Good reporting from @hellgatenyc.com on how so many bicyclists have gotten tickets for "running reds" they didn't run. What's the fix going to be to get these off people's record? When will the nearly $200 fines be refunded?
hellgatenyc.com/judge-upends...
Samuel Rutherford, a… slaver, wrote… to complain about its anti-slavery editorial, which described the regime of sexual terror… Rutherford admitted the truth… but said that sexual access to enslaved… worked as a "safety valve to… our white females, who are far superior… to your northern females."
I have high hopes for exactly this happening tonight at the meeting re: the 31st St ped/bike-friendly redesign.
NYCers: 6:30 at The Marquee Astoria, f/k/a Astoria World Manor.
Hello! I'm glad this is making the rounds, as sometimes it feels as if we're pretending the so-called hallucination problem has gone away. It hasn't. It won't. But more importantly, this poses a particularly pernicious harm for education that I think is not well understood. So, a short thread...
Ain’t this the truth
An infographic titled "Magnolia molecules: perfume and medicines" details the plant's chemistry. Pink petals contain cyanidin and peonidin pigments. Aroma molecules include aldehydes like 2-nonenal and heptanal, and terpenes like alpha-pinene and linalool. Medicinal bark compounds include magnolol and honokiol, which have antioxidant properties. It also highlights yulanosides, unique phenylethanoid glycosides. Chemical structures for these compounds surround a central magnolia branch photo.
Did you know magnolia petals are edible?
I didn't until this year, and discovering that they are led me to this exploration of magnolia chemistry (and experiments in making magnolia gin).
Learn more in the graphic here: www.compoundchem.com/2026/04/20/m...
#ChemSky 🧪
Yeah, I didn't mind the isolation at all as an individual experience. I minded knowing that it was happening because of people sickening in droves. But my physical & mental health, as an individual, *improved* during Peak Covid. However, I'm an oddball that way, & it was excruciating for many.
We all need to find ourselves a Democrat (Democrats, actually) who looks at our internal security forces the way Russell Vought looks at the CDC and NIH.
I think the biggest problem with police today is how right-wing they are. They are more and more so each day. Every example of ICE or CBP brutality cements their support. Call a murdered women a bitch, the rank-and-file cheer.
listening to the Lions Led By Donkeys on the Russo-Japanese War and thinking again about how bad pre-modernity was and how any political philosophy that requires the repeal of modernity to succeed is fatally flawed
I stole this from Facebook, but it's a good illustration of how rape used to be considered cute, even at a time when consensual premarital sex was much more stigmatized.
The quality of its defense and offense would at least drop significantly without us. And if it isn’t dependent, why all the whining about bills to cut funding?
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court finds that abortion access is a fundamental right guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution, and a ban on public funding for abortion is unconstitutional.
The Sheeple Who Call Us Sheeple (new post) nomoremister.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...
A still from the show Elementary. Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) in a sleeveless white top with round black buttons, and Johnny Lee Miller as Sherlock in a dark suit and light grey shirt buttoned-up to the neck.
Just watched my 154th and final episode of Elementary. Despite its flaws - some dull/daft cases (hazard of all procedurals), some dropped story threads and disappearing characters, Liu and Miller were always great, and great together. Probably my favourite version of the Holmes/Watson partnership.
This man should be on a registry. He thinks 15-year-olds not having babies is a "problem."
This is always my question for the hardcore Zionists. Oh, you say gentiles are so susceptible to anti-Semitism that you can't live in a cosmopolitan liberal place like New York fucking City? Then how is Israel supposed to be safe when it's *dependent on America*?
I'm convinced Astoria has the best representatives of anywhere in the country. No exaggeration. And we are going to fix not only Astoria's streets but all of NYC
once again a young tolkien would've seen exactly one palantir slidedeck then torched their offices
personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life
“Then consider when, furious with Andrew Johnson’s opposition to Reconstruction in 1866, the Radical Republican Congress passed a law abolishing each Supreme Court seat after it fell vacant.” www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...
the more you live in nyc the more you realize that the average “transplant” is far more progressive and open minded than the average “native New Yorker”
turns out that people who make an active choice to live in a progressive, transit rich city are more likely to embrace that!
The most realistic thing about Riker and Troi’s longterm romance is how the trombone becomes a symbol to Riker of both triumph and humiliation and I feel like every trombonist has gone through this at one point or another
How did the room not explode from the sheer charisma?!?!!
Or else they just haven't thought about the avoidability of car deaths. I know that before I lived in a big city, I often used "driving a car" as an example of inherent, unavoidable risk that was just part of going places and living a life.
"Unserious leaders are unsafe." - the Hon. Mustafa Kasubhai
Full decision here:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A child coming out from between parked cars, or losing control of their bike, is a foreseeable risk in any urban or suburban environment that a driver should anticipate.
And that he unhesitatingly recite the Shahāda, just for kicks
Old enough to remember when people got angry if you called these death camps.
Lander is the first New York politician to speak out after our @wired.com deep dive into Madison Square Garden's surveillance operations.