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Illustrator. Former art director. Shorter in person. johnwtomac.com
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Zuck: The average American has three friends

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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

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300 days post stem cell transplant and I’m still here. I’m either hard to kill or too stubborn to die

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I wrote about the harder, less-expensive, smaller scale, and to me most interesting part of the Mets' ongoing process of becoming a real, good baseball team. defector.com/the-mets-are...

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It’s very cool that a group chat full of morons responsible for triggering a bank run in 2023 is now enthusiastically supporting plans to eliminate the FDIC.

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9 RBIs and dad still makes you ride in the back seat.

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You have to eat the glue pizza if you want me to take you seriously as an AI g̶r̶i̶f̶t̶e̶r̶ evangelist. www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-gl...

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There are very real problems with congestion pricing that no one is talking about. 1. The toll is too low. 2. The zone is too small. 3. The city isn’t moving fast enough to repurpose unused car space for the people who live here.

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Ad in DC Union Station - AI EMPLOYEES ARE HERE Alison doesn't care about work-life balance! - real end-times shit

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If you can get past the lament for the BQX, this is a fantastic rant for building more and building big in NYC apple.news/A8bmhibU1SwS...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The Eye of Providence sees everything and it’s all covered in pollen.

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The next Pope should change the words at church back to what they used to be.

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Last week I learned this image was selected for inclusion in this year’s American Illustration Annual. This ran in The Chronicle of Higher Education with a story about protests over the war in Gaza and how college administrators and students are at odds over how to define and fight antisemitism

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Congratulations to former state Senator Marty Golden on his promotion to running the Fullbright program, apparently www.cbsnews.com/news/ny-sen-...

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Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘

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We’re going to ride bikes. Join us! RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/bay-ridge-...

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Here's the thing about not-having-food-inspections, not-having-diversity-departments, not-having-vaccines and not-having-consumer-protections: Roughly 7.8 billion people in the world have some access to all of these, and probably over a billion have complete access. We'll notice the difference

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Extending the Fourth Ave. bike lane to Bay Ridge has entered the mayor’s race. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/17/t...

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"Mayoral candidate and disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo's subway safety plan was generated by ChatGPT" is something you'd joke about except it's true.

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