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RT @mulegirl: A bus really offers all the benefits of a self-driving car with just a little less convenience. Making buses more convenien… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

It turns out I’m not eligible for my astronaut wings either. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

⁦@AIGAeyeondesign⁩ ‘s pivot is unexpected! https://t.co/d4EbzhaElW 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

I’m excited for Space Jam 2 and I don’t care if you think less of me. 🔄 1 👍 4 Original URL

@LisaMcCray Note: I think Amazon sux but the one idea that put Amazon in Station North was brilliant and yet buried by the PTB 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@LisaMcCray Or worse, show off poorly for developers and businesses and not get them here. cough Amazon cough 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@LisaMcCray And for every media company to be the next big thing. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@LisaMcCray City government has tanked us over the last 6 years as each player tries to be impressive to everyone but the citizens. 🔄 0 👍 4 Original URL

Regulate by Warren G and Nate Dogg is probably the weirdest song ever. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

MIDI cables are super cheap since I last bought them in 2000. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@MayorBMScott Why is the city trying to knock down perfectly good, occupied houses for development? Eminent domain requires public good but this situation looks like it is being abused to displace residents at the benefit of developers. https://twitter.com/organizepopple1/status/1412919413859397636 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Is the bottom of this wood? https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1410946387999531013 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@eric_hontz @RecNParks @DruidHillPark @tapdruidhill @DruidHillMkt @ParksandPeople It looks like WindowsXP… in a good way 🔄 0 👍 5 Original URL

@AnotherPllanet @danklyn @MarvinDeux I think they did on Animaniacs https://youtu.be/HzOzLPP5EOE 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@Nick_Lalone You could create a shared universe with Convoy 2. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@melissa_schober @LisaMcCray @CarolSOtt It must have been in a press release. WYPR said it too 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@melissa_schober @LisaMcCray @CarolSOtt The mayor says you need a kid: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wbaltv.com/amp/article/baltimore-board-of-school-commissioners-3-openings/36827972 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@melissa_schober @LisaMcCray @CarolSOtt I’m really surprised the call for board members includes business experience. Schools aren’t businesses. They’re costs/investments.Also, you shouldn’t have to have a kid in the system to be eligible. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@sevensixfive Water Bears are amazing. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@KevinACross Have you watched LowerDecks? It is peak Riker. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@dwatkinsworld We play UNO all the time. We have different rule sets. There’s standard and then there’s Y rules where a blue 5 and blue 2 could be a 7. I don’t think we stack Draw cards. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Um. https://twitter.com/helloitspree/status/1408188482191695879 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

And dismissed for the day! Thanks Jury Duty! 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Someone needs to digitize and catalog all of these amazing Baltimore City Fair posters in the jury waiting room. Maybe #UBalt ’s @RLBlibrary needs a new project? 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Jury Duty. I honestly can’t remember which number this is for me… maybe 6 or 7 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@AlisonIsBossy @abigailleigh Not so much language learning but the International Children’s Digital Library has lots of kid’s book in different languages to practice with: http://www.childrenslibrary.org/index.html It’s not what it used to be but it has some great materials. 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL

Now is the time for Baltimore to create municipal broadband and its own transit system. Here’s the framework to do it with. All we need is vision and the people of Baltimore to do it because our leaders surely won’t. https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1408123890929487880 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

RT @SnehaAnnavarapu: A senior academic once told me that I have “too many interests” & so I won’t become an expert on any one thing. I won’… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @MECM: I have my first post for the @UGroupSocial blog live today, on how to use push notifications effectively https://t.co/n9Cr8MvluE 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@MECM They used to be there. Then left. Then came back. Then WOW came. Then left. Now back. Yay! 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

RT @iduncan: The Welsh government is explicitly tying a moratorium on building new roads to meeting it’s carbon emission reduction goals 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG The comments on the video are pretty funny. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Don’t blame Conan. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG you don’t win friends with salad 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @candiwrites: Wild that there’s (egotistical) tension between good design and inclusive design, really. Because how can design be good… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@jbblawmd @NihilSegniter I was just going to suggest that…fill in the hot tub with dirt and put some container plants or veggies in there. OR build a time machine. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @kvlly: I would rather send Integration Test Email #1 than accidentally alert Hawaii that there is an incoming ballistic missile 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @mitchellh: Me waiting for Integration Test Email #2. https://t.co/FfWrorUfW4 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

That’s nuts. 🌰 🌰 https://twitter.com/MDMEMA/status/1405591397084844034 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I don’t get #SpatialAudio . I can’t really tell it from stereo beyond everything sounds separate which isn’t how music sounds when I’m standing there. Also, the bass doesn’t dance off my chest per the sales pitch. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Here, I got you the same thing as last time… only smaller. https://twitter.com/baltimoresun/status/1405572723045191685 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@baechamelanie @marty_leslie If it stayed open until resolved, citizens/elected officials could check when they wanted and see the progression and notes. That would be accountability to residents. Quantitative data points without transparency become goals that can be manipulated 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@marty_leslie @baechamelanie If I’m not mistaken, @marty_leslie made this call, it was turned into a service request by 311. Once it was assigned to whomever, it was closed and the submitter is blocked out. What if it was assigned incorrectly? The wrongly assigned have no impetus beyond “can’t complete” 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

@marty_leslie @baechamelanie This is a good example of what I’m talking about. This service request should have been transferred to RP, who then transfers to DPW, who then investigates and makes notes in the service request. All of this would be visible to someone with the SR number who could track progress. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @cmcampbell6: A 2019 survey by @BmoreCityDOT found that approximately 1.3% of the city’s 37,086 curb ramps complied with the ADA. Wheel… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@cathro I’m so sorry Catharine! 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@baechamelanie Yes, that’s the issue. 311 as an “agency” isn’t responsible but the ticket needs to stay visible in the system so constituents can track it through and see all details all the way through to closure. That’s how it originally worked and was changed in the last 5 years 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@mulegirl I thought it was he didn’t listen to users in a co-design way and that ideas did spring from their heads a la geniuses. Then you got stuff like the puck mouse and Apple Cube. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@baechamelanie I do like that the data team is now located in the mayor’s office and look forward to what that will yield. The issue with accountability is what metric is being used. Back in the day, 311 calls weren’t closed until problem solved or couldn’t be. Told now closed when assigned 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@jengolbeck It’s weird you two aren’t friends. 🔄 0 👍 3 Original URL

@CarrieBlout Thanks Carrie! 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@HorizonsOne @MrEPCOT But the time travel is always the best part! 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@UserServiceDesk @doctorow I used to “compose” yellow page ads for the phone company in 1995 on Deneba Canvas running on Windows 3.1. We had to set 2.7 ads an hour and know 400 fonts that we were quizzed on weekly. I hated that job but still love phone books. 🔄 0 👍 11 Original URL

@dplymyer I 100% agree. Like I said earlier, I’ll heal, but he needs real help. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@CarolSOtt Thanks Carol 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@rkobell @NihilSegniter thank you! 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@DieInTheGulch Yeah, I kind of expected that response, too. And you’re not wrong. The issue that makes me want to run with my family is the schools. Now that both my kids have had difficulties in “good” schools, I’m not sure what keeps us here. Oh yeah, the low taxes. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@dplymyer Clearly, Baltimore City residents would be superior in county roles! But you’re right, the HR and personnel management side of the City is terrible. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@EllenEnders It’s more like the majority of Maryland non-urban residents view the city as the problem surrounding the stadiums. He’s just playing to the crowd. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@EllenEnders No. We’ll, maybe. It depends on location. Some neighborhoods have done this with people like Dorsey while others keep electing Stokes. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@EdwardEricsonJr Exactly… I’ll heal but that guy needs help. 🔄 0 👍 5 Original URL

@eric_hontz @timmyintransit This is 100% a policy issue that could be addressed in two weeks but instead, they’re looking into “revamping” it. Easy fix: don’t close a ticket until addressed or until submitter is contacted. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Yes. https://twitter.com/timmyintransit/status/1405148039455678467 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 🔄 0 👍 14 Original URL

Mix in elected officials who are either looking up or away and you get today’s Baltimore. I wish I knew the solution but the reality is only we can fix this with cooperation amount residents and holding our elected leaders accountable or voting them out. 🔄 1 👍 17 Original URL

That’s my summary of what’s wrong with Baltimore: Unaccountability. Combine that with a commuter employee base of non-city residents and you get a tragic combination of Apathy and Unaccountability. 🔄 1 👍 44 Original URL

Yesterday, there was a funny tweet meme about politicians just running on making city services work better. I would contribute money to a politician who said “we’re going to fix DPW, DoT, Rec & Parks” or “Let’s use 311 like it was designed and keep city agencies accountable” 🔄 1 👍 28 Original URL

99% of my issues with Baltimore are quality of life. Right now, you can’t get a city agency to do much. Soccer fields? Overgrown because city vendors. Crosswalks? If they acknowledge call then say won’t have paint for months. Schools? (Place your BCPS story here) 🔄 6 👍 23 Original URL

It was like he woke up, apologized, said he was having a bad day and ran off. He was clearly on something. It was so weird. The police did show up and asked if I was hurt. I said “It hurt but I don’t think I’m hurt” Our city is really at an odd cross roads. 🔄 0 👍 13 Original URL

While pumping gas, a pan handler at the intersection started walking towards me. I said hello waiting for the ask. Instead, he lunged at me and grabbed my upper right arm and was pulling me and squeezing as hard as he could. I yelled “hey” loudly over and over. 🔄 0 👍 7 Original URL

I was randomly attacked at a gas station in Mt Washington/Roland Park on Friday. I’ve been leery to tell anyone because the homicide/violence rate is so high. At the same time, I think not being murdered or shot is a pretty low bar to be happy with Baltimore. 🔄 4 👍 53 Original URL

@bemm @BmoreDoc I see “Equity Scientist” w 16k followers but it just keeps loading. I thought it was a glitch. Why did he delete? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

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@jessgartner I like the idea of withholding city taxes in Escrow if they’re not doing their job. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

Won’t it be hard to stay hidden for 520 years? Super easy, barely an inconvenience…I’ll just become famous in the 2000’s and no one will suspect I’m actually Albrecht DÜRER, renaissance artist. @theryangeorge https://t.co/4ALoSBPYFS 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Somehow, this Walmart’s warehouse is my childhood. https://t.co/1E47rPr4si 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG Never forget the racist sinks https://youtu.be/ywBnnFxbaXk 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@Noleli That has been driving me nuts for years. I think it’s related to JSON structures 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Baltimore needs to outlaw facial recognition. AI that “identifies” faces is, at best flawed, at worst racist. This isn’t how we should be combatting crime or trying to make Baltimore better. https://twitter.com/odetteramos/status/1400541555631525889 🔄 2 👍 5 Original URL

Just when I thought I had all my anxieties in check. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-doing-enough-to-protect-earth-from-asteroids/ 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

I worked on Just in Time and lean manufacturing system teams 20+ yrs ago and I always thought something didn’t seem right. I thought it pushed obsolescence and reduced ability to repair. Now we’re short on a lot because of it https://dnyuz.com/2021/06/01/how-the-world-ran-out-of-everything/ 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Just set my sabbatical away message. See you in January 2022! 🔄 0 👍 13 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG It’s just the one I can comprehend. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@VirginiaLByrne Check your phone number/personal info. I wasn’t in there at first but then used my landline and it matched. I think you can also have the state do a manual match to get in there. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

@ianpowerOMG Yeah, something like that. Besides all the other sh!t here, it has crescendoed as people are coming for the Baltimore stickers. Baltimore, I do actually like it. And it is an ok sticker. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Twitter is a bummer today. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@eric_hontz @nostaticatalll @letsassume I don’t hate that one. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@melissa_schober @LisaMcCray Same and same date! 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

RT @michael_muller: SIGCHI people, please read & consider what YOU can do - & what WE can do together - to make our institutions safer for… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@tocaboca will you be supporting family sharing of in-app purchases? The Apple App Store supports that feature. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Why does http://md.myIR.net operate like it’s being run on a RaspberryPI powered by AA batteries? @MDHealthDept 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

This has been my marker for the future since I was little. https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1396722908492443648 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Question for those that camp/boat: do you have any refs for a small non-folding knife you keep on you? Would consider folding if compelling reason… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

@bbedit This sounds so 20th Century, but is there a “book” or other resource on how to up your BBEdit game? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @ubaltmain: We encourage a chance to chat with @gxwalsh and invite all to join us June 3 for Breakfast Bytes, a virtual info session abo… 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

Lots of organizations talk about social impact… but #design @ #ubalt can give you the graduate level skills you need for interaction, research, & graphic design careers while making a big impact in Baltimore. https://www.UBalt.edu/design You can also reach out to me here to AMA. 🔄 0 👍 2 Original URL

I just donated to the rhinos at @marylandzoo and hope to win a chance to name the new guy. If I win, I will name him Gregwalsh. 🔄 0 👍 1 Original URL

Instead of legislators being so focused on the nuances of What is a market, essential utilities, and platform facilities regarding app stores, how about we focus on making sure everyone has access to broadband? 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

The Big Lie: “Sparkling Ice” flavored seltzer is really caffeine free Monster Energy Drinks. 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL

RT @LuluMcSideways: @DoubleGrapeApe @wapplehouse https://t.co/ECxTooUlhr 🔄 0 👍 0 Original URL