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One was a cab driver and then NYPD. The other was a neighborhood pharmacist. They couldn’t have been more opposite!

Oh hell yes 🔥

new mcmansion hell to cleanse the horrors: mcmansionhell.com/post/8099372...

I am capable of object permanence and am able to be enraged about, it turns out, hundreds of things simultaneously.

Suddenly thinking about Rome at least once a day..........

Can we just not

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

I ❤️ Brooklyn

Best episode of Muppet Babies ever!

I'm also convinced this is why we saw such an escalation of turnstile-jumping. Once the MTA made a big deal about it, more guys realized they could get away with it. Why pay the fare if other guys are not paying? And that's how you get dipshit Park Slope finance bros in Patagonia hopping the gate.

The broken social compact escalates so quickly! There are too many people who see one guy getting away with something so they figure it's OK for them to get away with it too. Why bother being decent if your neighbor isn't bothering? (........BECAUSE IT'S BASIC DECENCY, DIPSHITS, THAT'S WHY)

(American Medieval has been making my lapsed medievalist heart so happy! It's been really cool to see how the field of study has evolved so much since I was in college hyperfixating on Arthurian retellings but not really sure how to explore that in a modern way.)

This episode on "crusadercore" and the fetishization of medievalish stuff going on in current pop and political culture is terrific and fun and chilling all at once.

The tech dystopia being pushed on us is one where we never leave our insulated bubble—an isolated house, a self-driving robot car, increasingly automated work, ghost kitchen food delivery, and all entertainment just auto-generated slop. An utterly frictionless, interactionless life. No thanks!

Random discovery is so important everywhere in life! A song in a genre you never normally listen to, a book on a display at the library, an old movie on the TV in your neighborhood bar, someone on the train wearing cool boots you suddenly kinda covet...life becomes so flat without these encounters!

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Red dragon dance head next to black lion dance head on snowy nyc sidewalk

Gung hay fat choy! May the Fire Horse trample all of the injustices and abuses that slithered in with the snake year.

"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"

"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."

After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"

"This, too, is magic."

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.

Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

We don’t have a GREAT track record with this tbh but I was delighted to see it happen here

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

The contrast between those two worlds couldn't have been more stark. One so affluent but so empty. And the other so vibrant and full of life. I felt so much relief to be back in my city that day. Give me the piraguas, the bachata, the flying soccer balls, and the laughter on the streets. Every time.

Where there was a PARK. With water fountains! And helados! And people dancing, grilling, playing chess and soccer and arguing and laughing! Everyone there Dominican or Puerto Rican. And I refilled my water bottles and just lay in the grass delighting in the joy of these humans and their community.

Not a human to be seen, not even a shop to buy a water bottle. Just miles of empty lawns. I crawled from lawn to lawn hoping no one would see me out their windows and get angry at me crashing there. Eventually I made it back over the bridge back to Washington Heights.....

And, it reminded me of my hardest-ever bike ride. It was a hilly route around the suburbs of North Jersey. It was 95 degrees that day, and I hadn't packed enough snacks or water. I bonked so hard, and for miles and miles there was nothing but empty suburban lawns.

It was the most fantastic block party, a block party that brought the joy (and political aggravations) of Puerto Ricans to all of us. I want to dance with you forever.

I could have kept dancing for another hour to Bad Bunny. And.

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊