I called an expensive restaurant today, and their hold message announced: “A reservationist will be ...
I called an expensive restaurant today, and their hold message announced: “A reservationist will be with you shortly.” ➛
Ftrain, by Paul Ford
April 2025
If you want a little Saturday treat here’s Slayer doing “Silent Scream” in 1988 in NYC while the cro...
If you want a little Saturday treat here’s Slayer doing “Silent Scream” in 1988 in NYC while the crowd basically riots. youtu.be/awhDfgF0eno?...
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I’m an e-bike shitlib but I caucus with the Waymo Democrats.
I’m an e-bike shitlib but I caucus with the Waymo Democrats. ➛
I'm just a small language model, standing in front of a large language model, asking it to quantize ...
I'm just a small language model, standing in front of a large language model, asking it to quantize me. ➛
To understand what’s really going on in America right now you only need to talk to a group of plain-...
To understand what’s really going on in America right now you only need to talk to a group of plain-spoken, hard-working Americans from the south of Canal Street.
nymag.com/intelligence... ➛
nymag.com/intelligence... ➛
Somewhere in the multiverse a Time Cop needs to get fired.
Somewhere in the multiverse a Time Cop needs to get fired. ➛
Hegseth’s replacement will be a Grok-run account on X called BasedHitlerDotMil420 and will be approv...
Hegseth’s replacement will be a Grok-run account on X called BasedHitlerDotMil420 and will be approved by Susan Collins “with misgivings.” It will still leak everything on Signal. ➛
Was weird driving down 95 from Mass to NYC last week and there were almost no trucks.
Was weird driving down 95 from Mass to NYC last week and there were almost no trucks. ➛
Maybe Saturdays should be spent in denial.
Maybe Saturdays should be spent in denial. ➛
Will never forget this documentary. Tbh you have to grind through the second half because all hope i...
Will never forget this documentary. Tbh you have to grind through the second half because all hope is systematically destroyed. Friends had to tap out halfway through.
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In full seriousness now is a wonderful time to write a “Why I love my town” essay and put it up here...
In full seriousness now is a wonderful time to write a “Why I love my town” essay and put it up here and elsewhere. Can’t tell you how much I’m hankering to hear about the good pastors and the food drive and the big singalong. We’re all craving something that doesn’t end in a shooting. ➛
I love civic boosters. A friend of mine just told us why New Bedford, Mass, is a truly great city an...
I love civic boosters. A friend of mine just told us why New Bedford, Mass, is a truly great city and I loved hearing about it (it helped that we were at the Whaling Museum). I live in NYC so I never really have to prop up the home town. Civic pride, flaws and all, is a good balm in the Right Now. ➛
This all kind of ends with a website called YouGenics.gov where you have to send in your spit sample...
This all kind of ends with a website called YouGenics.gov where you have to send in your spit sample in order to get a PatriotID. ➛
You can have a little grief for the unfulfilled promise of the nation. As a treat.
You can have a little grief for the unfulfilled promise of the nation. As a treat. ➛
I save a lot of weird images on my phone, which means that Google randomly alerts me to stuff like t...
I save a lot of weird images on my phone, which means that Google randomly alerts me to stuff like this, labeled “LOOK BACK IN TIME.”
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Alt Text: Screenshot. Lithographs of strange sculpted heads on old mottled paper. It reads “LOOK BACK IN TIME.”
Alt Text: A lithograph of a king with a crown but their head is on a long long dragon neck. Ocean in the background. Its a phone screenshot, the text reads “LOOK BACK IN TIME.”
Whenever I get down about America (a lot) I remember the songs from the videos of SaxBoyBilly18, who...
Whenever I get down about America (a lot) I remember the songs from the videos of SaxBoyBilly18, who moved home to Pittsburgh to help himself stay sober, and now writes songs that lovingly roast American cities, including this true work of art: www.youtube.com/shorts/xmbdn...
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I just saw a thread where people were arguing over the best way to stop all the infighting.
I just saw a thread where people were arguing over the best way to stop all the infighting. ➛
Are we sure she’s coming out of the well? Maybe she’s going back in. Maybe the title should be, “Tru...
Are we sure she’s coming out of the well? Maybe she’s going back in. Maybe the title should be, “Truth Going Back Into Her Well, Screaming at Mankind That This Relationship Is Over”? ➛
I’m going for “Red Monday.” That’s the color that got us here.
I’m going for “Red Monday.” That’s the color that got us here. ➛
I watched the movie Eighth Grade with my eighth grade daughter and started to tear up a little when ...
I watched the movie Eighth Grade with my eighth grade daughter and started to tear up a little when the father and daughter connect over the fire pit, and my daughter looked at me and went OH MY GOD ARE YOU HAVING EMOTIONS and laughed at me for the rest of the movie. ➛
We bought two 4K 65” Samsung TVs for the office @ $600 each. I got them on a Saturday and walked the...
We bought two 4K 65” Samsung TVs for the office @ $600 each. I got them on a Saturday and walked them to work because [NYC freight elevator bureaucracy redacted]. I keep thinking: How can America make a $600 digital TV? Each step is billions in infrastructure. It’s like the cathedral meme but real.
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Alt Text: A large white haired man pushes enormous boxes on a cart, walking down Park Ave South near Union Square. Despite being almost entirely obscured by boxes, the man is remarkable and hilarious, and very charismatic. You don’t know exactly why you can just tell. One of those things.
It's wild that if we have 18 more days like the last two the entire US market would go poof. We're o...
It's wild that if we have 18 more days like the last two the entire US market would go poof. We're one short European vacation away from the end. ➛
I know this is cringe…but what if we factored in some other emotions.
I know this is cringe…but what if we factored in some other emotions.
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Alt Text: The CNN Fear/Greed index gauge, set to EXTREME FEAR.
Our imaginary Canadian girlfriend dumped us.
Our imaginary Canadian girlfriend dumped us. ➛
My son wants to go see the Minecraft movie but I have a block about it.
My son wants to go see the Minecraft movie but I have a block about it. ➛
may the memory of the S&P 500 be a blessing
may the memory of the S&P 500 be a blessing ➛
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this ➛
Thank god I bought all those VSTs when I did.
Thank god I bought all those VSTs when I did. ➛
Kind of fun to watch people gradually run out of reasons to be resentful of Cory Booker.
Kind of fun to watch people gradually run out of reasons to be resentful of Cory Booker. ➛
This isn’t even a good insult.
This isn’t even a good insult.
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Q: What did the Nazi say when he got caught eating all the appetizers? A: “I was only swallowing ho...
Q: What did the Nazi say when he got caught eating all the appetizers?
A: “I was only swallowing hors d'oeuvres!” ➛
A: “I was only swallowing hors d'oeuvres!” ➛