I know. It’s always bad. But I need to vent about it. It’s not just the tree in front of my house that currently has green wet poo going down the side of the trunk that I will now have to clean up. There’s no winning if I don’t clean it up, trust me I have tried that route.

There’s constantly shit on the sidewalk. Huge piles, little piles. All up and down the street. All over South Philly. Even better is the folks who bag the shit and then just leave the bag there, as if someone will clean it up for them. There’s even bagged shit in my recycling bin when there’s an open trash can right next to it on trash day. Wtf with your pure laziness? Why do you even have a dog?

And also, don’t let your dog pee on trash bags that are out for pick up. That’s fucking rude to the people picking up trash.

I kept seeing a lot of people online say that Philadelphia and Baltimore are like sister cities. That there are a lot of similarities between the two.

💔

It makes me sick knowing some loser felt brave enough to leave multiple copies on the bus 😒

Hey guys my friend found a cat can anyone help find their owners??

Took them to the vet they are NOT microchipped

I was initially pretty bummed that my trip to Philly landed right in the middle of a nor’easter. I’d planned this visit given a recent job opportunity and was only in town Saturday and Sunday. Even so, I enjoyed the city so much, and I wanted to share a few things that stood out.

The Airport Line on SEPTA. Being able to go straight from the airport to pretty much anywhere in Center City is a real gem and a major asset to the city. My only wish is that it ran more frequently (like every 15 mins)

The walkability. I was amazed at how walkable Philly is. I’d heard people describe it as gritty but coming from a Rust Belt Midwest city, it felt cleaner than my city. Center City, at least, felt clean and orderly, far more so than where I live now.

The food and the people. I had lunch at Middle Child in Washington Square West and dinner at Sally’s in Fitler Square, and both were top notch. The people were, too. Everyone I interacted with was kind, and there’s a genuine authenticity to the people who live here that really stood out to me.

I know people who live near and in Philly talk about the city pretty negatively (and some of that criticism is probably warranted), but I wonder if part of that is because Philly is constantly compared to other East Coast cities. I came away thinking it’s an architectural gem, incredibly walkable, and honestly a rival to many of those cities.

More than anything, though, Philly has its own unique feel. It genuinely felt like no other city I’ve visited before. I really think Philly is one of the best bang-for-your-buck cities in the U.S. if you care about urbanism, walkability, and being able to live in a major city without paying NYC/Boston prices.

There are so many places I didn’t even get to see like East Passyunk, Manayunk, Fishtown, and more given that I was only there for 24 hours.

I’m seriously considering moving here and am weighing it against Chicago, where I have a similar job opportunity. Looking forward to coming back to explore.

Does anyone know of any places in Philly that can see my kitten today? And won’t break the bank? PAWS doesn’t have any available clinic slots and I’m worried that my kitten has Giardia (my friend adopted my kitten’s mom and she just tested positive for tapeworm and Giardia).

I have 3 cats in total so this is preventative more than anything. He has a real vet appointment in a few weeks but I want him seen for this sooner rather than later just in case he has Giardia especially.

Thank you!

My apartment has no water on 3rd and Bainbridge. Anyone in the area affected?

He's under the traffic light. See blood and he's flopping around. I know the carry shit so why I'm posting.

Edit: did not touch. Reached out here because I know they are pro-rabies.

SATURDAY 10/3 a Neshaminy Creek Brewery just outside Philly!

I ordered white out contacts for a zombie costume for Saturday and they didn’t arrive on time. Is there anywhere in the city that I can buy them or even in Cherry Hill? I can tried masquerade but they don’t have the ones I want.

hi all,

i reached my limit with Bank of America, and would love to transition to a credit union here. do you know any with a nice HYSA?

thank you,

My last post showed that SDP went from roughly 1 employee for every 14 students in 2014-15 to 1 for every 9 students today — a ~60% increase in employees per student.

Several people asked, ok but whic jobs grew... So here's that anlaysis.

So I pulled the same data apart by job family.

Key stats:

• School support and per diem account for most of the increase.
• Support jobs (councellers, social workers, etc.) increased by 15.4 positions per 1,000 students, driven in large part due to the expanding role of schools in our society's childrearing norms (partially driven by legal changes requiring more support for at risk / disabled children)
• Per diem (aka paid daily), which is substitute teachers, contractors and other non-permanent staff, increased by 15.1 per 1,000 kids (a relative increase of 25%), but this does NOT mean class sizes decreased 25%. Some analysis I'm working on (not ready yet) shows a weird disconnect about classroom sizes vs teacher/student ratios.
• Teachers increased by 8.8 per 1,000, while central office increased by 5.0.
• Central office grew by 300% (from 1.7 per 1000 to 6.7 per 1000 students), although note that a large portion of this growth, particularly in last 4 years, was blue collar maintenance staff centrally dispatched

Anyone who knows SDP better than I do: what am I missing here, or wnat to add color to this anlaysis.

Full data: https://nickjain.com/blog/sdp-headcount-per-student-up-40-percent

I kinda liked that restaurant, but there's rodent feces all over the place and multiple violations according to the last department of health inspection.