Michele Tepper
@michelet.bsky.social
Also known as Misha. UX design leader (frog, CFPB, startups, Salesforce), currently on sabbatical. Brooklyn native/cliché. A vague disclaimer is nobody’s friend
I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 22h agoSpoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.
i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten
Terrible news, especially for their workers. Just a deeply disappointing ending for such a promising company. I hate this.
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 2d agoBending Spoons agrees to acquire Airtable in an all-cash deal valuing the US software company at $1.285B, set to close by 2026-end, its first post-IPO deal (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
It’s a hilarious proof of emaciated imaginations that tech bros can more readily imagine — and throw money at — building colonies on Mars than standardizing codes and investing in research & manufacturing to build homes in the richest country on Earth.
Smörhuvud (he/surprise me)@guncelawits.bsky.social · 2d agoYes: My challenge to any so-called genius or so-called innovator is: Let’s see you get one (1) fourplex built in Palo Alto.
The downside to spot cleaning your rug is realizing you really need to deep clean the whole thing. Possibly with fire.
Tomorrow (first Monday in August) is a Civic Holiday in Canada; AFAICT, it’s just so we get another long weekend in the summer. Americans, we all deserve this too. Please join me in my decades-long mission to make this happen. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 3d agohere to remind you that monday is a social construct and one we can all band together to reject
Reminder: Bernie Moreno dismissed women as "single-issue voters" on abortion during his 2024 run and said it was "crazy" that women over 50 think about it at all. It's sweet that he has opportunistically discovered empathy for his daughter and granddaughter. He should ask them what gender they are.
Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 3d agoA better moment to say this would have been any time during the last two years of "pure hell."
I have zero opinions about who should be the 2028 nominee at this point (you have to finish your 2026 midterm before you can have dessert) but I am all for normalizing the idea that the fight needs to be about how many seats we're adding to SCOTUS and what channel we air the corruption trials on
if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
I mis-stepped getting onto the subway at Broadway-Lafayette and somehow ended up with my leg fully between the train car and the platform. Hideous visions of that one episode of Homicide played in my head. People grabbed me by the shoulders, pulled me up, and got me and the train on our way.
☀️@stel.energy · 4d agoquote this with a time a bystander helped you out
I am “it still seems slightly magical that I can turn on the AC half an hour before I get home” years old
This is the real Brooklyn energy we’re missing in our legislators
Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 5d ago"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
Let's remember some Baseball Injuries! I'll go first: Glenallen Hill having a nightmare about spiders that was so bad he fell out of bed and through a glass table
Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 5d agoMLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury
Today I introduced the single mom with a newborn who lives on one side of the building to the women on the other side of the building whose baby is due this week, so my work as a co-op board member is done for the day
The space once occupied by Amazon Books now has a very different feel. Powerhouse Books has opened at the Shops at Columbus Circle with curated shelves, hidden reading nooks, rotating art exhibits and plenty of reasons to slow down and browse. #W42ST
Powerhouse Books Invites Readers to Wander, Browse and Stay Awhile
Powerhouse Books has opened at Columbus Circle, bringing curated books, playful design, art exhibitions and inviting spaces for readers to linger.
w42st.com
Honestly laughing out loud that 88-year-old shit-stirring Olympian Joyce Carol Oates looked up in the sky, saw the Batsignal, and headed to her laptop. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Joyce Carol Oates Defends ‘Odyssey’ Against Translator’s Viral Slam: “Crude Language of MAGA Folks”
The celebrated author weighs in on Christopher Nolan's film: “No reason why Nolan, or anyone else, should not re-imagine/re-envision a classical hero.”
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I feel like the essentialization of Israelis as the pinnacle of colonization and cultural theft by people who are overwhelmingly white Americans functions to displace their own responsibility for colonialism and cultural theft.
Florence Ashley@floralashes.bsky.social · last wk.“Spiritually Israeli” is a term I could really do without.
The Coen Brothers have already done the Odyssey, it's time to let them plumb Minnesota darkness with Berryman's Dream Songs.
Michele Tepper@michelet.bsky.social · last wk.Greenlight Guillermo del Toro’s PARADISE LOST, you cowards
Greenlight Guillermo del Toro’s PARADISE LOST, you cowards
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Please send one large hot dog costume to: Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court of the United States 1 First Street NE Washington, DC 20543
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · last wk.JUST IN: Justice Neil Gorsuch tells @RonaldReagan civility conference US democracy is 'very fragile' & 'facing some tough times.' 'We are all in it together, and if we don't stay all in it together, it will crumble,' Gorsuch says, urging students to study history 'warts and all'
