Rain gauges a few miles north of us showed 9 inches of rain in 6 hours
Casey Seiler@caseyseiler.bsky.social · last wk.Over the course of the past 24 hours, parts of upstate NY have received more rain than at any point since the back-to-back damage done by Irene and Lee in 2011. Follow the Times Union's live updates.
Probably shouldn’t admit this but I have spent my whole life saying “tele-MAH-cuss” and here comes Nolan’s film with “tell-AM-uh-cuss” 🧐
I can't/won't be explaining this further, but these came off the grill and it's time to play the music it's time to light the lights
boneset catmint bugbane bee balm gardening is just constant 1970s heavy metal song names
Achievements that I, an emigrant to NYC from Ohio, have been told will make me a "a real New Yorker:" - living here for (x) years - getting mugged - winning a Tony - crying on the 6 train - living in queens - ignoring a celebrity - grieving the restaurant that used to be on that one corner
Last night I remembered there's a fish called a Boops Boops and giggled myself to sleep
From my New Yorker subscription renewal notice email: “NEW YORK RESIDENTS: PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE REQUIRED TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA” thanks I hate it
Forget the kid, I’m here for Antonio’s slutty little shucking knife
I planted *a lot* of flower bulbs around the NYC street tree I adopted last fall. Now, amidst the dog shit and the drug baggies, more than half are sprouting. I’m the Capability Brown of the Lower East Side, fuckers
Post your best #nycblizzard pics of yore I'll start: presidents day blizzard, 2003 28th Street 1/9 station
The smirking, jejune, I-read-a-Brecht-once commentary foisted upon the Arbiter in the new CHESS book is not the worst artistic sin of this misbegotten revival (that’d be the sound mixing, which is criminal), but it’s the one that I’m still mad about, days later.
Oh hey. It's my semi-annual appeal on behalf of my regular volunteer gig, Ruth's Refuge. We furnish the homes of the newest New Yorkers. Drop off in person in Brooklyn or buy from the wishlist. ruthsrefuge.org/thanksgiving...
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Matisse’s Young Sailor at The Met today fucked me right up. Color that’s impossible to describe.
Growing up in an 18th century house museum has given me very strong, very niche home decor opinions e.g. wall pockets are superior to vases for flowers salt belongs in a cellar, not a shaker Beds need curtains I can go on
As a NYer who already gets their groceries at a city-run grocery store - Essex Market, first of its name, may it go on forever - I genuinely think Mamdani should aim higher than one in each borough. Cause we already have that, and it's awesome, so let's expand so everyone has one nearby.
@wfuv.bsky.social spinning Everybody Hurts into New York Morning. Last Fare of the Day into Empty Sky into Imagine. The DJs aren’t talking about it, they’re playing it. This is the magic of live radio made by people. Text & subtext, obvious & oblique, evanescent over the airwaves.
Accidentally ended up in a crypto bar this evening and - I kid you not - the back room had a mosquito problem. My ankles are littered with bites Bloodsuckers in the bitcoin bar quelle surprise
Recently I booked what was simply called “signature scrub” at a day spa in Brooklyn. It was … more than that.
Nadine Gordimer's incredible, and incredibly strange, apartheid novel A SPORT OF NATURE has been my slowest reading experience in ages. It's dense, allusive, & is deeply grounded in a period I know shamefully little about. Halfway through, and I need to talk about it. Anyone else read it???
I read the NYT and WaPo because I'm An Old, 404Media because I'm a nerd, and The New Yorker because I'm a snob. But I subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com because I'm a goddamn New Yorker.
I volunteer with Ruth's Refuge, a fantastic org that works in partnership with local resettlement agencies to furnish the homes of our newest New Yorkers. If you've got a few bucks, consider donating to the 2025 summer air conditioner fund? donorbox.org/air-conditio...
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Summer is hot in the city, and we are trying to get air conditioners to all our refugee and asylum seeking new neighbors. Many of our clients live in small, cramped, hot spaces in heat desert areas of...
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LAPD sweeping people out of the MOCA parking lot- I’ll follow up, I believe that’s private property? Mural says “who is beyond the law? Who is bought and sold? Who is free to choose…” etc.
Never forget: they would rather see us dead than free. Trump revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions in “cases in which women were experiencing medical emergencies and needed an abortion to prevent organ loss or severe hemorrhaging, among other serious complications.”