For some reason, I'm feeling like watching this old movie this week: www.imdb.com/title/tt0120...

OK, but why don't the British use all those spices they invaded all the world to get? :-)

Blows my mind it hasn't even been a full year of congestion pricing in NYC yet. Years of cranks whining about it and then you just DO IT and everything is instantly better and everyone gets used to it and moves on. We should do good things more often! PS - T-minus 12 days to Streets Mayor Mamdani!

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Hannah Arendt: “The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lies will now be accepted as truth, and the truth be defamed as lies, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world...is being destroyed.”

It's unfortunately difficult to find places to donate used good in many localities. But, please don't support Salvation Army by donating stuff for them to sell in their stores, either.

Date night last night-saw the new Nuremburg movie. While watching it, I thought it was too heavy-handed an allegory for current events. Discussion over dinner afterward suggests it was far too subtle.

I named my fists John and Cage because you're not going to be doing anything for the next four minutes and thirty three seconds

Things I've neverthought about: cruise ships run on diesel. Even in port they still burn it for electric, adding pollution to the area. They could plug in to electric grid on land, but most terminals don't have that infrastructure: w42st.com/post/our-res...

It was bound to happen sooner or later, but this is the first report I've seen of it. NYPD responded to call for carjacking, but it was ICE: gothamist.com/news/nypd-sa...

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

Mamdani has won more votes than the entire population of any of the 5 smallest states.

I kind of love that BBC World Service, reporting on NYC mayor election, called Mamdani a "left-leaning Democrat". Not "left-wing", not "leftist", not "socialist". I'm pretty sure no American news outlet would ever use that phrase.

Eulogy for another victim of gun violence

Just tried watching Ezra Klein’s latest NYT podcast episode on how the U.S. got to this point where vaccines are so politicized. It’s pretty clear that Klein and his guests—David Wallace Wells and Rachael Bedard—really do not understand why/how the political right turned on vaccines.

Came across this little post randomly the other day and I can't stop thinking about it. Maybe I should wait until Monday (Labor Day) to share? But, I don't want to forget. Sometimes a needle is more than just a needle. www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/th...

This is the sort of thought that can provoke a depressive spiral. And yet, it is an important thing to consider.

BREAKING: U.S. regulators have approved the world's only twice-a-year shot to prevent HIV.

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Clearly the fire department doesn't have anything better to do... hellgatenyc.com/fdny-ice-hea...

My husband just called an éclair a "sugar hot dog" and I can't decide if it's brilliant or idiotic.

I had some ponnish this morning, but it settled down into teluge after a nap.

Thought of the day: Kilmar is Gen Z's Mumia

Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️ Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.

it's remarkable how quickly "tren de aragua" went from something i had never heard of to a crisis so urgent centuries-old safeguards of liberty and due practice had to be cast aside, even at the acknowledged cost of some innocents getting pressed into indefinite detention and enslavement.

It's almost as if Trump were a life-long crime boss protecting his own.

It’s really tedious to argue with these fascist ignorant assholes but over 4 million riders take the subway each day. I doubt Sean Duffy is ever one of them, and he’s just shitting on NYC based on NY Post headlines and Fox News stories to score points with Trump’s racist base.

She was disappeared because the CPB "had a feeling" That's it. Her profession is portable, so they decided she MUST be planning to make some money while she was here. And she was dropped in a oubliette. www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

This is just to say I have stolen the bars of gold that were in Ft. Knox and which the U.S. was probably saving for its reserve Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

There is still no specific treatment for measles encephalitis.

@quatoria.bsky.social Anna, I don't know you, but it would make my week to learn that you have a long simmering rivalry with someone called Nora Pinephrine.

I'm not looking for a new job, but I get emails every day. Today's was more explicit than usual. It is 100% accurate, but, wow, way to make me question my career choices...

Behold.... the DSNY bike lane plow! It has a brine tank in the back. #bikenyc #biketooter #nyc #bikelanes

I suppose it's just because I'm "of a certain age" that this week's news just makes me think of this: media1.tenor.com/m/3NFTSWLpf6...

Fuck these fascists.

Chicago has been so effective at getting Know Your Rights info out that ICE has been publicly frustrated they can't make all the arrests they want to. Good to see it in other places too! Keep it up, folks. Resist ICE everywhere. 👊

I've seen suggestions for code words to alert ppl to ICE agents. I'm a little surprised none yet have been "code yellow" ("ice" in Spanish is "hielo" which side kinda like "yellow")

Taking the President's symbolic roles as essentially being the central rituals of American civic religion, Trump's inability to perform them- to actually be presidential- signals that the civic religion is hollow and without power, that there are no consequences for blaspheming it.

1. Trump's immigration crackdown is premised on the idea that the US is experiencing a massive surge in violent crime According to Trump the crime wave is especially severe in cities THIS IS A LIE New data shows crime is LOWER than when Trump left office in 2020, and below pre-pandemic levels

It is amazing how well this has worked out so far, by the numbers and also just in terms of what you see at the river crossings and in midtown. No greater proof of how cowed/dorky/incompetent New York Democrats are that none of them can even find it in themselves to take any credit for it.

Too many people who think they're critiquing MAGA views on immigration are falling into a trap and you all need to stop. Not all brown/Asian/Latin people in the USA are immigrants. For public figures this isn't even hard to check. 1/4

Woke up yesterday with lower back pain for no apparent reason. Took some Advil and went to work. 3/4 through my shift bending over is no longer a Thing I Do. Had to bail on fencing class today. I guess this is middle age...

Not such a terrible idea, but this felt like slow-motion juggling as much as knitting, with all the time I spent untangling and deliberately twisting 6 balls of yarn. (Hat is currently blocked/drying in a position that is not amenable to a useful photo) #knitting

Jimmy Carter died today. Does that mean hostages in the Middle East will be released now?