Rotisserie chickens are this year's avocado toast.

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

The replies here almost immediately validate Joel’s concern. Just a whole bunch of ostensible lefty’s/liberals spinning out antisemitic conspiracy theories to justify this framing.

How is this administration so bad that they have me siding with things like pharmaceutical companies and Ivy League schools?

ooh. I might need to check this out.

not for nothing, but I am a boring-ass middle aged white lady who mostly listens to podcasts during the day, and I'm currently bopping to Bad Bunny on my office speaker while finishing out my work day.

Leaving the obvious racism aside for a second -- Bad Bunny has sold over 100 million albums and just won the Grammy for Best Album of the Year and these chuds are acting like he's an obscure Tuvan throat-singing act or something. By any objective measure, he is wildly wildly popular.

gonna be a very exciting week for the 87 different legal podcasts I subscribe to.

Yearning to bring back Tammany Hall.

Age verification? Can't. too busy printing out a giant dot matrix banner I made in Print Shop.

“but they” no, stop it, shut up, log off. there are two sides of our current problem and one of them is preferable in every conceivable way to the other.

this is what it comes down to. Even if you think *those* people don't deserve due process (they do!), how do *you* prove that you're not one of *those* people when armed, masked agents of the state scoop you up and throw you in a cell and claim you ARE one of *those* people not entitled to rights?

Not clicking thru because I killed my sub, but this header reads like someone who only understood three words and decided those three words were the entire message and not, you know, the fields of sugar cane and the electric poles sparking out of service (among many other things).

Everything is Murc's Law.

There's literally an unopened mailer from the AARP sitting on my desk at home.

bring on the dirty slushy NYC! (what we're really gonna need is a good day of rain in above-freezing weather to clean the mess)

From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵

How devastated do you think kid rock is gonna be to find out that Trump would rather hate watch bad bunny than figure out how to watch his counter programming?

I knew she had to be someone!

There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.

Tuned in just for the halftime show, then rewound it on peacock and watched it a second time, and then turned off my tv.

Someone’s gonna write an entire dissertation on this halftime performance and the LAYERS of symbolism.

Ok aside from the fact that this banger of a halftime show is going to give the right wing a collective heart attack, which is fucking awesome, how about the technical wizardry that went into that one camera take through the hedge maze

I lived in Buffalo from ‘92-‘96 (IYKYK) and the absolute best time to go grocery shopping was during a Bills game. The store was completely empty AND they were still showing the game on any screen available so that their staff wouldn’t miss anything.

I took this photo of a #superbOwl in Alaska a few years back. This is not a black and white photo. The ambient light was just like that.

When I joined facebook back in the day and reconnected with a bunch of high school friends I had lost touch with, I found out one of them was gay because he was constantly posting pics from his gay hockey team 😉

Chase bank has decided to discontinue all of its safe deposit box services. Incredibly frustrating.

Imagine going to one of the culinary centers of the world and bringing your own food. I lived in Milan twenty years ago and still think about some of the “ordinary” meals I would get for lunch.

I really appreciate how my cat’s absurdly expensive specialized prescription food ALSO makes her poops stink to high heaven.

I’m glad the WaPo still has time to come to NYC to cape for the poor, benighted landlord class in between abandoning their Ukraine correspondent in a war zone and killing of the entirety of their own local DC reporting.

The thing about this guy is you can't fake this kind of warmth and good nature. He just ad-libs based on the kid, clearly enjoys it.

they deserve to be exponentially more widely hated than they are, and I believe we can make this happen together

In some ways I feel really bad for Judge Luttig - to dedicate your entire life to what you thought were a set of coherent, conservative principles* only to find out that it was all a scam to amass power and destroy democracy. *to be clear, I do not agree with these principles.

The MOST important thing the NYC mayor can do to ensure the success of their programs is to have a good, functional working relationship with the Governor. Endorsing Hochul, after she has already helped him get programs like free 2-K in month 1 of his admin, is the way to do that.

really wish the people making these decisions were the ones suffering the consequences instead of small children.

This is great! In reality, a lot of the COVID-temporary structures were never meant to last forever (there were some in my neighborhood that constantly looked like they were going to collapse), but a combination of better standards PLUS year-round dining is really the best thing that could happen.

This is honestly a hell of a read.

Doing today’s civic duty (donating blood).

I cancelled my WaPo subscription a while ago over some nonsense they did (there are so many that the run together at this point) and subscribed to The Handbasket ( @marisakabas.bsky.social ), @hellgatenyc.com and a few other hyperlocal rags instead.

I am not a sports person, but I feel like killing the entirely of sports coverage *the week before the Olympics and the year the US is hosting the World Cup* is just extremely, astoundingly dumb?

Do you think any of these fools have watched (or read!) Les Miz to the end? Hint: it’s not called “THE MISERABLES” because they win.

I see people in replies complaining that she ‘waited’ until now but…she didn’t. This wasn’t a secret. She’s discussed it before. But no one was listening.

A. Hammy was one of the founding fathers of posting.

if you need proof that human beings will have incessant petty drama no matter the era, I would just like to remind you that The Reynolds' Pamphlet exists.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

welcome to our socialist paradise!

Another day, another moment of Mayor Mamdani just…doing nice stuff.

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

Today is probably a good day for me to stop constantly confusing Zak Snyder and Brett Ratner in my head, huh?

There's a lot more evidence for Trump shitting himself in public than there ever was for the idea that Biden had Parkinsons, or that HRC had cancer back in 2016.