☀️ The band's twelfth studio album, REVEAL, was released on this day in 2001. Produced by Pat McCarthy, Reveal included singles "Imitation Of Life," "All The Way To Reno (You're Gonna Be A Star)," and "I'll Take The Rain." What's your favorite Reveal track? Share in the comments…
If ranked-choice voting seems complicated, you can rely on two simple rules:
1. Do not rank anyone (like Cuomo) who would be a bad mayor
2. Rank EVERY candidate who would be a good mayor, until you run out of votes
i guess i understand ranking cuomo first - a lot of people believe different things than i do - but i do not understand ranking cuomo anywhere but first. it feels like every non-cuomo voter should be a never-cuomo voter.
The second rule is important. Garcia was able to consolidate the non-Adams vote and came THIS CLOSE to beating him. Only a fraction of those votes came from ballots where Garcia was ranked #1.
Airlines have to weigh luggage because it needs to be balanced for flight performance, and too much weight is dangerous. What’s the justification for trains?
I think this is my favorite part of the Hasan Piker story. One of the reasons I will never be a famous influencer or commentator is I lack the people skills or sharp insight to realize when the cop interrogating me is actually secretly totally on my side.
Touchscreens are really not that bad. You just have to remember that the emergency brake isn’t in the car/functions/braking submenu. It’s in the car/systems/parking-and-entertainment/parking submenu, because it doubles as a parking brake.
Amazing how often our housing crisis turns out to be at the root of our other problems -- in this case, the air traffic control problems at Newark's airport.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/b...
It really sucks that bikers have made the inner loop of Prospect Park unsafe for little children to cross. If I were a pro-bike urbanist I'd start trying to police the carbon fiber guys because anyone who goes to the park with kids probably hates your guts.
One thing is, it is just part of urban life that there are a lot of cars (maybe it shouldn’t be, but it is), and you can hold your kid’s hand or whatever at intersections. It sucks to have to maintain that level of vigilance in a massive car-free park, which ought to be for recreation and fun.
The relentlessness is also an issue. On most streets you have the option of waiting for a light to change. In Prospect Park, on a nice day, it can be hard to find a break in the stream of very fast bikes.
You can just cross, but I’ve seen bikers yell at moms crossing with strollers. Sociopath shit.
Oh sure, just responding to the question of whether people like it. I can see why some would not. It is very easy to disable on my car in any case. Not an issue.
The aspect of it I don’t like is that the engine will cut out when I don’t want it to, like in stop-and-go traffic. You eventually learn how much pressure it takes but until then it is kind of unpleasant.
Bluesky's userbase tilts pretty far towards liberals (gonna count progs as libs, but apologetically and with all due respec). But to everyone calling this place an outlier / echo chamber let me give you some admittedly unscientific anecdata:
and don't get me started on MAHA. the entire state (which is, outside the cities, confederate flag country) but also including the larger metro area is *unbelievably* susceptible to MAHA.
The footnotes in The Third Policeman are among the funniest things I’ve ever read. My friend also often quotes this line which I like a lot:
“I saw that my witticism was imperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”
Not my area but “reasonable expectation of privacy” sounds like the stuff that’s come up again and again in privacy law, where there’s a big debate about whether it is descriptive (“I’m just walking down the street, what are the odds I’ll be photographed”) or normative… cc: @thelior.bsky.social
