constans
@constans.bsky.social
Hardscrabble, yet privileged, NJ flotsam
Currently located in NYC
Currently located in NYC
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Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"
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The Leahy law is being killed off. "The US State Department has removed an online portal for reporting alleged human rights violations by foreign military units supplied with American weapons." www.bbc.com/news/article...
US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces
The Human Rights Reporting Gateway acted as a formal "tip line" to the US government.
www.bbc.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The Leahy law is being killed off. "The US State Department has removed an online portal for reporting alleged human rights violations by foreign military units supplied with American weapons." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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The path forward involves killing off your grandma and sexually harassing your daughter.
The Daily News Endorsement: Cuomo offers NYC a path forward while Mamdani peddles hollow promises buff.ly/tHHM3Qj
The Daily News Endorsement: Cuomo offers NYC a path forward while Mamdani peddles hollow promises
Zohran Mamdani’s dithering performance in the final mayoral debate pointed up the ongoing problem with his campaign. It’s a house of cards built on sound bites and laced with antisemiti…
www.nydailynews.com
October 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The path forward involves killing off your grandma and sexually harassing your daughter.
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This is how Josh Barro sounded ten years ago! His nonstop immersion in social environment where these sorts of views are treated as ridiculous has changed and radicalized him! (and many others)
October 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is how Josh Barro sounded ten years ago! His nonstop immersion in social environment where these sorts of views are treated as ridiculous has changed and radicalized him! (and many others)
I am a big time glasses snob so I will never wear a pair of sunglasses just because they are tech-enabled, ensuring I will never get punched in the face because someone suspects I’m surreptitiously filming them just because I’m wearing Ray-bans
New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...
www.404media.co
October 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I am a big time glasses snob so I will never wear a pair of sunglasses just because they are tech-enabled, ensuring I will never get punched in the face because someone suspects I’m surreptitiously filming them just because I’m wearing Ray-bans
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Old Soviet joke:
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST
October 23, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Old Soviet joke:
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?
One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals
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This somewhat fits the perception, fair or not, that High Point is for rich kids who couldn't get into Elon, which is for rich kids who couldn't get into Wake Forest, which is for rich kids who couldn't get into Duke.
It feels like the energy in higher ed these days is schools that cater to kids with ~1300 SAT scores, wealthy parents, a great lifestyle, and where there's a reasonable chance of kids getting in: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
How a Small North Carolina College Became a Magnet for Wealthy Students
As Trump slashes funding, schools are trying to attract the limited pool of higher-end families. High Point University is a blueprint.
www.wsj.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This somewhat fits the perception, fair or not, that High Point is for rich kids who couldn't get into Elon, which is for rich kids who couldn't get into Wake Forest, which is for rich kids who couldn't get into Duke.
Protests of normies and wine moms might be cringe to leftists and the Nazi edgelord crowd, but these are the people who vote. We are a cringe nation. All hail our cringe resistance suburban wine moms
No Kings gave me an odd sense of optimism after so much doom and gloom. We the People still hold the power.
October 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Protests of normies and wine moms might be cringe to leftists and the Nazi edgelord crowd, but these are the people who vote. We are a cringe nation. All hail our cringe resistance suburban wine moms
These guys love spending other people’s money and indulging in their Nazi fantasies in the group chat. Amazing stuff
Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.
October 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
These guys love spending other people’s money and indulging in their Nazi fantasies in the group chat. Amazing stuff
First Trump is crushing the soybean farmers. Now he’s undermining the cattle ranchers. These are unexpected blessings!
Farm state Republicans are appalled by President Trump's plan to import beef from Argentina, saying it will punish U.S. cattle ranchers. This is from Sen. Deb Fischer R-Nebraska.
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 PM
First Trump is crushing the soybean farmers. Now he’s undermining the cattle ranchers. These are unexpected blessings!
As a guy who keeps a bunch of good stories in my back pocket to pull out when necessary, I absolutely agree.
If the Gambino crime family shot me and I lived, I’d never shut up about it either.
“Hey Charlie, can you pass the mashed potatoes?”
“Sure, but it’s a little hard BECAUSE I WAS SHOT BY THE GAMBINO CRIME FAMILY”
“Y’know, I’ll just eat some more stuffing”
“Hey Charlie, can you pass the mashed potatoes?”
“Sure, but it’s a little hard BECAUSE I WAS SHOT BY THE GAMBINO CRIME FAMILY”
“Y’know, I’ll just eat some more stuffing”
October 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
As a guy who keeps a bunch of good stories in my back pocket to pull out when necessary, I absolutely agree.
Whomst among us has not ended up at the Ustaša tattoo parlor during a drunk night out?
October 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Whomst among us has not ended up at the Ustaša tattoo parlor during a drunk night out?
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You really sorta understand where marvel/dc characters come from when you realize how many types of guy like sliwa are in new york
The video of Sliwa explaining the hit on him is incredibly funny.
"Hey Mac, I said turn this cab around! And that's when a gunman pops up"
"And the first face I see [waking up] is my nemesis Ed Koch. I thought I'd been sent to hell"
youtu.be/QoCtjhwt6Zc?...
"Hey Mac, I said turn this cab around! And that's when a gunman pops up"
"And the first face I see [waking up] is my nemesis Ed Koch. I thought I'd been sent to hell"
youtu.be/QoCtjhwt6Zc?...
Guardian Angels Founder on Being the Victim of an Attempted Assassination
YouTube video by Big Think
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 9:41 PM
You really sorta understand where marvel/dc characters come from when you realize how many types of guy like sliwa are in new york
My brain is rotten to the core.
I have a fascination for ancient jewellery.
This wide Anglo-Saxon ring features the rare prolapis lazuli.
This wide Anglo-Saxon ring features the rare prolapis lazuli.
October 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
My brain is rotten to the core.
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college towns are absolutely fantastic, one of the great American concepts, and for unknown reason the people who live in college towns absolutely loathe them and want to ensure no one else can live there
August 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
college towns are absolutely fantastic, one of the great American concepts, and for unknown reason the people who live in college towns absolutely loathe them and want to ensure no one else can live there
I’m sure if Obama did this no one would think it was a big deal
Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom. n.pr/48AUON2
The White House starts demolishing part of the East Wing to build Trump's ballroom
Dramatic photos show construction equipment tearing into the East Wing façade and windows, though the federal agency that oversees such projects has not approved President Trump's 90,000-square-foot, $250 million ballroom.
n.pr
October 21, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I’m sure if Obama did this no one would think it was a big deal
The fact that the Uvalde police were called and that that is where all this is happening is a nice touch
🚨 Married GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales allegedly had an affair with his senior aide, Regina Aviles — who was found dead after she supposedly doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire, per The Daily Mail.
Uvalde Police are blocking release of the 911 call, video & records. (Daily Mail)
Uvalde Police are blocking release of the 911 call, video & records. (Daily Mail)
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The fact that the Uvalde police were called and that that is where all this is happening is a nice touch
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donald trump holds only two principled position: that neither corruption nor rape should be crimes
I’m very skeptical of this — not because President Trump isn’t willing to grant pardons and commutations easily, but because there is zero interest from his base in this, and he has nothing to gain from doing it.
And here come the “he’s trying to distract,” replies.
And here come the “he’s trying to distract,” replies.
October 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
donald trump holds only two principled position: that neither corruption nor rape should be crimes
Americans are driven by extreme amounts of status anxiety. People sign up to be republicans because they think that’s the path to social respectability. The NYT is always looking for what places them in some kind if establishmentarian alongside their wealthiest and most respectable audience
the NYT's opinion is that the Democrats should take the position which upper-class Connecticut Republicans held in 2012 and that politics should be preserved in amber in that state until the sun runs out of hydrogen and swallows the earth
Ultimately it's the yawning moral void at the heart of this type of writing that baffles me. "Oh, the best data suggests that most voters feel that—" YOU ARE THE NYT EDITORIAL BOARD. I AM READING YOU FOR YOUR OPINION. TELL ME WHAT IT IS.
October 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Americans are driven by extreme amounts of status anxiety. People sign up to be republicans because they think that’s the path to social respectability. The NYT is always looking for what places them in some kind if establishmentarian alongside their wealthiest and most respectable audience
All the hits to this article crashed the server
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I glanced down at the message.
“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.
So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
October 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
All the hits to this article crashed the server
One of the things about NYC which no New Yorker will admit is that they have TERRIBLE subway etiquette. It is the only system I’ve been on where people don’t make an effort to move to the middle of the car. And tonight’s train conductor is NOT having it, & she’s reminding everyone to move further in
October 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
One of the things about NYC which no New Yorker will admit is that they have TERRIBLE subway etiquette. It is the only system I’ve been on where people don’t make an effort to move to the middle of the car. And tonight’s train conductor is NOT having it, & she’s reminding everyone to move further in
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Guys who crawled up into fame by running small businesses and mastering SEO and cloutchasing being more right wing than people who mastered a collaborative art form seems pretty intuitive to me
just an observation but it does seem like the entertainment class of tiktok lifestyle influencers and reality stars is going to be way more right wing than actors, directors, and tv/movie writers.
why
October 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Guys who crawled up into fame by running small businesses and mastering SEO and cloutchasing being more right wing than people who mastered a collaborative art form seems pretty intuitive to me
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Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth conspired to murder a fisherman named Chad Joseph (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...
Trinidadian Family Says U.S. Military Killed Relative in Boat Attack
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth conspired to murder a fisherman named Chad Joseph (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/w...
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