Paul Chernoff

Attention All You New Yorkers:

Please do not believe *any* poll that suggest that a candidate you approve of is winning.

Please assume any victory over anything establishment-shaped will be hard won.

I do not trust rosy polls. I will apologize later if I am wrong. Be just a little paranoid […]

It's critical that "solutions" to problems like housing, transportation, urban ecology, etc have been tested not just in a computer simulation but by people who have lived with all of these ideas in real cities and who know what really happens.

Designing a city like a giant appliance is madness […]

@futurebird
Every place name in Britain is at least 3 layers deep of invaders misunderstanding the language of the people who were living there before them. Now they are written down in "English", a language with spelling that is possibly a series of practical jokes which got accidentally […]

Stopped at Office Depot. Had to wait in line behind five other middle-aged people buying poster board and markers.

Are you confused about is meant by "private equity" this is a really helpful video that explains the term including how it tends to be used most often (eg. for buyout firms)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8M5kYmjT4c

A large crowd gathers at a public event, with a caption referencing "Bob" who showed up despite doubting the importance of his attendance. An arrow points to a specific spot in the crowd labeled "BOB." The overall message encourages participation and engagement

Be like Bob. Show up Oct 18th! #Nokings

@siracusa I wish all Canadian banks had this feature so I wouldn’t have to know about Peter’s wire transfers.

"Hey market what are you up to?"
"I have a AAA bond very safe can't go wrong."
"Wow THREE As?"
"Yes."
"So uh... what's in it?"
"Well... you know. Bundles."
"Bundles of what?"
"Bundles of bundles."
"Ok what is in those bundles?"
"Loans."
"That's nice. What kind of loans?"
"..."
"Well?"
"I'm […]

@w7voa I was surprised to see that magically appear in my Paypal account.

Just a feckless, feeble, snot flap of a man

Congrats Dem party. You have successfully trained me to delete all political text messages and emails without reading them.

Shower thought this morning if qanon came out and told the incels and whatever else weirdos that climate change was a conspiracy theory created by the African nations to warm the planet so that their people who are more adapted to warm climates could take over from Europeans who are more adapted […]

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Me when a monster tries to jumpscare me

Boxes also work on bobcats

@gottalaff.bsky.social Ben Goldacre has long written about how Pharma is awful but that vitamin and supplement companies are just "hold my bear.”

Stop with the supplements. They're not regulated, and most don't do for you what you think they do.

Contractor is working on ceiling wallboard destroyed by yellow jackets. Exterminator had been by twice to kill the yellow jackets. Contractor finds a few yellow jackets still alive in the ceiling but vacuums them away.

No one was bitten.

Glad the hostages are free. Now, release the Epstein Files.

#Israel #Gaza #Trump

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.” Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

“If I can’t violate people’s civil liberties what’s the point of even being a cop?l

It’s 64ºF outside. A good day to open the windows. As long as the windows are open it is a good day to run the self-cleaning over. The over has been smokey making even the most basic things, such as frozen pizza.

“Can you explain this gap in your resume?”

Me thinking quickly on my feet to explain the period when I worked for ICE: “I was selling drugs… ,uh, to children.”

Breaking: President Trump says much of the damage throughout Portland has been caused by Godzilla, tactical nuclear strike may be necessary.

No.Comtet-Brita@AQContextBrits - 13m Bit late for advice now) ANNE BOLEYN DUCK £6.00

#ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics Sex workers targeted by ICE need the migrant justice movement’s full solidarity.

Sex Workers Are Being Abducted by ICE — and Abandoned by Respectability Politics | Truthout
#uspol #sexwork #deportation #migration
https://truthout.org/articles/sex-workers-are-being-abducted-by-ice-and-abandoned-by-respectability-politics/

@derthomas @alipunk @the_etrain

I find @StillIRise1963 vey important to my day. She always gets me to look at things in a different way.

There are others worthy of this honor but SillRise1963's name popped into my brain first.

I started reacy Hitler's Female Physicians by Edzard Ernst. Dr. Ernst has written on the cooperation of Austrian doctors with the Nazi regime. He worked in the medical profession in Austria in the 50s (or was it 60s) and the Austrians were proud in how they defied Hitler. He didhis research and […]

Breaking: Bad Bunny invites the Portland Frog to be one of the dancers at his Super Bowl halftime show.

Breaking: Nobel Prize Total Landscaping awards President Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize.

@atpfm
We bought a Synology a few years ago for my office to run backup software.

Almost went with QNAP but at the last minute found out that Archiware P5 server wouldn't support snapshots with its drive formatting, can't say if they offered ZFS at the time.

More important was QNAPs horrible […]