Mats Holberg 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

@RVLara23 Exactky haha

A restroom’s sink area and mirrors are covered in CBGB-type graffiti.

Seems a bit much when this isn’t actually a dive haha.

Christ. Trump’s gonna start a war in Venezuela, isn’t he? That everyone knows is just misdirection.

Funny when you wonder WHOSE BASS IS THAT and it turns out the noisy neighbors are F1 DJs at the Sphere.

Even by the standards of what we’ve been living through lately:

It really is something go get a fundraising text from a congressman who’s hook is that the president of the United States called for his execution.

@timo21 Haha and the casino’s confusion principle applies to road signs too.

A stream of people walking toward a building under construction as described.

Extremely crowded up and down the Strip today. That’s a good thing.

Also a good thing: The view of Trump is getting blocked from more and more views by the new Hard Rock guitar. Used to look straight at it here. Can’t wait to see how well it works as a screen once it’s done.

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Better signage, honestly, than anything Las Vegas usually offers.

A text conversation with my brother who texted a photo of a tall thin stringed instrument. Me: What is it??? Him: Electric upright Me: So you play it like a bass? Doh, I guess it IS a bass

Brother texts me a photo of a birthday present.

Let’s just say I can be slow on the uptake.

@aronow Haha had to google that -- sorry to disappoint!

An ad for Virgin Hotel reads: Not Your Grandma's Cherries VEGAS'S JUICIEST REWARDS

God please no

It’s only 8:27 on a Friday night but very generous pours have gotten me much more blotto than I’ve paid for.

Anything I say at this point—I’m drunk.

Someone in this bar has now played ‘Massachusetts’ by Bee Gees for the second time tonight.

I love The Bee Gees. Massachusetts is my other home state. But I fucking hate this song. Robin, no.

Marjorie isn’t so tough after all haha.

I’d say that all of us who already thought Mamdani was a generational talent were still underestimating him.

Oh! And around here it’s worth saying: I actually like plenty of billionaires. Musk is an outlier as the one I just instantly loathed. So, my extreme antipathy is reliably about HIM and not the number of zeroes in his net worth haha.

I’m pretty OG as a hater. Opposed to the concept of Elon Musk since I met him in 2015. He made such a bad impression on me—and I’ve always been so vocal about it—that friends were sheepishly apologetic when they told me they bought Teslas even back then.

Plus! I’ve mentioned this also but I […]

Clive Thompson @clive@saturation.social @Holberg Cc 5m It was a weird game because, unlike nearly every other 80s arcade hit, it was deterministic -- the ghosts would do the same thing if you did precisely the same movements so you could have patterns which -- if you executed them with the repetitive precision of a Chrysler line-robot -- could beat the game; no decision-making or strategy necessary

I learned this about Pac-Man tonight from @clive and my mind is retroactively blown.

Young Mats was such a dilettante about video games he never noticed this.

7001 The Tesla Diner Has Lost Its Chef After Less Than Six Months Chef Eric Greenspan has stepped away from the Musk-led diner to open a Jewish deli

Quel shock.

@darkuncle Super-fun!

Attractive but not so hot I could see guys letting her get away with that all the time. I’m trying to think what else her angle might’ve been. Maybe she was just raised by entitled wolves?

Wow. Very obviously in line at a pizza joint—one person working the counter—when a newly arrived woman literally steps right in front of me. I say, excuse me, I’m in line. She says are you ordering or picking up. Yeah, that’s irrelevant to this situation.

A pair of olive Converse sneakers with a textured sort of corduroy fabric.

These ones are rarely the obvious choice. Come to think of it, the last time I wore them was before the pandemic shutdown haha.

*This also is based on Yelp reviews. Which—yeah, I believe you really like it—but we’re probably not evaluating pho the same way if you’re also raving about your favorite Taco Bell.

Ranked as #1 and named appropriately, National City's PHOnomenal sells over 200 bowls of pho a day and "sells out frequently."

I’m a total pho snob who can remember—not that many years ago!—having to explain to other gringos—who lived a few miles from Little Saigon!—what pho even is.

This joint could be really good. I’ve never tried it. But I really struggle to believe a pho restaurant […]

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Looking down at an olive green coat and an umbrella in my hand.

Chose the right coat for a chilly, wet, overcast afternoon. Carrying an umbrella for several miles turned out to be overkill. One of these days I’ll get it exactly right!

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This ain’t NASCAR

A view of cars being forced onto a side street because the main road is closed.

Haha the most traffic Trump will ever see at its loser off-Strip location is when they close Las Vegas Boulevard and everyone HAS to pass it.

Unless I internalize that all the red caps this weekend are Ferrari, my nervous system’s gonna be shot.

Haha classic—the woman trying to balance on her high heels while trying to balance her champagne glass while trying to balance her phone for the best angle to photograph her young son with an F1 backdrop.