👽 Miscellaneous

    If you’re a vampire and trying to get invited into a house, whats your best angle and/or sales pitch? Go.

    (Today’s conversation starter brought to you by Sinners)

    🖊️ My older brother, a city councilman in Oregon, wrote an open letter to government officals expressing his serious concern over the overreach of ICE in his state:

    An agency that operates outside constitutional boundaries forfeits its legitimacy as a law enforcement institution. An agency that disregards due process, lawful authority, and civil protections becomes a risk to public safety, not a guarantor of it.

    Excellent reminder of the constitutional rights at stake and the legal precedent that undergirds them. Please take time to read the whole thing.

    🛸 Not sure what it says about my personal interests and/or lifestyle when all of my personally targeted ads are for senior citizen products.

    ❄️ Gorgeous snowfall in NYC today.

    A stranger at a coffee shop warned me not to face the windows, lest I be too distracted to read.

    “I’ll make no such promise,” I told them.

    One hour of daydreaming later, I had to take their advice. ❤️

    🛸 For those who have a hard time describing their emotions—the feelings wheel.

    💉 Apologies if blood makes you queasy! But here’s the easiest way to make a massive difference in your community—literally, while lying down. NYC residents can set their appointment here. 🙃

    🇻🇪 It has no real bearing on my life, but knowing that Venezuelan President Maduro is being held in a Brooklyn prison roughly three miles from my apartment makes me feel strange.

    🎥 Casey Neistat’s latest video about this young man with Cerebral Palsy running the NYC Marathon is so encouraging, heartwarming, and dignifying. It’s worth the 9-minute watch. Disclaimer: you may want to grab a tissue.

    😱 Had a dream that Timothee Chalamet was cast to play Eminem in a biopic.

    Finished my last final of the semester, which gives me few weeks worth of free evenings until next session, not to mention a lot of head space. What will I do with all this time? 🤔

    🇺🇸 Kyle Tharp with an intriguing breakdown of this year’s top political conversations, based on social media engagement.

    Brief thoughts:

    • DOGE feels like an eternity ago
    • Jimmy Kimmel’s ousting was so brief but inordinately impactful.
    • No King’s Protests are having a real type of influence.

    🚊 If you live in NYC, then you should live in constant readiness—or fear—of Kareem Rahma from Subway Takes appearing and asking you for your own unique/controversial opinion. In case you don’t have one, here are some of mine for free:

    • Sidewalks should have a slow and fast walking lane.
    • Calling a hotdog “a glizzy” is hilarious, but should be illegal outside of Washington DC.
    • If you are using your phone in public, other people have the right to look at your screen.
    • All two-factor authentication is fake and should be optional rather than forced.
    • The drinking age in America should be 18, not 21.
    • We need to build public playgrounds for adults.
    • We need remunerations for people who were told they’d need to know cursive.
    • Going to the movies and/or a restaurant by yourself is a form of therapy.
    • Kraft Mac and Cheese is better than 99% of restaurant Mac and Cheese.

    HMU if you want more or feel free to comment your own on this post. Stay ready friends ✊

    🦅 It’s that time of year! California’s favorite bald eagles are prepping for egg-laying season & you can livestream their nest 24/7 at this link. A strangely mesmerizing annual activity for me; probably helps that their nest is in the San Bernardino mountains & reminds me a bit of home.

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