Steven Jack
@golikewater.bsky.social
Gay writer, artist, amateur historian, slow reader, New Yorker.
I think we have to do both. We don't stand much chance of rebuilding those institutions if we don't win elections to stanch the wound, start to clean up the mess, and gain some political power.
October 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I think we have to do both. We don't stand much chance of rebuilding those institutions if we don't win elections to stanch the wound, start to clean up the mess, and gain some political power.
Please take on Broadway next!
September 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Please take on Broadway next!
I LOVE the 1962 remake.
August 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I LOVE the 1962 remake.
The culture editor in her memo, referring to Jesse Green's “incisive, witty reviews”? Um, it's not 1950, you can say the word "gay."
A big announcement that veteran journalists are being moved out of their jobs and into unspecified new roles and that they will be replaced by TBD feels extremely ominous. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
New York Times Culture Desk Shake-Up: Critics Margaret Lyons, Jon Pareles, Jesse Green, Zach Woolfe Reassigned to ‘New Roles’
Four New York Times critics -- Margaret Lyons, Jon Pareles, Jesse Green and Zach Woolfe -- will be assigned 'new roles' as the paper changes up its culture desk coverage.
variety.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The culture editor in her memo, referring to Jesse Green's “incisive, witty reviews”? Um, it's not 1950, you can say the word "gay."
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It is a bribe and the shame of this will outlive them. I’m not naive, but these people are not fit to own or run a media company. They’re so poor, all they have is money.
Details of the Paramount settlement with Trump over 60 Minutes lawsuit:
- $16 million for Trump presidential library
- Release of transcripts in the future
- No apology
- $16 million for Trump presidential library
- Release of transcripts in the future
- No apology
July 2, 2025 at 4:41 AM
It is a bribe and the shame of this will outlive them. I’m not naive, but these people are not fit to own or run a media company. They’re so poor, all they have is money.
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Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.
Why does it stop in the middle??
July 1, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Why does it stop in the middle??
I think about this commercial a lot, especially at times like this, when outsider takes on NYC are cresting. The discourse is never any more sophisticated than this.
Pace Picante "New York City!!" Commercial from 1993
YouTube video by The Dead Media Group
www.youtube.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I think about this commercial a lot, especially at times like this, when outsider takes on NYC are cresting. The discourse is never any more sophisticated than this.
I have a hard time taking anyone seriously with this argument if they're not mentioning Buttigieg.
Opinion | Why Democrats Need Their Own Trump
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I have a hard time taking anyone seriously with this argument if they're not mentioning Buttigieg.
I feel like it was about the same.
June 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I feel like it was about the same.
Yes it's disproportionate and incomplete. But it's frustrating that the increased stress on pedestrians the last several years is seldom mentioned in these conversations. I support bikes, but part of making the city bike-friendly has to be addressing the lawlessness of bike culture.
June 6, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Yes it's disproportionate and incomplete. But it's frustrating that the increased stress on pedestrians the last several years is seldom mentioned in these conversations. I support bikes, but part of making the city bike-friendly has to be addressing the lawlessness of bike culture.
What's the best way for a pedestrian to dodge a bike flying through a red light at 18-22 mph?
June 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
What's the best way for a pedestrian to dodge a bike flying through a red light at 18-22 mph?
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he's really incredibly appealing in these videos.
idk that it's going to be enough to win, but the anti cuomo wing has found a very personable and engaging candidate with a comms team that does actually seem to know what it's doing.
idk that it's going to be enough to win, but the anti cuomo wing has found a very personable and engaging candidate with a comms team that does actually seem to know what it's doing.
Andrew Cuomo knows: moving to New York City can be hard. But voting here shouldn’t be.
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Head to zohranfornyc.com/vote. We’ve got an affordable city to win.
🏠 Already registered here? Update your address by June 9th
🧳 New or never registered? You must register by June 14th
Head to zohranfornyc.com/vote. We’ve got an affordable city to win.
June 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
he's really incredibly appealing in these videos.
idk that it's going to be enough to win, but the anti cuomo wing has found a very personable and engaging candidate with a comms team that does actually seem to know what it's doing.
idk that it's going to be enough to win, but the anti cuomo wing has found a very personable and engaging candidate with a comms team that does actually seem to know what it's doing.
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The Venn Diagram of folks calling Zohran an exteme radical and folks shrugging their shoulders about Cuomo being a monstrous piece of shit but deciding they’re gonna vote for him anyways is the clearest Circle in the race.
May 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The Venn Diagram of folks calling Zohran an exteme radical and folks shrugging their shoulders about Cuomo being a monstrous piece of shit but deciding they’re gonna vote for him anyways is the clearest Circle in the race.
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"Yes, Cuomo is awful, but I have some policy differences with the progressives, so this is hard."
This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.
This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.
May 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"Yes, Cuomo is awful, but I have some policy differences with the progressives, so this is hard."
This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.
This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.
Patti Lupone fixes the sound bleed from a musical next door to her play (common issue with pop musicals next door to plays), an actor in the musical publicly (and absurdly) accuses her of racism, another Bway actor publicly agrees with the charge, Lupone gets angry. And people are mad at Lupone?
May 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Patti Lupone fixes the sound bleed from a musical next door to her play (common issue with pop musicals next door to plays), an actor in the musical publicly (and absurdly) accuses her of racism, another Bway actor publicly agrees with the charge, Lupone gets angry. And people are mad at Lupone?
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A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.
May 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.
Fascinating (i.e. terrifying) to watch "religious liberty" come to mean heresy policing. But this is America.
Co-sign all of this. I encourage people to read the underlying post, which is gobsmacking for reasons beyond their implications for non-Orthodox Jews. It suggests that if your religious beliefs don’t have the structure of Christian faiths, you may not have free exercise claims at all.
May 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Fascinating (i.e. terrifying) to watch "religious liberty" come to mean heresy policing. But this is America.
I don't know who you're arguing with, but you don't seem to want to engage with anything I've said. Cities work better when people make an effort to be considerate. It's baffling to me that you would argue so forcefully against such a simple self-evident idea.
May 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I don't know who you're arguing with, but you don't seem to want to engage with anything I've said. Cities work better when people make an effort to be considerate. It's baffling to me that you would argue so forcefully against such a simple self-evident idea.
Yes to safer infrastructure, yes to fewer cars on the streets. yes to making it safer to get around, for everyone, including bike riders. But bikers: follow the damn traffic laws, be respectful and yield to pedestrians. Be a considerate person. Pretend it's a city. Make it easier to be on your side.
May 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Yes to safer infrastructure, yes to fewer cars on the streets. yes to making it safer to get around, for everyone, including bike riders. But bikers: follow the damn traffic laws, be respectful and yield to pedestrians. Be a considerate person. Pretend it's a city. Make it easier to be on your side.
I've lived here since 1981. It was never so stressful to walk in New York as it is now. Talk to anyone who walks regularly and you'll hear the same stories. Bikers treating pedestrians with condescension when they complain about it just alienates people who should be, who want to be, your allies.
May 9, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I've lived here since 1981. It was never so stressful to walk in New York as it is now. Talk to anyone who walks regularly and you'll hear the same stories. Bikers treating pedestrians with condescension when they complain about it just alienates people who should be, who want to be, your allies.
As I said, this policy is wrong. I am FOR more bikes, fewer cars. But we need to address a bike culture that excuses lawless behavior that makes our streets increasingly stressful for pedestrians and turns them against pro-bike policy.
May 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
As I said, this policy is wrong. I am FOR more bikes, fewer cars. But we need to address a bike culture that excuses lawless behavior that makes our streets increasingly stressful for pedestrians and turns them against pro-bike policy.
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To be effective, our opposition to today's abuses must run alongside a clear picture of what we are actually for - and how everyday life could be better with different leadership.
May 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
To be effective, our opposition to today's abuses must run alongside a clear picture of what we are actually for - and how everyday life could be better with different leadership.
This policy is all kinds of wrong BUT it will be popular. NYers are sick of having to dodge bicyclers flying through stop lights at every intersection, riding against traffic, not signaling, no lights at night, jumping curbs. Make the city bike friendly, but don't make it pedestrians UNfriendly.
May 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
This policy is all kinds of wrong BUT it will be popular. NYers are sick of having to dodge bicyclers flying through stop lights at every intersection, riding against traffic, not signaling, no lights at night, jumping curbs. Make the city bike friendly, but don't make it pedestrians UNfriendly.
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Anyway this is how a polite reactionary bigot gives a boost to a fully committed fascist in a framework that won't scare off readers who like to think they're liberals www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...
May 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Anyway this is how a polite reactionary bigot gives a boost to a fully committed fascist in a framework that won't scare off readers who like to think they're liberals www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...