New York Shitty

Simple pleasures.

I wonder if they came down voluntarily or otherwise? Maybe he sold the buildings? 🤔

I walked over and told this guy about the Green Lady of Brooklyn. He told me he has done his hair green and needs to do that more.

Sticker of chihuahua telling you to shit yourself

Baltimore's sticker game is good.

@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level. JOIN.ICE.GOV 06 Aug 25 [Young man and old man in ICE gear]

Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944 [Young man and old man sharing a rifle]

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

I can't even begin to express how awesome this is. And y'all, the embroidery is -intarsia- .

@govpritzker.illinois.gov: "A rightwing blogger, who has credentials at the WH, came to an area where some of the legislators are staying and started reporting online about it. He then put up a map and put a pin on the map and said, 'This is where these Texas legislators are.' So that started this."

The Sploot

That has to feel so fucking good..

imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone

This new mst3k is hilarious.

They're watching Doctor Mordrid & are absolutely destroying this movie.

Trump’s War on Big Law Means It’s Harder to Challenge the Administration Some of America’s largest law firms are refusing to take pro bono and paid legal work from groups that seek to hold the government to account on issues like environmental protection, LGBTQ+ rights…

NEW: Holding the government to account is becoming more difficult as some of America’s largest law firms are avoiding clients Trump might perceive as enemies or take on cases involving environmental protections, LGBTQ+ rights and police accountability.

By @mtredden.bsky.social

Federal court filing system hit in sweeping hack The identities of confidential court informants are feared compromised in a series of breaches across multiple U.S. states.

NEW: "The electronic case filing system used by the federal judiciary has been breached in a sweeping cyber intrusion that is believed to have exposed sensitive court data across multiple U.S. states, according to two people with knowledge of the incident."

Black kitty in Turkish manuscript

One more kitty, a black one 🥰

Facts

Illuminated manuscript perfected by cat

Illuminated manuscript perfected by cat

Illuminated manuscript perfected by cat

Illuminated manuscript perfected by cat

Illuminated manuscript perfected by cat 🐾🐾🐾

There isn't one. I looked. However it is a very small exhibit and I got pix of everything.

Walters Museum, Baltimore

Great little show, great little museum

Armenian cats

Armenian cats

Armenian cats

Armenian cats

Best of show IMO

Def recommend this show.

Speaking as a cat, I can assure you this cat is indeed mocking these souls. It's what they do. 🤷‍♀️

In lieu of alt text: A photo of graffiti of the robot maid from The Jetsons, but with boobs.

Robot Titties, Baltimore

Jane Pak, Beloved Mother, 1940-2021 I want to tell you about Jane Pak. Jane Pak, 1984, giving me a Jane Pak look. She loved libraries and schools and museums. She loved Half Price Books and WQXR, New York’s classical music radio stat…

Four years since my mom passed.

Jane Pak loved public libraries and public radio and public schools and museums and clear writing and careful editing and voting and good journalism.

"Be like Jane Pak" is a pretty good mantra for #2025.

gregpak.com/jane-pak-bel...

Does this count?

Most U.S. adults stressed by grocery costs: poll Just 14% said the price of groceries was not a source of stress.

New polling shows that 1 in 7 Americans report using Buy Now, Pay Later service like Klarna, Affirm, and Afterpay to get groceries.

www.axios.com/2025/08/04/g...

what's so chilling, to me, in all the evangelical parenting manuals i read and the testimony i received from survivors, is the idea in evangelical circles that striking your child in a cool and ritualistic manner is somehow better than doing so in anger. it isn't. it really isn't

Asking men and women about the first time someone commented on their body: the experiences couldn’t be more different.

The patriarchy benefits all men and harms all women and femmes.

It’s my fellow men’s responsibility to fix this.