Andrew Ginther is basically every negative stereotype of a Democratic mayor

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A black and white photo of the grey stone ediface of the Ohio State Penitentiary's cellblocks engulfed in flames, the sky above black with smoke.

Built by convict labor in 1830, the Ohio State Penitentiary housed nearly 4 times as many people as it was designed for by its centenary. Rather than institute a parole system, the state finally began to expand it, but a fire broke out on the scaffolding on April 21, 1930, this day 95 years ago.

OhioSentinel_1961-03-03thru1962-01-04_0060 The Ohio State Sentinel was a weekly African American newspaper based in Columbus, Ohio that was established on June 1, 1949. They covered local Columbus news, and state issues that were important to ...

This Ohio Sentinel article from 1961 - "Families, Landmarks Go As Bulldozers Tear Through E. Side" - says the Fort Hayes exchange alone displaced 978 families.
So I guess the benefit this time is that the city is only taking the park they promised to improve instead of just taking you house.

Coalition of Concerned Citizens Against I-670 v. Damian, 608 F. Supp. 110 (S.D. Ohio 1984) Coalition of Concerned Citizens Against I-670 v. Damian, 608 F. Supp. 110 (S.D. Ohio 1984) case opinion from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Flytown is its own thing, but this is decades later east of Fort Hayes. MORPC's defense in court was that building 670 where it is was the better option because it was mostly rail corridors and only displaced 60 households, and the only alternative was to build it directly on top of 17th Ave.

270 N was to be built through the Ohio School for the Deaf, directly through Old Beechwold, one of the richer communities inside city limits. Homeowners in that neighborhood didn't need to organize and sue to try to stop the highway. They just called their friend the governor and got it moved.

The eastern end of 670 in Columbus was built through poor working class African American neighborhoods over the objections of a coalition from those neighborhoods and Bexley. Court found the homeowners rights had been violated, but what are you gonna do, not build a highway?
Meanwhile across town...

Here’s the classic anime Golden Boy riffing on this gag.

Honestly one of the best bits of bike media ever.

Bf and I have been watching Pete and Pete and we just discovered that the episode where Steve buscemi plays Ellen’s dad aired the same day reservoir dogs premiered

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

I requested to speak and got back an email saying “unfortunately, we’ve already reached our maximum number of speakers in opposition to the piece of legislation for which you are requesting to speak” 👀

Update #2: Quicksilver, a detector for AI-generated music.

Most folks today are not aware that AI-generated music (entire songs generated by AI models) are growing rapidly. Today, there are more AI-generated songs than human-created songs arriving each week on platforms like Spotify.

In 1964, Groucho went to East Berlin with a group that included his radio show director Robert Dwan and his 16-year-old daughter Judith Dwan Hallet. They visited the village of Dornum, where his mother Minnie had been born. and discovered that all the Jewish graves there had been obliterated by the Nazis. Groucho hired a car with a chauffeur, and told the driver to take the group to the bunker where Adolf Hitler was said to have committed suicide. Wearing his trademark beret he climbed the debris and then launched himself, unsmiling, into a frenetic Charleston dance routine. The dance on Hitler's supposed grave lasted a couple of minutes. "Nobody applauded," Hallet recalled. "Nobody laughed."

Hey, it's Hitler's birthday.

listen sometimes you just want to hang out with someone who has a comparable knowledge of ska, punk, and ska-punk

A testament to how succinct Redes (1936) is in its portrayal of a a fishing community throwing off its shackles and how blatant its Marxism is, is the fact that this is our shortest episode in a long while. Don't need to do tortured leftist readings when the text itself is so anti-capitalist.

People are dunking on this, but personally I have no difficulty believing that Franklin Graham doesn't recognize Jesus.

Scientists Prove That Experimental Animation Can Cure Social Media Brain Rot A new study from UC Santa Barbara shows that watching experimental animation expands creativity and opens new ways of seeing the world. #Animation #ExperimentalAnimation #MentalHealth #BrainRot

A new study from UC Santa Barbara shows that watching experimental animation expands creativity and opens new ways of seeing the world.

#Animation #ExperimentalAnimation #MentalHealth #BrainRot

After a successful discharge petition, the House approves a bill forcing the Trump Administration to give some 350,000 Haitians in the U.S. a temporary legal immigration status - letting them stay in the country. 10 GOP lawmakers voted Yes.

"I can't believe you know that Disturbia is a rip off of some Alfred Hitchcock movie no one's ever heard of but you've never seen Alien." - a customer at the bar tonight to his friend.

Is the pope catholic? We report, you decide.

Working on this year's Labor History Bike Tour for @columbusdsa.bsky.social and trying to decide if I'm anticapitalist enough to stand outside the patio of an open restaurant during brunch and talk about the multiple times their entire staff walked out.

I say this as a Christian, fwiw, and so I am biased. I am biased in that I, personally, don't think the Trump-as-Jesus image is as offensive to my faith as, say, seeing Liam Ramos being hustled away from his school by ICE.

The more he posts the more I understand “by your own words you will be condemned”

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy [BBC 1979] - YouTube

You can watch the six-part BBC miniseries of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 1979, starring Alec Guinness, for free? www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

We kick off Martin Scorcese's World Cinema Project Vol. 1 with the first film from Africa (at least, directed by an African) the Criterion has ever shown us in like 700 movies, Touki Bouki (1971) from Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambéty.

In 1985, Wendy Carlos spoke about the reaction to her transition: "The public turned out to be amazingly tolerant or, if you wish, indifferent ... There had never been any need of this charade to have taken place. It had proven a monstrous waste of years of my life."

Don Ameche the Blind Swordsman

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

My ancestors chose death over learning too much about Catholicism, I will not stand for this.

I'm sorry but Donald Trump should not be the cause of my learning too much about weird Catholic history. That is Luis Buñuel's job.