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Go Birds! Phillies fan. Baseball is best experienced on radio. Francisville resident. Happy to have the PCC Cars in green and cream back on Girard. Studied physics a long time ago. Descendant (sort of) of Robert Musil.
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submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

OH NO. Ms. Kitty still hasn't found her forever home. Do you have space in your heart for a skinny teen mom who likes to snuggle shoes that look like her? Yeah, she's a bit of a freak. But she's a snugglebug and a very good girl with no bad behaviors. DM me for adoption info 😘

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Read @profsaunders.bsky.social’s excellent (though not very uplifting) analysis of missing guardrails for Trump’s foreign policy and the damage this will inflict @foreignpolicy.com #IR

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Michonne fact. She has always been a screamer start to finish on a car ride. 2 years ago we were in the car and Heart of glass came on the radio. She weirdly got quiet. So now on vet trips we listen to the Blondie catalog with a lot less screaming

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Shooters were dressed like law enforcement and this is exactly why I’m pissed about ice officers wearing masks, driving unmarked cars and not being identifiable when they terrorize communities

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings

submitted 3 days ago • 482 comments

USAGM today urgently called back to work the staff of the Voice of America's Farsi language service. All had been on paid admin leave for the past three months with the rest of VOA's silenced journalists.

submitted 4 days ago • 147 comments

ICE abducted Moises Sotelo today. He is a trusted vineyard management business owner from Newburg, Oregon, who has been in the US since 1994. He has a wife, three children, and five grandchildren who need him to be returned safely to them.

submitted 5 days ago • 48 comments

The “pro-life” presidency in action

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe they really were ICE officers. Or maybe they were a band of vigilantes, arbitrarily snatching brown-looking people off the street. All eyes are now on LA, but secret police are descending upon smaller towns nationwide too. Masked and armed, they refuse to show IDs or warrants. wapo.st/4kIGFke

submitted 6 days ago • 143 comments

To everyone in PA, I know there is a ridiculous amount going on right now BUT, please take a minute (a literal minute) to contact our state reps about funding septa. Transit is absolutely necessary for a functioning Philly, *and* for meeting climate goals. www.transitforallpa.org/takeaction/

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Worth bearing in mind that illegal entry is a misdemeanor and being unlawfully present in the country is not even a criminal offense, but a civil one. This is the equivalent of saying we need to torch the Constitution & send in the SWAT team to catch jaywalkers & people with overdue library books.

submitted 9 days ago • 70 comments

Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please." What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

submitted 12 days ago • 133 comments

36 years on, and the Chinese government still seeks to erase the memory of the June 1989 #TiananmenMassacre. World leaders should renew pressure on Beijing to acknowledge the Tiananmen Massacre and provide reparations to victims' families. bit.ly/3FjDLD6

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

Trump take chemical safety (and some of YouTube’s best accident investigation videos) @mtsw.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

DOGE not only did not save the US any money, it cost us billions if not trillions in lost inventions, scientific discoveries, and good will in other countries. These idiots caused a catastrophe.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Backup catcher Rafael Marchán homered, earned the go-ahead RBI with a bases-loaded HBP, and threw out two runners at second base. Phillies and Braves play again in 2 1/2 hours. Nap time.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

5.29.2010 27 up, 27 down for Roy Halladay.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

This is why I've said that RFK Jr is the most dangerous member of Trump's cabinet.

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

For Memorial Day. The telegram my mother received. May we use this day to rededicate ourselves to the pursuit of peace.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments