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Barry Petchesky
@barryp.bsky.social
Deputy editor, Defector.com
Imagine having a medical emergency in a room with the highest health officials in the country—best place for it, right?—and it turns out the most qualified of them are RFK Jr. and fucking Dr. Oz
holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Reposted by Barry Petchesky
Oh my GOD. The song that Rudy Giuliani used in his anti-Zohran post is fucking AI-generated.

It's a song called "September 11, 2001" and it's from some AI slop factory called The Experience. You need to hear how bad this song is.

music.apple.com/cz/album/sep...
September 11, 2001 (9/11) - Single by The Experience on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 1 Song
music.apple.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Hell yeah Phil
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The bus is free now if you recite the Shahada
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This playlist over the glum crowd is kind of beautiful www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI8h...
WATCH LIVE: Andrew Cuomo election night watch party
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Who voted no on the map, show yourself, I just wanna talk
November 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I’ve seen enough

of the Rangers offense
November 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Reposted by Barry Petchesky
I'd vote against Cuomo a third time if I could
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Local politics here usually have more of a “please don’t tell anyone how I live” vibe, so tonight’s a nice change.
November 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
No relation but she's a good blogger too
“At 83, I am easily old enough to be Zohran’s bubbe (that’s Yiddish for grandma). Yet, despite obvious differences of age and background, our political and moral alignment runs deep.”

Rosalind Petchesky explains why she is rooting for Mamdani.

Read the full piece:
zeteo.com/p/jewish-new...
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I can't wait to claim my birthright: cyberbullying Mayor Mamdani. Comes with the job. We got BDB's ass, we'll get your ass too!
November 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I'd never heard the word "decussate" in my life and now it has appeared in the last two books I've read, from different authors. This means something.
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Pretty sure my cat goes through the entire Kübler-Ross model in the hour before wet food is served.
October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Sticker game goes hard
October 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
There is something deliciously illicit about seeing the trains from above
In NYC, recess sometimes looks like preschoolers excitedly waiting for the Franklin Avenue Shuttle to pass underneath them.
October 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I'm really happy to have had @keithparadise.bsky.social back on the site this week, with another banger.
October 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Work chat currently derailed by some absolute FOOLS claiming that "Scary" and "Terry" rhyme.
October 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I promise to all Americans that I will never apologize for or cover up my Metallica tattoo
October 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Fun(?) mayoral election fact. Mario Cuomo lost *three* separate times to Ed Koch in 1977: in the Democratic primary, in a runoff because neither got 40 percent, and then finally as the Liberal Party candidate in the general, despite most powerful Dems urging him to drop out.
October 22, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Energy Drink Thoughts: The brand Lucky has really grown on me in recent months, even despite having to read the founder's insane origin story on every can.
October 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Reposted by Barry Petchesky
Cool website by @albertguillaumes.cat
showing station maps of most European and American underground stations (nice colouring of TfL axiomatics).
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
Stations and transfers
A gallery of drawings depicting the topology of metro stations from different European cities.
stations.albertguillaumes.cat
October 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
If today's your first day on Bluesky you should know we're all Yankees/Giants/Knicks/Rangers fans here, and have an unusual fondness for early-aughts nu-metal. Sorry but them's the rules.
October 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM