Nick Denton

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

@Jacobtheclipper @NBA he captured one play that was perfectly aligned with where he was sitting. Every possession touches different areas of the court so there’d be no way to be in the right spot every time, and camera cuts are what make the broadcast feel so different from this

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

@OrealistMarcus @FreqRevolution @the_satellite23 sorry marcus, i didn’t realize this chart was supposed to be constructed around your own personal experience. i’ll get working on an update with the correct numbers you provided

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

@K1n9Dav1d @dropssupreme Know this is a longshot but any chance you still have this/willing to sell? 😂

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

@MagicManTennis @MagicManTennis How you feeling about Karen?

[Ty Hill @cheetah]

If this tweets gets 100k retweets I’ll show up Friday wearing a Peely costume 😵‍💫

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

@W_Neloy what size?? 👀

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@SevenQuincy @CAD_and_creps @Raphkicks

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

@RonnieFieg Bronson
What we do in the Shadows
K-Pax
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Martyrs

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

12 Reasons Why Cities Need More Trees:

1. Temperature Control

One large tree is equivalent to 10 air conditioning units, and the shade they provide can reduce street temperature by more than 30%.

2. Noise Reduction

Trees can reduce loudness by up to 50%. In urban areas filled with the sound of cars, construction, sirens, aeroplanes, and music, trees are essentially the best way to block noise and keep cities — along with the homes and workplaces in them — quieter.

3. Air Purity

Trees remove an astonishing amount of harmful pollutants and toxins from the air. In urban areas air quality is often disastrously bad — with severe consequences for our health. Trees make the air we breathe much cleaner.

4. Oxygen

And, while absorbing all those pollutants, trees also put more oxygen back into the urban environment. Oxygen levels are significantly lower in cities compared to the countryside; trees help to solve that problem.

5. Water Management

Trees do more than just shelter us and our buildings from rain — which is, in fact, extremely important. They also absorb huge quantities of water, reduce run-off, neutralise the severity of flooding, and make flooding more unlikely altogether. Not to forget that their roots absorb pollutants and prevent them from feeding back into a city's water supply.

6. Psychological Health

Studies have proven what we instinctively know to be true: that human beings are significantly happier when surrounded by nature rather than sterile urban environments. Our emotions, behaviour, and thoughts are shaped by the places we spend time — and trees have a profoundly positive effect on our psychology. The consequential benefits of being happier and more peaceful — as individuals and as a society — are immense.

7. Physical Health

Beyond all the other ways in which trees improve air quality and the urban environment, much to the benefit of our health, they also encourage people to go outside. Cycling, running, and walking are all more common in urban areas with plenty of trees. A knock-on effect of people spending more time outdoors is also social integration and stronger communities.

8. Privacy

A simple point, but not inconsequential, is that trees provide privacy.

9. Economics

The total economic benefit of urban trees is hard to calculate. There are costs, of course, including the repair of infrastructure damaged by roots and maintaining the trees themselves. But the total economic benefit — a consequence of everything else in this list and more — far outweighs the expenditure. Trees make cities wealthier.

10. Wildlife

Trees are miniature cities all of their own, serving as a habitat for hundreds of different species, including birds and mammals and insects.

11. Light Pollution

Trees don't only block the light shining down, therefore keeping us and our cities cooler — they also disrupt light shining up, from street lighting, cars, houses, and billboards. Skies are clearer in cities with more trees.

12. Aesthetics

And, finally, trees are beautiful. They break up the potential monotony of urban environments — the sharp geometry, the greyscale roads and buildings, the endless rows of cars — with their trunks, boughs, canopies, and flowers.

Just think: the gold and red of falling leaves in autumn, the white and pink blossom of spring, the vast green canopies of summer, and the branches lined with hoar-frost in winter. Every single tree is a myriad of intricacy and texture, of colour and scent, of dappled light on the pavement, mottled bark, knotted roots, of clustered leaves and delicate petals and stern boughs.

Few streets would not be improved by the kaleidoscopic aesthetic delights of a tree, not to mention the many different species of tree, all over the world, whether willow, oak, lime, cherry, aspen, maple, birch, horse chestnut, dogwood, hornbeam, ash, sycamore... the list goes on.

There are some drawbacks to urban trees, most of them context-specific, and they are not — of course — universally appropriate. But it seems fair to say that many cities would benefit from at least a few more trees here and there.

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

@Resist_05 @Michcma source?

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

you can’t make a tomlette without breaking some greggs

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

i feel like i’ve gotten a lot better at managing anxiety until i step into Target on a friday afternoon

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

@W_Neloy hey bb

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

@snkr_twitr the way they photographed these with the laces somehow makes them way more appealing

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

goddammit just take my money

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

@PatBevPod what you said first says it all. it’s fun to watch your son follow after Ja and dance around the crib, but what about 10 years from now when he understands Ja’s lifestyle?

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

i’m a degenerate

[Nick Denton @nickdenton33]

betting on the all star game is degeneracy