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@plitter.bsky.social
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cats, transit, cities, other cool stuff like that. I work at the MTA; my opinions are mine. she/her/🏳️‍🌈

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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
kind of depressing to realize how many stories that I wrote in my 15+ years in journalism have simply disappeared because of the vagaries of digital media
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m watching Cape Fear (1991) and it’s impossible to divorce this from the Simpsons episode parodying it at this point
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
logs on, sees transplant discourse is happening again
static.klipy.com
Bart Simpson and Grampa Simpson in The Simpsons
ALT: Bart Simpson and Grampa Simpson in The Simpsons
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A very happy “New York: A Documentary Film” day to all who celebrate
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When did vaping indoors become something people feel emboldened to do? I’m at a fancy bakery in a tiny upstate town and a guy vaped while waiting in line, which is a new one for me!
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
sometimes I get to do very silly things at work
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
sorry to the Mets fans who will have to deal with obnoxious Baltimoreans* doing the “OH!” bit during the Star-Spangled Banneer at tonight’s game * I am the obnoxious Baltimorean
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
what a day to have an appointment with my psychiatrist and get a reminder about getting a mammogram. like sure I’m already anxious today, let’s just pile it on
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
confronted with a cheerful influencer’s face-to-camera “I bet you didn’t know this about 9/11” video and honestly, maybe the internet was a mistake
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
and this is how I learned that I lived one block outside of the disaster area in the 2 years immediately after 9/11
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
fun fact: “bendy boi” is in the official MTA style guide
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
ugh. theonion.com/it-only-tues...
theonion.com
It Only Tuesday
WASHINGTON, DC—After running a thousand errands, working hours of overtime, and being stuck in seemingly endless gridlock traffic commuting to and from their jobs, millions of Americans were dishearte...
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m Amy, I live in NYC, l work for a large transit agency here, and I have a cat. I love every moment of “House of Jealous Lovers” by the Rapture but i *really* love that it kicks into nearly a minute of funky cowbell at the 13-second mark. It’s really a god-tier song.
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
RIC BURNS HIVE RISE UP www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...
hollywoodreporter.com
‘New York: A Documentary Film’ Returns to PBS With Two New Episodes on the 21st Century (Exclusive)
Director and co-writer Ric Burns has been working on the new material for more than a decade.
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
hi we are still accepting feedback on the MTA website! link below!
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Do you use the MTA website regularly? If so, would you consider telling us what you think of it? The good, the bad, the ugly—we are seeking feedback to help prioritize improvements in the upcoming redesign. Please and thank you!!! nymta.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
nymta.qualtrics.com
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“twerp” is really an underrated insult
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’m sorry what now
A display in Target of an apparent collaboration with Delia’s, with jackets and plaid pants that are reminiscent of things found in their catalogs in the 1990s
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in heaven she will finally get the respect she deserves
dolly parton: NOBODY NOTICES I'VE GOT a GREAT ASS TOO
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Robert Shields @rshields37.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
we didn’t deserve Dolly Parton
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I really try not to be a cranky person about trends and fads in NYC but seeing a line wrap around a block for frozen yogurt does grind my gears ngl
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Feels like @davidlsims.bsky.social especially needs to know about what is basically Cinematrix but for subway stations www.dokugame.app/en/play/metr...
dokugame.app
Metrodoku New York · Doku
Metrodoku New York: today's grid, the same for every player. Nine cells, two criteria per cell, three lives.
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Josh Gee @jgee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Oh man this is hard www.dokugame.app/en/play/metr... @ndhapple.bsky.social @airlineflyer.net @2avesag.as @plitter.bsky.social
dokugame.app
Metrodoku New York · Doku
Metrodoku New York: today's grid, the same for every player. Nine cells, two criteria per cell, three lives.
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Metro @wmata.com · 13/08/2026
Curious about the ways we prep for @nationals.com season? ⚾ Our Planning and Performance team forecasts game attendance and monitors platform crowding and service frequency for every game. They also work with Rail Operations to recommend when to send extra trains after the game. 🧵
Photo of ridership on a game day
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I’m hiring! Again! I’ve got another content strategist role available, working on web content and our upcoming website redesign. No transportation experience required, but strong opinions about and experience in web content is. More details are in the job listing! careers.mta.org/jobs/1811790...
careers.mta.org
Website Content Strategist in New York, New York, United States
Website Content Strategist in New York, New York, United States
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I need someone to be as excited as I am about the Dropout x Taskmaster crossover that happened this week
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
getting this in under the wire after a tough day that ended with finding maggots (literally, I want to throw up) in a box containing pet food. how is it only Tuesday. theonion.com/it-only-tues...
theonion.com
It Only Tuesday
WASHINGTON, DC—After running a thousand errands, working hours of overtime, and being stuck in seemingly endless gridlock traffic commuting to and from their jobs, millions of Americans were dishearte...
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: The Great Delegalization. There are now (almost certainly far more than) 1M immigrants who were protected from deportation on Jan 20, 2025, and no longer are. It’s the result of a problem that’s been building for 30 years—& now only Congress can fix. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
newyorker.com
These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.
More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I got to inform some friends today that Spike Jonze directed the music video for “Praise You” and that made my 16-year-old self so happy
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
look look we made the Weekender a cute little video (but BE NICE TO MY NICE COLLEAGUE)
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
if I see one more flyer with that one particularly ugly AI font and banner on it I swear to god
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Metropolitan Transportation Authority @mta.info · 05/08/2026
We’re auctioning a limited number of MetroCard Vending Machines and MetroCard Express Machines! The auction is now open and offers must be received by Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 8 pm EST. Learn more and bid on our website: mta.info/auction
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
if you are having a terrible day may I recommend eating an ice cream sandwich (of the plain, vanilla ice cream chocolate wafer variety) to make it less terrible
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I am very glad to see Laura San Giacomo pop up in Margo’s Got Money Troubles (I am catching up on prestige TV many months later)
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Great series starting at @filmforumnyc.bsky.social today: every Tuesday, they show movies that are set in, or heavily involve, the New York subway system. I took this series as an opportunity to write critical blurbs about a some of my favorites. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/get-on-t...
Close-up of Robert Shaw as the icy kidnapping mastermind Mr. Blue in The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three. He's wearing a fedora, black-rimmed eyeglasses, a plaid coat, a plaid bowtie, black gloves, and a white dress shirt, and he is carrying automatic pistol and pointing it at someone off screen.From The Warriors, a screenshot of a graffiti covered subway car with doors open. Two gang members are standing inside looking out.From The French Connection: a wide shot of a group of police officers arrayed in front of parked undercover cop cars. Plane clothes are in the middle of the frame. The ranks include Roy Schneider (far left) as Detective Sonny Grosso. He's holding a shotgun. In the foreground, right hand side, Gene Hackman as Detective Popeye Doyle is standing with his right hand raised. He's wearing a dark brown fedora, a black sportcoat, a gray and blue striped tie, and a white dress shirt. Behind the cops, a freeway overpass and a stretch of elevated train track stretch into the distance.From the Harold Lloyd movie Speedy: a shot taken from about 20 feet overhead looking down a length of cobblestone street in New York. In the background, a streetcar, a flower stand, and numerous pedestrians are visible. There's also what appears to be a loveseat near the right side of the cobblestone street, and a man in a porkpie hat with a woman in a white blouse and dark skirt next to it. dominating the foreground is a subway entrance with about a dozen people descending into it.
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.
Patrick MacGoohan in an episode of Columbo; he’s seated at a glass desk in a wood paneled office with plants and wearing a black turtleneck with a tweed jacket.
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
some are calling it New York’s best underground art museum www.mta.info/agency/arts-...
mta.info
MTA Arts & Design
MTA Arts & Design encourages the use of public transit by presenting visual and performing arts throughout the MTA system.
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
okay so everyone was right about Widow’s Bay (it slaps)
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
building a good website requires time and effort that most local news orgs either don’t have, or their parent companies aren’t willing to invest in, and it is a travesty
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I’m credited as the first person to describe Vessel (the Hudson Yards sculpture) as The Shawarma. (Thanks, @henrygrabar.bsky.social) slate.com/business/201...
slate.com
New Yorkers Are Right: Hudson Yards’ Big Tourist Attraction Should Forever Be Called the Shawarma
The meat stick on 34th Street.
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
somehow only just learning that PJ Harvey recently released a song inspired by and sung from the perspective of the Voyager 2 space probe and if you didn’t know that either, you’re welcome youtu.be/XzCjzFsGl_c?...
youtu.be
PJ Harvey - Voyager (Official Video)
YouTube video by PJHarveyVEVO
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
here comes the zep!
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Mark Yarm @markyarm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Tried to find a representative Jennifer Finch quote from my book and settled on this one:
JENNIFER FINCH People were throwing mud at us when we were play
ing. Donita was like, “Fuck this!” and went behind her amp and pulled 
out her tampon and threw it into the audience. It was hysterical. That’s 
something we used to do, growing up: drive around and pull our tam
pons out and throw them at people that made comments. It’s the 
ultimate kind of “fuck you.” I always thought Donita was a bit of a 
reactionary, but thank God, she just expressed how angry and upset she was at that moment.
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
you forget how much of a hold ska had on the culture until you watch episodes of 120 Minutes from 1996-1998
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
my arm is included here!
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable
Album cover photo of the Marina apartments in Chicago for Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot CD
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
imagine the Liam Gallagher posts if England wins
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Amy @plitter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“sacrifice” 🧐
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill
How long has it been since you've seen the original "Jurassic Park"?

SAM NEILL The last time I watched it in its totality was sitting beside Princess Di at Leicester Square at the London opening.
On the other side of me was my son Tim - he was 11 and completely swept away by it, but about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart. And the draft was drifting across me to royalty! I spent the whole film in a muck sweat, thinking, "Princess Di is being exposed to the horrors of a little boy's fart, but she's going to think it's me. I am going to be subliminally blamed for my son's crimes, and I don't think she'll talk to me afterwards." But she was well brought up and never mentioned it.
JEFF GOLDBLUM I love that story, Sam.
I've heard him tell that a couple of times, and it's just amazing the lengths that he will go to still blame the boy.
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