lol buddy you don't get to ride this one

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

i love new york

every once in a while I hear some prince song for the first time in a while and it totally blows my mind but it feels like the most banal observation I could possibly make. this guy's pretty good!!!

I voted! go do it

mentally rearranging some timelines after discovering leonard cohen's "First We Take Manhattan" came 4 years after "The Muppets Take Manhattan"

talking about various municipal agencies and animal control service is catching some strays

I feel for the single issue "the word aunt refers exclusively to the full siblings of one's parents" voters who've already early voted :(

I wrote a crossword puzzle with a strange little theme that I didn't think quite fit anywhere else, so I put it on my blog. I hope you solve and enjoy! parkerhiggins.net/2025/10/cros...

can't fool me, this is the apple dance

this was soothing to do :)

not to be confused with quesadilla

I wrote a crossword puzzle with a strange little theme that I didn't think quite fit anywhere else, so I put it on my blog. I hope you solve and enjoy! parkerhiggins.net/2025/10/cros...

i would simply step into the same river twice

i had a great time at the inaugural Wiki Game Jam this weekend, (though I did not get a game done in time) i presented about using wikipedia categories for word puzzle games, and my friend adam got this serendipitous photo right when I cited his project

I hope the cashier likes the groceries I picked out

i wrote more here: blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/1...

2 years ago: @stfj.net says puzzmo will never run minis 6 months ago: @orta.io and i brainstorm how i might design a mini that could change zach's mind today: @puzzmo.com's first mini join us for 30 days of minis that teach you how to solve crosswords. start here: www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2025-...

celeb sighting

Independent local media 👍👍

Oh my god the trains is trans let’s gooooo

I loooove this kind of report, and this is an such an excellent example. great to see important local news finding its audience, and this kind of transparency is so good for trust

stressful baseball moment right now but the spreadsheet fan in me can't help but most appreciate watching for a multi-game outcome

ok i'll bite. who's eric adams

🮕 New release for xword-dl, the command line tool to scrape crossword puzzles from online solvers 🮕 This version updates the New Yorker for their new Puzzmo-powered backend, adds support for the New Yorker Mini, Observer puzzles Everyman and Speedy, and The Walrus github.com/thisisparker...

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

I never noticed until now, but it seems like the moon emojis in this bot’s nighttime posts match up with the current moon phase irl 🥺

recently passed 10k followers on @pomological.xor.blue and 20k on @roadside.xor.blue! i love that these little bots brighten people's days

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

saw this in the subway and my first thought was: rapture?

viking sew and vac center, front, higgins avenue, missoula, montana, 1987

CRUSH HASHANAH

I just know the right beaver could learn react

the most 1990s thing ever said about the effort to rejuvenate the 1990s web ❤️

I love content management systems, and I really love static site generators, and I genuinely love how the implicit premise of interoperability and easy migration slams so hard into feature creep for "power users." it really is just fascinating software

never forget, long live the awl www.theawl.com/2010/05/negr...

wow is it already negroni season

weird general offer: if you've got some personal web infrastructure tech questions that you want to talk through with somebody, i'm basically always happy to, no matter how well we know each other. I love helping people feel like they've got a home on the web

canceling disney plus for the kimmel stuff and for supporting the 1998 copyright term extension act

steeplechase pier entrance, atlantic city, new jersey, 1978

In just a few minutes i'll be doing a short open projector talk on fillharmonics.com! I believe it is streaming at www.twitch.tv/wondervillenyc, tune in if you can

The death of Robert Redford (RIP) means the window to rewatch Hackers in honor of the 30th anniversary has officially closed and it is now time to re-watch Sneakers. (Time to rewatch Sneakers will continue indefinitely.)

maybe my favorite redford film, the absolutely delightful SNEAKERS (1992) is playing at Metrograph next month as part of a Hack The Planet series 👀 metrograph.com/film/?vista_...

in hindsight i needn't have worried that i'd run into a bunch of other electric horsemen from THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN (1979)

years ago my mom met robert redford at a charity fundraiser event. she's an angeleno and knows how to be cool around celebrities. she leaned in and earnestly said "great to meet you. i love your lemonade"

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Groundhog day

what in your mind is the best movie with no real antagonist? for me it is star trek iv (the one with the whales)

Well this book starts with two quotes, and the first one is from a scholarly work of classic literature. Surely the second one will be equally high-brow