Buying cars is one of those things everyone universally agrees is a horrible experience for the consumer. I literally heard a salesperson yell at a customer when I was shopping for mine in 2022. Don't love another tech takeover but if it makes some changes to the market I think that's a net positive

Because Draymond Green is on my TV: Draymond Green has 43 playoff games with more turnovers than made field goals, tied with Kendrick Perkins for the most such games since turnovers were first tracked in the 70s.

Southbound bus situation not great this morning! Sat at 25th and St. Paul for 25 minutes, SV finally showed and was packed. Didn't pick people up at multiple stops cause it was too full. By the time we got downtown, the next SV bus passed us. We can do better!

The only thing worse than that Celtics game is accidentally having to watch SNL

Grabs Hugo’s wrist while Hugo has a hand on his hip which is obviously enough for his head to whip back

a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically

Something I struggle with in these conversations with friends is the focus on the hardest to house individuals. Building market-rate doesn't necessarily solve housing for the highest barrier individuals, but we shouldn't let that block awesome progress for everyone else!

“We’ve been brainwashed to believe—and this is reinforced through our decisions about the design of our streets, speed limits, every sort of built environment decision, as well as the law—that car convenience is more important than human life.” www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/hist...

Tired: Ban sports gambling Wired: Nationalize DraftKings

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

One funny side effect of the snow storm is that it's proved how many of these roads you could turn into one land and it would be totally fine. Obviously more people are staying off the roads so it's not exact, but I feel like Baltimore should actually use these instances as real world test cases.

I ride my bike to work, and Monday night walked down 25th Street where I live (in the middle of the street because sidewalks weren't clear, including one I shoveled in front of a row of vacants), and saw that this was the bike lane. Glad I can telework but many others can't!

Forgot to post last night, but loved going to @beyondvideo.bsky.social and seeing how slammed it was by people getting physical media in preparation for the snow storm. It was fun seeing so many people browsing together! Excited to settle into stuff that's been on my list, plus new finds!

2025 was the best year for our city's shared mobility program to date. As a city, we took over 3 million rides during the year, reaching over 3.9 million miles covered on shared e-bikes and scooters. This is nearly double the rides Baltimore took in 2024! www.bikemore.net/news/2025-in...

This should be national news!

Christmas movie about a guy who accidentally chugs Santa’s bone juice while on vacation in Italy and everyone’s mad at him but he develops the power to know what gifts everybody wants. And then at the end it turns out Santa’s bone juice was in a different cup and he had the magic in him all along

In the last month in Baltimore alone, a cop is indicted for a political blackmail scheme, a cop is indicted for trying to murder someone with a police car, and the *commander* of a district is under criminal investigation. Beating a dead horse, but what more needs to happen to stop funding them?

Very happy to have a local newspaper doing great journalism for the city. When I ran a housing program I was shocked by how many checks I mailed out to New York (not to either company mentioned here). Crossing my fingers the city and state can mitigate this fallout

This is so silly

New poll: The vast majority of NYC Dem primary voters agree with Mamdani’s Israel positions, even arresting Bibi. 57% say they’d be less likely to support incumbent Dems who don’t endorse Mamdani. That includes Schumer and Jeffries right now. www.semafor.com/article/07/2...

They just showed Alcatraz in the hallway before the match and he was putting on sunscreen. Obviously athletes must wear sunscreen but I truly never thought about it, and it's created so many questions. Do they reapply? Do they also use coppertone sport? I need to know

Your periodic reminder that Baltimore is the city Austin and Portland pretend to be.

On the bus downtown and the bus lane is just filled with cars and all the buses are delayed. Obviously no traffic enforcement in sight, even during peak hours. People complain the buses don't work, drive their cars, then block the bus with their cars. Should've just risked biking in the storm!

It's hard because I do want Dems to use procedural gimmicks to block legislation, but also less than one hour after "the longest house speech in history" the bill passed so I don't really get it

This should be a national story! This is incredible! Especially as people (including mainstream Dems) are freaking out about Mamdani's efforts to divert resources from police to his Department of Community Safety. Not a 1-1 correlation, but some similar ideas

Instead of worrying about all the horrible things in the world, here are my top 10 movies of the 21st century (didn't actually submit since I share an NYT account). This list would almost certainly change if I made it 6 months from now or 6 months ago

It honestly boggles the mind how many times we are explicitly shown how much cops just blatantly lie and yet we never hold their profession accountable. The NYT editorial board just ran a hit piece about how we've been too mean to cops!

This story is why it's important to have local journalism! Really well researched and investigated.

nobody in attendance for a tank show in Washington? Is this a military parade or the last 4 months of the Wizards’ season????

It's crazy to me that large swaths of the US would see this video and still truly believe removing parking ruins neighborhood

Loved reading this entire thread. My idea would be to ban cars from certain areas (avenue in Hampden, fells, etc.) from Friday at 5pm through Sunday at 10pm. Traveled to Vietnam last year and a bunch of cities did this and it was awesome. Let the people have the streets!

Obviously the funny part is that these are straight-up hallucinated books that do not exist IRL, but here’s what I keep coming back to: if you’re a publisher, and you’re publishing AI-generated junk… why should people read the AI-generated junk you publish instead of generating their own junk?

Bike parking at the rotunda has always been lackluster, and now they've cut down this one area to only 3 spots (but really two, my bike didn't fit in the middle). Parking is a nightmare, they should encourage more biking not less! Any way to increase this @bikemore.net

If you didn't think moore was planning to run for president before...

Mayor Scott and YIMBY leaders on the City Council introduced bills today that would roll back Baltimore's restrictions on development density, allow people to build closer to their property lines, and do away with requirements for off-street parking www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/ho...

As society has moved away from "college as a way to better yourself" to "college as the only way to get a job and if you don't do it you're a failure," this was the inevitable outcome. All that matters is a grade and a job, so what's the incentive not to cheat?

Through April for the year, there have been 39 homicides in Baltimore. This is by far the fewest recorded for that period in the past 55 years, with the previous fewest through April being 49 homicides in 1977. After that, it's 56 in 2010 and 2014

Nothing like your local dem voting with all the Republicans to block rezoning an unused parking lot for housing development

Jayson Tatum has more playoff wins than every NBA franchise (except the Celtics) since his postseason debut in 2018. H/T StatMamba on X

Lost but found again: Baltimore Greenway Trails money back in the state budget

Through March, Baltimore has experienced 34 homicides - the fewest for the first 3 months on record in the city's modern history (since 1970). Prior fewest: 39, in 1977 (city population then was 830,000). Previously saw 40 killings to start 2010, 41 in 2012 & 44 in 2014 & 2011

At a Trans Day of Visibility event, the leader of Trans Maryland asked Gov. Wes Moore whether he will stand up for trans people or throw them under the bus, as other powerful Dems have amid federal attacks. Story from @pwoodreporter.bsky.social: www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-pow...

This is called "living in Baltimore." More people should try it!

On a very different subject, this is a classic example of where i think news orgs need to rethink their paywall strategy. Pay-per-article seems like an easy win. I have no interest in getting an Atlantic subscription, but how much would I (and many others) pay to read just this? A decent amount!

Could fascists becoming super pro-car be the turning point libs need to care about safe streets/transit? (I'm guessing no)

The Northern Irish rap trio Kneecap brought out what appeared to be the severed head of a statue of King George V onstage at a show in Melbourne, Australia, over the weekend. It appeared to be a missing piece of a statue that was decapitated in the city last year.