Philly is feeling itself today! Just saw a guy jogging in an open-faced Gritty ski mask on 6th Street between Independence Hall and the flagship Wawa. No other city is so on-brand.

playoff gritty is a revelation

The racism.

2/ Fetterman bought Micron shares for $321.80 on 3/30, coinciding w/purchase date of what appears to have been a short-term bottom for Micron. Since then, the stock surged >60%. Pelosi tracker highlighted, "that was the exact bottom & he’s up +61%." I’m supposed to believe his kid did this trade?

1/ John Fetterman's kids are 13, 11 & 8 years old. His financial disclosure shows a child in his household purchased shares of Micron Tech, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, & Erie Indemnity. He advocated for banning stock trading by lawmakers & their families, citing concerns about corruption.

Merzz. 53. Red Bonbon. by Kurt Schwitters, 1920 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137832

Disney is saddened at the passing of Gerry Conway and has reached out to his family to offer its condolences in lieu of adequate royalties for derivative works.

See?! Notebooks just find you! You don’t have to order brand name ones that support AI.

You buy brand name notebooks? You don’t just buy random notebooks you run into doing normal life stuff?

This broke me last night - I was crying with laughter for a while. We’ve had endless amounts of bad luck and awful life events, I truly needed the laugh. It still makes me snicker, just thinking it.

oh do news reporters know what it's like to be a public school teacher now

our photographer went crazy with this one. 😮‍💨

For 420, we taste-tested 3 classic Chinatown meals at Philippe’s, LaSorted's, and Juanitas Cafe sober vs 🍃🔥💨 🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social @shoton35mm.bsky.social Julianne Le, Lizbeth Solorzano, Izzy Ramirez

Spring in Philadelphia.

Tippett after this hit: LA DEE DEE 🎵🎶

when you unwittingly get trapped into a conversation with linux guy

Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles launching Starlink satellites. Finally got this alignment right last night. #Astrophotography

Christina Koch, one of the four astronauts on Artemis II, says she flew confetti from the Eagles' Super Bowl LIX victory around the moon during the crew's historic trip. https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/artemis-ii-mission-eagles-super-bowl-confetti/ 

Psst... SOUND ON! tinyurl.com/mbom3 #monsters #jazz #bossanova #monsterlove #goblincore #monsterart #artbook #art #watercolour

Gritty just threw a whole ass cake in the face of a guy wearing a Penguins jersey. 😂😭

Help me get in touch with pro LGBTQIA+ musicians who want to play a role in our upcoming charity event in May to raise money for the Trans Lifeline (51K last year!) If you know artists with game covers, chiptune, etc. who may be interested in being our credited background music, drop me a line.

You should jump on this! I love the portrait Lacey did of our dog.

Re-analysis: 200 treatments by 4000 Long Covid/ME patients viralpersistence.substack.com/p/re-analyzi... Image is from the AMMES April 2026 newsletter #MEcfs #LongCovid #PwME #ME #MyalgicE

Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

Anecdotally, when I switched to fluvoxamine there was a big improvement in my fatigue, and I was able to stay awake and attentive through the workday.

What the president is doing is batshit crazy.

Go Birds! #GoBirds

The Invention and Spread of Writing in Global and African History. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-invent...

I have this fantasy/mystery hitting the world next week!

I’m so happy to hear Philly is getting a Harriet Tubman statue! billypenn.com/2026/04/06/h...

Please know, if you read the Centenal Cycle and find yourself interested in the issues it describes, that it's not just science fiction - there are organizations TODAY working with dedication and creativity on all of those problems, and you have ALREADY supported some of them. If you want to do more

I still have a bit of drawing charcoal left, I would be willing to trade it for a piece of art made with it. Lemme know if you're interested

I don’t want to throw spoilers at you regarding Paradise season 2, but I did watch the season finale last night. My 15yo summed it up as, “I wish they’d hire the writers back.” As an engineer with my very specific background, I had a lot of technical issues with it too.

Arcanos. 6.75 refurbished mystic topaz of some Drama. $92 Check out my product! www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Meanwhile, want to support a writer-about-wizards who's (a) been doing it longer than the younger, less experienced writer, and (b) doesn't like ruining people's lives? Try these. (Not if you're in the UK, sorry: Brexit...) bit.ly/YWNMESET

Virginia Norwood (d. #OTD in 2023) was a pioneering aerospace engineer, physicist & inventor widely known as the “Mother of Landsat.” She designed the Multispectral Scanner—the instrument making the Landsat program possible & revolutionized how we observe & monitor Earth from space. #WomenInSTEM

Squirrel Mural, N. Hancock & W. Colona Norris Square, PHL

HAPPY OPENING DAY TO PHILLIES FANS ONLY.

good morning. our long national nightmare is over.

Gotta love this #GoBirds

I received the copies of the Spanish translation of my book, *The Amistad Rebellion*, published by the wonderful @traficantes-ed.bsky.social in Madrid. Happy to be able to tell my Spanish-speaking friends that the book is available for free download! traficantes.net/libros/la-re...

Messages found all around Philly: ICE OUT.

Tortas Ahogadas Ameca, like many businesses, is looking for a lifeline to help them survive the economic impact of ICE raids. The Small Business Resiliency Fund—a motion introduced by County Supervisor @hildasolis.bsky.social—is providing that much needed aid. 🎥: @eltragon.bsky.social

If you’re looking for actual leadership and commitment to community over profit, Rabb is the guy you want to keep an eye on (and support):

If you have a problem with SAM’s character on #StarfleetAcademy, take a second of introspection:

sixers win

IMPORTANT HEAVYSLIME UPDATE

This hit so hard I lost some teeth.

I remember a professor who read some of my writing on West Africa was quite shocked to discover that Timbuktu exists... Sankoré, the famous mediaeval mosque-university at Timbuktu (in present-day Mali), was set up around the twelfth century. folukeafrica.com/timbuktu-sit...

Delfi Marchese (@delfimarchese.bsky.social) reached out to hundreds of #LongCOVID clinics across the U.S. Out of the 400+ that claimed to offer Long COVID care in 2022, only 30 responded, showing how difficult it is for people with Long COVID to access treatment. clinics.thesicktimes.org