You know a person like this, someone who is present for you and makes you feel special. They give back to their community in small and larger ways. www.newsday.com/long-island/... Subscribe for whatever few ¢ to read this loveliness from @newsday.bsky.social's excellent Olivia Winslow.

To those who say, “clearing brush will not prevent wildfire in SoCal,” the main purpose of cultural fire in SoCal is not to protect houses & wilderness, it’s to produce food & materials, and to conserve animal habitat & water. But a tended landscape is also a less dangerous place for houses.

AI slop, Image edition: Trucks parked on sidewalks, cars on the grass, McMansion townhouses side by side. A tell: Articles with a table of contents should be suspect.

Scandal: NY AG reviewing potential 'hijacking' of progressive Working Families Party (WFP) ballot line by operatives to split vote. Candidate, 83, was unaware they were the WF nominee. Democratic candidate might have won, leading to blue sweep of the two open seats. www.newsday.com/long-island/...

By the numbers, people love the Long Island lifestyle. They feel safe, for example. But ... Affordability, affordability, affordability! Especially the inability for young working folks to stake an ownership claim along with little political will to act on big picture plans, a longtime problem.

Automakers' own app dashboards leading to stuff like "heated seat function of ... vehicles as a subscription." It's how automakers want to bring in revenue, adding even more to privacy and planned obsolescence concerns. A compelling reason for many to keep dumb and dirty cars.

Tonight: Long Island Quality of Life Forum with @newsday.bsky.social staff and Sienna College pollster. Might be a few seats left at the Farmingdale Library. www.newsday.com/long-island/... Many survey cross tabs to explore clicking through the graphs at www.newsday.com/long-island/...

Good morning. Enjoy amateur Aurora borealis pix. Photo below from family in Truckee, Cal. bsky.app/search?q=aur... mas.to/tags/aurora - Many from Europe

I'll be at the Long Island Smart Growth Summit December 5th. Priorities: Affordable housing, affordability in general, transport, downtown revitalization, youth. After: near certain disagreement on how to get there. Link is to a PDF, not a form. 63.135.124.150/smart_talk/b...

PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal. Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly. Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/

'We want brown tyres to become the norm' - Are Vittoria's new recycled Terreno Pro gravel tyres the future? https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/we-want-brown-tyres-to-become-the-norm-are-vittorias-new-recycled-terreno-pro-gravel-tyres-the-future/

@cityofhattiesburg.bsky.social Lovely! www.hattiesburgamerican.com/picture-gall...

I saw a Peacock butterfly in the South Downs at the weekend. Is anyone else in the UK seeing weird signs of a "second summer for nature" because of the mild weather? E.g. flowers blooming again, insects that wouldn't normally be out in November. Would love to hear your examples...

0°C/32°F this morning here in ancestral Matinecock territory on Long Island. Snowflakes flying in with the gusty northwest wind. Winter approaches in New York.

Meanwhile on that slender riotous island ...

Waymo said it has a "plan" for when one of the company's cars kills someone. But we should be planning for a world when no car kills anyone — autonomous or not.

The wins for sustainable transportation keep rolling in from last week's ballot box news. Learn more about Columbus, Ohio's big bond measure and more in headlines.

COP30 is the implementation COP. It relies less on big-government agreement and more on freeing and repurposing the finances to get the needed work done. Under current US administration policy, this money is less likely to flow through the U.S. valorinternational.globo.com/cop30-brazil...

You don't have to be good at anything or work very hard or be an opinion leader to appreciate the daily beauty offered by our very patient mother earth.

This from last month about the Long Island Greenway, a multi-use active transportation and recreation trail that breaks ground in 2026. Martin Buchmann of NY Bicycling Coalition reviews the plan and Eric Alexander of Vision Long Island holds up the map for him.

"There's no legitimate government reason to be doing this." ICE targets asylum-seekers who go to LI asylum office serving most of downstate New York, one of only 11 in the United States. www.newsday.com/long-island/... ...The arrests of asylum seekers at federal offices are far less known.

Here’s an easy way to find out how to donate to your local food bank this weekend. 🇺🇸 @feedingamerica.org give.feedingamerica.org/a/donate

Note to self: Bring delicate house plants inside. There is a frost warning tonight for Metro New York region.

Curb sales of SUVs to reduce harms to health and the environment, say experts. @eurekalert.bsky.social reposts @bmj.com: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

An apparently reasonable use of county IDA-granted tax exemptions.

Good for the EU! "Concrete proposal"? Since it's rail can this also mean it's an "ironclad commitment?" Interstate high-speed rail is possible in the US. Here is one idea for New York to Chicago: www.hsrail.org/blog/new-yor...

Wild: A Norwegian bus company wants to know if their buses could be abused by China in the case of war. So they drive two buses deep into a limestone mine to isolate them from the internet, and discover a Chinese kill switch. (In Danish, use autotranslate:) www.zetland.dk/historie/svN...

If I were still making editorial decisions I would 100% be assigning someone to do an explainer story: “Who was Eugene Debs?”

Dear siblings, Find yourself in clear moon light. Tonight is the night.

Explainer on New York Ballot Proposal 1. As good as any.

NYC political analysis is way out of my lane. But so-called centrists' breathless worry about Mamdani's threat to Democrats is wrong-headed. Trump destroyed the GOP with the wrecking ball of his persona. Mamdani is not that. He is a level-headed institutionalist who promises significant change.

People working hard to bring us food the last few feet. Something to consider when voting today.

@newsday.bsky.social reports residents/school district officials/firefighters seek to short-circuit battery energy storage facilities - especially 110MW storage on six acre site near existing distribution lines. www.newsday.com/long-island/...

In 2022, the AHA launched the most comprehensive study of the national US history teaching landscape undertaken in the 21st century. We wanted to know what is actually happening in public school classrooms across the country. Find out what we learned. 🗃️

No paper is perfect and our friends at @newsday.bsky.social print clunkers every now & then. This is a sweet, community lifestyle special by Joe Dziemianowicz that makes regional journalism essential. -Group fitness on Long Island builds motivation and community- www.newsday.com/lifestyle/re...

Mice eat soap. It's one of those things you know, but don't think much about until, missing your peripatetic shoehorn, enter that little-used guest room for the first time in months.

Great tech demo but thinking gee-whiz publicity may cloud critical analysis in popular media unintentionally favoring *excessive* reliance on incumbent transport systems. interestingengineering.com/energy/world...

Dislikes? It's you training Bluesky so that you're less likely to see what they think is similar. And, they suggest it feeds an algorithm to derank some post replies. More in their link: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Best read in clear, bright sunlight. Dense, fascinating abstract & meditation of Iraq War II and its aftershadows by great photographer Moises Saman. Buy, or loan at Suffolk County New York library system.

Sweet street treats: Frame of Halloween fun video from a family member living in Woodlawn, Bronx. Busy, busy!

Stand-out stat: "Records don’t show a single pedestrian killed by an e-bike in the city. Meanwhile, in Delta alone, cars kill and injure more than 1,000 people every year, according to Insurance Corporation of British Columbia data."

From @autoblog.bsky.social Do Massive EVs Make Any Sense? www.autoblog.com/features/do-...

A jogger runs in the misty rain and slippery conditions along Pidgeon Hill Road in South Huntington, New York. Weather photo from yesterday - no sale - 😿. Anyway, note the car at the top of the frame parked on the poorly constructed sidewalk, an overgrown, unraised asphalt trail. Deadly.

More and more deer in average suburban yards. This is mine. Never had them in the decades I've lived here. The yard has asters, violets, goldenrod,, wild lettuce, etc. And other plants I have to pull out like knotweed, wineberry, docks, and mugwort - but they eat it.

@pitaarji.bsky.social reports for @newsday.bsky.social on the woeful lack of bike infrastructure on Long Island. www.newsday.com/long-island/... ... the lack of bike infrastructure on Long Island, where 49 cyclists were killed between 2019 and 2023.

Sweet memories of words that never die. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...

Whether you're on foot, cycling, driving or delivering the mail here in the east, take care. Rain, wind, with blowing leaves, makes travel especially treacherous.

Social, messenger, blog, and news media posts, usually (not always) from the global far right, claim EV batteries aren’t recyclable. Meanwhile, Chinese EV standards leap ahead and the U.S. decays into irrelevance despite our deep knowledge and creativity.

Grants of up to $5,000 will be made to selected student groups that present compelling proposals.

Hard truth: Candy corn is a beautiful confection. Also true: Utterly inedible even if wikipedia tries it hardest to make it appear good. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candy_c...