Was thinking about this yesterday after watching someone throw fast food trash out their car window in the general direction of someone walking their dog on Poplar: the amount of littering and dumping that happens in this city makes me think we're forever fucked.

Until our neighbors decide to care about the community/place they live in enough to properly dispose of their garbage, there's no chance our city will ever change for the better. If people can't even consider how littering and dumping might affect others, they absolutely aren't giving a shit about anyone else's safety, health, well-being, experience on this earth, etc.

You might be interested in the Joyful Readers.

Philadelphia schools also don't really offer many extracurricular opportunities for kids, so there are lots of school- and community-based organizations doing youth development at schools that could likely use financial support, as well (two of my personal favorites are Give and Go Athletics and the Kensington Soccer Club, both of which are members of the Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative)

Can someone pls explain why we have a sheriff’s office and what they do differently from the police? My understanding is that the sheriff is a state office and the police are municipal; if that’s right, then what do Philadelphia county police do that’s different/not redundant?

This makes my heart swoon

TIL there’s a thing known as the LUCY shuttle

So exciting! I hope her political ads are filled with data

Whaaaaaat?! Water is wet?!?

Yes, heard it near Lemon Hill. Since Girard closed* there has been so much more late-night loudness on/around Poplar, including assholes laying on the horn as they drive down the street in the middle of the night. I am sleepy and grumpy

(* bc people are still driving down it, despite the trench SEPTA dug)

Even the dog in one of the photos is white