Mitchell

this kind of walkable, mixed use urbanism...

No kings march

Highest and best use of roadway infra

I hope each and every one of the fascists who rule this country read this and choke.

Shohei Ohtani might be better than Pablo Sanchez

Perhaps the nation's most poignant march today.

Philadelphia #NoKings

Pittsburgh #NoKings 18-Oct-2025

Pittsburgh #NoKings 18-Oct-2025

Pittsburgh PA says #noKings

Times Square, NYC. #NoKings

working on that haha

ground-truthing what it's actually like in American cities.

Quince Street. Center City, Philadelphia. October 17th 2025, 5:15 PM.

Inferior angle shot of a street corner with red brick row houses. A brick art deco tower rises against a cloudless blue sky behind the townhouses. Warm sunlight bathes most of the scene.

A pair of modern towers frame an ornate early 20th century office tower. The facades facing one direction are dramatically lit by the setting sun.

A narrow cobbled street is lined with trees and row houses. An American flag and Eagles flag fly above the street.

The side of a restaurant on the right side of the scene gives way to a vista of several downtown office towers down the street illuminated by the sun.

A fine evening in the beautiful city of Philadelphia.

Dusk falls on Independence Hall

Took a walk this evening. Had a lot of thoughts and feelings.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

If only he would face some real consequences

Pedophile Prince getting kicked out of the royal family is huge news.

Now let's take care of the rest of Epstein's pedophile pals.

Today is a perfect day to

release the Epstein files

The paper also draws clear lines between black-and-white and post-truth mindsets and anti-democratic beliefs.

Again, pretty easy to hypothesize that this is the case, but peer reviewed evidence speaks louder than vibes.

My goal is understanding the playbook in order to fight back.

It's obvious to me that the unwavering bombardment of chaos that many face online is, at the very least, known by bad actors to be an effective tool at eliciting anti-democratic beliefs and attitudes.

Connecting the dots here is not all that difficult, the research just backs it up.

Reading a paper on anti-democratic attitudes and guess what the most important factor for folks to have an anti-democratic attitude was...

Perceived breakdown of the social and moral fabric.

The doomscrolling to authoritarianism pipeline is a REAL problem.

buddy...

I'm not a fan! I actually had a work assignment to determine whether we could use chat GPT at my job... and my conclusion was absolutely fucking not.

They're too afraid to pop the bubble. LLMs are just the latest form of crony capitalism.

I hopped freight for a years, mythology is a good word for it. The past, no matter how horrible it was, and whether we like it or not, is our culture. Trains, from the transcontental railroad, to hobos and the great depression, its part of our culture.

Not a dude… 😊
…but hell yeah, and hell yeah

Moynihan Train Hall interior, Penn Station. New York, New York.

A delicious NY slice on a paper plate. Acquired at NY Pizza Suprema, 8th Avenue NYC.

dudes will see this and just say hell yeah, and hell yeah

Pittsburgh History Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) put an AI-Slop poster up all over the Strip District of a sad merchant looking down at unsold produce in response to the city wanting to right-size a dangerous speedy two-lane road down to one-lane. I turned it in to a meme, where the sad merchant is "ME". The produce is photos of the poster and "my power bill going up as PHLF throws away organizational credibility making sad reactionary generative AI-slop tape-up posters"

meme'ing AI-slop; Strip District edition

I guess what I'm saying is that all is not lost. It's still there, it's still worth fighting for, and it will require a constant battle to progress and uphold.

Don't let the ideal be corrupted, and don't let them continue to divide us.

The mythological ideal of this country is literally right in front of every single one of its citizens. Imperfect, of course. But we are united by far more than what divides us and that's led to our triumph as Americans over every trail we have faced thus far.