Matthew Terrill

@matthewterrill

Poetry, art, music, urbanism, justice. Runner for sport and cyclist for transport. Arts & Culture finance leader. Learning to thrive with ADHD. Finding the sacred all around. (he/him)

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Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· 27d

Bing Bong, England's gone. Sent packing by:

rear view of that Messi statue that makes the world cup trophy look like a massive dong

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· 27d

1. Is he putting bronzer on the bronze? Is this a "living statue" situation? Blink if in distress, bro! 😂 2. If it's an actual statue, then I have to assume it's by the same workshop as that wackadoodle Cristiano statue years ago, lol 😂

weird, lopsided bust of Cristiano Ronaldo looking like he was mashed up with Sloth from The Goonies

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· 27d

I know wildfire smoke in the air is now an every summer occurrence for Boston, but I don’t recall the sky being this eerie shade of yellow before. It’s really weird!

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· 28d

G.O.B.: “31. Bamboo floor upgrades— cheaper, stronger.” I can’t read this word. “32. Wireless ‘crapability.’ ” That one explains itself. “33.” Michael: G.O.B., that was six months worth of work. You can’t just blurt them all out at once.

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· 29d

Congrats @mayacpopa.bsky.social on your new book of poems! My copy arrived today, & I can’t wait to read!🫶🏼

A book cover, titled “If You Love That Lady” on a white kitchen counter with two red apples to the right and a small candle to the left.

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· 29d

Ha! I was gonna post this to you of our “junior” branch manager, and I captioned it on IG that she’s building a stick library. The managers are on the same page! 😂

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· 29d

ah yes, geometry... a subject famously unfamiliar to entire continents, let alone the regions of the world most significantly shaped by Islam. good lord, what a breezily inane and colonialist passage.

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· 29d

“Lindsey Graham made a horror of his life. Continually, day by day, on purpose, for decades. He built a tower of monstrosity right up to the sky and then died. Do him the honor of acknowledging his life's work. You can't be trusted to burn down what you're pretending not to see.”

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something like the pure spore form of the rot at the heart of American
politics: Praise for a guy who worked every day to produce actual lived misery in the very people whose hopes and interests Schiff nominally represents at the highest levels of government, because that guy did that evil work in a genteel and witty way.
The moral and personal calculus here are precisely backwards. Good humor and interpersonal charm do not ameliorate the malignity of a guy like Graham; that he had the capacity to be a fun golf partner while pushing cruelty and hate into the actual laws the rest of us are made to live by all the more vividly illustrates his total, indisputable moral depravity. If what you'll pledge to remember about the unrepentant sadist who flayed your neighbors alive is that he never let it get in the way of a good joke, you are no less sick than he was, And, crucially, you are no friend to your neighbors.

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supporters-who wants to see them miserable and afraid and unsafe, who fights to enshrine into law that they may live no other way-isn't your enemy, the word has no meaning. It is no exaggeration to say that Lindsey Graham did far more harm to
vulnerable Americans than Osama bin
Laden-whose sparkling wit received no hosannas from anybody when he fucked off-and no less directly. That Graham was himself an American, and that, as such, other polite Americans are expected to send him off with warm affection, is an indictment of the entire idea of national identity.
Lindsey Graham made a horror of his life. Continually, day by day, on purpose, for decades. He built a tower of monstrosity right up to the sky and then died. Do him the honor of acknowledging his life's work. You can't be trusted to burn down what you're pretending not to see.

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jul 10

Joining with Boston cyclists and neighbors in a vigil to remember and honor Louisa Gag, safe streets and Vision Zero policy worker. She was tragically killed by a driver while she rode her bicycle on Thursday. 🕯️

A sidewalk memorial of flowers and candles and a crowd of cyclists paying tribute.

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jul 10

The actual Globe story

Boston bike advocate killed while cycling near Roxbury Crossing
Wu said the 36-year-old will be remembered as a "bright light" and "dedicated public servant."
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"Our hearts are with her family, friends, colleagues, and all whose lives she touched," Wu said in a statement. "I am absolutely devastated by this unfathomable loss for our community and our city"
Gag began working for Wu as a policy fellow when the latter was a city councilor and quickly became a "trusted colleague and partner," the mayor recalled in her statement. She led programs and improvements that "made our streets safer, our communities stronger, and our residents' daily lives better," Wu said. "Her legacy will endure in the work she advanced across the city, and in the commitment of her colleagues, friends, and fellow advocates to carry it forward."
The crash occurred a short distance from Southwest Corridor
Park. The driver stopped afterward, officials said.
The circumstances of Thursday's crash were not immediately clear. Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden said his office is investigating along with Boston police.
"The investigation of Louisa's tragic death is underway and will be thorough and careful," Hayden said.
The area of the crash has been a source of concern and frustration for cycling safety advocates in recent years.

"We all know how dangerous Tremont Street is," said Tiffany Cogell, interim executive director of the Boston Cyclists Union, which has an office near the scene. She and others expressed both grief and anger.
"Louisa is such a loved and tight member of our community. For this to happen where it did just adds insult to injury."
The tragedy also occurred during a time when some transit advocates have criticized Wu for stalling a number of street improvement projects they said would improve public safety.
One such area that's been targeted for improvement is the busy intersection at Roxbury Crossing, a few blocks from the crash scene.
Wu has said street safety remains a priority for her administration, and emphasized that work on many such infrastructure projects is ongoing.
In 2025, there were 256 crashes in Boston that resulted in a cyclist being injured, according to the city's "Vision Zero" database, which relies on data from Boston Emergency Medical Services. No fatalities were reported. Data on crashes involving cyclists in the city this year was not available.
The cyclists union on Wednesday renewed its call for Wu to
"unpause the projects that will provide needed safety to prevent these deaths, which don't have to happen," Cogell said.
Meanwhile, Boston City Councilor Sharon Durkan, whose district includes Roxbury Crossing and who also chairs the chamber's planning, development, and transportation committee, demanded the city fast-track safety infrastructure in the wake of Gag's death Thursday.
"We cannot stand by and watch more fatalities happen on our streets," Durkan said.
Gag was raised by civically engaged parents and was a graduate of Boston Latin School, friends and family said. Before joining the city in 2022, she worked for LivableStreets Alliance, a Boston-based nonprofit that pushes for increased safety, equity, and affordability, according to the group's website.

Stacy Thompson hired her, at a time when the organization was small. They grew with it together and became fast friends, she said. Her spark was immediately apparent, Thompson said.
Gag was the original author of the nonprofit's progress reports on "Vision Zero," a global movement that Boston committed to more than a decade ago, she said. The strategy is aimed at eliminating traffic fatalities and severe injuries by focusing on safe mobility for all road users. She was responsible for listing the names of people who had died as a result of crashes in the city, Thompson said through tears.
"It is unimaginably hard to add her name to that list," she said.
Gag left advocacy to work at City Hall because she "believed fundamentally in the civic duty of the city," she said. She desired to make real change — "and she did," Thompson added. A big part of her work centered around expanding the bike-share program, Bluebikes, and encouraging more people to bike.
And she was effective everywhere she went, capable of gaining trust among advocates, community members, and people in positions of power, Thompson said. People could tell that she cared, she said.
"It wasn't just a job for her," said Thompson, who added that Gag's contributions "cannot be summed up in one single accomplishment."
"There are streets you cross that are safer because of Louisa," she said. "She is in the fabric of the city. The only thing we can do, which she would want us to do, is to move forward and to move faster."
Galen Mook, executive director of MassBike, collaborated with Gag for more than a decade on efforts to improve the safety of roadways in Boston, calling her a "champion of the work." She showed up to everything - from celebrations to hard conversations — and always did so "with a smile," he added.
"She comes from a vision and a mission of generations worth of change in the city," he said. "This is a reaffirmation of the need to continue the work and redouble the efforts to push it forward."

"She comes from a vision and a mission of generations worth of change in the city," he said. "This is a reaffirmation of the need to continue the work and redouble the efforts to push it forward."
"Because this is a preventable tragedy," he added.
Another bike safety advocate and friend of hers, Peter Cheung, said the community plans on holding a memorial for Gag after family and community members have a chance to grieve. For years, he has organized "ghost bike" installations at the scene of cyclist fatalities to remember those killed.
But "this is as close as it has hit to home, for everyone," Cheung said.

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jul 8

I love this prompt! Theaster Gates Sweet Land of Liberty, made from fire hoses (photos 1-2) Teresita Fernandez, Soil Horizon (photos 3-4) Ragnar Knartansson The Visitors (link) www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/...

A rectangle of old fireboxes in various shades of neutral colors, white, red, and blue. It evokes the American flag

Theaster Gates
American, born in 1973
Lives in Chicago
Sweet Land of Liberty, 2013
Decommissioned fire hoses
Gates assembles these rhythmic stripes in red, white, blue, and brown to strike a chord. He sewed them after learning to upholster rough materials from his own father, whose generation actively struggled for Civil Rights in the 1960s. In May 1963, Alabama authorities infamously used high-pressure hoses and attack dogs to disperse peaceful black demonstrators.
Fifty years later, Gates removed hoses from city streets, flattened, silenced, and titled them with lyrics of the 1831 patriotic anthem My Country, 'Tis of Thee, known also as "America."
Collection of Lizbeth and George Krupp
Bob Adelman, No Man is an Island, Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963.
Courtesy Howard Greenberg Callery, New York
Gates's work recalls another anniversary: in 1843 abolitionist
A. G. Duncan circulated additional lyrics to the original anthem:
My country, 'tis of thee,
Stronghold of slavery, of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died, Where men man's rights deride,
From every mountainside thy deeds shall ring!
Trump of glad jubilee!
Echo o'er land and sea freedom for all.
Let the glad tidings fly.
And every tribe reply.
"Glory to God on high," at Slavery's fall.

A rectangular panel in dark charcoal and copper hues that looks like a horizon with a cosmic constellation above and various textures below. Despite all being dark and nearly monochromatic, the copper that comes thru sparkles and the varied textures are captivating.

TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ
Lives and works in New York / Vive y trabaja en Nueva York
Soil Horizon 1, 2024
Solid charcoal, sand, and mixed media on copper panel / Carboncillo sólido, arena y técnica mixta sobre panel de cobre
Courtesy of the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London / Cortesía de la artista y de Lehmann Maupin,
Nueva York, Seúl y Londres

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jul 8

Not posting enough pics of my dog Helly, so let’s fix that. She’s attacking a weakness in her ball. 😍

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jul 7

Instantly reminds me of Billy McFarland (Fyre Festival). He even kinda looks similar to him.

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jul 7

“not clear what kind of move USA was trying to do” this whole game.

Check this shit out motherfucker [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, its not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jul 6

Was it all the self experimentation and random shit I've injected over the last 10 years? No, it was the fast food 30 years ago.

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jul 6

Was it all the self experimentation and random shit I've injected over the last 10 years? No, it was the fast food 30 years ago.

Principal Skinner meme from the Simpsons

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jul 4

“I’m actually doing research for the next season of Detective Crashmore but I gotta stay undercover.”

From I Think You Should Leave: Santa as Detective Crashmore in a leather jacket and beret says “It's kind of a cosmic gumbo.”

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jul 4

Man, now I want to rewatch The Insider.

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jun 29

“I’m Dr. Jerry Hathaway with Everything. Tonight we’ll look at something most of us take for granted. The colon: what does it look like?” yarn.co/yarn-clip/4f...

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Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jun 25

He did the dril tweet “Someone who’s good at the economy please help me budget this, my family is dying.”

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jun 25

42 today! It’s been a nice birthday — off work, quiet morning w the dog at my side and a bike ride to dinner w my beloved on a sunny summer evening. Grateful for another year.

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jun 23

Phenomenal. “The stability of the institution depended less on whether it was doing a good job than on whether it had manufactured enough consent. So long as its supporters remained happy, the industry, much like the government, could stay powerful far longer than individuals could stay solvent.”

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jun 22

Monday #BikePup mood-boost! Ride along with Helly & me for part of our journey home from her annual vet visit! (She’s healthy & the very best girl!) Riding with her is one of my purest joys, & this part of the route kept us protected from any high-traffic or high-speed streets!

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jun 22

Good morning from a week off and the abstract shapes of Helly’s post-walk “baked potato” time on the deck. 🥰

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jun 22

Emi Martinez has a new favorite team

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jun 21

Man, I love Young the Giant. One of the few bands for whom I have a distinct memory of hearing them the first time — on the radio driving through Los Angeles on a work trip c. 09-10. Love their music, their growth & that I got to see them for a 5th (?) time tonight.

Matthew Terrill@matthewterrill· Jun 20

Sweden sowing a 5-1 vs Tunisia: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Sweden reaping a 5-1 vs Netherlands: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.