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Here’s another, which is too long for me to share directly on bsky: www.instagram.com/reel/DN58QMS...

The Happy Urbanist on IG has some great videos on why skate parks are infrastructurally transformative beyond being a third space:

The problem is that the bad journalism is free. Free access to high quality journalism is the only thing that can counteract it.

I don’t know how to solve this problem but I think paywalls are a much worse solution because of the first point.

Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.

Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...

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My favorite part of this @tressiemcphd.bsky.social oped is that she manages to say “stop settling for mediocre white men” in a way that will still get published by the NYT.

I love that Schwarzenegger directed an episode. Give Bautista the director’s chair!

I just scheduled 3 appointments (that I had been procrastinating) in 10 minutes and I feel like I’m walking on the sky.

With SNAP in jeopardy, here's where to find food assistance across Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh City Paper | News, Dining, Music, Best Of, Arts, Film These resources include pantries, free fridges, food banks, and free grocery programs by neighborhood or region.

We've collected a list of every local resource for food assistance we could find. These resources include pantries, free fridges, food banks, and free grocery programs by neighborhood or region:

Corporate mergers in Hollywood diminish the amount of choices for consumers and severely cut down on potential jobs for artists. Whether it's Disney buying Fox or Ellison's & Paramount, these maneuvers are all about giving more money to the rich and ensuring a handful of people control all media

a man with his hands on his face and the word accurate written on the bottom Alt: Stefan from SNL screaming “Accurate!”

@chrislhayes.bsky.social As someone that has three generations of family that lives in Urbana, today’s podcast was

This reminds me of my local video store growing up. They had one shelf that was “Filmed in Pittsburgh” which was everything from Flashdance to Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh. This was long before the city had as much of a film industry presence.

12 years gone today 🖤

“I like mindless disco… they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So, what’s wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.” -Lou Reed 1979

youtu.be/gbfB9z4Am-E

I rewatched Scream over the weekend, and that score really tonally holds that movie together. It’s deadly serious with its ahhh ahhh choirs even when some of the goofiest shit is playing out. I don’t see it mentioned much, even amongst lists of great horror scores (there are many).

$1, which my wife made the creative decision of turning into origami the first time. So now every tooth is some new piece of paper magic that I need to learn.

I think Dementia (1955) would be a good addition for the same reason as Meshes.

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Pulling into the mall parking lot

My anecdotal data is Facebook reactions on posts about it. Even my shitty local right-wing newspaper whose comment section loves to laugh react anything sticking it to the libs is thousands of angry faces:

It’s dawning on me that when I hand out candy for trick or treating this year, I’m going to have to yell at some children for making the bullshit choice to dress up as ICE agents.

Explore 1,100 Works of Art by Georgia O’Keeffe: They’re Digitized and Free to View Online Lake George Reflection (circa 1921) via Wikimedia Commons What comes to mind when you think of Georgia O’Keeffe? Bleached skulls in the desert? Aerial views of clouds, almost cartoonish in their puf...

Explore 1,100 Works of Art by Georgia O’Keeffe: They’re Digitized and Free to View Online www.openculture.com/2025/10/1100...

I went to the soft opening and it was super rad.

Photo of bricks piled haphazardly in the trash

The photos of it are something else

I’m 41 years old and in that time the Pirates have never been good. That’s a long streak of being not-good. I’ve got to enjoy the Pens being good and the Steelers being good, but never the Pirates.

The whole brick fiasco was a new kind of salt in the wound.

TikTok video by faithisntcool

This guide for how to have fun on the internet that is (mostly) not social media gives me hope that the old internet of my youth is still viable: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMuwDBDa/

This point got me thinking about the “I can fix him” trope as a kind of mirror/parallel of this argument; both engage in overcoming disinclination as a path to intimacy.

His behavior as lieutenant governor reads way more leftist than anti-establishment. An anti-establishment figure doesn’t open his personal swimming pool to the state’s underprivileged kids.

He gives me Fetterman vibes to the point that I don’t really want him to win.

A white poodle leans out an suv with neon light streaks flashing across the surface of the car

Tried to sneak a photo of a cute doggo and accidentally had long exposure on and I believe I have created man’s greatest expression of art

I love how all of his friends except one left his ass. And the one that stuck with him seemed to understand he was likely going to get hurt worse.