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Bad news guys I failed my APGAR test today :(

"I mean the [slur]s love me and the [slur not in regular use since c.1910] act like I'm [incredibly derogatory racial stereotype]"

Nic Kristoff? The guy who participated in the slave trade by purchasing Thai women? That Kristoff?

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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a giant red clown shoe stomping on a human face going 'honk honk' every time, forever

Really interesting tidbits in this latest NYT focus group

I hadn't realized; honestly his original post struck me the wrong way too just for different reasons. Urbanism discourse is so off the rails these days it makes me nostalgic for the simple pleasures of hating on Richard Florida

People arguing about self sufficiency vs crop yields lost the plot. It felt like what was lost between both sides of the argument is that you need little nice gardens and tiny parks among the housing otherwise the neighborhood gets grim and miserable. It's not about the vegetables!

I thought they confirmed they were going to safe & affordable after having to choose between these two catchy lines

Ten years on I still think of this article about the 'taxonomy of internet chum' and how in our age of uncanny, enshittified slop it's even more prescient www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-co...

Take it from me, I love you

TED CRUISE

The secret to success as an NYC mayor is being able to recruit and hold on to good agency/department heads. The City runs, or doesn't, through it's departments. BdB for all his flaws managed to bring on effective and enthusiastic agency heads who got a good deal done.

How does it feel that lebanese-americans are "exceptional" to the exclusion of all other arabic-speaking peoples. Phoenicia ascendant

A NYT paragraph spelling Zohran Mamdani's name as "Mumdani"

The New York Times is misspelling Zohran Mamdani's name in the same pejorative pronunciation that Cuomo has been usuing

This is such a cartoonishly villainous "just asking questions" bit of "news analysis" from NYT

Treatlerism at its core

Blue Velvet is effective in part because it captures the dreamlike horror of your friend taking you to see one of their friends and it's just weird as hell

Kids menu grade political analysis

Has anyone made the claim?

A third season of the Rehearsal should solve the problem of school shootings in America

Subway ad in millennial colors saying save 15% off your first order with the code ABUNDANCE15

A knight standing over a vanquished foe

Me pressing the check box that says "Do not challenge me again on this device"

John Arnold post with Venn Diagram placing him at the intersection of opposing birthright citizenship and believing the constitution establishes it as the the law of the land. Matthew Yglesias reply agreeing and suggesting a "reform" be made in the constitution concerning birthright citizenship

[(3/5) × (one billion)] AMERICANS

Gonna go down to the lake and start bottling water in vials to sell to tourists

“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration

In the summer in Egypt we'd all share the 500ml bottles of Stella poured into some old 3oz duralex picardie glasses so nobody ended up with warm beer

Too bad people are rushing to dunk on this because I think NYC could have used proposed housing developments like this one

I had a friend on the spectrum who was obsessed with Emily Post