Jake Anbinder

Very hard to watch Staples struggle to come to terms with the fact that it’s just the Returns Store now

Self connect

People's degree of risk aversion when it comes to air travel itineraries is quite something. Found a thread online where people are advising *against* a 5 hour layover at JFK because OP has to collect bags and recheck at a different terminal. 5 hours! They're telling him to stay overnight instead!

For those wondering what upstate New York is like: parking in the covered garage at the Syracuse airport doesn't prevent your car from being snowed on, it just reduces the amount somewhat.

the answer clearly is that the Bay Area's natural beauty is like the Ark of the Covenant; gazing at it without divine authorization drives one to insanity

Lots of stories out there about people outside academia not understanding this world but my mom has a humanities PhD and even she sometimes texts me like "what if you just wrote to the Ford Foundation and asked for a job"

If you want to know what life is like in this part of New York, 80% of the local ads on the Syracuse CBS affiliate are for roofers. The remaining 20% for heating companies.

Old enough to remember when Black Friday meant sleeping in tents for $100 plasma TVs or whatever and mistreating low-wage workers and there was a lot of hand-wringing over What This Said About America

I believe it was @freedaaron.bsky.social who tweeted this originally but good luck to everyone rediscovering this weekend that their parents have radically worse food prep safety standards than they do

Put another way, to go to planning school in 2025 is a very different experience from going to planning school in 1955. Yet to what end?

What’s remarkable is how persistent this has remained even across all the changes in planning teaching and practice that have taken place since activist planners started to note this in the mid 1960s

Rooting for you mostly because when you get tenure I hope you’ll finally reveal your identity

That’s what makes it classy

There was a distinct period of time when American real estate developers were like ”you know what screams classy? The Welsh language”

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There's no greater evidence of an NFL coaching hivemind than the fact that the pendulum swung violently ~5 years ago from punting on 4th and 1 so you didn't look stupid in the eyes of your colleagues to going for it on 4th and long so you don't look insufficiently "aggressive"

Props to Coors for getting decades of advertising material out of the idea that "our beer is really cold," a premise that makes only makes sense if you've had a few too many

definitely in the running for the most left-coded right-wing celebrity

And I can assure you the bus fare is not the problem with NYC cost of living

The problem with Mamdani putting all of his eggs in the cost of living basket is now he has to bring down the cost of living

My “My Cause My Cleats” would be the fund to finish the renovation of the Ithaca Farmers Market parking lot

I’m sorry to have been cursed with the ability to remember Trump’s political career but he in fact does this a lot

Anyone trying to find some deeper meaning out of Trump’s reaction to Mamdani—especially as it relates to the rest of the Democratic Party—is going to be embarrassed over the long run

Everyone knows kids need diapers and food but did you know they also increase your household consumption of alkaline batteries by six billion percent

this has to be a record for mixing metaphors

It’s both

I have had to read about a million articles from the 1980s New York Times for this chapter and what’s striking, apart from the degree of local coverage that no longer exists, is how much wordier the average article was

How Much Does It Cost To Rent in Princeton in 2025? In recent years, a number of large new apartment buildings have been constructed in Princeton. How have they affected rental rates around the town? To find out, we reviewed rental rates for apartme…

New blog by me: Rents for some apartments in Princeton have actually dropped since 2024. Is that because the economy is slow, or because several large new apartment buildings were constructed recently? walkableprinceton.com/2025/11/16/h...

I just want to live in a place where the auto headlights on my car don’t illuminate during the daytime in the winter

Does anyone know an easy way to get new H-Net job listings emailed to you? I used to use a RSS to email applet but their RSS seems to be broken