A dog tries to rest on a couch absolutely covered in dumbbells

What this poor girl has to put up with…

NYC has fewer pedestrian deaths than LA not just on a per capita basis, but in aggregate.

In 2025,
NYC: 111 deaths
LA: >150 deaths

Once again need to remind everyone that the supposedly crime-infested hellhole of New York is one of the safest cities in the country in no small part because most people in the central area don’t drive. America has a much bigger car problem than a violent crime problem.

They are talking like traffic engineers haven't been trying - and failing - to fix traffic congestion for the last 70+ years

It's the wrong question to ask

And a good part of the reason we're in the mess that we're in

I think the greatest trick for getting good at creative work i know is - finish making as many mediocre things as possible. Just finish stuff, again and again. Share it or don’t, but put a bow on it, put it aside, make the next thing, repeat.

I bet a car could do this no problem, who cares. They’re the same to me

What if World Selling off all our old stuff to benefit the ACLU!

Our What If World / ACLU fundraiser MUST end this Friday. Raised $500 so far. Tons of new discounts as we clear out: keychains, pencils, notebooks, enamel pins, embroidered patches, stickers! Come and get em! what-if-world.myshopify.com

the whole vibe is horrible but I ordered from my local goop kitchen a couple of times during the pandemic and I regret to inform you it was one of the best places I’ve ever ordered food from

Anyone who's been to a taxidermy convention has seen quite a few racoon penises is all I'm saying.

trans women have a biological advantage at being hot now

A google search for "calefaction in english" returns an AI Overview for - Calcification is the accumulation of calcium salts in body tissues, causing them to harden and disrupting normal function. It can occur in arteries, heart valves, organs (like kidneys or lungs), and tissues, often due to injury, infection, or chronic disease. While normal in bone formation, soft tissue calcification is usually pathological.

Eric asked me to look up the word "calefaction" (which he read in a children's book)

The rise of DoorDash is emblematic of the post-COVID societal shift: we are eating out more than ever, we are spending more money than ever to eat out, and we are doing it in order to eat alone.

Material wealth hand-in-hand with social poverty.

i love him

I never want to be a killjoy so I won't get in the way of people dancing in the streets when he drops dead but I think one reason everyone is so thirsty for it is we tacitly understand that to be the only consequence he'll ever face. Which sucks! There should be way more consequences

Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

Just now noticing George Bush In the lower left! I was very much Not a fan so fascinated by his conclusion. What’s going on, 16 year old me?

A laminated collage featuring Robin Williams, an American flag, Lennon’s New York City shirt, John cusack, Star Wars, rocky horror, run Lola run and more

A laminated collage featuring eeyore, tigger, sgt pepper, young simba, blockbuster, Daffy Duck, power puff girls, Harry Potter, Carson daly(???) and a hot topic sourced sparkle bumper sticker that says “out of my mind back in five minutes”

A laminated collage featuring the chords for screaming infidelities and a picture of dashboard, Jake gallé Baal and Jennifer Aniston in the Good Girl, Jason Schwartzman, a warped tour ticket, photo booths of my friends and I, John Mayer, some guitars and a kroq sticker

Sorting through and culling my memory boxes in preparation for the move and while these didn’t make the cut (to the trash they go) I HAVE to share them. What a time capsule.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

I will die on this hill.

What type of bread?

A funny thing about having kids is you learn that things you think are obvious, like “don’t pour candle wax down the sink,” are in fact not obvious and need to be explicitly taught.

a story in 4 parts. AI rules so hard.

"Karen — I finally see it.
And now I can tell you the exact reason why my previous answer didn't work.
✅ ✅ FINAL WORKING NUMERATOR (Guaranteed to match your logs)"

(it does not, and I go on and on into oblivion as I slowly lose my sanity)

Article from The Wrap. Headline that reads: Inside Doug Liman's $70 Million Al-Made Movie Starring Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot "Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi" will be looking for buyers at Cannes and is billed as the first fully-generated, studio-quality Al feature film Emily Zemler April 15, 2026 @ 6:00 AM

One of those headlines that just gets hilariously worse as you read it

I had it for the very first time when Eric & I went on a date at Bestia and the bartender ended up being someone I knew from my Crossfit gym back in the good old days. He gave us a snifter for free.

Nonino Amaro Italy-35%-Heady aromas of orange & chamomile. Gently sweet herbal & floral aromas shine through a pillowy texture with blood orange, borage flowers, and a touch of botanical bitterness. This is a tast...

We're working on getting through all our liquor before we move and today's the day we run out of Amaro Nonino - so I'm here to sing its praises. An excellent sipper, but also an ingredient in my favorite cocktail. Big recommend.

Mamdani: When I ran for mayor, I said I was going to tax the rich

Well, today we're taxing the rich...

Our Siri is an Australian dude so I look forward to this when my kids meet the extended family

Guess whose household is not going to spend any more on gas starting July 6th!

Meat should be a luxury item, for special occasions. Why we think we should have so much cheap stuff on the backs of others' suffering baffles me, and something that drives me crazy about the "affordability crisis".