Logging out and deleting The Apps.

Andrew Cuomo tells his landlord friends in Westchester what they're going to get out of Zohran Mamdani's Rent Guidelines Board:

Big victory for Zohran and the odds for a rent freeze 📈

The New York State Department of Health @nysdoh.bsky.social announces the state is experiencing the highest number of flu hospitalizations (4,546) recorded in a single week. That's 1,000 more flu hospitalizations than the prior week.

FWIW: there's a valid concerns about security and the Mayor's ability to communicate. But it wouldn't be a half bad use of public dollars to retrofit an older subway car to be the Mayor's HQ on the tracks.

Flying taxis and self-driving cars are hogwash solutions. So are the so-called micromobility solutions (scooters, ebikes, etc.) Buses move 40-60 people in the most space-efficient manner, and yet have routes impeded by assholes on slow scooters carrying 1 guy + cargo for treatlers.

1/1/2026 was better than 1/1/2025. I am thankful for that. Just 364 more days to go, one day at a time.

Honestly, the biggest deal in NYC is that we have a Mayor who likes the city and its people and *who wants to be Mayor* and isn't badmouthing us to impress five swing voters in Iowa. Really, Mayors should never think of running for higher office because there truly is no higher office.

Government by the human race, of the human race, against the human race

Just submitted the first ever FOIL request to Zohran Mamdani's City Hall (let's hope they do a better job than previous admins at following the law)

Mamdani’s first act as mayor? Announcing the city as an interested party in my slumlord landlord Pinnacle’s bankruptcy auction. (And a slew of executive orders addressing housing!)

I'm going to second this. Weaver is one of the people who helped get the 2019 rent laws passed finally strengthening tenant protections. It's got to be said that without real tenant protections and enforcement with teeth (put! slumlords! in! prison!), then YIMBY policy is just REBNY policy.

First day of a new era for tenants! Mayor Mamdani announces that he’s objecting to the auction of 93 Pinnacle properties, and he’s appointing Cea Weaver to direct the Mayor’s Office of Tenant Protection. I don’t know anyone who will fight harder for tenants! Watch out Pinnacle and other slumlords!

Cea Weaver heading the revived Office to protect tenants is a big deal. Mamdani putting a longtime tenant activist in this seat is in some ways suprising and in other ways, not at all, given what we know about Zohran. Exciting!

In his first press conference as NYC mayor, Zohran Mamdani announced three executive orders on housing and tenant protection One will revive the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants. He also revoked prior orders issued since Eric Adams’s indictment

This guy's name is going to create so much social media chaos, like "The weirdo QAnon general stopped working for Russia and is working with Mamdani now???"

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and Rawa Duwaji on Inauguration Day, January 1, 2035, NYC City Hall! More pictures coming soon - I took a bunch and everyone was beautiful! Happy New Year, friends. We're gonna win.

Is this the first Mayoral Inauguration with an Omnichord performance?

The hater becomes a waiter at the table of success

Yip Harburg, the writer of Somewhere Over the Rainbow, was a City College alumnus and member of the Socialist Party who was blacklisted.

omg @berniew.bsky.social announcing this is NYC civic nerd catnip

The VIP section for Mamdani's inauguration looks legitimately happy, including that guy from Ft. Lee.

Playing Billy Joel at his inauguration is like Mamdani stabbing Andrew Cuomo right in the heart and I'm living for it

There he is: no majority, no ACA subsidy renewal, no Mayor Cuomo. I said to myself, "What a loser you are." (Real OG's will know this reference)

Nice illustration of misallocated resources when funders dump money on bike nonprofits and not sound transit policy "In the last four years, the city installed about 28 miles of bus lanes and 95 miles of protected bike lanes, according to the Transportation Department" Meanwhile, in the real world

Maybe this will be the year when It Happens

There is an undeniable shared understanding in humanity. When people see "I hope this year it will happen" there is not a slightest doubt what "it" means.

Eric Adams is no longer mayor of NYC after one term

This video doesn't just live in my head rent free, I have wanted to pay Danny DeVito good money for decades of remembering his silly dancing

Look ma, we made it to the Times! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...

I’m trying to think what would have happened if, during the Mississippi welfare fraud scandal between 2020 and 2023, the Biden administration had halted *all* federal welfare funding to Mississippi. The right would have lost it; Fox & GOP would have called for an armed revolt.

Let the real countdown begin.

"[dead name] was right" - neoNazi who did not realize there was a leak in the 'secure' chat

2005, try going to West Village Magnolia location with friends. Find out it's closed. Bummer. Add insult to injury *skinhead girl waltzes in right after we had door closed on us.* To mollify us staff lets one of us in to order. Find out from friend, this was skinhead girl:

Just got through the Elric of Melnibone audiobook as a palate cleanser for all the horror I've been reading, and now I think I've listened to enough cheesy fantasy narration for a lifetime.

Eric Adams has had four police commissioners: the first was bigfooted by the Banks family of organized crime, the second was a crook who shook down bars for bribes with his twin brother, and the third is suing Adams as a racketeer. Tisch is only the third longest serving of these four.

If you put the needle on Side B of Songs of Love and Hate at 3:50AM December 31, you hear Leonard Cohen sing the line "It's four in the morning, the end of December" at exactly 4:00AM, the end of December, you will collapse in a heap of despair and never go clear.

Sober and foamer-coded, I love it.

RFK Jr. factor had some role in this, but also note: it's the first flu season after CVS killed MinuteClinics, Walgreens pared locations to go private and Rite Aid shut down. This is really a big flashing warning light about making for-profit pharmacies load-bearing infrastructure for healthcare.

I still stand by @thatweissguy.bsky.social ‘s observation that everyone smoking and drinking alcohol all the damn time murdered mid-Cebtury American tastebuds so badly that they would make any awful recipe a magazine told them about just to taste SOMETHING.

Do I know any animators on here? Making an 8-10 minute short film that plays like an animated children's book. Specifically hand-drawn-style or paint-style, but still functionally CG using modern software and workflows. No AI please.

Dead racist alert

This is the @radcliffescilib.bsky.social's Worry Box. Students are invited to write down a worry and post it anonymously. The worries are then shredded and sent to the Botanic Gardens, where it is used as fertiliser. A simple way to acknowledge stress and transform it into something positive. 🪴

Finished The Lamb by Lucy Rose. Overall verdict: liked it. Wanted to love it, because the plot's tension was so taut and the themes had such an emotional intensity, but it feels like one narrative choice paints the entire book into a corner.

“a crazed mob wanted to literally kill her and she’s mad we didn’t denounce the guy who set it all in motion. psh. women.”

On 26 December 1965, Franca Viola, then aged 16, is kidnapped from her home in Alcamo. She is raped by her ex-fiancé, who then puts pressure on her and her family to accept a "rehabilitating marriage". Franca becomes the first woman in Italy to publicly refuse this practice [Thread] >> 1

Just a nice confirmation I'm not taking crazy pills

[RFK Jr. goes to Ovaltine factory] Show me where you put the tism!

Ho ho ho bastitches