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breaking news and internet ephemera at The New York Times.
May 11, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
Never gonna get tired of seeing this dog when I’m out for a walk. Image Hello dog Image
Jan 24, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
The dogs of London are very happy with the snow today but I’m not sure I can say the same for this cat Here is a cheese shop in the London snow, if the Venn diagram of those two things pleases you as much as it does me
Oct 9, 2020 14 tweets 5 min read
Jim Dwyer was one of the greatest of the greats. His New York Times colleagues chose a selection of some of his work for the paper: nytimes.com/2020/10/08/nyr… First up is this piece about how a window washer used a squeegee to free himself and others trapped in an elevator.

"At that moment -- 8:48 a.m. -- 1 World Trade Center had entered the final 100 minutes of its existence."

nytimes.com/2001/10/09/nyr…
Dec 31, 2019 23 tweets 7 min read
I'm a tiny bit obsessed with Bing, and what they're doing in the news space to compete with Google. Obsessed might be too much, but let's say "more curious than most, which isn't saying a lot because who is actually curious about Bing?" anyway ... 1/? Their trending bar is usually the same standard mix of top stories of the day, with a secondary emphasis on the weird and the quirky. Here's today's. If you've been on twitter or a local news site in the last 48 hours, you know most of these.
Aug 26, 2019 38 tweets 2 min read
She Wrote a Headline. Then She Added Another Sentence. They Thought the House Was a Steal. Then the Ghost Showed Up.
Aug 19, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
Protesters in Hong Kong have been using Pepe the Frog — a character long ago co-opted by the alt-right and some hate groups in America — as a symbol of their movement. "It just looks funny," one said.

nytimes.com/2019/08/19/wor… Pepe's creator, Matt Furie, has long been upset at how his character was taken in by hate groups in the U.S. He tried to save him for years: nytimes.com/2016/10/18/us/…
May 23, 2019 24 tweets 10 min read
ok, so, i had to know more.

(1/???)

First, the survey is a year old (unless the same company repeated the same survey again this year and I'm just bad at Googling?)