Need a little positivity on the TL so here’s a picture from this past Sunday night/Monday morning when the entire neighborhood lost power for 6+ hours and a bunch of folks came together at my favorite local to have a party by candlelight.

What’s the best Brian Eno album for a rainy summer day?

Lord help me if I ever try to position an embarrassing parasocial relationship with a politician as some sort of moral stance

Oh shit I hope that Midtown building can have a nice controlled demolition if it has to come down at all

Great day to cut some abuse apologists out of your media diet

Power’s out for the entire neighborhood so only one thing to do: head down to the local pub and dance with my neighbors by candlelight

Today I witnessed Claire get recognized from her appearance on The Last Drive In out in the wild, what a treat. More producers should put her on TV, the people demand to see @donnerpartyofone.bsky.social

I have the cheat code for making 78° in an air conditioned room feel amazing: go the fuck outside for ten minutes

Folks are mewling over the NYC mayor telling folks to mind the grid and go easy on the A/C but the local electricity supplier - a de facto monopoly which makes bank off our consumption of the resource! - is out there saying similar things

One of the most disappointing developments of the last decade has been how widely progressives and the political left adopted the language of the regressives, misogynists, and right wing trolls

I love going to rock concerts. I love needing to distort the music with ear plugs for safety and not look at the stage because of the intense sharp-focus LED light rigs scanning the crowd and listen to malcontents yell at each other over the music and buy macro lagers for twelve american dollars.

Left the house knowing I forgot something. Headphones. Currently at the mercy of every bus and subway passenger, pray for me.

Repeating Danny Aiello’s speech from Jacob’s Ladder to myself like a mantra

In a meeting where it's incredibly clear that when Anthropic increases the cost of their tokens to stay afloat I'm absolutely losing my job. Entire loadbearing workflows > 1 subject matter expert. Way past adapt or die, I'm already dead.

Smells like American schism to me

Today is a great day for everyone on the East Coast to keep an extra bottle of water or two in the fridge for the folks delivering things to your house

Listening to some Sonny Sharrock about it

Good news! My new neighbor does NOT own a drum kit. He owns an *electric* drum kit.

The bill changer at the laundromat changed my $10 bill into only $5 in quarters and when I called the number on the machine the guy told me, “These are the risks we take as customers” so I guess I paid $5 for to have my fortune told.

It’s a small role but he was great in DEEP RED as the Mad Puppet

Bad vibes with the ex-neighbor stuff, time for a penance post

Turns out there’s more; they’ve been sewing mayhem more broadly in the neighborhood and very intentionally damaging property

I pay my own electric bill so yeah my threshold is pretty high when it comes to air conditioning

America is a nation of businesses and some people live there too

Just found out our nightmare ex-neighbor got 86’d from a local shop for assaulting an employee, maybe 9 sleepless months is one of the lighter sentences they impose

It’s fun when the first time you learn a site exists it’s because they published some kind of mewling hot take so you never have to think about the site again.

Fallout 5 Chicago when

Little kid told me he liked my hair, said I look like a rock star and now he’s my new favorite neighbor

Project owner makes sure the AI assistant is on in meetings and then verbally insists I'm in charge of it, excellent bit because it will surely have real-world consequences if I'm still around in a few years.

disappointed in my colleagues for not reacting to the gif I posted in the chat when someone unironically said "max headroom"

Went to see my friend’s band play last night and left the venue just as the Knicks won. The streets were electric; biking home past all the celebrations was pure joy.

The owner of the plumbing supply store I worked at for three consecutive summers in college refused to play anything besides smooth jazz so Bobby Darin covers and Kenny G transport me to a weird time in my personal lore

heartwarming urban cycling content hell yeah (op: www.instagram.com/reel/DXzdVAX...)

I better be able to hear the crowd inside MSG out in Brooklyn tonight

At the risk of participating in the discourse I’m in my 22nd year as a Brooklynite and I don’t claim “New Yorker” status because I know better than to poke a bear

I appreciate that my local oscillates wildly between old grump watering hole and intoxicated young adult party spot, a little something for everyone

Megan Thee Glenlivet

You accidentally drop the first "s" in "analyses" only once

Discourse Participation Penance Post, Red Hook street flowers edition

Why would the second consecutive generation to see deterioration of the American Dream of upward mobility/community-building/social progress amidst reports of a booming economy that excludes them and a regressive political insurgency turn to socialism? Just greedy little fuckers, probably.

If you’re at any of the The Meat Hook (NY) locations and you see their beef bacon in the case, run don’t walk

1) Nod and say "sounds good" in meeting 2) Follow up after with question revealing ignorance to project owner after meeting because you have no idea what you just agreed to 3) Illuminate a crucial issue based on response 4) Prove value without other attendees seeing you be stupid in real time ✓

Hey Minnesota quick question,

D.O.A. (1949)

Swelling with pride at being told by the comms team I’m not good at soundbites during my media training mock interview today

I feel bad that the maintenance guy has to keep coming out to check why we occasionally get water coming in through our ceiling when it’s starting to look like our upstairs neighbor doesn’t quite get the physics of shower curtains

Surely no one is hanging around the company Slack on a beautiful Sunday Spring evening except my dumb ass, I can send a little message to be seen tomorrow morning [immediately, troublingly gets a response]

My love language is putting the clickable meeting URL in the calendar invite

They should have sent a poet… into the replies of Mattie’s Contact post

Interviewing a candidate for an open position in my department but it's not in person so I can't grab them by the collar and demand to know if they think they're going to replace me