Michele Tepper

That’s my dad for one. Total Insta addict at 84

This is such great marketing for Anthropic.

the world you were raised to survive in no longer exists, but is occasionally regurgitated at you in the form of nostalgic tchotchkes.

"Strong" isn't "Sure, we'll sacrifice trans people if you leave us alone [which you won't actually do]."

It's "Fuck you, we don't leave anybody behind and that means we defend trans people you're trying to write out of public life. Fix your hearts or die."

We hear this over and over and over and at some point choosing not to hear or believe it is just that: a choice.

No, it's real

I’m beginning to wonder if our slide into autocracy could be reversed if we sent Mamdani to DC twice a week

For the boy from Queens, this is a better gift than a Nobel and a Gold Medal rolled into one. Double the pay of whoever came up with this.

Mamdani has the juice

Does All That Jazz count? "Everything Old Is New Again"

Get out your white suit, your tap shoes and tails
Put it in backward when forward fails
But leave Greta Garbo alone
Be a movie star on your own

Knitting Through Digital Decay: A Collection of Digital Preservation Jumpers No One Asked For (But… I’ve been truly overwhelmed by the interest in my Digital Preservation knitting patterns — thank you to everyone who has reached out…

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Fun fact: we had the same orthodontist, and her headshot shared space with Rangers memorabilia on his office walls

Good thread. Trump has succeeded in remaking the GOP into a party that lacks any capacity for internal correction, is uninterested in governing in any traditional sense, and is incapable of tailoring its self-presentation to match the demands of the electorate.

OK, so bear with me, I have been waiting to use the phrase "School's Out for Summers" for a long time

Staten Island not sending their best

There are 17 people (including me) from my block association at an anti-ICE training tonight

Faaaaaancy! (complimentary)

Unpossible! Autocorrect got you

It’s always going to be “oh boy, sleep! That’s where I’m a Viking”

something to remember -- unrelated to anything else that might be airing on television tonight, not sure why you'd even mention it, honestly -- is that every episode of Columbo is streaming on the Peacock app you paid for through the end of the month to watch the Olympics

Learn to decode

I will fight you for the blueberries

"It is not a coincidence that Epstein was also interested in crypto, in AI, in right-wing populism, in trad Cath extremists, and anti-trans ideology, ... Epstein gravitated toward fields and figures that rank humans, explain away cruelty, or biologize inequality."

The Citizens United decision

A small brown dog dwarfed by a pile of snow. The dog is on a fully cleared sidewalk

Our amazing super did great work with the snowblower. “This is nothing!” he said. “We got two full feet out on Staten Island!”

sometimes something bad happens where there are no malicious actors, no one is happy, and everyone gets the worst possible outcome they don't deserve. social media exists to strip such events of context so we can have clear winners and losers

My Lunch With Wallace Shawn and André Gregory The old friends are still making their own kind of theater together, 50 years later.

Of course I asked them to dinner. How could I not?

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The glory of apartment living is that I don’t have to shovel it out :)

anyway once again from a journalist by far the most important feature of this site is that it does not bury links, despite its small population of wackos its regularly our 4th or 3rd biggest source of traffic

A Brooklyn apartment building courtyard under over a foot of snow

“Go look out on the courtyard,” my neighbor said. “It’s beautiful.”