Nothing posted on @mta.info or the website. But I can tell you the southbound Q has been *stuck halfway* on the Atlantic Ave Barclays B/Q platform for over 5 min now.

"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women." 😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that! "Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate." Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!

Black Women Are Losing Jobs At Three Times The Rate Of Other Women | Essence

New labor data shows Black women accounted for a disproportionate share of job losses across 2025, especially in federal, education, and care-sector roles.

essence.com

Roses are red Violets are grue In Ancient Egyptian, Pashto, and Zulu en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2...

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

Kate McKean@katemckean.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

i know it's not entirely that serious but whenever i hear "bluesky need to be less full of unfun woke leftists to pull people away from the nazi child porn generator site" this flashes through my head

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed. www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure

The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

startribune.com

Just reminded how even Tolkien wrote Númenor as an enlightened kingdom of men that was corrupted by Sauron, mainly via the temptation of its king. Meanwhile, no acknowledgement that *a society still run as a monarchy would be a huge red flag of being nowhere near enlightenment*.

Blackavar@blackavar-inle.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"Monarchs shouldn't exist" is a moral stance people rightly fought and died for HUNDREDS of years ago and yet the average Brit can't clear that bar.

Part of the reason I've never cared about spoilers is because I remember those days (as a grade schooler in the 1990s) checking TV Guides in supermarkets while my parents took me out grocery shopping *just for the pitifully brief and vague ep synopsis it provided of that week's TNG that I missed*.

Novelty Cistern@noveltycistern.bsky.social · 7mo ago

PERSON IN 1967 WHO HAS JUST WATCHED AN EPISODE OF STAR TREK: wow that was a great episode. i wonder if ill ever see it again, ever, for the rest of my life

Remember sitting in history, thinking “If I was alive then, I would’ve…” You’re alive now. Whatever you’re doing is what you would’ve done.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

My pal Ed reminds me that: "About a decade ago, PAX COO was Robert Khoo. Yes, pronounced that way."

J. Ng (she/they)@tribbletron.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I just realized that calling someone "THE COO" when you don't normally think in business terms, just brings to mind... an extremely large pigeon.

Those who talk big about injustice but can't stay grounded enough to be reliable to others are baffling to me. (1/3)

I just realized that calling someone "THE COO" when you don't normally think in business terms, just brings to mind... an extremely large pigeon.

I really hate IT fuckers who got so used to wingin' it that they don't believe in documentation, don't read the forms they make others fill out, don't establish clear policies and procedures (frankly this can all be summed up as transparency + good comms + teamwork), and take zero fucking ownership.

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

BNO News@bnonews.com · 8mo ago

WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney

If you're at PAX Unplugged and can give an injured staffer a ride home to NYC (drop-off in either south Brooklyn or near Queens College), please reach out! #PAXU

For the record, many many people are not actually clear on their values. It's more difficult than it sounds.

Marco Rogers@polotek.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The reality is that your judgment has to be rooted in your values. That's what's going to determine what you reward and what you punish. And if you're not clear on your values, then they will emerge clearly through your actual actions. In short, Link is banned, Jesse Singal is not. So now we know.

3 eps in and I ever expected an anime named "Chainsaw Man" to make me cry every episode. Ep 3 is about saving a cat. Ep 2 was the main character finally experiencing care and regular meals for the first time in his life. Ep 1 was about a demon puppy giving up its life for the main character.

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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

Terry McGlynn@hormiga.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

Netflix's "Bon Appetit Your Majesty" is my 1st 사극 (sageuk). I'm not normally into kdrama. Only seen a few shows, not counting Squid Game. Been having fun noting the similarities to cdramas. But ep 6 has the worst spoken Chinese dialogue I've ever had to sit through... since Firefly.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

Sigh. Once again, things you think are ridiculous or wasteful are often meant to or happen to help disabled people. Forearm pan holder? Not because people are lazy. Tide pods? Have you tried pouring detergent with a tremor? Don’t get me started on the damned pre-cut ingredients.

4am is for asking my spouse if he can powerwash poop stains on our toilet with his pee and him going 'why are you like this???' (Duh.... cause I don't have the equipment or I'd try it myself!) Reddit is for finding out that the answer is yes: www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybod...

I can't believe a CUNY polisci prof posted this like it's some great insight when NYC IS A CITY OF IMMIGRANTS and 38% of the population. "If you voted for Mamdani chances are you were NOT born in New York City and you didn't grow up here. A real New Yorker would NEVER vote for a guy like that"

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of youtu.be/oaA-dMLG-1E?...

RESTORED Mighty Max Opening (Intro)

YouTube video by Mighty Max Restoration Project

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Kris Naudus@lampbane.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of

Small talk isn't all pleasantness though. It can be wielded defensively (to suss out bad actors), but also offensively (to socially coerce or enforce conformity). IOW, it can build or block rapport. How one feels about small talk, probably depends on how they tend to use it. Or seen it used. 1/2

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 9mo ago

small talk makes the world go round and it is in fact incumbent upon you to at least make an *effort* to be pleasant to other people in your community

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." SAY. THAT. SHIT!

I like how they just have this binary of "we either protest in a peaceful and well-behaved fashion" and "we go full civil war armed revolution like" As if there's not a ton of folks who have already shown alternatives to both. But the alternatives do all involve organizing more *personally*