It’s great that this man was able to resume his baseball career 16 years after being shot in the stomach in a Chicago hotel room.

I had a bone marrow transplant last year. I am currently getting all my childhood vaccines again because the procedure resets your immune system to zero. I am about 9 months away from getting the MMR vaccine and worried that it’s not going to be available. I also do not want to get measles.

The same Andrew Cuomo, who as Governor,went to great lengths to make sure MAGA enthusiasts controlled the State Senate—after Trump was elected president—even when they could no longer win a majority of seats?

Here goes my usual random Bluesky post... #illustrators ! Get on this: www.usopen.org/en_US/news/a...

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yes, us! here you go:

Deploying the troops to Portland because anti-ICE protesters brought back pay phones and $1.13/gallon gasoline.

"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed" so succinct! so good!

I somehow left Washington state off the the list? Anyway, Washington is also available!

Go Blue Jays!

The sunk cost fallacy is just that—a fallacy. It’s okay to change the things that aren’t working for you, from jobs, to partners, to gender.

Science, like every month for about a year now: These chatbots are melting your brains u motherfuckers can't even read or think anymore genAI guys: Why use lots brain cell when one do trick 🤓 ☝🏻 🧠 and I am very iphyshent

that fall crisp in the air means it's almost time for Open House New York, and (free!) tickets for the most coveted sites open up TOMORROW! we combed through all 342 of this year's options and made a short list of the ones you'd be wise not to miss: nygroove.nyc/open-house-n...

Max Headroom, an AI-generated avatar, is being compared by its creators to A-list human TV hosts…

Had they hired a competent communications professional, instead of a third-rate slopper, we wouldn’t have this self-own recalling Andrew Cuomo’s catastrophic mismanagement of the MTA while he was governor.

New work for the Property Chonicle about the Twitter-obsessed politicos mismanaging the U.K. They are are quick to respond to online outrage, but largely indifferent to the real life problems of working people, from whom they are increasingly isolated. johnwtomac.com/news/rue-bri...

In a city of world-class artists and production crew hunting for the next gig, Andrew Cuomo made a TV ad the same way he wrote his housing policy: with AI. Then again, maybe a fake Cuomo is better than the real one?

The MTA should aggressively raise the Verrazzano, Cross Bay and Marine Parkway bridge tolls to make up the difference

If it’s copyrighted material, it seems to me either you can’t use it without running afoul of copyright or you cannot. “This would be infringing except for that we give you an opt-out” is not a thing, that I know of. Your copyright *is* your reservation of rights, you don’t have to say “Even you.”

Finding out the boy started crying during the 8th inning today and I will have my revenge against the Marlins and also the Mets, who I love, but also hate, and will see burn in hell, but also love very much and can’t wait until next year. Those assholes.

We spent nine months examining how and why the neediest and sickest New Yorkers fall thru the city’s expansive safety net. Reupping our project for the weekend folks =>

Hero

I am really looking forward to getting stopped by the cops for violating the e-bike speed limit on my regular old bicycle. www.amny.com/news/nyc-e-b...

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

16 years ago today, I had to leave a @mets.com game in the fourth inning because some panicky doctor at New York Presbyterian called to tell me I might not live through the night. He was obviously wrong about the dying part, but very correct about me having chronic myeloid leukemia. #WorldCMLDay

The Mets don’t really deserve to make the playoffs but imo I personally deserve the Mets to make the playoffs and that overrides it.

I’ll add that this matters because being moved to tears by something that someone else made is one of the very best parts of being alive.

Milton Glaser said the purpose of design is to inform and delight. Really imagine what it feels like to be delighted. It feels like warmth in your chest. It can feel like goosebumps. That is the bar for all art: to move someone, possibly to tears. When I see something made by A.I. I feel nothing.

I’ll post more about this on Monday but yes it’s true, ya girl got to draw the new covers for the relaunch of Animorphs. I am… THE LIZARD KING

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Andrew Cuomo is probably a nightmare client, so he might be doing us all a favor by using AI slop

New work for The Chronicle of Higher Education about the impact of the Trump Administration attempts to withhold NIH research grants from universities. The schools eventually got their money, but a lot of research was compromised or abandoned during the fight to have it restored

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

miserable, crappy, boring, bleak world these tech clowns are building

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civility is when a white guy calls for minorities to be eliminated in a calm voice while wearing an expensive suit

de Grom getting this kind of run support in Queens in unnatural

essential tools

They're missing the playoffs

This is so close to being funded. Help push them across the finish line! www.kickstarter.com/projects/dia...

An interview with @michelerosenthal.com, founder and driving force behind @armadillostock.bsky.social, the alt licensing platform. Read and support the Armadillo Kickstarter campaign. Big THX to @julienposture.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/julienpo...

As I sometimes tell my teenage daughter, "No one has ever regretted not posting."

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Let’s go Mets

I think I hate this baseball team. No. No. I love them. They’re my special men and I love them. But I also hate them and they shouldn’t make me feel this way. My sweet boys. My angels. I hate them.

It’s gotta be the shoes #LFGM

Car-free school streets now!