Kid tonight: MOM, Mayor Mamdani signed this thing that makes bedtime go away for the entire time the Knicks are in . . . something. Me: Honey, we don’t live in New York right now. Kid: MOM WE WERE BORN THERE WE’RE NEW YORKERS THE RULE APPLIES Me (silently to myself): the kid has a point. BAH.

Today is a day when nothing happened.

Dad is insisting I become a Knicks fan. Never been one for basketball but I’m here for NYC supremacy.

This is because the Commissioner comes from the half of the FDNY that knows what their real job is and knows that the job isn't running into burning buildings. What percent of FDNY truck rolls are for actual fires? Gotta be <5%

The fact that transit agencies can't participate in grilling their vendors 'for legal reasons' is a microcosm of what ails America.

Right before I ‘helpfully’ uncovered the plate.

This argument reduces to ‘Israel is incentivized to increase antisemitism outside of its borders’ which is probably a bad thing!

There were like 20 years of Easter eggs and useful utilities written by thoughtful Googlers in their free time and the Search team ditched them for… technology that’s not suited for purpose.

New Sixth Ave bike lane is outlined, should go in next week.

I lived with a dyed-in-the-wool small-l libertarian (who was also, oddly, anti-abortion) for 2.5 years. Many nights ended in arguments and then we'd open beers together 20 minutes later. It made me a more empathetic person, more strident in my political convictions, and a much better debater.

I went to a neighborhood design meeting with DOT 5 years ago and made the argument that we shouldn’t put painted bike lanes into my neighborhood and that traffic calming was preferable. Bike lanes are just seen by drivers as “ok to double park”

The famous Landwasser Viaduct, everyone. A very good use of those lowerable train windows.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

@oceansofnyc.com look what I found

Flatbush Ave bus lane progress pics.

This is the biggest risk right now to the expansion of e-bikes. People are mashing together e-bikes and all other manner of high-speed electric motos and scooters into one bucket. I've had someone ask me if my e-bike is one of those "e-motos the kids ride."

We know why, it’s because someone has decided to put the entire pension/salary cost of the employees that DOT is already paying. Hoboken is saying those costs are already spent, and the only cost is the paint and bollards themselves.

The great irony is that the pioneers who ‘first’ settled in Texas (never mind that folks had been living there for thousands of years) would have been far more compassionate than the modern view of them.

New York City needs this, yesterday: www.theautopian.com/danish-polic...

the problem with the shittiest billionaires getting so directly involved in space is how much it turns off people who just want to be excited by space

Young people are always told what not to do. But what should you do? Did you know that most public libraries have a Nintendo Switch to use? That parks show free movies at night? That there's a map of pickup basketball games?

One thing that is really under-valued is that the effort to make Israel seem ‘special’ actively helps antisemites in their quest to demonize all Jews.

The Florida government has repeatedly and notoriously violated their state constitution and ignored multiple voter plebiscites.

This is awesome.

I don’t want to hear “but they’re both the same” in another election as long as I live.

Did it ban Cop unions or does Spanberger only support bargaining power for the already powerful?

The fact that the Luce rides on a 23/24” staggered setup is an indictment of it being out of scale. Those wheels are HUGE and it’s almost certainly because the design doesn’t work at the scale without them.

The Luce is stylistically an heir to the Stratos Zero, the 512S Modulo, and the Citroen Karin. It’s just way. Way. Way too tall.

The fruits of a system that makes affordable parking mandatory and affordable housing illegal. Means-tested free parking -- the vehicle owner can't use it unless they also own a house. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...

10:23AM: File a 311 ticket for a clogged drain on my street 11:22AM: NYC DEP rolls up to fix it

TIL

I continue to hate how everyone crowds the belt at baggage claim as soon as it starts moving.

Now this would have been an interesting car, had it existed.

Sunday mornings, the main avenue in downtown São Paulo opens for pedestrians and cycles. There’s some really nice details that the city gets extremely right.

Dropped off at our hotel in Luzern after taking this small ferry built in 1929 that was converted to electric drive in 2024. It has a 260 kWh battery and a max speed of 20 km/h using its 180 kW electric motor. It was so weird to silently coast to piers just feet away from swimmers.

One thing I think is interesting is the level to which AI makes it easier to turn over your thinking process to the sycophantic idiots you surround yourself with — something that was previously only available to the richest & most powerful.

“Brain damage causes you to be a right-winger” was too on the nose when it was just Fetterman. What’s this now?

‘Street owned by Parks & Recreation to be used for recreation’ FTFY

Firefighters (in addition to being totally car brained and suburb-dwellers in NYC) are also obsessed with the idea that they fight fires when the vast majority of their calls are for EMS work. They want to run into burning buildings but the most important item on every truck is the AED.

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Bossa Nova cover of ‘Hotline Bling.’ Is this anything?

Populism means posting a selfie from the cheap seats instead of making a media appearance.

Absolute king shit. No notes.

The feds harangued Kat and my family over bullshit charges for a year. They tried to beat her down, bankrupt Kat and her codefendants through legal fees, and a defeat her spirit. They fucking lost. They will continue to lose. Fuck ICE forever. To this criminal gang of a government: stay losing.

One interesting result of the personalist cult. (Nb. Not “fora E.U.”)

The message shouldn't be "taxes are bad," it should be that you should get something for them, it's your money, it shouldn't be going to some rich dipshit's Dr. Claw-ass ballroom or into the pockets of J6 child molesters

I have had a lot of debates with my friends in which I’ve made the point that the absence of American imperialism & hegemony is not an absence of imperialism — it’s the far worse competitive imperialism of every country with an even remotely robust economy.

A cool feature of some Brazilian airports is a glass wall in the baggage claim hall so you can see the way the airport works.

This person went from “I don’t think bikes belong on the road” to “oh, busses also don’t belong on the road” because they’re fundamentally selfish and unsuited for life in a city where they need to share space with others.

Gotta say, other than the price the BYD Dolphin isn’t competitive. Wouldn’t play in Europe or the US. Lots of Chinese cars would absolutely demolish in the market but there’s a reason it’s <$20k.