First of all, I said explicitly that I don’t know much about Thompson. So I didn’t know that about him.

I’m calling it a set up.

Maybe not a fly on the wall but that soccer ball Putin gave him is probably bugged, so maybe you can just get the recording of that instead.

I’ve often said S-Town was a podcast that didn’t need to be a podcast. NPR teased & promoted S-Town as a story about a town that was so corrupt that a murder had been completely glossed over in favor of protecting the powerful. THAT was the story I wanted to hear and it wasn’t the story they delivered. Yes, McLemore…

Yeah, hi, I don’t take vacations, I’m not married, and I rarely go out because I work 60+ hours a week.  And I *still* can’t pay my loans off in my lifetime.  Nice judgment of people you don’t know, though.

If I had a lot of free time on my hands, I would create an instagram dedicated to all the stupid injuries people sustain when trying to get instagram likes

It’s not his fault. He heard he was drafted by the ‘Tics and is still trying to figure who the hell that is.

No mention of the fact that Machado’s allegation at least has turned out to bullshit? She described him as getting “enraged” at her when she asked him a challenging question at a Q&A, and of engaging in “bullying and misogyny”. Now the audio of that exchange has been released, and everyone can hear that her…

he’s no Roonaldo

they need to hide some Germans on their team

Came here to say that very thing. And it’s not like it’s in an out of the way or easy to miss area. She’s got her own huge pedestal, right by the road and the entrance to the park.

Where do you watch all these races involving disabled puppies? 

Yes! Just around the corner from where I stayed on my first NY trip back in April. (I share her first name, though not the spelling, so it made me extra happy to see it.)

I came down here to post about the Harriet Tubman statue in Harlem. I hate to be the “um actually” person because I think there’s a really salient point to be made about the lack of recognition historical women get but it also seems wrong to totally ignore the few women whose accomplishments have been memorialized in…

Eleanor Fucking Roosevelt would be my first selection as well.

Gertrude Stein in Bryant Park — I pass her daily!

there’s a statue of joan of arc on 91st and riverside drive, near the entrance to riverside park

technically its an incel phone

This is why people hate soccer.

Yeah, that is the issue with the ‘disruption’ model. A lot of times new businesses are disrupting the kinds of regulations that were put in place to protect consumers, a la Uber and yellow taxis. Then the disrupter starts causing issues that the regulations they were bucking were designed to address.