Hell is a shared Google drive.

resistandunsubscribe.com update: I finally figured out that I can just HIDE ALL AMAZON results from search on DuckDuckGo. The Amazon Divorce takes a lot of leg work, but like Mackenzie Scott, I'm pretty sure I'll be better off without Bezos. @pivotpod.bsky.social duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-h...

Wonder Man is an absolute treat.

Team USA just wearing NY Rangers jerseys was there no budget for uniform design?

Well it clearly doesn’t cure brain worms

Wonderman is fantastic. Hilarious and heartfelt. While there’s no confirmation that the MCU’s Wonderman is a mutant (he isn’t in the comics). Thematically this feels more like a mutant story than a superhero one. Where powers aren’t aspirational, but a kind of otherness.

RFK Jr. Demonstrates How To Remove Tapeworm By Scooting Ass Across Carpet https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-demonstrates-how-to-remove-tapeworm-by-scooting-ass-across-carpet/

Mood:

As consumers, we have tremendous power. My friend @profgalloway.com has provided a very simple set of tools. RESIST and UNSUBSCRIBE: www.resistandunsubscribe.com

RESIST AND UNSUBSCRIBE! Scott Galloway (Professor G), has a new webpage that lists subscription-driven consumer tech companies identified as having outsized influence over the U.S. economy and the Trump regime. Use the list to unsubscribe! #ResistUnsubscribe www.resistandunsubscribe.com

I'm in: Adios, @netflix.com , @Apple One/TV/Music, Apple News. I dumped @Amazon Prime/Kindle/Audible a while ago, so today I'm cancelling my Amazon/Chase Visa card. www.resistandunsubscribe.com

ICE thinks Minnesotans will eventually give up, it’s like they’re unfamiliar with Vikings fandom

Four months on Duolingo, when are we going to get to a “talk about baseball” lesson? Gimme something I can use

Conservatives Say Renée Good Was Brainwashed By Bible Into Loving Thy Neighbor

"i saw a bad post on x" ok well i saw a turd in the toilet but i'm not making you look at a screenshot of it

Get your copy of this book now, before it gets banned from US libraries.

Progress being made in the Cold War on my couch: The dog and the cat sat together for almost three whole minutes, butt-to-butt.

I'm having a very hard time thinking about rooting for the NY #Mets this season. BUT: I am wholeheartedly rooting for New York's #Nurses right now. There is power in a union!

This week I learned about the “shut up” browse extension, which hides all the comments that appear after articles on sites like @gothamist.com. It’s quite empowering to just erase the comment clowns. Highly recommend. rickyromero.com/shutup/

Just listened to the Hard Fork pod and it’s nice too see @caseynewton.bsky.social become such an ally to the hockey community.

Average monthly job growth since April (Liberation Day): USA: ==========+12k Canada: ======================+22k.

@bookhive.buzz I uploaded my goodreads data to bookhive, but I"m not loving the way it worked out. i want to delete it, maybe start over with a tidied up CSV. I cannot figure out how to delete this account. Help.

There is nothing as aspirational as one's goodreads "to read" list. I am claiming bankruptcy and just deleting everything to start the year with a clean slate.

If any one person saved our republic during the 21st century it was Eugene Goodman and I am sure that he hasn’t been thanked enough.

We are in the upside down. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/u...

First read of the year was a banger, and the large print edition was as luxurious as a bubble bath. #booksky

It's just so funny because this feels like it's different somehow, crazy dictator Trump blah blah blah, but it's really just the United States doing what it has done since the Gulf War -- aka, whatever Exxon wants.

Relatedly: just discovered the “shut up” browser extension, which hides the comments at that follow news articles. The @gothamist experience will be much improved for 2026.

Dialing my “immediately block the crazies” Bluesky rule up to 11 for 2026.

2025 really sucked. But we added this awesome cat to our home, which almost makes up for losing our democracy and for the Mets giving up Pete Alonso.

Missed my usual goal by quite a lot, and honestly having a hard time remembering the books I did read. Here’s to a bit more focus in 2026. #booksky #yearinbooks www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...

Am I meant to feel sad and nostalgic about the last days of Metrocard? It’s not like it was a token.

Ads for Progressive are like “don’t turn into your parents” but shopping for cheaper car insurance is like Peak Parent Behavior and also I just cut our bill in half by doing it.

You know what's driving up the price of car insurance in New York? All those out-of-state plates you see on cars of people who clearly live here.

60 new locations and still none in Queens. Thank god for the QPL. www.timeout.com/usa/news/bar...

New York provides tax credits to for-profit newsrooms. Now, non-profit digital outlets, public broadcasters and public access channels are seeking equal treatment. Doing so would strengthen our democracy. buff.ly/v8S5VN4

I wandered into a PopUp Bagels once and I’m emotionally scarred. Do not let this happen to you. If there’s one thing that does not need disruption it’s the bagel shop. apple.news/ASYrcrFyARmG...

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Time and thoughtfulness are the greatest gifts. #giftlink 600 Readers Told Us About the Best Gifts They Ever Got. These Are the Top 13. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/o...

I have successfully managed to do all my Christmas shopping without patronizing Amazon. About 80 percent purchased in person at retail stores.

Semi-regular reminder to be kind to retail workers today & patient with the people shopping with you. This doesn't have to be a stressful weekend for anyone. Let's just enjoy how nice it is to celebrate the people we love with gifts. Thank you!

Due to overwhelming demand, a recently restored 1980 documentary about how New Yorkers use their public spaces is returning to the big screen for an encore run in January 2026: gothamist.visitlink.me/t7jTC4

Whether it’s a big dream, a new goal, or something you’ve always wanted to try, add your wish to the magical confetti that will fall at midnight in Times Square! Visit the #NewYearsEve Wish Station at 40 QPL locations and write your wish on a piece of official New Year’s Eve confetti by Dec. 20!

All my favorite sites ask me to subscribe for extra content but seriously y’all are putting out way too much content. I’d be more inclined to pay a premium (and often do) for less content. Edit it down to a well curated “morning edition” and “evening editon” like in days of old.

Notice that the parts of Trump's economic program that help working and middle class Americans — DOGE checks, tariff rebates, and warrior dividends — are popular, progressive, and non-existent. Tax cuts for the rich are unpopular, regressive and very very real.

All books should be large print books. 📚

The air in Midtown these days might not smell like the English countryside, but it’s a whole lot cleaner than this time last year: gothamist.visitlink.me/G_K9H5

"It’s easy to slip a fifty between the covers of a book without sacrificing the tradition of physical gifts. (You can even put the money near the end of the book if you want to be slightly evil—which, as an aunt, you should be, if you possibly can.)"

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

Everything about this wockaflocka is small. He makes everyone around his ass small. Ask yourself if he's made you smaller too. It ain't too late to stand.