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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com

That's the wrong coffee cup. If your coffee doesn't come in the blue and white cup it's probably too fresh and cost too much money.

The Magic Card: Bagel and Schmear A Greek Diner style coffee cup.
sep 2, 2025, 5:35 pm • 52 5

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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com

Crew 2: Objectively correct But no platform is that empty or clean. Chances are this is the Lexington Avenue line (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 trains in NYC are different sizes than the letter trains and the 7) and I'm calling this the Lexington line since it's green.

The Magic Card: Subway Train
sep 2, 2025, 5:35 pm • 11 1 • view
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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com

I can see my house from here... (Not really but it is just off screen to the right. The place I used to live, however, is absolutely visible in this art)

The Magic Card: Vibrant Cityscape
sep 2, 2025, 5:38 pm • 13 1 • view
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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com

Staten Island is the forgotten boro. You can get there by bus from Brooklyn but outside of that the only mass transit that goes there regularly is the Staten Island Ferr - and yes they are that shade of orange. Also it takes way more than an hour to get there who are you kidding Gwen?

The Magic Card: Passenger Ferry
sep 2, 2025, 5:40 pm • 9 1 • view
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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com

There's no stack of dried out over salted pretzels. Also if you don't want a hot dog order a knish from one of these things.

The Magic Card: Hot Dog Cart
sep 2, 2025, 5:43 pm • 7 1 • view
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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com

Gentrification. But really, a lot of prewar buildings are in neighborhoods where people who have lived in NYC a long time live, and are currently being displaced from. This looks like it could be the Upper West Side in Manahttan, Park Slope in Brooklyn, or Flushing in Queens (to name a few)

The Magic Card: Friendly Neighborhood
sep 2, 2025, 5:43 pm • 7 1 • view
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robotdharma.bsky.social @robotdharma.bsky.social

I just spent 30 minutes trying to imagine where that hot dog cart would be in my universe 😹🤡. Mercer/Spring/2019

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sep 2, 2025, 6:57 pm • 1 0 • view
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Brian David-Marshall (Top8Games) @bdm.bsky.social

How do you feel about "bagel and schmear" vs "bagel with/and A schmear"?

sep 2, 2025, 5:47 pm • 5 0 • view
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ThePhyrexian, Compleated Linguist 𓅄 @thephyrexian1999.bsky.social

Not exactly a seasoned New Yorker, but I am a seasoned Jew. The phrasing is fine but what's really missing is the lox, which in my humble opinion is really needed to balance out the schmear. Pumpernickel bagel with scrambled eggs, schmear, and lox is the best bagel, fight me

sep 2, 2025, 5:51 pm • 3 0 • view
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MattMT @mattmt.bsky.social

Spiderman has no money for salmon.

sep 2, 2025, 6:07 pm • 2 0 • view
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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com

Seasoned Jew - does that mean pastrami spice or Knorr?

sep 2, 2025, 5:52 pm • 5 0 • view
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Unsummoned Skull, the #Pokedeck Master @unsummonedskull.bsky.social

Everything Seasoning 😅

sep 2, 2025, 5:53 pm • 2 0 • view
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ThePhyrexian, Compleated Linguist 𓅄 @thephyrexian1999.bsky.social

You know it!

sep 2, 2025, 5:54 pm • 3 0 • view
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Unsummoned Skull, the #Pokedeck Master @unsummonedskull.bsky.social

I am also a seasoned Jew 😊

sep 2, 2025, 5:54 pm • 3 0 • view
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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com

There are three of us here so that means at least 12 opinions

sep 2, 2025, 5:56 pm • 5 0 • view
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ThePhyrexian, Compleated Linguist 𓅄 @thephyrexian1999.bsky.social

Actually I hold by it being at least 15

sep 2, 2025, 5:57 pm • 4 0 • view
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Josh Nelson (Burning Inquiry) @burninginquiry.bsky.social

sep 2, 2025, 5:55 pm • 3 0 • view
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Unsummoned Skull, the #Pokedeck Master @unsummonedskull.bsky.social

sep 2, 2025, 5:58 pm • 3 0 • view
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social

not having lox makes it vegetarian friendly, which i, a known bagel aficionado, appreciate

sep 2, 2025, 6:04 pm • 6 0 • view
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ThePhyrexian, Compleated Linguist 𓅄 @thephyrexian1999.bsky.social

Absolutely understandable and respected. The art should have at least been an everything bagel though

sep 2, 2025, 6:05 pm • 3 0 • view
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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social

oh, 100% no question. also, i love me a bagel with scrambled eggs and schmear so i'm down with your take

sep 2, 2025, 6:07 pm • 3 0 • view
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ThePhyrexian, Compleated Linguist 𓅄 @thephyrexian1999.bsky.social

Now I want a bagel. Unfortunately I live in Georgia so I have to buy them from the farmers market and make them myself

sep 2, 2025, 6:08 pm • 3 0 • view
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BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social

Carrot lox is .. surprisingly good!

sep 2, 2025, 6:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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BSD @davidhsiegel.bsky.social

if you zoom in you can see a bit of somethibg pink. Which is probably nova or other smoked salmon, but is getting called lox in this context.

sep 2, 2025, 6:15 pm • 1 0 • view
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Alex Ullman @nerdtothecore.com

My bigger issue is that it's not one word. And at least it's not "Egg cheese bacon on an English Muffin"

sep 2, 2025, 5:50 pm • 3 0 • view
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Alex Gattegno @agattegno.bsky.social

Feel like it should be with a, also I'd quibble that there is too much cream cheese on that bagel to be a schmear.

sep 2, 2025, 5:50 pm • 2 0 • view
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Cowboy Kyle @kyleccarson.bsky.social

I’m here for the little details

sep 2, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view