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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s (crab)apple season and our favorite tree in Joseph Lee Park is absolutely loaded with them. Might be because a black locust started growing right next to it, and that fixes delicious nitrogen into the soil.

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

“Denis, there’s some lovely slop down here” designbaltimoregateways.com

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Sent this to my wife as an example of how I really gotta be on the *right* task when that Vyvanse first kicks in 🤦‍♂️

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Most of my harvestable are perennials: blueberry, strawberry, a bunch of tree fruits. I did plant two jalapeños that are starting to produce. But mostly my yard is ornamentals. Here’s some of what’s in bloom now.

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I know city schools’ landscape crews are not horticulturists or anything, but I have never seen someone hedge prune a bull thistle.

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

cool, cool, cool, cool, cool

Rando on Facebook sharing a likely apocryphal Stalin quote about those who count the votes deciding everything.
Bobby LaPin replying “the ones counting the votes are who I’m running against”

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

don’t worry, that very-rational and serious candidate responded by accusing the Reddit mods of being in a paid conspiracy against him

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Baltimore makes the list: "8 Cities to Watch in PeopleForBikes’ 2026 City Ratings" www.peopleforbikes.org/news/8-citie...

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Instead Bobby’s sending out clunky mailers like this

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

According to BPD stats this morning, Baltimore's homicide count is now down more than 71.% from the same time in 2022. Since 1970, there has never been a total below 50 at this point in the year. The previous record low was set in 2025, last year.

Chart showing homicides in Baltimore City in the first five months of the year from 2016 to 2026. The bar for 2026 shows the record low of 39 homicides.

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Based on a comparison of the activity of both accounts, it appears that, in addition to his official account, Bobby LaPin is using an anonymous sock puppet account in Reddit arguments to defend himself and attack his primary opponent. thatsgossip.substack.com/p/captain-bo...

A time-stamped comparison showing the accounts Charm_city_sailor and SailLocalCrew posting one after the other.

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Is this type of stuff what @urbantruth.bsky.social is about then?

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

please don't put it in the newspaper that I got mad on reddit

Bobby LaPin up at midnight arguing on reddit that he is not a "goddamn social media influencer"

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The 2026 CrimeRisk data is seemingly already live over at U.S. News & World Report, and like you'd expect from what happened in the rolling window, the score is better: 9th. But it still suffers from the fact that it is analyzing data from the absolute peak of violence, NOT now.

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

There's a value to a tool like this, but it gets weird if you try to (mis)use it as a score of the current year, because it does not reflect any data from that year at all, or even the previous year! And for Baltimore in particular, hopefully you can see the issue from this graph

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

See it turns out that CrimeRisk isn't intended to be a one-year score at all. It's intended to be a more smoothed out, long-view measure, and by design uses a "rolling seven-year database" to achieve this. And FBI data is slow to compile, so that database itself is 2 years behind

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

To learn more, I check out AGS' page for CrimeRisk, and luckily they share the methodology of their 2026 model. All looks normal until I get to the data sources: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Report, 2018- 2024 For a 2026 score?! appliedgeographic.com/wp-content/u...

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The intro of each ranking says they are "based on each city's murder and property crime rates per 100,000 people" and the detailed methodology just states that it uses something called "AGS CrimeRisk" and "extensive analysis of several years of crime reports." YearS? Plural? 🤔

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Since 2022, homicides in Baltimore - along with most categories of crime - have been declining. In 2025, there were 133 homicides where a year earlier there had been 202. And that was down from 262 in 2023 So how could it be then that in 2025 it was MORE dangerous here? Enter methodology.

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

So first, the source. They're both citing US News and World Report, just different editions of it. The 2025-26 ranking is where Baltimore was listed in 4th. The city didn't rank in the 2024-25 edition. But if you know the trend of crime in the city, this should make no sense...

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Do you remember these news items last year? April 2025: Baltimore no longer in the top 25 most dangerous places in the US July 2025: Baltimore is the 4th most dangerous in the US How is this possible? I'm glad you asked. Spoiler: these rankings aren't what they pretend to be. A thread!

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Shameful stuff from Mattel at Day out with Thomas. AI-generated Thomas out here looking like an Italian brainrot character

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

First day back from break, and there’s already a serious arboreal casualty at the local elementary school. I don’t think there’s a harder place to be a street tree.

A long-suffering hawthorn tree with a torn, hanging branch.

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

blocked before I could hit reply

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The priorities for this storm cleanup don’t seem to align with our modal hierarchy!

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I was visited by a pair of raccoons last night and then a dang possum!

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

This one is even more brazen, because this time they put their words in the mouth of an AI character who claims to be a specific person: "Zoe Billings, a Baltimore native and correspondent" Needless to say, this person does not exist.

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

the anti-HOOA folks have made something wonderful

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

it appears the number of households in Baltimore City are coming back

Chart showing ACS 1-year estimates of total households in Baltimore City from 2002-2024

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I planted this pepper cultivar ‘Armaggedon’ on a whim this year, thinking maybe I’d get one or two novelty peppers. But it did so well, I have dozens of these 1.3 million scoville things to deal with. I’ve nibbled off a couple of them and they’re hilarious hot. No idea what to do with them.

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

This man’s out here playing the populist talking about Roland Park et al, while living in Wyndhurst.

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

‘Truly disappointing’ to see @bmorerenters.bsky.social shut down comments on this post just because it was being pointed out that actual Affordable housing groups like Habitat for Humanity and Healthcare for the Homeless testified in support of these bills. It’s a matter of record - why hide it?

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Jermaine Jones explaining vote to abolish parking mins: "What I will say when protecting our neighborhoods against gentrification [...], they deserve more than just parking requirements to protect them. And if that's the only thing that we have in order to protect those residents, then shame on us."

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