one of the things that's fun about the high injury network being finally released is that you can compare it to the projects that bmore dot has been posting about over the last year... and they're almost all disjoint from the high injury network. www.thebanner.com/community/tr...

someone please forward this study to howard county's delegate jen terrasa, who was pointedly wrong about single stair reform in this recent committee meeting. ~53:24 here mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/C...

reading bloomberg opinion is great because you get a mix of interesting business takes and then every time there's a terrible sounding headline or the piece reads like knockoff nazism its one of a small predictable number of weirdos.

we had forgotten that the trails strategic plan features one of the most silly bike intersections in baltimore city. (33rd and st john) probably a push to call the plan robust but it IS a plan, so we'll play along.

intrusive thought: a sip and oil paint podcast focused on university of maryland athletics... terpin' time

secretary jack day 🤝 us: needing to declare tab bankruptcy

earnestly curious what percentage of the people on this set of replies know who dr. bender is and have read bender gebru et al '21 🦜 or shah bender '22 🔍 guess: it's closer to 0% than 100%

sketching plans and really struggling with the absolute worst voice dysphoria 0/10 would not recommend

we're consistently in awe of hullinger's moral clarity and stupendous writing. great reads, as always.

oh boy, hot on the heels of gov moore's anthropic deal, we have this absolute stinker in the 10 year plan for baltimore

the capitulation is heartbreaking but predictable; the essence of trans-cis relations is that cis people do not view trans people as coequal humans deserving of dignity. we are abject to be jettisoned at the first sign of difficulty, not included such that "an injury to one is an injury to all"

impatiently waiting for this yellow box to disappear. iykyk

read a proposal by the neighborhood design center and we have questions like "is it a road diet if it doesn't reduce car lanes?" "should an org propose incomplete streets in the year of our lacrimation 2025?" and "how much car-brain can one subject themselves to before it counts as self harm?"

what's frustrating about the underlying infographic this quote tweet references is that it misrepresents the polling; the 84% figure for lesbians is from a crosstab that explicitly excludes trans people, which is then merged with a different aggregate that includes trans ppl at 80%

earnest question: do cis people understand the purple archipelago?

"Why I lost faith in zoning." tinyurl.com/5n8sh428 Baltimore’s former zoning board executive director, on why she supports @mayorbmscott.bsky.social bills to promote more density and multi-family housing in the city. [OP-ED]

we would like to take this moment to shout out the MTA @mta.maryland.gov who can't get the busses to run on time AND can't train their bus drivers to not be homophobic. truly inspiring leadership from @mdotmtaholly.bsky.social 🙏

Gorsuch is such a specific Type Of Guy it's hard to convey. For additional context, another way to think about this is that the University of Utah dropped the r-slur and secured tribal approval for "Utes" a full 50 years before the washington football team renamed.

intrusively thinking of good line dance songs that could use a baltimore club mix... copperhead road? 🤔

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germane to the heart of this, since catholic social teaching gave us one of the most undercovered civil rights activists of the 20th; hard 2 accept it fully when the vp's a catholic convert, fash are out there celebrating franco, and u can find thibault's anti-lgbt books in evangelical uni libraries

the most frustrating part about baltimore city's failure to implement the complete streets ordinance is that there were hundreds of public comments from a vast array of individuals, businesses, and non profits in favor; but the one (1) negative comment about "the bike lobby" seems to have won out.

8 years after @bmorecitydot.bsky.social created their own legally mandated resurfacing standards, they're still breaking them. Fire the TEC division staff who ignore the law. Generate projects out of Planning division. Require signed compliance forms before asphalt touches the ground.

If community engagement is the excuse for why we can’t have complete streets, we should just stop doing community engagement. I’m tired of NIMBYs shutting down bike lanes anyway.

For @techpolicypress.bsky.social I laid out a tech agenda for Mayor-elect zohrankmamdani.bsky.social that resists surveillance and extraction while advancing his goals for affordability, dignity, and justice.

has someone put together a baltimore club mix of t-pain's club husband yet? 👀

the regular indignity of interfacing with maryland state system is that you get emails like "you missed an appointment [tomorrow]" and you have to think long and hard about how the state is investing nothing in making things not suck. there is no hope in pointing out the bugs either. dismal.

I also want to mention ALT TEXT. Now, with a flip of a switch, you too can let other bsky peeps participate in your shenanigans if they have screen readers or don't understand the context of your pix. (who is this person? Why should I care?)

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

people who park in bike lanes are a reminder of how beautiful the social contract is. it's only a small collection of imaginary things we all believe in that keep their headlights, paint job, and windshields intact 🙏

one of the more subtle reasons you shouldn't wear an ai generated shirt is it prevents you from wearing a banned books shirt that has books which have been BANED.

narrowly holding back Full Bore Depression Posting with the power of eurobeat and good news www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAUZ...

is there any must-grab books at enoch pratt that one has to get in person rather than via shadow library? trying to decide if we want to invest energy in trying again ✨ after all of our past library visits being transphobic hellscapes ✨

😌 looking forward to bferg sponsoring legislation that will increase special elections and decrease committee selections, since he cares so deeply about listening to the voice of marylanders.

still just not human functioning enough to go into this more deeply but it'd be great if the brew would revisit vendor one's other work and notice how much of it was not accessible, and by extension not acceptable for public government work in the year of our lacrimation 2025.

counterpoint: we already have "[name] the first, second, third..."; "[[name] times ten to] the first, second, third..." absolutely rips. if you marry into a family with a different base you can take the log of both sides and the next generation can change the base.

if baltimore city were to commit to a 3100 mile bike network, at current rates of bike lane construction it would be done in roughly 310 years. 😌

what an absolute gem of a lil biking blog 🥺 😻

heart-brokenly thinking about the rich body of work (puar, davis, atshan, hill, coates, etc) that could spare someone from not grasping the deep connection between palestine and ice. as trans rot we know our liberation is entangled with theirs. (not qting the op to reduce conflict.)

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

deeply fascinated by the optics of these blurbs. will have to wait for this to filter onto the shadow libraries but we can't wait to see how the books handles this topic given praise from three of the most rancid white commentators on the internet today.

grokipedia explicitly excludes any mention of the white terror from its franco article

screaming in no you should not throw 2.4 million to your plum contractor then spend another 2ish and leave 0.015 million for an ai slop accessibility company

we got nerd sniped looking at some of the r-6 sun shade and zoning stuff (inspired by this brew coverage) and just wanted to qt for visibility. many additional caveats elided. www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/10/26/l...

reposting for anyone else that may find themsevles doing a terrible-hours-research-binge-on-the-worst-people and needs some ✨harm reduction tips✨ gnet-research.org/strategies-f... the infographic isn't quite small enough for a one sheet printup always visible in our workspace but still useful

needing to write but having precisely zero volition or energy

really just mired in the hopelessness of it all right now

ok i am sorry but covering up a nazi tattoo with a norse mythology tattoo is hilarious. my dude. that’s not helping

Blue cities get a lot of undeserved flack for having effectively one party (usually from angry republicans), but I think one real downside is that it leaves us unequipped to understand the actual conflicts that dominate city politics