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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just THIS SECOND realized I can charge my years-old AirPods by setting them down on a charging pad

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just THIS SECOND realized I can charge my years-old AirPods by setting them down on a charging pad

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Since we are Discoursing this week about schools noticing kids have fallen behind, I’m duty-bound to report that in first grade in my public school in 1972 my teacher apparently reported to the authorities that I was uncoordinated and I was given personal SKIPPING lessons at public expense

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Isn’t “bacon jerky” just a bag of bacon

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Congratulations to @hellgatenyc.com for one of the most effective paywall cliffhangers of all time

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ground beef, one of the few things almost every cash-strapped household in America can tell you the price of, hasn’t been at $2 a pound in literally twenty years. It’s *up* by $2 (to around $7) in the past two years. Maybe that’s what he meant?

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

someone in my building got 83 packages delivered today, they filled up one of those gigantic Amazon delivery cubes, the doorman has to log each one individually into BuildingLink and looks like he is on the verge of a heart attack

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Half my FB feed is ads for AI task managers and agentic personal assistants offering to do things I wouldn’t even outsource to a human let alone an agent, how is this sustainable

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m sorry to the haters but as long as that folding phone isn’t a goddam trash fire (and it won’t be) i bet I’m buying one

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My 17-year-old nephew in the reddish-purple exurbs of Grand Rapids, who I do not think of as particularly politically engaged, not only follows Mamdani on social media but actually watches his content This is so interesting to me

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fantastic biopsy, five stars

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Had to use Find My to actually find something I lost… and it worked! It led me right up to the counter of a cafe I’d been in 2 hours earlier, which indeed had found my keys

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

At the Kips Bay AMC public hearing at Manhattan CB6 and I must say it sure sounds like NYU Langone Health deliberately concealed its plans from the community

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

K-shaped economy watch, Chelsea edition: two veterinary dentists within two blocks

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I played Cards Against Humanity for the first time and …is that it? Like it was fine, but …maybe you have to be high and/or today’s date has to be earlier than 2016?

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Ordering cocktails at brunch in Woodstock and they asked “what vodka” and the first one on the list was “Albany” and we were like what but then i looked it up and it’s apparently world-class

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My nephew is visiting from Michigan and he’s explaining school shooting drills like it’s totally normal and like how do we as a society tolerate this appalling situation

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I stopped in, everybody knew you, etc.

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We opened the little sunglasses compartment in the Hertz rental car to find 2 single-serving packets of “Analyse Me” brand silicone lubricant and a plastic packet of male performance-enhancing ginseng honey both presumably purchased at the counter of a gas station

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’m in Rhinebeck and I just killed a spotted lanternfly, you’re welcome, Dutchess County

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Taxi driver caught me snapping a pic of his violation and he opened the door and yelled WE KNOW YOU! WE ALL KNOW YOU! WE HAVE YOUR PICTURE! GO FUCK YOURSELF! I was like, ok, enjoy your summons

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

What did I do to deserve a solid wall of cortisol peptide testosterone quack advertising nonsense in my feeds

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m fascinated by policies like these because you simply can’t justify them. No interest group is making a private investment case compelling enough to supersede the rights of the Americans to access that land. You only do it if cruelty is your guiding principle and objective. You have to be evil.

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

yikes www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I can never remember whether people are called Eileen or Elaine, and I think we need to pick one name and outlaw the other and make its use subject to a ten thousand dollar fine

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just went out to see the blood moon and we ended up taking the M23 to the river and staring off toward Brooklyn but the clouds blocked it BUT we met a Character in a housecoat and slippers who had walked across from Stuy Town to see it and she was even more disappointed than us

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

i'm tired and i don't have time, will someone please tell me if I need to care what Hugging Face is

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

These people have no idea what kind of rage they’re unleashing — their careers will be ended by voters animated by the fire of righteousness

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’m not going to fight about the BQE I’m not going to fight about the BQE I’m not going to fight about the BQE I’m not going to fight about the BQE I’m not going to fight about the BQE I’m not going to fight about the BQE I’m not going to fight about the BQE I’m not going t

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Excuse me WHO is playing an alien on Voyager

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Got cussed out by two different TLC drivers this weekend while shooting stop sign runners. “I know what you’re doing! I have you on camera!” OK well I’m a 6’2 250 man in plain view sitting on a bright red motorcycle pointing a camera at the stop line so I’m not exactly incognito

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I lurk in a couple of “parents with kids just starting college” FB groups (shut up) and every single one of these people’s kids is going to need therapy (some should start now) what do you mean, your son’s bedskirt doesn’t match his roommate’s, “what should you do”

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'm a decisive sort of fellow

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Gawain @niawag.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ready for the next YIMBY/abundance debate? Should the federal government revive the Sears home? groundworkcollaborative.org/work/the-mod...

groundworkcollaborative.org

The Modern Sears Home: Resurrecting the Affordable American Starter Home for a New Generation - Groundwork Collaborative

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love stand-up scooters, but as a person who is both tall and large, the combination of my high center of gravity, my weight, and the small wheels means I have to ride them carefully and steer deliberately because any routine pothole could launch me like a missile — and I’d never ride above 20mph

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you order delivery in New York City tonight and you don’t tip at least ten (10) United States dollars I predict you are going to hell

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

WHAT is this kyut lil nonarticulated electric bus doing on the M23

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 20/08/2026

i am bravely charting a middle ground between "every use of AI is evil" and "all of you should give Anthropic $20 a month"

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I've never seen a Democratic candidate I like half as much as I like the version of Democratic candidates Fox News tries to scare their viewers with

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Holy humid subtropical climate, Batman

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is the simplest way of understanding the energy impact of AI: a slice of the economy has structurally increased its routine energy usage

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’m in line for the checkstand at the Key Food on McGuinness and… did time stop? Anybody know? It seems like time stopped.

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Omg it’s the thing!!! Just like the Gray Lady said!!! Zoomers lining up for expired 8pm sushi!!!

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The Democratic Governors Association @demgovs.org · 18/08/2026

Literally NO ONE wants Ty Masterson as the governor of Kansas 😭

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Ok I’m gonna say it because the rest of you are all cowards: Astoria has weird energy

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Rich Mintz @richmintz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I personally have submitted 77 photo-documented crosswalk and box-blocking violations to the Taxi & Limousine Commission *in the last seven days*, each of which will result in a summons and prosecution. I did this in my spare time. It’s not that hard!

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