Like many people who have worked in politics for decades, I am baffled and upset to see candidates who say they are going to try to make things better defeating candidates who say they are trying to make it more or less like it was in the years before things tipped over into Oaf-Style Fascism.

Show so bad I didn’t even realize it was coming back tonight (House of the Dragon)

More like Garfelid h/t @bookmusiclyrics.bsky.social

this is all I've thought about for the last 10 hrs and how are more people not talking about it

I'm as millennial as it gets and I know 2 of these lol

not enough

sorry but I need to be very clear about this: JD Vance absolutely does not have the juice to kill a Pope. perhaps the most juiceless man to ever exist. the Pope, however, definitely has the juice to kill JD Vance

my king

BAD WRITER [touchily]: “Actually, I do use AI to help me write.” Okay. That checks out. Carry on.

yes hahaha yes

it must be said that "Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime" rocks and "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" sucks ass

MAMDANI: "I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life, but let tonight be the last time I utter his name ...."

For him to give this speech after weeks of racism, bigotry and Islamophobia is appallingly narcissistic.

we did it Zo

one thing Andrew Cuomo and I agree on: we both can't wait for Andrew Cuomo to get the fuck out of New York City and never return 😎

Recent subway ridership records: Busiest post-COVID day, Wednesday, 10/29: 4,589,477 Busiest post-COVID Friday, 10/31: 4,428,750 Busiest post-COVID Sunday, 11/2: 2,825,658 2nd busiest post-COVD Saturday, 11/1: 3,093,309 This is how people get around NYC.

as I have grown fond of saying, "the man may be a dangerous psychopath but my god does he have the juice"

Great results on congestion pricing, but the responses on crime just speak to the absolutely rancid information environment. Factually speaking, violent crime is significantly and meaningfully lower now than it was two years ago.

my dog and I are running* a marathon to fundraise: give.guidingeyes.org/wagathon-202...

i got a more absolute sicko answer than any of y'ns

Believing that em dashes reveal LLM usage just reveals that you don't read.

Rambo: Last Blood by an astonishing margin

being recommended to stop using em dashes because ChatGPT uses them a lot

obsessed with this baffling dialogue exchange from Final Destination 3: "hey... Spongebob lives underwater!" "it's so sad that you know that."

Rush, "Hemispheres"

This old campaign poster at the Museum of the City has always fired me up. The Zohran Mamdani campaign has made me feel like I live in that version of New York.

PACK UR SHIT ANDREW! WE DON'T WANT YOU HERE!

weird how offering people a vision of how to make the city they live in and care about better... seems to be more popular than telling people to shut up and accept that things will never change

You love to see this happen to a guy who is absolutely parked in a bike lane right now

I wouldn't want to be the gas pedal on the car Andrew Cuomo drives back to his home not in New York City tonight.

These people aren’t afraid Mamdani would be a bad mayor. We have a ridiculous, corrupt, incompetent mayor right now and the city is hanging in OK. They’re declaring all-out war because they’re afraid Mamdani (or Lander) might be a good mayor.

I know the Venn diagram is limited here but I can't be the first to notice the second act opener of The Outsiders musical starts off like "Tom Sawyer"

as always it is an overwhelming relief in every cell of my body when the tony for best musical is awarded to something original and thoughtful and worthwhile

these books meant so much to me and still do. hard sci-fi, humor, and a healthy dollop of pop culture became such hallmarks of my own writing. the heavy themes never condescended to a young audience and remain just as vital today. "Until then, we fight."

The 19 most terrifying words in the English language are “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

Sabrina's piece on de-extinction is one of the best things I've ever read on the internet

an underrated birding interaction is noticing a slightly weird individual bird that could be common or could be an exciting oddity, and asking a more experienced birder on the same patch "hey have you seen that bird? what are your thoughts" and they say "yeah it's weird isn't it? no idea!"

loved this, will eventually internalize this lesson someday years from now

thank god someone said the truest words I've ever read online

Such a weird and unfortunate place to be that I don't give a shit at all the US lost

Do not vote for Andrew Cuomo for mayor.

i live my life for this feeling

In 2023 at least 960 #birds died in one day due to window collisions at McCormick Place in #Chicago. After applying bird-friendly window treatments, there were just 18 deaths all last fall. Further proof these simple changes work, and work well! It's time communities start making this a requirement.

We do not need to coddle or cater to these people, and I wish politicians and reporters would stop making them the main characters of urban policy. You're getting away with driving a car into Manhattan and paying $3.20 more than my round trip subway ride to my office costs. Consider yourself lucky.

They should let creed play another halftime show i don't care what anyone says that shit was royal