The digital toolkit is meant to help residents get to know each other and prepare their neighborhoods for extreme heat, flooding and more.

the toolkit is here

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53465719

The early voting for the Midterms is now available in many places. You can early vote at a polling place or you can use mail-in voting.

Get organised today here: https://www.vote.org/

If you choose to vote in person, either now or on election day, be aware of your rights and course of actions: https://lemmy.world/post/53334632

Reminds me of the old furnace party flyer

Curious what the community thinks of this. When I have a friend who's less than 5 minutes away, sometimes I will go out and look for (street) parking spots, and if I find one, I'll just stand in it until they get there. In my opinion this is totally okay to do, given that they'll be there in a few minutes.

But every now and then someone fights me about it. They'll nearly run me over trying to park in it, and I'll say I'm holding it. They'll say you can't do that. Idk man, look I get it if it was like 15+ minutes that's no good, but if a friend is just a few minutes away I think that's totally fine.

I mean we're talking about a public street here. Tell me if you think I'm wrong

Beware lunch time waits can be more than an hour but also these sandwiches are so good it is worth it

Philadelphia ABC is hosting a prisoner letter writing event at Wooden Shoe Books on Monday July 26th. Prisoner letter writing event happen monthly on the fourth Monday of the month.

Worth the full audio with interviews and speeches, plus a minor kerfuffle handled very well.

Some of the signs (still reading them):

‘Service members say no to war’   ‘Healthcare not warfare’  ‘No more rich man’s war’   ‘Service members say: NO to war’ ‘Duty To Disobey Illegal Orders’   ‘Freedom Over Fascism’ ‘End the wars at home and abroad’   ‘Protect our neighbors: ICE out’     ‘Military off our streets’.

Let me know more and I’ll add them here.

I love their white on black and stark branding scheme for many of these.

Simple, clean, elegant, and with a strong slap of mourning. Perfect font and scheme

Only full electrification is a path that actually results in not adding to the warming we're already experiencing

I wonder if they'll ticket the school buses that speed through the school zones.

Under the banner of “modernization,” the district intends to shutter neighborhood schools, redraw catchment boundaries and compel students to travel farther from their communities. Experience has shown that such closures disproportionately impact working-class neighborhoods. The loss of a local public school destabilizes entire communities, eliminating not only classrooms but vital social hubs that provide meals, counseling and after-school programs.

Penn appears to have experienced a cybersecurity breach on Friday after a series of mass emails were sent to students, faculty, alumni, and parents from accounts linked to the Graduate School of Education.

The email:

Climate change and ancient infrastructure make Philadelphia vulnerable to potentially catastrophic flooding, but federal, state, and local efforts are meeting the moment.

I figure they just haven't gotten around to yanking federal support for this kind of adaptation measure