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In 2024, most of Pittsburgh's drinking fountains ran dry while a lone plumber at the Department of Public Works juggled everything from fixing hose connections to turning on water at concession stands. Now, the city has a crew of four plumbers at work, including a master training an apprentice.
New team of plumbers aim to have Pittsburgh's fountains flowing earlier this year
The city of Pittsburgh has hired more plumbers since last year. This new crew of four is at work turning on drinking fountains in the city. The goal is to get all 170 flowing by the end of the month.
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May 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In 2024, most of Pittsburgh's drinking fountains ran dry while a lone plumber at the Department of Public Works juggled everything from fixing hose connections to turning on water at concession stands. Now, the city has a crew of four plumbers at work, including a master training an apprentice.
Should five percent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
~ "Taxman," The Beatles
#tax #taxday2025 #taxes #beatles #taxman
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
~ "Taxman," The Beatles
#tax #taxday2025 #taxes #beatles #taxman
April 16, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Should five percent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
~ "Taxman," The Beatles
#tax #taxday2025 #taxes #beatles #taxman
Be thankful I don't take it all
'Cause I'm the taxman
Yeah, I'm the taxman
~ "Taxman," The Beatles
#tax #taxday2025 #taxes #beatles #taxman
90 day delay is not a "total reversal" because the administration listened to the America people or because it fears the market. It was ALWAYS the plan. It's a classic sales or DEAL making strategy. Try to sell the condo at $2 m so you can negotiate to ensure you can sell the condo for the $1.8 m.
April 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
90 day delay is not a "total reversal" because the administration listened to the America people or because it fears the market. It was ALWAYS the plan. It's a classic sales or DEAL making strategy. Try to sell the condo at $2 m so you can negotiate to ensure you can sell the condo for the $1.8 m.
So, in Trump's America I can't afford the therapy that helps me cope with a horribly unjust world - retail therapy. #firstworldproblems
April 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
So, in Trump's America I can't afford the therapy that helps me cope with a horribly unjust world - retail therapy. #firstworldproblems
So, I totally missed the Executive Order where Trump invited Afrikaner "refugees" to come on over. So...if you are white and feel discriminated against after Apartheid was ended...Trump feels your white pain. #trump #executiveorder #apartheid #racism
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President Trump’s Executive Order on Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa
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April 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
So, I totally missed the Executive Order where Trump invited Afrikaner "refugees" to come on over. So...if you are white and feel discriminated against after Apartheid was ended...Trump feels your white pain. #trump #executiveorder #apartheid #racism
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You know what I'd like instead of DOGE?
How about the "Department Devoted to Predicting All the Bad Shit That Can Result From Misuse of Power and Short-sightedness."
What is the acronym for that? DDPABSTCRFMPSS
Sounds about right when you say it out loud. 5 times. Fast.
How about the "Department Devoted to Predicting All the Bad Shit That Can Result From Misuse of Power and Short-sightedness."
What is the acronym for that? DDPABSTCRFMPSS
Sounds about right when you say it out loud. 5 times. Fast.
April 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
You know what I'd like instead of DOGE?
How about the "Department Devoted to Predicting All the Bad Shit That Can Result From Misuse of Power and Short-sightedness."
What is the acronym for that? DDPABSTCRFMPSS
Sounds about right when you say it out loud. 5 times. Fast.
How about the "Department Devoted to Predicting All the Bad Shit That Can Result From Misuse of Power and Short-sightedness."
What is the acronym for that? DDPABSTCRFMPSS
Sounds about right when you say it out loud. 5 times. Fast.
"Who's throat do I get to choke if this proves to be wrong?" ~Thom Tillis (R) NC
April 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
"Who's throat do I get to choke if this proves to be wrong?" ~Thom Tillis (R) NC
Hi, @criminolly.bsky.social. You've done a lot of e-reader devices. I don't think you've ever talked about the Nook from Barnes & Noble. Is it something that is available in the UK? Any thoughts on it?
April 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Hi, @criminolly.bsky.social. You've done a lot of e-reader devices. I don't think you've ever talked about the Nook from Barnes & Noble. Is it something that is available in the UK? Any thoughts on it?
OMG. You are so right. What would you say is the pleasure principle?
US takes the lead in the death drive race
April 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
OMG. You are so right. What would you say is the pleasure principle?
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We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
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kitsch is fascism, cringe is democracy
I really believe cringe is the engine of Democracy
April 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
kitsch is fascism, cringe is democracy
Ah. Lacan. Yes. The economy is an encounter with the Real. (And always has been?)
it's called "displacement" because these chodes can look at a map and say "dis place ment so much to me"
you don't need to be jacques lacan to see how desperately transmuting material loss into symbolic gain is really just slapping a fancy new signifier atop a yawning black hole but hey it doesn't hurt
April 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Ah. Lacan. Yes. The economy is an encounter with the Real. (And always has been?)
Hey, @rhetoricpj.bsky.social. Listen to this. It's like the second level to my dissertation. "Reimmagrantizing" is exactly what I talked about in my Ellis piece, except that it is weaponized against the "other," instead of shielding the self.
There’s a Reason Trump Is Going After Birthright Citizenship
YouTube video by New York Times Podcasts
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March 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Hey, @rhetoricpj.bsky.social. Listen to this. It's like the second level to my dissertation. "Reimmagrantizing" is exactly what I talked about in my Ellis piece, except that it is weaponized against the "other," instead of shielding the self.
Here's a weird thing: piggy banks make me sad. It's a kind of counter-nostalgia. I recall feeling the same way as a child when I saw one.
March 28, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Here's a weird thing: piggy banks make me sad. It's a kind of counter-nostalgia. I recall feeling the same way as a child when I saw one.
I am old enough to trace the lineage of Trump back through the move of the GOP in the early 1990s. The Contract with America and Pat Buchanan introducing the term "culture war." You can go back all the way to Nixon's "silent majority," which incidentally was crafted when Buchanan was WH advisor.
March 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I am old enough to trace the lineage of Trump back through the move of the GOP in the early 1990s. The Contract with America and Pat Buchanan introducing the term "culture war." You can go back all the way to Nixon's "silent majority," which incidentally was crafted when Buchanan was WH advisor.
I think one of the points that should bee emphasized: what if Canadians (or other nationals) stop buying US products across the board in response? Seems like the US producers won't be protected, but instead could be up to double burdened by the tax. #tariffs #canada #USimports #USexports
March 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I think one of the points that should bee emphasized: what if Canadians (or other nationals) stop buying US products across the board in response? Seems like the US producers won't be protected, but instead could be up to double burdened by the tax. #tariffs #canada #USimports #USexports
I miss Paul Wellstone. I wonder what he would be doing in response to our present moment. Bernie wouldn't be one of the few voices making real demands. Bernie can never die, or at least he needs an apprentice to take over when he does.
#berniesanders #paulwellstone
#berniesanders #paulwellstone
March 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I miss Paul Wellstone. I wonder what he would be doing in response to our present moment. Bernie wouldn't be one of the few voices making real demands. Bernie can never die, or at least he needs an apprentice to take over when he does.
#berniesanders #paulwellstone
#berniesanders #paulwellstone
BTW, anyone checked on the "deal" that Trump has made with Russia? My favorite is helping Russia to get fully back into the game of exporting agricultural products and .... get this ... fertilizer. If it's anhydrous ammonia, that's the stuff that terrorists make bombs with.
March 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
BTW, anyone checked on the "deal" that Trump has made with Russia? My favorite is helping Russia to get fully back into the game of exporting agricultural products and .... get this ... fertilizer. If it's anhydrous ammonia, that's the stuff that terrorists make bombs with.
Watching the two military (or former) have to engage in rhetorical gymnastics at the open hearing was uncomfortable. I was struck that engaging in sleight of hand was hard and that they felt they were violating their own sense(s) of integrity.
March 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Watching the two military (or former) have to engage in rhetorical gymnastics at the open hearing was uncomfortable. I was struck that engaging in sleight of hand was hard and that they felt they were violating their own sense(s) of integrity.
Hmmm. Canada has the same monarch, King Charles III, as does Great Britain, Australia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, St Christopher and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu. Coalition of the Willing?
March 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Hmmm. Canada has the same monarch, King Charles III, as does Great Britain, Australia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, St Christopher and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu. Coalition of the Willing?
Trump wants to limit the Judiciary powers from doing anything to oppose the Executive.
How about we have the Legislative limit the Executive's runaway violations of the Constitution?
How about we have the Legislative limit the Executive's runaway violations of the Constitution?
March 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Trump wants to limit the Judiciary powers from doing anything to oppose the Executive.
How about we have the Legislative limit the Executive's runaway violations of the Constitution?
How about we have the Legislative limit the Executive's runaway violations of the Constitution?
Remember Tip O'Neill? Remember how he managed to lead a Democratic House of Reps to work with a Republican Senate and Republican President? Would be worth a content and effectivity analysis of the legislation in 1980 - 1988 with that of the Trump terms.
March 21, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Remember Tip O'Neill? Remember how he managed to lead a Democratic House of Reps to work with a Republican Senate and Republican President? Would be worth a content and effectivity analysis of the legislation in 1980 - 1988 with that of the Trump terms.
I live with my dad. He watches 2 kinds of TV: cowboy shows and FOX News. We regularly have loud fights about FOX News. My main argument: It's OK to watch FOX News, but NOBODY is smart enough to out-think their media intake. At least have SOMETHING for comparison. #mediaeffects #soundchamber
March 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I live with my dad. He watches 2 kinds of TV: cowboy shows and FOX News. We regularly have loud fights about FOX News. My main argument: It's OK to watch FOX News, but NOBODY is smart enough to out-think their media intake. At least have SOMETHING for comparison. #mediaeffects #soundchamber
Why is it that I am inordinately peeved when people don't recognize the difference in definition between "when" and "whenever"? Misuse gives me the grrrrrrrs. #grammar
March 19, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Why is it that I am inordinately peeved when people don't recognize the difference in definition between "when" and "whenever"? Misuse gives me the grrrrrrrs. #grammar