relatively wealthy people use public transit here because it's more convenient than driving for day-to-day living. that's it. that's the only reason.

There was a beautiful transsexual impromtu playing the cello at the 34th St @nycferry.bsky.social stop.

Well I know who in the Talmud you're NOT following

For the curious defector.com/a-brief-and-...

increasingly sympathetic

I would like to be collared and told I will be okay

Damn.

It’s kind of remarkable how AI has so efficiently unmasked software engineers as slobberingly eager agents of capital—a workforce so allergic to solidarity and class consciousness it’s a miracle they still know not to walk into the corner office on the way to their cubicles.

I don’t want to feel afraid. I don’t want to feel alone. I don’t want to feel insecure. I want to be able to love freely and fully without it inevitably curdling into pain and inescapable reminders.

a wolfdog named Nazgul snuck into an Olympic cross-country ski race today, ran the homestretch with competitors, and triggered the finish line camera he was escorted home no medal was given this is a crime

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

My wife has asked me to “replenish the qube-tip” today so that “he doesn’t die”.

Guys I was waiting for him to post footage - I KNOW HE HAS IT - but it seems like he may not. But last week I took Brad Lander on an ICE watch ridealong and he PERSONALLY CHASED OUT AN ICE CAR ON FOOT I am not making this up. He walked right up to a lurking unmarked car and they tore out of town

I would eat king's hand purely out of respect for the creative capacity of the human subconscious, but I'd order a big mamdani every day of the week and twice on Sunday

Long Island City has always been cool!!!!!

Ba-dee da dee-dee

“When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It's how I've learned to survive through everything… I know you see yourself as a fighter. Well, I see myself as one too. This is how I fight.”

I think it's shameful that during a second Trump administration, and after NYC voters rejected a return to moderate, conciliatory governance, that a Democrat would tout the entirety of the Council's Republican caucus as her supporters.

playin' toys, hell yeah

My horns are growing in so nicely!

Blue: Maybe? Red: Yes Green: FUCK YES

Gedalia Ben Ahikam was a victim of Cancel Culture due to his support of free speech in the Chaldean Empire

New York City calls itself a refuge for queer and trans Americans, but that promise is at risk if we don't take on the housing crisis head on. Read my op-ed about the need to build more housing to reduce rents, in this case, via the OneLIC project: gaycitynews.com/new-york-rem...

"New York has been America’s queer haven for more than half a century, but that’s in jeopardy unless we build the homes we need. Initiatives like OneLIC help ensure our city remains open to all." Great op-ed from LIC's @emilia.bsky.social in Gay City News gaycitynews.com/new-york-rem...

Strange New Worlds is SO good

I was made in the image of God, which is why I'm a non-binary king who uses he/him pronouns sometimes.

It is ALWAYS okay to go me mode

On my flight tonight, we were above Lake Michigan and a layer of clouds, and below a lightning storm, the stars, and a bright orange moon. It’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen. I am so much in awe of G-d’s creation. No picture could do it justice.

“Sorry boss, can’t work anymore today. Yup, it’s the cat again. Nothing I can do.”

the high point of my being denounced as a neoliberal shill on tiktok is when i insisted that gentrification is downstream of housing supply constraints, and isn’t a quality inherently possessed by people you don’t like

Sheol (שאל) is where you go to if you ask (שאל) too many questions.

18. the main reason cats don’t occupy dogs’ role in society is misogyny

now it's time to rest - topajade week 7, END

THE ELMO METS

74. If you subscribe to the "Talmud says there are eight genders" theory, that's not a rejection of the gender binary. That just says that gender is binary, only you need at least 3 bits to represent it.

13. The New Year for Trees should have been on 1 Shevat, not 15 Shevat.

Comeback COMPLETE!

Molly is so good.

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the most thursday tuesday of all

Honk

Going to Athens Square Park in Astoria and shaking my head at a picture of Eric Adams so they know I don’t support Turkey

ever think about how the shulchan aruch is basically this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS

As an aside to the fare-free discourse, I just noticed *Staten Island* is the borough here that had the most complaints about cost of service, which is funny to me. I guess a lot of express bus riders?

In both cases we are making some rides free but not others. Splitting it by mode, in a way that drives riders from the faster higher capacity vehicles to the slower, lower capacity ones is essentially the worst place to draw that line.

What are we making free here? I can spend $800 million on making things free other than “if it has rubber wheels it’s free.” -Free for fair fares recipients instead of half off -9th ride in 7 days free instead of 13th -free year-round youth passes instead of school year -Free transfers to railroads

I think we shouldn't have to vacuum underneath things. I think if a piece of furniture goes somewhere, it shouldn't get dirty under the furniture. The furniture should create a protection zone from dust.

People do not perceive bus service as reliable, they penalize it heavily every time it is unreliable. That's why bus riders are much more likely to stop taking transit after purchasing a car when compared to rail riders (metro/subway/regional/commuter/intercity). To fix buses, you have to fix that.

Zohran has successfully united the left and urbanist liberals on the need for both more housing supply plus strong rent regulations and deeper subsidized affordability. I hope in the course of governing he will adjust in a way that this also happens with fare policy, but that will be harder.