Sabrina Carpenter is now our President. Sorry, don't make the rules

THAT’S NOT GOOD (3 train)

270/472 13 hours in.

I took two trains at 3:30-4 on Wednesday that were so crowded that people got left on the platform. The MTA absolutely should not be placing any more orders for new trains that are not open gangway, the trains are way too crowded for them to drag their feet like this.

I am nine hours into an attempt to speedrun all 472 subway stops. We’re not gonna get the WC because of unlucky delays early on but this is craaaazy. We just got to stop 189.

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so my understanding is that after conservatives tore the UK to pieces for 14 years the labour party was so limp and pathetic upon coming back to power that they no longer exist

they’re applying to Jupiter

being a trans woman in a friend group of scruffy nerd boys is like this

the only problem with lottery for applications is that you'd probably need to submit *even more* applications but hopefully it would simplify applying to most schools....

I'm still thinking about this exchange. As is often the case, we see Nuzzi acting out the most extreme version of a phenomenon that is actually pretty common in elite media: people taking umbrage at the idea that they're supposed to exercise moral judgment, and can be blamed for not doing so.

How about there is a ship and it "treks" around the galaxy exploring new worlds, investigating phenomena, and occasionally being called on to serve a diplomatic or military role in various border spats, treaty negotiations, first contact events, etc.?

*twice* as many. holy shit. what are men doing?

wait lcd soundsystem has made that few albums?

aging rock stars, prominent economists, theoretical physicists ...

My class actually improved, last semester was my worst. I tried incorporating a lot of new things, some worked and some didn’t. I found the most successful thing was having the students stand up and move to the front of the class to talk before having them break into pairs for group work.

It's crazy how all of this is literally just downstream of the supreme court striking down some law in 2018 to 0 fanfare

This is like the single most reproducible data point in political surveys from the last decade lol. It’s “Alabama has high level of racial polarization“ level of statistical clarity

how to start deep state cabal such that if we reestablish democracy I can make open borders real

I sense a disturbance in the force, as if millions of forty year olds and uncles cried out

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ultimate revenge on the republicans would be open borders and building fifty brooklyn density metropolises in the midwest and south.

@davecolon.bsky.social would you show up to our end point when me and my friends attempt the NYC Subway Challenge (fastest time to stop at all 472 stations) on Friday if we make the record?

I don’t want to be pollyannish about the past, but it was basically inconceivable twenty years ago that a president would say this publicly

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

still thinking about this from earlier repeating "duquesne incline" to myself

The full zoning capacity is much larger, 36,000 is more an estimate of how much will get built under the new zoning in the next several years, since not every owner is going to build.

I’m gonna be a little contrarian: containerization is *ridiculously* expensive and requires completely replacing DSNY’s fleet of collection vehicles.

Zohran points to City of Yes as an initiative to build on 👏

“Capacity” for only 36,000 homes (maybe 100k people) strikes me as on the slower side but this happening sg all is incredibly exciting! It does means I’m gonna have to stop showing people sfzoning.deapthoughts.com anymore though!

NO FUCKING WONDER BRO

some day there will be another justice

Oh yeah?

Democrats need to become an anti-corruption party, and to do that, they have to stop defending corruption.

To be clear, it seems more that violent ideologies inform media writ large, ascribing unique issues to a given medium or genre is also a distraction. But likewise, the media is how these ideologies are encoded into socialization, soooooo

Video games not affecting people (largely) as fear-mongered circa 1997 masks the ways they still do shape thought, largely for the more institutional, ane hence pernicious

COD4’s AC-130 mission is much more antisocial than MW2’s No Russian mission

Woke 2 should include a temperance movement for online gambling

Buying a city-owned lot seems like a simple process. But the city puts a limited number of parcels up for sale each year.

somehow that managed to get spun to the average voter as “he’s a liar so he’s lying only about the stuff you personally dislike”

Really depressing how often this @chancephillips.bsky.social piece is relevant www.liberalcurrents.com/nobody-cares...

It’s kinda insane that Cambridge doesn’t have the nuts to say “we have been around for eight hundred years and we will do whatever we damn please” but I guess the best lack all conviction and all that

Thought for 17s

The "Gaza ceasefire" is a period of reduced intensity in terms of Israeli attacks. For the Israeli government this is merely a lull until the genocide can be resumed with full strength, with the aim of mass ethnic cleansing. Any other plans would have to be imposed on Israel.

want a coyote doggo

Don't get me wrong I lost a lot of respect for a lot of people in 2024 but the people who I lost the most respect for is The People, and I gotta say, seeing the special election results makes me madder at them

My favorite television show? Twin Peaks. My favorite band? Mountain Goats. My favorite podcast? Blowback. My incredible things? Happening in China. My facial hair? Mustache. My sense of humor? Darker than you think… and surprisingly leftist.

seems like this is a de facto dissolution of the union to me

I still remember a professor in my undergrad assigned Napolitano’s book attacking progressivism for our class. There was a part where he argued that child labor shouldn’t have been abolished so long as they had an opportunity to negotiate their pay with their employer