Birds or Trains?
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My wife likes birds, I like trains, what else is there in life?
Ice Raid at Franklin and Union in Crown Heights if any local reporters want to run over. @rachelholliday.bsky.social @davecolon.bsky.social @benjaminkabak.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Ice Raid at Franklin and Union in Crown Heights if any local reporters want to run over. @rachelholliday.bsky.social @davecolon.bsky.social @benjaminkabak.com
Norman Rockwell Painting Meme:
OMNY has been better for me than Metrocard in every way.
OMNY has been better for me than Metrocard in every way.
A CNN reporter is looking for "Metrocard enthusiasts" to talk about the upcoming demise of the Metrocard, if that's your sort of thing.
My lukewarm take here is that as bad as the OMNY rollout has been lately, we can consign the Metrocard to fare payment media past without too much tears.
My lukewarm take here is that as bad as the OMNY rollout has been lately, we can consign the Metrocard to fare payment media past without too much tears.
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December 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Norman Rockwell Painting Meme:
OMNY has been better for me than Metrocard in every way.
OMNY has been better for me than Metrocard in every way.
Family illnesses, bad weather and a long weekend mean we are showing my daughter Frozen for the first time. I saw it once probably 10 years ago? So now you get my thoughts.
1. Big jump in animation between this and Encanto. This thing looks like a potato.
2. Kristen Bell is a good voice actor.
1. Big jump in animation between this and Encanto. This thing looks like a potato.
2. Kristen Bell is a good voice actor.
November 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Family illnesses, bad weather and a long weekend mean we are showing my daughter Frozen for the first time. I saw it once probably 10 years ago? So now you get my thoughts.
1. Big jump in animation between this and Encanto. This thing looks like a potato.
2. Kristen Bell is a good voice actor.
1. Big jump in animation between this and Encanto. This thing looks like a potato.
2. Kristen Bell is a good voice actor.
Benjamin Franklin in 1777 is basically 1977 Star Wars Obi Wan. Is he playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers or full of shit? No one knows, including himself.
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Benjamin Franklin in 1777 is basically 1977 Star Wars Obi Wan. Is he playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers or full of shit? No one knows, including himself.
Thomas Paine: a posters poster.
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Thomas Paine: a posters poster.
We should be talking more about how the German historian is maybe the best part of the new Ken Burns documentary?
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
We should be talking more about how the German historian is maybe the best part of the new Ken Burns documentary?
Am I a monster for wanting a 10am thanksgiving day game?
November 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Am I a monster for wanting a 10am thanksgiving day game?
Honestly though, next ballot proposal should be a proportional representation city council. I’m sure the local press will shit on that too but it would be so much better.
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Honestly though, next ballot proposal should be a proportional representation city council. I’m sure the local press will shit on that too but it would be so much better.
End of racial politics in NY apparently.
see if this turns out but if Julie Menin is right that she's secured a supermajority on the Council for Speaker, it looks like nearly everyone outside the Progressive Caucus / everyone outside the "Commie Corridor" unified behind Menin www.crainsnewyork.com/politics-pol...
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
End of racial politics in NY apparently.
The median Gen Xer thinks better signage will fix it.
The median boomer thinks a lawyer can solve any problem.
It’s very funny how Anglo center left parties are the parties of stuck up technocratic elites when they never actually consult subject matter experts, rather law school professors and consultants
November 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The median Gen Xer thinks better signage will fix it.
I’m convinced Kalashi makes money off of the float like GEICO.
November 24, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I’m convinced Kalashi makes money off of the float like GEICO.
When the Lidl finally opens in my neighborhood I intend to live post my visit.
November 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
When the Lidl finally opens in my neighborhood I intend to live post my visit.
Reading through the Zorhan transition committee list:
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November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Reading through the Zorhan transition committee list:
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child care is big though
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
child care is big though
I find myself wondering what Stipe Heeler does for a living and of course Reddit has a theory.
November 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I find myself wondering what Stipe Heeler does for a living and of course Reddit has a theory.
The high cost of free stroller parking. Is this anything?
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The high cost of free stroller parking. Is this anything?
Don’t think this will work? Only thing that ever has.
Red brown alliance but it's just getting a bunch of MAGA dipshits to vote for socialists without compromising a millimeter on policy through sheer force of personality
November 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Don’t think this will work? Only thing that ever has.
They aren’t going to let him speak with Zorhan without Vance in the room again next time.
Donald Trump has joined the DSA
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 PM
They aren’t going to let him speak with Zorhan without Vance in the room again next time.
@stephenjacobsmith.com any idea why a 20 unit building would need to pay $2500 a year for Elevator Telephone?
November 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
@stephenjacobsmith.com any idea why a 20 unit building would need to pay $2500 a year for Elevator Telephone?
lol of course it’s breezy point.
11695 I’m talking to you! We’ve received over 50K resumes, from every single zip code in NYC… except for one.
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November 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
lol of course it’s breezy point.
Subway knowers — do they have battery work locomotives now?
November 16, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Subway knowers — do they have battery work locomotives now?
New Zelda lore just dropped:
2. Fractals are defined by self-similarity. For a first example, take the Sierpiński triangle. It's formed from subtracting the middle quarter of a triangle to form three smaller triangles, then subtracting the middle quarter of each smaller triangle ad infinitum.
November 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
New Zelda lore just dropped:
I do love that of all of the powers that conservatives Stan it’s Austria, the power that fumbled the bag more than any other in the 19th century and essentially no longer exists. Incredible lost cause energy.
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I do love that of all of the powers that conservatives Stan it’s Austria, the power that fumbled the bag more than any other in the 19th century and essentially no longer exists. Incredible lost cause energy.
Love that the busses in Brooklyn become unusable after 2 pm on a Saturday.
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Love that the busses in Brooklyn become unusable after 2 pm on a Saturday.
I keep coming back to my thesis that Stevie Wonder made the best Beatles Albums of the 1970s.
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I keep coming back to my thesis that Stevie Wonder made the best Beatles Albums of the 1970s.