rail enthusiast wife Daria
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If they do they’re assholes. That said, I got implants and I have gotten no shit about it.
It’s conceivable at least. But as long as big money doesn’t want us to collectively have nice things they’re going to keep backing trash candidates. The question is, can they buy elections? If it’s like the previous city mayoral election, maybe yes. Like, that guy is younger than I am.
The sudden realization that I’ve been wearing this uh… necklace… longer than either of my previous marriages lasted.
I mean… that Tyco caboose that’s a wannabe PRR N8 isn’t accurate anyway let alone graffiti
He definitely seemed to be just… I dunno, a poseur, for a while. It’s like the stroke revealed the real man.
Building a better app to help people use the bus? Do it! Party bus to take people around to bars and culture and stuff? Amazing! (Pittsburgh had the Ultraviolet Loop bus for all too short a time circa 2001) Passport program for visiting local merchants? Sounds great.
I want to live in this city.
Much like this essay, the design projects I got to see presented today depict a city I wish I got to live in. There is no shortage of vision about how this could be an amazing place.
However, the capitalist-gerontocratic axis that pulls the strings wouldn’t be served by it and so, we don’t get it.
Elsewhere @antoniafarzan.bsky.social posted about reading “What a difference a bay makes”, an essay collection from the Rhode Island Historical Society, and anyway as I head to the RIPTA bus cut hearing today, I gotta say:
Living in the city described in this essay would fix me.
Spent some time this afternoon talking with design undergrads about their final projects for a class, and now I am awash in feelings. Which I guess makes it good timing for me to bike home in the rain and see my therapist
Can confirm, very spicy. We get those at the local Asian market often
My sleep hygiene has gotten great since going on the “sleep mask always” plan, but nearby construction noise (beep! Beep! Beep! as they back up) and stress have ensured it’s not perfect.
I mean I tried to reply to the first one but the button won’t work.
The last two times we had tickets to see Rainbow Kitten Surprise, the tour was cancelled. Third time’s the charm?
Doyle was (until I left PA) the only representative I ever had who was close to my politics. Then I moved and had Capuano, comparable politics, who was similarly replaced by Pressley albeit after I left.
95 at Clifford but they’re giving lip service to considering other places. If they opted for the spot by the train station, just across memorial boulevard from downtown, that might even be ok
Ah, so you went to a real city (I guess you told me that, when I asked about Greek food)
I am old enough to remember this one from the playbook. www.chicagotribune.com/1986/05/19/r...
`REAL` BOB CASEY IS BACK, AND NOW HE`S THE ONLY ONE
Bob Casey is a charmed name in Pennsylvania. Trouble is, that hasn`t helped Bob Casey very much. An explanation is in order. Robert P. Casey, a silver-haired politician from Scranton, made a name f…
www.chicagotribune.comWe did have that locally and even in mainstream theaters. We picked one that’s unusual for us.
My vulva definitely suffers for the amount of time I spend on a bike seat; I’d go see a surgeon but between the need for recovery and the knowledge I’d just mess it up again, I haven’t bothered and probably won’t.
This weekend it opens 40 miles away. Might be … going 40 miles away
Went to local meeting yesterday about rich developer-driven, ill-advised plan to move the state bus hub. Plus: all the RIPTA staff know who I am. “Hi Daria”. Minus: local longtime NIMBY who accosted me on the street recently was there and probably also knows who I am now.
Good luck. Feels like a baseless platitude to say, and I’ve been on the other side of it enough to know that it’s almost more luck than anything else
If you have a restaurant rec at the end of this, make with it
I could just bike down the street I usually do. Gasoline terminal, scrapyards, salt piles, asphalt plant, sewage plant…
Me: do I want to smell like railroad
@marie.tech: I would prefer you didn’t
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As I recall, the police basically forced the fire department to not fight it.
Every time you call it Rhodie I look out the window at as much of the state as I can see and say “same”
The “defense” at the time, the party line being toed including by the Black mayor of Philadelphia, W Wilson Goode, was that MOVE was a cult. You know, people seeking community in a world which often displaces them.
Hey now, I like Cincinnati chili so much I make it at home
A lot of folks don’t remember when Philadelphia basically firebombed a Black intentional community, but it made big news in Pennsylvania.
30 years ago today.
NPR Codeswitch’s Gene Demby is from Philly and has a great series of pieces on this - will drop them in order here
I don’t bother with that tour because the band I want to see is the one that did With Sympathy and Al has typically avoided that era like the plague!
Gonna go downtown and tell the people working on moving the bus hub to a forgotten corner of the city (and away from hotels rich people own) that it continues to be a bad idea. Just gonna keep yelling until someone listens or I die
Wait uh this means the band I want to see is finally touring!
There are uses for AI that I would be happy with. None of those are what companies are concentrating on. I don’t want something that can write Fakespeare or paint a Fauxguin; I just want to search my email by concept and find things in my photo roll by context and content.
It’s still be a better use of computing resources than most of the AI stuff being done.
Harvard and Google AI mapped one cubic millimeter of a human brain. It took up 1.4 petabytes of storage just in pictures of the specimen. So the entire brain would take ~ 1.6 zettabytes of storage, cost $50 billion, and require 140 acres. It would be the largest data center on the planet— one brain.
The Melcroft case (Pennsylvania Railroad v Sagamore Coal) was reversed by the PA Supreme Court and the US Supremes declined to hear an appeal, saying coal mines didn’t have a right to dump their waste and despoil supplies. I wonder if it would have gone so well without a big corporation as plaintiff
By accident, I learned about early case law around riparian water rights and how a Pennsylvania court case (Sanderson) allowed mines to destroy watersheds.
My friend’s talk at our railroad historical society explained how a railroad’s water project got contaminated by mines and their suit over it.
THE MELCROFT COAL COMPANY CASE on JSTOR
THE MELCROFT COAL COMPANY CASE, Journal AWWA, Vol. 13, No. 6 (JUNE, 1925), pp. 675-677
www.jstor.orgI don’t even know which feed and I don’t think I need to know.
It is a very awkward person boarding a bus. And honestly, same.
