we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

No wonder why I'm considering running for public advocate. On NY1, Assembly Member Jenifer Rajukmar said: "So many New Yorkers have almost been hit by a dangerous e-bike.” Yet no one followed up: “ALMOST been hit? Last year, 4,168 cyclists and 8,787 pedestrians WERE hit and injured by car drivers."

“Plot armor” is one of the dumbest critical buzz phrases. “Why doesn’t the central character of the movie die 50% of the way into it? Plot armor!” It’s like asking why SAVING PRIVATE RYAN wasn’t about one of the guys killed on the beach. If they’re dead, there’s no story to follow

The fascists should find it hard TO DO EVERYTHING. They should not be able to find people to work for them. People should act like they are invisible. You did not hear them. You did not get that email. Oooh, did you ask for a pencil? I thought you said stencil.

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

If you go FiCore you don’t get to have an opinion on the WGA. Them’s the breaks, kid.

Call me crazy, but if you truly don’t know how to correctly wave to a crowd so as to not sow confusion about your nazi allegiances, maybe you shouldn’t be in charge of… well, anything?

Somehow "Elon Musk Is a Genius" and "Elon Musk Doesn't Know How Hands Work" are being said by a lot of the same people

I see not enough of this has been happening lately

Why don’t you speculate on what this means jfc

Pathetic. Hike the toll.

We should challenge a lot more directly this very common idea in American politics that cities exist only to provide comfort, luxury, and labor to the suburbs.

Isn’t it weird how no one left of center ever accidentally does Nazi salutes? What a strange thing.

In light of the coming week, a few words from ANDOR: “The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle.”

no better metaphor for “thanks, rubes, now fuck off”

I just have to say: it remains *insane* that, in the year of our lord 2025, you can't just go on the internet, customize the car you want, and order it delivered to your door. There is zero practical reason not to do this, but auto dealers have written the shitty dealership experience into law.

In a world of Kid Rocks and Carrie Underwoods, be a Woody Guthrie.

Gottheimer keeps using the "hardworking families" line but apparently does not apply that term to hardworking families who rely on the bus or the train. The only people who matter to him are the small number of people who drive into Manhattan.

My pitch for the DENGAR movie.

not Lynch's movie, I know, but god, what a sendoff

Sure, make guac expensive/not exist for midwesterners and see what happens.

Thank god we gave them a budget of 2.14 billion dollars.

Mood, 2 weeks into 2025

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Users: Your product is getting worse. Company: Don't worry, we're gonna jam A.I. into it!

If I was a teen who lost access to tiktok I would simply learn to appreciate the professionalism and higher production values of linear broadcast television

AOC: Trans girls are girls. And for all the folks that are so concerned, thank you for your concern for women for the first time. I don't know who has been to gym class, I’ve played co-ed sports all the time

So to clarify, art is not worth paying humans for but is also, somehow, worth more money than you or I can possibly imagine?

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Seen in Venice Beach today

Fewer cars in cities is good, and municipal governments should do everything it can to limit them.

Nine lousy bucks completely erased traffic in Manhattan. 8:30am on 8th Ave looking south from 41st. Unlike last Monday, it's not cold or snowing today.

It’s also weird cause why are a bunch of nerds talking about masculine energy? This is software you’re building, not storming Normandy.

A friend pointed out a couple weeks ago that Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and Trump were all born in 1946 and I keep thinking about how it feels like our political imaginations are being held hostage, with occasional outliers, by a very particular generational precept of the nation.

One thing Newsom should do *right now* is a statewide rent freeze. They did it during lockdown, they can do it again. And yes, statewide, because every landlord within 200 miles of LA is eagerly waiting for fire refugees to move into their area.

All I want are some Fincher movies on 4k but the universe has apparently conspired against me.

I’m new here and it’s weird but hopefully it’s less shitty