New from me: In 1818 free Black Philadelphians attempted to form their own volunteer fire company, this is the story of what happened next open.substack.com/pub/pigeondr...

Read @ninthhostage.bsky.social on last Friday’s Philadelphia Historical Commission meeting, where the Commission decided a designation case for a 1920’s movie theater in Frankford, among other things open.substack.com/pub/buildphi...

Check out a history of the first six months of the Philadelphia Home Defense Reserve - a little known paramilitary organization from the first world war open.substack.com/pub/pigeondr...

Philadelphia friends: I wrote an essay on the history of the structure of city council, and how that relates to councilmanic prerogative - you can see it here: open.substack.com/pub/pigeondr...

bluesky got milkshake ducked?

smdh all these people hopping on blue sky who haven't read the book first

One nice benefit of Elon completely fucking up Twitter is the VC’s and Investors can shut up now about operating a tach business with only 20% of your staff

boop boop

when you go to a bar that has no beer taps - that's when you know

the almost compulsive snideness that some CS / eng people display when someone questions their credentials / suggests that an eng background doesn’t make you an intellectual ubermensch is quite unbecoming

do any of the people behind those websites actually have philosophy backgrounds?

ah I see we’re still doing the 2009 era “if you post on facebook facebooks owns your photos post this faux legal disclaimer under your photos to protect yourself” thing

yesss - one of my fav philly photographers is here - check out his work

My coffee art today is a cat letting off an atomic bomb

muted my first account on here … someone from twitter who I have blocked and do not wish to see in the TL … felt good

I built a wall

I can’t help myself every time I listen to a new all in episode I have a gremlin in my ear whispering “wow @generativist.xyz would absolutely hate this … I should non consensually live tweet this episode to him”

one of my most vinidicated takes of all time

I'll do this here b/c not to many people who I don't care to deal with are here the trad/conservative thing of refusing to acknowlege people who do porn/sw are regular people with agency is subjecting them to the same kind of objectification & dehumanization that they claim theyre saving them from

You’ve heard of data lakes, drain the lake with data whirlpools. From the founders of the /dev/null filesystem

you can always tell your surrounded by a bunch of nerds when you search “latex” and all the posts are people talking about typesetting

the line with statement eyewear between “cool signature look” and “impossible to take you seriously with that on your face” is <razor> thin

first date idea: you finish this ticket for me. also i’m married so find a date first and then you both do it. or just one of you, i don’t care. sprint ends friday

wait this is a good idea should i do this

fucking openai’s auth flows are broken every time I try to log in wtf man

day in the night

if you’re not engaged in hyper local drama what are you even doing?

philadelphia is a city of alleyways

well if that’s the case I’m out

love how seemlessly blue sky solved the auto load new posts causing the screen to hop around problem from twitter by just having the “load new posts” button

bring back fleets - the people demand it