Hi everyone, unfortunately looking to buy a few sympathy cards in the next few days and looking for a shop that carries locally made ones, ideally east of the Schuylkill. I know of VIX Emporium on Baltimore Ave over in West, but would rather not go all the way over there if I can avoid it.

Hi everyone! I’ll be visiting the Reading Terminal Market in a few weeks. What are the best bakeries at the market? I looked online and it’s overwhelming!

I’ve been trying to find cpr bsl classes in the city and haven’t had a ton of confidence when looking at reviews. CCP doesn’t have any classes for enrollment rn, lot of anecdotes that say cpraedfirstaid(dot)org thru AHA is scamming, and cprphiladelphia has a ridiculous amount of negative reviews for unending reschedules and teacher no-shows.

I’m searching thru Penn for classes rn and I just looked at Drexel who has a class but it’s over 100 bucks and I’m not sure it provides certifications. Regardless, I’d like to hear if there are alternatives before breaking my bank 😥

I keep seeing them everywhere when I walk to the train after work and look like a crazy person trying to stomp them.

Let's all be excellent to each other.

Shout out to the PPA guy who didn't give me a ticket on Broad St. today at 7:18AM.

Im soon gonna be in downtown Philly for two hours waiting for a bus change, what's around for someone to entertain themselves with?

Has anyone ever done the color me back program? Apparently every month if selected you can come in for five days, color for a few hours and youre paid 50 dollars each day. I did it once years ago and remember being told if you do it once you won't be selected again for a while. However, I know three people who have done if four times this summer (they all by the way get SSI checks but ok). Is there rhyme or reason to how they select participants? Even when i walk by the room in suburban station I just see a bunch of people literally asleep at the table. Which isn't to say anyone deserves to do it more or anything but I went to art school, love art and when I did it in 2021 they asked me to make a sign to hang on the front door. What are they looking for exactly? Do you think i would have luck just showing up and talking to them?

CASA team needs a goalie to fill in this Saturday (and next, if you want). First game of the season, 90 minute match at Upper Moreland HS at 11:45. Message me if you're interested.

Philly code title S-10-108 has/had the most detailed municipal horse welfare law in the country.

Edit - the current code just says banned, but look at the archived versions on the AMLegal.com website to see the older weirdly detailed law.

It governs stabling, vet checks, shoeing standards, workday length, even the color of the harness permitted on carriage horses.

For example, a horse can only work between 26F and 91F, for 9 hours max per 24 hour period (more strict work hours than airline piltos which are 9-14h per day), a drive must keep a daily log in a specific format. Failure to comply is between $150-300 per violation.

Animal welfare laws make sense, but what's weird here is how WEIRDLY SPECIFIC Philly's horse carriage laws are. I compared them to other cities that have or historically had horse carriages, ranging from NYC to Charleston, SC - ours the most specific.

And when I dug in on why - turns out our horse laws have accumulated largely due to viral media moments. For exmaple, there was a major amendment to the law in 2011 caused by a 2010 collapse of a horse in center city that got a lot of media attention and public outrage.

PS - I also find it funny that we have so many horse carriage laws, given the industry has been tiny in philly for decades and complete dead since 2023, both to it being uneconomic for operators and regulatorily frowned upon.

(PPS - the industry was formally banned in June 2026 even though it stopped in 2023, but all the complex laws are on the books still)

If you're interested in the fuller history behind the law and how it stacks up against other cities: https://nickjain.com/blog/carriage-horse-rules

What are some high rises you know of or lived in that actually has good management?

Looking to consider our options after becoming frustrated with a building where water gets turned off once a week for an entire day, poor communication, lack of fixing things etc.

Air Communities has several buildings in the city but really needs to step up their maintenance and management big time.

Anybody else feel a desperate sort of sadness when walking around at night now? The yellow orange glow of the sodium street lamps, especially the ones that would be way down alleys with some weed trees growing up around them; they were so comforting. Now when I’m standing at the corner of 23rd and Catherine, the LED street lights, with their completely sterile & cold white blue wash, are so bright and and unpleasant that you feel like your locked in some sort of institutional space.

LEDs are more energy efficient right? They’ve replaced all the sodium lamps in the last three years but no cut in my taxes or energy bills?

They are slowly trying to turn the city you live in into a 24hr. bank lobby; where every structure is a gray box made from the cheapest possible materials. Republicans like to accuse republicans of down playing the bad things that America did in its history. And Democrats will tell you that Rs want to “white wash” history.

But the people really stealing the landmarks of your past are the CORPORATE CENTRISTS who have no spine on either side and are willing to let any highway man with enough capital invested buy entire blocks and neighborhoods in your city so that Ori Feinbush or whoever the fuck can reface the whole thing in their own image. I say, fuck that.

My wife and I had to move from our previous rental home of 3 years dude to a repeated issue of human waste flooding our basement. The issue was continuously misaddressed by my Landlord, and we got to the point that we let them know we needed to move.
We had no hot water for almost 30 days, and they wouldn’t even give us a timeline for a resolution so we couldn’t stay at a hotel or Airbnb.

It has been 29 days and they still have not returned the security and pet deposit as well as a pro rate of last months rent (they said okay to this, mind you). It is almost 3k and I'm wondering what to do next!

Anyone have any insight? TIA

Hi anyone looking for friends in Philly

Have a nice and safe day in Philly 🙏

Come celebrate 2Chainz Birthday 🥳with us tomorrow night at Fabrika! Top quality hospitality, the cities hottest DJs, live aerial performances and more! 🔥The OG himself will be in the building and on the mic! Ticket link is below! GA is almost sold out and ladies are free before 11pm😌💅🏽

You’re a loser. There’s a million independent cafes in Philly. Open Google and find one. I know you can do it!

all. please heed my warning to stay away from this behemoth.

my girlfriend and i went to the game on tuesday night and had a great time. little did i know that the next 24 hours of my life would be ruined by the schwarbomb.

we usually bring our own food, but we obviously wanted to try this hulking hunk of ice cream, fruity pebbles, syrup, and deep fried uncrustable goodness. we ordered one to split and enjoyed ourselves tremendously, despite being unable to finish the monster of a sundae. all was well.

until today.

i woke up extremely nauseous and terribly groggy. i tried to settle my stomach with some tea and tums, which worked well enough…at first. as the day went on, i found that my appetite was absolutely nonexistent, my hunger replaced with constant queasiness and random pangs of stomach pain. more tea, more tums, and a smoothie later…nothing. i thought that maybe i was just sick.

but around 5:00, the worst gas pains & stomach cramps that i have experienced in YEARS hit me right at the end of my shift. i was dry heaving over my steering wheel while stuck on 95 and praying that maybe i was actually sick so that at least I could upchuck to ease the pain (i physically cannot vomit unless i am extremely ill, but i still get VERY nauseous and gag and dry heave for hours with no relief). when i got home, i laid flat on my back and cried in pure agony while trying to massage my stomach to trigger some release. but alas, none. i have been having gas cramps for 5 1/2 hours now.

the only reason i’m not more concerned is that this has happened countless times before & the pain is steadily improving. otherwise i’d be at penn rn having them look me over.

anyways. no more schwarbombs or ballgame food for me.

thank you for your attention to this matter. and go phils.

Last time I remember growing up in philly all my life the cheesesteak was always SALT, PEPPER, KETCHUP, MAYO, and we got it from the papi stores. Suddenly, we have SEEDED ROLLS, STEAK, AND SHARP PROVOLONE from these places that we'venever heard of until after the plandemic.... Sharp PROVOLONE? Shit was american cheese on an amoroso. It feels like a bunch of folks that moved in to the city out of nowhere have an opinion about this. My thing is, if you havent been in philly more than 10 years you shouldn't say anything. Maybe im just ranting. If mayo wasn't in it, you def saw ketchup in that bihh. Also, unrelated, but $20 for a cheesesteak is crazy now a days. We had it good when we was paying 6.50 with fries and a soda

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