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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Loved the metro but the ticketing system is abysmal

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I didn’t know this! Will have to pay attention next time I’m on it.

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One Beshear supporter changed to Pritzker AOC Warren None of the above (not even leaning)

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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We shouldn't discount the fact that at least part of the data center backlash (and by extension the broader techlash) is because people feel like the tech industry has not given them anything cool, inspiring, beautiful, or useful in a long time

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I really appreciate your willingness to ask challenging questions! Not your fault that grappling with gray areas is not exactly a strength of this particular site.

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Real ones were never total doomers about climate and skipped right to being doomers about plastic waste

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is why people make fun of this website (and why they’re right to do so)

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ceej @ceej.online · 07/07/2026

it really is astonishing how much of this sneering obsession with macho posturing is just warmed-over trumpism, down to the assemblage of an insular fantasy world where twitter bon mots pass for strategic wins in a forever war against the tide of a culture that’s largely moved on

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The single most predictable course of events in human history.

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

4) having to live in NEO has cooked their brains (a common occurrence in the Worst Place in America™️)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/06/2026

We are so f'ing cooked. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news...

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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

the "are transplants and bandwagoners allowed to enjoy the knicks" thing is so utterly stupid because what's happening in the city is so far beyond basketball. it's millions of people celebrating the vibrancy and diversity of our city, in unity. this is for anyone who genuinely loves new york city.

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

To be fair, something like that is a priority in our toy-based economy

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Traffic experts largely support pedestrian-focused infrastructure as a way to reduce congestion and road fatality rates. If you're pro-expert, you gotta stick with it it even when it doesn't fit your tastes.

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Our cultural love of entertainment and shiny things probably doesn't help, although that's really hard to actually prove

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Immigrants are more New York than you'll ever be. (And I'm 4th gen here so I can probably one-up you on meaningless nativism points too)

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

*so one guy can fall asleep ten minutes through a basketball game

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I'm somewhere between a C3 and a D3 for medical and scientific stuff specifically, and an extremely strong A3 for everything else (namely because I think it kills creativity and rots brains)

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I don't even think you can say the misogyny is subtextual at this point. It's just the text

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Susan Collins is awful. At this point, you can’t say this guy is any better.

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Elizabeth Warren, come collect your candidate

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

woke 1 made the mistake of making people think it was problematic to make fun of healing crystals and astrology. woke 2 must be focused on the destruction of white shamanism

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I'd bet the biggest two in terms of cost are smartphones/phone plans and (relatedly) food delivery services.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026: CBS: 0 CNN: 0 Fox News: 0 NPR: 0 PBS: 0 Politico: 0 Semafor: 0 Business Insider: 0

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

every single person who touches this needs to go to jail.

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I didn’t expect to LOVE Paris, but I did expect it to be very pretty and pleasantly walkable. And honestly it’s been neither! (The metro is way better than my expectations tho, so)

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Time for a take so hot I had to log back onto social media during a vacation for it: Paris feels much less pedestrian-friendly than several US cities, and I’m not just talking about New York

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

They are not cute. They are not pets.

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The hantavirus thing is a reminder that mice and rats are just fuzzy cockroaches but worse

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Last weekend I learned the hard way that many (most?) Waffle Houses become takeout only before midnight. Still not over it.

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Are these incidents happening way more often than they used to, or are they just getting more coverage and this was always pretty normal? I feel like I hear so many airport problems like this happening these days.

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is a book I think would help a lot with that perspective. Definitely helped me put all of this in a historical context, and helped me get my head out of the doomer loop. www.harpercollins.com/products/ame...

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American Midnight

National Bestseller • One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfiction A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago...

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Nah see this is an example of that though. We're not in a plane that's about to crash and violently kill us all. We're in a flawed and backsliding democracy with immense economic inequalities, but that is decidedly not "we are all going to be dead in 15 minutes and might as well do whatever"

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

So much of this is just a manifestation of boredom and ennui that people don't want to admit to themselves

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This is happening across the world. The US is actually pretty good in comparison to other rich countries!

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Eventually those societies grey too. Births are dropping worldwide!

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

So Trump and Giuliani should be listened to, Mamdani shouldn't be, got it. (I was born here so I guess I'm allowed to clown on you)

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

In personal news, I beat Duolingo

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Really surprising that doctors in Turkey get paid the same as doctors in the UK. Any sense of why that is?

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I can't tell if this is a parody or not

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The real April Fool’s joke here is actually believing that this is all there is to the world (Life is still mostly good and you all need to touch grass)

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

As not a fan of AI in general, I think given a few more years it could lead to unimagined medical breakthroughs.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/03/2026

I am so tired of being told that because I live in a coastal city I don’t count as a Real American and it is especially grating coming from my own party

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The patagonia moms in question are objectively more radical than the self-styled revolutionaries who like to sneer at these protests.

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Quentin Heilbroner @quentinnyc.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Hot take: Most temporary art isn't good. Artists probably (and should!) save their best stuff for things that are meant to actually last.

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