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chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 21h

the flag inside the J.p. morgan building is hilarious

The perpetually waving flag inside the new jp morgan building

chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 2d

the new york times once again showing how it knows nothing

The yardstick: Mr. Mamdani should aspire to raise average bus speeds to 10 miles per hour — a failed pledge of Mr. de Blasio’s — and average subway speeds closer to 20 miles per hour than the current 17.

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chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 2d

cuomo’s concession speech just sounds like a stump

chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 2d

alhamdulillah

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 2d

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chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 2d

it’s winner takes all, percentages do not matter

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chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 2d

i think this is actually hard to parse out: did he vote for mamdani but doesn’t want to anger the conservative long islanders who live in his head, or did he vote cuomo and doesn’t want to anger the democratic primary electorate? i’m not being glib i think he weighs these factors roughly equal

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 2d

Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?

Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."

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chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 2d

there is absolutely no doubt on earth that mamdani is going to get the greatest number of votes in a nyc mayoral election in 56 years (lindsey II). time will tell if it’s even higher than lindsey I, 1.15 million

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chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 4d

the next mayor of new york is going to be like six months younger than me. i had only just gotten used to most pro athletes being younger than me

chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 5d

susan baseball that’s

chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 5d

someone is going to win this baseball game

chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 5d

ok it’s baseball

chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 5d

that’s susan baseball

chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 6d

the grandmothers’ christmas war is open for another season

chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 7d

i don’t necessarily want mikie sherrill to lose because my family lives in new jersey (even though they’re all voting for cittarelli) but like zohran 50%+ and sherrill losing… got some narrative power

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 8d

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads

They Oz you up, your mandyias.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They give you vast and trunkless legs
A sunken shattered visage too.
But they were Ozzed up in their turn
By Mandyias upon the sand
Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command.
Oz hands on mandyias to man.
Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can
Ye mighty and despair yourself

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chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 8d

el sombrero? they served me when i was like 17 or whatever

chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 8d

my man, i got a cold from the biohazard who lives in my house (two and a half year old in daycare) and my nose has gone full post-thanksgiving chapped and raw

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chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 8d

why does mikie sherrill sound like that. that’s not a new jersey accent i recognize

chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 8d

watching the 5pm news for the first time in like six years and wow it’s all political ads

chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 9d

he probably hates it even more now than he did before because it’s not giving him what he wants!

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chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 9d

“thank you for your attention to this matter” is seriously creeping into every boss’s style

chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 9d

i was home sick today so i watched Soderbergh’s TRAFFIC and boy what a picture

chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 9d

new trend in my daughter’s behavior: she’s always trying to lock me in various rooms

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chas @scabellumpedum.bsky.social · 9d

if the relative is an adult when you are a child they are an aunt or uncle. if they are old they can be great-aunt or great-uncle, though often they have a moniker like “gramps” or “mum-mum.” we called the nice old man across the street “grandpa jim.” these terms are unregulated