“You know Marge in some ways you and I are very different people …”

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

just wait until it gets to Philly

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Do YOU remember “the 21st night of September?” Earth Wind & Fire’s co-writer Allee Willis said she told the band: “We can’t leave ‘baa-dee-ya’ in the chorus. That has to mean something.’” Maurice White replied: “No, that feels great. That’s what people are going to remember. We’re leaving it.”

My most Gen X complaint is that this question ignores our existence.

my iphone autocorrected ducking to fucking for the first time today so that's how 2025 is going

It’s unethical to use language generating software to write news, full stop.

The whole point of having bylines on stories is accountability to your readers. Using AI to write and then not disclosing it signals to your readers that you don't really give a shit what they think. bsky.app/profile/oliv...

ok.

channeling my inner Olenna this morning

excellent Pittsburgh representation here imo

exhibit 183193 in "nobody running big corporations has a single fucking clue about selling things" betty crocker shrank their cake boxes instead of raising prices and now a huge % of recipes that use them no longer work. meaning there's no point in buying a mix at all.

what is creepier than the Doppler effect on the music of an ice cream truck driving away ...

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

Was (or is) your campus experience one of conforming to norms, or challenging them? @publicsource.org wants your take on academic freedom for potential inclusion in our new series "Gagging Academia" www.publicsource.org/academic-fre...

this is a joy of a profile and Winters is a FASCINATING guy www.vulture.com/article/dean...

SEPTA sets date to restore service as the agency seeks permission to use capital funds share.inquirer.com/3MQd8F via @inquirer.com

Yes it is v dumb to quote myself but more ppl should watch this show

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills, why is every single outlet characterizing it this way?

👀👀👀👀👀👀 share.inquirer.com/2LXsZZ (gift link) SEPTA service cuts must be reversed immediately, judge says

As Trump gears up to expand use of National Guard troops in cities, Shapiro says Pa. is prepared. penncapital-star.com/criminal-jus...

🤌🤌🤌 "... I know an Italian emergency when I hear one" share.inquirer.com/s6P66F

U.S. Rep. Brendan Boyle said Amtrak president Robert Harris told him last week the railroad could lose $71.1 million in annual payments from SEPTA because of a delay in state operating funds for the transit agency. If that happens, the Keystone Service line will “cease to exist,” Boyle said.

one expert urged parents "to think twice before taking kids to a Pirates game, suggesting safer alternatives such as rooting for literally any other team in the National League Central" theonion.com/pirates-unde...

The property in Philly's Fairmount neighborhood where a fire killed 12 people in 2022 has been forgotten by the city, neighbors say share.inquirer.com/9Kj5hf via @inquirer.com

super misleading headline when the sample size is "Just more than half of the 286 journalists surveyed in Belgium and the Netherlands..." so like ~150 journalists from just two countries? www.politico.eu/article/jour...

I haven't even had my coffee yet pls slow down a sec monday Stacy Garrity is officially running for governor of Pennsylvania www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl... via @inquirer.com

UPDATE: This exclusive story has been updated to include a response from the White House.

Conservative ads thank Congressmen Brian Fitzpatrick and Dwight Evans for supporting a bill they actually voted against ... share.inquirer.com/HNeQKX

Is there actually $1 billion sitting in a fund for SEPTA? Republicans in the Pennsylvania Senate are touting the Public Transportation Trust Fund as a solution to budget woes, but Democrats, transit advocates, and SEPTA itself disagree.

nope no thank you

I am not a Business Genius like these folks but laying off a huge chunk of Eater's staff right before announcing this podcast..? wyd, Vox www.semafor.com/article/08/1...

pittsburgh: prevailing winds are going to send the smoke from the clairton explosion in the general direction of the city, if you don't have your house closed up you should probably do that now & try to stay indoors for the next several hours/into tomorrow if you can, that plume is no doubt toxic af

Bob Casey to join Philadelphia law firm Dilworth Paxson, where he was once a paralegal www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

lol wtf even is a "newsman"

this is exactly right and was true even before the pandemic, imo; Pittsburgh has never really had enough businesses downtown to support its outdated planning model

fact-checking is important but really hope the post kills the whole "pinocchios" theme because it's silly and makes it seem like this is all a game: "Ho ho old chap, you've committed a Pinocchio that might land you in the Hague let's add a cute graphic to it..." www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

maybe one of those benevolent billionaires that allegedly exist wants to step in here ...

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Philadelphia stays on the Trump administration’s new, dramatically shorter list of sanctuary jurisdictions www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

Kruk: 'there is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman untamed' TMac: think I saw that on a t-shirt once. Kruk: lysistrata, aristophanes. TMac: big greek comedy fan, are ya? Kruk: they knew how to make a man laugh back then TMac: breaking ball in the dirt, count is 3-0

This is quite a catch for MSNBC.

Where are the happiest places in Philly? This Drexel professor asked his students to map them share.inquirer.com/xrDEbN

the owners of House of Wiggle, a Montgomery County animal sanctuary, are being charged with animal torture share.inquirer.com/FK5qQ5

Apparently, yes Could You Have Landed a Job at Vogue in the ’90s? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

They waited *more than an hour* to enter the Hortman home after watching Mark Hortman get shot in the doorway Unbelievably tragic & heartbreaking And, of course, they publicly congratulated themselves on a great, lifesaving police response when they’d let a lawmaker bleed out. Uvalde is everywhere

The municipal workers strike may be over, but District Council 33 members must now contend with the swing from the high energy on the picket lines to feeling “demoralized” at work.

Folks with no journalism experience who take over news outlets fundamentally misunderstand the dynamic. An honest journalism enterprise will never be liked all or either most of the time. That's not the point. The point is to engage the audience and keep them coming back.