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Tom Scola
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 1d
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 2d
Red Hook, 2019 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400
Photograph of a wall of an industrial building in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The wall, which has two shades of brown stucco, is covered in pipes: There are four electrical conduits clamped to the wall, each one has an oval access port where the electrical wire enters the building. There is also a fifth pipe clamped to the wall labeled “NATURAL GAS”. You would think that due to the risk of arcing it would be unsafe to have a natural gas pipeline right next to your electrical supply, but what do I know? I guess the people who assembled this knew what they were doing and that this is safe enough. The natural gas pipeline snakes around a mailbox. Taped to the mailbox is a faded, handwritten illegible note giving unreadable instructions to the mail carrier. Resting on top of a horizontal section of pipe is a 20oz cup of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee. This photograph is one in my series of “abandoned beverage container” photographs. It’s hard for me to walk around these industrial areas, and *not* find cups of coffee or other drinks lying around in perfectly composed positions. If I go to Red Hook, or Bushwick, or East Williamsburg, I can count on getting at least one photo in every roll of film that I take.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 3d
She’s being set up to fail in a classic Glass Cliff scenario.
Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed
Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 3d
Red Hook, 2019 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400
Vertical photograph of the doorway to a residential building in Red Hook, Brooklyn. This door is bright red, and is illuminated by the midday summer sun. The red is captured beatifully by the UltraMax. Above the doorway is an old, misshapen aluminum awning, colored a much duller shade of red alternating with black. The sides of the building are clad in what looks like asphalt roofing shingles, an unconventional application of the product which amazingly looks better than it ought to. However, using roofing material for your building’s siding is not without its issues. You can’t see it here, but the areas around the building’s windows have undergone many retrofittings to prevent leaking. Next to the building’s stoop is a planter filled with bright red flowers that match the door. Also next to the doorway mounted on the front wall are two electric meters, indicating that this building is a duplex. Next to the building on the left is a fenced off lot that has sat empty for at least a couple of decades.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 5d
Ridgewood, 2019 #BlackAndWhite #BelieveInFilm #400TX
The first in a diptych of vertical black and white photographs taken underneath the elevated M train in Ridgewood, Queens. This shows one of the steel columns holding up the structure; it’s old and rusted and covered with ivy. Behind it is a sad-looking chain link fence, and behind that are some parked cars. The second in a diptych of vertical black and white photographs taken underneath the elevated M train in Ridgewood, Queens. This is taken from a different angle; there’s still a chain link fence, but behind it is a small brick structure, probably a garage, covered in graffiti. Above is the elevated train structure, it is rusted, and is crying out for a new coat of paint. The ground is covered with weeds.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 7d
Ridgewood, 2019 #BelieveInFilm #BlackAndWhite #400TX
Black and white photograph of the front window of a bodega in Ridgewood, Queens. The window is chaotic collage of posters and stickers for stuff that it sells; mostly lottery tickets, beer, and tobacco products. In front of the store is some kind of barrel whose purpose is unknown to me. Next to it are baskets of some kind of cheap product that it sells that the owners don’t seem to be too concerned if they were pinched by some passersby. In front of that is parked a scooter.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 9d
This post?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11d
is ezra klein still active on Twitter? Wouldn't be the first guy who's cooked his brain on it now that the algos are run by Elon and right-wingers bsky.app/profile/noth...
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 11d
A lot of pundits go bad because they stop learning anything. Klein is better than many pundits at staying engaged enough to learn new things.

The problem is that he has learned a lot of stuff that is wrong. He trusts pundit consensus too much to check it against reality.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 9d
Ridgewood, 2019 #BelieveInFilm #400TX #BlackAndWhite
Close-up black and white photograph of the façade of a building in Ridgewood, Queens. The building is clad in my favorite siding material, Inselbrik. The asphalt here is probably over 60 years old, is quite weathered, but is otherwise holding up quite nicely. On the top left is a window with an air conditioner mounted in it, encased in an iron cage. There is, inexplicably, a power cord hanging off the AC unit, but it can’t from the AC itself, since it is a two-prong plug The siding has several generations of posters adhered to it, with instructions from DSNY about how to sort recycling. There are also outlines of glue on the wall where other posters once were.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 11d
You can disagree with how Eric Adams ran the city, but you have to agree that he improved parking in the city.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 11d
Well, that was an excruciatingly typical Mets season.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 12d
OK, maybe a little. There’s still the bottleneck at Whitehall, though.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 12d
It might make service more regular for stops in Brooklyn that are only served by the R train, but it will hardly make much of a difference to people in Manhattan and Queens.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 14d
Red Hook, 2019 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400
Close-up photograph of the façade of an industrial building in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. This is where the building used to have a window, but at some point in the building’s history, the owners no longer wanted their employees to be able to look outside and see the sun, so the building’s windows were closed off with brick and plaster, and painted a uniform brown-orange color. A single strand of ivy creeps down from above; its intense green provides a perfect complement to the brown-orange. In the center of the frame is the window’s wooden frame, which when originally built, was carefully grooved by the craftspeople installing the window, to give the building an architectural flourish. But over the years the wood has warped, and pieces have broken off, revealing the grain structure of the wood underneath the veneer. A simple photograph, but a fascinating one. I keep staring at it and find myself getting lost in the details, like a Mandelbrot set. This photo is already pretty close-up, but I want to keep zooming in more and more.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 15d
Red Hook, 2019 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400
The first photo in a diptych of close-up photographs of a very rusty wall in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. (As in the last photo I posted, this is technically located in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood; Red Hook is on the other side of the street. But these photos have more of a Red Hook vibe than a Carroll Gardens vibe, so I labelled them as such). This is a section of very old, very rusty corrugated metal siding. This was once galvanized, but the thin layer of zinc has almost entirely peeled and flaked away, and the remaining metal has acquired a thick patina of rust. Over the years, the siding has been painted many times, by the building owner, and a legion of street artists. But the paint, too, has succumbed to the rust, and what remains is a faint, ghostly image etched in the patina. On the top right is another sheet of corrugated metal, patched over top the original siding, that has acquired its own unique patina, a different shade of rust, because this is a different alloy of steel that has its own oxidation properties. Attached to this sheet is a sign, warning potential street artists that CAMERAS ARE IN USE, which obviously was not the deterrent that the building owners wished it was. The second in a diptych of close-up photographs of the side of a very rusty building in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. This is the same building as in the first photo, but this is of a doorway. On the top right is a NO TRESSPASSING sign affixed to the door, and on the top left is another CAMERA IN USE sign. Affixed to the door is another strip of metal, bolted to the wall haphazardly with screw holes every inch or two. The owner of the building really likes to attach pieces of metal to his metal siding, and doesn’t seem to understand that he is only increasing the amount of rust his building is accumulating, as the different metals in contact with each other cause galvanic corrosion.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 17d
Bud Plant is calling it a day: A conversation with the comics retail pioneer - The Comics Journal
Bud Pant's Incredible Exit Interview by Zach Rabiroff.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 17d
Hmm... it can’t be because these Silicon Valley people have completely eradicated their dopamine receptors through excessive drug use, can it?
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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 18d
open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.
You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual
The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 18d
Red Hook, 2019 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400
Vertical landscape photograph of a street in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. (Technically, this is actually Carroll Gardens. To the left, on the other side of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel is where Red Hook starts. But this photograph has Red Hook vibes, so I labelled it as such. Carroll Garden vibes are something completely different). On the ride side of the street is a construction site—a brand new construction site. You can tell that it’s new because the temporary plywood fencing has a fresh coat of hunter green paint, and the water-filled traffic barriers are shiny and new. And the fencing has its first tag, and it’s an impressive one. It’s a single-line drawing of a face by Brooklyn street artist 0H10M1ke, who is represented in the collections of the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum. I wonder if this artwork was saved. 0H10M1ke made it more difficult by spanning the drawing across two different sheets of plywood.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 18d
Earth Wind and Fire
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 19d
Wax paper from a bagel shop.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 20d
Red Hook, 2019 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400
Cropped vertical photograph of a doorway to an industrial building in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. The door sits under an open rolling gate. The door is metal, and is covered in a thick patina of rust. The rust covers the door unevenly, so it looks somewhat like a Rothko painting, with streaks and splotches of light- and dark-colored rust. At the bottom of the door, the name "OLD WERLD" is scrawled on the door with chalk. It is unclear if Old Werld is the name of the establishment, or if it is some amateurish graffiti tag. The wall next to the door is grey, but it is also covered in streaks and splotches of plaster and paint, so it too looks like a Rothko painting, albeit one much less colorful. Also like a Rothko painting, this photograph is meant to be stared at while you contemplate the mysteries of universe. Please take the opportunity to pause, take a few breaths, and calm down, while you experience this photograph’s enigmatic beauty.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 21d
a post from Alex Blechman God: In my book I invented the GOLDEN CALF as a cautionary tale Evangelicals: At long last, we have created the GOLDEN CALF from the classic novel THE BIBLE
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 22d
Gowanus, 2019 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400
Photograph of a circular convex safety mirror mounted on a sidewalk in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Behind the mirror is a graffiti-strewn fence, and reflected in the mirror are some graffiti-strewn industrial buildings. Also reflected in the mirror is an empty lot that is surrounded by construction fencing. That lot is now a fourteen-unit building whose condos sell for $3–4 million, yet is incredibly shoddy-looking, not to mention ugly. The building in the mirror has been torn down, and is now a 21-story apartment building with 517 units that is due to open in a few weeks, which at least thankfully has a number of low-income units. As this area gets built up, it is also undergoing intense remediation under the EPA Superfund. As such, the stench from the canal is much less intense than it historically has been. The air in the vicinity is constantly monitored, and seems to be OK, yet the readings from the interior of some of the area’s buildings show dangerously high readings of trichloroethylene, which is a known carcinogen.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 23d
It was better in other ways, though.
Opinion: On the New Haven Railroad's legendary club car #5113
New Haven Railroad’s commuter trains used to have a handful of private, first-class 'club cars.' Among the most legendary was car #5113.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 24d
Boerum Hill, 2019 #BelieveInFilm #UltraMax400
Photograph of a construction site in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. The site has three layers of fencing; in the foreground is the building site’s original, which consists of wrought-iron fencing sitting atop a brownstone base. The iron has a patina that perfectly matches the color of the brownstone. Behind that is what looks like some “temporary” chain link fencing, which in spite of its supposed temporary nature, has been on site for many years, and is twisted and rusted. Behind that is even more temporary construction fencing, made of particleboard and painted the mandated hunter green. The green fence and the rusted metal and brownstone make for interesting complementary colors. There are weeds sprouting up from cracks in the sidewalk at the bottom, and there is quite a bit of garbage stuffed in between the layers of fences. The sun catches the scene at a perfect angle, and the chain link casts a fascinating shadow on the green fence behind it. This site had been sitting in this state for several years before I took this photo, and it continued sitting there for several more years, until finally, construction on the site started in earnest last year. The brownstone building behind it was stripped of its façade and it was gut renovated. The brownstone fencing was also ripped out. What remains is a thoroughly boring grey building with incredibly bland white interiors, which makes it part of the ongoing conspiracy to remove all aspects of color from our lives. The building consists of four units, which retail for about $1.6 million each.
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Tom Scola @heyscola.bsky.social · 25d
Share a favorite cover as a timeline cleanse if you’d like.
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