Sometimes you spend an hour tracking down the source of a tumblr post and fall down a rabbit hole of stock photo websites that scrape the public domain database of the art institute of chicago's collection to sell the images for money anyway short coat (japan, 1801-1850) now has proper attribution

Things we got at SPX this year! Left is me, right is mostly Colin. See alt text for names of stuff!

Got my Covid and flu shots yesterday! A local pharmacy had them and were doing walk-ins. Hooray for local pharmacies! Also I just went to the gym and I feel like a truck hit me LOL

@kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com Hope you've had a happy day!!! :) 🎉🎂🎁🎈

If America ever retreats from the fascist precipice it is currently teetering over (rather than hurling itself into the abyss), Chuck Schumer and his milquetoast establishment Democrats will have a LOT to answer for. Feckless, greedy fascism enablers.

I feel like at this point I should be entitled to compensation for still having the LOST numbers memorized.

Hey have you heard? Eel facts dot net

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social in case you blissfully missed it Sam Altman's making up nonsense about Dyson Spheres now Give him another six months and he'll be proposing data centers on Mars and you'll have just the book to send him!

@kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com An acquaintance is in Japan right now studying community space and play area design and they posted this this morning and I thought of you!!! Community announcement board as deeply overlooked yet vital urban community builder!

Governance by petty grievance. This is what we have to deal with from the Pennsylvania Senate. Absolutely disgusting.

Smarmy PA Republican Senators are now proposing to rob SEPTA's capital budget to pay for highways to nowhere in their rural counties in exchange for not bankrupting SEPTA's operations. We are the economic powerhouse of this state and we are treated with profound disrespect. Absolutely disgusting

I waited until the video was uploaded to see the rational for denying this. Very little reasoning was articulated. It was OK-ed by the Council member, the local community, and the city's planners but some on the ZBA seemed uncomfortable with a low-ceiling comedy club, even if code compliant.

Happy Book Birthday to my pal @mattielubchansky.com!!! Get SIMPLICITY at your local bookstore!!! I insist!!!

Read my friend Robin's delightful webcomic spellxsword.com imho

This link is an excellent resource for all the ways we can contact payment providers to complain about the removal of queer and adult games, comics, books and media from all our platforms. Tell these companies to stop censoring queer and adult content. It makes no sense! Enough is enough!

Who knew that all the government needed to do to make people ok about paying taxes was have a Republican do it via tarrifs and rewards points. Impose a secret 15% tax on all goods that doesn't directly show up on receipts, then send everyone a 2% cash back reward. LOL I'm gonna lose it

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social I have no idea which seed mix it came from (probably the one we got for CCRA???) but I've got a solanum americanum growing in one of my planters and there was a bee visiting it this morning!!! THE SYSTEM WORKS

The big payment processors Mastercard and Visa are fundamentally puritanical and pro-censorship, and they will effectively destroy free speech worldwide if we allow them to.

Totally absurd. Zoning board denies a zoning variance for a potential comedy club on South Broad Street. Is South Broad the avenue of the arts or not??? This is not some quiet side street, it's Broad Street! A comedy club here would be a boon!

youtu.be/gT88vv28jdQ?... FINALLY someone has hurdy-gurdied the guitar. No longer will humans have to toil away, strumming and picking! The WHEEL has arrived!!! (cc @zachweinersmith.bsky.social, @colinfanning.bsky.social sent this to me so I'm sharing)

If you are interested in whether Philadelphia's free standalone public restroom pilot project succeeds, urine luck because I'm here today with my two-year check-in of the Philly Phlush. www.inquirer.com/columnists/p...

@farfarraway.bsky.social Your articles on the Philly Phlush are always phenomenal! Today's was no exception. I really appreciate you following up on it and your on the ground reporting, thank you!

This is such a key insight!!! Fixing mistakes in existing work is often as hard or harder than writing it from scratch! But of course executive level folks who don't build anything will never understand this.

@kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com just got served an advertisement letting me know that King Gizz is playing in Philly at the end of July, with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia! I thought of you!!!

Wishing all my New York City friends a very happy Bing Bong

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social also btw in May/June CCRA's green committee got seed distro jars in 10 bizs in SW center city. We distributed over 1000 native pollinator seed packets! A recap post should be up on the CCRA Insta some time this week. Thanks again for the inspiration and the posters!

I wrote an Op-Ed about SEPTA funding and how our Agency is actually one of the most efficient in the country with handling money. The last thing we need is for SEPTA to get defunded, enjoy the gift link 🤙

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social We did a CCRA green committee seed packing party last Friday, packed about 1000 seed packets. Three more native plant distro jars heading out! In addition to Mr. Rabbit, we have jars at Rims Cleaners and Lombard Swim Club. Julius Scissor and a few more coming soon!

@thornmarch.bsky.social HELLOOOOOO I found you again!!!

Primary election day Philly! Go vote!!! There's a contentious DA race (I'm voting Krasner, we don't need a tough on crime posturing conservative) & ballot qs. Vote yes on #2 to direct developer payments to the affordable housing fund to go to building housing rather than the general city budget.

Have become absolutely ENGROSSED by the comic Tiger, Tiger (www.tigertigercomic.com/tiger-tiger/...), which I had heard about before but had not taken the time to read and OOPS I'm 250 pages in and I'm GRIPPED @pepurika.bsky.social, exceptional!!! Genius!!!

@nicolablack.bsky.social I tested the recipe again today! This time I measured using a 1 cup measure and scooped the flour. I weighed it, and it looks like a scoop is 180 grams... 50% more than I was calculating before!!!

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social I sprinkled the sample packet of pollinator natives I snagged from the seed packing party in my adopted tree pit garden and THEY'RE SPROUTING!!!

2821 day streak. Yeah, I'm done. Cancelled my membership. Since they removed the forums and double downed in AI the quality has gotten significantly worse anyway, and even when you pay they shove ads in your face for their stupid "AI enhanced" plan. Absurd. This will spur me to try better apps.

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social First native plant seed distribution jar CCRA Green Committee put together, inspired by you, is up at Mr. Rabbit (23rd and Spruce) Still working on scaling up seed packets so we can put more out!

Ben Franklin on vaccination. (via Mic: www.mic.com/articles/109...)

I am so tired of waiting. Aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife and go ape shitt

🚢 SOUTH PHILLY WATERFRONT Philadelphia Regional Port Authority in Talks to Find Even Bigger Ship to Replace S.S. United States

🚲 SPRUCE & PINE UPDATE City of Philadelphia Rebrands New Loading Zones on Spruce & Pine Streets as Tiny Bike Lanes You Can Park In “It’s just so satisfying to rest my tires on that green paint!!” says one Center City West resident.

Philadelphia needs an ambitious, forward-thinking plan to expand the SEPTA Metro system—one that truly serves the region by 2050. This is that plan! We Introduce you to the SEPTA Metro 2050 Plan.

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

Democrats often insist that they are powerless, when in fact they are just terrified of using the power they possess. Influencing public opinion should be their most basic responsibility: if you can advocate for yourself well enough to get elected, you can advocate for policies as well.

well this made me cry over breakfast. to any democrats holding even a shred of power right now: look at what’s possible from people far more endangered and vulnerable than you and grow a spine, you fucking cowards www.erininthemorning.com/p/powerful-s...

I agree with this take. The correct thing to do if you are mad at Target is to figure out what you buy at Target and how to get it from somewhere else, and then do so. For as long as you need to.

I commissioned Maki to do a snooty portrait of me to match the one he made of @colinfanning.bsky.social in his comic "The Hermit" (get it here: maki-naro.square.site/product/the-...). Maki not only knocked mine out of the park but insisted on touching up Colin's. He's the best!!! Look at us!!!

my new book SIMPLICITY is about a timid trans academic in the near future treks into the wilds of upstate new york to study a cult and winds up with way more than he bargained for. it’s is out 7/29. preorder it from your local! simplicitybook.xyz

@assumptionprime.bsky.social it arrived!!!

Democrats win when they think big, fight for working people, and stop chasing a mythical 'middle.' Bold, populist policies aren’t just good politics—they’re how we build a fairer economy and a stronger democracy. My latest op-ed in the @inquirer.com.

Helloooo? Horseshoe crab is that you?

BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA a comic/poem (1/🔶)