Cheryl B. Klein

This thread greatly brightened my day.

We were promised that the rich were going to leave NYC after Mamdani won and instead we have this...

Thanks for all the support and links, everyone! Reupping this just in case you might know someone right for this and didn't see it last night.

Ah, my comment was meant for you, but I think I misheard your tone. Apologies!

You do realize that “performance” can mean “execution” as well as “acting,” right? Roy Cooper is an experienced & talented politician (former Democratic governor of NC), not a reality-show guy.

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Would love to see some systematic testing of this, but I would hypothesize that “AI is driving up your electric bill” works better than any other argument against it for persuasion, including “it’s going to take your job” and “it’s hurting the environment”

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LLMs as contrast dye for where resources are missing.

They have no sense of honor, duty, or humanity.

A purple crayon, the logo of Harold Underdown's website.

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At least once I've been reading a scene where Death hasn't been mentioned before and suddenly there's a line in all caps, and I've audibly gasped. Such an effective technique for creating the shock D/death actually brings, without having to describe or explain anything at all!

The NYT style guide

That is a whole new & separate argument & hence not my job to have it with you. Good night!

I'm grateful for this reporting but JFC. The lunacy and the cruelty. This is the tip of their spear, friends. Think of the many Americans they would like to punish and reprogram.

Go back to the original post. He was saying this site is basically, in your terms, a “silly hippie grocery co-op” in an urban area, full of overeducated people who love to articulate political opinions. (He is not wrong.) I have now explained the reference and I hope to God we are done here.

Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke

He made a reference you didn’t get; you complained about your lack of understanding; I tried to help you out; you didn’t read the article & you’re still complaining. Not everything will be immediately relevant to you. Either learn more or stop complaining.

A small glass Coke bottle, still sealed & full of Coke, printed with “HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS in theaters this November!”

I have had this since 2002 and I feel like I should donate it to a trans performance artist who could break it dramatically onstage during a show. But it will probably just get recycled.

(I’d auction it & give the proceeds to a trans rights org, but it sells for $6 on eBay.)

Ideas welcome!

The war in Gaza divided a historic Brooklyn co-op. Here's what happened next Since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, members of the Park Slope Food co-op have been debating whether to ban Israeli goods from the shelves.

This article should explain the vibe he’s talking about

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The war in Gaza divided the Park Slope Food Co-op. Here's what happened next

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@abhialwar.bsky.social Any recs for a fellow artist?

Someone said once that there are two kinds of people — those who care about loading dishwashers beautifully & efficiently and those who don’t — and they marry each other.

Congratulations & sympathies to us for being in the former category. 🤣

This is excellent advice.

People have been sending me antisemetic conspiracy theories from X (twitter links) so I wanted to share some basic info. The total assets of every single Rothschild family member is $196 billion. The total asserts for Elon Musk is $852 billion and for the Saudi family combined it is $1.4 trillion.

sure the pedophile felon president just illegally bombed a country that may have nukes while federal forces under his command murder and harass people in america and immigrants are tortured and he moves forward with plans to build concentration camps and sorry idk where i was going fuck all of this

Glad to see this from my rep, @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social

A beautiful homemade flan

One of the moms of the families I’ve been delivering groceries to asked today if I’d be willing to accept something from her. And she came back with this beautiful flan she’d made to say thank you for helping us. I am crying. People are too kind. This is whom our government is forcing into hiding.