I got locked in a Hudson valley park reading poetry to geese at 5 pm last year and the fire department had to bring a ladder to get me out, and meanwhile in New Zealand you can casually stroll INTO the botanical gardens at 11pm to listen to the ruru

nothing like being back in Wellington to make one long for the golden age of twitter

it's the indifferent pigeon that really elevates this from 'silly stunt' to 'hard hitting journalism' imho

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Gersh once again has put his body (and mind) on the line to ask the very simple question: Why are agents with the federal drug enforcement administration allowed to park in the 10th Avenue bike lane?

I bet sliwa would have gotten more votes if he put berets on the cats

I tried to hug the cat in celebration. He was not impressed.

37 minutes in and we have ourselves a winner! If baby Jess crying on a Gainesville sofa in 2004 could see us now 🥹

in love with @jessyedwards.bsky.social’s beret game, what a national treasure

a wild kiwi appears on the hell gate stream! and someone said fuck! this is why I give my money to @hellgatenyc.com and you should too

a @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social volunteer rang the bell to make sure we’d voted. gosh I love Astoria.

‘hey we didn’t sell all the commercial slots’ ‘all good, put on the cityscape slideshow and some chill lo-fi beats’ - @hellgatenyc.com web team, probably

switched to @hellgatenyc.com coverage, obsessed with the commercials

‘[CNN dude gesturing at Jersey city] it’s basically a suburb of New York City’

I haven’t been in the states for a not-bleak election return as a voting adult so I’m gonna live tweet like it’s 2012

you click on ONE ‘sperm whale eating giant squid captured on film’ link and next thing you know, it’s nothing but shark threesomes all the way down. thanks @rusty.todayintabs.com www.instagram.com/p/DO_9dDTDIOG/

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

The National Queer Theater’s Criminal Queerness Festival has turned to online fundraising after the National Endowment for the Arts revoked its $20,000 grant, which makes up 20% of its total budget, @thejduce.bsky.social told me. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

Federal agency axes LGBTQ festival's funding, says it 'does not align' with Trump's priorities

The Criminal Queerness Festival has turned to online fundraising after the National Endowment for the Arts revoked its $20,000 grant, which makes up 20% of its total budget.

nbcnews.com

LGBTQ+ theater groups have day in court over endangered arts funding rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/03/27/l...

LGBTQ+ theater groups have day in court over endangered arts funding • Rhode Island Current

The Department of Justice attorney argued in a Providence federal courtroom Thursday that the removal of language prohibiting projects that promote gender ideology on the NEA website for artist grant ...

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A sad day for Columbia and for our democracy. "Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands" has got to be one of the most depressing sentences ever written. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Exclusive | Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding

Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.

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waiting for a bus on Steinway street, sniffing the air like a failed biosecurity beagle trying to figure out which restaurant smells so goddamned good

wanted: a sponsor to bankroll a campaign to hand out headphones to people on the subway watching videos at full volume. ‘hi, have you heard about this amazing new technology? it lets you listen to whatever you want in the privacy of your own head! like magic!’

‘The edges of woven cloth are called selvages. They hold the piece steady. I like practicing selvages because it is novel to have something I can keep from falling apart.’ sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-crafts...

The Craftsman

I was going to make a noose, but instead I made a basket.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

I miss a lot of people and things from Aotearoa, but right now, sitting in a NYC nonprofit ‘data security in the coming apocalypse’ conference (not the official title), the privacy act 2020 is right up there with cheese rolls. 😭Treasure it comrades.

Like so many stories do, this one starts with a war…the E-3 visa…offered Australians an easier path to working in the United States. “The blood visa,” as one Australian in New York put it to me, “was our little treat.” thebaffler.com/outbursts/bo...

Bogans in Brooklyn | Chris Crowley

Australia’s willingness to join the Global War on Terror led to a flat white-swilling, coked-up invasion of Williamsburg from down under.

thebaffler.com

where does the new york times even find these people

I wrote about a delightful study about the secret dynamics of a coral, some seahorses, and oodles of tiny worms defector.com/a-small-and-...

A Small And Beautiful Seahorse Reveals An Even Smaller And Reclusive Worm | Defector

Years ago, as a student at the University of the Ryukyus in in Okinawa, Japan, Ai Takahata was researching the color patterns of a seahorse about the size of a shelled peanut. The pygmy seahorse Hippo...

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A WARNING TO THE TIMES: Tuesday, we will be returning to work, after a successful Election Week ULP Strike. We clearly demonstrated how valuable our work is to @nytimes.com. And now we’ll move our fight inside. #GuildBuilds #SolidarityStreak #BreakMyStreak #UnionStrong #UnionMadeNYC #Strike

wow @rusty.todayintabs.com really out-tabsed himself today (this felt like the appropriate occasion to return to the post-twitter hellscape. hello world.)