Dr. Martha Jordan

"900 dollary-doos?!"

This is how I refer to all currency.

I've got complicated feelings on Ozzy. The music was groundbreaking and all, but...dude killed 17 cats in one sitting.

a black and white photo of a person holding a sword Alt: a black and white .gif of a bat flipped upside down to look like its dancing

Bats everywhere today.

The Magic Realism of Zohran Mamdani The socialist New York mayoral candidate’s proposals don’t hold up to serious scrutiny. Will that matter?

And his very smart aides might struggle, for instance, to make his housing proposals work. Mamdani has promised to create 200,000 units of new publicly subsidized, rent-stabilized housing and to fast-track projects consisting entirely of below-market-rate units. His campaign website claims that previous administrations relied “almost entirely” on the zoning code to encourage affordable housing. This is not so. For 40 years, New York has run the nation’s most ambitious and successful affordable-housing program, which rebuilt great swaths of the city using billions of dollars in municipal investment. Zoning changes to allow more housing construction are of recent vintage.

“Zohran and his advisers don’t know history and don’t have the slightest grasp of the numbers,” a former top city housing official told me. (He asked not to be identified because he still works with the city on affordable-housing projects.) Mamdani himself has proposed to triple the amount of money spent on housing in the city’s capital plan, pushing overall costs toward $100 billion over 10 years, which overshadows the estimated cost of his rivals’ plans. And he proposes to accomplish this with union labor, which the city’s Independent Budget Office found would add 23 percent to overall costs.

This doesn't seem like "serious scrutiny" to me. The only flaws in Mamdani's plans this article identifies are a factual error on his website and some "how will you pay for it" talking points.
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YouTube video by MilesDavisVEVO Miles Davis - 'Round Midnight (Official Audio)

Staying cool in 102°F with a little help from Miles
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Two kittens wrestle on top of the book Adorno on Music.

Interrupting the never-ending parade of horror to share prime cat content: a feral mama gave birth in our yard in April. She's fixed and returned to the colony, and now we're fostering the babies. Two of them already have strong differing opinions on Adorno.

M-A-M-D-A-N-I
Don't you rank that Cuomo guy

Opposing Andrew Cuomo is a non-negotiable for our membership. In light of today’s news that Jessica Ramos has endorsed Cuomo, our New York City CAP Council immediately voted to unendorse her on our ballots. @uawregion9a.bsky.social
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Now taking bets for RFK Jr's departure. $10 says he's out by December.

Jason Mantzoukas yells "bite eachothers' dicks off" presumably because he is watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk finally turn on each other

The only Cuomo I support is Rivers.

Reminder that Cuomo is and has always been a massive bag of wank. Do not rank him.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

It is unbelievable to me people are still so into HP, and can continue to be avowed fans in the face of what a hateful windbag JKR is.
Like, it was obvious to me at a 10 that the writing was bad and painfully derivative.

Lisa Simpson giving a presentation: "The people who made Jurassic Park didn't think it was possible to transition from female to male and that's why they got eaten by dinosaurs. Moral of the story is, support trans rights or get eaten by dinosaurs"

Promise?

On the plus side of things these days, I've found that checking the news and social media has been *fantastic* in helping me combat my hypotension.

But seriously, never doubt the efficacy of antics and japeries. Don't despair, be a gremlin.

A magenta muppet grins mischievously behind text that says "I think I will cause problems on purpose."

The vibe:

De-corps de ballet ?

Voids are the most stylish of cats 🖤

What a gorgeous cat!

Oh my goodness, they are so precious! I love the bold stripes on mackerel tabbies, it makes them look so dramatic.

They truly are a panacea!

It's much easier to deal with the prospect of Hulk Hogan as the Secretary of Education when there is a small and sweet kitty batting at your toes.

A small black cat with gold eyes chews on a green toy while lying on a purple bedspread.

I'm delighted to share with everyone that I've discovered the perfect cure for anxiety about the forthcoming political dumpster fire: adopting a cat. Please meet Signore Antonio.

I Got Mooned!

Sitting in an airport terminal with no work or grading to do for the first time in recent memory, and now the guilt of the countless emails and texts I've not responded to in the past year is hitting me 🙃