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Philosopher King John Kruk: "the person who invented the first clock ever...how did that person know what time it was?"

who got parents to tell their kids stuff like “make yourself indispensable in the office”. i need to know where this began

“Abolish ICE” is the floor

i have the problem where i’m not depressed enough anymore to really enjoy the boxer which i guess is fine. but it was really good that way

just had a hot dog dinner at the #linkinpark concert (counts as 1.5 due to stadium prices)

absolutely incredible number of preteens and teens at the linkin park wearing t shirts for the clash

Northeast Government Open House Thursday at Cannstatter's - Northeast Times Local elected officials and the Greater Northeast Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce will present a Northeast Government Open House on Thursday, Aug. 14, from

For folks in Philly who want to let Senator Picozzi know their thoughts on SEPTA funding he'll be answering questions at a government open house from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM today in NE Philly.

It starts in about an hour: northeasttimes.com/2025/08/12/n...

An open hatchback trunk with two boxes of moving bags, five tents, and five small black bags with camping supplies

En route to this morning’s encampment eviction with tents, camping supplies, & moving/storage bags.

Help us order more supplies as evictions ramp up:
CA: $RemoraHouseDC
GB: givebutter.com/remorahouse

I RTed before going down a rabbit hole to see what else these guys have done that I've forgotten and my takeaway from refreshing my USPP memory is that this agency is somehow like if a force of armed park rangers were made up entirely of that NYPD unit they disbanded for killing too many people

US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked

one of the things about the modern carceral society is that while crime is near its all-time lows, the prison population is not. one reason is that things like this—which were barely crimes for most of this country's history—are now charged as felonies.

federal officials arresting a delivery driver in front of the columbia heights target today. when dc’s wusa9 asked why he was being arrested the man simply said: “they’re taking me”

map of septa lines that will be eliminated this time next year

im so fucking angry about this. this state is run by the actual dumbest people on earth

Bikes Not Bombs - emergency ride to support the unhoused community - tonight, 5:45 meet 6:30 roll - mcpherson square

🚨 HEY DC 🚨 if you can participate in tonight’s emergency ride to provide critical resources to your unhoused neighbors you should. MPD & feds are expected to sweep EVERY tent of EVERY encampment as soon as 6:30pm tonight. stand up for your community and show the feds whose streets these are

a spatula with an anchovy holding a hot pepper that says ANCHOVIES HOT

closeup of ANCHOVIES HOT spatula

reverse side of spatula reading for some reason “ANCHOVIES TOH”

trying to comprehend items we discovered in the beach rental kitchen. why anchovies hot. why anchovies toh

On this day eight years ago, during the fascist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA, neo-Nazi James Fields drove his car into a crowd of antifascists, killing 32-year-old paralegal Heather Heyer.

She is gone but many of us survived to fight another day.
Remember her.
Don’t give up.
🖤

"Their message is to encourage people to ride bikes instead of having gun violence in the community." www.npr.org/sections/pic...

i am not doomsaying btw this is a rational and practical response to the situation

chanting my best healing hymns and waving some fresh burning sage around zack wheeler’s shoulder

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

Why A Bunch Of Real Dicks Keep Throwing Fake Ones | Defector Every misogynist joke poses a question to its female audience: Can you laugh along? Will you be chill or are you going to make a big deal out of this? Are you going to be a bitch about it? Arriving in...

“The audience for this isn’t people who like jokes, or even understand what they are or why other people like them. The audience is boys and men who will understand that what’s funny is: women.” defector.com/why-a-bunch-...

a black chihuahua mix, paws on a white table, looking expectant

the dog turns to look at u

your bridge partner gives u this look across the table how do u bid

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

this mom at the airport is threatening to stop talking to her kids if they don’t do a better job helping her make an airport tik tok

three text messages reading 24639 now Jefferson Colleagues: To help Jefferson assess the impact of potential SEPTA reductions starting 8/24, please take SEPTA Colleague Commuter Survey av... 24639 now Jefferson Colleagues: To help Jefferson assess the impact of potential SEPTA reductions starting 8/24, please take SEPTA Colleague Commuter Survey av... 24639 7m ago Jefferson Colleagues: To help Jefferson assess the impact of potential SEPTA reductions starting 8/24, please take SEPTA Colleague Commuter Survey av...

jefferson really wants people to take the septa survey and i will. i will complete the septa survey 17 times if necessary

possible recession indicator

does this come up a lot for plumbers? kind of an occupational hazard

it all feels like a complicated and large scale version of the MSG panic

having a fun climbing afternoon going around the gym doing all the v2s. tryeasy

thinking about the most populated island nations and the status of behavioral health intervention in those places, i think you could probably find this correlation if you wanted to.

of course, i doubt fish oil has much to do with it