The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

Lyft is responsible for clearing snow from Citi Bike's infrastructure, according to its contract with the city. A city official said they were stunned that Lyft was doing such a bad job.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

we don't need sympathy we need a thaw

I walk dogs on the UES. I needed this story. I thought it was just my own depression but alas everyone can see and feel the city’s filth.

a statement indicative of a fundamental and deep misunderstanding of how a densely packed city of 8 million functions

"It’s the lingering — an almost aggressive lingering — that makes the deep freeze feel especially merciless. Often, after a big winter storm, New York City gets warmer temperatures, or rain, which helps wash the snow and accumulated crud away."

nothings melting or thawing and the vibes are brutal www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/n...

ppl put metrocards in their mouths???? 👀

It's definitely "goodbye" to the MetroCard simply because it's a tangible symbol of New York. It is globally known and unique. Its replacement, the OMNY card, will never know this love.

"Try to throw one away, and it would zigzag through the air with an unexpected trajectory, like a chaotically deflating balloon. Piles of them accumulated near trash cans. A gust of dank wind rushing through a subway tunnel would send several cards fluttering onto the tracks like confetti."

The MetroCard will take its last ride in this heavily guarded room in Queens. Take a tour with me, the transit nerd in the chocolate factory www.nytimes.com/card/2025/12...

🚨✌🏽 goodbye (and good riddance?) to the metrocard www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/n...

📖📖📖 some personal news: I'm writing a book!

spent some time getting to know my neighbors... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/n...

My fave guide to Paris was written in 1953 by Ollie Stewart, my great-uncle, a WWII correspondent, + one of the many Black expats who chose Paris over USA's Jim Crow -- his little book for Black travelers is called PARIS HERE I COME 💘 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/t...

This is lovely:

My fave guide to Paris was written in 1953 by Ollie Stewart, my great-uncle, a WWII correspondent, + one of the many Black expats who chose Paris over USA's Jim Crow -- his little book for Black travelers is called PARIS HERE I COME 💘 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/t...

learning to write... is learning to think structurally, intentionally, deliberately it organizes how one arrives at conclusions

CBS published a story yesterday about this, but if you want to read @dodai.bsky.social ‘s original story from early January, it is a much better read.

all these technological advances and i still can't take a picture of the moon w my phone

He’s a Security Guard at the Met. Now His Work Is Showing There. Beautiful story by @dodai.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...

Mr. Khalil had an idea and a piece of wood — part of a stump — that he had found close to a park a few blocks away from his small storefront studio in Bayonne, N.J. Over the next six months, he plotted and created his sculpture. By @dodai.bsky.social

On this day of horror and impending chaos, a wonderful NYT story by Dodai Stewart of an immigrant from Egypt, now U.S. citizen, who found his dream job as a security guard at the Met Museum, and now has his sculpture featured in one of the its major exhibitions. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...

In 2023, Armia Khalil, a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, saw a visitor wandering through a gallery, clearly looking for something specific. The encounter was brief — five minutes, maybe less — but it changed Khalil’s life… nyti.ms/3Wcevnr

I'd heard @dodai.bsky.social was working on this story, then found myself in the exhibit one day a few weeks ago while trying to get someplace else in the Met, so stopped to find the sculpture and was quite taken with it. I'm looking forward to reading the full story over my morning coffee.

I love this story by @dodai.bsky.social. Free link www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/n...

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