Evil. We need nuclear disarmament now.

Extremely minor Pitt spoilers: why is it that TV characters always say “I’m a vegan” and not “I’m vegan”? I’ve literally never heard anyone say “I’m a vegan”

T-4 minutes!

Does anyone have recommendations for a rack-mounted wired bike tail light? The one that came with my bike (spanninga solo) is badly designed and I’ve already had to replace it once because the wiring broke.

Genuinely don’t understand why we would require cursive beyond nostalgia. It’s not a useful skill. If the goal is good handwriting, teach good handwriting. If the goal is fine motor skills, teach drawing or painting or any other kind of art that kids can actually enjoy.

Baffled that “separate the art from the artist” wound up meaning “pretend that the artist isn’t evil” and not “force the artist to relinquish the rights to their art”

@amalelmohtar.com it’s here! Can’t wait to read it!

I would like to humbly propose that we change our traffic lights to not have left turn into active crosswalks This post brought to you by the driver who almost hit me while I was in the crosswalk with the crossing light on

There are basically two kinds of environmentalist. There’s this kind, and then there’s those of us who recognize that the alternative to density in one place is sprawl somewhere else.

Fun fact: the more time you spend stretching, the longer you can put off doing your workout

Where are Baltimore’s senators and delegates? I’m sick and tired of our city having representation that’s actively hostile to improving the city.

I’ve been following a training plan on my gps watch and a fun thing it does is lengthening the runs the closer I get to the day I’m supposed to do them I’ve been watching tomorrow’s tempo run go from 19 minutes (when I checked last Friday) to 24 minutes (yesterday) to 25 minutes (this afternoon)

It’s currently 65° and 81% humidity, and I think this is plenty Maybe this year we don’t have to do 100° and 95% humidity

Excited to see that the task force settled on eventual closure but it’s very funny to learn that the Brew counts Friends of the Jones Falls as a community leader and not Bikemore

“The president causes massive surge in gas prices” is the sort of thing that should result in a banner year for an electric car company like tesla and yet

Entering new frontiers in “the president doesn’t have a button that makes the economy better but he sure does have a button that makes the economy worse”

We’re going to have to pick an American city to become synonymous with bringing fascists to justice. If you want it to be yours, now is the time to start lobbying.

Started a new training plan and I’m embarrassed to learn that after all these years of running, it turns out that the secret to getting a runner’s high is just going slower

End the car chases, disarm the cops, and put intelligent speed assistance in cars. People don’t have to die like this.

I know the bar is in hell, but come on.

Not going to do anything about it because I like not being in jail, but if I were going to park my car in a cycle track, I wouldn’t leave the keys in the ignition

After seeing how people have driven this week I don’t want to hear anyone complain about how bikes slow down traffic Like I knew narrow lanes worked in theory but apparently once you get down to a ten-foot lane every driver is like “help! if I go faster than 5 mph I’ll hit something!”

So now that the city is starting to plow alleys are they going to do the bike lanes or are we just waiting until the snow melts

Snow-covered bus stops and sidewalks make getting around Baltimore a dangerous endeavor

@bmorecitydot.bsky.social what’s the point of having a 311 request for snow and ice on the sidewalk if you’re going to reject it because it’s icy?

If you, as a business, have the resources to plow your parking lot and open for business, it’s a real dick move to dump all the snow on the sidewalk you’re legally responsible for clearing

Saw a post from one of the city accounts showing how to put in a 311 request for street plowing What do you mean I have to ask? Isn’t it your job to know whether you’ve plowed my street or not?

The funniest part of this (made-up) story is that restaurant doors lock and unlock from the inside They were “locked in the restaurant” the same way I’m locked in my house every time I close the door

People who advocate for the Second Amendment don’t care about tyranny, or self-defense, or any of the other things they claim to hold sacred. What they actually care about are having toys and shooting oppressed people the government would have happily shot, too. Neither of those things are rights.

Massive indictment of Biden that he allowed this man to remain in government under his administration

If there’s anything the past few years have taught me, it’s that the gun owners talking about defending themselves against the government are liars. They don’t want to defend against tyranny; they support it.

Can anyone tell where those intra-city borders are? The resolution isn’t high enough for me to see

And I would bike a thousand miles if I could just see you tonight 🎶

This is the kind of thing where if you did it in Greek mythology, everyone would know exactly how the gods were punishing you in Tartarus

Anti-vegans: “if you don’t eat meat, how come you make food that looks like meat?” Also anti-vegans:

There’s something fascinating and infuriating about business owners who think the primary purpose of transportation in the city is to bring suburbanites to their businesses Like that is a suburb! You have invented a suburb!

What a disgrace.

Not that I think it’s true either way, but it’s worth pointing out that this says “following” rather than “as a result of”

This is a great idea and in other news I am excited to announce my contract with DHS to supply tactical masking tape—only $799 a roll!

“Love is never black and white” + Fox News host as the author + two white people on the cover Hmmmm

A lot of this falls under “you can sue over anything”, but I want to call out the allegation of viewpoint discrimination re: speaking time If the hearings went anything like the ones I’ve been to, it’s not what your viewpoint is. It’s how willing you are to ignore people begging you to shut up

Is there no one in Baltimore willing to criticize Bates on the record, or did the Banner not bother to include what they had to say?

There’s a reason the flag says “don’t tread on me” and not “don’t tread”

Negligent, not accidental

Nobody makes the case for defunding the police better than the cops themselves

You can tell the NYT is being dishonest because none of their purported rebuttals contain counter evidence They have all their internal communications and published articles! It would be really easy for them to show us but they don’t want to do that because it would make them look bad

MTA please

I put in a 311 request Friday night because someone parked their massive pickup truck in the bike lane. It took until this morning for anyone from the city to respond, and by that time, the truck was gone. What good does a 311 request do if it takes >34 hours to get parking enforcement to show up?

One fun variation on the “crosses repel vampires” trope is that the vampires are actually repelled by something the bearer holds sacred If that were real I would absolutely use my library card

Props to the person with the “Baltimore: I fucking love it” bumper sticker in the exact same style as the other one