when the brooklyn public library tells me im number one on the holds list for weeks and weeks, says they have copies available, but never releases the hold, what's happening there

it is beautiful outside i hope everyone has fun tonight

People on here don't realize that reading Israeli media on its own terms can radicalize you just as much as anything else against Zionism. The vast majority of quotes I see coming out of Channels 12 and 13 are from security officials whining that Lebanese villagers are allowed to go home.

Got my cat in the carrier for the vet on the first try which means I have to listen to her heartbreaking screams for ten mins before we leave

I love pork floss, it’s like if bacon were styrofoam

i think it's different when your husband is a generational political talent with a seemingly limitless future but she is kinda right

The backdrop of Christianity becoming a fast food in America, slinging the greasiest sleaziest bullshit you can imagine in total thrall to Donald Trump, an atheist who is also the biggest pig in history, certainly aids in this.

I think part of the reason the Pope thing is hitting so much is that modern life is so devoid of *any* morality, any system of right and wrong that is not completely hollow and fraudulent, which hits as halfway sensible and opposed to Trump and those like him, feels absolutely revolutionary

America is losing a talented researcher today. Rümeysa Öztürk, whose abduction by masked men prompted a search and her eventual release by ICE, has returned to Turkey. She wants to resume a career without "state-imposed violence and hostility." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...

hanif abdurraqib good archive.is/OdSoj

Hey they doxed that howlingmutant guy, he seems pretty unremarkable but I’m glad bc it always creeped me out that I might be riding the subway with him or something

Tonight we recorded WATTBA and on the bonus, we were talking about good wedding dance floor songs, but I forgot to mention my genius money saving and foolproof wedding reception idea: haul in a projector and screen stop making sense in front of the dance floor

Andre 3000 verse on intl players anthem Project Pat verse on poppin my collar Nicki Minaj first verse on itty bitty piggy Paul wall verse on drive slow 2 chains verse on mercy

I don’t think the Pitt was nearly as good as last season (the writing seemed almost like a parody of last season’s writing) but it remains the most TV ass show on television and you gotta respect it

“I wish someone would swaddle me” he was so real for that

that antisemitism is a bellwether & accelerant of fascist politics. These people are dropping Zionism to become better & more consistent fascists. Any sustained ‘bottom-up’ ‘popular front’ coalition with them is incoherent & a political dead end for the Left

The point of warning the Left against the antisemitic current within America First anti-Zionism (for me anyway) isn’t to appeal to Jewish sensitivities. In our current climate, unfortunately, those appeals are hyper-politicized, almost always to benefit Zionism. The point is

(me hiding in the walls of the uss tripoli whispering) girl im bored let's do a coup

recording wattba

been seeing girls clips all over my algo and one thing that is astonishing to me about that series is how sensitively dunham, in her mid 20s, was able to write the character of her mother. becky ann baker is also the GOAT of tv moms which helps

they released zohran and his wife's tax return and it turns out the maximum amount of rent theyd qualify for is about 3600 bucks, market rate for a studio apartment in a b-tier nyc neighborhood. interesting fact given cuomo's angle of attack about their apartment

Making my triumphant return to THE STAGE this wednesday 4/22 at Pete's Candy Store at 10pm, see u there

Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."

Hi, how are you

sometimes i fantasize about moving to the mountains or something but after dealing w my back shit and realizing how much better medical care is in big cities (if your insurance will cover anyway) idk if i'd ever do it unless it was to like massachusetts

It’s crazy how for six months my dr was worried about my blood pressure being high and then as soon as I had surgery it went back to normal it’s almost like I was in constant debilitating pain

Someone finally paid attention to this

Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car

Telling in two different ways: 1. Almost half of 15 year old mothers had a partner who was 20+ years old. 2. The vast majority of teen mothers are 18 or 19. Here’s what they’ve been doing instead.

also right before i read the geese substack i read this, which is also about image making on the internet and makes kind of an interesting companion

i watch way too much short form video content and i have discovered exactly one artist i like in all of my time drinking that garbage (i looked up just for me by pinkpantheress after i heard it on tiktok)

since a few people have brought it up, i also think the UGC angle is the most interesting thing, but haven't we known that is an element of PR campaigns for several years now? I read about it with the amber heard/johnny depp case.

i just read the thing about geese having a pr team and im confused on what is supposed to be revelatory about it. i am very sorry to tell you that almost nothing and no one you like is lacking a pr team

being unc does not make you automatically uncool. it means that you're a community elder, and thus not privy to youth culture anymore. it can sting to be called unc by a younger person because you are being called old, but it is baseline respectful.

graham platner and jd vance are the same guy. people buying into platner are just getting a different hibilly elegy calibrated for 30 something white dudes.

despite my defense of her the other day i really wasnt planning on it but... im gonna have to read the lena dunham memoir arent i

Here bitch you dropped your hat

thinking about when i made a joke on tiktok about santacon being a gentrification simulator for gentrifiers and i got yelled at a million times about santacon being a proud NYC POC tradition for some reason

I refuse to believe someone who worked for years as a professional comedian and writer who made one of the most culturally relevant sketch shows of all time is this naive about the power of the things you say onstage

If I worked at the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin, Jim Halpert got about 1-2 times to look at the camera all slick after I say some shit before I throw a stapler at him to knock him off guard and then come over the desk at his ass. That’s the only way to deal with people like that

re free bread article i had no idea that PR school openly and directly teaches you how to be evil like this but i suppose it mkes sense

need a sequel to the free bread article about who has the best free chips and salsa in america

This is the good stuff.

it rocks how everytime they send vance on some kind of diplomatic mission everything instantly becomes worse for trump. he's the grim reaper door meme

I think it’s satanic that the iPhone autocorrects brand names to capital letters

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

Tfw your neighborhood just got Nextdoor

NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC. Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.

sorry to this guy but this is unfortunately extremely funny to me