Went to my primary-care doctor today for the first time in three [sic] years. Said years have resulted in a blood pressure reading that is basically OMG over WTF; a subsequent hasty EKG showed that everything was circulating just fine, so this is basically hyperstress crossed with genetics. So,

NYC safety fears: - NJ drivers, especially turning left - inexperienced/inattentive CitiBike riders (this is real, crashed into me) - icy sidewalks - pickpockets? sorta, not normally - elevators making weird mechanical noises The sob-story hustlers and chuggers are more quality of life.

Worst cipher of the decade.

Skyscrapers, pizza.

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead Glonzo.”

If you were writing a parody of a totalitarian takeover you’d edit this out of the first draft for being too obvious.

Can anyone tell me if this actually means anything?

Sii in pace, grande uomo.

Ted Cruz, Man of the People, thinks you get Domino’s Pizza by going to the store and waiting in line, yes.

QOTD: What should Kamil buy for the sake of glorious gratifying Experience?

Midengined Corvette declared woke, EO to have it be front-engine again.

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

Just turned 52. Starting my thirteenth year teaching and the seventh managing the sub-calculus part of the department, which is orders of magnitude longer than I’ve been anywhere else. And thus year is sizing up to be a contender for most insane of all.

Me: I just need a solid stripped-down basis to build my dream Shelby/Trans Am-influenced Mustang hardtop street racer. Also me: Not that stripped down.

I’m not even gonna be mad at this putz. I’m just looking forward to the response.

The world is doing everything it can to disabuse me of my love for fast cars, including showing me that they tend to be owned and driven by assholes.

It's funny how the educational attainment of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation migrant children isn't due to the hard work, resilience and assimilation the right wing beg of our communities. Instead, it's due to the idea we have somehow stolen our grades from the 'white working class'

I need to talk with the algorithm managers at Instagram and try to help them understand that “interested in sports cars” does not mean “show me crypto bros with brand new GT3RSs acting like children in traffic“. Ugh.

ultimately i think the central thesis of trumpism might be true nihilism, just the absolute disdain for the idea that anything matters at all beyond winning an argument in the eyes of your supporters. there is no such thing as competence. there is only loyalty and occasionally bad press. that’s it

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

It’s been 20 years? Oy. (I still remember the controversy around them using non-union projectionists.) To many more.

Quick history for tonight:

I wonder if he practices these canned responses in the green room. Fake media! Skewed polls! Liberal DAs! Soros Soros Soros! He's playing a rhetorical game, nothing more.

Post a random picture, else everything will go bad in September.

It’s still never going to be a loving word from Dad.

On the one hand, private equity. On the other, I mean, how can Walgreens get any worse?

I'll go further: I know one album is titled "1989" (an important year for me, so it sticks) and there's a line from a song about lying on the cold hard ground (which I only know is hers because i looked it up and was surprised) and after that I'm hopeless. Just not part of my world.

Someone else said this first but it bears repeating (often and forcefully): The people who were all wailing and gnashing teeth about how EVs were going to cause all kinds of grid issues are strangely muted about the galactic power usage needed to get bad essays and worse porn from the Slop Machine.

Today's #weirdcarbluesky Facebook find: www.facebook.com/marketplace/...

Can we just ban bad (meaning all) wanna-ASMR videos now please? Close-miking a bunch of button pushes or whatever feels more like someone being annoying in a library than a nervous-system tickle. Enough.

Been mostly quiet about a weeklong vacation to Montreal - good time! go see the botanical garden! heavy food - but saw this and wondered what exactly they were thinking:

I am given up by traitors;

[fires off #WCBS flare] ww.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1051481186638913/

Well chosen. The man is a big part of the national collective conscience right now.

Okay, who else is getting a raging headache reading all of this today so far?

Friend of mine updated the stereo in his 2009 Mini Cooper. By the photos he sent it was a matter of removing the car from the sound system. I don't think car radio theft is a major problem anymore.

Has anyone ever done a film of some sort about the Treaty of Versailles? Merchant-Ivory times the most treacherous, nastiest, most consequential political meeting of the last few centuries.

French and Canadian researchers have shown that faulty mitochondria directly drive memory loss in dementia. Using a new tool to boost mitochondrial activity in mice, they restored memory performance, proving cause and effect for the first time. buff.ly/2REM0fd #ShareGoodNewsToo

THE WORLD DEMANDS CONTENT. FEED THE CONTENT VORTEX. ALL IS CONTENT TO BE MADE FOR ALL.

Confession: I like planning to do push-ups way more than I like struggling through them.

If you live in the Northeast and traffic in aircooled Volkswagens you may know about a much-loved shop in Connecticut called Freccia Brothers. Seems like they’re on the short end of a nasty family dispute and need to move from their longtime home. If you can, help here: gofund.me/45b79f98

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy:

Coming soon to a cable-TV ad in your area: Restless Arm Syndrome.

As a reluctant but serious-minded manager: This is not unfair.

Having one of those moments when I have to firmly tell the ghost of my dad, gone 26 years, to stop bothering me about how I’m doing something at the moment and just maybe I’m doing what I can and this is going to be okay, y’know? Should do it more often.

New 154 episode Netflix Anthology series where each episode is a creative adaptation based on one of Shakespeare’s sonnets

If it's some weird blessing/curse deal where I don't have to pay purchase prices, Porsche. If not, Mazda.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

the message from the white house is that you live in a city run by people the president doesn't like, you will be occupied like you are an enemy of the state.