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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation

@ccdot.bsky.social
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Baltimore, MD 🦀 Professional Materials Engineer, Proud Union Member, Amateur Urbanist, 🚲+🚆Commuter, Rust Belt Renaissance Evangelist

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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
See also
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
That's right
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
He can't keep getting away with this!
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Me after sloooowly huffing and puffing my way back to Hampden from M8 after bike party
Newspaper cat meme with "i need to bike more"
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Bike partyyyyy
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Baltimore bike party is tonight! The weather is fabulous, the theme is neon disco, and the shirt is F I R E. Im going all out tonight with a fresh rainbow disco shirt, and (if the delivery comes in) bike lights, free glow sticks to distribute, and a disco playlist. See you there!
Baltimore Bike Party July 2026 shirt designed by @lookysquares and printed by @syndicatescreenprintco (on instagram). The shirt says "baltimore bike party" in a neon sign styled font with a rat riding a bike in front. The route map for the Baltimore Bike Party July 2026 ride. From St. Mary's park through druid hill park, down through town to M8 brewing.
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Sights from a morning walk in Hampden
An shrub of exuberant pink dahlia(?) BloomsA well manicured rowhouse front yard with mulch bed containing green abs flowering shrubs as well as glass mushroomsA homemade (but convincingly styled) sign attached below a one way sign that reads "Revolutionary Loce is the Call of our times"
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Leela fishing after sadly catching a single boot on her first cast: Aha! Whatever it is, it's twenty times heavier than a boot!
A wooden crate being hauled out of water by a fishing spear labeled "Boots 10 pair"
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Can anyone get me in a room w Russ Vought? I just want to talk
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Now there's a guy who knows how to use the seashells!
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Sinkhole, tornado warnings, poor air quality, etc. But if you survive, my childhood friend is playing the fiddle (in Crisp Lake) at Wax Atlas's folk punk show TONIGHT.
A concert flyer for a Folk Punk show at Wax Atlas, 5523 Harford Rd Baltimore MD tonight July 18th, doors open at 7 pm. $10-15 entry, NOTAFLOF. The show features Yell at God, Crisp Lake, and My Marian Devotion.
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Evergreen from @tomflood.bsky.social
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The plates they really need
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
How dare you
PBS show Arthur clenching his fist meme
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
You wouldn't download a hospital ship
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
That's right
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The swedish science and technology museum had an exhibit on video games, and this display nearly put me in the ground (a condition that im apparently very close to)
An original GameBoy in a museum display case)
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Lancelot Fancy Lancy Lancypants Handsome Lance-um
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I saw this spool of rope on a ferry in Sweden and am sorry to report after extensive research that the company is not worker owned.
A spool of maritime rope made by the "Carlmarks" company
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Happy Pride from Iceland! Gullfoss was showing up and showing out
Gullfoss waterfall in Iceland, a roaring torrent of gray green foamed with white between the faceted basalt cliffs of the river's canton. A rainbow arcs across the water formed by the clear June sun shining through the mist of the falls.
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Ok but this bollard in the Old City part of Stockholm is a repurposed cannon and was installed in like the 1700s to protect Viking runes from horse drawn carriages.
A building facade at the corner of an old cobblestone street has old viking carvings amongst its stonework. At the corner of the building protecting the art is an old cannon mounted vertically into the street as a bollard.
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Nightmare blunt rotation
Thumbnail from Cspan on YouTube of Rob Portman and Kyrsten Sinema. They're in a video interview titled "Kyrsten Sinema and Rob Portman on Senate Leadership"
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Hang in there bud
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Ending the night strong! Happy bike party, ride safe.
A Charmery ice cream sundae held in front of a parked bicycle
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Bike partyyyyy
People gathering at St Mary's Park for Baltimore Bike Party
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A bad photo edit of the infamous Ohio interstate 71 sign declaring "Hell is Real" where the word "Hell" has been haphazardly covered up by the word "Ohio"
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The appropriate image
Anakin Skywalker on fire at the edge of a lava lake from Star Wars Episode III
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Stay tuned? It's the Friday of Artscape! @mayorbmscott.bsky.social what are we doing? What's going on?
A screenshot of the Baltimore Artscape 2026 website where the 2026 Programming section content reads "Stay tuned for the 2026 programming schedule". For context the screenshot was taken Friday May 22, 2026 and the festival is this weekend.
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The "i should buy a boat" meme showing a cat in a blue suit sitting at a table with a cup and saucer holding a newspaper. The text reads "I should get my car serviced"
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Ps im putting my money where my mouth is
A gofundme exit page showing a donation of $50
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Fuck Dave Yost, all my homes hate Dave Yost. Bonus: he announced this just after the Ohio primaries so that the replacement candidate could be picked by insiders.
An x.com post from Ohio attorney General Dave Yost announcing that he's stepping down from office to join the Alliance Defending Freedom right wing legal group.
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I sense a pivot coming
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Unfortunately yes
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Bad news about this
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Oh hey the new owners of the Pittsburgh post Gazette are continuing the union busting of the prior ownership. I had expected more from the folks who own the (very good!) Baltimore Banner.
You will not recognize the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette next week.

At least a third of newsroom workers are losing their jobs. We expect that figure to climb to closer to half. The cuts are severe. They are a brazen, discriminatory attempt at busting our union by the PG's incoming owners, the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism. And it is devastating — both for the people of Pittsburgh overall, and us.
Coverage areas from high school sports to the arts are being decimated. The photo department and copy desk are getting deeply slashed. No department has been spared, apart from upper management.

Within the overall job losses, the new owners have decided to get rid of 80% of the former strikers  The journalists who sacrificed so much to hold power to account are precisely the people they prioritized discarding.

Though we had cautiously high hopes for the Institute, all that its leadership has saved at the PG is the management structure that led the publication to infamy over the past several years.The U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court, and Donald Trump’s Solicitor General all agreed that the PG went too far in its violations of our rights, making Pittsburgh’s paper of record one of the most lawless union-busting operations in the entire country. The Institute’s first move was to keep hold of the people who ran that operation.

It is also apparent that the Institute prioritized ending the PG careers of strikers, and disproportionately, retaining people who crossed the picket line. All strikers are accounted for. Five were offered jobs. The retention rates are not close. The gap only grows as we confirm more offers.

Shortly after coming to town, Stewart Bainum Jr., the Choice Hotels magnate and chair of the Institute, went on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” When asked to respond to concerns that he might be union-busting at the PG he said, “There’s no intention.” He lied.
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Principal Skinner out of touch meme which reads "are giant corporations screwing me? / No, it must be the fault of immigrants"
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Principal skinner meme where the top panel reads "is my grotesque image in the reflecting pool a sign that I should change? "

The bottom panel reads "no, it's the reflecting pool who is wrong"
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Did I mention bike party?
A downtown Baltimore street that's full of people on bicycles. It's bike party!
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Bike partyyyy
A perspective shot of a street filled with bikes as far as the camera can see
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Arrested development Lucille Bluth saying "I don't care for Gob"
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Darude is playing in Baltimore next month, and I'm so tired
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
beignet hamentasch Beignet Hamentasch BEIGNET HAMENTASCH B E I G N E T H A M E N T A S CH
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Of course I would never use my phone while driving, but ..
A teal bumper sticker on a car showing a dark, winged moth like cryptid on the left next to the text "Mothman Baja Blasted my ass in the parking lot of Taco Bell".
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
An @dril tweet that reads "the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: 'there's actually zero difference between good and bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron.'"
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A screenshot from the Nintendo 64 game Banjo Kazooie, showing the main character standing on a floating crate surrounded by water with an oily sheen.
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
My son meeting his brother
A baby's hand in a blue sleeve rests on the flank of a curled up black and white cat, who is eyeing the out-of-frame baby with suspicion
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Charm City Dept. of Trainsportation @ccdot.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
A pomegranate motif menorah lit for the first night of Hanukkah next to an led-lighted hanukkah themed wine bottle, all sitting on a stainless steel tabletop in front of a window. Outside is a parking lot coated with a light dusting of snow. Latkes frying in two skillets on a gas stove, with a tray holding a few already cooked latkes alongside.
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