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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Baltimore! We'll see you at the Enoch Pratt Free Library on Wednesday, December 2nd for a talk about "Life After Cars." The event is free, but you have to register. Books will be available for sale that evening or bring your copy and we'll sign it. calendar.prattlibrary.org/event/sarah-...

Yellow graphic with Life After Cars book cover and photos of Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon that says "Writers LIVE! Wednesday, December 2, 7:00 PM, Central Library, 400 Cathedral St."

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

not like council hearings are all on youtube or anything!

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

Prolly gonna do apple sauce, nothing too fancy. They’re honestly palatable table apples but I also like Granny Smith raw so ymmv.

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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 · 04/09/2026

I don’t think the banner made the bot. They’re just hawking it.

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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

No I should not have to register to read a gift article. My mom does not make me create a password to eat my birthday cake

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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.

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

a genre of thoughts called “things my wife has to hear about”

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

compulsively chanting "I left my wallet in acer negundo" whenever I see a box elder tree

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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.

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

Adding “the board of elections” to the Bought & MAGA, Enemies of the People List right below “the moderators of the Baltimore subreddit”

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 · 11/06/2026

he said it's a sad song but it's also a funny song

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

my kid's suddenly gotten really into the most bummer song in the Brave Little Toaster www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqT2...

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The Brave Little Toaster - Worthless (No Interruptions)

YouTube video by Octillery63

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

there’s a cosmic, immovable scale to national politics where your inability to get what you want in a sea of hundreds of millions of people is kind of understandable. In local politics you get to see that same disappointing outcome but all because one guy told the city not to do something.

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

it’s an instant-sweat day for sure

Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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My own variant on the AI silliness, produced this morning.

screenshot reading

AI Overview
There are two days of the week that naturally contain the word "boobs":
Tues[boobs]day
Thurs[boobs]day
There is also a well-known, classic riddle that asks for the four days of the week that start with the letter "T": Tuesday, Thursday, Today, and Tomorrow

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Well I *am* bagging on LaPin. I just push back on that necessarily being a defense of Ferguson. It feels like a race where people are mainly being forced to pick who they would like to vote against rather than who they enthusiastically support. At least that’s a lot of what I’m seeing.

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Is that what you see me saying? It’s as much up to a challenger to make a credible case they’re the guy as it is for the incumbent to defend their own record.

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On the contrary, I think good marketing is why he’s got it as close as he does. The months of apolitical city booster content to “aww shucks I might just be forced to run [for a 3rd time]” story arc was pretty masterfully done.

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

Instead Bobby’s sending out clunky mailers like this

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In the 54 years from 1970 to 2024, there were 5 months with single digit killings. In the last 17 months, there have been 8. There has never been have consecutive single-digit months until this year. We are currently on the third such month.

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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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DC Bike Walk Bus PAC @dcbikewalkbuspac.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

not surprising @kenyanmcduffie.bsky.social got this endorsement given he stated he would not give up a *single* parking spot for bus and bike lanes in DC. link: www.facebook.com/krmcduffie/p...

Mcduffie got the endorsement of parking association

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Alex Shoor @alexshoor.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Why i have become such a convert on planting more trees in cities: A tree can cool a place the same as 10 room-size air conditioners running 24 hours a day! 🌳🏡🌲 From @jeffspeck.bsky.social’s “Walkable City” book

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Ian Wolfe @ianmwolfe.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

“More people opine without even reading the work over on Twitter - and that’s a good thing!”

august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 23/05/2026

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keep in mind the "better transit, not bike lanes" crowd never takes the bus & would flip out if the city proposed a dedicated bus lane on a main street in their area. source: organized for bus lanes on a certain street & having opposed old rich white people lecturing me (brown person) about equity

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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

eww AI, eww China hawks. Why's this being associated with the urban truth account?

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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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So when you see our local media use this "most dangerous cities" ranking later this year, which I imagine they will, just know that the Baltimore they're talking about is a Baltimore that is some mix of 9 to 2 years ago, not today.

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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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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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