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thecharles1.bsky.social
Philly, transit and land use, frequent flyer, sports, cute dogs
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Some people have never been lied to by the promo videos of a new game only to have a bait and switch on launch day by the software company and it shows. www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I kind of forgot that last year Tik Tok reinvented check kiting in like, the dumbest possible way

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I'm car shopping for myself for the first time ever and we really need a good essay series on the death of the practical car if someone hasn't already done that.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Tired: the endless debate on residential sprawl, whose demand is almost entirely a function of housing costs and public service quality in blue cities Wired: the worsening crisis of job sprawl, which is driven by little more than the whims of executives and will induce more residential sprawl

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

My oven is a pretty standard thing but it has this feature called "rapid preheat" where it will run both the broil and the bake elements together until it's within 50° of your target. This feature is approximately 700X more useful and interesting than having it connected to the internet.

submitted 27 days ago • 220 comments

POV: you are two mini muffins in a breakfast buffet and I am nearby

submitted 30 days ago • 35 comments

Me to myself in a meditative voice as the dude in front me spills his Jake and Coke on the floor *First class is fare class not a state of mind*

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

This restaurant (not in Philly) is an upscale take on aggressively okay. It's like Bobby Flay got tasked with turning around a failing Applebee's

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

10/10 video of gentrifiers complaining about gentrification

submitted 38 days ago • 17 comments

Trumpism is a pan-crank movement.

submitted 41 days ago • 13 comments

Tik Tok travel trends are the worst advice out there. It would be really funny if the poor employees didn't have to deal with the irate people who actually try these things and get burned.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not normally one for pithy little slogans, but I have to admit: this is really good.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

I'm like 99% sure they were just sick of manning all those border crossings

submitted 62 days ago • 8 comments

Over the last 5 years people who hate Disney have put a lot of effort into trying to rehabilitate the prequels that those movies frankly don't deserve.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

submitted 65 days ago • 183 comments