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Just witnessed my first “six seven.” Two kids finding this on the subway map and losing their minds
The 67 Av station on the New York Subway map, serving the R and M trains
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Tropical theme at the watch party to celebrate Andrew Cuomo’s new address
Zohran volunteer in DSA hoodie and Zohran shirt plus sign that says пришло наше время
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Old bay shrimp curry
Dinner bowl on plastic wire placemat. Long grain rice is packed against the left side of the bowl. The right side contains a light but rich coconut milk gravy with onions, curry leaves, and shrimp visible in the mixture
October 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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College football is back
August 31, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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August 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Mocha’dib, the Swiss shack Laderach
A chocolatier named Laderach in Washington DC Union Station
August 1, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Laughing unreasonably hard at Hutch yelling “trumpet!” to cue the sax solo
Lyrics from New Sensation by INXS: As the rest of the band repeats the “new sensation, new sensation” backing lyrics, Hutch shouts “Trumpet!” The saxophone solo begins
July 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Fascinating pro-NATO poster with Trieste as an independent member
A windmill with a European flag on each blade, with an American flag over the directional rudders. Every non-micro nation west of the iron curtain is included as well as the free territory of Trieste
July 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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German beat for beat remake of a Spanish movie about a party where they can’t text except in the remake it all goes wrong and everyone hates each other by the end. Comedy!
Poster for das perfekte geheimnis
July 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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If you were a party of four on Amtrak’s Northeast Regional would you sit like THIS, or like THIS? Because I can certainly tell you how a certain group chose this morning
Cutaway of one part of a diagram of a typical Amfleet car layout. Seats arranged in rows of four with an aisle down the middle, also describable as sets of two along each side of the car. At the end of the car is a table and two seats turned 180° so that there’s a part of the car where four people can sit together at a table. In this diagram I have indicated a group of four occupying this space. In the same diagram, I indicate a different arrangement. This time the group of four is on the train, but not sitting together in the space made for four people. Instead they are each sitting in a different row, each occupying a window seat, with an empty seat next to each member of the party.
July 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Sorry, while we’re airing our thoughts
Villainous Mamdani be like Buses should be slow and expensive
June 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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This old campaign poster at the Museum of the City has always fired me up. The Zohran Mamdani campaign has made me feel like I live in that version of New York.
Fiorello LaGuardia campaign poster with the word “victory” in 20 languages
June 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Trump take mango
The business model works, for the most part, because demand is high and importers can move large volumes at low prices. But this year has been particularly tough, with President Trump’s tariffs, an early monsoon season in India and a temporary shutdown of one of that country’s gamma irradiation facilities that sterilize mangoes. Newark Airport has been plagued in recent weeks by canceled or delayed flights, resulting in spoiled produce.
June 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Weston McKennie walks out at the Linc
June 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Thinking of how a popular Disney show just had a character who gives themselves unfettered access to data in the name of advancing fascism and then finds out the fascist machine doesn’t like that at all
Dedra Meero on program in the show Andor
June 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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A smiling Prigozhin in the skies above a triumphant Elon Musk says “you watch the streets, Elon…I’ll watch the skies”
June 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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The lock makers of the 1890s missed the thieves of the 1880s as they suspected they secretly shared their interest in the mechanism behind the door. Not like those awful gunmen
HEAD LINES OF THE EIGHTIES 243 Headlines of the Eighties HE newspapers of the Eighties and the beginning of the we find scattered through the various scrap books which we call "The Mossman Papers." Here are a few of them: "It Stayed Locked" "Knocked Out" "The Lost Art of Safebreaking" "Robbers Hold a Town at Bay" "Pried Open" "Stolen Safes Seized on Steamship" "How to Open Safes" "Safebreaking as a Trade" "Bank Safes Are Popping Now" "Safe Makers and Safe Breakers" "Masked Robbers at Great Barrington" "A Brave Cashier's Death" "Bogus Police Officers" "Safe Maker Gives Directions How to Drill a Safe" "Air Pumps, Blowpipes, Wedges and Masks" "A Profitable Night in Maiden Lane" "Robbers Use Too Much Dynamite" "Murder Recipe in Valise" We could add hundreds to the collections but this is a pretty good cross section. In one case burglars carried away a safe; took it out to sea and blew it open beyond Ambrose Light. Certainly, the burglars of those days were far better mechanics than their collateral descendants-the gunmen. De Lorks aud Kriss
May 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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More locks and keys
Renaissance era elaborate locks. We don’t know much about them An electric dial lock A gorgeous 4 dial lock rising from its case like the Taj Mahal A time and combination lock displays the way its automatic timer combines with lock mechanisms
May 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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If you are interested in trinkets and shiny things or more seriously in the history of property and protection I highly recommend you email the New York General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen and schedule a visit to their library’s collection of locks and keys dating back to Ancient Egypt
An ancient Egyptian lock. Though it appears simple its mechanisms are the same that underlie modern lock production A series of Coptic keys recovered from abandoned churches circa 2nd Century AD An elaborately decorated but weakly protected padlock celebrating Ludwig I of Bavaria Ancient Roman locks of incredibly variate shape and size and surprisingly uncorroded
May 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Cat discovered money
Forlorn little gray cat lying on a bed and staring at US 25¢ coin
May 10, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Everyone is saying it
Barron has spent days speaking with the cardinals - including the 133 cardinal electors tasked with electing the new pope - as they try to figure out among themselves who is best to lead the church next. "Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church."
May 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Found out the Italian name for Munich. I think I’m going to be sick
Monaco di Baviera città extracircondariale e capitale della Baviera, Germania Lingua Segui Modifica Monaco di Baviera (AFI: /ˈmɔnako di baˈvjera/; in tedesco München, /ˈmʏnçən/ ascoltaⓘ o /ˈmʏnçn̩/; in bavarese Minga) è una città extracircondariale della Germania meridionale, capitale (Landeshauptstadt) della Baviera. Situata sulle rive del fiume Isar, dopo Berlino ed Amburgo è la terza città tedesca per numero di abitanti[2], con una popolazione di circa 1 510 378[3] (31-12-2023) residenti nel comune, 1 808 550 se si considera anche il circondario e circa 2,9 milioni nell'area metropolitana. Monaco di Baviera Città extracircondariale
May 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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In the interwar period, Slovenian artist Tone Kralj started adding antifascist motifs to church paintings. Here Italian irredentist Gabriele d’Annunzio is depicted as Judas, left
A repletely decorated Catholic Church including a gallery of the twelve apostles. An unusual depiction of Judas shows him sneering and with very particular features including short hair and a long goatee
April 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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New Yorkers when Trump take egg #handsoff
Protesters clog 5th Avenue Protesters clog 5th Avenue
April 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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March 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM