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Somehow New Yorkers were more colorful than usual - in a good way! - when I went out today to go to the doctor. No bad weirdos, only fun weirdos. Must be some good vibes out there.

my colleagues @bloomberg.com are currently hiring for 35 different positions globally, from interns in Brasil to Calgary Bureau Chief to a West Coast Editor to work weekends in LA: bloomberg.avature.net/careers/Sear... There are also gigs for product managers who understand news and markets

Note to self: you can create music with robots but you cannot listen to music with robots. That is illegal and you will go to actual jail(!)

Just because it was 82 degrees today in New York doesn't mean I can't have hot cocoa in my skull mug. It is the spooky season, dammit!

(a sudden explosion of honking and sirens outside) Oh, it's just four double parked cars and a double parked UPS truck clogging my block while a city bus and an emergency vehicle are trying to get past each other at rush hour. It's fine. We're fine. Let the cars ru(i)n the world. NBD.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

I've said it before, but I really wish there were laws about apartment building overheating. Here we are in a climate crisis and my super has turned the heat on while it's 65 and sunny. The next five days are supposed to be in the 70s and 80s. And my landlord has to pay a fortune for this heat! Why.

Fuck yeah. Start withholding taxes and seize his property in NYC. Clock is ticking!

Donate or share share SHARE! HONK Fest is one of my favorite super fun musical events of the year! Awesome people doing awesome things, they always do some free all ages events so everyone can join in, but they need funding to support it. Some of my fave musicians are playing this year. 😊

Turn off your Google AI feature, folks. It is not only bad and stupid and junky and wrong half the time. It is fucking compromised.

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Photojournalist hospitalized after chaotic incident with ICE agents at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC

Jesus Fucking Tapdancing Christ Will no one rid me of this accursed mayor?

(opens YouTube) (sees Hank's new video) (sees xkcd's new video) Maybe today is more of a podcast day. 😕

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Donate or share share SHARE! HONK Fest is one of my favorite super fun musical events of the year! Awesome people doing awesome things, they always do some free all ages events so everyone can join in, but they need funding to support it. Some of my fave musicians are playing this year. 😊

Hakeem Jeffries thinks that Eric Adams served "courageously and authentically" as NYC's mayor after being indicted for bribery and corruption. After scandal after scandal was surfaced in the NYPD. Embezzlement. Bribery. Corruption. Repeated illegal fundraising. WTF, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ??

Finally. And I love him refusing to endorse, LOL. But also how about a resignation and/or second indictment?

Thanks, @tappytoeclaws.bsky.social - you definitely captured my whole vibe! 😄

You know your accurate and helpful comment in re: a very uncontroversial aspect of public health and its history went too viral when someone replies, "OK RKFJ 🤡🤡🤡" 😅

Me: showers and washes my hair in my bathroom that doesn't have an exhaust fan Also me: hangs my shirts to dry on every surface in my tiny apartment after washing them Also me: "Damn, it's so humid today!! 🥵"

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

TFW you go see some kick ass music at a certain famous New York jazz club and a certain ornery saxophone player drive-by-heckles your friend out of a car window as you walk to the subway because he thought your friend checked his watch too many times during the show 🙄 #IYKYK

I just read that someone filed a class-action suit over Reese's peanut butter Halloween candy not having enough details on their pumpkins and ghosts and stuff. Imagine living in a world where that was a problem worth litigating.

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So is everyone going to call or text their evangelical friends and family members tomorrow and say "Just checking in to see if you made the cut"?

Sending love to my autistic friends. 🫂 You do not deserve the hostility from RFK and that press conference and all the rest. These cruel people are not fit to be in charge of a bowl of cereal, let alone our country and health infrastructure. You are loved and have friends who care about you. 💖

He doesn't take bribes, he accepts gratuities, lavish gifts, valuable tributes, tokens of respect, uhhh... Republicans are the most gullible and deluded people on the planet 😭

Big news for hit-and-run murderers. It's not a crime to kill someone in NYC and flee the scene if you just tell the police you're a big dummy who didn't notice anything. 😑 (From Gothamist)

Great overview of the Eric Adams corruption case and some of the consequences it's had. Eagerly waiting for the day the state AG refiles.

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

FBI agents caught Tom Homan accepting $50k in bribes, but “planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official. But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

It feels way too early to buy Hanukkah wrapping paper, but I was in CVS buying packing tape, and they somehow had a whole bin of great Hanukkah paper. So now I am the proud owner of blue-dinosaurs-with-yarmulkes-and-winter-scarves paper because how can you NOT.

I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

What a great program, I can't believe I hadn't heard about it before. $18m in taxpayer dollars to wipe out $2 billion(!) in medical debt for low-income citizens. Awesome! (If you click through to the Undue Medical Debt link you can find campaigns in your community to donate to or share!)

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

What the hell is ICE doing now? They've been refusing access to local officials (including my Congressperson) and now they arrested a shitton of local elected Democrats.

This is what I said to my wife and three kids who use Hulu and Disney+

My spine/pain management doc is actually the best. Most doctors are "sorta OK" on a good day. He is the best. If you are in NYC and you need a guy, HMU. He takes almost every insurance, too. He just diagnosed me with something my other specialist missed in like 3 min. I have been in pain all year!

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

They want to cancel Jimmy Kimmel and kill free speech? Time to hit them where it hurts—their pockets: - Cancel Disney+ - Cancel Hulu - Boycott ESPN - Boycott ABC Let them know why you’re canceling/boycotting. - ABC contact: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/art... - Nexstar contact: www.nexstar.tv/contact/

Went to see John Zorn's Cobra tonight featuring some of my faves including Brian Marsella, Ches Smith, Jay Campbell, Kenny Wollesen, Billy Martin, John Medeski, Jorge Roeder and more. Will be seeing three of them again next week with Julian Lage at the Vanguard.

Really enjoying the "HINT!" mini-podcast on Worlds Beyond Number. Rec'd for anyone who likes the WBN crew but can't get into the WBN podcast for reasons of length or whatever - it's a short, not-D&D 4-episode murder mystery series. Easy listen and a fun time.

I have had a migraine since last week and the Dunkin across the street decided today was the day to have a dance party with loud music and a dancing cup of coffee Why is my life like this??

Sitting here at midnight trying to figure out which of my HEPA filters needs to be replaced, and after I finally switch them all off it turns out there's some noise coming from outside in the street that sounds like a giant high-pitched vacuum cleaner noise off in the distance. 🙄 FINE. BE LIKE THAT.

I just mixed up my Voltaren anti-inflammatory cream ($20ish OTC) and my Opzelura eczema cream ($2000ish prescription before insurance) and I'm not thrilled about it!

Went for a walk. Bought a muffin. Making stock for soup. It's a beautiful Sunday if you didn't know I was on day four of a relentless migraine and have already taken too much migraine medication this week and can't have any more. 🥲 (It's still a beautiful Sunday, but it hurts & my face feels weird)