I opened my new mechanical keyboard ten minutes ago and my life has already improved exponentially. I can hardly remember before.

“Nope.”

I cannot WAIT!!!!!

How long before they start pulling people aside for traveling while trans, or showing up on that secret database of unpatriotic persons? These are secret state police with a license to do whatever they want.

Christian Petzhold describing his love for movies “where people repair things”— Miroirs No. 3 is exactly about this, such a stunning film. #filmsky

From the 2018 NYC Municipal Archives exhibition “Unlikely Historians,” 60s & 70s NYPD “counter cultural” surveillance: A 1967 MLK Jr anti-war speech: “I agree with Dante, that ‘The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.’”

We have a term, “bribe.” It’s an old fashioned term, but it’s pretty accurate.

It’s snowing. Again. But I am excited about my tomatoes.

According to r/ApplyingtoCollege, Bari Weiss’s University of Austin is sending emails to students: “You didn’t apply. We’re admitting you anyway.”

I love everything about this story!!! “His great-grandfather, William Delisle Frisbee, had been a potato farmer and schoolteacher in western Pennsylvania by day, but by night he was a traveling showman. He drove his horse and buggy from town to town to dazzle the locals with a projector.”

I just screamed and my partner ran upstairs in a panic. How can we without you, Catherine O'Hara?

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“She scratched at the back of her head and suddenly her silver hair came floating down around her shoulders as if she’d pulled the pin from a hand grenade.” God damn, Karen Russell!

Peak Positively Rochester:

This is the actual problem and we need to demand more than cheaper eggs.

My guess is the next few years will be a series irreparable losses, and it will be hard to predict which losses will hit hard. Which will reveal exactly the degree to which the world we've been living in, the things that brought us stability and comfort, no longer exist. This one hit me.

Post a famous bathroom scene.

A woman across the aisle is loudly postulating that our train is late due to “a Mamdani thing.”

I starting hosting New Year’s Day parties in 1996. I missed a few (break up, COVID), but most of those 30 years I spent New Year’s Eve finishing up my mac & cheese trays, stepping outside to listen to neighbors cheer in the distance, and looking forward to friends & food the whole next day.

Peace and Serenity to all ❤️

Peppermint Peeps au chocolat! Merry Xmas Eve ❄️🎄❤️

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

We know that moments like this feel completely overwhelming. To all of our transgender and allied community members, we want you to know that you are not alone. We will continue to offer families of trans youth real, tangible resources. transyouthemergencyproject.org

ROC airport hour 8.

Getting tipsy and reading a truly fantastic book about Nazi eugenics policies against the disabled. 4 hours to go! ROC airport hr 7.5.

ROC airport, nearing hour 7.

Upgraded to the 8oz glass of wine. ROC airport hr 6.75.

These texts came within 1 minute of each other (ROC airport hr 6.5)

The Bills are playing at “On the ROCs.” Crowd is shockingly subdued, which is surprising. Because they ahead? Also surprising. Only people not watching are myself and a priest in a priestly collar and very sporty hiking boots (ROC airport hr 6).

Woman sitting behind me at “On the ROCs” sports bar sounds exactly like Parker Posey in Best of Show. “It’s not POUNDS, it’s EUROS.” (ROC airport hour 6).

Hour six in the Rochester airport. I guess I’ll start live skeeting do I don’t have to suffer alone?

Hour five of delays, sitting in Concourse B of the Rochester, NY airport. Hankering for a pull-up bar, let me tell you.

My 16 year old has really taken to baking and cooking. I’m out of town right now and got a picture of him dry rubbing a pork shoulder—slow cooking over night to bring pulled pork to a Friendsgiving— and I don’t think I’ve ever been felt prouder. There was a mortar and pestle involved.

I thought the ShamWow line was a joke, alas.

PSA for anyone flying out of JFK Terminal 4: give yourself 90 min more than you usually would. Construction blocking the departure ramp, 30 min traffic backup, and no TSA Precheck in the whole terminal, hour long line. Maybe add an extra 40 min to have a glass of wine because you’ll need one.

I adore Matthew Lillard and I love this backlash.

Shout out to the guy who brought the full sized Christmas tree, on a stand, on the LIRR to Penn Station.

My wife just said Johnny Depp dresses like a coat rack in the back of a local theater that's doing productions of Seven Brides and Pirates of Penzance simultaneously

I'm here for the cinema origin stories.

Follow the trail? 🐌

I am proud of my sweet potatoes.

Only at 108, but anticipation is building….

100%. It was an epic smash and grab.

Just added up ingredients needed for Thanksgiving and I'm at 54 TBS of butter....

resources re: ICE presence in North Carolina, distribute widely if you feel like it. all love to my community, no love to the people who said "but what is fascism really? historically, blah blah, name-calling gets us nowhere" when we were all saying "these people are fascists" linktr.ee/apply_heat

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly

We got this NYC!!!!

With SNAP benefits ending soon, please consider donating to your local food pantry to help ease the pain for neighbors. The Food Bank for NYC does great work here: www.foodbanknyc.org

The @psc-cuny.org faculty union published a very helpful NYC voter guide that breaks down the six ballot initiatives, including the contentious housing proposals: psc-cuny.org/issues/endor...