I love Anthony the dancing guy in Prospect Park ("Get it get it brother! Peace and love, all blessings!") and I wonder what it's like to have that much serotonin
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I do data visualization and user-centered design of health information, civic tech, I ride bicycles, I think about chronic diseases, I make dumb jokes, and I try to stay off the internet.
Dolly Parton wrote "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" on the same weekend.
One thing about speed cameras: they're mainly a tax on people who DON'T live in your city (and also they boost safety *mostly for residents* by changing those people's behavior). Kind of a win-win-win for local government.
The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 5d ago"Cameras issued nearly 200,000 citations — and more than half were mailed to an address outside of Oakland..."
Can I get my 100-year-old coop to retrofit itself to look like Bosco Verticale? probably not but a fella can dream
Click in if you want a medium-length thread about why I spend 1/4rd of my "data vis" trainings on writing.
matty@mattio.bsky.social · 2w ago...And that unnecessary complexity is particularly stupid when our goal is to get people to take a specific action that depends on them understanding the information.
Aaaaaand, the Health Department has published an evaluation of congestion pricing's effect on air quality. No major surprise that it didn't have a huge effect, but importantly it didn't INCREASE air quality in surrounding neighbs of concern a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPub...
NYC congestion pricing report – Environment & Health Data Portal
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i have drunk the iced coffee that was in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast forgive me it was so delicious and so cold and i didn't sleep well and you know i usually prefer hot coffee but on summer days iced coffee is really good also do you like affogato because we should h
::cracks knuckles:: about to spend some time on my favorite website, DCAS Surplus Auctions!
The look of betrayal my dog just gave me when I kicked a chicken bone into the street and out of her path.
honestly, anybody who thinks that tech is going to make war "better" is a fucking idiot
Read it here: www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 3w agoToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
There oughta be a word for a vacation that you take not totally for fun, but because you have to, and it's not as good as one truly for YOU. Oblication?
Because the liars are out lying again— I wrote this from Paterson NJ in April 2020
‘Anybody who says they’re not scared during this is lying to you.’ A day in the life of paramedics in a pandemic | CNN
The man lay unconscious in the back of the ambulance, parked in front of the nursing home on the Passaic River. Another life slipping away before the paramedics of Paterson, N.J. For these health care...
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"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Mr. Incredible Working Tiredly
ALT: Mr. Incredible Working Tiredly
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Thomas@thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 4w agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
there is a fruiting peach tree in my Brooklyn neighborhood, folks
would kill to see the data from MVDP's power file here
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.The greatest finish on the Champs-Élysées ever!
Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death
some are calling it New York’s best underground art museum www.mta.info/agency/arts-...
MTA Arts & Design
MTA Arts & Design encourages the use of public transit by presenting visual and performing arts throughout the MTA system.
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Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social · last mo.uh oh I’m emotional about the 72nd St. Q train mosaics again
Saw a no loitering sign that said "Violators will be subject to a rest."
I love dollar vans, but wouldn't want transit service to NOT improve just so they can continue grey operations
Evan Simko-Bednarski@simko-bednarski.bsky.social · last mo.Great @stephennessen.bsky.social piece in Gothamist this morning on the fate of Brooklyn’s dollar vans gothamist.com/news/brookly...
Ursula K LeGuin perfectly redid this with her line "And we go to bed separately. And wearing boots" in the amazing novel The Dispossessed.
depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · last mo.from the article "There is no sex in the USSR" about the iconic catchphrase from the joint US–USSR broadcast that aired 40 years ago today!
The prospect of this rapid bus corridor all the way down Flatbush fills me with excitement
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2mo ago