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Paid parking has its place in the city's transportation ecosystem, but it's far better to just get rid of as much on-street parking as possible. This is what the best cities in the world are doing and there's no reason New York City shouldn't follow suit.
December 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Paid parking has its place in the city's transportation ecosystem, but it's far better to just get rid of as much on-street parking as possible. This is what the best cities in the world are doing and there's no reason New York City shouldn't follow suit.
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I got a Miss Piggy mug for christmas and I am thrilleddddd!
December 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I got a Miss Piggy mug for christmas and I am thrilleddddd!
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
December 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but here goes:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
In high school my art teacher told me I didn’t know how to draw because cartooning wasn’t real art.
I have wanted to be in The New Yorker Magazine since I was 19. I’m 53 and this happened yesterday:
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A really lovely review of my special stand-up comedy special, Night Thoughts. Streaming on Hulu and Disney+ now.
www.vulture.com/article/kuma...
www.vulture.com/article/kuma...
Kumail Nanjiani Strikes Back
After about a decade away, he returns to stand-up and conquers the eternal comedian’s struggle: relatability.
www.vulture.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A really lovely review of my special stand-up comedy special, Night Thoughts. Streaming on Hulu and Disney+ now.
www.vulture.com/article/kuma...
www.vulture.com/article/kuma...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Thus redacted Zarathustra
December 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Thus redacted Zarathustra
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the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress
www.nytimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
the main reward you are likely to get for total loyalty to trump is the destruction of your career and your reputation www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
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Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers
Me:
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I do not understand how this is in the best interest of New Yorkers or why the DOT is reluctant to be more transparent about this process.
I am hoping to learn more. I continue to be grateful for the support that we have received. Thanks all.
I am hoping to learn more. I continue to be grateful for the support that we have received. Thanks all.
December 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I do not understand how this is in the best interest of New Yorkers or why the DOT is reluctant to be more transparent about this process.
I am hoping to learn more. I continue to be grateful for the support that we have received. Thanks all.
I am hoping to learn more. I continue to be grateful for the support that we have received. Thanks all.
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So cool
A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio.
A photographer finds thousands of dinosaur footprints near Italian Winter Olympic venue
A wildlife photographer has discovered one of the oldest and largest collections of dinosaur footprints in an Italian national park.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
So cool
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I think @tomtomorrow.bsky.social has to repost this? So I put it in front of one of my bookcases so Adam Hines could catch some strays.
December 16, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I think @tomtomorrow.bsky.social has to repost this? So I put it in front of one of my bookcases so Adam Hines could catch some strays.
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also fwiw I called my dad who taught me to do the nyt puzzle and who used to race me until I was reliably 2x as fast as him and he does not think that the puzzle has gotten easier and did not appreciate the call
December 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
also fwiw I called my dad who taught me to do the nyt puzzle and who used to race me until I was reliably 2x as fast as him and he does not think that the puzzle has gotten easier and did not appreciate the call
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
Donate Blood
Check your eligibility to donate blood, learn about the process and why blood matters, and enroll in a RIBC Donor Loyalty Rewards programs.
www.ribc.org
December 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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definitely need to talk to Building Maintenance next week, my office was freezing today
December 13, 2025 at 1:32 AM
definitely need to talk to Building Maintenance next week, my office was freezing today
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It's been just over a year. But on occasion of Tony Dokoupil's selection as anchor of CBS Evening News, it *really* is worth watching these 5+ minutes of his exchange with Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Especially for the quality of TNC's responses. Worth your time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWt...
Especially for the quality of TNC's responses. Worth your time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWt...
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the power of stories, new book, "The Message"
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It's been just over a year. But on occasion of Tony Dokoupil's selection as anchor of CBS Evening News, it *really* is worth watching these 5+ minutes of his exchange with Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Especially for the quality of TNC's responses. Worth your time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWt...
Especially for the quality of TNC's responses. Worth your time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgWt...
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Good analysis and this implies good improvements from expanded red light cameras. (Expansion got watered down, but it’s still increasing)
Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪
Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City | PNAS
Each year, approximately 40,000 people die in vehicle collisions in the United States,
generating $340 billion in economic costs. To make roads saf...
www.pnas.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Good analysis and this implies good improvements from expanded red light cameras. (Expansion got watered down, but it’s still increasing)
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Cool. Look who is tops on the "Urban Optimist Holiday Gift Guide"? My book! Back from the Brink. It does indeed make a great stocking stuffer.
Buy it right now, before you forget!
amzn.to/48wt2j5
p.s. It's good for pessimists, too!
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the...
Buy it right now, before you forget!
amzn.to/48wt2j5
p.s. It's good for pessimists, too!
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the...
December 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Cool. Look who is tops on the "Urban Optimist Holiday Gift Guide"? My book! Back from the Brink. It does indeed make a great stocking stuffer.
Buy it right now, before you forget!
amzn.to/48wt2j5
p.s. It's good for pessimists, too!
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the...
Buy it right now, before you forget!
amzn.to/48wt2j5
p.s. It's good for pessimists, too!
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the...
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Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵
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I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
The Culture Wars Came for Wikipedia. Jimmy Wales Is Staying the Course.
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I take Wikipedia for granted. Reading this Jimmy Wales interview reminded me in our Fantasyland age what a remarkable and important creation it is. True pillar of civilization. Runs on only $200 million a year. Requires our support. So I’m finally donating. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m...
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Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
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Fraction and I are so, so proud of this book, and it makes me happy to know that people are giving it as a holiday gift.
My studio has some signed & sketched copies available. Also signed by a bunch of people depicted on the cover. Free USA shipping too!
helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4311...
My studio has some signed & sketched copies available. Also signed by a bunch of people depicted on the cover. Free USA shipping too!
helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4311...
November 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Fraction and I are so, so proud of this book, and it makes me happy to know that people are giving it as a holiday gift.
My studio has some signed & sketched copies available. Also signed by a bunch of people depicted on the cover. Free USA shipping too!
helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4311...
My studio has some signed & sketched copies available. Also signed by a bunch of people depicted on the cover. Free USA shipping too!
helioscopepdx.etsy.com/listing/4311...
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I feel like the original photo perspective does not appropriately convey that this @mcsweeneys.net is a full-ass binder
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I feel like the original photo perspective does not appropriately convey that this @mcsweeneys.net is a full-ass binder
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After much deliberation (I wish I were lying but I really did put a lot of thought into this), I have decided to kick off #Flansmas 2025 with #ChristmasCasanova. Namely because I don't think I've ever done one of these where the protagonist is a podcaster. Brave new world, AMIRITE????
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
After much deliberation (I wish I were lying but I really did put a lot of thought into this), I have decided to kick off #Flansmas 2025 with #ChristmasCasanova. Namely because I don't think I've ever done one of these where the protagonist is a podcaster. Brave new world, AMIRITE????