“You know what the best part of my day is? It’s for about ten seconds from when I open the app to when I get your account, because I think maybe you’ll have deactivated. No goodbye, no ‘taking a mental health break’, nothing — you just logged off”

Alex Vitale on transition team to advise the community safety plan + Jessie Tisch as police commissioner is………..interesting.

I didn’t genuinely didn’t mean to but I realized after the fact that “JB Pritzker’s Star Wars ranking” is like the platonic post for this site — couldn’t have farmed more engagement if I tried

haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”

need a discourse break: what’s your go-to karaoke song? mine is “Brandy” by Looking Glass. very comfortable range-wise, easy-going, crowd usually loves it

one of the things I appreciate about Eggers is that he uses the alienating quality of strict period accuracy to his advantage — you don’t feel at home with these characters and that’s good, it makes it feel like it’s actually happening in a real but foreign time

to be clear, this doesn’t really influence my opinion of the meeting overall, but I’m pretty firmly of the belief that the “it’s okay you can just say yes” answer from Trump is just indicating that he doesn’t care if he’s called a fascist, not necessarily that he’s owning it

buying 10,000 middle schoolers tickets to the 76ers 67th game of the season to create the most annoying event in existence

RFK Jr. dirty talking like “"̵Y̵r̸ ̵o̷p̶e̴n̸ ̸m̵o̷u̴t̵h̸ ̴a̴w̴a̶i̶t̷i̸n̴g̶ ̷m̴y̵ ̷h̵a̵r̶v̴e̵s̴t̶,̴ ̶D̶r̶i̶n̵k̴ ̴f̶r̵o̸m̵ ̶m̶e̷ ̵L̴o̷v̵e̷.̶"̵”

truth hydrogen bomb and I can’t readily think of a retort to Whitmer doing the same that doesn’t feel like special pleading

look all you have to do to take on the NYC mayor’s job as a progressive is be generationally charming while also wanting to do the worst job in all of electoral politics, I don’t know what’s so hard about this

attn Brooklyn:

“lol once again you’ve foolishly voted for a candidate to the right of my preferred one, a hypothetical Leninist who can win over winemoms”

things happening on the other site you wouldn’t believe

picking up the toddler from 2K at 5:00 in September: “let us walk home in the jaunty sunshine of early childhood education” picking up the toddler from 2K at 5:00 in November: “I have abandoned my baby in the dead winter’s darkness, never to know living things again”

the present is violent and shameful, but to add insult to injury, it’s also embarrassingly stupid, like: “our ancient, 50/50-on-what-day-of-the-week-it-is president expressed killing the opposition via an Iron Cross anon account he ReTruthed (a feature from a social media site he owns)”

two criticisms of Zohran in the talksphere right now are 1) appointing a police commissioner who associates with people who call him a terrorist 2) endorsing a Palestinian candidate for NYSA who said 9/11 wasn’t worse than colonialism which is to say: NYC bay-bee! a tent as big as the Apple!

"Looper" (2012)

hey does anyone with saṃsāra experience know what to do about the cyclicity of all life, matter, and existence? Reddit wasn’t helpful

there’s gotta be like a couple hundred in the US at least, right? poor bastards

“the crisis has loosely or ill defined benchmarks for improvement” feels like a reasonable but selective critique, like, you could describe a lot of things this way

I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"

wild that I haven’t seen a single person post the Justin Timberlake “it’s gonna be May” meme today — really shows how far it’s fallen off

stared at this shirt for a while

one interesting thing I’ve found via making these running playlists is that it’s surprisingly difficult to find songs by exact length. Google is very scant with it, LLM’s hallucinate them almost 100% of the time. obviously I just sort my Apple Music and add from there but I can’t make it any easier.

Cali Swag Redistricting

when “Only Murders in the Building” sets up a new season cliffhanger after a kind of lackluster season

my kind of hot take is that all of these guys are individually great but this album would’ve more likely sounded kinda bad (or at least not amazing) than good; I don’t imagine Paul and Tony getting along musically *at all*.

I know there are dimensions of this that are obviously much worse, like poor parents being taken from their children, but there've been so many stories of friends and colleagues in the music world on O-1's that have been deported or laying low abroad amidst pressure and it makes me so fucking angry

i think that a lot of people (of all ideological varieties) conflate "face genuine economic pressures personally", "face structural trends that favor certain forms of conservatism", and "have personal issues that funnel them into extreme politics" into a single issue and that's unhelpful

“I tell you of my mezzanine, with its cupped sound and partial views. It’s a sick middle, a grand tier in name only. But there was a balcony where, this time, the Romeos spoke to *me* from that perch”

a second stop has been found on the Appalachian Trail

Couldn't remember Jon Hamm's name or the name of his character. So I made a discovery

tbc, I think this is a big long shot for Ossé, as Jeffries is well-liked and strongly demo-aligned in his district, but man, if he managed to both knock him out AND put a damper on the stupid ways people use “gentrifier”…

it always seemed like Dasha Nekrosova’s casting in Succession was a sort of meta-commentary on the increasingly bizarre world of Internet politics, and the question was “how long will she actually have a career for” and honestly, “four years” was longer than I thought

father-in-law cracked a good one about Jack Schlossberg: “I wanna show up to one of his rallies with a sign that says ‘No Princes’”

I would see the Mario Galaxy movie in theaters twice if Benny Safdie played Bowser Jr. with his Edward Teller voice

Herbie Hancock, pictured at the hour of his death, defeated in sword combat by a younger pianist

I’ve seen this photo a lot and I think my favorite detail is the skull, like, the artist was sort of freestyling “things a bad guy owns”

it would be, well, Ugly, as it were

not to absolve them of their other work, but every so often the Bee posts a banger

feels like “all of the people Epstein, a notorious and dogged social climber, sought contact with were rich and influential people” is a real “fork found in kitchen” situation

incredibly funny side note that in the midst of all this one guy was actually exonerated via the horse’s mouth and it was this guy

There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.

genuinely not saying this simply because I dislike his politics, but he's gotta hang it up. he's not in the shape it takes to represent a state.

the power of internet clout is pretty amazing, because like, if there’s one guy who, in ordinary circumstances, would NOT want to gas up the idea that a close relationship with a sex pest meant that you either knew about it or were in on it…

most of the stuff from emails hasn’t really changed my most basic read on the Epstein situation, which is that he kept close company with a long, diverse roster of public figures and that the actual Lolita Express stuff was scoped to a pretty small group of already-established sex monsters

a “Space Force”, if you will