Pasta is the theme of the day.

Man Charged in Lego Theft Scheme of Replacing Pieces With Pasta, Police Say

I was busy this weekend, and almost missed this very important story.

Sorry - won’t be done until 2032, but starting next year.

Mamdani to swap parking spots for more than 6,500 curbside Empire Bins across NYC It’s a major expansion in the rollout of the “trash revolution” that former Mayor Eric Adams started.

Curbside bins at last (by 2031)

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An UWS Bee Distribution: ‘A Shoe Box of 12,000 Flying, Singing, Venomous Creatures’ Andrew Coté distributing bees outside his UWS shop, Andrew's Honey, last Friday. Photos by Scott Etkin By Scott Etkin At

“bees are sold by weight, like cheese or cocaine.” (via @thecity.nyc)

That’s it, we’re all done, this is the definitive take on AI, it’s so good that it’s what AI will give you one day when you ask for the definitive take on AI, only it will add some errors and flat, dull language.

Just turned on my A/C in mid-April. Everything is fine.

More pie for me then!

I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.

Read this. All the way to the end. You're welcome.

(If it helps, it's by @caity.bsky.social.)

First use case for AI that I can 100% get behind. Where's my AI clone? (I would also like it to attend select social functions and my co-op board meetings.)

Honestly they’re too ridiculous to be AI. I feel like could be a natural at this because I’m really good at the game Balderdash.

Someone out there has a job where they write the one-sentence movie plot descriptions for streaming services.

Not to mention that it’s perfectly typical to see similar looking crowds of people walking around NYC any day of the week.

Trying to fly out of LaGuardia and my gate has changed an impossible number of times

I think it's pretty clear that New Yorkers want to know what it will look like for the Mayor to clean up illegal dumping. #nyc

So roughly 1000 weeks each

One of the best to ever do it (comms). Anyhow, go vote New Yorkers. #nyc

To be fair, in my case it’s possible that AI has superior skills in this area.

Jigsaw of vintage NYC posters

We are about to become empty nesters, and my husband has decided this means we’ll spend our evenings listening to music and doing jigsaw puzzles or adult coloring together. The latter is off the table for me but we tested the jigsaw waters tonight.

How should parents, teachers, counselors, and high school students think about the costs and benefits of higher education? What explains the disconnect between the data and the vibes in higher education? RSVP: ckbe.at/4apQCQO

Yep. Did she wink? Did she have something in her eye? Who can say for certain?

Hochul winked at us

Truly I am here for all of @governor.ny.gov’s impossibly quaint scandals.

I'm old enough that I saw this movie...in theaters.

Outstanding news.

I know this storm is bad because the soccer fanatics have not yet begun shoveling out their field.

I just ran some errands and it’s drizzling and quite mild out there. I know temps are set to drop but it’s hard to feel like a blizzard is imminent. #nyc

They’re just making up weather terms now.

So many 80s bangers were really about the constant, looming threat of nuclear war!

NY Governor Kathy Hochul posted and deleted a Tweet in which she made the unforgivable error of saying she spent the day "in" Long Island instead of "on" Long Island.

I work in comms, so I still have to check Twitter occasionally for professional reasons. Thank you to whichever @governor.ny.gov staffer was responsible for this delightful and utterly wholesome political screw-up. Simpler times...

The Double Life of New York's Black Oyster King Thomas Downing was a fine-dining pioneer with a secret.

We did include Downing's Oyster House, the most famous oyster house of its day, owned by a free Black man who was a leading abolitionist. While New York's elite dined on oysters upstairs, Thomas Downing and his son George secretly operated an underground railroad site in the basement.