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  • I told Radar that we're going to get a lot of snow and he had a crisis.

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  • Alternatively, fuck WFH because otherwise maybe we could have a snow day (depending on your job function and how silly your employer is).

  • The daily saga

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  • Right after I finish responding to your comment...

  • Leaked Doc: Homeland Security's Domestic Terror Obsession

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  • Always has been

  • YSK - All song birds on the planet are descended from ancestors in Australia.

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  • Every morning they're screaming "g'day, mate!"

  • Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says

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  • I think I've seen this one

  • Embarassing rule

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  • !remindme in 2600 CE or so

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    Meet Mike Flynn. He is now in charge of the New York City Department of Transportation.

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  • Well at least it isn't the other Mike Flynn.

    Some relevant bits from the article:

    Mr. Flynn, 46, who was a behind-the-scenes transportation planner for most of his career, has been thrust into the spotlight since Mr. Mamdani introduced him as the department’s new chief on New Year’s Day at a V.I.P. inauguration event.

    Now, he will lead 6,000 employees and be expected to help fulfill Mr. Mamdani’s promise to make the nation’s slowest buses fast and free. Other top priorities include the redesign of hundreds of miles of streets for pedestrians, cyclists and bus riders, amid opposition from some drivers, and the repair of a crumbling highway in Brooklyn. That doesn’t include the daily logistics of maintaining 315,000 streetlights, 15,000 parking meters, 6,300 miles of streets, highways and plazas and over 800 bridges. Not to mention 10 Staten Island Ferry boats.

    “The mayor has challenged us to be bold and ambitious,” Mr. Flynn said in an interview from his new Lower Manhattan office, cross-legged on a sofa, beside a framed map of the city’s bike paths. “I’m all for it, but that means we’re going to have our work cut out for us."

    Mr. Flynn started as a summer intern at the Transportation Department in 2004. He was hired the next year to manage bike and pedestrian projects and went on to develop the city’s influential Street Design Manual. By the time he left the agency in 2014, he was overseeing a $2 billion street improvement capital plan.

    His appointment represents a shift from recent picks. His predecessor, Ydanis Rodríguez, under former Mayor Eric Adams, was a city councilman. Hank Gutman, who served in Bill de Blasio’s administration, was a prominent lawyer.

    But Mr. Flynn, a self-described computer-nerd-turned-planning-consultant, is the first commissioner in decades to have worked inside the department, said Samuel Schwartz, the chairman of the transportation program at Hunter College. “I don’t think there’s anyone, that I could say, knows modern urban street design better than Mike,” said Mr. Schwartz, who was Mr. Flynn’s boss at a transportation consulting firm now called TYLin City Solutions.

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    In his first two weeks, Mr. Flynn has ordered the completion of a stalled pedestrian-focused project in Brooklyn that was entangled in a corruption case involving a member of Mr. Adams’s inner circle; committed to finishing a contested bike lane project in Astoria, Queens; and moved to extend a bus lane project in Midtown Manhattan, where buses crawl at under five miles per hour.

    But in a city where the loudest voices often prevail, Mr. Flynn’s is often described as soft-spoken and unassuming. His supporters have said that he succeeds because he builds an effective team around him rather than just putting himself out front.

    “You never felt like Mike was too big,” said Kelly McGuinness, his former employee at a consulting firm and the director of the transportation program at Hunter College. He was a low-key operator, she said, preferring to elevate his team — like when he would hand out prepaid gift cards to unsuspecting staffers.

    Mr. Flynn was born on Staten Island and grew up in Glen Rock, N.J. His grandfather had been a train dispatcher at the Queensboro Plaza station, and his father, a business man who commuted to Manhattan, once drove a yellow taxi.

  • They don't keep stats on prostitutes the way they do with football quarterbacks so we'll never know who the GOAT prostitute is

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  • In a certain sense, I think many of us do.

  • MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo

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  • I'm not part of the administration, but could I get in on that first part, before the fentanyl?

  • Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton with the extensive amount of code she and her team wrote to guide the NASA mission to the Moon, USA, 1969

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    • not sure what this does but everything breaks if we remove it

  • Former "Proud Boys" Leader Enrique Tarrio Named in Leaked ICE Documents

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  • "Then they came for the ironically-named neo-Nazis and... well no, this one's okay."

  • Garden rule

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  • Ah, the "no-till" approach

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    I’ve hit a wall with tech.

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  • And yet, neither of those blues are quite... it, you know? Surely the next one will be.

  • Campaigners Push GoFundMe to Remove Fundraisers for ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good | Common Dreams

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  • Just do some abhorrent shit so that they'll love you first. (Disclaimer: do not do abhorrent shit.)

  • When They’re Not Applying Banned Chokeholds, ICE Agents Are Apparently Stealing and Selling Citizens’ Phones

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  • Come on now. If you're looking for a way to twist my words for your own personal outrage, sure.

  • When They’re Not Applying Banned Chokeholds, ICE Agents Are Apparently Stealing and Selling Citizens’ Phones

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  • This was my first thought when watching that video yesterday of them abducting the US citizen who was (allegedly) legally carrying in Minneapolis: what is going to happen to that firearm?

  • What's yours?

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  • Clearly Mel Gibson blessed all of that water, too. Is there anything that guy can't do with his faith? (Besides make a watchable movie?)

  • What's yours?

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  • Oh, don't you start now!

  • so true

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  • 3/10, do not recommend