If the shower hardware is too hard for the visitor to figure out without someone coming up to demonstrate, you have chosen the wrong shower hardware for your hotel. ("No. I do not want someone coming to my room right now. I want to get in this shower.")

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

It’s ok Blahaj, we’ll just have your birthday at Five Guys

Important thread! So much tension and floofy hats! Come for the Schism Watch, stay for the “Bob from Chicago.”

Seeing "sharks at Rockaway Beach" and having a momentary Pacific Northwest brain glitch even though it clearly says NYC

It's not hard, not far to reach tiger sharks can bite you at Rockaway Beach

Gosh, I hope these sharks don't depress electoral support for incumbents in November!

Wait, the mayor is *closing* the beaches for 4th of July due to shark sightings? That's not how this movie is supposed to go

The secret to mayoral success: Do Not Be Like Larry Vaughn

Four to five hours from now: Mayor Mamdani reaches agreement with the Greater Queens/Jamaica Bay Shark’s Union (Local #104) to forgo attacks on non-harbor seal New Yorkers through Labor Day; recognizes vital role in ecosystem, shark-side contributions to healthcare premiums flat ‘til 2030.

Waiting to see how Democrats blame this on DSA in 3...2...1...

Jaaaaaaaaws times

Sharks deserve a happy hour sometimes too

NYC currently has a shark problem DC currently has a jets problem there's only one solution

Ah, the rehearsals for shark week have begun.

Mayor Mamdani's Jaws moment is here.

Life is all right in America…

One of the weirdest thing about shark attacks is the east coast has far far more of them but the west coast as more deaths since we tend to get great whites and larger sharks who do more damage

Jaws 2026: The Mayor Meets Shark Union

But do they have lasers?

It’s just the Cape Verde national team training for their match against Argentina

The Amityville mayor could not be reached for comment.

Live Rockaway Beach footage:

pickett's charge is one of the stupidest military maneuvers ever ordered and I do not have to die on that hill because so many confederates did it for me

And if they mess with the device in any way, they lose their driving privileges forever, right? RIGHT?

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

NOT NOW, SHARKS

if I were an elected representative and my constituents were coming up and saying "our daughter can't go to college unless she gets an athletic scholarship" I would be like "this is why we need universal free college" not "we'll pretend to solve this by being cruel to trans people." crazy right

Thread giving us a full play by play of Elon’s day

Donald Trump’s cabinet has 15 secretaries. Two are women. Pope Leo XIV has now named women to run 3 of the Vatican’s 16 dicasteries. And the official who runs the Vatican City State day to day s a woman too. The pope now has more women running his government than the president does.

Just started talking to someone at this outdoor lounge… ….who lives a block from me in New York City. #SmallWorld

Fortress Quéribus 1, Touristic Invaders 0 (The wind was so strong I could not continue up the steps of the fortress. I understand why it was impregnable until artillery was invented.)

Adoption of air conditioning in Europe at U.S. levels would bring massive health benefits, while the emission implications would be minuscule, unlike many suggest - and, done right, it would help the clean energy transition by boosting electrification and clean energy. 🧵

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The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

There are only two ways to make money these days: bundling and unbundling.

Day 155 of visiting medieval abbeys: still no ghostly monks sighted

good morning everyone, Mondays are hard, would you like a thread of the most expensive house currently on Rightmove for every English county? here's a thread of the most expensive house currently on rightmove for every English (ceremonial) county. we'll be going alphabetically

Remember when Al Gore made a movie with that hockey stick graph showing where global temperatures were headed if we didn’t move away from fossil fuels and then the fossil fuel guys spent a ton of money to get politicians to pretend like that would never happen? Welcome to the Hockey Stick.

Things I never thought I would type: look at how they greeted the Algerian team arriving back at the DoubleTree in Lawrence, Kansas

I want “we will be reviewing and cancelling every government contract issued to a business associated with the family of any member of this Administration, followed by a top down review of all such deals that might involve any members of Congress” in every candidates speech.

Weird how the right both believe Thatcher's council house sale is the best policy in history and that anyone who benefitted from it is bad and wrong.

In case you’re wondering why I’m celebrating La Fête Nationale instead

Seriously though, JD was right about watergate being small potatoes compared to what this administration is pulling off