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Captain Yesterday

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On $140k you’d be forced to live on the whole other end of town from Robert Kraft. Downright dickensian.

Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 1d

1/ I may write something about this, but I've noticed some folks, notably Noah Smith, but others as well, deriding the $140,000=poverty in today's US guy.

So I thought I'd work out what a family of 4 budget would look like in my well-off Boston suburb (Brookline).

TL:DR--pretty damn tight...

December 5, 2025 at 5:06 AM

Captain Yesterday

@cptyesterday.bsky.social

I tell all my stories to make it feel like I’m in an episode of Sports Night.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

Can someone who has read Nuzzi's book let me know if this is actually a thing in it? Or is this one of those "JD Vance bangs couches" things? x.com/bryancurtis/...

Bryan Curtis @bryancurtis
X.com
A scene from American Canto. Olivia Nuzzi tries to visit the WWE Hall of Fame, only to discover that it is not a physical building.
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called WWE headquarters.
"Sorry; not possible," the receptionist said.
"Not possible?" I asked.
"Visiting would be impossible," she said.
My eyes narrowed. I looked out the window of my newsroom, in the Frank Gehry building on the Hudson River that looked like a big blod of clacier ice. I did not like to be trapped anyplace, even somewhere| considered architecturally defensible, and I had wanted to escape today.
Had been counting on this opportunity to escape. The news of the in-possibility of a visit to the Hall of Fame depressed me.
"It's...private?" I asked.
"There's no place to visit," the receptionist said.
"No place?" I asked.
"Right," she said.
"It moved?" I asked.
"No, it's, you know, an idea," she said.
"An idea, the Hall of-"
She cut in.
"No hall. There's no hall, she said.
"Then... what is it?" I asked.
"It's an idea," she said.
An idea. She had mentioned that already.
"It doesn't exist?" I asked.
"Well, it exists," she said.
"Where?" I asked.
"As an idea," she said.
It was a place only in imagination.

December 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM

Captain Yesterday

@cptyesterday.bsky.social

A lot of you never got to second base on the grassy knoll and it shows.

November 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM

Captain Yesterday

@cptyesterday.bsky.social

Me watching Pluribus just now: An A330 doesn’t have a 3-3-3 layout! I’m beginning to think this show isn’t totally realistic… 🤔

November 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM

Captain Yesterday

@cptyesterday.bsky.social

Women’s body wash: notes of pistachio, jasmine, salted caramel.

Men’s body wash: aromas of burnt pork shoulder and tactical sandalwood strong enough to violate your court ordered visitation schedule.

October 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM

Captain Yesterday

@cptyesterday.bsky.social

Footage released of the events leading to the Mark Sanchez stabbing.

Simpsons screenshot. Groundskeeper Willie gripping the sides of his head as he shouts
Caption: “hey, what the…? (Gasping) My retirement grease! No!”

October 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM

Captain Yesterday

@cptyesterday.bsky.social

This is the buttfumble of getting stabbed.

In Spite of Trump @inspiteoftrump.com · Oct 4

It certainly sounds like Mark Sanchez decided he didn't like how a Doordash driver was parked, chased and harassed them, got pepper sprayed, then stabbed when he wouldn't stop.

October 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM

Captain Yesterday

@cptyesterday.bsky.social

Experts say Jonathan Safran Foer could leave his family over a misunderstanding with one of these things by 2027.

NPR @npr.org · Oct 1

Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated avatar, is being compared by its creators to A-list human actors. SAG-AFTRA and others are pushing back.

Could 'the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman' be an AI avatar?

Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated avatar, is being compared by its creators to A-list human actors. SAG-AFTRA and others are pushing back.

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October 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM

Captain Yesterday

@cptyesterday.bsky.social

tfw you got exposed to fentanyl because you definitely, definitely did not shit your pants.

Stephen Murray, MPH, NRP @stephen-murray.com · Sep 7

For the upteenth time — you are NOT having a fentanyl overdose if you feel hot, panicked, drive yourself to the hospital, receive naloxone while awake, get dizzy.

If she really felt like she was going to pass out while driving, it’s incredibly irresponsible to continue driving.

CHILLICOTHE, Ohio - A local woman said she narrowly escaped an attempted attack at a gas station after touching a door handle coated in what she believed was fentanyl, leading to her hospitalization for a suspected overdose from skin exposure.
Jess Stonerock detailed the harrowing ordeal in a Facebook post Thursday, describing how she stopped at an Exxon station near the Chillicothe fairgrounds to use the restroom after picking up her sick child from a friend's house. "Once we got into Chillicothe I realized I had to use the restroom asap. So before turning on 207, I decided to just drive half a mile past to the Exxon station by the Chillicothe fairgrounds," Stonerock wrote.
She noticed the station's lights were dimmed but assumed it was still open. After telling her son to lock the doors, she approached the building. "I tried to pull the door, no luck. But I felt 'dirt' on my hands after touching the handle, so I just brushed them off on my pants," she recounted. "My first thought was, 'maybe they have an outside restroom?'

About 10 minutes later, while driving down Route 207, Stonerock began experiencing severe symptoms. "Ten minutes down 207 I started getting hot. I thought it was just my fight or flight senses that had locked in, but I just kept getting hotter, and then dizzier and then I felt like I was gonna pass out right there," she said.
She raced to Adena Hospital. ".
....drug tested by
the doctor in the E.R. and was told fentanyl does not show on their test, only opioids, but he said since I responded so well to the narcan and had the exact symptoms, he was 90% positive it was a fentanyl overdose.
Stonerock was hospitalized and treated with Narcan, sharing photos of her bloody nose, arm rash and other injuries from the episode.
• "We
are home now, terrified but okay physically. God had his hand on us for sure," she added. "Please be aware of your surroundings. I never thought this would happen to me but it did. It can happen to you too."

September 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM

Captain Yesterday

@cptyesterday.bsky.social

Found a copy of Wright Thompson’s The Barn in little free library a couple months ago. Today I noticed this inside the front cover, and I need a complete oral history of this fucking couple.