I was THISCLOSE to buying a portable espresso maker before my trip this summer and decided not to at the last minute. Well, tonight I won a fancy one at my company’s annual charity raffle night for the price of a $5 raffle ticket!

LOVE the thing where my work computer decides that the perfect time to force a mandatory update on me is 15 minutes before a call I need to present on.

According to WaPo’s termination letter my post referencing Kirk’s views on Black women was not even brought up. The Post’s stated reasons are *worse*. Read the termination letter for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I will say, MULTIPLE escalators were out this morning on my way to work, and I definitely felt like it was a conspiracy against me, a person who regularly trips when I try walking up or down stairs and who also decided for some godforsaken reason to wear heeled, platform clogs to work.

I wouldn’t vote for sliwa if he was the only candidate in the race, but I fully support his threat to release the names of the billionaires trying to bribe him out of the race.

I have attended a lot of anti-ICE and anti-ICE adjacent protests, and never once have I seen a sign that said “ANTI-ICE”. Messages look a lot more like this friendly neighborhood graffiti.

Just out here tweeting out evidence of a federal crime mere hours after prosecutors got hit by the judge in the Luigi Mangione case for public statements they made that could impact his rights.

the sign of a truly serious candidate is that they won't even participate in this incredibly easy free media opportunity

honestly if this stuff had been called 'apple pie spice' instead of pumpkin spice it would save so much agita. it's just some combination of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and/or allspice, which is what I put in my apple pies to make them fucking AMAZING.

This is genuinely wonderful and also makes me so mad that our own health authorities are doing everything they can to destroy the research infrastructure in the US. We're on the verge of so many breakthroughs in alzheimers, cancer and other diseases!

This was a CHOICE. OMG.

Just a reminder that in the 1980s Tylenol took what could have been a company-destroying disaster and turned it into a PR master class where most people remember them as absolute corporate heroes. In other words, don't fuck with the Tylenol PR machine.

the series went off the rails a bit by the end, but this is still one of the best episodes of television to ever air.

Its economist house style to not include authors. BUT, it’s some serious bullshit to use that policy to launder the well-known bigotry of this particular author behind the veil of said house style.

I have a home movie from my mother’s baby shower where she was very pregnant with me, and literally everyone in the room, including her, is smoking and drinking. This would have been late 1973/early 1974.

This cursed thread is how I discovered I am the same age as Alex Jones. Also, Brendan Carr is the same age as my little brother.

ABC should obviously make it free via streaming to all affected customers.

honestly can’t believe I’m going to have to stay up past 10pm on a weeknight to watch Kimmel in real time on my non-Sinclair owned abc affiliate because of these fuckers.

Just a reminder that people have power. they'll frame this as "oh, we were always gonna do this and just wanted to calm tensions" (see article) but they clearly did not expect the backlash of both customer cancellations and talent refusing to work with them.

If you want to understand why my parents, as city kids (Bronx!) moved to the suburbs to raise a daughter that almost immediately moved back to the city as soon as she could, you just need to know that I was born in 1974 and moved to Manhattan when I graduated from law school in 1999.

I've gotten a few podcast ads for these, and they keep marketing them as "find your kids shoes!" devices and not "creep on your kids" devices, which tells me they know exactly how creepy this is.

Obviously not the biggest issue here, but sure would have been nice if the Biden administration attempt to make rules requiring cancellation to be as simple as signing up hadn’t been killed by the trump regime.

I am trying to become a chunky jewelry gal, but my hands are weirdly wide and all of those fun chunky bangles won’t fit over my knuckles. It’s very annoying.

Once more, with feeling: we told you so.

Yeah. If any prosecution of Tish James survives a motion to dismiss, her first witness is gonna be the guy who quit after being pressured to ‘find’ evidence that did not exist.

today in ‘making friends with the Cuomo campaign’

Slightly less terrifying but still weird and gross is that for the longest time, FB ads assumed I was a black woman (per the ad data you could dig into) and the only thing I could think of was that it was because I actually have and interacted with black friends on there.

Probably a box of Oreos.

This also bolsters my argument that half the people on threads don’t even realize they have an account that got set up when they accidentally clicked a link on Instagram.

So um. This is what's been up with me for the last year. I hate hate hate asking but very much appreciate your support. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...

I think the reason for this is pretty straightforward: the largest cohort of cross-pressured swing voters in the United States are people who are cross-pressured because they are secular but racist

Yes. instead all it does is alienate your allies on the further left of the spectrum into not voting or voting for some nonsense green party candidate because you’ve spent half your campaign insulting them.

Really excellent episode of Throughline about the history of immigration detention in the US. a lot of history rhyming. overcast.fm/AAYs-ym9CkA

The oldest millennials have reached “need to get a colonoscopy” age and people are still out here treating them like college students with no power.

I think there are two vectors here: - the more people are exposed to democratic socialism via popular candidates, the more they realize it’s mostly just FDR-levels of social support and not, like, Stalinism. - younger people did not grow up utterly steeped in a culture of fear around the USSR.

I know Starbucks is problematic, but good on them for actually investigating first rather than just knee jerk falling for this bullshit.

Silver just sounds like someone who has no idea that Kimmel has been a pretty public lib for ages. I wasn’t a regular watcher but I still remember during the ACA fight how he was incredibly open about the health issues of his kid, and how everyone deserved access to the kind of care he could afford.

He should go back in time and resign before the 2022 midterms because he’s such a terrible state chair.

I think the nicest thing about this is that he dropped it on a Friday, meaning that the NY Times lawyers who were almost certainly gonna be working this weekend on the reply brief get a nice weekend off.

I periodically think that SOMETHING will be 'too far' for this supreme court but then I remember all the way back in 2017 when they said that trump's statements about wanting to deport all muslims didn't actually count as a statement of intent on the muslim ban.

Ok seriously how is All the Presidents Men not available on streaming anywhere right now except to buy? between the political moment AND Redfords death, it would be #1 on streaming right now.

Does Bagram even exist anymore except as a theoretical concept?

This is very funny because the Canadian couple on my recent trip accidentally bought, like, a gross of Canadian maple leaf pins for their bags and offered some to everyone in the group. (I did not take one. I find that telling people that I’m specifically from New York City works well enough)

The thing about juries is that they live in the communities ICE is rampaging through.

Kathy Hochul has shown real interest in pursuing aggressive pro-housing reform. I think offering support for her agenda from the left, tied to her not obstructing Zohran's initiatives, could be a very productive synthesis.

Particularly wild that the article here doesn’t say what Kimmel said that was so offensive. Which means he almost certainly just told the truth.

This year’s edition of drunk art for charity!

So I keep seeing Michael Imperioli near my apartment, which led me to google, which led me to discover that he owns the extremely tiny cocktail lounge immediately around the corner from me? (I live in the best neighborhood)

Teams had this for ages, I tried it once just to see what would happen and it was mostly just dumb.

the only thing you need to know about this guy is that he things CAP (CAP!) is too liberal.