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but its flaws were what made us have fun

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Well this is interesting.

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@daveweigel I hope you or no one you love ever has to deal with addiction. Or maybe I do; it would bring you one step closer to basic humanity.

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@nymetrowx today's weather rating rating: 100/10. welcome back, pal.

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i think ICE is bad and any agents who did crimes should face justice in a US court. those found guilty should go to jail and feel very bad about the things they did. elon probably knows my address.

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86 47

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@mychaelschnell hey, can we not call it the "department of war?" that's propaganda, not the department's name.

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@erinmdurkin I have a serious health condition that will ultimately carry a very large pricetag (let's start at $2 million and go from there), and my insurance from United Healthcare Oxford has been very good. It is however, heavily subsidized by my wife's employer and definitely an outlier.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The New York Times made news the loss leader for a $2 billion digital revenue machine, and this chart is the receipt.

News-only subscribers dropped 65% since June 2022. Bundle subscribers grew 227%. That looks like a news collapse. But the NYT deliberately killed its standalone news product. They stopped marketing it. They made it nearly impossible to buy a news-only subscription on their website. They priced the full bundle (News + Games + Cooking + Athletic + Wirecutter) at $2/month introductory, cheaper than a standalone Games subscription.

News-only ARPU is $13.33. Bundle ARPU is $12.92. Single non-news product ARPU is $3.36. Those 4.3 million single-product subscribers paying $3.36/month? They’re not the business. They’re the funnel. The NYT CEO said it explicitly on the earnings call: single products are “funnels to get people to subscribe” to the bundle.

Games now accounts for over 50% of time spent inside the NYT app. Wordle, Connections, and the Mini pull 10+ million weekly players who never intended to read a news article. But half of all NYT subscribers now pay for the bundle, and bundle subscribers retain longer, engage more, and accept price increases. The bundle just went from $25 to $30/month.

The result: digital revenue crossed $2 billion for the first time in 2025. Free cash flow hit $550 million. Adjusted operating margins reached 24% in Q4. Berkshire Hathaway just took a billion-dollar position. While the Washington Post cut 300 journalists last week, the Times added 1.4 million subscribers.

This chart shows a news company that built an attention ecosystem where Wordle gets you in the door, Cooking keeps you at breakfast, The Athletic owns your commute, and by the time you think about canceling, you’d lose four products instead of one.

The NYT figured out that the way to fund journalism in 2026 is to make sure you can’t quit the crossword.

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@James_sez @nymetrowx more like SNOWcialism amirite? this system keeps shifting to the left!

[Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers]

SWEDISH POLITICIAN SAYS KEY TO GETTING ECONOMY BACK ON TRACK IS BY BEING LESS ‘SPURSY’

Lucas Bergvall, look away. Swedish member of parliament Mikael Damberg compared his nation’s “misdirected economic policy” to Tottenham; flush with resources, but unaware of how to use them.

[Pima County Sheriff's Department @PimaSheriff]

We can’t believe we have to say this, but media on scene: please do not order food delivery to a crime scene address. This interferes with an active investigation. Please also respect private property laws. Thank you.

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@Notwokenow say "i'm too dumb to understand bruce springsteen" without saying "i'm too dumb to understand bruce springsteen."

[emily @north0fnorth]

day 1 back in nyc and i had a dream that zohran mamdani invited me over for dinner for some reason and served a dish that was basically just a meatball on a piece of naan he called “the big mamdani”

[italian lucite @yurodivys]

Something very baffling just happened to me
A woman came up to take pictures of my snowman, totally perplexed and asked if it's supposed to be Abraham Lincoln and I was like "haha maybe ya, just a snowman" and she exclaims "a what???" And I go "a snowman?" And she says "Abe Lincoln?" as if she's never heard of or seen a snowman, only Abraham Lincoln

[NYCFireWire @NYCFireWire]

Queens *ALL HANDS* Box 6538
85-37 168th St off Gothic Dr
FIRE IN A SHANTY IN THE REAR OF A MOSQUE

[NYCFireWire @NYCFireWire]

Brooklyn *ALL HANDS* Box 2415
1271 Brooklyn Ave off Clarendon Rd
RUBBISH IN THE REAR

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

Nancy Mace really needs to learn how to check which account she’s tweeting from before replying to herself in her own fanfiction. This isn’t the first time she’s been caught doing this.

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Any comment @ItsTanbirC ?

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

NY Democratic congressman Tom Suozzi says "Zohran Mamdani and every other Democratic Socialist should create their own party because I don't want that in my party."

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folks...

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

Unspecified Oval Office announcement from Trump tomorrow afternoon