I think I actually had a dream last night where I heckled someone praising Brandon Scott and I stood up and said “he is actually just okay!!!!!!” Baltimore politics get out of my subconscious mind please

me when I want what New York City has (good mayor)

Child's Temper Tantrum on Leafy Ground

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having a jealousy tantrum 😠

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterday

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Unfortunately, the mayor's put up enhance restrictions, curfews, and security checkpoints around the Titty-Ass Hands in the Air District.

Leif Malone@thetroops.fightins.online · 5d ago

Staying in Baltimore’s Titty-Ass Hands in the Air District.

one thing we've been concerned about over the last few months is how cis people have begun more regularly expressing that they will not give up the smallest things for trans people. (see also: emma vigeland gianmarco soresi interview 7mo ago where both agreed asking to boycott rowling was Too Much)

every time someone hypes up wes moore we think about how terrible dhs service has gotten over the span of 2 years of very very deep cuts and have to bite our tongue so hard it may fall off.

10 years ago, when cis people & orgs backed trans rights in response to the NC bathroom bill the result was the state reversing course & the governor losing his bid for reelection. We arrived at this moment because ostensible cis allies like this pusillanimously abandoned us after the 2020 election.

Seerat Sohi@seeratsohi.bsky.social · last wk.

What *actually* happens if the Fever, Storm, W, PA or anyone else involved responds strongly? The organizers get what they want and peddle more "intolerant left" BS. Another week of on-court stories being overshadowed. Nobodys mind is changed. Materially, no trans person is better off.

neutral to net negative; but it depends on how one evaluates the outcomes from the baltimore regional transit committee (big transit victory from his time as delegate) and if they believe that advising moore while as he went on his reneging on the redline arc is disqualifying or not.

sometimes one ends up reading open source code put out by a city and then understands a distinct set of reasons why they keep failing to meet simple goals

I’m happy for New York and also reading the news out of there is bittersweet when our mayor’s grand ideas for improving our lives include setting up TSA checkpoints to keep our children out of neighborhoods where tourists don’t like them

edith@edithcharles.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Incredible contrast between this and Keir Starmer running a delivery driver over

one of the things we find so offensive about how the baltimore city dot frames projects is that they brazenly lie about alignments to plans. hilton street is recommended to entirely be a separated bike facility in the 2017 plan? nah, just claim only a small third portion is covered by the plan.

cool: @bmorecitydot.bsky.social daylit a turn lane we've been nearly hit at multiple times fool: @bmorecitydot.bsky.social only invested in paint and built no hard infrastructure, so drivers still treat it like a turn lane

one of the things that's deeply troubling about the latest oig report about horrible baltimore city dpw conditions is that last time there were internal documents showing how inhumane dpw leadership was and this time the city is stonewalling on sharing relevant information for the investigation.

chat wants the trendy option from out of state instead of the local business started in maryland option

the hot dog guy@quesoquesoqueso.bsky.social · 4w ago

why do folks still keep begging tj's to open in baltimore city? they won't open stores in low income or black neighborhoods, its not cheap for most items, and nearly everything they sell is available under a different label somewhere else. nothing local. hmart would be a better option imo

when we get out of depression spiral suffering times we're writing a piece about how every 4 lane road in the city is I-170 in a different outfit

we are sad to report that despite any of our posting patterns, special interests, or transness, we have been identified by the most polite member of the k-hive as aligning with "homophobes, transphobes, racists, misogynists, nazis." 😔 we understand if you have to do what you must in response.

intrusively thinking about how chance the rapper was once asked to not say one of his homophobic lines, did it anyway, and that he still gets to be a part of polite society. queer wrath month should just be every month at this point

just donated. sick of city officials using micromobility success to make themselves look good when they consistently do NOTHING to actually contribute to it's success and their inaction continues to put people like Brandon, Akim Davis and many more in grave danger on a daily basis

Bikemore@bikemorebmore.bsky.social · last mo.

Morgan State freshman Brandon McMurrin was hit and killed while scooting home from work by the driver of an SUV on Washington St, where a protected bike lane has been promised since 2017. Sign Bikemore's petition demanding Baltimore City build Washington St NOW: www.bikemore.net/news/buildwa...

this person is wrong (and corrected downthread) but it's a good reminder that you should not comment on wikipedia drama unless you're willing to read scores of talk pages and discussion threads

DOOP High Command@doopcommander.bsky.social · last mo.

They even suspended a whole group of them! The co-founder of Wiki was just banned for trying to correct their edits

filled with incandescent rage that the death on washington st occurred in a section that had been resurfaced within the last year (not to complete streets stds) on top of the decade plus delay on a separated lane, and that noone in baltimore city dot or the mayor's office will be held accountable.

Morgan State freshman Brandon McMurrin was hit and killed while scooting home from work by the driver of an SUV on Washington St, where a protected bike lane has been promised since 2017. Sign Bikemore's petition demanding Baltimore City build Washington St NOW: www.bikemore.net/news/buildwa...

Build the Washington Street Protected Bike Lane NOW — Bikemore

19 year old Brandon McMurrin was killed June 20th on a street that was supposed to have a protected bike lane seven years ago. Enough is enough. Tell Mayor Scott and BCDOT to build Washington Street…

bikemore.net

it's fun to think about how the "vision zero action plan" makes sort of vague swipes at the premise that vehicle size should be managed to improve safety and then commits to nothing to help disincentivize oversized vehicles

Mere@thatmerecat.bsky.social · last mo.

Cade Povich is 6'3" The front of that ridiculous truck is taller than a decent number of adults and it shouldn't be street legal

we're going to take more time to meditate but one thing that is astounding about baltimore city dots vision zero action plan is how it is almost entirely disjoint from complete streets and how the toolbox they propose will foster incomplete streets. no part of it makes us believe their top line goal

new echolalia just dropped (cc: @rudbeckia.bsky.social )

we made the terrible mistake of reading this piece by ben southwood and someone else needs to suffer with us. worksinprogress.co/issue/losing... still finding pleasure in the local monarchist gutter racist should be disqualifying.

to grit our teeth and try to explain: when a trans woman tells you she uses she/her pronouns, the correct action is *not* to use they/them pronouns. this is not using gender neutral pronouns as a bat against people, it's considering the pragmatics of how transphobes use they/them instead of she/her

Aaron van Dorn@aaronvandorn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think it's very, very bad if the broader queer community is going to decide that the gender-neutral "they/them" is going to be used as a bat against people. That was a hard won battle.

also we're depression spiraling but we were thinking about oh, surely we should look forward to bike party and then remembered no, we will be alone and misgendered at bike party.

thinking about the overlap between gov wes moore being a scambrained bullshit peddler and also being on the membership list of thiel's dialog secret society. sure wish there was a news media capable of asking questions and drawing inference about this

thinking about consent and how you cannot deny cookies on the bikemore site

one thing that's kind of incredible is just how many dangerously deranged racists are from socal.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

4Chan Christian guns-and-God conservatives plotted to bomb the MMA at the White House over the Epstein Files but were foiled when one of their moms overheard an encrypted voice chat when she delivered hot pockets to the basement where her son lives. Not kidding.