TIL the Philadelphia-area angle to the von Trapp story. Turns out lawyer Henry Drinker (of the Drinker Biddle & Reath law firm, now Faegre Drinker) was a music aficionado and key benefactor to the family, lending them a family home in Merion to use during their early years here.

Add food to a movie title: PRIME RIB FEAR (Now streaming on Criterion!)

You wanna get controversial? Peeps are bad. And malted eggs are by far superior, yet get ignored. Why?

sometimes you just lose.

ME: look, a lot went into this set of compensation options. housing. transportation. I'm hoping we can finally end negotiations here - no? God...do you at least have a reasonable counter demand I can actually provide? SWEET BABY: *stoned facedly slides folded paper note across table* NOTE: "Mama"

This is a huge part of why the rich push means testing so hard! Universalism makes the programs hard to kill! Programs exclusively for the poor are easy to kill! bsky.app/profile/allg...

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

I think about this all the time when AI asks me if I want it to generates notes from a virtual meeting. Notes are grunt work, but in a profession that basically relies on other people’s expertise, transcribing that expertise is the best way to learn.

WTF w/ TOM IS A WEBBY NOMINEE 🏆 🔗 Vote for your favorite Philly transportation reporter anytime before April 16: vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

may this be the beginning of something

Cracking down on single family rentals will exclude poor and working people from desirable neighborhoods. It is profoundly inequitable.

haters are one of Chicago’s most vital exports. they don’t grow them like that anywhere else. if you have been hated by someone from Chicago you never forget it. Leo talks like a guy who has to call up his confessor twice a day to yell about some new Truth Social post that’s making him see knives

The only responsibility I feel right now, along with many others in Germany, is to keep bookmarking moments like this, so that people here don't turn around and tell the rest of the world "we had no idea what was happening". They know. Everyone knows. At best - at best - they don't want to see it.

My new essay is about the situation where there is no right way to be a woman. And how, in the end, accepting this really does set you free. open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

America did not meet the universal adult suffrage criteria of democratic governance until 1965. Gatorade is the exact same age as American democracy.

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

This is a nationwide phenomenon. The centrists and normies are more viciously angry than the socialists and anarchists, who gave up long ago on the illusion of a working system. Would encourage leftists of all stripes to take it seriously, welcome them in while they’re receptive.

More housing supply makes housing cheaper.

God I am so sick of being seen as a lesser American because I don't have a yard to take care of

@artsteinberg-pft.bsky.social: "Our armed forces have been deployed to a war that few Americans support & that is costing us billions. Here in Philly, city officials are again moving to close public schools. "Why is there always money for war but never enough for public schools?" #NoWar #NoKings

George C. Scott at the Doctor Strangelove premiere, realizing Kubrick only used the goofy takes.

La Belle Epoque; 7 Rue Albert 1er, 59140 Dunkerque, France https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=51.03077%2C2.376381&query_place_id=ChIJk1nJl2KM3EcRTTG3eDJ9bY4

And mage and sailor are not so far apart; both work with the powers of sky and sea, and bend great winds to the uses of their hands, bringing near what was remote.

This is why Philly’s frittering away of their HOME bond is so disappointing. Just turn it into a revolving loan fund for a bunch of IZ projects!

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

There’s no housing crisis Okay there’s a housing crisis but it’s because of vacant homes. Actually, the housing crisis is because of AirBnb Actually, the housing crisis is because of Blackstone You are here > Actually it’s RealPage’s fault. What will the next red herring be?

This is a dance off, if you see this post a dance or you’re eliminated.

At any moment of our choosing, American cities could do this exact same thing and have better infrastructure than Paris within about a decade. But everyday, we instead choose to live like gigantic assholes.

Great. Woke up nervous. This game is massive. The momentum carrying us towards ecstasy could be amplified to something irresistible, or it could affect belief at a time where it still feels dangerous to even dream of what might be. Good luck Forest: the world is with you.

If your goal is to dissuade anyone from even attempting to build housing in jurisdiction, it's not a waste of time at all. Even if it ultimately fails to block this project, the message being sent here could easily dissuade others from attempting.

Cannot say I had *checks notes* Arsenal / Chelsea / Flamengo / Italy star Jorginho beefing with *checks notes* Chappell Roan on the 2026 Bingo Board. But here we are

Having been a cook in pretty fancy restaurants and now being the cook for our family I can safely say this is not the case.

Have been rubbing my hands together in anticipation of this article for so long and for so often my palms threaten to create spontaneous combustion

It’s always been this way youtu.be/QZWYtlFTcpQ

I feel like this attitude was baked into 60’s environmentalism in ways that are hard to wrap our mind around now. Niche example, but Ian McHarg called cities “God’s junkyard.” He founded the Landscape Architecture program at Penn!

Upon further reflection, the “people are pollution” argument by some mainstream environmentalists makes sense in light of the Sierra Club publishing that book

Environmentalists that are anti-density and pro-parking are like public health advocates that are pro nuclear waste bathing.

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

A society built for cars is built to impoverish people by design. This only gets worse as time goes on. This is: a) why it's imperative we make major strides in the near term to shift land-use patterns, & b) why "just build more greenfield sprawl to solve the affordabilty crisis" doesn't work

Great thread

Renaming my son Max Dowman

Moyes was the name of the defeated manager who created him. You mean Moyes' Monster.

I know it was offside but that’s an absurd save

for one thing, we need to totally abolish the culture of secrecy that has infected every aspect of american governance. cops shouldn’t be allowed to have secrets. the doe shouldn’t be allowed to have secrets. even the military‘s scope of what needs to be secret is absurd. it all must go

1% OF CRIMES REPRESENTED IN 75% OF STEVEN SODERBERGH MOVIES

My theory is that smartphones started rewarding more inward-facing behavior and the pandemic turbocharged that trend. Public spaces are just nuisance zones that one must endure before returning to the comfort of private life so of course one should treat them badly.