Jeff 🏳️🌈
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NYC gay guy, legal editor, history buff, crossword nerd, Disney geek, ex-lawyer. There's almost always a book I'm reading. Married to https://bsky.app/profile/hitormiss.org.
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Jeff 🏳️🌈
@tinmanic.bsky.social
· Nov 12
I left Twitter two years ago and have been using Bluesky as my main social media account since summer 2023
I also saw Hamilton at the Public
I also saw Hamilton at the Public
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
This is a fantastic, detailed article with lots of wonderful diagrams and graphics of Penn Station.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Why Is It So Hard to Fix Penn Station?
The nation’s busiest transit hub stands as a symbol of a condition that afflicts so many attempts to get big things done in America: inertia.
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This is a fantastic, detailed article with lots of wonderful diagrams and graphics of Penn Station.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.
Replacing Lyonne with Dinklage is not remotely the same thing as these examples
deadline.com/2025/11/peac...
deadline.com/2025/11/peac...
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Replacing Lyonne with Dinklage is not remotely the same thing as these examples
deadline.com/2025/11/peac...
deadline.com/2025/11/peac...
If people are going to be like "I'm never reading this newspaper, it's terrible" and "I'm never reading that newspaper, it's terrible" then soon they're just going to be getting all their information from social media which is, also, terrible
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If people are going to be like "I'm never reading this newspaper, it's terrible" and "I'm never reading that newspaper, it's terrible" then soon they're just going to be getting all their information from social media which is, also, terrible
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I don't understand why people have to concoct wild conspiracy theories in order to critique the NYT. I say this as someone who writes for them: there is plenty to critique without making up wild scenarios and insisting they're true!
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I don't understand why people have to concoct wild conspiracy theories in order to critique the NYT. I say this as someone who writes for them: there is plenty to critique without making up wild scenarios and insisting they're true!
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(I am a little bit trolling here. Only Murders in the Building was a perfectly good one-season limited series. And now... it is what it is now.)
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
(I am a little bit trolling here. Only Murders in the Building was a perfectly good one-season limited series. And now... it is what it is now.)
We watched the Golden Girls 40th anniversary special last night. It was good. But... they showed clips from the last episode, where Dorothy gets married and leaves, and discussed the end of the series, but they made no mention of the sequel, The Golden Palace.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gol...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gol...
The Golden Palace - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
We watched the Golden Girls 40th anniversary special last night. It was good. But... they showed clips from the last episode, where Dorothy gets married and leaves, and discussed the end of the series, but they made no mention of the sequel, The Golden Palace.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gol...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gol...
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Zohran Mamdani's promises of free busses might sound great, but I live in Albuquerque NM where city busses have been free for five years and I'm here to tell you the truth. This is what every bus in my city looks like now. Think carefully about your choice this November.
October 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Zohran Mamdani's promises of free busses might sound great, but I live in Albuquerque NM where city busses have been free for five years and I'm here to tell you the truth. This is what every bus in my city looks like now. Think carefully about your choice this November.
So, Death by Lightning: entertaining and up my alley. But some of the acting seemed too contemporary (esp. Macfadyen and Whitford), as did some dialogue, though Macfadyen was fun to watch. I didn't like the dumbification of Chester Arthur. I didn't need contemporary music over the opening credits.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
So, Death by Lightning: entertaining and up my alley. But some of the acting seemed too contemporary (esp. Macfadyen and Whitford), as did some dialogue, though Macfadyen was fun to watch. I didn't like the dumbification of Chester Arthur. I didn't need contemporary music over the opening credits.
I would not consider Ordinary People an uplifting movie
November 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I would not consider Ordinary People an uplifting movie
I hate it when I go to a restaurant to pick up my own data and the counter is filled with guys with those enormous square backpacks picking up data for other people
The thing is that if you get your data from DoorDash, it might be more convenient but the costs add up in the long run, because it’s really better and cheaper to just go directly to the data place and pick it up yourself.
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I hate it when I go to a restaurant to pick up my own data and the counter is filled with guys with those enormous square backpacks picking up data for other people
Was not expecting the closing credits of the last episode of Death by Lightning (about President Garfield’s assassination by Charles Guiteau) to have “I’m going to the Lordy” set to music played by a rock band
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Was not expecting the closing credits of the last episode of Death by Lightning (about President Garfield’s assassination by Charles Guiteau) to have “I’m going to the Lordy” set to music played by a rock band
This makes me mad/sad.
Unlike oral language, which we just naturally pick up, written language has to be taught. It's so much newer to humans than oral language. But we know how to teach reading! Phonics! The idea that there would even *be* another way is so bizarre to me.
Unlike oral language, which we just naturally pick up, written language has to be taught. It's so much newer to humans than oral language. But we know how to teach reading! Phonics! The idea that there would even *be* another way is so bizarre to me.
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This makes me mad/sad.
Unlike oral language, which we just naturally pick up, written language has to be taught. It's so much newer to humans than oral language. But we know how to teach reading! Phonics! The idea that there would even *be* another way is so bizarre to me.
Unlike oral language, which we just naturally pick up, written language has to be taught. It's so much newer to humans than oral language. But we know how to teach reading! Phonics! The idea that there would even *be* another way is so bizarre to me.
james bond’s recasting after no time to die is causing a nightmare for the next film.
anthony horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“you can’t just cast an actor to play him. what if you cast, say, idris elba? does that mean the actual idris elba doesn’t exist in the james bond universe?”
anthony horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“you can’t just cast an actor to play him. what if you cast, say, idris elba? does that mean the actual idris elba doesn’t exist in the james bond universe?”
james bond’s recasting after no time to die is causing a nightmare for the next film. writers are stuck because bond “was portrayed by daniel craig”
anthony horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“you can’t have him wake up from reconstructive surgery and just be played by someone else”
anthony horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“you can’t have him wake up from reconstructive surgery and just be played by someone else”
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
james bond’s recasting after no time to die is causing a nightmare for the next film.
anthony horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“you can’t just cast an actor to play him. what if you cast, say, idris elba? does that mean the actual idris elba doesn’t exist in the james bond universe?”
anthony horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“you can’t just cast an actor to play him. what if you cast, say, idris elba? does that mean the actual idris elba doesn’t exist in the james bond universe?”
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trans rights are jovian rights
🔭 Jupiter in Ultraviolet from Hubble
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & License: Judy Schmidt
star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
trans rights are jovian rights
Oh my gosh, Buckeye by Patrick Ryan is an astonishingly beautiful novel. I fell in love with these characters living out their lives through the middle decades of the 20th century in Ohio.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Oh my gosh, Buckeye by Patrick Ryan is an astonishingly beautiful novel. I fell in love with these characters living out their lives through the middle decades of the 20th century in Ohio.
Is this like that Alias episode where Michael and Sydney go to a fake American town in Russia?
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Is this like that Alias episode where Michael and Sydney go to a fake American town in Russia?
Dick Van Dyke turns 100 next month, unless he pulls a Betty White.
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Dick Van Dyke turns 100 next month, unless he pulls a Betty White.
From the 6th Circuit earlier this year:
"When... Moore remarked that [Kim] Davis had likely given marriage licenses to 'murderer[s], rapists, and people who have done all kinds of horrible things,' Davis responded, "that was fine because they were straight.'"
law.justia.com/cases/federa...
"When... Moore remarked that [Kim] Davis had likely given marriage licenses to 'murderer[s], rapists, and people who have done all kinds of horrible things,' Davis responded, "that was fine because they were straight.'"
law.justia.com/cases/federa...
![Plaintiffs-Appellees David Moore and David Ermold are one such couple. On July 6, 2015, ten days after the Supreme Court published Obergefell, Moore and Ermold, who had been in a relationship for nineteen years, visited the Rowan County Clerk’s office seeking a marriage license. Davis refused to issue one, stating that she was acting “under God’s authority.” Id. at 739. Davis advised Plaintiffs to obtain a marriage license from a clerk’s office in another county. When Plaintiff Moore remarked that Davis had likely given marriage licenses to “murderer[s], rapists, and people who have done all kinds of horrible things,” Davis responded, “that was fine because they were straight.” R. 169, PID 2785–86.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rb42edgfuhegy3sidgv6s6ie/bafkreieuphhvldb647t3zcxyqrdsxff2p5sr6wbh77z4rihrb66z4g5ci4@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
From the 6th Circuit earlier this year:
"When... Moore remarked that [Kim] Davis had likely given marriage licenses to 'murderer[s], rapists, and people who have done all kinds of horrible things,' Davis responded, "that was fine because they were straight.'"
law.justia.com/cases/federa...
"When... Moore remarked that [Kim] Davis had likely given marriage licenses to 'murderer[s], rapists, and people who have done all kinds of horrible things,' Davis responded, "that was fine because they were straight.'"
law.justia.com/cases/federa...
