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David Ramos @imagineterrain.bsky.social · 3h

No matter how thematically appropriate the imagery may be, a border of fasces around your rendering is always going to prompt awkward questions.

alex block @alexblock.bsky.social · 4h

Never mind that the rendering magically erases the adjacent McDonalds drive thru; the success of this seems almost entirely dependent on how you control the flow of cars through the space.

It wants to be a cobbled town square; as if there are no cars, just horses and buggies

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 5h

Johnny Cash, a guitar slung around his neck, flipping the bird at the camera, an angry expression on his face. It's extremely punk.

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J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social · 6h

On a related note, has anyone heard anything about Transportation Camp PGH?

Enjoyed the last couple, would love to go back again this year...if it's happening (next month?), I can't seem to find any information about it.

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J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social · 6h

Excellent news!

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J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social · 7h

Tonight! (Right now, in fact!)

J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social · 7d

Due to Yom Kippur, the October #ANC1B meeting—usually the first Thursday of the month—is pushed back a week.

This meeting will be hybrid, and they have a new location for in-person attendance! Join online or at the Josephine Butler Parks Center, 2437 15th St NW (btwn Chapin & Euclid), Ground Floor.

🔹 ANC 1B Monthly Meeting (HYBRID) — ANC 1B

We’d love to have you join us for our ANC 1B meeting. This meeting will be hybrid (in person, with a virtual option). Please note the new location for the in-person meeting: Josephine Butler Park...

www.anc1b.org

J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social · 9h

this one is kind enough to note they're run by another account already flagged by lists maintained by engagement-hacks.bsky.social (bsky.app/profile/did:...) and rahaeli.bsky.social‬ (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ocsbmyulc2grbq3esflddyj6/lists/3l42gs6pmns22), so that's an easy report-and-block…

J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social · 9h

almost all new followers eventually get at least a cursory look to see who's out there

and frankly, if you follow this many people, I don't believe you're actually that interested in any of them, you're just fishing for views. Which is close enough to spam, you're _probably_ gonna get blocked.

new follower "St Louis Books" has 12.3K followers and follows a whopping 49.7K other accounts.

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 10h

No incarnation of any political party at any time in any country on earth has ever spent so much time thinking about children’s genitals.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social · 16h

ticketmaster hates me (the feeling is mutual)

(I get this across multiple devices and browsers, and have for months or longer, so I suspect the 'unusual behavior' is blocking ads and tracking nonsense, or something of that nature...)

Your Browsing Activity Has Been Paused

We've detected unusual behavior on either your network or your browser.

To resolve this:
* Sign in to your account if you haven't already
* Change your Wi-Fi or cellular network
* Switch devices or move to a different location if possible

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Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 18h

Taking this on should be a special project for Virginia electeds like @markwarner.bsky.social, @kaine.senate.gov and @beyer.house.gov. This affects all Americans, but your constituents have a front row experience with all of this.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 18h

At its core, the militarization of U.S. cities is an affront to Democratic, and democratic, governance—a gambit to set up a national police force, with the president as its chief, where neither the Constitution nor federal law allow it.

For @nymag.com, I probe how to put a stop to this perversion.

Trump Is Not Entitled to a National Police Force

How the hostile takeover of Democratic cities should end.

nymag.com

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J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social · 19h

Dammit, sounds like I left Philly too soon 😹

Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 1d

Please be aware that there is a scrapple sculpting contest at the Reading Terminal Market tomorrow at noon. (If you don’t know what this means you probably don’t want to.)

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Nick Sementelli @nsementelli.bsky.social · 1d

This is what's in store for opening day of the new Commanders stadium unless we start building a second station right away

Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 1d

Closing the larger entrance for the Navy Yard-Ballpark station for escalator repair 1 week before Nationals Park hosts 3 sold out events leads to this.

Dangerous bottleneck on the street level. Bottleneck at the machines. And near empty cars because folks can’t actually get to the platform in time.

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J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social · 1d

I don't even like those things when they're going in a straight line and on the right side of the road.

Had one of those double decker beasts shimmy by in Center City Philly the other day and I got fully on the other side of the sidewalk away from it...

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David Ramos @imagineterrain.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Sietsema is leaving his job as restaurant critic; maybe it's time to call the paper the Washington Past.

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Mark Blacknell @blacknell.bsky.social · 1d

This point has to be made vigorously and regularly in the courts. Over and over.

(And we need electeds to start repeating it, too. All of this reflexive bipartisan support for the impunity of law enforcement and state surveillance has to be a casualty of this era.)

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

My new @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social piece tells how DHS continues to deny that citizens have a right to videorecord its agents and raids even in the face of overwhelming court precedent that the First Amendment protects their right to do so. Nor is it just a matter of positions taken in court. /5

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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J. I. Swiderski, MURP @swiderski.bsky.social · 1d

Also can't make it and will hope for a recording or something...

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Alex Goyette @alexgoyette.bsky.social · 1d

Related: this webinar today at noon about building affordable housing above public libraries in VA

I have a conflicting mtg but will hope for a recording afterwards

housingforwardva.org/event/librar...

Beds Over Books: Communities developing affordable housing above public libraries - HousingForward Virginia

Join us for an innovative webinar exploring a proven strategy that’s transforming communities nationwide From Chicago to Oregon,...

housingforwardva.org

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Maria Montaño @themariamontano.bsky.social · 1d

Happy National Pierogi Day to all who celebrate.

Jalapeño Hanah is holding a green purse. She didn’t say what was inside. She is lined up ready to race at PNC park.

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Tara Goddard, PhD @drtaragoddard.com · 2d

I never thought of it quite like this, but the world seems to be made up of two kinds of people. Those who find the diversity in the world to be comforting and approach difference with curiosity even if they are cautious, and the opposite. Those scared by difference, who go in assuming the worst.

Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 2d

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is