I know I’m a wicked witch for this, but seeing that yinzer guy going viral for his makeshift pantry (an objectively nice thing!) pisses me off a little. Pittsburgh has a bunch of great organizations in place to help with food insecurity. I get that it feels good to support his earnest effort!

Alert @ifbookspod.bsky.social / @notalawyer.bsky.social / @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Ziwe is releasing her sit down with Eric Adams tonight

This is what people don’t understand. The rain is FINE. It’s the sun setting at 3pm that gets to you.

So, I have to make several extra gestures to get to the exposure toggle in the camera app now? iOS 26 sucks.

Voted for @workingfamilies.org endorsed candidates here in Philly #яголосую #ivoted (I love our city’s multilingual voting stickers!)

Crying baby? I’ll do you one better: demonic toddler giggling on 5 hr flight

The idea that anyone ever gets canceled is so weird. It’s not that everything is redeemable, but it’s a chance to demonstrate real change. And if you can’t evolve and take responsibility, that’s on you!

Congratulations, Ireland. Miggledy can never be replaced but Connolly is READY to ball.

Training module 1: Keep your accounts private to prevent social engineering Training module 2: We are allowed to publish student directory information by default 🙄

I was just notified that I can get a parking permit on campus! I have been on the waitlist since November 29, 2017. (I now work remotely in a different city) (I still wouldn’t need to commute by car) (I can’t believe how delulu I was to think I’d be making enough to afford it)

in case anything happens to the Mona Lisa, don't worry everyone, I got a photo

Gastroenterologists giving you a grade on your colonoscopy prep is unreal. Yes, I got a perfect score. At what cost?

At Dad’s. RIP WPSU.

There’s a breadth of Magan’s work to discover but I highly recommend checking out the podcast, the Almanac of Ireland. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I’ve definitely reached the, “these cars will kill me but at least I’ll tell them off before I die” stage of living in Philadelphia.

Haven’t listened to the Ezra Klein podcast (never have & probably never will) but I can tell you that Ta-Nehisi Coates is staying in the conversation in the model of Tony Judt, who would be proud. He doesn’t have to and none of this is abstract for him, but he’s modeling persistence and strength.

It’s 2025 and people will still try to get you in trouble by saying you never responded to their emails. And you have a full chain of correspondence. I guess shamelessness really is our current moment.

Let's go one more round with this piece. I just returned from Dublin and Belfast. If the NFL thinks that Ireland is thrilled to see them land on their country, they are sorely mistaken. The crowd is US-based Steelers fans with too much disposable income. Abundance! www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Big news for insufferable people who were reading Pitchfork back in 2004 (Fiery Furnaces are reissuing Blueberry Boat)

It’s all “support your local library” until we can’t afford another ebook license and you need to wait. 🙃

Does anyone have a #PillPack alternative they like? I’d really like to avoid Amazon Pharmacy, but not willing to go back to bottled prescriptions from brick & mortar stores.

Update: it was even worse than I could have predicted

Changes like this should really bother people in higher ed, but I find frustratingly few nuanced conversations about it offline.

Anyone want to put a wager on what insane reactionary centrist things David Brooks will say tomorrow night on PBS?

Is Zadie Smith still canceled? I just got a hankering to watch the White Teeth adaptation and it’s nowhere to be found on streaming!

Pink Moon 🎶

I think it’s hilarious that my university is trying to make our newly formed union look bad by saying we won’t get a raise this year. Because an extra $6 a month was really making a difference. 🤡

Two Franklinias were recently planted at Carpenters’ Hall here in Philly. I still haven’t walked over so this is giving me a reason!

Talking to people about wildfire smoke and air quality is an awful lot like talking about COVID. No one wants to pay attention because if they did, they’d never unsee it.

And because of comparison bias, the Pittsburgh area still has some of the worst air quality in the country. People put up with Clairton coke ovens and petrochemical flaring because it doesn’t blot out the sun.

My brother predicted the coming of Bob Belcher in the 1970s:

If you’re in #Philly and want to support AFSCME DC 33 during their #strike action, you can donate in various ways here. Monetary donations, child and/or pet care, space for staging, etc: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The spiciest comments in LibraryLand are in a BIBFRAME update webinar

Remember when the right was all about banning books that had magic in them? Now they love magical thinking where they can pretend whole groups of people don’t exist.

i’d also accept “without respect, i dissent”

Never fun when you find a backup has failed but…redundancy wins the day

Mira Nair being Zohran’s Mom is my favorite thing ❤️

Having serious computer trouble at work. This hasn’t happened in ages! It’s almost nostalgic. As though it’s 2000.

I’m a reformed hater of Philadelphia and trust me, you can have this here. It’s called South Philly.

I know, there’s people dying Kim, but a dry haircut is so life changing. I have super long, thick ass hair and the stylist trimmed it up perfectly in 20 minutes flat.

If you consider yourself COVID conscious in any way, please listen to this cathartic episode. Part of what’s so awful about this discourse is that people literally DIED. So the revision of this period is actually so hurtful.

Episode 40: In Covid's Wake Looking back at a pandemic that killed more than 1 million people, two political scientists bravely ask, "Could we have done even less?" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

There’s a reason they made a Schoolhouse Rock song about it #nokings

I will provide an update on last night’s targeted shootings shortly: youtube.com/live/VHtHNAb...

They should be left high and dry

I am 10000000% deleting my account. This truly blows.

This officer kneeled on the neck of a protestor yesterday in Philly. He did stop once a fellow officer tapped him. Maybe just to let him know he was being filmed.

I find this narrative about protests in Philly to be so obnoxious. The people who tear shit up for sports teams are white kids from the suburbs. They are fundamentally not the same people who will show up to an ICE protest. And the police will act accordingly.

It’s really amazing how many people consider tagging buildings to be violent behavior

rubber bullets fly by my face. tear gas fills my lungs. a line of federal troops is marching toward me. i fire off an email to my focus group asking what i should do as a baton lands cleanly on my skull.