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Ashley Sterner @offairashley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I saw an otter in the woods (near the Little Gunpowder) a couple weeks ago. Since then, it feels like I've been seeing pics of otters EVERYWHERE. I guess that's what they call the B'otter–Meinhof phenomenon.

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Brigitte Winter @brigittewinter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My debut sapphic cryptid romance, The Normal Monster Club, is now available for preorder! If you identify The X-Files as a queer root, this book is for you. 👽 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Normal Monster Club

In this cozy sapphic horroromance, two exes must reunite in their cryptid-obsessed hometown to investigate an unsolved mystery from their past, as buried secrets and monsters surface with the summer c...

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Ashley Sterner @offairashley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ruins along the banks of Liberty Reservoir.

Remnants of a building foundation, poking out of the waters of Liberty Reservoir.

An abandoned set of stairs, jutting out of the banks of Liberty Reservoir (at a jaunty angle). A pretty woman stands at the top of the stairs, arms outstretched. Her shirt says "Moist".

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Alma Avalle @goodbyealma.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i know this TIME cover might seem bleak but in my experience this means that AI won’t be allowed in the bathroom within 5-10 years

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Jennifer de Guzman Strikes Again @jenniferdeguzman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My daughter’s latest masterpiece

A painting of a round cat with small ears in a McDonald’s fry bag

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Action Committee for Transit 👣🚲🚇🚍🚊🧑🏻‍🦽 @actfortransit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We'd like to see more of signs like these. In part, because they recognize that bicycles are not like automobiles.

A "Do not enter" sign that has a small sign below it that says "Except bicycles."

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

being straight just seems very difficult!! how do you do it

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Ashley Sterner @offairashley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As influenced by: 21 years in Baltimore, 8 in DC, a childhood in south central PA, and a partner who grew up in Jersey.

Dialect map! Says I talk like I'm from Jersey, but most like folks from Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington DC. I'm not Jersey at all, but I have lived in Baltimore for 21 years, and DC for 8 (and I'm from South Central PA for the Philly influence).

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Ashley Sterner @offairashley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today I saw a DPW worker in a t-shirt that said "I got that dog in me" with a picture of an anime puppygirl.

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Pamela Wood @pwoodreporter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

WYPR Radio got rid of local shows Midday & On the Record. WMAR TV switched to newscasts without anchors. Now WBAL Radio is dropping local hosts TJ Smith & Angelette Aviles. All in all, not good for the news/info/opinion ecosystem in greater Baltimore. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

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WBAL NewsRadio lays off local hosts, replaces shows with syndicated programs

Baltimore’s local media landscape took another hit Thursday as WBAL NewsRadio eliminated local jobs and replaced several locally hosted programs with nationally syndicated shows, according to employee...

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

my kid's school year started with an AI flyer that told students not to use AI, which she was required to sign and send back before class began

EXAMPLES OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
X Copying someone else's work
* Using Al or online content and claiming it as your own (Yes, we can tell.)

two hands touch in a computer's idea of what a high five looks like. "teamwork > > cheating" and a pizza's speech bubble emerges from both its sunglasses and feet

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Props to the kid on the Bank of America marketing team who pitched this to the bosses with a straight face

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

so, plants under solar panels do well, water under solar panels does well, foxes under solar panels do well, just need to put solar panels over more things

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/08/2026

AI is certainly unpopular but I think the “fascism! it’s great!” thing has a whole lot to do with this

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/08/2026

"Why do the kids hate the filterless sociopaths who are destroying the environment and the economy and who monologue like James Bond villains?"

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I have lived in both the Rockies & in Appalachia The Rockies have a gravitational hold on you: they’re aware of you insofar as they want to possess you, control you Appalachia is subtle & strange. If it notices you, watch out. Humans are not supposed to be seen by creatures older than stars

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I have lived east and west and while the west coast mountains will kill you through indifference to humanity, they are brash young mountains. The Appalachians are the home of things whose names humanity has never known, and they resent us as newcomers and take us down into the dark when they can.

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Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

This rhetoric is ideal for listeners who believe trans women are an issue that they're supposed to care about, but don't actually have any real-world experience with them. The hypothetical trans girl who's supposedly causing all this trouble in the WNBA is the perfect tool for the conservative movement. She can't fight back, she can't disprove anyone's assumptions, and she can't garner sympathy when she's the target of hate. The perfect trans girl is the one who only exists in the imagination of the loudest cis people. Her monstrousness, the need to "protect young girls in a locker room" from her, gives them permission to enact policies that in reality only harm the anonymous girls, cis and trans, who want to play sports without the invasive scrutiny of gender-obsessed adults.

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Ashley Sterner @offairashley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I've often said the most important class I took in HS was a typing class... and that I wish I'd taken it years earlier.

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Ron Cassie @humanpoweredcity.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

#Baltimore: land of dreams.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

sometimes the right thing isnt the popular thing. but in your gut you have to support the right thing, if you're a moral person.

Americans viewed Martin Luther King Jr. much more positively after his 1968 death than during his life

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 19/07/2026

whenever i see drivers posting about how much they hate bike lines and barriers and bollards all i hear is "i'm a bad driver"

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Ashley Sterner @offairashley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Muxx and Nokx: A Graffiti Love Story Part 1 of 3. "Probably"

Graffiti. The tag "MUXX" in bright yellow.
The words "is gay probably" scrawled beneath in black.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/07/2026

Being a woman rocks because if you use AI you’re stupid and if you don’t use AI you’re dumb

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Danielle Johnson @dwhren.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Someone here was asking yesterday if Baltimore City pools would have expanded hours due to the heat and the answer is yes www.wbaltv.com/article/balt...

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Find cooling centers, Baltimore pool hours expanded

Here is a list of cooling center locations across the Baltimore area where you can seek relief from hot weather.

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Ashley Sterner @offairashley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Ballot cast! Maryland early voting runs through Thursday!

A smiling woman with curly hair wearing an "I Voted" sticker.
Her t-shirt says YOU DON'T HATE MONDAYS YOU HATE CAPITALISM

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Ashley Sterner @offairashley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This story recently was honored with a First Place Award for Outstanding Public Affairs by the Chesapeake AP.

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Ashley Sterner @offairashley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Another bike ride to PA! 46 miles this time!

Map of NCR trail, flanked by pictures of a woman as she bikes it.

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Ashley Sterner @offairashley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Baltimore friends! The market has begun! Pop over to 4500 Harford Road until 7:30 tonight for food, music, friendship, and more! 🥰 I'm spinning some silly songs! And there's gon be a choir!

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Ashley Sterner @offairashley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

NPR going in on rainbow capitalism!

national public gaydio t-shirt
Who came up with this merchandising plan at 4:59pm on May 31?

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Ashley Sterner @offairashley.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It's carp spawning season! Travel to the shallow end of Baltimore's reservoirs* at this time of year, and if you're lucky, you'll spot some beautiful brown-orange fish getting it on. Some years, I'm not lucky enough to see it! But this is my lucky year! * This is at Liberty.

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Jackson O'Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

will they write an equivalent "James Talarico attacked Ken Paxton for releasing a child rapist, putting release of pedophiles front and center in the race" piece or do they only amplify GOP attacks for some reason?

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Chris Towers Missed The Playoffs @cptowers.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The Coke Zero people are so needlessly smug. I don’t drink Diet Coke because I want Coca Cola with zero calories. I drink Diet Coke because there is something wrong with me; something deeply broken inside of me; something that will never truly be healed.

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🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Talking about one of my favorite pieces of science today. Excited to see how long it takes my students to find the actual point of the trial

First page of Parachute death and major trauma when jumping from an aircraft: randomized controlled trial (link to article in reply)

A girl happily jumping from an airplane that is on the ground. She was never in any danger of death lol.

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Ashley Sterner @offairashley.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I'd have chugged these daily when I was on spiro. Iykyk.

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Ashley Sterner @offairashley.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I'll happily play this Jane Bond character! I'm as fresh a face as anyone could ever want!

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