For Traitors fans, this little nugget in Eric Nam’s Wikipedia entry is quite interesting.

The hotel workers union is really an underrated villain in New York City, just constantly trying to make this city worse. Leaving aside the details of Jessica vs. Jessica, their two big policy priorities are banning new hotels, and forcing extractive casinos down our throats?

Utter garbage. Every airline is essentially becoming a bank. In a just world, consumer protections would stop shit like this. I have no problem with earning more miles with a credit card, but devaluing miles YOU ALREADY HAVE by giving cardholders a discount on redemption should be illegal.

Bolsonaro in prison, Yeon sentenced to prison, Andrew arrested on his birthday...and America still holding on to a 34 count felon as President.

Once again found out the L Train is down this weekend about 48 hours before the shutdown. Why the fuck can’t this information be communicated sooner?!

Here's what happened in Rome. brewyork.substack.com/p/a-missive-...

Update from Rome: I was mugged on Thursday night. They got my phone and a credit card but nothing else thankfully. Those can be replaced. I'm fine physically but definitely scarred mentally.

I have a lot of criticisms of the Rome Metro, but I have to admit, a metro station with a 2200-year old bath and steam room and a 2400-year old knife is pretty cool.

If there’s a city that desperately needs congestion pricing, it’s Rome. Despite having existed for literally thousands of years prior to the invention of the automobile, cars seem to dominate every inch of this city and the pedestrian environment is downright hostile at times.

I’ve never been a fan of ricotta… until today. This slice of cherry ricotta tart from Boccione Bakery in Rome’s Jewish Ghetto is life-changing.

It’s either the ADA for half a season of Law & Order: SVU or the head coach of the Nashville Predators.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

If you go two and a half weeks without using your car, why do you have a car?

Fine, I guess I can have pasta for dinner.

Everything that resulted in the brief and sudden closure of El Paso’s airspace this morning can be chalked up to our government now being run by absolute morons from top to bottom. bsky.app/profile/fain...

Incredible.

I’m glad I learned Roman Numerals at a young age and they’re ingrained in me, because it’s much easier to figure out how old buildings are in Rome.

lol, I go for a walk and suddenly it’s over? We live on the stupidest timeline.

A sudden 10 day closure of airspace in a major US city like El Paso should be THE STORY, with nothing else getting any air time until at minimum someone within the US government says what’s happening and why. It barely even registers on CNN’s site. It’s literally the last item before the page ends.

This is fucking insane. The commercial airport serving the 24th largest city in the U.S. is being shut down by the government for ten days with zero explanation and zero advance warning.

Just call me King of the Op-Up. My third upgrade to Premium at the gate in less than a year on an international Delta flight.

Big milestone coming up tonight: my 1,000th lifetime flight!

Currently dialed into a community board meeting where a bunch of boomer NIMBYs are trying to argue this NoHo parking lot needs to be preserved and not turned into affordable housing. god, NIMBYs are beyond parody. they must be politically crushed

Memories of a drunken, full stomach. The rumor when I was at Ithaca was there was the equivalent of a stick of butter in each D.P. Dough calzone.

Snoop Dogg and I have something in common: we’ve both gotten a ski lesson from Picabo Street.

Nothing will placate the conservatives, so sure, why not add gay icons Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin to the lineup?

This year, the U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Men's Team is represented by: • the son of Ukrainian Junior World Champion skaters in Florida who like Papa John's • the son of Russian World Champion skaters in Connecticut • the son of Uzbek Olympic skaters in Virginia That's what makes America great.

More people in r/nycrail seem to know what the problem is with L Train shuttles is than at the MTA and NYCDOT combined. DOT should temporarily ban parking on one side of Wyckoff Avenue during these shutdowns. This really isn’t rocket science.

WaPo editorial board when TX imposes a legislative gerrymander: don't freak out guys! Not a threat to democracy! When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship. There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.

I’m so glad I wasn’t the only person who reacted to this in exactly this way.

Let me plainly state, if you are visiting a place of business today, close the fucking door as quickly as possible. Please and thank you.

Okay, folks. I’ve been shuffled into work hell for the last two weeks and have hardly gotten a chance to plan for Rome and I leave in four days. Your recommendations for just about anything, please.

Abolish the gerontocracy.

Some people need their driver's license revoked. This NJ man has 97 violations including 43 for speeding and 14 for bus lane violations. Unfortunately NYCT Bus cameras can't issue an automated ticket for driving on the wrong side of the road.

The B1G expansion has really got out of hand.

A reminder that Shore Line East service is still nowhere near its pre-Covid levels.

OMG, the Red Sox are doing a Real Housewives of Rhode Island Night.

The resistance to proof-of-payment ticketing among commuters railroads is insane. Just making stuff up that’s doomed to fail, rather than accepting that they need to do it the way everybody in Europe does it.

Brooklyn’s Democratic Party establishment is such a fucking joke.

The @mta.info just straight-up hates its customers.

A rich text.

One thing that this storm and the ensuing cold snap has proved is that the city MUST do more to put the heat on private business and property owners to clear snow, because the status quo is clearly not working.

Not that I have any confidence that his replacement will be more competent and mindful of Rhode Island's transportation needs, but good fucking riddance.

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

So many long-forgotten places where sales reps would take me out to lunch early in my career (and a few spots I frequented on my own).

amazing that Paterson coronated Gillibrand 17 years ago out of sheer spite, and we're still stuck with this woman who is doing literally nothing for her constituents, because NY is not a functioning democracy

I bought something from the NFL Shop last week. I have unsubscribed from their mailing list six times now and I'm still getting at least five emails a day from them.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.