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Chris Mohr
@chrismphl.bsky.social
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Quaker staff person and volunteer, plus various other things, in Philly. #NJOK. Central Jersey is real!
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Good question. Sent from the Bank.
A view of the Phillies-Twins game from the right field side. People sit with their backs to the camera. A green baseball field is in the center. The other side of the stadium is in delicious shade.
September 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Just got my copy of @eileenflanagan.bsky.social's Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation. Can't wait to read it!
Photo of the book. Yellow text on green background Q0
September 24, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I was delighted to have lunch downtown with mi amor, @robinmsf.bsky.social, yesterday!
A woman with sunglasses, light skin, and sunglasses stands next to a tall, bald, light-skinned man with glasses and a beard. They are smiling. They are standing in front of the AMOR sculpture on the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. (The man's orange shirt is for Princeton Electric Speedboating, PES.)
August 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Thank you, @jon.wprb.com and WPRB, for tix to see Mike Polizze, Lo Fives, and Silver Synthetic at Johhny Brenda's!

Glad to be here with @robinmsf.bsky.social.

#WPRB #CommunityRadio #Rockist
Mike Polizze whaling (and wailing) away at his acoustic guitar with bridge and pedals at Johnny Brenda's Lo Fives, a garage rock band, playing at Johnny Brenda's. Two guitars, bass, and drums
August 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Several hundred people at the #NoKings rally in Elkins Park, PA, outside Philly. Favorite signs included No ICE but Wooder Ice! We brought @fcnl.bsky.social signs.
Crowd of people with signs and US flags. Sign in middle says THE ONLY ICE WE WANT IS WOODER ICE Crowd of people by the Elkins Park train station. In the center is a tall elderly white man with his American Legion cap and jacket, holding an American flag. Crowd around train station. A man waves the American flag. A sign says This land was made for YOU and ME.
June 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Hoping to finish grilling before the next deluge in Philly...
A mix of evergreen and deciduous trees anchors the bottom of the frame. A mottled gray cloudy sky is above the trees, taking up most of the frame.
May 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Bike to work, they said.
It'll be great, they said.
Just go in between thunderstorms and around the puddles & the regatta on the Schuylkill.
Happy National Bike to Work Day, they said.
Tired, bald white man with a gray and red beard looks at the camera. His spectacles are steamed up. His white t-shirt is drenched with sweat. In the background is a green bicycle with black saddle and black dropped handlebars. HAPPY BIKE TO WORK DAY!
May 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I was showing off my vintage WPRB t-shirt from ~1986 today.
A white t-shirt shows a smiling woman holding a transistor radio. Her shirt says WPRB Princeton Radio Stereo 103.3. The wearer has a blue shirt over the t-shirt.
April 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Blue skies
Smilin' at me.
Nothing but blue skies
From now on.
[If only. - ed.]
(Cassandra Wilson or Willie Nelson version, your pick.)
White clouds with blue sky left, right, and below.
March 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Awesome timing on the repost! It was honestly the first post I saw after rewatching The Return of the King tonight!
Screenshot of a screen that says The Lord of the Rings in the middle box, with the extended version cut off to the right and The Librarian cut off to the left.
March 6, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Sunset in Philly was pretty, at least. So there's that.
Philadelphia City Hall is framed between other buildings. Behind it are low clouds lit by sunset, fading to blue and white above. A brilliant Philadelphia sunset lights up clouds behind the FMC tower and Cira South in the middle of the frame. Train tracks are in the foreground. 30th Street Station is coming into view on the right. My father worked for FMC years ago, long before this building was built. Their HQ was in Chicago then.
February 27, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Fun to hear Revolving Paint Dream on WPRB's Don't Back the Front. Here is a photo of their LP "Mother Watch Me Burn."
Vinyl LP pulled 3/4 of the way out of the sleeve. The record label says, Creation Records. Revolving Paint Dream. Mother WatchMe Burn. A man's face is under the text. The photo on the LP sleeve is of a woman's body in a dress. The man's head appears to be the woman's head.
February 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Strip sack, Williams!
#GoBirds!
#FlyEaglesFly
Gritty lookin' a bit deranged
February 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Go Birbs.

#GoBirds
A streetscape at dusk. The sky is a graded blue, almost purple. A white pickup truck is parked. 4 large awareness barrels are on the sidewalk in front of a wall. In the background are several tall buildings. One looks like a castle with a tower. It is the Masonic Hall. Another is a bulky old-fashioned office building with a large tower with a statue on top. It is Philadelphia City Hall, with William Penn on top. Both the Masonic Hall and City Hall are lit in green.
January 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Schuylkill!!
Mostly frozen
Dusted with snow
Philly in winter
A frozen river has snow on it. The shadow of a railroad bridge spans it. Bare trees sit on both banks of the river, which stretches into the distance. The sky is clear and blue, though hazy at the horizon.
January 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Good morning to and from Philly, where we hada dusting of snow last night.
4 metal deck chairs sit around a metal, cicrcular deck table. A grill and a railing are behind the. Everything is dusted with a light coating of snow. The mesh of the tabletop has an X pattern where more snow is on the wider support struts.
January 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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And hailstones!
A deck at night with hailstones. To the left is part of a green metal chair. Behind is the deck railing and a cover (to a grill).
January 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Same in Philly.
A deck at night with hailstones. To the left is part of a green metal chair. Behind is the deck railing and a cover (to a grill).
January 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Um. At 4:30 today, Trader Joe's in Center City Philly played The Fall's "We Wish You a Protein Christmas." Um. Wow.
December 21, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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No lies, only interpretation.
Cover of book: James Snyder, Northern Renaissance Art. Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350 to 1575. Image is a detail from Madonna in the Church by Jan Van Eyck.
December 14, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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Yes, spectacular! They've often been great lately. Light clouds often show up at sunset and light up. Plus it's been so dry, maybe there's more dust in the atmosphere?
A sunset with yellow and pink in the distance is framed by a tree on the left, a brick wall on the right, and some spaghetti of wires on the top right.
October 30, 2024 at 10:37 PM
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My goodness, Philly's September weather in late October is amazing (if concerning). Low humidity + autumn leaves = wow! Happy to spend time along the Wissahickon with @robinmsf.bsky.social today.
A white man with a beard and glasses and a white woman with sunglasses smile at the camera. Behind them are trees with mostly yellow leaves, and a few green ones. A stone wall recedes into the middle distance, then ends at a trail. Leaves cover the ground on the left. A tree with yellow leaves is behind the wall. The sun is shining through the tree. Yellow, red, and green trees are across the bank of a creek. A Blue Sky ™️ is above and to the left. An asphalt trail receds into the middle of the photo. A wood fence is on the right. Trees are all around on either side of the trail. It is the Wissahickon Creek Trail.
October 20, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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I do, too! Both/and.
A single red leaf is on the ground in the center. Brown and yellow leaves and bits of leaves and twigs surround it.
October 13, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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Thanks for the encouragement! They flared up soon after I saw this, and they were visible even in NW Philly!
Houses on the left and bottom at night. Pink glow rises above them. It is the aurora!
October 11, 2024 at 2:22 AM
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Who’s the next mayor of NYC? Wrong answers only.
Gritty flashing double peace signs. (Residency is a problem here.)
September 28, 2024 at 4:10 PM