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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 02/09/2026

Ridiculous phrasing here. As if tariffs and the war in Iran are somehow good things that the rest of the world is just whining about??

NYT homepage: Allies Grumble That U.S. Is Hindering Global
Economic Growth At a summit meant to showcase President Trump's economic policies as a model for the world, Europeans complained about tariffs and
the war with Iran.
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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 20/06/2026

Un peu d’inspo depuis Brooklyn—on peut les mettre sur le toit comme ça 🤮

Un immeuble assez ancien à New York avec plusieurs clims sur le toit.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 12/05/2026

Probably my favorite scam email sender name and subject line ever… From: The One Who Always Has Tea Subject: I’m still trying to understand how this happened

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 07/05/2026

In places with lots of balconies I think it's pretty common to have low folding racks on the balcony you won't necessarily see from the street.

Streetview screenshot of folding clothes racks on a balcony in Berlin

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 07/05/2026

Sure that's a common thing to have across Europe, but apartment buildings with laundry hanging outside are common pretty much everywhere, weather allowing, and something you never see in the US. Moldova doesn't seem to be an exception, these buildings I found at random have clotheslines built-in.

Google Maps screenshot of apartment building in Moldova with laundry hangers outside of the windows

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 26/04/2026

Absolute perfection in the "customers also bought section" for this automated breakfast sandwich making appliance.

Screenshot of amazon product page for a Hamilton Beach breakfast sandwich maker.

Screenshot of "Customers who bought this item also bought" section, showing heartburn and indigestion medications

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 09/04/2026

New phone for the first time in years and it is WILD that presumably whole teams of people decided that, when you’re playing audio, there should be this little dancing waveform visualizer animation at the top of the screen that can be hidden but never permanently disabled. Apple is off the rails.

Screenshot of the top of a new iPhone, showing the « dynamic island » with an animated music visualizer.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 26/03/2026

Few things annoy me more than having to listen to a hovering news helicopter buzzing away in the sky on an otherwise quiet morning while it gets footage of a TRAFFIC JAM.

Google maps view showing heavy traffic on the BQE in Brooklyn

Flightradar24 screenshot showing a news helicopter hovering over Brooklyn

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 19/03/2026

What really jumped out to me from the NYC DOT report this stat came from is how fast the risk ramps up—at 30 speed camera tickets/year the risk is *50 times* the average. The government knows which drivers are extremely disproportionately dangerous, they just getting them off the road.

Table of relative risk of severe injury or fatal crash involving vehicles with different thresholds of # of violations / year from twice as likely at 16 to 50x as likely at 30 violations/year. From https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/speed-camera-report.pdf

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 30/12/2025

Quite the email strategy from @theinformation.com: enter your email to read an article and they send you 10 emails in 24 hours, and there's no single unsubscribe button, you have to manually uncheck each "list". 🤬

Screenshot of an email inbox filtered for emails from theinformation.com, showing 10 emails in a 24 hour period.

Screenshot of the email preferences settings on theinformation.com, showing 18 separate buttons for subscribing/unsubscribing.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 16/06/2025

Sitting in Prospect Park listening to planes landing at LGA passing over every 90 seconds and thinking about how nice it’d be to have some subway or bus lines with headways remotely close to that.

Screenshot of website counting low planes flying over Prospect Park in Brooklyn, showing 40 per hour.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 14/06/2025

Huge turnout here in NYC, despite the rain. Took an hour just to walk from 6th Ave to 5th Ave across 42nd Street.

Anti-Trump protestors at the No Kings protest, 5th Avenue in New York City, June 14 2025

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 03/06/2025

I can't go outside for fear of e-bikes.

NYC intersection completely gridlocked with crosswalks blocked by traffic and people walking between cars.

NYC intersection completely gridlocked with cars blocking crosswalks in all directions.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 05/05/2025

I had the view from there set as my computer's desktop wallpaper for years—always good for a chuckle that it was taken from a toilet!

Sunset view from the Boulder Pass pit toilet, Glacier National Park.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 30/04/2025

A case in point of how we got here in the first place… NYT: BREAKING U.S. Economy Shrank in First Quarter, in Reading Clouded by Messy Data CNN: Economy goes into reverse from Trump's abrupt policy shifts Fox: Annoyed young Democrat sends message to his party as Trump celebrates 100-day mark

CNN homepage screenshot big text GDP contracted for the first time in years

NYT Homepage: BREAKING
U.S. Economy Shrank in First Quarter, in Reading Clouded by Messy Data

Fox homepage screenshot: Annoyed young Democrat sends message to his party as Trump celebrates 100-day mark

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 24/04/2025

I......may listen to this while driving 👀

Pre-order receipt for the upcoming book Life After Cars

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 23/04/2025

Building my first Android app, February 2013

Photo of a hammer with a handwritten label on it "Android Debugging Tool"

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 23/04/2025

Maybe falls under this provision that programs with fewer than 5 graduates/year must be eliminated? Seems...totally arbitrary? ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/03/20/s...

Elimination of small undergraduate degree programs. If an undergraduate degree program confers an average of fewer than five degrees annually over a three-year period, it must be eliminated. The first year of a program is not counted in the three-year averages.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 21/04/2025

Naturally his district ranks 1st out of 51 by number of pedestrian injuries in the last two years. vis.crashmapper.org?cfat=true&ci...

Table of NYC City Council Districts by number of pedestrian injuries, with district 42 in 1st place.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 16/04/2025

Yeah per the city's data at 16 camera violations per year the risk of a fatal or severe injury crash doubles, at 30/year it's *50x* as likely! There is absolutely no reason these people should still be driving, full stop. The city is negligent. (pdf) www.nyc.gov/html/dot/dow...

Table showing annual camera violations, relative risk of a crash, and number of vehicles meeting that criteria in 2023.

Relative Risk of Being Involved in a Fatal or Severe Injury Crash
Number of
ViolationsRelative RiskNumber of Vehicles
in 2023
16Twice as likely3,147
193 times as likely1,796
204 times as likely1,543
215 times as likely1,347
2310 times as likely1,014
2515 times as likely746
3050+374

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 11/04/2025

As a way of visualizing this, a drop of 80k/entries a day is basically like we're stopping a single direction of one of the busiest highways in the city (e.g. the BQE/LIE/CBE) worth of traffic from entering central Manhattan every day.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 23/03/2025

I’ve got one from Brooklyn! 2017.

A light up Rite Aid sign with only id lit up.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 21/03/2025

Franklin County went 70% for Trump

Screenshot of Iowa elections website showing 2024 presidential results for Franklin county, Trump 70.02%, Harris 28.43%, 4900 votes cast.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 14/03/2025

Baked into the pdf file properties the Author is 'David.Samberg', who is seemingly the counsel for the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education. www.ed.gov/about/ed-org...

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 05/03/2025

If we're going back to old timey "remedies" they could at least trot out the good stuff

Old timey patent medicine bottle labeled "One Night Cough Syrup" containing Alcohol, Cannabis Indica, Chloroform, and Morphia.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 24/02/2025

Repost with the first album you bought with your own money. Got some high end headphones a few years ago and finally understood why reviewers at the time described it as a victim of the loudness wars—still a great album though.

Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers album cover

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 11/02/2025

Uh, no thanks WeWork, I'm good

Email from WeWork with subject "Adrien, we want to know more about you"

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 11/02/2025

Canceled Prime after 10 years in 2019 and have ordered from Amazon once a year or less since—every time I do I feel like the user experience gets way worse. What even is this? So much junk from 3rd party sellers in the mix now. I took their 30 day trial to get free shipping and will 100% cancel it.

grid of Amazon product variant selections showing 16 different versions of, e.g. (60 Count, Pack of 1), (20 Count, Pack of 2)

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 02/02/2025

I will never not laugh at this part of his candid post-mayoral NY Mag interview. > they’re like, “Here’s a groundhog,” I’m like, “What the fuck?” nymag.com/intelligence...

On a lighter but more tragic note, do you have any regrets about dropping the groundhog in 2014?
Yeah. 100 percent. I’m like, “Don’t make me hold a fucking groundhog.” I mean, what the hell? Let me tell you exactly what happened.

Please.
I go there and it’s seven in the morning, which means my motor skills are not at their best. I put on these gloves, and they’re like, “Here’s a groundhog,” I’m like, “What the fuck?” I’m like, “Don’t you have a little more coaching to go with this or whatever?” It was idiocy. Why would you want an elected official to hold a groundhog? I don’t know anything about holding groundhogs. So the whole thing is just insane. There’s an original sin here. Don’t hand someone a groundhog, right?

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 13/01/2025

I'm not talking suburban subdivisions, I'm talking actually walkable, connected areas with transit. I think any regular city bus rider would disagree that this is a fantasy. This has been studied—this article has a great chart showing the effect. findingspress.org/article/9140...

Chart from a study "Linking Neighborhood Walkability to the Independence and Quality of Life of Older Adults across Canada" showing a correlation with increasing neighborhood Walk Score and agreement with the question "Since I stopped driving, I have maintained my quality of life"

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 10/01/2025

Deleted my Instagram account yesterday, waiting on a data export to do the same with Facebook. I hung on to Twitter way too long while it became a place of unfiltered hate. If this is how these companies want to operate, they can do it without a single second of my participation.

Screenshot of Facebook account info page showing my account created September 30, 2005.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 06/01/2025

I wonder how could have gotten all of those speeding tickets?? I should revive my FOIL attempt from 2019 to get the actual measured speed data associated with the tickets from the speed camera program, would be so interesting to dig through.

photo of a car dashboard showing 145mph on a street with traffic around

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 06/01/2025

As expected lol howsmydrivingny.nyc/yhmdu6yx

Screenshot of howsmydrivingny.nyc showing thousands of dollars in tickets, $866 unpaid

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 06/01/2025

First pic at the top of the article looks like a lot of traffic, but people who drive into the Holland Tunnel regularly may notice that this is not typically how this stretch of road looks.

Photo from the lead-up to the entrance of the Holland Tunnel in NJ, showing lots of cars, with a red box highlighting that the road ahead is clear when it is usually absolutely choked with traffic.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 06/01/2025

"Congestion pricing won't have any effect on traffic" Google Maps "typical traffic" vs "live traffic" on this Monday morning.

typical Monday traffic at the Hudson crossing tunnels, according to Google Maps, showing Manhattan bound lanes in dark red congestion

Live January 6th traffic of the same view as the other, showing nearly entirely clear green traffic through the tunnel area.

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 01/01/2025

Evolution of the South African flamethrower car security system from the 90s

BMW with jets of flame coming out the sides

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 29/12/2024

Sometimes it can be almost funny, if it weren’t such a widespread failure in how we build.

Crosswalk, faded from car tires, leading to an accessible sidewalk ramp that doesn’t actually connect to a sidewalk, with a track worked into the grass where people clearly still walk along the busy road despite the lack of infrastructure. Edgewater NJ

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 21/12/2024

I could sit in an alpine wildflower meadow all day long in the summertime. Warm sun, cool breeze, water from an ice-cold stream. Bliss. Boulder Pass, Glacier NP

Woman backpacking on a trail through a high wildflower meadow

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 19/12/2024

It does look like kind of a rough area to live car lite/free, even if you can get to work on the train. There's some shopping half a mile away, but I wouldn't blame someone wanting to drive when the walk there looks like this.

streetview of a busy suburban intersection with a slip lane and pedestrian yield

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 17/12/2024

Telemedicine really has come a long way

Notification from Siri suggesting I dial in to my flu shot appointment

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 11/12/2024

He would fit in well here

Screen grab of the red room from the original Twin Peaks

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Adrien Delessert @drien.com · 10/12/2024

“Where’d the kitten go?”

Black kitten with eyes peeking out from burrowed deep in layers of blankets

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