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Nathaniel Styer
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Opinions are mine. Will play your RPG. Michigan born and educated. New York City is my home.

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This album, Lux by Rosalia, is splendid. Gorgeous voices in 10 different languages doing 6 different genres with a big orchestra.
Album cover of lux by Rosalia from Apple Music
November 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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It’s Bush doing Mission Accomplished.
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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NYCs class size mandate is blowing a hole in the equitable funding of schools. infohub.nyced.org/docs/default...
A chart showing hundreds of millions dollars are flowing to the lowest need schools
November 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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God the art in Batwoman: Elegy is just stunning.
Splash page from batwoman elegy Bowman elegy Bowman elegy Batwoman elegy
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Colin Robinson from what we do in the shadows
November 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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I know I’m 38 because I now hold the opinion - back by much experience - that one of the best purchases you can make post-college is an electric drill.
Hank Hill lecturing Bobby
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Ziwe x Eric Adams www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Cm...
Youtube comment on this video saying "this entire video is an HR violation"
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Yeah, if a bunch of rich people spent tens of millions attempting to tie me to 9/11 and then shellacked their chosen one…. I’d be a bit feisty.

He won the right to be feisty and defiant.
The interview on Wednesday echoed Mr. Mamdani's fiery victory speech on Tuesday evening, which took a more confrontational and at times boastful tone. The address was criticized by some observers as a "character switch" from his more congenial attitude during the campaign.
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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lol the scammers are riding that Mamdani wave.
Picture of a scam text that says Hey Nathaniel, looking to move out of NY? We're offering a discount for first-time clients this month. Reply "NY" and we'll get you pricing right away. - J
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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HELL YES. DIGITIZE THE MAPS.
Digital City Map results
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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If you have an iPhone, this reader button is a lifesaver.
The reader toggle on iPhone Select show reader Non horrible article
November 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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A pumpkin spectacular
Scenes from the Hudson Valley Pumpkin Blaze Scenes from the Hudson Valley Pumpkin Blaze Scenes from the Hudson Valley Pumpkin Blaze Scenes from the Hudson Valley Pumpkin Blaze
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Another success Hudson Valley Pumpkin Blaze
November 3, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Ah, yes, AOCs totalitarian ambitions.
Beyond the Jews, it would be the entire Democratic Party turning its back on the legacy of Harry S. Tru-man, John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton to rally to a faction that, under the cover of "intersectionality," confuses the green flag of Hamas with that of the workers. America is caught in a vise-on one side, "America first"; on the other, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her crowd, whose New York breakthrough would strengthen totalitarian temp-tations. If New York falls, the entire free world may again totter on its foundations.
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Absolutely unhinged piece in the WSJ:

I’ve just returned from a brief stay in the U.S. On every European’s lips—in conversations, on the news, on social networks—there’s only one subject: next Tuesday’s election, which may make 34-year-old Zohran Mamdani New York’s mayor.
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PE THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 山 OPINION COMMENTARY (U.S.) Europeans Watch New York's Mayor's Race With Fear Zohran Mamdani's victory would imperil Jews and embolden totalitarians everywhere in the world. Zohran Mamdani in New York, Oct. 26. PHOTO: RON ADAR/ZUMA PRESS By Bernard-Henri Lévy October 29, 2025, 1:33 pm EDT
October 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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My mom's birthday present to me this year.
The Gales of November, a book
October 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Yo you see what happened across the street? I aint seen shit. You maybe who's asking? I got my own shit going on.
October 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Sean Penn from one battle after another.
October 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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I like to think whoever wrote the Apple album note on Weezer went through an entire college degree, internship at Apple, getting hired by Apple with the goal to put themselves in the position to write this scalding note.
Let's say it's 1994. Kurt Cobain is dead. Grunge is over, if it was ever real to begin with, but "alternative" music is part of the mainstream in ways it never was before. Artists like Beck, Green Day, The Breeders, Nine Inch Nails, and Pavement might not have had much in common in terms of musical genealogy or ambition, but they held similar symbolic places in their fans' minds-this was music that made you feel like you were part of something smaller, different, more personal, less perfect. This band could be your life. Then there was Weezer. On the one hand, they were the final boss of relatability-outcasts buried in comic books ("In the Garage"), last picked for dodgeball, forgotten by their parents ("Say It Ain't So") and shunned by their peers ("The World Has Turned and Left Me Here"). On the other, their music could be as polished and ruthlessly controlled as anything we call "pop," every hook and chorus and sweetly harmonious chord change engineered for maximum pleasure—no accidents, no jazz. That pleasure-no accidents, no jazz. That they were just another Los Angeles band trying to get a record deal, as opposed to more homegrown, scene-oriented artists like Nirvana or Green Day, made a kind of sense, too. Being "alternative" was just the first step to being mainstream. Listening to the demos and practice sessions from various reissues, including the 2024 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of the album, only reinforces the point. Even the seemingly off-the-cuff guitar break in "Buddy Holly" was planned pretty much to the note months before they went into the studio. As polite as they looked, there was something eerie about them, too. "No One Else" (as in "I want a girl who will laugh for..."), "Holiday," "Buddy Holly''s fantasy of a more innocent-but also more rigid, retrograde-world. Like The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, Weezer captured male adolescent yearning so intense it became abstract, detached from the messy complexities that made human relationships so unpredictable. If they couldn't have the girl of their 10:38 = •all Weezer Done something eerie about them, too. "No One Else" (as in "I want a girl who will laugh for..."), "Holiday," "Buddy Holly''s fantasy of a more innocent-but also more rigid, retrograde-world. Like The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds, Weezer captured male adolescent yearning so intense it became abstract, detached from the messy complexities that made human relationships so unpredictable. If they couldn't have the girl of their dreams, they'd build her in a lab. Rivers Cuomo was a Kiss fan, and you could tell by listening, if not by looking: Weezer was, at every turn, hero music, the sound of winners made for people who grew up feeling like losers. That they became one of the most famous and cultishly beloved rock bands of their generation made sense, especially when paired with the rise of the internet: Suddenly, you could embrace your individualistic geekdom and build community at the same time. Huge, romantic, and totally uncynical, Weezer was the soundtrack to once-distinct subcultures melting down and remolding into something shinier and smoother.
October 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s...
An otter looming behind a surfer
October 24, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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To be clear - what will hit Democrats hard is millions of people (Democrats, Republicans, independents, weirdos) going hungry when SNAP funding runs out. Funny how that isn’t hitting republicans hard.
POLITICO the shutdown cliff that could hit democrats hard.
October 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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If Savanah doesn’t like sharing this city with other humans, she can leave.
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment and officials have not said what prompted the enforcement. But the action came two days after Savanah Hernandez, a contributor to the far-right group Turning Point USA, posted a video on X alleging a “huge group of African illegal immigrants” were operating a black market at the corner, writing on X “Perhaps @ICEgov should go check this corner out.”
October 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Peacemaker missing the Hitler mural
October 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The chaos I cheer for:
Chaos from HADES 2
October 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Nic Cage's teenjus movie coming just in time for the holiday season. Can't wait. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GSU...
A still from the Carpenter's Soon of Nic Cage screaming MY FAITH HAS BEEN SHATTERED.
October 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM