LATE NIGHT on the LIRR strike beat (Psst... it's over). www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/18/l...

It's interesting that they'll use AI to call out their graduates' names but not to call football games. Shows you where their priorities are.

“Dr. Antaki, a biomedical engineer, had been building an artificial heart for babies and young children, a pump the size of a AA battery, and he was getting close. But with his research grants stopped, Dr. Antaki slowly drained his lab’s rainy day funds, and he was forced to lay off all his staff.”

???

"I ask all of you to think of it, graduates and families alike, let yourself dream of a future in which we can harness this amazing new technology to eliminate entry-level jobs entirely. Indeed, that work has already begun, and that future is now." /college kid booing intensifies "Wow okay,"

mmm but they all hate their mothers

HORIZON: ZERO DAWN (2017)

You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

no totally most people on the boards of startups that went on to fail were the real hardworking americans in 2020

Well that episode of Widow’s Bay was intense!

I could not decipher what some replyguy account was trying to say but I blocked them on instinct, like I was swatting at a bug-like sensation on my skin

Also the next somebody says reparations for black people is a ridiculous idea, remind them that we have a reparations program for trying to overthrow the government

If you are on Bluesky.com it means that you were a child who had a period where you became hyper obsessed with volcanos and earthquakes

The Cascadia Subduction Zone Big One is way scarier than San Andreas imo (though they're both absolutely terrifying)

Are there elementary schools named after these people? There should be. They only just found Gerry Martin’s engine. That’s all. Just the engine.

Just reading about the potential outcomes of a Mount Rainier eruption, happy Monday

waking up to this news

Retrocausality epilogue and it's just Lise summoning popsicles at the beach with Elliot and Sophie

On the train, my youngest asked how many books I have written. “Ive finished 5 books.” “That means you are writing a… 6 book?” “Yep!” “Wow, thatz so cool. It must be so cool to decorate the insides with drawings like popsicles and tarantulas and ghosts.” “My books have no pictures.” MOOD SHIFT

today I learned that Japanese castles stored emergency rations inside the walls and under the floors and now I understand why Dracula's Castle has hidden meat all over the place

Being rich is so boring, If I was rich, I wouldn't have a private jet, I'd have a private rail car and I'd be hooking it up behind every Amtrak train

Leo reading this like, ah i see he likes a mature woman

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

Air to Ground Message: DISPHEY...THIS IS REAL LIFE LOL...WE NEED A GOOD LAUGH SOMETIMES....WTF WELCOME TO FRONTIER Area: Louisville, KY, USA Type: Airbus A320neo A: #a6c14af4d63 F: #f3a75464be6

It really is something to see men who have committed heinous crimes out there, free, walking around, earning fortunes, ruining people’s lives, while shit like this happens. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/n...

Truckee, naturally

Habsburg ass baby

You would think Polymarket would have a vested interest in stopping this, no?

It’s kind of insane how they’ve just stopped caring about basic politics. ‘We are building a golden ball room when gasoline is 6 dollars a gallon’ is going to go down swimmingly with voters

I really love Hell Gate — if you live here you should subscribe

Do what you love, kids.

I do not understand the people who ride the subway and select to not hold on or sit down. I want to say, babes, a beloved sibling is one of the engineers who does the safety checks on these puppies and he holds on, lol

You work and you work and you work for 140 whole days and barely make six figures!! Won’t someone think of the congresspeople!

Carnosaur at the dollar theater (I had no business seeing that movie at that age) and I asked, did grown ups make this? Did they intentionally share it with movie theaters?

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

oh so now all of a sudden I'm not allowed to use AI-hallucinated citations or everybody will get mad at me??? I see how it is

Still wondering about Denis tbh

Beginning to think the Delete and Report Spam button on my phone increases the spam

Millions of Americans are paid through government programs to care for disabled family members. Now that lifeline is under attack on multiple fronts: Trump’s $1 trillion Medicaid cuts, strained state budgets & growing attacks from the right framing the programs as wasteful. My story on the fallout

School admins selling AI, trying “you don’t want your kids left behind” to former No Child Left Behind kids is pretty funny tbh

English is a good language but it's way too unimaginative. There is no need to have a supremely useful word like warmth but not use a counterpart of equal value like coolth. I reject the constraints. I would like some more coolth in the air.

Woke up to this

last night had the horrible realization that Ned Flanders and Ted Lasso are actually the same character

Thinking about the Sandra Bullock film The Net

The most important ability you can develop is being willing (courage) and able (communication skills) to be the only person in a room saying something, even if everyone else hates you for it. All the intellect in the world is useless if it just gravitates instinctively toward the majority opinion.

Teachers and schools are expected to fill every gap created by the evisceration of social services in this country, even as they're being fiscally strangled themselves. Schools are food banks, community clinics, de facto counseling ctrs..and then blamed when all those problems continue to worsen

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