im about 7 months late but happiness and love is brilliant....it's so insane the baffler called it a temu version of woodcutters smh
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Ben Kesslen
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Ben Kesslen
@benkesslen
freelance reporter. working on a novel. they/them. [email protected]
Katılım Mayıs 2017
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bergen county transit is so bad that in hs i'd drive to a fort lee supermarket, park my car, walk to the highway breakdown lane for the GWB entrance & get in the car of a stranger waiting to pick someone up to then pay a reduced carpool toll...(nj teen drivers can't drive in nyc)
fully fund transit@crosstown_line
If we had a single, coherent regional transit and infrastructure authority, the westward extension of the 2nd Ave subway would go to NJ
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ah perfect, and it's happening in all the places i want to live 😍
Peter Mallouk@PeterMallouk
Rents dropping across the country…
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it's kind of giving the southern thruway by cortázar
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17
When you arrive at Terminal E at Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) in Houston, the line outside looks fairly manageable. But in reality, it starts in the basement, goes up a floor and zigzags through baggage check, then runs outside before snaking around the check in counters.
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i see the physics understanders have logged on
bu/ac@buperac
So you mean to tell me, an airplane can go right through the World Trade Center that had steel structure beams of 4 inch plate every 40” using 12 different grades of steel with a yield strength of 100,000 psi but if the same plane were to run into a firetruck on a runway the plane is completely destroyed. Got it!
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ok let's be honest it's at least every 12 minutes at that hour
urbanist slop hq@SlopHq
new york runs trains every 4 minutes at 2am and the rest of america can’t run a bus every 15 minutes at noon. we don’t have a transit technology problem we have an ambition problem. one city decided trains were essential and 300 others decided they were optional
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for nat’l poetry day, be chic & preorder my collection PARTY LINE, out in July from @GraywolfPress 🎈
kind blurbs by danez smith, jasbir puar, and ishmael reed to give some of the vibes
bookshop.org/p/books/party-…
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@snjeriwambugu a certain hunger by chelsea summers. it's a fun ride!
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I have to take a very long drive today (to chase my dream) audiobook recommendation? no memoir pls
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my favorite journalist in my favorite newspaper... she just goes to airport lounges or on planes or trains and gives a completely dispassionate recounting of the perks. Dig into her archives — you will NOT be disappointed.
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
WSJ travel columnist Dawn Gilbertson was pleasantly surprised by her cheap JetBlue flight in economy from London to New York a year ago and still raves about the food. So she wanted to check out Mint, the airline’s version of the lie-flat life. Here’s her experience: 🔗 on.wsj.com/3NAkbX0
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when they say a yogurt has one billion probiotics in a serving, im like ok that's a bit much....
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“‘I do not want to be de-skilled,’ I remind the machine” is perhaps the bleakest sentence I have read this year
nxthompson@nxthompson
This is a cool example of how you can use AI to help your writing—without relying on it for any actual writing. From @jasminewsun theatlantic.com/technology/202…
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Jeremy O. Harris drunkenly called OpenAI’s Sam Altman a Nazi at the Vanity Fair Oscar party trib.al/fDWrJCW
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new amazing quote just dropped:
“If you have a place in the Hamptons and three kids in private school, it’s probably tough to make ends meet,” he said. “There might be someone who has to sacrifice something.”
Sally Goldenberg@SallyGold
“You made $38 million this year — what a wonderful problem to have,” he said. “On top of that, you get a fruit basket from the mayor.” nytimes.com/2026/03/11/nyr… via @NYTimes
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Catchy opening! But the comma splice is unwieldy. Why dont you try "It was not just the best of times. It was also the worst of times."
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