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photographer - software dev building maps & tools for canyonrunner.com founder of - xptracker.app (@xptracker.app) music I like - bandcamp.com/romv Philly he/him 🇺🇸🇨🇿🏳️‍🌈

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Councilmember Jamie Gauthier@councilmemberjg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's common sense to allow Philadelphians to build generational wealth and age in place by adding bonus units (ADUs). This is one way we can prevent displacement and create affordable housing in one go. share.inquirer.com/geX7Mb

From bike lanes to zoning codes, the needs of the few sometimes outweigh the common good | Shackamaxon

Plus: Councilmember Curtis Jones Jr. says the quiet part out loud as he faces an election challenge.

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Roman@roman.xptracker.app · 4mo ago

Teams been working on an abstraction layer for data imports/exports, so I tested it out with @sifa.id. At the moment it’s import only. If you give it a try, let me know! (Accessible via account settings page.)

Preview of new sifa.id imports on xptracker.Preview of new sifa.id imports on xptracker.Preview of new sifa.id imports on xptracker.
Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

for me impeachment isn't what we should be after. this president and most of his cabinet and staff should be prosecuted for corruption, fraud, war crimes, obstruction, and all the various crimes they have committed. i will only vote for a presidential candidate in 2028 who commits to this.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4mo ago

Here's the CEO of @thefireorg.bsky.social being extremely transphobic. Which side is the one criminalizing care and research? Which side is the one defunding all research? Which side is purging dissent? It ain't trans people. These people were asked not to be transphobic and they lost their minds.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) by Greg Lukianoff (@glukianoff) that reads: "In my career defending academic freedom and free speech, I never saw anything become as immediately radioactive as views that ran counter to the narrative on trans issues. Papers were retracted, compelled speech was treated as normal, and people were canceled for saying things that would have sounded like common sense just a few years earlier. It seemed to become a kind of secular blasphemy overnight. And usually, that is a sign that the true believers know, at some level, that they are on shaky ground." ​Below the text is a tag for "@hoovlet" and a quote post from Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) dated Apr 5, which reads: "The promoters of 'gender-affirming care' tried to quash scientific debate on its effects through name-calling and by designating as 'settled science' the claim that it improves the mental health of dysphoric kids. It’s now clear why they feared open scientific ..." ​The bottom of the image shows the timestamp 11:06 AM • Apr 5, 2026, and 393.6K Views.
Roman@roman.xptracker.app · 4mo ago

Part of this feels like it’s because a lot of atproto dev discourse leans “all or nothing”. Apps are either completely native or don’t exist at all. There needs to be an incentive for 3rd party apps with existing users to integrate, rn the cost of entry is high

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 4mo ago

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem. The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.

Unique daily likers as a graph over the last year. It's down from about 1.6 million a day a year ago to 1.1 million a day now.
Peter DiCampo@peterdicampo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The news has moved on, but ICE is still in Minneapolis. My neighbors are still patrolling streets, driving strangers to work, and providing aid. As a photojournalist at @propublica.org, I wanted to know: What do they look like in their daily lives? So I picked up my camera 👇

Four portraits of Minnesota residents inside and outside their homes. From left to right: A woman in a hijab, an older woman wearing a red whistle, an elderly couple in winter coats standing in the snow, and a woman wearing a buttoned-up cardigan and dark blue jeans.
24Hours Ukraine@24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🇨🇿🇺🇦🇸🇰 Czech volunteers from the "Gift for Putin" initiative delivered 72 evacuation ambulances to Ukraine - the first batch from a joint Czech-Slovak collection, which has already raised 1.5 million euros.