This is such an obvious, well-known, long-running issue and no one with the power to do anything about it cares nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/05/z...

The fact that kids look similar to both parents is simultaneously the most self-evident fact in all of human developmental history, and also somehow shocking to me every time. “That kid looks a little like his mom, and a little like his dad!”, I say gobsmacked as I fall out of my chair yet again

Can’t believe I am going to wash dishes on a Sunday evening while listening in on arguments in federal court, but here we are

Oh hell yeah @nygroove.nyc — no nostalgia in the world like NYC dive bar nostalgia! bsky.app/profile/nygr...

On one hand: furloughed On the other hand: weekday visit to NY Transit Museum with a 4 year old, hell yeah

Is @hellgatenyc.com or someone else working on the Gen X/Xennial “Bars That Shaped a Generation” oral history feature? I’m hearing Siberia, Continental, Alibi, Fish Bar, so many others…

I learned a lot about how to be (and how not to be!) an adult in NYC by drinking at Siberia.

The best evidence that this new speed limit is a haphazard, half-assed initiative is that the Adams administration seemingly has no coherent plan for implementing it. hellgatenyc.com/15-mph-e-bik...

a beautifully illustrated and deeply troubling piece that is well worth your time to read

Tired: getting into 3D printing and generating cheapo schlock Wired: Marrying a sculptor/ceramicist and asking for ridiculous custom hand-crafted artisanal kitchen gadgets based on hare-brained ideas

This is the hat I wear every day. RIP to an all-time great who led the ensemble cast of one of the greatest caper films of all time.

I first saw Sneakers in college. The year was 1992 and I was 17. They did a special screening on campus because Lawrence Lasker was an alum. Anyway, it was the first movie I saw Robert Redford in and it was CINEMA. Best movie ever. RIP to that handsome unproblematic man.

Much like Bean Dad, when my children ask for the tablet I give them a 286 cpu, boot disks for MS-DOS 3.3, and a C:\> If they can figure out how to get in trouble online from there they’ve earned it 💾

Crystal Hudson just sent out an email blast telling ebike riders to "SLOW DOWN!" Where's the email blast to car drivers responsible for 99% of the injuries & deaths? Where's the outrage about ghost plates? Or how about the single 2024 Kia Forte terrorizing her district and racking up speeding tix?

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

Imagine going to prison because you wanted speaking lines on a TV show and some people who *really* hate bike lanes arranged for you to have a scene with Forest Whitaker so that you would in return kill the bike lanes that they *really* disliked.

I'd like to emphasize that you can make a totally above-board donation to support @katiehonan.bsky.social's work at @thecity.nyc right here. All you get in return is great journalism, and a tax deduction. It's up to you whether you itemize any potato chips you include.

The corruption is bad, but the ham-fisted execution of the corruption is ASTONISHINGLY STUPID

Once again, the people accusing safe streets advocates of controlling city government were the ones doing the bribes.

Lmao they’re being indicted for bribing Adams to kill a bike lane.

Whoever picks the WNYC music interludes is going hard on Mingus Ah Um this morning, and I am here for it!

when I lived in brooklyn, I didn’t know my rental was stabilized until the WHISTLEBLOWER IN THIS PROPUBLICA INVESTIGATION literally sent a letter to my apartment. I am so serious, that’s how I found out I had lived there for years without knowing

This is really about the decline of regional newspapers. If everyone had cute little public interest stories like "A Sonnet For The Streetlight Poles of Peoria" people wouldn't lose their minds when the NY paper writes a cute little public interest story about the NYC thing

It’s just matrix multiplication

I’m Tronpenct Truets

Took my 4yo on the overnight Amtrak to Chicago, we stayed in a roomette. My review: hell yeah! Both of us are now officially train nuts, would 1000% take overnight trains again. Trains are the best. 🚂

It seems wild to me to put John Yoo on the radio as an expert guest and not a single time mention that he wrote the Torture Memos

Do they still teach Ranganathan's Five Laws of Library Science at information schools?

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

Americans will drive their kids to the combination trampoline gym/gun store in a suburban strip mall at 85mph in a 6000lb SUV a dozen times a week, and will still complain that the NYC subway is unsafe.

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

It's ironic that while driving a car IS the most dangerous thing most people do each day for me, a public transit user with no car, the most dangerous thing I do each day is cross the street at a crosswalk with the right of way and traffic lights in all 4 directions. Which is SHOCKINGLY dangerous!

Autonomous cars are better than human-operated cars. But they are still cars and transit is better.

the alleged hacker says they've hit 3 universities. they have an ax to grind about the supposed favored status of racial minorities in American society. they also now have essentially acquired lists of people categorized by race www.theverge.com/analysis/703...

this story brought to you by: everyone who has been to a park at dusk in the past month

This week marks my first year as Managing Director for the IIIF Consortium. It’s been a busy year and full of notable events. Take a look at the @iiif.bsky.social site for some reflections on the past year / iiif.io/news/2025/07...

Holy smokes that is a colossal screw up and error correction on the part of NYTimes!

Does anyone remember that leaked NYTimes "Innovation Report" from 2014? I remember some parts of it very clearly, like "[t]he value of the homepage is decreasing." Has there been anything comparable for the impending AI analytics cliff, in terms of web/digital strategy?

No idea what the final composition of the electorate will be, but that's 41% of the 2021 turnout in the bag.

I have been voting for ~25 years, I feel the need to be informed about my vote to a fault, and yet the judges sneak up on me every year. Genuine thank you to all the local platforms that put out voter guides!

Telling me "the subway is so dangerous now" is my immediate sign that you need your TV taken away and your news algorithm adjusted www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...?

Good data alert nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/18/c...

A reporter from The City had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, “Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?” www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...

Lawmakers continue to do everything in their power not to regulate abhorrent driver behavior, thank god they’re so focused on e-bikes nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/11/s...

Just took MapReader for a spin—an open-source tool for analyzing historical maps, from my former #MachinesReadingMaps colleagues. I'm honestly in awe of their text spotting results! Example here—that's out-of-the-box config, default model, no tweaks, no cherry-picking! 🤯 mapreader.rainersimon.io

Still the most mind-blowing fact about the New York City subway is that more people take it on a daily basis than fly domestically in the United States. www.faa.gov/air_traffic/...

Generations of toy makers have tried in vain to emulate the success of a basic salad spinner in holding the attention of small children.

Is there a term for when you hear a strange noise and you start looking around for the source of the noise but then you lock eyes with your cat using the litter box and that was the source of the noise and everyone just feels deeply uncomfortable for a while afterwards -- is there a word for that?