Movieoke bars were a real thing they tried and failed to make catch on in the mid-00s—failed so hard that only one of the 145 replies here is actually aware of their pre-existence

In honor of Bob Dylan's birthday, here's a 1963 Columbia Records ad spreading the notion that he was a hobo from the age of 10

The New York Times does not caption the photographs on its homepage, and it amuses me to think that thousands, maybe millions of readers might look at this and wonder if this is Jaxson Dart at a Trump rally. (answer at the bottom of the alt-text)

"Mayor attends huge local sporting event and doesn't even get comped seats or sit in the best spot" is such a hilarious way to try to burn someone, really nypost.com/2026/05/22/u...

I worked for Long Island's newspaper, Newsday, and then NY Newsday for a decade. No one ever called the LIRR "the lurr." This is insane www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/n...

Happy May Day www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYLR...

In 1988 when Dhillon was the editor-in-chief of the Dartmouth Review her paper was accused of trafficking in antisemitism when it published an article comparing conservatives on campus to Holocaust victims, and comparing Dartmouth's Jewish president to Hitler.

My American wife informed me yesterday that her sisters are planning a girls trip to Texas, in June, and her eldest sister doesn't want to rent a car because "we can just walk". After I picked myself up off the floor I explained the many reasons why this is a terrible plan.

The New York Times steadfastly refuses to caption the photographs on its homepage, so I can only assume this is the new Fed chair

Florida was always like this (from Talking Animals and Other People (1986) by Shamus (James) Culhane)

Nothing to see here, just calling one of the best-known Jewish senators “borderline anti-Semitic” for opposing the war 🙄

The beef patty and that filet-of-insole or whatever are indeed disgusting, but those carrots look more appetizing than any vegetable side served at Trump's clubs. (Photos taken from @patriottakes.bsky.social ) bsky.app/profile/news...

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

This is accurate, and I say this as a Jew whose parents tried to raise me as a Mets fan but screwed it up and stood by helplessly as I switched to the Yankees at the age of 6. (I no longer really care about baseball, don't @ me)

"everything he did over the past 10 years and in fact his entire life was entirely consistent with my Christian values until this specific thing" is a hell of an argument

an all-timer for "imagine how JD Vance would react if a democrat said any of this"

Masterful gambit, sir, needlessly alienating millions of Catholic voters in the run-up to the midterms, such a brilliant 11th-dimensional chess move

One of Frank Herbert’s Hebrew novels I’m not familiar with

Getting all sorts of celebrity followers today!

Bluesky not exactly winning at figuring out when someone has their tongue firmly planted in their cheek

Santana featuring Rob Thomas

I do not take booktok seriously and I never will. What the fuck you mean the epilogue and prologue “aren’t part of the book/story”???????

That's three straight World Cups Italy has missed

Did I say presidential library? I meant PRESIDERFPIAL EIRRAABG

“I’m saving up for the other sleeve and then maybe a back piece”

Headline: LIONEL MESSI SCORES 900TH CAREER GOAL! Smaller type: Messi's team, Inter Miami, eliminated from CONCACAF Champions Cup

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

I'm exhausted by all the efforts to rewrite the history of the 2022 US Senate primary in Pennsylvania, with folks insisting "we told you so!" as to Fetterman, that Conor Lamb was always the better choice, and generally ignoring Malcolm Kenyatta's historic candidacy. So let me say a few things. 🧵1/

Back in the 1930s, they were marketing Ovaltine as a scientific wonder food

This should not be shrugged aside. They have stopped with the fake 22 million illegal immigrants things and are flat out saying we want to deport 10's of millions of citizens and legal residents from "third world countries" Basically they are advocating removing 1/3 of the population on a gov site.

The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished

Looking in on The Other Site, and the blue-check brigade still doesn't recognize satire when it's staring them in the face

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Has anyone done this yet

lol sign worked

I've seen a dozen of these now and this is clearly the best, it's not even close

I'm sorry, there are now BUTTONS that CATS can push to COMMUNICATE? How long have I been in a coma?? (Tell me Trump's not still president, at least.)

Surely something as good and pure as AI Jesus could never be abused or corrupted and turned into a tool of an authoritarian dystopian society, can you imagine such a thing

Cuomo's Election Night party's yacht-rock playlist is now playing Bon Jovi's “Livin’ on a Prayer,” which is even more on the nose than “Don't Go Breaking My Heart,” which they played 20 minutes ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8h...

The New York Times still can't believe what all the polls have been predicting for months

Coverage of mamdani (every word endlessly scrutinized, wildly bad faith interpretations of everything he says) vs coverage of trump (sanitizing every quote, ignoring his nonsense or paraphrasing it into what reporters wish he had said) is so instructive as to how in the tank the press is for the GOP

I remember when a NYT columnist spent a third of their column recapitulating The Dark Knight just to use “some men just want to watch the world burn,” so I think I'd rather see “red-pilled” enter the mainstream than have some other fuddy-duddy feel obliged to rehash the entire premise of The Matrix

“Fill in the Oval” “Find Cuomo on the Ballot” Yes, the directions to vote are given in this order.

btw there's that NRSC poll floating around that says voters are more likely to support Platner after hearing about his tattoo here's how the question was phrased lol

Just as an aside, I worked at Miramax during some of the Clinton years and we would send two versions of movies to the White House. Regular version for Bill and Hillary, and an airplane/TV (censored) version for Al and Tipper Gore.

F'ing subways, how do they work

@mikeredmond.bsky.social : you need to drive the “Oyster Fetterman” connection home

"Wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus" might be the most astounding seven words any NYC mayoral candidate has ever spoken.