Someone is doing a St. Vincent song at karaoke at my local. Before you ask, yes, I live in Bushwick.

Where exactly did Wanda live that Mary Anne had to fly in from Atlanta on a red-eye midnight flight to kill Earl? Somewhere in Europe?

The Red Sox are 24-3 since I lost my job. Funemployment forever!

Is this still a thing?

Being a tourist in my own city means discovering spots in Manhattan that don’t look like Manhattan.

Sox bat around in their first post trade deadline inning. Cannot explain why this team of misfits and leftovers has somehow captured my heart.

I’ve heard Bennie & The Jets at two different bars this afternoon and I’m totally okay with that.

That was the stated purpose behind the establishment of the branch of government in which you serve but go off king

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

You love to see it.

Holy cow, it finally happened.

This will get a fraction of the attention that Zohran Mamdani got for calling Netanyahu a war criminal.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

Imagine saying “every New Yorker deserves to move around our city freely and safely” and then going on a screed about e-bikes, not cars.

Speaker Julie Menin@speakermenin.bsky.social · yesterday

Every New Yorker deserves to move around our city freely and safely, regardless of how they get around. That’s why the NYC Council is launching a comprehensive review of where existing laws can be stronger enforced, and what additional solutions are needed to keep New Yorkers safe.

Why does someone from Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin know that Eric Adams belongs in prison more than the Manhattan DA or our state’s Attorney General?

I saw 10 drivers parked in a bike lane on a single bike ride last week.

Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 3d ago

Across the more than 6,300 miles of NYC's streets, the NYPD’s nearly 34,000 officers ticketed only 10 drivers for blocking bus lanes, 12 drivers for parking in a bus stop and 10 drivers for parking in a bike lane last week.

RIP to the 2027 MLB Season

Huh, it’s almost like the marketing campaign for Dodge that targets homicidal maniacs is working exactly as intended.

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 5d ago

Which vehicles most endanger the drivers of other cars? Giant pickup trucks — and the Dodge Charger Source: www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

Hey @mta.info, 20 minute headways on the L on weekend overnights ain’t cutting it.

Oh right, now I remember why I haven’t been to Riis Beach in 8 years. There are beaches *outside* the city I could get to faster by transit.

I really want to know what goes through a driver’s head when they double park like this when there’s a ton of curb space. Just utter laziness and selfishness that should be punished by towing and impoundment of their car.

Just utterly idiotic. For one, you don’t trust your customers to budget properly, yet also the ability exists for OMNY to offer both pass products and fare caps at the same time so customers have an option. Plenty of transit systems do this! Why can’t ours?

Stephen Jacob Smith@stephenjacobsmith.com · 5d ago

What a crazy thing to say. Has Janno Lieber never paid rent or a mortgage? Has he never gotten a regular paycheck? Paying weekly or monthly upfront for a core service that you use regularly is a basic fact of adulthood. Creating an explosion of fare evasion because nobody has prepaid passes...

The MTA made up the "day laborer who can't afford a weekly/monthly." People get paid biweekly, rent and utilities are due monthly, and the unbanked know how to budget. They raised fares on the most loyal riders and made fare evasion a lot worse, and they're trying to deflect with Woke 1.0 bullshit.

@elayamakan.bsky.social · 5d ago

www.amny.com/news/mta-omn... Lieber also pushed back on reports that some riders are lamenting the MTA’s elimination of the 30day unlmtd MetroCard. Lieber insisted that while some riders may be “nostalgic” for the old system, it was not fair to those who could not afford to pay large sums upfront.“

Anyone with half a brain who’s used AI knows that maps are literally its biggest weakness. But nobody with half a brain works for the State Department anymore, apparently.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d ago

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

LIRR will pay a dozen-plus employees to stand around and punch tickets at NY-Penn Station but can't figure out a way to run enough trains so people don't have to stand at 11pm on a school night. Completely backwards.

When @pablo.show is talking about your home state on his podcast, it could only possibly be for something quirky and fun, or something quirky and damning. Sadly for Rhode Island in this case, it’s the latter.

Pablo Torre@pablo.show · 7d ago

We investigated a sitting U.S. governor in the newest sequel to our Kawhi/Clippers investigation. It's fun

Really frustrating that nobody is talking about this. New York's new surveillance law will go into effect in a few months, requiring things like government identification or biometric face scans in order to use social media platforms (like Bluesky). gothamist.com/news/ny-soci...

NY social media users face age authentication requirement starting in January

Apps are barred from sending notifications to minors between midnight and 6 a.m.

gothamist.com

I think I’ve posted some version of this on social media every time I’ve taken Amtrak over the last 15 years.

M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray.bsky.social · 7d ago

Why does Amtrak do train boarding in a such a weird and inefficient way?

Y’all, it might finally happen. Amazing that it took losing my job to finally ride enough to hit the fare cap in the OMNY era.

man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Good. One of the most egregious cases of NIMBY BS I’ve seen anywhere.

Rhode Island Current@rhodeislandcurrent.com · last wk.

A federal judge Tuesday invalidated the town of Johnston’s attempt to seize 31 acres of land eyed for an affordable housing complex by eminent domain to build a new public safety complex and town hall. By @nolanpage.bsky.social & @krish-eh.bsky.social rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/07/28/f...

I’ve never bought super-expensive sunglasses because I have a tendency to lose them. I bought a $16 pair of drugstore sunglasses last week that I’ve been complemented on five times, further proving that I will never buy super-expensive sunglasses.