Dan Burton
@dbstandsfor.bsky.social
fan of weird role playing games (ask me about the Brooklyn OSR Discord), cities, and the New York Mets. I live in Brooklyn
A favorite NYC civic moment. In like 2019 I met someone at a DSA meeting and discovered they worked at a place I’d interned and they said oh wait, are you Dan B? We have this dataset we use called neighborhood_trends_dan_bu.csv
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 AM
A favorite NYC civic moment. In like 2019 I met someone at a DSA meeting and discovered they worked at a place I’d interned and they said oh wait, are you Dan B? We have this dataset we use called neighborhood_trends_dan_bu.csv
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(waving to my neighbors as they see me walking out of the porn shop run by Nazis)
“It’s OK! I just come here for sports!”
“It’s OK! I just come here for sports!”
Between this and literal Nazis growing their followings, I just can’t understand why so many lefties are still voluntarily using the platform. I know I’m preaching to the choir, but…
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
(waving to my neighbors as they see me walking out of the porn shop run by Nazis)
“It’s OK! I just come here for sports!”
“It’s OK! I just come here for sports!”
I cannot remember the last time a new song hit me as hard emotionally as Pink Pony Club does every time. What’s going on there
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I cannot remember the last time a new song hit me as hard emotionally as Pink Pony Club does every time. What’s going on there
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Housing affordability and the declining political fortunes of Democrats are profoundly connected.
An inability to build housing is THE big reason blue states are projected to lose 12 electoral college seats by 2032.
www.planetizen.com/features/136...
An inability to build housing is THE big reason blue states are projected to lose 12 electoral college seats by 2032.
www.planetizen.com/features/136...
Americans are Fleeing Blue States, Even When Politics Misalign. The Culprit? Housing Affordability.
Will the blue state starter home ever return?
www.planetizen.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Housing affordability and the declining political fortunes of Democrats are profoundly connected.
An inability to build housing is THE big reason blue states are projected to lose 12 electoral college seats by 2032.
www.planetizen.com/features/136...
An inability to build housing is THE big reason blue states are projected to lose 12 electoral college seats by 2032.
www.planetizen.com/features/136...
Writing a super lite TTRPG where you’re solving some kind of crisis at a rare coin convention and you have to roll on a random table to get the items in your tactical EDC fanny pack.
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Writing a super lite TTRPG where you’re solving some kind of crisis at a rare coin convention and you have to roll on a random table to get the items in your tactical EDC fanny pack.
I have played guitar for over 20 years (!?) and last week I played a Telecaster for the first time. It turns out when they talk about guitars that are good/not good for people with small hands they mean people who are actually petite, not like, a 5’11 guy with kind of short fingers for his hands
November 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I have played guitar for over 20 years (!?) and last week I played a Telecaster for the first time. It turns out when they talk about guitars that are good/not good for people with small hands they mean people who are actually petite, not like, a 5’11 guy with kind of short fingers for his hands
I hate when people talk about someone “telling on themselves” or whatever, but every post accusing people of pretending to like things for cred, “performative males” or whatever is a confession
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I hate when people talk about someone “telling on themselves” or whatever, but every post accusing people of pretending to like things for cred, “performative males” or whatever is a confession
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Fun fact: Edmund Fitzgerald was a founding partner of the Milwaukee Brewers. The freighter as named for his father.
November 11, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Fun fact: Edmund Fitzgerald was a founding partner of the Milwaukee Brewers. The freighter as named for his father.
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If I were an American I would save money by simply buying lottery tickets with winning numbers and not those with losing numbers.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If I were an American I would save money by simply buying lottery tickets with winning numbers and not those with losing numbers.
a few times a week.
Me: I’m mostly worried about all the logistics of having a kid. Like, expenses and having enough room in our apartment and navigating daycare
Whoever i’m talking to: dude, don’t worry, you’re going to be a great dad. I think you’re overthinking this, you have good instincts.
Me: I’m mostly worried about all the logistics of having a kid. Like, expenses and having enough room in our apartment and navigating daycare
Whoever i’m talking to: dude, don’t worry, you’re going to be a great dad. I think you’re overthinking this, you have good instincts.
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
a few times a week.
Me: I’m mostly worried about all the logistics of having a kid. Like, expenses and having enough room in our apartment and navigating daycare
Whoever i’m talking to: dude, don’t worry, you’re going to be a great dad. I think you’re overthinking this, you have good instincts.
Me: I’m mostly worried about all the logistics of having a kid. Like, expenses and having enough room in our apartment and navigating daycare
Whoever i’m talking to: dude, don’t worry, you’re going to be a great dad. I think you’re overthinking this, you have good instincts.
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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Had to share this from twitter just because
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Had to share this from twitter just because
Absolutely wild that my child will be born in a New York City with a socialist mayor
November 5, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Absolutely wild that my child will be born in a New York City with a socialist mayor
The Russian ultrasound tech said “the baby doesn’t have any skin yet… only flesh” and that’s been bouncing around my skull like a ping pong ball
November 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The Russian ultrasound tech said “the baby doesn’t have any skin yet… only flesh” and that’s been bouncing around my skull like a ping pong ball
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She shaped music history before the Grateful Dead thanks to her work as a background singer in Muscle Shoals & Memphis. Then she became a crucial complement/counterpoint to the Dead's boys club in one of their most fertile periods. Here's to a true pro & forever leader of the Heart of Gold Band.
Grateful Dead Singer Donna Jean Godchaux Dead at 78
Donna Jean Godchaux, who spent the Seventies singing with the Grateful Dead and provided vocals on an Elvis Presley hit, has died at the age of 78.
www.rollingstone.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
She shaped music history before the Grateful Dead thanks to her work as a background singer in Muscle Shoals & Memphis. Then she became a crucial complement/counterpoint to the Dead's boys club in one of their most fertile periods. Here's to a true pro & forever leader of the Heart of Gold Band.
You cannot ask me if I know what an oppo taco is right now
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 AM
You cannot ask me if I know what an oppo taco is right now
i wish I were at the bar where I watched game 6 so the drunk guy next to me (Chris) could be leaning into me hard and saying “tied game at the bottom of the 9th? Game 7 of the World Series? This is…. Baseball”
November 2, 2025 at 3:22 AM
i wish I were at the bar where I watched game 6 so the drunk guy next to me (Chris) could be leaning into me hard and saying “tied game at the bottom of the 9th? Game 7 of the World Series? This is…. Baseball”
After like 6 months of it being broken I finally fixed the door in our apartment that came off its hinges. At the cost of only like $50 and all my self respect
November 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
After like 6 months of it being broken I finally fixed the door in our apartment that came off its hinges. At the cost of only like $50 and all my self respect
I really really like a bunch of Kinks songs but it’s like they have to put one last layer of frosting on the perfect cake to make it a little too sweet
October 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I really really like a bunch of Kinks songs but it’s like they have to put one last layer of frosting on the perfect cake to make it a little too sweet
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Gale Brewer’s district hasn’t built a single affordable unit of housing in 2025 (so far)
Vote Yes on Ballot Proposals 2–4
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/29/a...
Vote Yes on Ballot Proposals 2–4
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/29/a...
These Council Districts Produced Zero Affordable Homes This Year
Voters are deciding on a proposal to bypass the City Council on planned developments in the neighborhoods that have built the least. They include swaths of eastern Queens and southern Brooklyn.
www.thecity.nyc
October 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Gale Brewer’s district hasn’t built a single affordable unit of housing in 2025 (so far)
Vote Yes on Ballot Proposals 2–4
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/29/a...
Vote Yes on Ballot Proposals 2–4
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/29/a...
Ran after a bus for multiple blocks and caught it at the light only to discover it was going the wrong direction. Somehow i‘ve lived here years and never encountered a bus that goes back and forth on the same street
October 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Ran after a bus for multiple blocks and caught it at the light only to discover it was going the wrong direction. Somehow i‘ve lived here years and never encountered a bus that goes back and forth on the same street
How is it that the instagram algorithm has figured me out to the point that it shows me screenshots of old tweets by people I know in real life with a soft rock soundtrack in the background
October 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
How is it that the instagram algorithm has figured me out to the point that it shows me screenshots of old tweets by people I know in real life with a soft rock soundtrack in the background
My dark secret in high school and college was still really liking Cake. I saw this video yesterday and the guitar solo was stuck in my head all night
imagine being this fucking cool www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lM0...
Cake - Frank Sinatra (Live on Recovery) [HD]
YouTube video by Hazza Mack's Archives
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
My dark secret in high school and college was still really liking Cake. I saw this video yesterday and the guitar solo was stuck in my head all night
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an absolutely gorgeous, heartwrenching Game 7 recap from @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com:
ALCS Game 7 Recap: When the Rope Gave Way | Baseball Prospectus
Sometimes, seasons just die.
www.baseballprospectus.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
an absolutely gorgeous, heartwrenching Game 7 recap from @euqubud.baseballprospectus.com:
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You should ignore what the so-called “experts” are saying on this website. The baseball game tonight is actually pretty important
October 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
You should ignore what the so-called “experts” are saying on this website. The baseball game tonight is actually pretty important