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"Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community ... but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots." – Umberto Eco
FDNY first responder POV of 9/11
One quart of horseshoe crab blood sells for $15,000.
zinn @ 100
BY POSTING THE SAME IMAGE, BEREFT OF MEANING BUT ANIMATED THEREWITH VIA ASPIRATIONAL ELEVATION TO 'MEME', A DEADENED HUMANKIND CAN FEIGN BOTH COLLECTIVISM AND MEANING, EVEN WHILE THE PRACTICE THAT WOULD CONSTRUCT SUCH SIGNIFICANCE OR COMMUNITY ALSO HOLLOWS IT OUT INTO VOID. pic.twitter.com/9e67WyPsmh
— Ian Bogost (@ibogost) August 18, 2022
“If you want to map inequality in New York, you can just count trees. Or measure the temperature…in East Harlem, the blacktop registered at 115 degrees, a full 31 degrees hotter.”https://t.co/AVJNnYh5F7
— jason wu (@CriticalRace) August 10, 2022
this shit is all over the place because of the times op ed piece yesterday. who knew when i was lounging on canal street drinking beers at dusk in the closed off street last summer that i was in the heart of twenty something douchey rich kid anti-woke hipsterdom. if only they reviled the skateboarders half as much as i did we could have found common cause over a pilsner, as long as they were buying. i mean, i listened to my neighbor drone on about soil for the garden im sure he still hasnt started for a free beer, im sure id be delighted to hear how stultifying life is among the "avant guards" in bed stuy. is that where they are now? i draw the line at converting to catholicism. im soaking in it right now up here. there is nothing transgressive or transcendent about transubstantiation.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/dimes-square
Five cities, then and now. Somewhere today there's a quiet fishing village that will be a 2100 megalopolis.
— Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy) July 22, 2022
Hong Kong: 1964 | 2016 pic.twitter.com/QhrrQZP0nb
your future is now stories.
sewage beer vs driverless strike
RIP Sonny Barger
dave's not here
can we talk? Via Justin
my yearly phoenix weather look-in.
playground love
Credit cards not working at most supermarkets around here as per local chatter.
Christian Cooper gets his own birding TV show on National Geographic
What to do if you find a meteorite
https://newyorkcitygangs.com/?page_id=2481
gangs of ny
My FB feed is full of so many NY performing artists morning their beloved vocal coach who was viciously attacked - scroll down the article for video of the perp - looks like a white woman with long auburn hair.
How the beats begat the pranksters
LA acid test '66
Ludlow st