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Slang terms like ‘six-seven’ have no definition. But they’re loaded with meaning | Matthew Cantor Older generations are demanding explanations of the viral phrase – but slang doesn’t have to make logical sense

"Holliday...was running a marathon recently, some kids were holding a sign at 6.7-miles...she yelled “six, seven” to their delight. “For a brief moment” she says, “in our lonely, isolated, algorithm-driven world, I connected with those kids on something we shared" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My kids are hyped for it. But not for them looking like adults.

there's lots to learn from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's communications skills as a mayoral candidate. edifies a lot - multicultural, multilingual, clarity of messages, directness, storytelling, timeliness, repetition, repetition, repetition, connecting the dots, these explainer-type short-form vids

The inclination to focus on short term Dem failures rather than Right's long game successes is bad! "That’s the kind of tunnel-vision thinking—focusing only on those factors that you can most immediately control—that has put the party at an increasing disadvantage over the past few decades."

This might be a long shot but: I'm looking to speak with architects/developers who have worked on affordable housing projects that required (or got feedback to include) some type of 'historic complement' aesthetic—massing, materials, etc—for a story. Recommendations appreciated! thanks!

If you are reading this piece today, you may be interested to know that I found Adam Bonica on moderate candidates compelling. Ht @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social

data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

This is why we started @unbreaking.org and why so many groups have been working super hard to chronicle various changes .

This is going to take ALL of us

My daughters love Sabrina Carpenter and when I read this I hear it in my head in the voice of "Man Child" and I cannot get it to stop!

Flower show program cover with stylized geometric flowers, leaves, and circles in bright pink, orange, yellow, and green. Text reads “Flower show Program and Buyers Guide $1.25. 1975 Chicago Flower and Garden Show April 5-13, 1975 McCormick Place. Sponsored by Chicago Horticultural Society.”

Program and buyers guide: 1975 Chicago Flower and Garden Show, April 5-13, 1975, McCormick Place, sponsored by Chicago Horticultural Society. Found on Explore @chicollections.bsky.social explore.chicagocollections.org/image/chicag...

So pretty. I think this is my current style 😂

That's a really good one

Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

Their diminishing of Mamdani is also fascinating. That he's so good at capturing attention means its not him but NYC, which equals being irrelevant anywhere else. I actually think Mamdani's man on the streets videos are pretty populist in a formal sense of the term. And his iconography too.

Maybe already on your radar, two Philly authors: Fat Swim by @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social and Mother Tongue by @novicsara.bsky.social

Working on my big-ass spreadsheet of 2026 books to consider for review coverage. Any narrative nonfiction, memoirs, essay collections, or literary fiction that should especially be on my radar?

Wild to see it all laid out! The Gore/GWB scotus decision & 9/11 as the American bits teeing up #1 ... I used to wonder what if one of those two hadn't happened, but that Q seems smaller now.

Oof.

Ursula Le Guin's first editions?

Into the Manosphere—in Manuscripts - Cleveland Review of Books Contemporary manosphere literature certainly paints a landscape of patriarchy in crisis, at war with itself about how it should wield its own power.

This is very good
clereviewofbooks.com/into-the-man...

We finally have some insight into the legal rationale for the government's nighttime raid on a Chicago apartment building. The Times reports that the owners of the building consented, and identified units that were not rented out.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Yeah, we couldn't get ours either ...

Philly #nokings

Philly #nokings

Downtown Portland has some new art at 5th and Washington🐸 👀

Click the link to read more about Portland's Protest Frog: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

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Haha it doesn't!