Praglematic

bunch of people on the LIRR today loudly discussing slavoj zizek. This feels like as big of a vibe check when I noticed some lady in 2023 loudly yapping about candace owens

I walk away from You Can See Everything seeing Elizabeth Holmes’ husband as a possible male BPD case as opposed to a regular grifter

“girls who poop vs bitches who shit” is a madonna-whore complex

Dress code is “shart casual”

MGTOW? You mean born-again incel?

Starting to think Newsom’s moment was 2024 and he just missed it altogether.

The BQE discourse is so annoying. We can barely get Second Avenue Subway worth of tunnelling done. Re-engineering the BQE when you don’t even have full jurisdiction over it would be a nightmare. Why are you getting mad at Mamdani for making sure it goes a few more generations without collapsing?

Normies: “I miss the old Republicans, they were NORMAL” the old Republicans:

Jobs be like “here’s a laptop that can barely run Microsoft Word”

The Yankees not adding a catcher only makes sense if Ben Rice is about to become the primary catcher. García Jr. finally gives them someone to take over at 1B on the days Rice catches. I have to think they’re keeping that close to the vest, because Wells or Ali Sánchez ain’t it

Enron James

Overnight the NYC Democratic delegation to Congress went from 1/10 Mamdani allies to 4/10 this is such a seismic shock for the establishment

The whole Manhattan congressional delegation just turned over in one night!! and 2/3 of those are progressive challengers unseating an incumbent! insanity

Bores lost because he didn’t commit to the progressive lane — you don’t have to be a DSA guy in that district but it’s telling that nobody even got the WFP endorsement in NY-12

the reason the birth rate is going down/people are getting around to it later in life is that it sounds like HELL!!!!! being married and then being a parent sounds like it sucks mad dick you can’t change my mind

I get this feeling whenever I feel good it’ll be the last time

As flawed as Platner is, the center failed to field a primary candidate that wasn’t older than dirt! The only calculus that is important with Maine Senate at this point is that Platner will be a vote against confirming Trump appointees to Courts and Cabinet, rest is irrelevant

Wtf is a “combination no hitter” you’re just making shit up

If only the Yankees had infielders like *checks notes* Oswald Peraza

It’s fucking insane that Swalwell was doing straight up Diddy shit all while preparing to run for the Democratic nomination at the height of the MeToo movement

Voting in the April 28 NYC Council District 3 special: 1️⃣ Lindsey Boylan 2️⃣ Carl Wilson Based on who I think will be a good Mamdani ally. The other candidates in the race seem a bit too old school Upper West Side to be that

If people are smart they’ll vote for Lindsey Boylan for NY City Council District 3

Could it be…

As more Gen Z ages into public life it’s going to become less of a gotcha that someone said something outrageous on Twitter back in the early 2010s, honestly better someone have a track record of being a normally flawed human than someone who was tracking appearances obsessively from the jump

Raya’s so fake because it’s a dating app for the rich or famous with emphasis on rich — you can get on there by being a famous and successful creative or just by being a medium-successful young person in corporate America, I know too many normies somehow with Raya accounts

I had a math teacher in high school whose big thing was “grades don’t matter” like sybau my parents are going to disown me if I get less than an 80 on any one of your pop quizzes

The arrogance of Team USA in the World Baseball Classic is so frustrating, show up or don’t but don’t act like you’re somehow above this

Adam Friedland is so in his element talking to Clavicular

It’s Friday. Not listening to news podcasts this morning, “Fame Is A Gun” by Addison Rae repeat

I’ll never forget the feeling of dread seeing Tim Kaine on SNL before the 2024 election. Just the harbinger of electoral doom for Democrats when he shows up on national TV

it’s very funny to me that chomsky’s in the epstein files big time it basically confirms my priors that guys like him are a CIA op deliberately brain poisoning and delegitimizing the american left

When TikTok went dark a year ago I remember feeling like both IG Reels and YouTube Shorts were inadequate alternatives but now that I’ve followed most of my favorite creators on IG Reels isn’t half bad

Feel like people have a tough time with the concept that we need to be governed by principles which can fairly be applied to all similarly situated people and not just “we should apply this law when it owns the other side but we shouldn’t apply it when it’s harmful to my own interest”

Much as I loved Marty Supreme, I think Michael B. Jordan wins for Best Actor this year, I think his dual roles of Smoke and Stack were a much greater lift than Marty Mauser for Timothee. If making Timothee wait for his flowers a few more years keeps him delivering great performances? it’s a plus

AI literally doesn’t know ball, you try talking to ChatGPT about how the Yankees will do this year and it doesn’t know basic details from the last year of who plays what position

Sometimes I take for granted that not everyone is getting live updated minute to minute on the latest horrors coming out of MAGA and the manosphere by being a terminally online twitter user, it must do wonders for one’s faith in humanity tbh

I googled “what is something that weighs a ton” and the AI said “a ton of feathers” wow thanks

You kinda wonder sometimes if Hal Steinbrenner is refusing to spend so that the Dodgers keep winning and we get a salary cap, like it’s just a long con and the Yanks will get back to spending once there’s a salary cap

Yankees wanted Cody Bellinger but he don’t have Bellinger money! Jasson Dominguez it is

The argument from the NYC mayoral race about whether Zohran would be competent to manage such a large city falls flat when Eric Adams was mayor for four years and he’s stupid and evil in equal parts and the city ran mostly fine the whole time throughout all the grift

Growing up in the suburbs is kinda like growing up in Plato’s cave allegory — you learn about the world through watching shadows on the wall (what you see in the media) instead of your own experience

Walking 30 minutes each way to the Dunkin in the Starbucks in my Long Island hometown during the holidays to practice mindfulness about appreciating my walkable NYC neighborhood now

If you have a Levitt house on Long Island, stop renovating it to turn it into a McMansion, those columns at the front are the architectural equivalent of rims and a fender on your 2004 Corolla

Nobody: Laura Loomer:

Instead of coming clean with the Epstein files all at once, Trump has preferred the slow trickle of the sloppiest redacted documents coming out one after the other, really gives each horrific revelation room to breathe

If you’re wondering how the New York Post was technically founded by Alexander Hamilton but now it’s… that… you’re seeing it play out in real time with CBS News

Interesting how much Bari Weiss has been getting herself directly in front of a camera since she started at CBS News. Is it normal for the head honcho to be doing that at a news organization as opposed to delegating?

Don’t like when Time picks an amorphous group of people as person of the year. Exercise some editorial discretion and pick the most important AI architect!

Gus Fring is a gay Latino incel who radicalizes Walter White into becoming a meth kingpin with one lecture on traditional masculinity; Nick Fuentes does the same thing to create Discord mods

I just get reminded over Thanksgiving how much genuine contempt boomers have for young people as lazy and entitled and even if you’re in the top 1% of young people economically you’re on thin fucking ice with these people