Drew

Assorted followers, I have written a review of Violet Du Feng's latest documentary, "The Dating Game," about the struggles of dating in China following the end of the one-child policy. The review, for Foreign Policy, can be read here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/12/c...

Who is this hero?!

Riding a Dutch WorkCycles Fr8 with an Albert Heijn bag in the crate and that fantastic signage on American streets. 🫡

There is no movie more “rom com” than “You’ve Got Mail.” THEY BOTH OWN BOOKSTORES.

Reminder to self to watch show “Devs.”

Whenever I have a lot to do in a short period of time I feel like Ray Liotta in that one scene in “Goodfellas.” You know, the one with meatballs and cocaine.

It should be legal to take a tire iron to the windshield of a car parked in the bike lane.

A row of parked bicycles sits against a mural in an Utrecht alleyway displaying a poem: “Modern technology / owes ecology / an apology.”

While some cities wait for technology to “save” them, others like Utrecht are making their streets cleaner and greener with 150-year-old inventions.

Simple and effective ways to address our myriad crises have long existed, if we are willing to look back in order to move forward.

if I text you "🧪🦙" it means the poison. the poison for kuzco. the poison chosen especially to kill kuzco. kuzco's poison

People handle free-ranging snakes?

Moms for Liberty Came to Philly. Philly Came for Them. This city is welcoming to just about everyone—except hateful fascist bigots, as the Moms for Liberty found out.

Making fascists feel unsafe is as much a Philly specialty as a cheesesteak from John’s Roast Pork or Irish potatoes, and it felt awfully nice to indulge.

New at @thenation.com: https://t.co/F0o5YmC8w0

On a bike ride yesterday in the Jersey suburbs someone in a car yelled at me (twice) to “move to the FUCKING city!”

Little did he know that I was desperately trying to ride back to the city. That suburban town was miserable to ride in.

Terrible

Getting older means if I bend down too quickly my spine flies out of my back

*dial-up sound*

A friend of mine years ago slammed on the hood of a car while we were crossing the street because the car was halfway into the crosswalk. This was in the U.S., and the confidence of her action blew me away.

George: I watched the tape, Jerry!
Jerry: The tape that kills you in seven days?!?
George: That tape, Jerry!!
Jerry: YOU NEVER WATCH THE TAPE!! WHY WOULD YOU WATCH THE TAPE?!?

Signs that say, “Pack it in. Pack it out.” In the illustration, two hikers go hiking, but only one comes back.

How to dispose of a body 101

I’m having trouble figuring something out. Could you Mozilla Firefox it for me on your Android smartphone?

“Rail me, daddy.”

—Citizens’ request to city mayor to build light rail system

told my doctor i have to find someone else because they just aren’t buff enough to give me advice on my health 💔

I don’t know what’s going on with this Doug stuff today but I’ll be damned if I’m not a part of it

it was the fastest of times, it was the furiousest of times

Saw someone this morning walking around with a multi-gallon gas can screaming about needing matches. Don’t give that guy matches, Philly.

Turtles

frog

I like to imagine this is someone’s undiluted artistic vision