broke this thread and didn't realize it, but I continued it starting with this toot:

https://mas.wrong.tools/@crystalvisits/114265069123488989