There's a great overlap between the "stealing indie books is leftism" discourse and the "the poverty line is $135k" discourse.

The defining song of the 21st Century.

Across North Jersey disparities are even more stark between the have-nots. We absolutely need regional tax base sharing in NJ.

Finally, a handheld device that can tell your friends to go to Hell.

This building, and this fire, are right next to my kids' school. Everything Pulley did here was a disaster and will be damaging to the neighborhood for decades.

Happy 40th birthday to the talented Carly Rae Jepsen.

Amazing how much this project had to compromise just to get to this stage. A giant parking lot put in, a huge reduction in the number of units, and pushing the buildings away from the street.

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Full buildout of Newark LRT/Subway: Exponentially greater impact on the NJ/NY region at a similar cost....

Cool how the modal source of news in the US today is of slightly lower quality and veracity than the Weekly World News.

All schools should be public schools and all school districts should be county-wide.

"Mental object IE Mobject" was probably the worst book Jack Kirby made for DC.

I feel a disturbance in the Force, as if millions of people are watching Mildred Pierce.

I had never seen this before and it's great. I'm now moderately convinced that Jimi Hendrix invented shoegaze.

[Tolkien, seeing the word "scarves"]: "Yes, ha ha ha... yes!"

This is how you get Curtis Yarvins.

Just treat it like Batman.

If PATCO had 5 minute or lower headways, it would be a legit useful way to get around Center City, now that the Franklin Square station is up and running.

It's great that they're putting in cameras but it's crazy that there's two months of no tickets. The *red light* is the warning you can get ticketed!

Hot roundup of PMA commentary from my colleague @alaina-johns.bsky.social at Broad Street Review: www.broadstreetreview.com/editorials/n...

Briana White - Aerith’s voice actress in the FF7 series- is currently running a huge charity auction with a bunch of Final Fantasy memorabilia. And all proceeds are donated Immigrant Defenders Law Center - helping for legal funds and reconnecting families. Take a look! tiltify.com/@thestranger...

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

I know what I'm doing for the next 6 months.

Centrism is the belief that society achieved perfection around the same time as you became a homeowner

Soda Pop is great because it's both a catchy little tune and exactly what a demon would say when it wants to consume your soul.

There used to be this incredible thing called prime time television commercials. We all hated them but they actually turned out to be the bulwark of American mass culture and republicanism

New Jersey deserves better. New Jersey deserves Mikie Sherrill.

This @juliusgoat.bsky.social essay is rapidly becoming load-bearing. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...

My daughter is Anna for school today but will be Zoey for trick-or-treating.

The feeling looking from Philadelphia

Ah yes, the men of Gondor, who famously did not need the help of Hobbits to win their war.

The City Museum in St. Louis is the stuff of nightmares (complimentary).

Had a blast at Big Thief last night. Adrianne Lenker is a certified rockstar.

Video games aren't even that expensive as a hobby! The most expensive video game is far cheaper than a decent guitar effects pedal, camera lens, synthesizer, etc. etc. etc.

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....

It's an absolute cliche at this point but yeah imagine the reaction if Obama had done this.

Nazi tat affair useful because anyone doing bizarre prevarications atm re how its totally normal to have a Nazi tattoo, good actually, not a big deal that'd matter in an election, if anything its cringe you care, etc etc, has revealed you never need to take their politics opinions seriously again.

Absurd but also this is how I learned they re-created Love Park in Sweden?

I deeply believe this and also blame the phone manufacturers for getting rid of the headphone jack.

In Philadelphia, #nokings goes back a long way.

this song is so good and opens with a sample of a three dog night song, and if you listen to this and then the three dog night song it sounds TOTALLY out of place in the three dog night song

If you're going to No Kings tomorrow, leave the bear spray, weapons, and zip ties at home - this isn't a Republican event.

Attending a "No Kings" protest Saturday? The Xylom's @alexip718.com and Strength in Numbers' @gelliottmorris.com are joining forces to conduct a nationwide, unofficial, crowdsourced attendance estimate. We need your help to be our eyes and ears across 2,100+ locations and on the Internet.

not only does Gary Larson still have the juice, it seems to have only gotten stronger

My dumbest crank opinion is that high enough levels of automated ticketing in city centers would sufficiently wreck E-commerce to the point that it would reverse the decline in brick and mortar urban retail.

Booth and the Bad Angel! A collaboration between Tim Booth, lead singer of James, and Angelo Badalamenti, frequent David Lynch collaborator. Bernard Butler from Suede and Brian Eno both perform on it too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwKB...

We need to get preliminary studies/engineering done fast enough that a change in the party in power doesn't repeatedly kill big projects.

Everyone in Philly should come!

Here is a map to the NO KINGS protests. www.nokings.org#map