"Not included: Fees for optional services, such as baggage fees, seat upgrades, and selecting an assigned seat on the aircraft."

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 12h ago

The problem with this argument is that air travel was not widely accessible, affordable, & available for the masses 40-50 years ago. For many (most?) it's better simply because it exists as a good actually consumed. www.bts.gov/browse-stati...

Sorry, no, air travel is much much worse, you people have just internalized and naturalized abuse

That's not an ontology puzzler, it's just people being theatrically bad at set theory

It's grim how Wannabe Executive Brain has so thoroughly poisoned baseball discourse that the Red Sox feel like they have to make excuses for swapping a bum catcher for an All-Star catcher because they also threw in a bunch of mostly unranked A-ball prospects

Much to think about here

Not sure why working out the outline of a trade to dump the cornerstone of your signature rebuild wouldn’t be accompanied by working out the outline of your resignation letter

Renting an apartment upstairs from the writer to chuck the contents of a chamberpot out the window onto his head

Tom Scocca@tomscocca.bsky.social · 5d ago

NYC's version of blocking construction on historically important parking lots: going to war to preserve the walls of trash bags piled on the sidewalks

"The bins will contribute to the sense of New York becoming more 'sanitized' each day," yes. Yes, they will. Correct.

Tom Scocca@tomscocca.bsky.social · 5d ago

NYC's version of blocking construction on historically important parking lots: going to war to preserve the walls of trash bags piled on the sidewalks

NYC's version of blocking construction on historically important parking lots: going to war to preserve the walls of trash bags piled on the sidewalks

Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...

Indignity Vol. 6, No. 64, featuring the penultimate chapter of THE STAIRS, the serialized novel by @tomscocca.bsky.social! The Stairs, Chapter 38 www.indignity.net/the-stairs-c...

The Stairs, Chapter 38

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Counterpoint: we saw a really cool low-slung garbage truck in Taipei and it was super annoying to have lost the option to describe it as "chopped"

Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social · last wk.

Unrelated thought: I struggle with some zoomer slang but they really cooked with “chopped.” I’ve started working it into my everyday vernacular and let me tell you it rolls off the tongue

The fake toll invoice the rental car company sent as propaganda against congestion pricing got the email company’s AI to offer me a “Pay Bill” button on it

Under what possible set of rules is VIKING playable but AMAZONIAN is not

Trust the Process

Making sure to include the ad placements on the Photoshopped jersey

Facebook friends, here's Indignity Vol. 6, No. 60, THE STAIRS, Chapter 36 by @tomscocca.bsky.social www.indignity.net/the-stairs-c...

The Stairs, Chapter 36

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Facebook friends, here's Indignity Vol. 6, No. 60, MR WRONG: Nobody Warns You About the Explosive Logorrhea www.indignity.net/mr-wrong-let...

MR WRONG: Lettuce? Pray!

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People seconding this about more than one product, hoo boy

Tom Scocca@tomscocca.bsky.social · 3w ago

Sure, replace the spell-check with a proofreading function that defaults to not checking for spelling but does do bogus checks for conciseness, why not

Sure, replace the spell-check with a proofreading function that defaults to not checking for spelling but does do bogus checks for conciseness, why not

OK but imagine the teleprompter guy white-knuckling through a speech he's got a big bet down on while Trump spends 25 minutes freestyling off script

One piece of cultural decline that gamers truly do deserve blame and shame for is how people now say "one vee one" about one-on-one action in actual sports

"There's a lot for the VAR to look at!" Just...why? Who likes this?

Indignity Vol. 6, No. 59, THE STAIRS, Chapter 35, by @tomscocca.bsky.social "The Marble City Electro-Power Company will always bring you the light you need." www.indignity.net/the-stairs-c...

The Stairs, Chapter 35

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Just read someone apparently not of Italian ancestry arguing that Italian-Americans should be offended that City Hall insulted our heritage by not linking us with a Mob hit that happened 54 years ago

This post made my Nuzzel

amy brown@amybrown.xyz · 4w ago

remembering some guys today, internet edition. remember favstar?

If you want to post about something belongs among the most suspect decisions in FIFA history you gotta give your whole Top 10

LOL this was six years ago, but it was about the "national psychological crisis" that was keeping the political class "unable to move forward," not about earnestly wishing it could happen slate.com/news-and-pol...

Obama vs. Trump Is the Election America Wants

We’ve been stuck here for more than a decade already.

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A @choire.bsky.social special on Taylor Swift www.cnn.com/2026/07/05/e...

Everyone has Taylor Swift wedding opinions and we haven’t even seen the dress yet | CNN

If you can afford to buy an island, why don’t you just go ahead and do it, instead of having your wedding in New York City?

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Hey, baby, it's the Fourth of July www.cnn.com/2026/07/02/u...

America has the big birthday blahs | CNN

As the country turns 250, many Americans aren’t in the mood to party.

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I risk opening a can of worms but here I am filling my shopping cart in the pantry aisle of Worms Mart and throwing a brand new Early Bird brand can opener on top