if I see one more flyer with that one particularly ugly AI font and banner on it I swear to god
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@plitter.bsky.social
cats, transit, cities, other cool stuff like that. I work at the MTA; my opinions are mine. she/her/🏳️🌈
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if you are having a terrible day may I recommend eating an ice cream sandwich (of the plain, vanilla ice cream chocolate wafer variety) to make it less terrible
I am very glad to see Laura San Giacomo pop up in Margo’s Got Money Troubles (I am catching up on prestige TV many months later)
Great series starting at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social today: every Tuesday, they show movies that are set in, or heavily involve, the New York subway system. I took this series as an opportunity to write critical blurbs about a some of my favorites. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/get-on-t...
If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.
some are calling it New York’s best underground art museum www.mta.info/agency/arts-...
MTA Arts & Design
MTA Arts & Design encourages the use of public transit by presenting visual and performing arts throughout the MTA system.
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Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social · 2w agouh oh I’m emotional about the 72nd St. Q train mosaics again
building a good website requires time and effort that most local news orgs either don’t have, or their parent companies aren’t willing to invest in, and it is a travesty
Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 2w agoThe least-talked-about factor in the decline of local news and reading is how horrible and unusable so many of their websites are. It's just the truth, and it's been awful for a decade, so people moved on.
I’m credited as the first person to describe Vessel (the Hudson Yards sculpture) as The Shawarma. (Thanks, @henrygrabar.bsky.social) slate.com/business/201...
New Yorkers Are Right: Hudson Yards’ Big Tourist Attraction Should Forever Be Called the Shawarma
The meat stick on 34th Street.
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Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2w agoOkay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?
somehow only just learning that PJ Harvey recently released a song inspired by and sung from the perspective of the Voyager 2 space probe and if you didn’t know that either, you’re welcome youtu.be/XzCjzFsGl_c?...
PJ Harvey - Voyager (Official Video)
YouTube video by PJHarveyVEVO
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Tried to find a representative Jennifer Finch quote from my book and settled on this one:
you forget how much of a hold ska had on the culture until you watch episodes of 120 Minutes from 1996-1998
Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable
now taking recommendations for music to listen to that is chill and unobtrusive and will serve as good background for reading hundreds of pages of documents
Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory
because I can find the Britpop angle in anything, did you know the bassist from Blur, Damien Hirst, and Lily Allen’s dad recorded a very popular song for England for the 1998 World Cup? youtu.be/va6nPu-1auE?...
Fat Les - Vindaloo (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by Ultimate
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is hillbilly loaf just fancy talk for scrapple also £25 for an “old bay omelette” is absurd. chow chow mignonette sounds good as hell tho
madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 4w agoAre the Americans awake yet? Okay so a restaurant just opened in London called ‘Appalachia’ and this is their ‘June’ menu; discuss
surely someone knows which bar Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell celebrated their Emmy nominations at but I can’t figure it out despite frequenting bars in the neighborhood they live in
can’t tell what posts are World Cup and what posts are the insane weather we’re having in Brooklyn
It’s so hot outside that the plastic of my glasses frames felt too hot on my face, we can’t be doing this