Winter in nyc can be challenging, especially with a stroller. For example, when the third man points at your winter muff and says the “I wish I could ride around in that,” how do you not follow him back to his house so you can firebomb his building
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Some guy in sunglasses and a seersucker suit asked you a Yes, Yes and always allow editing in this folder, No question on your way to work yesterday
you should publish this trello/claude integration you wrote too 👀
@grok
it’s impossible to buy helium balloons online
cunningham’s law go
four unopened "Sim City: The Card Game" starter decks & six unopened booster packs.
A recent episode of @getplayedpod.bsky.social brought up an ancient, defunct Sim City-themed CCG from the 90s. I was fascinated by the fact that it had "tall cards" so I picked some up (for cheap) on eBay.
I thought I'd share some of the more bizarre/hilarious cards I got...
> “Janet Planet,” the playwright Annie Baker’s affecting directorial début about a single mother and her daughter, was a critical darling that grossed only $800K --Barasch, New Yorker
wow this is criminal, this movie was so good i rewatched it as soon as it came out online
This is the entirety of a section on the Wikipedia entry for John Ford's The Searchers (1959)
ach. the ending to call me by your name. every now and then i’ll be reminded of it. so lovely
would it really be that hard to add emoji reactions to emails? emoji reactions are a straightforwardly good invention (except for the fucking party parrot)
Amazon's motto should be "For sale baby shoes never worn," because that's exactly what I need right now and that's the exact website I went to in order to buy them
A new Signals and Threads just dropped, with @ianthehenry.bsky.social! This one is about building tools for traders, but it also has some fun dives into Ian's personal projects, including bauble.studio and janet.guide.
Anyway, more here:
signalsandthreads.com/building-too...
white people always get chip crumbs on the couch
the economist is a such a shit newspaper
if altman's t-shirt collar pokes out from underneath his banana republic sweater, you KNOW the information session is going to be POPPING
maybe ive can make a new altman smartphone before i'm forced to upgrade my 12 mini into a chunky 16e just for better battery life
One day, I hope to come up with a sentence half as well-written as the lyrics to a Superorganism song
they don’t have content restrictions also
white people love taking screenshots of a photo instead of just saving the photo
Why is there no way to turn off notifications if you text yourself? I text myself, my wife text herself, and my wife says what if Apple employees need to text themselves pictures of apples because they have to remind themselves of what an apple looks like (then she did a dab in the air)
"you never tweet about me any more on bluesky" —my wife
this movie definitively captures the high-school experience of the late 2000s (four hours of homework a night, three to five AP classes a semester, going to sleep at 5 AM and waking up at 5:05 AM)
New mosaic at the 14th St & 6th Av subway station.
lesser-known small towns:
limbaso
limbasso
cluckville
this is a "3D printed" logo for bauble.studio
i thought i could get a striped/contrast effect with alternating layers of brass and bronze. turns out brass and bronze look almost identical. still pretty neat though
(made from lost wax casting a 3D printed mold)
this year we have decided to cancel the intellectually bankrupt idea of “annual movie awards”
in lieu, we will be releasing an hour-long version of emma stone’s dancing scene from kinds of kindness
wife reading my bsky account:
oh, i guess there's nothing about your wife, i guess she hasn't said anything quotable lately, oh yeah, ooooohhhhhh yeaaaaaaaahhhh
jim loves pam but he doesn’t know how to show it. all his life he’s taught to apotheosize individualism, that load-bearing pillar of western thought. should he get flowers, or should he seize pam in the dark and take her lips into his? jim loves good news and jim loves quiet places and jim loves pam
me:
hey beverly
beverly:
yeah what’s up
me:
anybody ever call you beaverly