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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

Specifically: some sort of recreational therapist was duly dispatched from LA Unified Area J HQ to pull me and one other kid out onto the deserted “big yard” (the asphalt playground the older kids used) during class time to teach us how to skip without looking like Big Bird, with limited success

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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

And to be clear, I’ve bought and am still using two great AI products off those ads, but how many more can I possibly need?

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

(The other half is basic instagays doing “my 9-5” as usual)

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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

It disappears into your monthly payment

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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

Honestly I can’t really tell the difference since ShopRite bought it, it still feels premium at less-than-premium prices to me

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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

The funniest side plot is all the speakers in the public session solemnly warning us that if Fairway closes we’re going to have to shop at D’Agostino

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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

Another member of the public calling out NYU Langone for deliberate secrecy about this — they have really struck a nerve, this is shaping up to be a significant misstep

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

Senator Liz Krueger (!), who represents an adjacent district, has dialed in

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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

Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal is here sounding angry that NYU has kept this plan secret

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

Now a man complaining that there are too many loud ambulances a block from a row of hospitals, including a gigantic 289-year-old hospital that’s been operating at this location since 1798

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

People are really, really angry that NYU hid this from the community

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

now someone complaining that NYU, a giant health system that serves the whole city, has too big a footprint, and then someone complaining it should pay property taxes

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

Ok but first public speaker is a woman complaining that nobody publicized this meeting and mad that a thing nobody knew about wasn’t addressed months earlier

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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

Here’s NYC’s detailed report confirming speed cameras reduce speeding and injuries, and are not a money grab; their net revenue covers only 1/6th of the city’s Vision Zero safety spending, and the number of tickets issued per camera drops rapidly after installation www.nyc.gov/html/dot/dow...

nyc.gov

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

there is a photo but it may be too much

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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

There are ten thousand spotted lanternflies in Saugerties today

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

Just had the best piece of blueberry pie I’ve ever had in my LIFE in Columbia County

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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

Oh and he also argued with me about whether he had to stop at the stop line and I said "if you don't have to stop at the stop line, then why do you think the TLC keeps prosecuting these violations"

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

He then followed me for 3 blocks and cornered me and asked "what I get" for reporting safety violations to the TLC and absolutely WOULD NOT ACCEPT "nothing" as an answer no matter how times I said it

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

(The "go fuck yourself" would earn him a second summons if I reported it but I don't care whether drivers are nice, just want them to stay behind the stop line)

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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

as someone who grew up under the blasting pavement-roasting heat of the San Fernando Valley and then moved East I can tell you that all the people I grew up with including my parents would have walked in front of an oncoming train if they had to contend with humidity

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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

needless to say I am not Irish

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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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