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thirstywhitedad · 3 months

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pulled into Dunkin for my daily $2 iced coffee and I’m in the parking lot getting ready to smoke a bowl and the guy next to me is rolling a joint

#Massachusetts #Massachusetts things #nature is healing

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quixoticanarchy · 2 years

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Hello semi-patron saint of the mbta! I am actually moving to boston and will be almost entirely reliant on the bus system and maybe the orange line (but all the places i want to go are on the green line.... 🥺). do you have any general recommendations? things to do/not do/watch out for on the bus? (i am a country bumpkin and lack all social skills so jot that down)

thank you tremendously for any knowledge you wish to bestow!! in supplication i give you this fruit 🍎🍉🍊🍋🥝🍐🫐🍇

Thank you for the offering, I accept the fruit :) I have no idea if this is helpful but I like transit systems a normal amount

Idk how familiar you are with any other buses and trains, but I mean the mbta generally works like other transit systems in most regards. I’m always torn between dire complaints and protesting that at least it’s better than a lot of places. Boston (and nyc) do have a certain hm,, interpersonal public coldness, I would say, so don’t expect to talk to people. Or make eye contact. Or smile. Results may vary and I used to run little social interaction experiments on the mbta in high school, but by and large Bostonians in public do not want you to interact with them. They might help you if you need it but they won’t small-talk.

Specifics I will try to put under a cut lol sorry if it doesn’t work

As far as the T goes I like the orange line, so that’s good. It usually functions except for a couple times it’s caught fire. I’ve also heard the best random subway musicians playing in orange line stations. Also you can at least connect directly to the green line from orange. The green line is.. not my beloved. I’ve taken it more than any other and despite the fact that Boston has had snow for longer than it’s been a city, does the snow disrupt aboveground green line service every year? Yes. The downtown green line stops are pretty close together so if you’re okay with walking, you don’t *need* to take too many trains around there. And the classic/historic/touristy downtown stuff is pretty walkable also, and close to transit options. The B/C/D/E green lines are quite slow, and D is fond of perpetually being under construction, but sometimes that’s inevitable.

The red line goes to some useful or fun places, it either works pretty well or not well at all. South station is useful and has silver line connections including to the airport. (The silver line is a bus pretending to be a good replacement for a removed train line.. long story.) North station is not as useful imo and no, you can’t go directly from north to south station. 🙃 The blue line is a bit irritating to connect to but it does go to a nice salt marsh.

Buses... they are present. They.. work, though not always on their intended schedules. The only buses that have never betrayed me are the 39 and the 86. There are many parts of the city the trains don’t reach, so it’s very good to know the buses, and sometimes their routes are more direct than trains, which are on more of a spoke model. Also they’re cheaper than trains. I’ve commuted by bus and train and it’s all doable, just give yourself spare time.

Anyway this is far too long but I feel strongly about buses and trains and I think they’re a good way to get to know a place. I took every train to each end of their respective lines, just to see what was there (mostly parking lots tbh). Long story short Boston transit has many irritating quirks but it does more or less work, and also apparently I miss it

#no idea if this answer your questions but you have activated the public transit nerd nostalgia #they’ve probably changed some things since I lived there but I’ll answer more specific questions or whatnot too sdfhjkl #the T and mbta in general were extremely formative to me lmao #public transit #massachusetts things #long post #asks

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ukulelekatie · 5 months

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therapist: sad beige dunkin donuts isn't real it can't hurt you

sad beige dunkin donuts:

#massachusetts #masshole problems #just katie things

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natandwandaseries · 2 months

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There is a Boston expression (at least I am fairly sure it is a just Boston/Massachusetts expression) that I would love to see in media more: No sir, pronounced “no suh” and it means no way, an expression of disbelief. It is not gendered. I would guess most people think the word is sur or suh

Example:

A: Kathleen hooked up with Erin’s boyfriend, Connor

B: No suh!

Or:

A: I won tickets to the Sox game tonight! You in?

B: No suh! That’s awesome, man! Let’s hit the packie first and get some nips to sneak in

Anyway, hope you all enjoyed this Boston English lesson, please feel free to use the expression either written as suh or sir in your writing of boston characters

#boston #boston ma #no suh #just massachusetts things #Massachusetts #colloquialism #slang

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morgan-n-cheese-91 · 3 months

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Massholes this massholes that. Y'all know who's really been shitty on the roads recently? Vermont. They act all innocent and then they are riding your ass on the highway.

#morgs rambles #cars #massholes #Vermont #new hampshire #Massachusetts #just New England things #new england #shitty drivers #Shit driving

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alaskasbignaturals · 4 months

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soft ny/mass for the soul <3 very lazily colored but yeah

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starlet-sky · 5 months

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Check out this cute old phone booth I found 🥹

#old things #vintage #phone booth #old style phone booth #old style #vintage mood #vintage style #vintage stuff #mine #me #youniverse #massachusetts #the berkshires #berkshires #new england #self #love

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pebblezone · 1 year

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The Hellsing Organization Goes To Brazil!!

#hellsing #hellsing ultimate #alucard hellsing #pip bernadotte #seras victoria #a #animations #vids #personally being Michigan shaped isn’t horrible like it’s worse than being Ohio shaped but 100% better than being Massachusetts shaped #though I haven’t lived in ma maybe I’d be more willingly be Massachusetts shaped if I lived there #had a silly little school ceremony thing today that had me decked out like Steve blues clues #it was long but they had this baritone doing the national anthem and his voice was absolutely gorgeous #they never have lower voices doing solos it was so epic #need to make more stuff with alucard and seras I don’t milk their dynamic enough #actually that goes for a lot of things but then also sertegra 🧍‍♂️#need to do an in depth hellsing smiling friends overlap situation #mr boss integra same character in the most horrific yet fantastic way #I mean fuck it frowning fiends iscariot

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hamiltonsf1 · 6 months

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im literally sick to my stomach with how much i miss boston and salem

#sounds so dumb but honestly it’s the only other place that has ever felt like home #i miss our hotel on the water #the gloomy weather #everything #do any of my mututals live in boston lol #please give me another excuse to visit #will i look for new jobs there? mayhaps 🤭#boston #salem #massachusetts #lovesick really is a real thing

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spookysalem13 · 29 days

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One day, I would like to stay there for the entire month of October to fully bask in the spooky 👻 magic ✨️

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fieriframes · 7 months

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[Eventually all things are known. And few matter.]

#s15e05 massachusetts madness #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #things

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dragons-bones · 21 days

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it is the most wonderfully, beautifully gloomy New England day today. heavy fog everywhere. gentle misting into drizzle and back into mist. chilly enough to need a light jacket but you can leave it unzipped. just close enough to the ocean to smell high tide as it rolls in, that salt-seaweed pungence cut by the rain enough to make it almost pleasant.

if the shadow of an elder god loomed out of the fog as it briefly stepped onto this plane of existence, i would be neither surprised nor frightened. just part of the ambience.

absolutely fucking glorious.

#just massachusetts things #i fucking love heavy fog with barely there rain days #don't get them often #indulging my inner addams and it's great

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gravesenvy-alt · 8 months

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the closest i got to actually rendering was this. i am so tired. i want to go take the longest nap.