Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud! @thewaroncars.bsky.social

We love our urine-soaked heck hole

Gentrification is imo an overly broad umbrella term that includes real and concrete harms like people being unable to live near transit due to rents spiking, and vibe based bullshit like the neighborhood not being “authentic” anymore that you should just be expected to deal with as an adult

“My commute is 90 minutes”: a real and concrete harm for you and others that public policy should attempt to adress and rectify.

“I don’t like the new businesses in the area instead of the old dive bar I liked”: then don’t shop at them. are you twelve years old?

I knew what was coming and I still wasn't ready.

Neighborhoods change over time. Gentrification is just a word to fight inevitable change.

Beyond political conditioning (bc I’ve talked to plenty of left-of-center people from other parts of the U.S. who are a little leery of the subway!) I think this is the biggest reason for the disconnect in who perceives New York as inherently dangerous. Cars change your relationship to the world.

This was absolutely one of the most striking things about moving from suburban Atlanta to Manhattan when I was in my 20s. I remember being back home for a visit and, like, struggling to articulate to my parents just how different—and how much better and friendlier—the world felt on foot.

This is how I found out there’s a show about tow truck drivers in Vegas (maybe) and the irate vehicle owners they deal with.

i was trying to explain to someone what bluesky's whole deal was and i guess "a website where we all joke about how we want to be dommed by mrs met but we aren't entirely joking" is pretty good bsky.app/profile/crun...

George Lucas Saying “And then 'Senator Crappo' will be the guy who makes the taxes worse"

We should have never doubted this man

William Faulkner’s Light In August. None of us understood it or the structure, and the teacher later admitted it was maybe too challenging for 10th graders.

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole.
If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.

"Military says war conditions prompted suspension"

WAR CONDITIONS ARE YOUR WORK CONDITIONS. WHAT IN THE EVER LIVING BLUE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?

You can't get them FOOD because "there's a war?" Gee, if only we had some sort of organization that handled that sort of thing.

Exactly one year ago today:

Jarringly Red New York Radio Yutz Continues His Anti-Mets Tantrum In Yankees President's Suite | Defector It’s the story that has captivated America: a large screaming man roughly the color of a Fruit Roll-Up, who goes on AM radio every day to get upset about minorities, announced last week that he could ...

This is a developing story. Please keep it locked to Defector for more updates. defector.com/jarringly-re...

Need a law passed by the next Congress that holds the agency administrator and department secretary personally liable if agencies are found to have blocked funding with malice (as the fact record here clearly indicates).

$50g a week. And liens can be placed against their primary residence.

Lmao not only does NYC maintain these totally unnecessary fire call stations (I’ve heard that it’s mostly a giveaway to the union electricians who install and maintain them), but we have to dig a bunch of expensive bollards in front of them to make sure our manchild drivers don’t hit them

I talked to someone at the IRS today who said that my best option is to let the second payment go through and wait for a refund of overpayment. I made the payments through my tax software which makes it hard to cancel them. Expensive mistake on my part but I’ll get my money back eventually.

A digital pencil-style drawing of famous professional wrestler, film actor, and game show contestant Ox Baker. He’s an immense, beefy bald man, with sharply angled eyebrows that curl into points and a long, voluminous mutton chop mustache. He was known for wearing custom message tees that said things like ‘YOU WILL HATE ME’ and ‘THE GREAT HEART PUNCHER’ but the white tee he is wearing here reads ‘MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN TODAY’.

New York Radio Yutz Has Had It With Mr. Met's Antisemitism | Defector Were it not for the virtual certainty that he will be cast in a Safdie-directed film at some point, Sid Rosenberg is not a person who should be known by anyone who does not live in or around New York ...

Delighted that there appear to be legs to the story of one of the dumbest and most frequently fired freaks in NYC conservative media breaking up with the "Mamdani Mets" and becoming a Yankees fan. I love to show off our beautiful leathery regional buttheads! defector.com/new-york-rad...

Don’t fuckin’ shoot content in the subway during rush hour

That’s where I screwed up. I thought “I haven’t paid that amount yet, so let’s update with the new number.” It wasn’t clear that my new payment would be the full amount owed or just the difference and I didn’t want to get penalized.

Yeah, that’s what got debited today. I didn’t see an option in the software to cancel the original payment.

Congratulations Yankee superfan @benjaminkabak.com on your new best friend!

Screenshot of Homer Simpson leaning out a car window and shouting at some kids running into a school “for more information on Grand Funk consult your school library”

TIL that if you want Mel Schacter’s bass tone you need to swap the neck pickup on a Fender J-bass for a Gibson pickup, and maybe replace the neck entirely, and play through a tube amp that blows tubes so often you have a roadie who swaps them live on stage.

Can't wait to get my $2.87 back from Live Nation in 3 years.

Google search says that the IRS usually figures this out and refunds you but it may take a while. I need to be better organized. What a pain in the ass.