Last month, Mayor Adams said the 14-year-old scaffolding outside of Queens Supreme Court would be coming down. It did...but was replaced by scaffolding twice as large a day later.

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So what the studios are saying is that actors and writers bring a value of up to 15% to a movie's gross? That that is a percentage of a movie's final gross they are responsible for and are essential to? Interesting.

it is categorically untrue to say that an american political party must always exist. we are literally on the sixth american party system right now

BREAKING: Visual Effects (VFX) workers at Marvel have filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board.

If they’re successful vfxunion will be the first visual effects professionals to unionize.
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There should be more of a norm of small magazines listing their sources of funding on their masthead.

Cyndi Lauper sang the Pee-Wee's Playhouse theme (by Paul Reubens, Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh & Groundling/Pee-Wee writer/actor George McGrath) but she made 'em keep it secret. Completely unhinged performance, just beautiful. youtu.be/UsmFg7CD1Pg?t=…

EXCLU: The MTA shelved a through-running/signals program that could have boosted Penn Station’s capacity by 20-45%. Officials say they shelved it because it missed capacity targets. The $13B terminal they’ve proposed instead misses those targets, too. nypost.com/2023/07/28/mta…

literally never good news when my mentions are people saying I was right about anything

Queens City Council Member Vickie Paladino has decried unregistered vehicles, called for mandatory bicycle license plates, and sponsored legislation to combat fake temporary tags on cars — last week we saw an illegal temp tag in her driveway.

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The part where the other scientist says “what shall we call the bombs?” & Cillian Murphy doesn’t answer and then we see he’s staring at a fat man and a little boy, that was funny

bottom trawling alone releases as much carbon as the entire aviation industry lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…

Apparently, 'popularism' meant eugenicist billionaire hucksters trying to save their little cult of weirdos from end times in a remote island bunker.

So… the speed bumps do nothing to slow traffic… but they meet the department of transportation’s standards…

Unfortunately, that checks out.

Mosseri saying Threads isn't for news reads as dismissing the political obsessives here, but what it really means is that if anyone tries to, say, livethread a basketball game, the updates will arrive algorithmically, hours or days out of sync, as atemporal as the news feed

A former NYPD commander who Eric Adams 'knew socially' just got indicted for a campaign finance fraud scheme to help Adams get elected, and is quoted in the indictment telling someone Adams 'doesn't want to do anything if he doesn't get 25 Gs.' hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-str…

He was Marc Dornier, Sandor and Michel Krasna, Fritz Markassin, Hayao Yamaneko, and many others. During his long life, the filmmaker-essayist-critic-novelist-organizer Chris Marker wore as many hats as he had pseudonyms.
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'But the weathered photo of Officer Venable had not actually spent decades in the mayor’s wallet. It had been created by employees in the mayor’s office in the days after Mr. Adams claimed to have been carrying it in his wallet.' Amazing story by Emma G. Fitzsimmons nytimes.com/2023/07/06/nyr…

3 days ago the world was a better place...

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An auto-dependent society puts tremendous pressure on low-income people to own cars. A car can eat up someone’s budget, expose them to predatory lenders who hurt their credit, or worse. And they're getting more expensive. My latest for Vox vox.com/23753949/cars-…