in light of today's events, i want to share a story i was told during a study abroad summer in italy, where i took a class on the rise of fascism. the picture below is the site of a mass grave. captive partisans were brought here by nazis, forced to dig, and then executed on the spot.

O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath— America will be! www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907...

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

Philly! Come to the Native Plant Launch Party Wed 1/21! Here's why - I'll have ice whistles/zines - We'll make seed bombs for a collab w @wednightrides.org - Poster hosters can pick up seed kits - I need help packing seeds SO bad - Free beer/food thx to community donations RSVP luma.com/sgn1d246

Really sorry to everyone who has been put through the wringer by Hiveworks over the years. Very glad folks could come together and talk about it and realize they weren't alone.

Seeing the Bluesky resistlib machine valorize Philly's corrupt grifter payola cosplay sheriff for holding an entirely meaningless, self-aggrandizing press conference makes me want to walk into the Delaware and become a trout.

Well Vanguard... I appreciate the effort, but... I'm not sure that's correct.

Have almost finished Jane Jacob's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and I am obsessed I'm sorry in advance to anyone who now has to deal with me constantly pointing at literally anything and saying "Jane Jacobs would have had a lot to say about THAT"

So far I have made this week: Gingerbread Orange cranberry loaf Rye chocolate chip cookies Saland-e Nakhod (chickpea curry) Currently on the stove: Black beans (for tomorrow) Currently in the oven: Flan de leche (for tomorrow)

Heated Rivalry... wow. Yes. YES

A huge amount of useful research and software that has nothing to do with LLMs is being branded as "AI" in an attempt to ride the hype/secure funding/make money. When the next AI winter hits, a lot of it will be abandoned or starved of funding. The garbage is going to destroy legitimate CS.

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social this feels very relevant to your interests. Poetry as an attack vector to jailbreak LLMs

Governor Shapiro very clearly does not care about public transit, which by extension means he does not care about Philadelphia. He probably takes our support for granted. Buddy, I've got bad news for you.

Woohoo New York City!!!!!! Happy for you Thank goodness, it looks like Pennsylvania retained its three Democratic supreme Court justices too. A good night!!!

@ischeneydeadyet.bsky.social you might want to find the login for your account. :)

Was waiting to get into the aquarium in Osaka and spotted a celebrity back stage at an outdoor rock concert... it's @chiitan.love!!!!!! I was too shy to go try to say hello. Superstar!!! Queer icon!!! We stan

In Tokyo for two weeks! Stumbled across a municipal fun fare where you can queue to get in a robotic exoskeleton suit boxing match They're really living in the 3000 over here

We leave for 日本 水曜日 and 私は 日本ご れんしゅうしました for the last few 月 and I've made 少し progress but I feel like it's not enough… I'm sure I can cram the rest of the entire language in in the next 24 hours. Right? That's definitely a reasonable plan that will set me up for success right???

@thornmarch.bsky.social happy birthday!!! Hope you have a good one! 🎈🎂🎉

One of the best comics being made!!! The first volume came out beautifully. Don't miss the edge staining!!!

In advance of our upcoming trip to Japan I thought for nostalgia's sake I'd boot up The World Ends With You, pulled up my old save file and uhhhh.. Apparently some time has passed. 😵‍💫

Good morning! It's Pizzamas, and that means I can finally tell people about THIS: pizzamas.com/collections/... I wrote another Pizzamas Dungeons and Dragons adventure! It's got tons of Nerdfighter references (and a few just for the LRR fans, heh heh), jokes and a message board!

Jaya's last piece for Eater is incredible: so perfectly captures the arc of cultural change regarding food we've all lived through the past 20 years.

If you've designed a "park" and you include so much asphalt that every intersection ends up looking like this, you've messed up:

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!!! :) 🎉🎂🎁🎈

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 🤙