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Can you fact check the method by which the speed of an ostrich was measured? Is there video? Why were they chasing an ostrich? How may ostriches couldn’t outrun the car?
January 12, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Can you fact check the method by which the speed of an ostrich was measured? Is there video? Why were they chasing an ostrich? How may ostriches couldn’t outrun the car?
It’s a winding tale but this book inspired my son and I to get our reader cards at the Library of Congress. Really appreciate stories like this. I’ve been obsessed with cities and power since learning the history of Robert Moses. Now I see it everywhere.
January 5, 2026 at 11:50 PM
It’s a winding tale but this book inspired my son and I to get our reader cards at the Library of Congress. Really appreciate stories like this. I’ve been obsessed with cities and power since learning the history of Robert Moses. Now I see it everywhere.
Loved Babs that beautiful soul. And this book by @emlieb.bsky.social that The Banner just reviewed press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Road to Nowhere
Traces the birth, plunder, and scavenging of Rosemont, a Black middle-class neighborhood in Baltimore. In the mid-1950s Baltimore’s Rosemont neighborhood was alive and vibrant with smart rowhouses, ...
press.uchicago.edu
January 5, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Loved Babs that beautiful soul. And this book by @emlieb.bsky.social that The Banner just reviewed press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Sounds like an alternate alternate history spinoff of The Man in the High Castle.
December 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Sounds like an alternate alternate history spinoff of The Man in the High Castle.
Enshittification.
On my Christmas wish list!
On my Christmas wish list!
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Enshittification.
On my Christmas wish list!
On my Christmas wish list!
Oh, and still looking to understand why his first grade class field trip to the Baltimore Zoo in 2015 was cancelled and then we need to talk about Freddie Gray and BPD and “real police” and the drug war and so on.
November 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Oh, and still looking to understand why his first grade class field trip to the Baltimore Zoo in 2015 was cancelled and then we need to talk about Freddie Gray and BPD and “real police” and the drug war and so on.
But not so much into the visuals of violence.
November 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
But not so much into the visuals of violence.
Learned to love Andre Baugher in a good cop show watching Homicide (thank heavens it’s streaming) and Brooklyn 99. Gets a dopamine hit every time he sees parts of Baltimore he recognizes in a show. Learning that things are complicated. Sick of not getting his my references to shows he can’t watch.
November 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Learned to love Andre Baugher in a good cop show watching Homicide (thank heavens it’s streaming) and Brooklyn 99. Gets a dopamine hit every time he sees parts of Baltimore he recognizes in a show. Learning that things are complicated. Sick of not getting his my references to shows he can’t watch.
Our expansion into a type 2 civilization will be so mundane. Full of crappy food and shitty jobs. Can’t wait!
November 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Our expansion into a type 2 civilization will be so mundane. Full of crappy food and shitty jobs. Can’t wait!
I love Costco if only for making this possible.
October 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I love Costco if only for making this possible.
I think they get very upset with the literal outcome of “anchor’s away”.
August 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I think they get very upset with the literal outcome of “anchor’s away”.
How is it that a series that starts with corporate space drama and mundane cargo hauling is so good?
July 31, 2025 at 9:45 PM
How is it that a series that starts with corporate space drama and mundane cargo hauling is so good?
David Simon and Rick Hutzell are the reasons I subscribed to The Banner. You get what you pay for.
April 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
David Simon and Rick Hutzell are the reasons I subscribed to The Banner. You get what you pay for.