If you are visiting here from X because the CSAM thing was a bridge too far, welcome. I'd encourage you to carefully consider whether the things you heard about Bluesky on X are true or whether they were lies spread by the guy who owns X who controls what posts you see on his site.

Great find!

For the band nerds! A great piece on the Baltimore Ravens (Colts) Marching Band. youtu.be/GjrXVoACX20?...

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Here’s something that’s really important for everyone to understand. If we design our cities just for cars, they fail everyone, including drivers. If we design our cities with many great CHOICES in how to get around, they work better for everyone, including drivers. Spread the word.

10/10 take. No notes.

"A distracted pedestrian might cause a minor inconvenience. A distracted driver, enabled by street design that encourages high speeds, can end a life. To treat these as equivalent is to ignore the fundamental physics of power and force." -Lanrick Bennett

I was only 30 something when I helmed The Enterprise.

Tickets are on sale now for "No Mean City: Baltimore 1966" Excited to join this talented company as Brooks Robinson (3/11-3/15) and help tell the story of a pivotal moment in our city's history. Performances @ the BMA and these shows will sell out! Get your tickets today! youhavenoidea.org

Divine - BOTD

The public library is one of humanity's greatest inventions and I am convinced that frequenting them is good for the soul of a citizen. A public realm where goods are exchanged with no money trading hands is spiritually cleansing.

You can be the safest, most attentive driver in the world and still pose a massive risk to other road users. That’s because cars and car dependency are inherently dangerous. This doesn’t mean you’re a bad person if you drive, but I do think that drivers should acknowledge their role in this system.

Anthony Santander, coming through in the postseason

Hey @orioles.com, let’s take a little bit of that $600 mm and install a speed pitch machine at OPACY!

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

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The WNUF Halloween Special remains one of the greatest Halloween movies too few people have seen.

The Orioles tonight are the only team to win a game after breaking up a no-hit bid when down to their final out in the expansion era (1961) h/t @EliasSports

Best I can tell from available play by play data, there has never been another game in recorded NL/AL history in which… A pitcher lost a no-hitter on a HR with 2 outs in the 9th and then … His team lost the game. Baseball!

How’s this for Orioles Magic? Jackson Holliday’s HR was the 4th time in the expansion era (1961) that the Orioles broke up a no-hit bid of 8 2/3 IP or more (@EliasSports) The 1st of those 4? 6/7/68, on a hit by Davey Johnson, who passed away today What a way to honor him 🫶

The season may be lost, but the last two nights at Camden Yards have been pure MAGIC!

McNulty leading in the final lap at the Maryland Cycling Classic in Baltimore!

Me, watching the Maryland Cycling Classic (the whole time)

Ms. Hastings, 11th grade, AP US History. Best class ever!

I’m not against cars. I own one. But we need to make it much, much easier, pleasant, and safer to walk, bike, or take transit than it is to drive somewhere by myself in an empty car. And there’s no way to do that without making some drivers angry. Thankfully, more and more drivers understand.

One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Listening to Fred Manfra on the radio and I’m immediately a kid again! #Orioles

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

For everyone who has ever asked, on seeing my Baltimore homicide charts, "How did they do that?"

Big news! I signed up for a free trial, and canceled my subscription BEFORE the trial period was up!

I’m beginning to think Q-tip was going to kick it regardless of our answer

Nah. Not in the mood. open.substack.com/pub/danrodri...

We have so much more work to do, but can the media and general public please acknowledge this remarkable progress?

We played mini golf here every single summer when I was growing up!

List of some Black-owned businesses to support in Baltimore City.

Huge!

So glad the Orioles got an early 8 run lead tonight so I can do other things and not worry about the outcome!

When Rudi Giuliani implemented Broken Windows and arrested everyone that moved the press touted it as the “New York Miracle”. Contrast to the current crime drop in Baltimore, Philly, and elsewhere that the news media doesn’t address at all, and are more like to report on fake crime sprees instead

It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.

This applies to all sports but - and I am not joking - it is absolutely something best understood by a baseball man.

RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview

I'm so scared of cities. All those buildings so close to each other. You can go to the movie theater and a restaurant and the park while walking, in defiance of God. There are people you haven't met before. Sometimes there's a dog in a jacket

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

Great to see our old pal TJ! Not great to see him befuddle our hitters…

I’d like to see orange and/or black Oriole road jerseys w/ script Baltimore on them, instead of just the grays.

Yes!

How come this weird website comes up when I try to find info on the Charm City Circulator?

Uprooted some huge trees in the park and surround neighborhood.

Baltimore rules so hard