Dan Saltzstein

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Deputy Editor, Projects and Collaborations, NYTimes. Queens, NYC, cocktail and rye enthusiast. Ruthless cosmopolitan.

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GIMME THE JAB www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Combined COVID-flu vaccines are coming: Moderna jab clears major testwww.nature.com First large trial suggests mRNA drug gives better protection from SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses than single-target shots. First large trial suggests mRNA drug gives better protection from SARS-CoV-...

Trying to lift my spirits my spirits by watching the S3 premiere of the award-winning comedy THE BEAR! What a laugh-riot!

GRAVITY (2013)

Astronauts take cover as defunct Russian satellite splits into nearly 200 pieces

Astronauts take cover as defunct Russian satellite splits into nearly 200 pieceswww.theguardian.com The six US astronauts aboard International Space Station rush to their spacecrafts in case of emergency departure

The three facts I remember about the GMF are 1) it was up to 25 feet deep (!), 2) moved at up at 35 mph (!!), and 3) for many years afterward, people said the whole neighborhood would smell like molasses in the summer (!!!)

How did no one tell me that Ayo Edebiri got emotional over the Great Molasses Flood?? (via GBH)

Sarah’s first response here would’ve been my #1 (Matt Bell writes about it well in “Refuse to Be Done). So I’ll add: over-report. Even fiction. Have a lot of fodder that you likely won’t use.

if u see this, quote-post with your tips for writers that no one gives anymore because they seem obvious (even though they're not)

Marital status unrevealed, eh? 🤔

That time Curt Swan drew Superman for the House of Ideas…

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For context 50C is 122F

More than 550 hajj pilgrims die in Mecca as temperatures exceed 50C

More than 550 hajj pilgrims die in Mecca as temperatures exceed 50Cwww.theguardian.com At least 320 of the dead are from Egypt and Saudi officials report treating more than 2,000 people for heat stress

Worth noting that, for a few years, Sarid was *Minister of Education*

Not a great section for anyone to have on their Wikipedia page but especially an Israeli politician

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Stork: I have a baby. Pigeon: I have the mail. Canary: I have bad news.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Double Cybertruck sighting

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I used to have to regularly untangle my wall phone’s cord

Reskeet with how old you are, using a vague proxy: I sat in the smoking section of a restaurant.

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there it is. "The congestion tax is not only a burden on police officers and other essential commuters — it’s bad for public safety,” said Patrick Hendry, president of the city’s police union, in the first of the two releases. nysfocus.com/2024/06/07/h...

starting to wonder if congestion pricing was paused because the NYPD cops who commute from long island threatened a revolt and eric adams was like kathy, we can't have that

🤔 www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/u...

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I think guer gets a spot here (separate from gor)

TOP TEN ILLAS: 10. van 9. flot 8. gor 7. scint 6. chinch 5. tort 4. quesad 3. sarspar 2. sinsem 1. godz

I’ve always been convinced this is never going to happen, which is terrible news for the MTA and its riders (and I live in Queens and own a car!)

Breaking News: Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York halted a congestion pricing plan, which would charge motorists to enter Manhattan, just weeks before it was to go into effect.

Hochul Halts Congestion Pricing in a Stunning 11th-Hour Shiftwww.nytimes.com Weeks before New York was to charge motorists to enter Manhattan’s business district, Gov. Kathy Hochul postponed the program citing economic concerns.

FLYING ☠️

Giant venomous flying spiders with 4-inch legs heading to New York area as they spread across East Coast, experts say They do not pose a danger to humans, but the venom could pose a threat to native spiders

Giant venomous flying spiders with 4-inch legs heading to New York area as they spread across East Coast, experts saywww.cbsnews.com "It is a matter of when, not if" the spiders are set to arrive, experts say, and it could happen any day now.

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Happy pride! I wrote about the food that makes you gay, from jokes about ice cream to worries about soy, the long history of colonial fears about bodies and selves being able to change via food, and why that needn't be feared at all www.eater.com/24162871/foo...

The Food That Makes You Gaywww.eater.com Too many people grow up fearing what food might reveal about themselves. Maybe it’s time we embrace self-discovery.

Has there been a sudden uptick in bots here or is it just me?

Big fan of this approach

went to the store

“Does anybody ever come up to a musician and say, Tell me, tell me—how should I become a tuba player? No! It’s too obvious. If you want to be a tuba player you get a tuba, and some tuba music. And you ask the neighbors to move away or put cotton in their ears.”

Ursula Le Guin tells you how to be a writer. lithub.com/ursula-k-le-...

Ursula K. Le Guin on How to Become a Writerlithub.com This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. How do you become a writer? Answer: you write. It’s amazing how much resentment and disgust and evasion this answer can ar…

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Let's talk about Bob Marley's death. Maybe some of you had a Marley poster in college, or developed a love for his music or lifestyle, but do you know why he died in 1981 at the age of 36? CW: medical feet pictures, melanoma, and well... Nazism, I guess?

All of the cynicism, none of the wit or insight!

You stay away from Anthony Bourdain you son of a bitch

My fave fact about it: it’s “known locally in Arabic as tagense, referring to the circular opening of the leather pouch that is used to draw water from local wells.”

The Richat Structure or "Eye of Africa" is a naturally formed dome 25 miles (40 km) in diameter. Initially thought to be an impact crater, we now know that it formed about a billion years ago, when a volcanic intrusion raised the local sedimentary rocks into a dome which then weathered down.

Photo by the great Mark Peterson

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CNN: Trump guilty NBC: Trump guilty ABC: Trump guilty FOX:

“When you repeatedly invite your supporters to commit acts of violence in your name, don’t be surprised when others assume the same license.” — Sean Davis, about Trump, in 2016. (Where’s your rubicon now, Sean?)

What a lickspittle.

The Federalist CEO Calls For Republicans to Draw Up Lists of Democrats to ‘Put in Prison’ After Trump Verdictwww.mediaite.com Sean Davis, the CEO of The Federalist, reacted to Donald Trump's conviction by calling on Republicans to draw up lists of Democrats to "put in prison."

FORMER Queens Man, but I certainly understand the appeal

All news is local

Queens man convicted — Queens Daily Eaglequeenseagle.com Former Jamaica Estates resident Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records in an effort to cover up a sex scandal he feared would ruin his...

I can’t believe I’m asking this but how do I explain this news to my daughter without explaining “hush money to a porn star”

In addition to being denied the chance to play against his white peers, Josh Gibson was diagnosed with a brain tumor at 31, and instead of getting surgery, he lead the league in basically everything, with an unheard-of .466 batting average. He played three more (very good) seasons and died at 35. 👑