matty

street-facing singleslot garages for offstreet parking in nyc.

not the best use of urban real estate in the world but -

Yeah there was greater reliance on transit like streetcars; there were fewer cars, and there were also low density garages for rent. A few still exist in my neighborhood - alley-like rows of garages.

Fun fact, it was only made legal in the 1950s. Before that there was no overnight street parking!

A yellow Post It note with cartesian coordinates drawn in blue ink. The x-axis is labeled left to right Bozo to Jabroni. The y-axis from bottom to top is labeled dummy to dorkass.

Workshopping a new political compass. I have no idea what this is supposed to mean, but it popped into my head.

Ben Lerner made this point particularly eloquently in his essay-book "Hatred of Poetry" - recommended!

I think more jobs are going to be because of AI proponents than because of AI technology!

early in the spring, Lime scooters migrate to the banks of the Tiber River, where they begin to nest and reproduce

nature is so beautiful

and in NYC they are almost all Black.

I played trumpet in Lady Gaga's first band.

Counterpoint:

I'm old enough to remember months of propaganda leading up to an unprovoked attack on a middle eastern country.

You should care about this because trans people are human beings with inalienable human rights, but even if you don't, you should care about this for your own personal safety

First they violate the rights of a group they think no one will fight for, and then they come for the rest of us

This is gonna be a good night to not be in the internet.

A fucking pox on the building owners who couldn't be bothered

wtf happened in 22 years???

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fra...

Next ask him if he knows what Updog is

Good timing for thr snow day: NYC expands paid sick leave coverage.

Dragons

Stuff like this is awesome

bsky.app/profile/grac...

They are both ways that people create ways of doing difficult things, beautiful things, together and alone, on display or for one's self, impressive performances, strange manifestations, things that inspire all possible human emotion or lack thereof, human stories writ small

Sports has the same social and cultural value as art. Any criticism you can make of sports, you can also make of art. Any value you can find in art you can also find in sport.

Back in the youth we used to say stuff like "Bike jocks are still jocks" because we punks had a core suspicion/criticism/dislike of sports and sports culture, but I have made a complete 180 on this.

Alysa Liu reacts to winning gold after free skate YouTube video by Olympics

and I can't get all the words from the video but what I think they're saying is: doesn't matter if you win gold, or podium, or anything - what matters is that you had an amazing skate. And they're all in agreement.

I love that.

youtu.be/X1V_UszE0PA?...

Neat thing about Alysa Liu's olympic win - when she's waiting for the scores to come in, her choreographer says something like, "No matter what happens ... it doesn't matter" and she responds, "Oh, yeah. That performance was way better than any..."

"vasool"

a meme of Yeonmi Park saying "In America you have freedom of speech for 3 minutes."

I've also told a lot of people the fascinating thing about eel reproduction, but tragically missed these many opportunities to also tell people that eels were used to pay rent in medieval england

I read all of David Graeber's "Debt" and learned about so many things that were used in place of coin money to manage debts, but I do not recall a SINGLE mention of eels, much to my dismay

re better/best - I always want to have a scale toggle on something like that, to flip between independent and matched scales. both of them show something important.

one of my fav bits of trivia: for finish line photos, the camera snaps vertical slivers, super fast, and finish line photos stitch these vert slivers together. everywhere on the x-axis in the photo IS the finish line - the x-axis represents time, not horizontal space.