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Sat down with Pete Volk over at @polygon.com to discuss one of my favourites: STREET FIGHTER THE MOVIE! www.polygon.com/24190936/str...

The world’s biggest Street Fighter movie fan explains why it’s an accidental masterpiecewww.polygon.com ‘Watching bad movies opened me up to not just other bad movies, but to re-examining all of cinema’

news websites should be microfiched

More than two decades’ worth of content published on MTVNews .com is no longer available

MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offlinevariety.com The website of the already-defunct MTV News has been fully pulled offline.

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no way, give me far-future dystopias where society has completely reorganized itself around one single pursuit*, like a footballpunk universe where referees and players have separated into different species of hominid *do NOT say 17776 you know who you are

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"wellactually I'm a grocery store manager and CP would save us a FORTUNE" A pro-congestion-pricing dispatch from Manhattan's Community Board 6 (Murray Hill, Gramercy, Stuy Town)

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Fantastic job alert for an early-career journalist: work as an editorial assistant with me and Masha Gessen. nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NYT/jo...

Editorial Assistant, Opinionnytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renow...

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NEW: NYC Dept of Buildings shuts down construction at a major Midtown hotel project owned by a prominent Eric Adams donor as the city acknowledges—as originally reported by @thecity.bsky.social!—that the owner removed affordable-housing units

City Orders Construction Shutdown at Adams Donor’s Midtown Hotel, In Unusual Reversalwww.thecity.nyc Department of Buildings officials approved the project in late 2022, after deciding the removal of existing affordable units was allowed. Following a recent investigation by THE CITY and its news part...

I worked with Howard Fineman at Newsweek and Huffington Post and he was a very good guy to have as a senior colleague. Just generous with his time and his compliments. If memory serves he told me to take two weeks when my first kid was born—which I took to heart and which, at the time, was a lot!

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On my way to Broadway Junction.

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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

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Here's my new project (in collaboration with @martinrickman.bsky.social), a writing series that will (mostly) be about sports called Assigned. assigned.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

Assigned | Ryan Nanni | Substackassigned.substack.com A reader-guided series of columns (usually about sports, but not always), where the audience serves as my assigning editor. Click to read Assigned, by Ryan Nanni, a Substack publication.

Tap-to-pay makes mass transit in a city you don’t know meaningfully easier. Hunting down a kiosk and then guessing how fares work was exactly what I didn’t want to navigate after stepping out of a train station or an airport.

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This app is way more dangerous than TikTok, way more connected to the Chinese government than TikTok, and has 1/3 of the daily U.S. users of TikTok. But since this one's used by older people, you won't hear any calls to ban it www.reuters.com/technology/t...

Top news app in US has Chinese origins and ‘writes fiction’ with the help of AIwww.reuters.com Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined "Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey Amid Rising Gun Violence in Small Towns."

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every time musk targets a female journalist like this he does it with complete awareness it will result in death threats sent to the reporter and like most fascist influencers that utilize this tactic he'll then pretend he's not responsible for the behavior of his weird little cultists

Introducing the tween to “Still the Same” as a way to process feelings about that type of friend

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Libraries are one of the most radical social institutions we have, because they’re based on the idea that *everyone* has the right to information, for free. It’s also what makes them crucial to democracy. I will never stop yelling about this!

Poor people use libraries. Rich people shut them down because they don't *want* poor people to read.

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been waiting for this one

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...

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What if we made out in the bodega of passion?

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ran into a slice of americana here in queens, ny. new york is a small town

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Look, Benoit Blanc’s great and a lot of fun. It looks like we’re going to get a bunch more of those movies. But can we PLEASE also get another seventeen Jon Hamm as Fletch movies?

It was only late in life that I realized that “our lips are sealed“ is an amazing hater anthem.

This is very good.

This article is so good and packs so many killer lines that are so insightful that I literally could not decide on which to copy and paste here so just go read the whole thing.

A Woman Who Left Society to Live With Bears Weighs in on “Man or Bear”bikepacking.com In this piece, long-term bicycle traveler Laura Killingbeck reflects on the "Man or Bear" debate and adds her unique perspective...

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Not everything is about money in politics, lots of stuff is about actual ideology, or genuine interests within a coalition but this is just…money in politics.

71 Democrats just joined almost every Republican in a bill to undermine cryptocurrency regulations. clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/rol...

post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains. (I feel like this prompt is supposed to be about rock music but we don’t need that when John Prine dueting with the best folk and country songstresses on earth is an option)

post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains. [How is my entire feed not this image?]

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post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains. [How is my entire feed not this image?]

post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains.

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South Africa has been giving us all a *masterclass* in defending democracy: removed this authoritarian kleptocrat from office, tried him for corruption and obstruction of justice in domestic courts, banned him from future candidacies, all while facing down violent insurrection by his supporters.

South Africa's Constitutional Court rules that former President Jacob Zuma is ineligible to run in the May 29 parliamentary election:

Ex-South African President Jacob Zuma disqualified from parliamentary electionwww.nbcnews.com Zuma was sentenced to 15 months in prison in 2021 by the Constitutional Court for contempt for refusing to testify at a judicial inquiry into government corruption.

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"the world is worse than it has ever been" he types on the handheld computer that could've run all of NASA 40 years ago while eating a culinary delicacy from a part of the world his grandparents only heard stories about from a doctor who was smoking a cigar in the office

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FUN NEWS ACTUALLY: we're launching a weekly summer newsletter!!!!! because we can all help each other survive the season (and have more fun) starts next week and runs through Labor Day. sign up here and tell your friends:

Summer & THE CITYwww.thecity.nyc

patting down folded laundry to try and find the TV remote

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The Bring Back the Sting petition is now at 2,237 signatures organically. There’s gonna be a “bigger push” coming up, but would love it if Bluesky could help push this thang to 2,500 in advance of that. 👀 #WNBA www.change.org/p/bring-back...

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Whoever owns Deadspin appears to be quietly deleting old articles, so if you ever wrote for the site and want to keep your clips, this would probably be a good time to download them.