@NYCTSubway I dropped a Beats earbud on the tracks on the downtown side of the NQR stop at 49th St. I am on the platform now and can see it. Can someone please help me retrieve it? I am scared to try myself
@gnocchiwizard P.s. I like golf too but remember how ruthless irony bro Twitter was when they discovered that Phil Greaves golfs? Of all the things to pile on him for…
An ad for a production of Macbeth starring an actor best known for playing James Bond in a story about the possibility of war in Ukraine escalating to nuclear exchanges between the US and Russia brings to mind Tolstoy's critique of Shakespeare as repulsive and tedious...
So now we have history repeating itself — except this time Russia is no Soviet Union and doesn’t even have a counter-ideology to offer.
https://t.co/7mnhapITLm
@communecore lol — Didn’t you already get the invitation to my mask-burning party, where we will celebrate committing genocide against the old and infirm?
What writer Jill Lepore and Iain Banks (discussed and quoted in the piece below) don’t get is that both Promethean productivism and technocracy have always occupied a central place in leftist thinking and politics.
https://t.co/1zg9K1SjKL
@srlynch i was thinking this as well, like the difference between cash and card is the difference between a blackjack table and a slot machine. house always wins but are you even giving yourself a shot?
@gnocchiwizard About two months ago I switched to using cash for anything I can, and I have ended up spending less money this way. It’s easier to budget yourself, since handing over cash rather than plastic makes you more aware of your spending.
Jacobin has put out some bad ecological analysis, but publishing Ted Nordhaus to defend industrial agriculture is a new low. With the mag doubling down on anti-scientific technofetishism, it's probably getting to a point of doing more harm than good