These days you also hear 不好意思 a lot of

Zohran already failing to deliver what we were promised

khrushchev: and another thing! i am sure, no, certain that all americans are given "cowboy name" at age of sixteen. and yet on this visit not one rootin-tootin moniker have i received. why is that? do you americans think this will threaten national security, in some way, perhaps?

This story is bizarre. Mark Carney went to Oxford! No Oxford man would spell organized with an s.

On Giorgia Meloni’s favourite conductor, for @vanmagazin.bsky.social van-magazine.com/mag/beatrice...

Looks like the Dutch government will un-seize Nexperia, now that the 9/29 BIS 50% rule is suspended.

“Foreigners seeking visas to live in the U.S. might be rejected if they have certain medical conditions, including diabetes or obesity” Always a possibility under the public charge ground, but rarely actually done.

Kimi K2 Thinking is significantly better than regular K2 at questions about Latin grammar, my main benchmark.

Everyone saying this is phrenology is slightly off: it's actually *physiognomy,* a separate but related pseudoscience

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Altri tre bambini in Lombardia da Gaza per essere curati

Elsa Benoit, Iestyn Davies: “No, no, ch’io non apprezzo” (Agrippina, HWV 6)

How the Laken Riley Act is working against ICE to free some noncitizens

Zohran says you’re trans now

“oplysninger om, at Lars Findsen stjal dyre cykler i Indre By i København i bytte for at få SM-sex fra sin kæreste” ???

Par-tayism

Why we need an NYC electoral college so Staten Island majorities cannot join up with minorities in other boroughs and potentially elect someone

Trying to make sense of Texas’s 100% tariff on immigration: It can’t just be on discounted future income, it has to make sense for retirees too, including those living off savings. I think it’s something like 100% of the value of a statistical life (VSL), maybe adjusted for age and health.

Nino Sarratore just endorsed Andrew Cuomo.

Just in: Zohran Mamdani says he's voting yes on ballot questions 1-5 and no on 6.

For over a decade, Gaza Sky Geeks built a tech future for the Gaza Strip. Then came war.

Yes, LFP is exciting—but in most of the world, already the default.

Why engineers can’t be rational about programming languages

“Musulmano, socialista, millennial nato in Uganda, superfavorito: nel cuore stesso dell’era Trump oggi si può scrivere un’altra storia”

A cosy, cumin-scented combination of beans, bacon and radicchio that goes by the name of Venetian Stew (in my house, anyway) is #RecipeOfTheDay! www.nigella.com/recipes/vene...

Duck of Minerva on “The House of Dynamite”

This raises an interesting question – why did NYC (and other North American cities) get fire escapes in the 19th century and cities in Europe did not? Was Europe tolerating a higher fire death rate? Were their buildings safer because of more noncombustible elements, or some other reason?

Some people have objected to Zohran citing garbage plates here, but my kid has no homework this week because the Bills beat the Chiefs yesterday ("If your parents ask, tell them Josh Allen ate your homework.") so I think Rochester has just as much claim to the Bills as Buffalo does.

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost

You know who has a good track record of delivering government-run grocery stores? Andrew Cuomo! taste.ny.gov/taste-ny-ret...

AISO is the new SEO

🤔 ☕️ Addio al caffè Specialty? Il nuovo metodo CVA rivoluziona le regole per valutare il gusto

Will there really be a morning? Is there such a thing as day?

tfw u see a good dog 👃 in the ig feed and give them a double boop

If only we could find this peace. Goodnight bluesky

Got mine there last weekend

It finally happened: I’m retiring Fever (by Shaun Inman), the RSS reader I have been using for 16 years, and switching to Miniflux.

Over/under on Eric Adams vote share on Tuesday?

John Henry Newman proclaimed Doctor of the Church

There is more hair gel in this picture than in Rebel Without A Cause.

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Quite a few Bloody Sundays

I was just asked to leave a Google review by an organ of the state.

India moving up the value chain

The One KMT Principle says there is but one Nationalist Party of China, but there is disagreement on whether that is the revolutionary committee based in Beijing or the central committee based in Taipei. In 1982, the United States declared that it does not support “Two KMTs” or “One KMT, One RCCK”.

New Yorkers vote today if you haven’t and you get this

“So, whereas nineteenth-century liberals thought that despotism could be avoided only if the head of state was limited to the performance of ceremonial functions, that is, the dignified part … the tendency of American political practice has been in the opposite direction, toward despotism (p. 126).”

I support proposals 2-4 on the NYC ballot, which would make it moderately easier adjust zoning for higher-density housing development. I have to say, seeing how controversial this is among people I know is giving me some new sympathy for the angry YIMBYs online.

Constantin Hansen (1804-1880): View towards Mount Vesuvius. Unsigned, oil and pencil on paper laid on canvas. (via “Danske kunstnere i Italien” on Facebook)