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Post-spooky pre-festive Mask
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He/him. Brooklyn. Enviro/urban/municipal stuff but in a shit poster way. Slowly becoming Soccer Pilled.
Actually, you can, and my rates are quite reasonable!
Turns out you can't pay someone to enjoy culture for you
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Giving me $2K so that if I break my leg, I already have 1/10th of the cost to fix it. Thx.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
De Hot Pot doubles are incredible
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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A reader told me she was asked to take off her Hellebore “Wind in the Willows” jumper before entering Westminster Abbey. The reason given was that it depicts the devil and might offend people. The reader explained it was the Greek god Pan, but the security guard didn’t backtrack. Satanic panic 2025.
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Something Something No Kings
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I just had a hell scape vision of a dentist office robo call to confirm an appointment.
And the robo voice tells you you must confirm the appointment or else it will be cancelled
And then it plays 30 seconds ads before you can press 1 to confirm the appointment.
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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An NYPD judge recommended dismissing the disciplinary case of an officer who killed a man in 2016, b/c the prosecuting agency lacks jurisdiction over off duty acts. But the cop’s attorneys got him indemnified in a civil suit by arguing the shooting was police conduct

www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/10/n...
NYPD Commissioner to Decide on Review Board Jurisdiction in Case of Cop Involved in Fatal Shooting
As Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani aims to expand the power of the Civilian Complaint Review Board, Commissioner Jessica Tisch has to determine whether to support a judge’s ruling in a fatal shooting case.
www.thecity.nyc
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Post Mortems like this oversimplify. There was no progressive option or serious right wing threat in the 2021 general. The lesson here is progressivism can drive youth turn out in a general in a tight swing district. Possibly a completely countervailing theory to the swing dist. centrism orthodox.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This joke might be slightly humorous if Gracie Mansion didn't already have its Georgian style ballroom addition from the 1960s that mayors Wagner and Lindsay stitched, Frankenstein like, onto the original turn-of-the-19th century Federalist style architecture.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani should announce that after he moves into Gracie Mansion, he plans to knock down the East Wing to build a ballroom. -Stephanie Miller
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I can imagine a potato basically as a big rib cage.
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is how the admin broke the Dems. Limiting private jets. Don't get it twisted.
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
What is the point of laurels if I'm not allowed to rest on them?
I work in order to facilitate rest.
November 10, 2025 at 12:13 PM
My 7yo just played a soccer scrimmage where the final score was 6-7 and I think it was the most important moment of those kid's lives.
November 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I recently saw someone post a thing about their computer begging them to save files to one drive or to some could server or whatever, and the person ignoring it and saving to desktop along with the 700 existing files on desktop and man, that feels so relatable to me.
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
No longer clicking any article about Eric Adams or Andrew Cuomo. Going cold turkey as of right now. Apologies for my prior mania.
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Glistening Ink-cap mushrooms (Coprinellus micaceus) 🌱🍄

#FungiFriday #FungiFriends #Fungus #Autumn #Nature
November 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Amsonia hubrichtii in fall glory.
November 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
For people obsessed with polls, these guys sure do love things that the majority of people who vote don't want.
Sorry, but a lack of support for autonomous vehicles is not among Sec Pete's biggest missed opportunities at USDOT.

For instance:
🔹 Failure to stop Tesla from lying about Autopilot, FSD, etc
🔹 Failure to curb car bloat
🔹 Continuing to spend fed $$ on highway expansions that won't fix congestion
Pete Buttigieg Admits Biden Administration Should've Done More To Grow Autonomous Vehicles — Says DOGE-Like Department 'Makes Tons Of Sense'
Biden-era Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says that the Biden administration could've done more to drive growth in the adoption of autonomous vehicles in the U.S. Autonomous Driving Tech Is Sa...
finance.yahoo.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The gorgeous revenge-horror movie THE ABOMINABLE DR PHIBES, starring Vincent Price, which did sort of almost become a comic book, as Jack Kirby did some preliminary sketches for it, though it never got past that stage, unfortunately.
November 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/06/c...
Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg
A blizzard of outside spending on ads, including a spot that linked Zohran Mamdani to 9/11, failed to move voters and may have even backfired.
www.thecity.nyc
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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the wizarding world of jamal kashogi
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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No sanctuary laws were violated as part of this. In fact, Tisch's rep said she acted on the advance notice by directing cops to stay clear of the area to ensure NYPD didn't end up in any way coordinating with ICE — a move Mamdani's camp lauded today. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/06/n...
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch got Trump admin heads up before ICE raid on Canal Street
The revelation that Tisch had advance knowledge of the Trump administration’s Canal St. raids could raise a number of complicated questions for Zohran Mamdani, the mayoral-elect who has said …
www.nydailynews.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
In Europe, when a bollard kills a car, they stamp an X on it like fighter jets do for downing enemy craft.
November 6, 2025 at 1:32 PM