The thing I remember about modells was that right after 9/11, a coworker took up a collection to go the one around the corner and buy as many clean socks, t-shirts, etc to bring down to first responders, and when the clerk found out what he was doing, figured out how to sell him everything at cost

Today’s broken ankle accomplishment unlocked - put away two weeks of clean laundry AND packed a bag for my post-operation stay at my parents (gonna stay there for a night or two to make sure I’m not alone after getting general anesthesia for the first time)

The last time we had weather like this was when I broke my ankle. So PLEASE stay safe out there.

The first time I saw Hunter Biden’s art I was kind of blown away at how good it was. It’s the one linked below gives me Hilma af Klimt vibes, but there are others that echo Rousseau and various Mezoamerican artists.

By settling these cases, these hospital systems are conceding that they broke laws THAT DO NOT EXIST.

This truly is a golden era for NYC specifically.

So many Americans in particular were introduced to Tony Head via Buffy, where he played the goodest of good guys, so it was always a bit jarring to see him playing some absolutely fantastic shitbags when in his natural UK element. RIP.

this is the key to activism generally. you, individually, can't fix everything, but you can fix one thing. and if everyone who cares fixes one thing, that's a lot of things that get fixed.

To think that Sadie, with her willingness to hiss at anything and everything, could have had a film career.

This whole thread. Ive been saying going back to Bernie in 2016 - There is a certain segment (not all!) of ‘leftist’ that isn’t leftist at all but rather is an irreligious libertarian edgelord looking for permission to smoke pot and call women ‘bitches’.

this is truly a fantastic ratio.

When I was a teen, I went on a field trip to an Amish village, and they showed off their pasteurization machine and explained how it didn't break the 'no modern technology' rule, because pasteurization is so fucking important the literal Amish found a way to do it.

Just a regular reminder that every government regulation around food, health and safety was born out of some horror that arose before those regulations existed.

My entire history of the Knicks is them not winning. They won their last championship the year before I was born, and the last time they were in the finals was the spring before I fully moved to NYC full time.

Flashing back to the time trump bragged about having the tallest building downtown after 9/11. Man must have the smallest penis ever recorded.

just a wild guess, but I'm thinking Pelley is forswearing any sort of severance agreement that would include, say, a non-disparagement clause?

today's broken ankle challenge unlocked - successfully navigated having to remain in my apartment while my cleaner was here without nitpicking everything she does. (she does a good job, I was mostly worried about my propensity to be annoying)

"who was president on January 6, 2021" continues to be a question for the ages.

While it’s possible that an employee handbook or similar can redefine ‘hostile work environment’ to be something broader, it is usually a very specific term that relates to gender/race discrimination in the workplace and not just ‘my employees asked me difficult questions that I didn’t like’.

I’ve said before that, given my weird propensity to miss out on good fun things because of previously scheduled appointments that take me away from home, I am having some VIVID fantasies about it happening while I’m under anesthesia for surgery next Tuesday.

I’m willing to bet cash money that Pelley saw the writing on the wall and forced the entire confrontation rather than go quietly. Good for him.

Wish this was around during the election - it really helps explain why people find Sliwa to be an endearing New York “character” despite being a generally terrible person.

There are many things to say about Joe Biden, but calling the man who LITERALLY DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE the most "glaring example" of someone who refused to give up power is... Anyway, i want whatever drugs Tapper is taking.

the main problem is that at any particular time of day, most people want to go from A->B, and only want to go from B->A several hours later (think rush hour commutes mostly going in one direction).

There is a very similar ratio of deadhead miles vs passenger miles for Uber/Lyft as well, FHVs in general seem to have a disproportionate impact on traffic congestion for this and other reasons

the racism is off the charts, but the idea that no one outside of Britain (and, I guess, India) eats Indian food is just kind of batshit? I've eaten indian food everywhere from Nairobi to Palau.

When people talk about the good stuff Bloomberg did, like 90% of it was actually Sadik-Khan.

The only qualification Trump cares about is how well you weaponize the resources of the federal government against his enemies, and Pulte has that in abundance.

i have no words

If you’re that uncomfortable with the basic signs of human living by other people, maybe, just maybe, a public social media site is not really for you?

NEW YORK'S CUTEST. I'm dying.

whoever on his staff decided that the best thing they could do was constantly surround the mayor with adorable kids is a fucking genius.

Doing this like a week after they killed off the entire CBS radio enterprise is a pretty good tell that they have zero idea what they're doing.

You read The Power Broker once and you kind of understand why the city swung so aggressively in the other direction, making it a permitting nightmare to get anything done in this city, but it’s time to swing back just a little bit.

One of my grandfathers (not ‘great’, just grandfather) was born in 1904.

The fact is that the most correct observation anyone can make about US politics over the previous decade is that voting for Hillary Clinton would have fixed literally everything you’re currently suffering from, and you only think this isn’t the case because of misogyny

They’re decompensating in front of us. Any one of these insults is pretty typical these days for these right wing freaks, but the fact that they’re trying to bundle them all together is the true sign of their flailing.

I say this not as an insult but just as a fat person myself. There is no fucking way that man weighs only 238 pounds.

Currently listening to last week’s episode of @revealnews.org about 911 delays. Particularly prescient given that we got put on hold and I had to wait almost an hour for EMS to show up when I dislocated my ankle a week and a half ago.

nearly every terrible thing trump has done could have been stopped by a legislature who views the other branches as inferior to their own, as was the intent from the very start.

Don’t want to jinx things, but I have a habit of somehow missing out on good stuff because of prior obligations, and I am currently scheduled for my ankle surgery on June 9. Just putting it out there.

already blocked the guy, but at the point at which you’re arguing that “all Jews” are ethnically tied to the Levant (questionable!) in order to claim indigenousness to (and some inherent right over) the region, your level of abstraction is so high that you might as well be arguing that all of

This isn’t even the equivalent of the still racist ‘someone of Japanese descent must support Japan in WWII’. MOST Jews, particularly American Jews, have zero connection to Israel. We are not from there. Our families are not from there. We’re not ethnically “Israeli”.

Today’s challenge unlocked: my normal coterie of helping friends/family/neighbors are all unavailable (for good reasons) to help me get to today’s doctor’s appointment, so I’m going to attempt to get there myself.

This is so incredibly dumb, but also my brain is like, “well you just had to cancel your summer trip anyway, so you can just enjoy the absolute chaos this will cause from the sidelines while recovering from ankle surgery”.

Would be interested to see how these numbers compare to other primary runoff races - my guess is that those are typically low turnout compared to a general presidential election, but this still seems extraordinarily low.

Kind of wish I could leave my apartment right now, but I am thoroughly enjoying the instagram videos of guys in knicks jerseys walking around with brooms.

THey’re really trying to frame every perfectly normal thing he does as a scandal, huh? This was covered months ago on here, but to be clear, NYC does not keep thousands upon thousands of construction workers on the permanent payroll. They hire contractors like everyone else.

"who was president from March 2020-January 20, 2021?" is one of the most fiercely contested questions in American politics

Well, probably should have checked when my citibike membership was going to renew* because that’s a thing I won’t be using for the foreseeable future. *it renewed earlier today. Oh well.