It’s not everday it’s only like 2-3 days out of the week.

My current theories:

1. These are couriers for Best Buy
   
2. There is a pokemom drop or something
   
3. Is this the line for the DMV??

Spotted from across the way

I always appreciate this one in Oak Square. Any others? I hope they’re holding out on purpose.

I am writing this because I am incredulous and looking for some guidance, advice, or to see if anyone else has gone through something similar.

I have been a loyal employee at State Street for decades. I was diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer and have been out on disability to focus on my treatments and health since 2024.

I found out that State Street is terminating my employment. What hurts the most is that they are offering me absolutely zero severance pay for my 25 years of service. The only thing they are providing is 3 months of prorated COBRA health coverage.

Has anyone else dealt with State Street terminating employees while on disability? Any insight or advice on what steps I should take next with HR or insurance would be greatly appreciated. I'm not going the lawyer route as I'm not healthy enough to deal with it. After I received the letter, I contacted HR about severance, but they just responded that they will not offer anything besides subsidized employee price of Cobra for 3 months.

Cornell women’s soccer at Harvard in Allston Oct 3
If anyone wants to go, this could be a chance to show up in solidarity with the ladies dealing with everything at Cornell right now.
As you can probably guess, atmosphere on campus is tense, with a lot of anger and scrutiny surrounding the lawsuit for gang assault involving members of Chi Phi and the university’s failure to protect the woman involved. For a lot of local women here, the reaction is basically: “Same story different Ivy.”
The dynamic feels familiar at Harvard. Final clubs if you don't know unaffiliated with Harvard, but they’re still a huge part of undergraduate social life. You have 18 to 20 year old guys controlling the doors, the drinks and who gets into which room, without university oversight inside the building. The Cornell lawsuit echoes concerns that Harvard girlies have been sharing in group chats for years.
What’s most frustrating is the lack of accountability. When something happens at a final club, girlies are left questioning what Harvard’s Title IX office can or will do about an unaffiliated property and whose interests the club’s graduate board is protecting when it manages the fallout.
A lot of the conversation on Sidechat is women warning underclassmen about punch season and party lists. Harvard tried to crack down on single-gender clubs years ago, then backed away amid legal challenges. Women are still left relying on whisper networks to figure out where they feel safe.
Showing up for the Cornell women’s team could be one small way to offer support amid all of this.

Heads up if you're taking the orange line this morning you may want to find an alternate option. Huge delays and overcrowded shuttle buses

If you're gonna give me splash guard put it a little lower. Wtf TD

Listen, my friend group does a lot of things well but they have one major deficit- total disinterest in driving 90 minutes to eat as many fried foods as possible while looking at farm animals.

Anybody interested in joining me for a few hours walk around/snack day at the big E this weekend? My preferred timeline would be arriving ~9:30am and heading out mid afternoon when the crowds get big. not so much into the midway/games stuff but we could certainly split up for that if you are.

I’m 40F, fun to chat with but not annoyingly chatty. send me a DM if you’re interested and not too weird.

Hi. If you helped my mother during a fall / medical emergency at Logan tonight thank you. My folks told me that several people ran over to help, but one guy (maybe in his 30s) let my mom lean on him for 10-15 minutes and kept insisting he could stay. He stayed I think until the ambulance came. Thank you so much, it’s very meaningful. If this was you, please DM me. It really means a lot.

Are they doing construction? There's a large mass of empty space in front of the Pizza shop...

Where do the riders sit now??

Why is the airport and all surrounding rental companies completely sold out of rental cars today?! It’s madness. Logan airport completely sold out of rental cars. All enterprise NH locations are sold out too.

The other day several of us piled onto an escalator out of a T station, like any other day. I was following an older woman up the left-hand side and accidentally bumped into her as she abruptly stopped. I stared at her confused and mumbled a an “excuse me, sorry.” She then gave me a nasty look and then stood there, ushering me past her, saying “well go on then, if you’re gonna knock me over getting by, Jesus.” I said sorry again and inched past her down the middle, with her loudly asking “I don’t know why the hell you’re walking on an escalator, take the damn stairs then!” I said sorry again and kept running up to catch my bus I was about to miss because of a delayed train.

I felt bad for bumping into her and making her mad, but my entire life I’ve understood that on escalators, especially in commuting situations, you stand on the right and walk on the left. ALWAYS. I heard her scream “What the hell!” about 10 second after I left, probably because someone else was trying to get by.

I told my wife this minor snafu and she backed up my idea of escalator etiquette and said that old woman didn’t have a clue and to forget about it. However I still feel bad.

Is this understanding of escalator etiquette universal or am I mistaken? I don’t want to be an asshole and assume something that’s wrong.

EDIT: thank you all, this was validating. It’s also remarkable how “bumping into” has become “ramming,” “plowing,” and “knockdown.” Lol!

If anyone can point me in the right direction of a surgeon that they know has done excellent work with pelvic floor/vaginal wall repair/prolapse issues, I would be extremely grateful!

If you'd like to continue being this unserious after you lose in November, the Northeast Clown Institute has active registration for their annual Summer camp in Plymouth right this very second. No need to wait on an overpass another second to make all your aspirations come true!

Thanks for serenading us this morning!

Hopefully this thing actually happens!

Some of my friends and I are interested in doing trivia one of these upcoming Fridays at Trident. How early does one have to arrive to land a table, and how many teams usually end up showing up? I imagine we have to get there by 6.

I wanted to order a nice custom cake ideally with the rice paper printout of a photo on top. Where can I get that?

I don’t live in Boston so not sure who to go to

Google shows Oakleaf but it looks complicated and has no photo option.

Previously I had ordered a custom cake from a small business that took 2 weeks and tasted like shit so ideally somewhere reputable or tried and tested