Existing disability services are deeply underfunded, aggressively audited, means-tested constantly, and can be labyrinthine to even access or maintain without assistance. As someone who spent two decades as a cog in that system, concerns about fraud are overblown compared to the real existing need.

Dynamic between me and Lightning connectors getting to be emblematic of a lot of other dynamics

Probably not 3 days pass at a time without me thinking about shit in this Graeber essay. Pairs real well with the line from Veins about how the teachers don't tell you about how you can get a GED so the popular kids have a steady supply of kids to torture.

Get in the piss, Andres

From bean to bar, my brother

hey @bsky.app why was @scumbelievable.bsky.social suspended? considering the timing (she just put a new book out) it feels like someone is weaponizing your safety features in a targeted manner

I said it last week, but Margo Maloo is, like BACK back. www.drewweing.com/comic/page-3...

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

if you are old enough to remember, at all, what was going on during the run-up to iraq, and fall for it again now, you are either vile beyond repair or such an enormous mark that you should be locked in a mcdonald's playplace for your own personal safety

Oh good, they elected a new Flame Pope

Emotional drayage

From our elementary school today:

This is a typo, the Thursday event is in Philly. It's in Philly. On Thursday ok schumer is having a book event. In Philly. In case anyone from Philly is here I just wanted them to know. Thursday. Philly.

Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage

Defunding research on brain development and memory doesn't help anyone and certainly doesn't improve the welfare of students.

The hell

If you're in Delco or Very South Philadelphia (or Montogomery County), you can also share your thoughts with your Rep, here's a link: scanlon.house.gov/calendar/eve...

And I signed up for a "tele-town hall" featuring my Rep (PA-05) and some others, and submitted a question about whether their opposition to the Trump administration will consist of anything more substantive than holding up a lollipop sign at them

So I contacted Sen. Fetterman's office to tell him to oppose SB9

So I made all these Reacher things last year, when I first thought of the joke, and I was posting them last week. There are about 21 to go, and so as an accountability thing I guess I'm going to let myself post one each time I Do Something in Real Life to address the Various Problems.

No one buys a newspaper who doesn't want to make it their toy. Refer again to the Philadelphia Inquirer - maybe the best daily paper left. In 2012 it was purchased by Gerry Lenfest, who was Annenberg's lawyer. He then donated it to a foundation so it would be protected from people like Annenberg.

Oh good, they elected a new Flame Pope

good morning here is a piece from me about this week's worker actions against DOGE and Trump, what the point of all these cuts are anyway, and how you can join the fight inthesetimes.com/article/fede...

just a reminder that Democrats agreed to schedule his vote today because they were scared delay tactics would cause them to miss a swanky overseas junket in Germany

See you on Broad Street babyyy

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

OK that was fun

Ok one more time getting this out of my system

anyway

Really drills down on the mindset of "they're right, but they're so RUDE about it" that was all around when I was growing up and that I've been trying to unlearn

This parboiled jackass. This brainless, dead-eyed thug. Rolling him up in a carpet and dumping him in front of the starting gates at the Kentucky Derby would be too good for him.

Same here 🏳️‍⚧️

Non-tree Christmas tree roundup (1/2)

RIP Mercury Mets #24

Halloween

Posting some stuff from the past year or so

Kids’ teachers occasionally show a YouTube in class, so they’ve apparently seen a lot of pre-roll ads about Bob Casey

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr6u...

👏 King 👏 Of 👏 Falafel 👏

Oh this looks incredible. 95 issues of a weekly one-man antifascist zine with a circulation of 1, hand-made in an attic crawlspace during Nazi occupation. Handwritten poetry, drawings, photo collages and more. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/a...

I told myself that if I contacted my reps about Gaza one more time I could make this afterwards

Is this anything

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