This nonsense hurts the city, and City Council and the Mayor all just turn a blind eye to it, or worse _praise_ the Sheriff for "exemplary service???" It's so ridiculous.

Philly Friends! Ward races are really important, please pay attention to them! The Democratic Machine is basically trying to protect do-nothing incumbents who think everything is fine when voter turnout in the city is consistently low, because it benefits them and their friends. Enough of that!

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/peace-4 #smbc #comics

This resonates extremely deeply right now.

It's always delightful reading @craiglaban.bsky.social critique a new restaurant in @inquirer.com, but when the restaurant is truly great and he loves it, it's like reading food poetry. He practically sings about it. What a joy. www.inquirer.com/food/restaur...

People being allowed to use public spaces!!! Designing public spaces for people to use for all sorts of reasons!!! Imagine!!! I'm really glad lessons were learned from what we lost at JFK/Love Park.

Shoutout to the multiple public servants including Public Property and the Capital Program Office who made this happen, big sea change from previous mayoral admins www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia...

mRNA tech is one of the most promising avenues for targeted cancer treatment This asshole is abandoning it because of anti-science woo-woo vibes. Infuriating

Love that everyone on my feed is watching The Stream

At this point high schoolers can never again ask their history teachers "why do we need to know about X" First Smoot-Hawley and now the antipope of Avignon? Incredible.

This sucks. Heads up to anyone who enrolled in the SAVE plans: the current administration has killed them and you'll need to switch to a different plan or they'll dump you on one that might not be the best option.

Great story on how skaters and public servants worked together to incorporate and formalize skating in the new Paine Plaza aka "Muni". A complete shift from the flattening of LOVE Park. Also really like how they paid homage to the original paving style! quartersnacks.com/2026/03/how-...

Yesssss this is going to showcase the best in food journalism. Worker owned!!! Subscribe!!!

Unlike other cities squeezed by high housing costs, Philly has plenty of land for construction, even in its transit-rich downtown. I recently counted two dozen surface parking lots, many 70 years old. Here’s some ideas to put them into productive use. www.inquirer.com/columnists/c...

It's Trans Day of Visibility. Support trans people, because it's real goddamn rough being *this* visible right now. Crowdfunds, mutual aid, buy trans art. As I am trans and visible: Read my comics - robindraws.com Support my art - www.patreon.com/c/RobinBrooks Buy my book - robin-brooks.square.site

Got a survey from the US Census bureau, the first question after confirming my name and address was ARE YOU A HOMOSEXUAL Are you joking? Maybe read the fucking room right now???

Adopting a new zero tolerance policy for people shitting on Philadelphia as a place to live This includes coming from Philadelphians!!! You are ON NOTICE, the city has problems but it still rocks

Dear web designers: when I hit "tab" in a username field on a website, I would please like the cursor to move to the password box. Not to: -the submit button (hold your horses) -the "forgot your password" link (give me a chance) -another random element on the page (were you DRUNK?)

Nancy 1/25/26, Nancy Visits Philadelphia Part 1

@septa-social.bsky.social please add an announcement or signage or an alert or something that trolleys aren't running westbound from city hall now. Just waited 15 min for a trolley, thank goodness for the station attendant who came out and told us they were originating at 40th.

@sarahmackattack.bsky.social pleased to report that CCRA's green committee has now got native seed packet distro jars in 12 businesses around Center City! More to come!!! (Working on an insta post about it soon)

@kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com Relevant to your interests I think! www.fastcompany.com/91493918/the...

LRT: immigration is one of the things that made the US a powerhouse economically and culturally. It is and has been incredibly stupid for the United States of all places to say immigration is bad. ICE as an organization should be abolished, but ALSO their policy aims are bad and should be abandoned

ICE is bad. Deportation is bad. Immigration restriction is almost always bad. Armed masked men going into homes without warrants is so obviously villainous that the fact anyone approves it is a stain that will haunt even generous histories of our nation ever after. I am anti-ICE.

I know $$ is tight, & many groups need support rn. But I think the kids at H.A. Brown up in Kensington should have a school covered in art just like the Fishtown kids do, & we could all use a joyful project rn. Learn more about the project, and support us here: givebutter.com/KenzoMural

Alright bsky science + art community, I need your help. I was p confident we could get a grant to fund our upcoming biodiversity mural in Kensington. Last night, they called to say our partner school is 2 blocks outside of their service area. But ya know what? We're gonna do it anyway.

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

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