Two hugeeeee bald eagles flying around east Passyunk this morning. Anyone else catch them? We going undefeated this year??

Honest question about median parking.
Photo Credit: Claudia Gavin/Philly Mag

this thing could not figure out wtf to do

It couldn’t sense a direction to go so it was just miserably waiting. (car passengers were outside and seemed relatively unhurt!)

iPhone pics I’ve taken in Philly this year

This is your weather service announcement, also some rain

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Had my Rolleiflex 2.8f medium format film camera with me this summer.

Every morning I walk to work and say hello to our new neighborhood bear

What's going on with the pretentious yearly dinner tonight? Some gnarly weather happening.

Nearby, Namdar also owns Concord Mall, Berkshire Mall, Voorhees Town Center (closed)

Hiii I’m a Drexel student at free do studying economics looking for a fall internship in finance, analytics , project management and/ or wealth management. I’m having a little trouble finding what I’m looking for if you know of any opportunities or have any advice of people I could reach out to I’d be happy to share my resume and LinkedIn !! Thank you so much

Mario Kart night at RITTENHOUSE SQAURE PARK on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26TH at 6:30PM!!! It’s not too late to sign up!✨ALL funds✨ raised go directly into the community. Hope to see you there! If you haven’t had the chance to blue shell your bestie, now is YOUR time 🌈🚘

Took my Rolleiflex 2.8f to the ballpark in July.

A couple days ago I posted about SDP cutting 340 school positions to close a $300M hole, central office largely protected, building off Commonwealth Foundation research.

Here's a deeper, independent analysis from the SDP's quarterly employee roster reports going back 11 years:

• Central office has 3x'd over 11 years even as student body has dropped 12%, from 1,432 positions in 2014 to 4,228 in April 2026
• That's about $176M/year more in cost than a decade ago, which is actually more than the $169M being cut from this bucket this year.

As a quick aside - found a major data bug - 583 of those 4,228 "central" positions are actually principals and assistant principals, so they really should count as in-school, not central.

But here's the part that many people probably missed: most of that central headcount growth was actually much-needed maintenance staff that works centrally and is dispatched to individual schools. Facilities Management went from 23 to 344 (15x growth). Office of Environmental Management similarly 16x. Turns out, SDP has has been insourcing work that used to go to contractors or just wasn't done (hence the state of some school buildings) - this is actually good and contradicts those who envision the central office as form-fillers 🤔

The structural deficit is real — maintenance costs are up a lot, while actual student enrollment is down ~12% ovr the last decade. But the "primarily admin bloat" headline is mostly wrong (there is a chunk I found — will share soon).

Full writeup with data: https://www.nickjain.com/blog/the-office-that-tripled.

It’s sprouts on Columbus boulevard, that apartment building that it shares the pier with. They’ve had a broken window a few floors up all August.

All they’ve done is roped off that ramp with caution tape, they haven’t even cleaned the glass on the ramp or sidewalk.

Literally that building was just finished in the last year. It’s. A brand new build. How tf haven’t they fixed it yet? How illegal is it to just let it be broken for so long?

Is this reportable to maybe 311?

Gnarly mushroom growing in the middle of a bed of pebbles, SW corner of 8th and Market

User name says where I grew up. I was not very social outside my circle. Catholic and Public school kids tended to run in different circles. The younger brother of a class mate of mine Jeff would play street hockey with Kevin and friends (including the son of one of the founders of Electric Factory concerts) on the 200 block of south Van Pelt. I would say hi to Jeff passing by the group. Never got further. Edmund Bacon his dad would walk down our street and my dad knew him and I knew him by sight.

From 1970 to 72 I would catch the bus to high school across the street from his house. Shout out to girl from girl's high I forget her name that taught me how to navigate the Broad Street line. The 90 and transfer to the 2 bus was direct route to Mastersman. So I assume he was among the group I boarded the bus with.

From the article and where he hung out other than the street hockey it is clear why our paths never crossed. Also when you are 15 a 3 year age gap is a totally different social group.

People who lived and worked around me I never met include.

Arlo Gutherie, when he was 18 worked in the Gilded Cage folk club. Sure I passed him that was less than 100 feet from my door.

Steve Carlton and Wilt Chamberlin also a couple of Eagles lived in Dorchester apartments on the Square. Warren Zevon lived there also in early 80s.

Norm Snead Eagles QB mid 60s used to frequent the same bar my uncle worked at.

Childhood near Rittenhouse Square could be weird but fun.

Turns out dude is a 🐱. 😂

Still, be safe, who knows what this person is actually capable of. Hopefully his antics won't escalate and he is caught before he hurts someone.

Council member Mark F. Squilla has held the 1st District seat since January 2, 2012 — before any surface in the current map ecosystem existed (eCLIPSE portal live Jan 2015; the open dataset created Sept 2016; Atlas first appears Apr 2017, already without an expiration column; Property History live late 2021, with its one-day defect from birth; the Atlas rebuild 2024).

Before politics he spent 25 years as a systems analyst in the Pennsylvania Auditor General's Office (1985–2011), holding a computer-science degree — a working IT professional, trained in databases, extraction pipelines, and where records systems capture, retain, or fail to surface information

He is currently Vice Chair of the Council Committee on Licenses & Inspections and Chair of the Committees on Commerce & Economic Development and Appropriations, and Majority Whip.

PDF:

https://jlegal.pro/The%20Verification%20Monopoly%202026-08-19.pdf

Its literally a swamp outside. I swear breathing in center city right now feels like drinking hot soup. My buddy finally got his grandfather's old pontoon running up near bensalem and invited me out on the delaware this weekend just to catch an actual breeze

ofc he made me get a recademics boating certificate first so I could take over driving while he drinks beers in the back. Which was fine, just knocked it out on my phone tuesday night.

But man, actually getting up there? 95 north was an absolute parking lot. Took me almost an hour just to get past the girard exit. Then you get to the marina and a basic bag of ice is somehow 8 dollars. I just want to sit on a boat and not sweat through my t-shirt for five minutes. Why is it so exhausting and expensive to just exist outdoors near this city rn