Copy-paste suggestions:

1. Contact Animal Control, leave them a voicemail with your pet's information and your contact info as well as detailed information on location & timing
2. Contact Worcester Animal Rescue League with the same, they are where the ACO's bring lost pets
3. For dogs: Submit a missing dog report to Missing Dogs Massachusetts, they are the biggest in the state and very active in helping people reunite by helping track sightings
4. Additionally it might be helpful to notify other area rescues like Second Chance Animal Services and Broken Tail Rescue, Inc. Or lost pet list Facebook pages like Worcester, MA - Lost & Found Pets, Worcester, MA - Lost Dogs, Cats & Pets, Lost and found pets of Mass, Lost and Found Pets of Massachusetts, Massachusetts - Lost and Found Dogs & Cats,
5. Post on Nextdoor, local Facebook groups, and Friends of Worcester Dog Parks (any lost pets welcome)
6. Contact your veterinarian and any veterinarian you can find in the neighborhood and nearby-ish to let them know in case they get brought in. If you get voicemail include how to identify them and how to contact you.
7. If they are microchipped, contact the microchip company and make sure your info is up to date with them.
8. Make sure to keep track of all people you contact, places you post, so you can update folks to know they're found or any changes in sightings. On Facebook the easiest way to do this is to make a public facebook post on your profile with all the important information and share that to groups instead of making individual posts.

I hope they find their way home soon!

How do I recognize the group? I'm waiting on my drink, blue hair

I'm not Jewish, but I do understand history, and the use of a shofar like horn in relation to the 1612 uprising of goblins has been called out by many Jewish people and organizations as reflective of the pogroms against the Jewish uprising in Germany in 1612-1614. https://www.thegamer.com/hogwarts-legacy-draws-further-complaints-of-antisemitism/

It's not just about hooked noses and them being bankers, but those are extremely visual representations of stereotypes, and not the only negative ones JK seems to think it's fine to use and proliferate (there's also Asian and Irish ones).

Also, the "people who worked on the game" have already been paid, I worked in the game industry, unless you're a bigwig/ceo type person, you don't even have a chance at bargaining for royalties. I don't understand why people get that for movies but not games....

Except it funnels money towards her which she directly stated that she conciders proof that her TERF-ness is right and doubles down on the antisemitic issues with the goblins.....

It's weird to stand up for trans people? To not give money to a bigoted TERF who uses it to hurt people?

Bars suck, but barcades like Free Play are pretty awesome.

You talk about being against hostility towards women, yet you mention having played and liked hogwarts legacy. You realize that is fairly oximoronic right?

Came here to suggest Peppers, people are STILL talking about how good the food was at my wedding 8 years later! and I have a lot of very difficult people in my family the fact that they all liked it was amazing. We had a plated service with 6 passed apps, 5 stations at the cocktail hour, and then 3 choices for dinner.

It's not like that anymore

We already have 1-5+ bins per building, because that's how many bins already go out, with some folks having to put out 2-3 bins for a single dwelling unit. The increase in size might actually decrease the amount of bins and space they take up on the curb/easement, and unless people are putting them in the street they won't block any parking. People should also already know where the cars typically end up parking, and as long as there's enough space to get the bins through it should be no issue (which I agree could be an issue unless we go with the opposite sides method NYC uses which I think we should do regardless).

Bins also are typically not picked up directly from the sidewalk, they have to be brought to the side of the truck, the truck arms usually can't reach more than a couple feet from the side of the truck they are on, they're not telescoping/extendable usually.

As you say trash day isn't the same across the city, no city could operate that way, so bringing this up is a moot-point, we already have bins and bags out as a part of existing as a city.

Wheel-bins size and weight on their own are far more likely to stay put than the small 'have to lift them' bins that we currently have.

I do however agree we need a far more robust street sweeping schedule, which would be best implemented with opposite sides rules, ex. the day after trash day is one side of the street, and folks aren't allowed to park on that side, then the following day is the opposing side of the street. Even if that was done once a month on side streets it would be massively benificial to reduce refuse accumulation, and general road debris like leaves, sticks from storms. (this would also be a great option for snow cleanup/widening roads)

It's a fairly accurate take if looking at it from the perspective of what it seems like the dpw/city manager think about the problem. The questions are ones that can be answered/researched by just looking into the issue more in most cases, but this accurately covers the mentality of people who are against the wheelybins. So explain to me why this is rediculous?

I agree that we should at least have the option of using wheel-bins. If NYC can do it in their 3-5 story building areas like the brownstone neighborhoods we can do it here. It's disappointing that the previous city manager and previous & current heads of the DPW refused even to get solid lids that snap on or have a hinge for the new bins, they also refused to seriously consider the wheel-bins due to cost. Cost being getting new recycling/trash trucks that have the arm for lifting the bins, slight time adjustment for maneuvering the bins (which might mean extra hiring and more trucks, which means more maintenance costs), and the cost of the bins to get them for every residence plus spare for replacement.

Landlords are legally required to provide an external/outdoor enclosed bin for each apartment for trash already anyway, adding a little more space for the wheel-bins for recycling shouldn't be a problem, we could even convert to trash bins that wheel as well, that would be wonderful.

The commenter you replied to very clearly is talking about more frequently street sweeping to help keep blown away refuse from collecting in the streets, not as a way for all trash/recycling to be handled.

The graft is only nessicary for getting an implant in that spot. This place is starting to sound a lot like Aspen Dental

Yea, the BBB is essentially fancy-Yelp. They're not part of or connected to any government agencies, they're literally just a ratings site, and you can pay $600 to get an A+ rating. They offered it to me when I had my business.

Yea unfortunately some people who have good teams on their streets think it's like that city wide. I did have decent luck reporting it though

Yea, mine tosses my bins too, the stupid zip-ties have been busted on my tenant's recycling bins they broke in about a month of getting the new bins. So they just don't have lids, because when the zip ties broke, the lids went missing

Jiji is a wonderful hair stylist & barber who works w/ a lot of LGBT+ folks, she's awesome at helping figure out a personal style and ways to fit in gender affirming cuts/styles/colors.

https://instagram.com/hair_by_jiji

Landlord of 8 years, I've never paid for my apartments to be listed on Zillow, or are you talking about buying ads/sponsoring them?

Facebook Marketplace, Zillow, Padmapper, Hotpads, Apartments .Com, and the MLS are where my apartments go. I've never had an issue finding qualified tenants from those and haven't paid a dime to list on any of them.

Craigslist's been dead for years, even pre-covid people were barely using it because of all the scams.

Have you ever engaged with the supposedly exists (but I can't seem to get in touch with them) Special Education Parent Teacher Association (SEPTA) that we federally are legally required to have?

I'm not surprised by any of the answers here, but things are improving, our new Superintendent is really pushing fixing this issue.

There were some big updates/info dump on Feb 4th's school committee meeting (see u/TracyNovick 's blog here: https://who-cester.blogspot.com/2023/02/what-happened-at-first-february.html ) and they are hiring a bunch more paraprofessionals and mental health workers. We definitely have a ways to go but it does seem like things might go decently well in the not too distant future.

Any dog has the ability to kill, maim, or otherwise attack someone. Any dog. The highest likihood to bite is actually chihuahua and dachund, Dalmatians are more dangerous than they are typically perceived as as well. Her death, while tragic, was ruled accidental for a reason. Shit happens, it's horrible but it does. Cocker Spaniels have even caused a fatality in I think 2020. Dogs are animals, and a product of their training and environment, breed matters far less than training and upbringing. People have unfortunately been training and abusing pit-like dogs for years, which creates an overprevalance of behavior issues like bites because they are the most likely to be put in those situations by their owners.

Worcester has a lot of restaurants, especially along Shrewsbury street, downtown, and in the canal district around Kelly Square and the streets north of it (and a bit south too).

We have a few areas that are lower income, some higher, like any city, but it's pretty intermixed and spotted across a bunch of areas in the city. Best bet is unfortunately to look at crime data on sites like Zillow, and consider that most of the heavier density of issues while they tend to have more crime that does not mean they're nessicarily unsafe, we've had a lot of catalitic converter thefts that are skewing the map a bit.

The bus system is free through this year iirc, but we're fighting to keep it beyond that. The WRTA is a hot-mess right now, they're blaming it on drivers taking too much FMLA but they should at this point have been able to correct for it. They've cut routes on Fridays affecting 1000's of riders due to the supposed shortage. On top of that, they run pretty infrequently anyway, and it can take an hour or more to get really anywhere in the city if you have to transfer at the hub. I like to call it a hub and spoke model, without the wheel, because other than the umass university hospital stops, most of the routes do not loop back to re-combine in areas apart from the hub downtown.

The commuter rail from Union Station is going under an upgrade to add a second platform, this hopefully also is a prelude to the continuation of the line towards Springfield. There's supposedly wifi on the trains, but that's generally a lie. They run at decent times, which will probably improve when the 2nd platform opens.

As for where folks hang out, it depends on what you like to do, wrestling and comedy are popular things, so are some bars, do you have any particular preferred methods of hanging out and meeting folks where you currently live?

Slightly longer clip that's not from the twitch stream: https://twitter.com/bill_shaner/status/1620806396525817862

It was essentially a statement being read before a moment of silence, regardless of it being a prayer she should not have been on her phone and then holding every single item related to the police on the agenda.