Jesse Lansner

Greenblatt makes $1m/year to run an organization with a $150m/year budget, and he's decided to be a reply guy to the mayor. Also, I would be shocked if Greenblatt has even been to Brighton Beach in the last decade.

The basis of Romney's 47% claim was that people who pay no federal income tax would always vote for Democrats – despite all the evidence that lots of those voters are Republicans.

Everyone who likes good crosswords should subscribe to AVCX.

cc @ed3d.net (and all the @normal-men.bsky.social)

Ready for #wolandsball November! I just need to decide which of these translations to read. (Burgin/O'Connor is my wife's old copy, and shows the wear and tear of having been moved many times in the last 30 years; Pevear/Volokhonsky is a nice new library copy.) 👿

Add “between my legs” to a movie title The Abyss Between My Legs

Should you believe he genuinely thinks that? I dunno; is your friend normally an idiot?

Revisiting Walter Koenig’s best work. May his memory be a blessing.

The really useful AI for this wouldn't be one that can analyze "photos of the fliers that came home crumpled in a backpack" (who's taking those photos, anyway?), but one that can take the information from the 7 different apps and emails lists that the schools use and combine them in one place.

Oh, cool – it's another "let AI do the fun stuff so you can spend more time at work" product, but now for women whose husbands don't do any parenting.

I just tried this out, and Dazzle replied "your child is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life".

You could make a really good block list out of everyone who replied to Brad Lander's post.

punkin dunkin

And forget about trying to acquire the flag at the Betsy Ross museum!

I’m only a couple pages into “Peck & Peck”, but it feels very targeted at Bluesky readers.

@rusty.todayintabs.com

I took marathons way too seriously when I was a runner to ever do something like this, but I hope at least one runner will hop off the course for 5 minutes to cast their vote and then put the sticker on their medal.

This just ends up being the Total Perspective Vortex, where we all have to deal with essentially 100% of the responses being “not familiar with/not enough information to form an opinion”.

"If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me." – Moby-Dick, Chapter 1, "Loomings" 🐋

Cars have been banned from Central Park since 2018.

Don’t kink shame, Walt.

The whole point was to generate publicity! There were individual campaigns that failed because local authorities had the sense to not overreact in a way that attracted lots of press attention – but plenty more where, like the IDF, the cops just couldn’t stop themselves from being stupid.

Crack Up: Behind in the Polls, Trump Is Making the Tail End of the Election About This Guy’s ‘Ass,’ While the Economy Hits a New Bottom

I created an alternate version of this flag, since I'm bored this afternoon.

Just learned that my friend Emily, from my old book club in Rochester has a podcast, and today's episode is about "We Have Always Live in the Castle". I haven't listened yet (waiting until I finish the book) but I'm sharing it here for those who are interested. 🏰

“Why should he be cheerful if he’s going to die?” Merricat is so effing bleak all the time. 🏰

Weird to act like these aren’t still popular when four of them have had major tv/movie adaptations within the last decade.

Using incognito mode to look up what people are posting about on here because I don't want Google to know how out of the loop I am.

Go vote for next month's book! 📖

Wait, why am I going to need healing tomorrow?

Meh. The Duke boys already had a flying car back in the 80s.

Add “for Tax Purposes” to a movie: Rachel Getting Married for Tax Purposes

This is nice, but Popeye's already serves Coke.

Items recovered from a 45-century old shipwreck. For reference, that’s about 1,500 years before “The Odyssey” is set.

Interesting that the bot cuts off here. The full sentence ends "and indeed I never did see so much, or could have imagined there had been any religion in the whole world so absurdly performed as this."

This is really cool. Also, that's not the regular title page from the first edition (see image below), which means this version must have been printed for Melville before his last minute renaming of the book. 🐋

There’s a fun scene like this in “The Final Countdown” (1980), with a couple of F-14s overwhelming a pair of Mitsubishi Zeroes.

A haunted house where in every room you have to explain a different Bluesky meme/drama to a normie.

"There should be more people talking about Moby-Dick online!" You've come to the right microblogging platform, my friend. 🐋

“I have previously had an erotic interlude with Aristotle in my sleep” was really not something I was expecting to hear at the beginning of “Start the Week”.

Why are any of you engaging with Ross Barkan or Jacobin, let alone Ross Barkan writing in Jacobin?

I like that this doesn’t specify which weather, because it’s obviously true for all types of weather. cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social

I wish I’d seen this before I blocked her spam text asking me for a $15 campaign donation.

Okay, I had to make this. cc @shammaiintl.bsky.social @maladroithe.bsky.social

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They should console themselves with the knowledge that there's probably a parallel world where Murakami did win. 🐾

It’s not from Pirkei Avot, but “How could a member of my own family say something so horrible?” is basically the same as “I age greatly every time you speak”.

So of us remember when Glavine became a power hitter.