Evan

@scribblesonnapkins
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Engineer, Public Transit Enthusiast, Concerned Citizen.

Personally : Trying to improve public transit in MA

Professionally : +15 years designing mostly electronics for hearing research.

#BostonWeekend Sat PROTEST Biggest protest? Biggest protest SO FAR. #NoKings - multiple options - #BostonCommon should be big but lots of standouts more local https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/ #Boston #Protest
No Kings March 28th · No Kings on Mobilize

What began in 2025 as a single day of defiance has become a sustained national resistance to tyranny, spreading from small towns to city centers and across every community determined to defend democracy. Our peaceful movement is bigger than ever.

Mobilize
Harry Burton for the Irish Examiner today saying it out loud 🌍

RE: https://mastodon.online/@litteracarolina/116289296091673384

It's a font
It's an emoji
It's the product of a board monk

Former Boston organizer Monica Cannon-Grant ordered to pay $224,000 in federal fraud case

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wbur.org/news/2026/03/24/monica-cannon-grant-fraud-case-restitution

News on Bluesky. I guess Mayor Wu has gone on a mass block off and has at minimum unfollowed all of us involved in the transit space.

It would be smart to point out how the staff in the last meeting
repeated the LIE that trolley buses would cost too much to install
because of wiring costs. Their figures on this were exaggerated and
the head of transit matters proved it when they first made this
nonsensical claim.
https://commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/mbta-has-a-bad-plan-for-electrification/

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MBTA has a bad plan for electrification

THE MBTA says that it is committed to an emission-free future bus system, but its plans suggest otherwise. Recently, the T published a document justifying

CommonWealth Beacon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@scribblesonnapkins/115438267449443855

Do you want to help end this stupidity?

Thursday the MBTA is going to take up the issues of decarbonization and their capital budget again.

https://www.mbta.com/events/2026-03-26/board-meeting-mbta-board-directors-hybrid

It would be helpful for people to write in and comment to the effect of :
* CIP - Ongoing concerns about the battery bus plan and the need for
trolley buses
* Decarbonization - The priority inversion of the T's understanding
not realizing their priority should be providing transit first because that directly reduces emissions

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Listening to the public comments at the Newton School Committee tonight.

One person was almost in tears talking about composting initiatives. We should be friends.

We have another person demanding battery school buses. I am unsure how to even start explaining to them this isn't a good idea.

The FEMA response and recovery lead has claimed that he was once teleported to a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia. In other words it’s a regular Friday in the Trump administration.

Top US Fema official claims to...
Top US Fema official claims to have teleported to a Waffle House before

‘Teleporting is no fun,’ Gregg Phillips, picked to lead Fema’s office of response and recovery, has said on a podcast

The Guardian