I love the Jews and our Most Solemn Week of Much Cheese

This article is so funny I'm begging you to read it

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

My favorite part of Peaky Blinders is when this guy is pleading like “please mister blinders don’t kill me” and then gets shot and the guy is like “call me peaky”

Repeat after me: I am not gayer than Josef Stalin. I am not gayer than Ben Mora. I am not gayer than Brennan Lee Mulligan. I am not gayer than Cardi B. But if I stand back and watch and learn, I will be gayer than I am.

so just apropos of the klarna thing, and credit cards in america broadly, i brought up my pointsmaxxing setup to a mutual and something I've noticed recently is Amex has been pushing the platinum card as a status symbol to traveling zoomers but the platinum amex actually sucks as a travel card?

Women's Pro Baseball League is starting next weekend :) :)

There's an endless stream of scandals coming out of Hegseth' Pentagon, but hiding casualties is both a moral outrage and stupidly ineffective.

just saying. if you want a CCP guy to stan, stan zhou enlai. everyone likes zhou enlai

obviously i don't think putting on a Greek accent would be appropriate unless the cast are actually Greek (which would be a nice change!) but the way we expect English accents in anything historical is very very weird to me

I just found out you can subscribe to the New Yorker via the library Libby app!

In my opinion it is bad for governments to fund gangs that recruit homeless children to do racial violence www.timesofisrael.com/government-d...

Do people actually think Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel I am really confused by the way people talk as though Israeli policy is directed from Tel Aviv

2000 years ago Rome was the center of an empire, and exported Latin and its culture across the Mediterranean Today, it is Miami that is a massive driver of Latin culture Really makes you think

I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.

Interesting report by Dan Drezner on the “Liberalism in the 21st Century” conference of the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism. I was amused by this: “I am also simply unprepared for a world in which Kristol sounds way more radical than Ezra Klein.” open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

*watching The Odyssey, becoming disappointed* Me: I was in Greece last year and there were lots of cats. There are no cats in this movie

the resurgence of 1930s-style antisemitism is almost a 1:1 repeat of how they dragged transphobia into Respectability a few years ago and no one will ever introspect on this because they've been sorted into opposite factions in a way that makes noticing the parallel extremely awkward

Humans: "I would like to go get food, get to work or school, and have a little fun now and then." The society humans built: "Sure thing. That will cost you $12,000 a year and you can only do it if you're above a certain age and physically capable of operating heavy machinery."

I would love to see Donald Trump on hot ones because I think he would die (am I allowed to say this on bluesky)

"How will you sell transit to families with kids?" I mean kids take the bus by themselves here. That's how safe it is.

if the Dems sweep Georgia they should do Jim Crow to white people just so the Supreme Court finds it illegal

omg you guys i'm outside and i can breathe

They should have made the ocean purple in the Odyssey.

you don't want "grit!" you want affordable rent but you also like that you can walk through Central Park at night!

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

Oh it's the Kedushas Tzion's yahrtzeit tonight don't forget to sing some bobov niggunim I guess

(Democrats win Gen Y men in 2028 and everyone is trying not to attribute it to AOC being attractive)

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Kind of twisted motherfucker looks at women and children and just sees cum, I think that alone should be disqualifying for a candidate tbh, let alone the wacko guns shit that is his actual brand

Credit cards like "we will give you points for travel and cash back for Michelin star restaurants" cool is there one that can give me something for going to the dry cleaners

Love to watch a YouTube video about a TV show and think "wow this guy's pronunciation of character names sounds a bit weird, did he even watch the show" and then I get to the end and the last words are "write a 5000 word essay about Michael from The Wire"

RSVP to community engagement events at organize.nyc.gov/fastbuses to help bring rapid bus transit to 175 bus routes in New York City.

how often do you think about the les mis film having javert jump off of a bridge that's obviously not in paris so that he can break his body in half on a weir instead of drowning in rapids like he does in the book

This is a wonderful piece you should all read.

on this day in 1995, scientists discovered bisexuality. happy 31st birthday to all my fellow bs

I literally cannot imagine if (chas vesholom) my sister died and her coworkers were like "yeah Barb can take over. We'll do the normal hiring process eventually ofc but I really think we should hire Barb"

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The original sin with the United States and fossil fuels was not voting for Hillary R. Clinton in 2016, but like, girl bossing or whatever

One of the important ways we cleaned this up was by banning cars, specifically by establishing America's only parking maximum in the Manhattan core as a Clean Air Act settlement nyc.streetsblog.org/2013/05/08/c...

(boasting about my city's atrocious air quality) you just got smog-mogged

I am watching Free Parking Discourse happen and I cannot tell if we are talking about removing spaces for garbage collection or if we are talking about residential parking permits

But even in NYC as a whole, only 25% of workers get to work in a car, whether driving alone (20.7%) or carpooling (4.4%). In Manhattan, the car commute rate is 6.2%.

Watching Disturbia (2007) and it's wild how many movie parents were real estate agents in the 2000s until something unexplained happened in 2008

My favorite way to put this, as someone who studied Classical History in actual college (not just on Twitter): If you told an ancient Roman or Athenian that his culture had "more in common" with a German or Briton than with an Egyptian or Ethiopian, he'd punch you in the throat.

Happy “racist Classical History dudebros (tm) discover that the Mediterranean forms a border of Africa” day to all who celebrate

I’m sure I’ll get bad faith dogpiled for this, but this is why I don’t engage with social media discussions of whether the war in Gaza (or really any current conflict) is genocide or not. Those discussions aren’t being had to reckon with the weight of the crime. It is 100% about social signaling.

It’s probably harder to get elected to the Park Slope Food Coop board than to get elected as a Wyoming senator

litvak bad driver: i dont see anything about turn signals in the shulchan aruch

The Trump regime has been a boon to enemies of freedom and democracy