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@pescami Always wondered why the LIRR is LIRR but the Metro North Railroad (1 word) is MNR. Maybe just that when they formed the modern Metro North, née New York Central Railroad—which was spelled as one word w/ reporting mark NYC—they decided to keep the old format? Aaaanyway…

@pescami Oh and this is really late but what an honor to have been the unacknowledged quasi-Lobstar of the Antwentig (or however it’s spelled) recently! Still not sure if I have a settled view on the substance or not; I’m just happy to be so mighty and influential in the world!

@pescami Lol my partner and I have been calling the LIRR the “ler” AS A JOKE between us for years bc I’m from fucking Alabama & even I knew it wasn’t an acronym since about 2.5 min after I moved here (also I prefer to just say the full name; the initialism isn’t very euphonious)

@pescami Yeah, like I said you may very well be right, which I guess would make it realism? I’ve always found this boundary line btwn realism, cynicism, and fatalism a bit hard to discern. Because if something DOES change, then yesterday’s realism looks like it was fatalism all along? Idk

@eashton42 Its realism man. I would vote for the gun control laws, i wouldn't be in the majority in congress.

@pescami Little surprised by that spiel tbh. Of the many many things/traits I associate w/ you, one that doesn’t come to mind fatalism, & that’s what it sounded like. (It may be correct! Can’t prove you wrong. But yeah, the sense of weary resignation surprised me coming from you)

@jabb3r0cky @TheNashvillian @BenSasse @RadioFreeTom @Mike_Pence Thank you! I didn’t know the reference and it seems like most everyone else did, so I appreciate you spelling it out for those of us who are a bit slow on the uptake

@TheNashvillian @BenSasse @RadioFreeTom @Mike_Pence BTW, this has long been a popular meme among the non-MAGA right and many others. "*Impossible thing* can still happen if only Mike Pence has the courage."

i can still live another 50 years if @Mike_Pence has the courage

@micsolana @pmthn Look I’m a random guy but I’m a center-left liberal + a Times print subscriber. I think the likes of Piker & Tolentino should be shunned, bc what they said is vile, immoral, and wrong. I haven’t actually heard it though; curious if Spiegelman was sympathetic or just journalistic

@pmthn I don't give a fuck what they think about hasan piker, I care what they think and say about the new york times, which directs the entire course of liberal thought and strategy in this country

the new york times politely discussed the assassination of a businessman with hasan piker, who made the case, in the new york times, for assassination. this is not a small thing. this is an insane, unacceptable thing that every liberal needs to denounce.

@DJ1P2 @Richie1wrh @sikorskiradek @JayinKyiv Look I can’t claim to have stats on it, but this type of goober (jingoistic, dumb, aggro, etc.) is ubiquitous on twitter and seemingly nowhere else/nowhere real. Maybe I’m naïve but fwiw I meet ppl all over the Northeast, Midwest, & Deep South; this guy represents ~none of them

@Richie1wrh @sikorskiradek @JayinKyiv Well then come pick a fucking fight. You do realise you’re the most hated nation on earth right now and the bombers won’t need to be coming from NATO.

Noted.

@AlwaysCallHeads @bungarsargon What? NATO isn’t a belligerent in this war. A member countryof NATO is—and now multiple member countries, appatently are—but unless I’ve missed something, NATO itself isn’t. (I’m against the war personally, fwiw)

@bungarsargon NATO will win this war through press releases.

Well well well!

In Sweden, crowds line up just to watch cows go outside for the first time since winter.. 😊

@JayNCtoDC @Hellsangel8081 @Mollyploofkins Lol no of course not, I don’t think the “job” even seemed very legit; the whole DOGE thing was legally dubious and ought to be investigated. I just think the people you focus on are the higher-ups. They made the plans; this guy was just a useful idiot they used to carry them out

@eashton42 @Hellsangel8081 @Mollyploofkins You really think this moron was qualified for that job?

One of Musk's DOGE bros explains how he flagged "DEI" grants for termination

@Hellsangel8081 @JayNCtoDC Yeah you’re not gonna hear me defending him or that shambolic project he was part of. I’m just saying you gotta break the law (and get convicted) to get locked up—hell, if anyone should face consequences for DOGE, it’s his bosses. They were sloppy and may well have broken the law

@eashton42 @JayNCtoDC For helping to end programs which caused some people their lives. If you can be smug and self- satisfied with knowing what you're doing will cause harm, you can deal with the consequences as well.

@JayNCtoDC @Hellsangel8081 @Mollyploofkins I mean this guy is obviously a smug, self-satisfied douchebag, and based on his first answer alone I wouldn’t hire him to do anything—but locked up? For what?

@Hellsangel8081 @Mollyploofkins They were literally the very DEI hires they alleged the folks they fired were. This dude had no clue at all. He should be locked up

@fyparchives @alexmwangi0 @TansuYegen All you guys (both of you here) w/ your anon accounts blabbering racist shit like this are embarrassing. “White people hah what a buncha morons, don’t even know about FAFO”. “Uuuhhhh excuse me aaackshually your ‘race’ scores low on IQ tests, hah QED”—sorry, you both look dumb.

A cyclist nearly plunges off a cliff while riding a path, saved by sheer luck 😱

@RoseTrustworthy @NWSWPC Speak for yourself! I’m dreading the sweaty July weather already—only thing left to do when it’s like that is go down to Rockaway/JB and chuck myself in the water

@NWSWPC NY has had ENOUGH Already. Enough is Enough 🤦‍♀️

⚠️ A major winter storm is likely to bring heavy snow and strong winds from the High Plains to the Great Lakes this weekend. Expect dangerous travel conditions with 6”+ of snow and wind gusts up to 50 mph.

@Sun2Ski @WallStreetApes Uh yeah so not exactly a list of super-centrist old-school republicans is it? I mean Comer, Jordan, Paul friggin’ Gosar? Come on people this woman Mace is an unserious person

WOW 🚨 The Republican Party is protecting Ilhan Omar from accountability Rep Nancy Mace “I tried to subpoena her immigration records, her brother husband's immigration records, and IT WAS REPUBLICANS that killed my motion” It’s a Uniparty. One Big Club.

Karoline Leavitt: "we had a very stupid and incompetent leader in this White House for four years who gave away many of our best weapons for nothing, for free, to another country very far away by the name of Ukraine." Honestly, the sheer heartlessness, ruthlessness, and cruelty of saying that while we are still under attack, trying to survive. While entire families are being killed in russian bombings due to a lack of air defense missiles, and when we barely survived last winter’s humanitarian catastrophe caused by russian strikes on our infrastructure. I don’t know... I’m just stunned.

@OPMAEX @sbriggy11 @weatherwilly Re: your parenthetical we must live in different NYCs, but summer has heat stroke, skin cancer risk, etc, + hot weather & elevated rates of violence are strongly correlated. But tbh I’m not trying to have a competition about it, just saying it’s a matter of preference that’s all

@eashton42 @sbriggy11 @weatherwilly Long hot summers (which we haven’t had in NYC in a while) don’t have crippled commerce, ppl dying of hypothermia, ppl dying of heart attacks shoveling, and higher insurance cost from accidents either.

I hope everybody's acclimating to winter weather because March is not going to be a lamb this year in the Northeast. . We'll be talking more about this as the days go on. And no that's not a wishcast, there are a lot of factors I will break down.

@sbriggy11 @weatherwilly Same way some ppl (inexplicably to me) love long, hot, sweaty summers and blazing sun all the time etc., some of us enjoy winter believe it or not. Also it’s barely snowed in years here in NYC so snow-lovers are extra excited to finally have a bit of real winter back for a change

@weatherwilly What is with you guys all rooting for this shit weather. It’s miserable and nothing good comes from it yet you guys all go crazy and love to boast about how winter isn’t over blah blah. I mean what are we doing here. There isn’t one good thing to come from this weather. Zero.