Elle

@biknmusicmama

She’s a musician, advocate for safe streets, arts & food-filled, walkable, kid-friendly communities w/ great transit. Reader. Cook. Teacher of music and bike riding. Estoy aprendiendo español y buscar #ciclista Feeling pretty salty under fascism

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Elle@biknmusicmama· 29d

Off to the vigil for Louisa Gag. Sending the energy of these flowers, and their color, to all of us grieving for her -and demanding better from our policymakers -at 5:30 pm at Boston City Hall today. #safestreetsnow #visionzero

3 Yellow petaled, black eyed susans

Yellow is a color worn for safe streets activism

Elle@biknmusicmama· 29d

Had a nice visit to the ICA and dinner planned with friends tonight, but skipping the museum to go grieve. Can’t help but feel the fact that this is the transit route to Seaport from City Hall has a lot to do with our current reality. What are we doing here, Boston??

Map of a route shows need to take Blue Line to Maverick over the water to East Boston from downtown, followed by going back under the water on the silver line to fan pier.

(What are we doing, Boston?)

Elle@biknmusicmama· Jul 15

Just noticed this- does this mean AI is producing AQI data on Yahoo Weather?

Elle@biknmusicmama· Jul 12

Her platform is perfection.

Healthcare is a right not a privilege

An economy that works for working people

Strong schools & affordable child care

Reproductive freedom: trust women

Fighting political corruption

An end to gun violence

Elle@biknmusicmama· Jul 11

Went here today with a free afternoon. Not much there yet, but the staff seem very excited about Labor Secretary Frances Perkins.

National Park entrance sign for the Frances Perkins National Monument

FRANCES PERKINS HOMESTEAD
HAS BEEN DESIGNATED A
NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK
THIS SITE POSSESSES NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE IN COMMEMORATING THE HISTORY OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
FRANCES PERKINS CONSIDERED THIS PLACE, FAMILY-OWNED FOR OVER 250 YEARS, TO BE HER ONE TRUE HOME.
PERKINS SERVED AS FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT'S
SECRETARY OF LABOR THROUGHOUT HIS PRESIDENCY.
THE NATION'S FIRST FEMALE CABINET MEMBER, SHE WAS A DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE CREATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY, UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE, AND THE MINIMUM WAGE.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
DESIGNATED 2014

A view of a blue ocean, blue sky with wispy white clouds and green trees along the coast, as seen from the Perkins estate

Elle@biknmusicmama· Jul 3

Might be time for some new commuter rail windows @mbta.com

Elle@biknmusicmama· Jul 3

Here it is so you don’t have to click anything. Can you guess what the pattern is? No one has guessed right IRL yet.

A person wearing rain poncho in a dramatic pose with hood and a brightly colored mix of squares in red yellow green blue black and orange

Elle@biknmusicmama· Jul 2

I took me swimming!

A view of legs and a sandy beach and a pond with a red lifeguard umbrella

Elle@biknmusicmama· Jul 1

My strawberry pie yesterday (yours was more intensive for sure!)

An old fashioned strawberry pie made of bright red, fresh New England strawberries in a graham cracker crust

Elle@biknmusicmama· Jun 26

We finally got our first issue of @theonion.com in the post and 🧑‍🍳 😘

Onion headline reads “CDC Successfully Eradicates Children” above a picture of a kid with snot running out of his nose

Elle@biknmusicmama· Jun 26

Just got this in the mail and extremely impressed at the rebuke to Trumpism that Lonnie Bunch III managed to get into this issue while the GOP tries to bring back white supremacy with all three branches of government. First article: here’s how scientific discovery influenced Paine.

Cover of the Smithsonian Magazine “America at 250” issue, showing fireworks under a “The Revolutionary Spark” subheading

Elle@biknmusicmama· Jun 25

Just sitting on my back deck, here’s what the app heard:

A list showing a sound file and a downy woodpecker, northern wren, American robin, northern cardinal, house sparrow.

Elle@biknmusicmama· Jun 10

On my usual walking route near my house ….

A gravestone from the late 1800s showing 3/4 kids in a family dead before their second birthday. The surviving child lived to be merely 44.

Elle@biknmusicmama· May 29

The view:

Elle@biknmusicmama· May 29

Why on earth would you ride a bike everywhere??? Me riding along the river that runs through some of the densely populated cities in North America:

Elle@biknmusicmama· May 21

On a positive note, I finally got 5 pounds of hulled buckwheat (after supplier sending me buckwheat with the hull last summer) and was able to revive my amazing homemade buckwheat granola.

A crunchy, sweet mix of oat, buckwheat, pepita, coconut flakes, toasted until golden brown.

Elle@biknmusicmama· May 20

Taken while home in Anderson Ohio last week. People banned!!!

A street scene showing poles with two signs showing a person figure crossed out in the red circle, as if people are products that kill people instead of …people

Elle@biknmusicmama· May 18

I absolutely hate this this is the image used for the Boston Logan “women’s bathroom.” Anyone who isn’t 25, white and thin, trim and dressed in a business casual skirt is suspect? #genderfreebathroomsnow

A silhouette of a thin, trim petite woman with implied long, wavy blonde hair and a short and demurely placed feet

Elle@biknmusicmama· May 18

Holy shit: this book, by Chanel Miller, who was assaulted by a young man who felt protected by his wealth and white privilege. A masterpiece. Fierce and defiant, and so eloquent. Know My Name.

A dark green blue book entitled “Know My Name” by Chanel Miller

Elle@biknmusicmama· May 9

We are back in business baby! Just picked up my e-bike from the shop after a long winter of no plowing combined with error messages, a dead bike and scheduling issues. No more stealing my husband’s at every opportunity!

Elle@biknmusicmama· May 6

*exhales*

Cheryl looks out into the speeding-by night. Patches of light in the black. She can still smell spring coming.

"We're fucked up but not fucked," Paulina says, breaking the quiet that rested between them. And then before Cheryl can ask, she says, "I'm going to give up feeling so hopeless. Or at least, I am going to try to feel hopeful as much as I can."

From “The Break” by Katherena Vermette

Elle@biknmusicmama· Apr 30

You can do this using your photo app. ALT text here

Dear Zack.
I was disappointed to have seen your recent post on X amplifying a post that Met officers were
"repeatedly and violently kicking a mentally ill man in the head when he was already incapacitated by taser".
I am disappointed because it is this kind of inaccurate and misinformed commentary - with its associated casual disregard for the incredibly challenging and dangerous work police officers do to protect the public - that is contributing to the rising tensions we are seeing in society and undermines officer confidence to act.
It is entirely possible the author of the post you retweeted had direct experience from the scene, or has years of experience handling complex, violent situation. Yet I suspect the more likely scenario is that they another armchair critic, who thinks they could do the job, possibly more effectively than the brave officers who successfully detained that individual.
Those officers are nothing short of extraordinary. They were on the scene within a few minutes, and their actions undoubtedly prevented further injury and saved lives. As I said yesterday the officers confronted a dangerous man, they believed to be a terrorist, who refused to show his hands, who was violent, and who continued to pose a clear threat. They were not armed officers, and they feared he was concealing an explosive device.
Using only their training, equipment and a substantial level of bravery and courage, they detained him while he continued to try and attack and stab them. Without their efforts to stop him I dread to think what the outcome could have been.
Apprehending violent and dangerous criminals is a full contact and messy task which may appear shocking to observers with little experience of policing in the real world.
London's Jewish communities are scared. They have experienced a series of targeted attacks on the community, and they expect out officers to act, protect them. That is exactly what our officers did yesterday. Your decision to criticise these o…

Elle@biknmusicmama· Apr 26

Madhur Jaffrey’s Cauliflower, Peas and Potatoes dish. So easy, different and a nice way to give cauliflower a different treatment. Also quick.

Cauliflower florets, peas, and potatoes sprinkled with black mustard seeds and diced flecks of red chili pepper sauté in a pan looking all sexy like you asked

Elle@biknmusicmama· Apr 22

Whomever at @mbta.com decided the real time info for trains and buses should be 75% ads needs a severe talking to. Bunk.

A real time info screen on a concrete subway station wall showing an ad for TIAA instead of anything useful to me

Elle@biknmusicmama· Apr 22

Just at UMass Lowell with the kid/young adult-I was like, “I hope you realize how being right on this river would be an incredible bonus.” Stand on this bridge, deep breathe while the water goes over the rocks and it’ll cure what ails ya. But if you grow up in a river town, you’ll always love em

Beautiful wide river as seen from the bridge connecting the two sides of Lowell. Its tree lined and rocks outcrops stick out of the water.

Elle@biknmusicmama· Apr 22

I love these things beyond measure and no one in my family really likes them besides me

A Japanese sesame coated red bean mochi looking all sexy and sensory tasty

Elle@biknmusicmama· Apr 19

She has a name, @bostonglobe.com, and we could put her name in the headline instead of dehumanizing “girl in Tesla” and “body”

Headline about a 13 year old girl named Celeste Rivas Hernandez, that reads
“After D4vd's arrest, many
still mourn girl in Tesla
Body was found
in musician's car
trunk in 2025”

Elle@biknmusicmama· Apr 15

Drop your crime fighting Catholics.

Dorothy Day, who should be a saint by now.

Elle@biknmusicmama· Apr 7

AI and I blocked you first

If you want to block him he is @telecomone.bsky.social

Elle@biknmusicmama· Apr 5

Got this one 4.5 years ago and no regrets. The bike, not the truck.