Sean M. Bliss

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

[WNYC 🎙 @WNYC]

Seven Democrats in New York's congressional delegation are urging the state Public Service Commission to reject Con Edison’s request to hike its rates by double-digit percentages next year, citing ongoing affordability issues in the state.
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[Sean M. Bliss @SeanMBliss]

@KellinBliss Yeah but then what do you have to look forward to?

[Sean M. Bliss @SeanMBliss]

@KellinBliss @TheStrickland @NBAPR Can we name this a rule the JR Smith Exception?

[Sean M. Bliss @SeanMBliss]

@KellinBliss Dizzy Dean had one hit in his first season and his last season, 17 years apart…baseball’s tales and stories never end.

[Jake Broe @RealJakeBroe]

Compare how Tim Walz talks with and interacts with common working people versus how JD Vance talks to common working people.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

BREAKING: Kamala Harris secures endorsements from labor unions AFL-CIO, AFSCME, ATU, AFT, CWA, Stage Employees, IBEW, IUPAT, SEIU, United Farm Workers, UFCW #UnionsForAll

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

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[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump is now the oldest POTUS candidate ever nominated by a major party.

He has repeatedly confused Biden with Obama and Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi. He fell asleep at his criminal trial.

Will the media scrutinize his age & mental decline with the fervor it focused on Biden?

[Ana Navarro-Cárdenas @ananavarro]

The choice is simple:

1. A decent but frail old man, surrounded by a good, experienced team.

2. A bat-shit crazy old man, surrounded by a bunch of sycophant hooligans.

[Melissa @awkwardenabled]

I cannot definitively say, even after all I’ve seen, that I would not visit Jurassic Park

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I'd have guessed that the six Catholics on the Supreme Court would have wanted to make murder more difficult

[Mike Sielski @MikeSielski]

"His life has been an amalgam of competitiveness, contradictions, courtliness, & counterculture. He was a Deadhead who believed in discipline. He was a purveyor of leftism & the Pyramid of Success. The man has always contained multitudes."
Bill Walton, RIP
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[Patrick Fenelon 🌹 @Patrick_Fenelon]

I haven't seen a Haliburton take advantage of something that happened in NYC since

*mic gets turned off*

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Ok, random interesting experience yesterday that I want to share:

Playing in the backyard with my son, when I notice some bees flying around a tree.

Take my son inside and get closer to investigate.

Here's what I saw (and what I learned):

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

"Our job is to play basketball. You've got people getting up at 6 am doing 12-hour shifts. Those guys are tired. For us, we’re playing a game…. We gotta keep that in perspective." — Josh Hart ❤️

[SNY Knicks @sny_knicks]

"We knew this was gonna be a tough environment. A little tougher than last game because there were 2,500 seats that were taken up."

- Josh Hart

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

This will forever be the best prank

[KnicksMuse @KnicksMuse]

This isn’t a basketball play.

3 free points.