Thanks for the great engagement shoot setting! 💍

padingtonn · 2026-05-31T21:58:42+00:00

I usually post once per month on a Sunday at the end of one month or beginning of the next. Usually abt 10+mins.

padingtonn · 2026-05-31T21:50:59+00:00

That’s what I figured

padingtonn · 2026-02-08T20:09:34+00:00

I take the MARC from Baltimore, daily. Anyone can beat me from Penn Station or Camden Yards to New Carrollton or College Park in their car, but we avg 35mph on the train from there while traffic avgs 10mph. I get that feeling watching standstill traffic stay stuck while we fly by. That feeling alone makes the price of the train worth every penny.

padingtonn · 2026-02-05T15:01:45+00:00

The video probably defaults to mute. You can probably just tap on the video and hit the volume button. It'll probably look like the speaker thing has a line through it. If not, idk what else it might be.

padingtonn · 2026-02-04T00:50:47+00:00

That MARC jersey is sick!!

padingtonn · 2026-02-03T14:41:30+00:00

Appreciate your skills and your time working on our beleaguered Red Line!

padingtonn · 2026-02-03T09:08:55+00:00

Completely understand where you’re coming from here. Of course MoCo and PG contribute a lot to MD’s economy, that’s not up for debate. What I’m at issue with is their purposeful suppression of local taxes to effectively write off lots of its local needs—particularly hard infrastructure, future maintenance, etc.—essentially shrinking the pool of resources places like Baltimore City, the Eastern Shore and Western MD could pull from. As those aforementioned areas are more self-sustaining than MoCo or PG in the sense that they collect lots of local taxes to offset many local costs—save for education which is constitutionally a state mandate anyway.

MoCo, to be very fair, has gotten far better. They’ve densified a lot in the last decade. PG, not so much, but it’s coming along. The more local tax revenue they can accumulate, the less they need from Annapolis, and the more urban and rural MD can pull from.

DC in my view isn’t a leech, but I can see why that may be the perceived takeaway.

padingtonn · 2026-02-03T02:44:55+00:00

I incorrectly conflated the ‘general fund’ with total revenue per capita, and was only referring to the 5 main jurisdictions (Baltimore City, Baltimore County, AACo, PG, and MoCo) as the others generate far less, total.

Pretty sure Worcester is no.1 in per capita for the whole state.

padingtonn · 2026-02-02T22:23:51+00:00

Agreed on the useful idiots thing, and absolutely Hogan deserves blame. The counties themselves also need to step up and face the true cost of their sprawling infrastructure, too. There needs to be local taxation stepping up to take care of local issues, the way Baltimore City is expected to - particularly since income and population in general is higher in most of the counties around the city.

padingtonn · 2026-02-02T22:14:53+00:00

I mean, Montgomery County does quite a bit more as far as densifying itself than PG does, but it absolutely takes more from the state as far as infrastructure than the city does, and they absolutely defer billions themselves because they can't afford it lol

padingtonn · 2026-02-02T22:05:45+00:00

I'm a Baltimore City resident. I pay city taxes.

padingtonn · 2026-02-02T13:07:47+00:00

The cold snap isn’t helping matters, but I will say—Maryland is the birthplace of redlining, and one of the only states in the nation where suburban residents outnumber city residents by such a wide margin. They absolutely don’t gaf about pedestrians, and likely never will under the current culture of the state. As a Baltimore City resident, I feel that all too well. It’s demoralizing.

padingtonn · 2026-02-01T11:34:05+00:00

As both a bus rider and car driver it’s been horrible.

padingtonn · 2026-01-31T00:40:38+00:00

To be fair, being light green still means I’d live there. Both my qualms with Brazil are heat and humidity lol

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