Esteban

@estebananza.bsky.social

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I'm an affordable housing attorney and this is where I post my personal views. Talk to me about trains, cities, and safe, healthy, attainable homes for all. Temple Law/UR Alum | 🏳️‍🌈 he/him | 📍philly :)

A close up of an Agastache foeniculum inflorescence. A whorl (technically a false whorl) looking like a tower or stacked rings of tiny light purple, tubular flowers rises from a background of deep green leaves with toothed margins. Two very tiny flying insects are enjoying some nectar from the flowers and maybe trading local gossip. Who is to say?
A screenshot from the inquirer article in the quoted post. It reads "“You can do a voice vote,“ Brady said in an interview. ”If they do a voice vote and somebody calls for a roll call, you gotta do a roll call.” On Monday night, Bass, who has been ward leader since 2018, maintained she had the votes to win another four-year term. But she did not respond to a request for comment on why she ignored requests for a roll call. “We had the votes,” she said in an interview. “No matter what I did, some of these people are not going to be happy.” She added: “It’s OK. That’s democracy.”"
A bee clings upside down to a cluster of soft pink redbud blossoms, drinking nectar. I wonder if bees' thoughts drift as they browse flowers? Probably not.
Green and gold (Chrysogonum virginianum var. australe, yes yes I know it's southern Green-and-Gold, I used to be even more of a native plant amateur!!) blooming in the garden. Cheery yellow flowers float above a jumble of verdant, spoon-shaped leaves.
An image of the book cover for "The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie" by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. The cover features a minimalist white background with a large central graphic: a circle split vertically down the middle. The left half of the circle contains a black-and-white concentric, swirling rings that create a sense of depth. The right half of the circle is a vibrant color gradient transitioning from pink at the top to orange, yellow, and green at the bottom. The title and subtitle are printed in a bold, black sans-serif font at the top, and the author’s name is prominently displayed at the bottom. A small note mentions she is the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos. The book is being held by a hand against a background of a blue patterned rug and a wooden floor.
A screenshot of a headline from the Philadelphia Inquirer's sports section. The headline reads, "This is where Cam York's stick ended up in the midst of the overtime celebration".
Closeup pic of flowers on a creeping Jacob's ladder (Polemonium reptans). They are small, light blue or purple, five petaled flowers that grow in clusters above the delicate, ladder-like leaves.
A closeup of an unopened peony bud. A single black ant skitters around the bud, attracted by the peony's extrafloral nectaries. The peony produces nectar to attract ants, which protect the plant in exchange for the special juice.
the one meme ripped from wikihow of a guy staring at a mirror and pointing at his reflection. image description: a simple color illustration of a white guy with light brown hair staring intensely at a mirror and pointing his index finger at his reflection. In the mirror, his reflection, which is rendered in monochrome, stares back at him making the same gesture.
A woman wearing athleisure walks down a suburban sidewalk, pushing a stroller with one hand and looking at the phone she is holding in her other hand. Behind her, a house is on fire, with red flames and thick black smoke obscuring most of the home's shape.
A picture of Black Cohosh, a native plant, emerging for the spring. An single, impossibly small and delicate shoot curls up from the ground like a fiddlehead. It is surrounded by black mulch and small rocks.
A photo of the first few leaves of wild ginger poking up for the spring. Small, bright, and triangular green leaves poke up through a mixture of mulch, twigs, and leaves.
James the Seventh performing at MilkBoy
Exhausted Ben Affleck meme
A short clip of a small tortie messing with the tail of a gray tabby, the latter being way too focused on dinnertime to care.
A screen cap from SpongeBob of Squidward looking disheveled and crazed, holding a sheaf of papers proudly.
A pic of my computer monitor, which is displaying my browser. On this screen, which is Ticketmaster's queue for tame impala tickets, it says you are now in the queue and also says that there are twenty thousand nine hundred forty two people ahead of me.
A Valentine's day postcard from Tattooed Mom, a restaurant on South Street in Philadelphia. It depicts a stylized tableau of things representing the holiday and Tattooed Moms. At the top of the card, two red devil looking cherubs carry a banner that says "Happy Valentine's Day." Below this, various characters are having a grand old time. A fish woman watches a butch in sunglasses shoot pool. A crocodilian chick, a pink haired lady in a pink dress, and a literal, personified eyeball celebrate over some food and PBR. In the foreground, a blond bombshell holding a martini winks at the viewer.
A bearded dragon named Jupiter laying on a piece of cork bark, basking under a heat lamp. Most of his tail and part of his back leg are obscured behind a piece of mopani wood. Jupiter is a leatherback dragon, meaning that his scales are smaller than a typical dragon. This gives the effect of making him seem smoother and shows off his mottled pattern of muted reds, yellows, and tans. His little yellow eye stares at the camera suspiciously.
A screenshot of a paragraph from ABA opinion 512 that reads: The appropriate amount of independent verification or review required to satisfy Rule 1.1 will necessarily depend on the GAI tool and the specific task that it performs as part of the lawyer’s representation of a client. For example, if a lawyer relies on a GAI tool to review and summarize numerous, lengthy contracts, the lawyer would not necessarily have to manually review the entire set of documents to verify the results if the lawyer had previously tested the accuracy of the tool on a smaller subset of documents by manually reviewing those documents, comparing then to the summaries produced by the tool, and finding the summaries accurate. Moreover, a lawyer’s use of a GAI tool designed specifically for the practice of law or to perform a discrete legal task, such as generating ideas, may require less independent verification or review, particularly where a lawyer’s prior experience with the GAI tool provides a reasonable basis for relying on its results.
A screenshot from an online form. The prompt says "Your gender identity" and in parentheses after that it says "check all." Below this prompt are a list of checkboxes labeled man, woman, non-binary or third-gender, identity not listed above, and prefer not to respond. The prompt should have probably said "check all that apply," but I think it is funny that it doesn't.
Tiny tortie sleeping on my desk.
pt: um meme de um pastor de televisão com olhos fechados em oração. Ha uma legenda que diz: "jesus, eu vejo que o que voce fez por outras pessoas, e eu quero isso para mim." en: a meme of some kind of tv pastor with his eyes closed in prayer. There is a caption that says "Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me.
Low resolution closeup of gordon ramsey staring off at an oblique angle with a deadpan expression on his face
A picture of my hand holding a copy of Bad Company: Private equity and the death of the American dream by Megan Greenwell. The cover depicts a defunct Toys R Us: the sign for the store has been removed, but the faint outline of each letter can still be seen.
A turkey wing hand broom made of broomcorn and twine. It is essentially bundles of stuff grass wrapped with bands of black twine. This is my first time making a broom, so the bands of twine are not very even.
Beloved children's character Bob the Builder (the original, not the CGI version). He is facing the viewer with his arms outstretched kind of like Christ the Redeemer.
A tortoiseshell kitten partially loafing on a yellow and orange plaid slipper chair. In the background is a backpack and small suitcase.
Agastache urticifolia, aka giant hyssop, with two honeybees combing through the many little purple flowers on an inflorescence.
Penn Law in a statement to the law school community Thursday morning acknowledged the closing of the office at the end of the summer. Dean Sophia Z. Lee said while the office is closing, the school remains committed “to ensuring access and opportunity for all.” “These values guide how we teach, learn, and work together, and will continue to be deeply embedded in the life of the Law School,” the school said in a statement to The Inquirer. The office’s work, which included helping law school members “dialogue across difference” and supporting the community, will be “integrated into broader, school-wide initiatives,” Lee said in the campus message.
My orange tabby sitting on my desk and doing that thing cats do where they throw a leg up to groom the uhhh base of their tail.
A view of the ocean from under a beach umbrella.
A doctored version of a classic dril tweet that reads: turning a big dial that says executive power on it and constantly looking back at SCOTUS for approval like a contestant on the price is right"
A banner outside a restaurant that reads: Bruno's ...introduces our NEW Dinner entrees Created by Chef??? After 4pm....... BYOB.
A screencap from SpongeBob. Mr. Krabs is looking dejectedly at a chalkboard that reads "zero days without nonsense".
A picture of a perfectly red cherry tomato held daintily by my thumb and first two fingers.
A reaction pic of Jon Stewart cradling his forehead in his hands looking absolutely distraught
A screencap of the pink, blonde diva fish from SpongeBob kicking sand directly at SpongeBob's face. It is a reaction meme responding to the bullshit, anti-trans politico opinion piece quoted in this skeet.
The lower Manhattan skyline seen from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. The skyscrapers of the financial district loom over the east river. In the foreground, Brooklyn's old piers are covered in vegetation.
An unknown variety of Schlumbergera, or holiday cactus, that I picked up years ago on a clearance rack. It's blooming: the tips of several stems display showy, bright red flowers that almost look like birds in flight. I've almost killed this plant several times, but her will to live is stronger than my absentmindedness.
A picture of a portion of the eastern façade of the PA capitol, taken from the elevated courtyard just south of the North Office Building. Grey skies hang above the dome and lantern, the latter being topped with the gilded statue of Commonwealth. Did you know the statue is over 14 feet tall?
A small, newly-planted garden bed against a white vinyl fence. In the background of the bed are two very young red chokeberry bushes (a. Arbutifolia "brilliantissima). Around them are some other, smaller perennials and ephemerals, including two asters (purple dome), goldenrod (solidago flexicaulis), Pennsylvania sedge (carex pensylvanica), white bleeding hearts (dicentra), Solomon's seal (polygonatum), and foamflowers (tiarella).
A screenshot from Spotify showing the title of the weird auto-generated playlist it made for me: pink pilates princess alternative pop Thursday evening.
Dicentra (bleeding hearts) in bloom
A map of the Philadelphia region. Several highways are highlighted in red, and SEPTA regional rail lines slated for elimination are depicted as dashed lines. Text boxes pointing to each highlighted highway route describe the impacts on traffic congestion that could occur if SEPTA is forced to reduce service. For example, Route 202 Eastbound could experience 40% increases in delays, I-76 Eastbound could experience 20% increases in delays and 7mph reduction in speed, and I-95 North and South could see increased delays of 10 and 18%, respectively.
In the foreground, a woman wearing athleisure pushes a baby stroller with one hand down a suburban sidewalk while looking at her phone. Meanwhile, in the background, a nice cookie-cutter suburban home is in flames.
A vintage version of Rocky, the anthropomorphic yellowjacket mascot of the University of Rochester. This version of Rocky has him looking particularly mean as he leans against what appears to be a spiked club and scowls at the viewer
A white cockatoo peeks around a door that is slightly ajar. The caption reads "y'all mind if I scream"
A photo from my point of view as I'm scratching the head of a large Maine Coon cat
Mr. Krabs looking dejectedly at a chalkboard that reads "zero days without nonsense."
A plate of bomb-ass pineapple fried rice and sweet chili tofu. The recipe is from the cookbook BLACK RICAN VEGAN.
Meme image of "stonks guy", a mannequin head photoshopped onto a body wearing a suit. He stands in front of a background of red numbers and a jagged line ending in an arrow pointing down with the words "not stonks" superimposed.
A snippet of the heading from a filing in the case of Ewing v. Carnival Corporation. It reads: PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO HALT THE MADNESS (AND REQUEST FOR HEARING) Plaintiff hereby files his Motion to Halt the Madness (and Request for Hearing) and states as follows:
A painstakingly detailed isometric map of Philadelphia , focused mostly center City with a little of south and west. Each building is hand drawn and there are colored lines showing different mass transit routes.
A photo taken from the audience of a concert venue towards the stage, which is set with two chairs, microphones, and a screen displaying the message "Ziwe for President"
Starship remnants burning in the atmosphere
The cover of BLACK RICAN VEGAN by Lyana Blount. The title frames a picture of a full spread of delicious looking food like vegan pernil, pastelillos, arroz con gandules, and fried vegan chicken with Mac and cheese.
How can Democrats present a more united opposition to Trump? “It’s definitely a struggle of what is the appropriate response, and I don’t know that I can claim any sort of solution or authoritative action. I have tried really hard to take each vote separately and try to conduct myself in a way I think my community would want me to. Immediately following the vote I met with a three-star general in charge of the Defense Intelligence Agency to talk about cuts there, and the consequences of that to our intelligence community, and that’s my way of working through all these atrocities this administration is leveling.”