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
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
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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:
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LGBTQ+ theater groups have day in court over endangered arts funding rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/03/27/l...
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.
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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...
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...
A screenshot of a New York Times update that says: In Grand Central Terminal, Leon Chang, 26, of Brooklyn, said he had not heard of congestion pricing and asked what it was. When explained it was a toll for cars entering Manhattan, he then asked “What do you mean? What is a car?” Walking outside, we showed him a vehicle parked on the street. He gently touched the hood of the car. “You wish to forbid these majestic beasts from entering the city,” he said in a wistful tone. “It is a folly of man. The desire to tame the world around us.”
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-...
For Immediate Release: Nov. 11, 2024. Contact: Jen Sheehan, jen@nyguild.org, 610-573-0740. New York Times Tech Guild: ‘We showed our strength and our value to The Times.’ Workers who power all NYT technology — including mobile push alerts, app & website maintenance and the popular games — end Election Week ULP strike. ‘Now we'll bring our fight inside as we return to work.’ New York — The Times Tech Guild — the union that makes the coverage at The New York Times accessible to the world — has wrapped up an Election Week ULP Strike, having shown Times management the impact of their solidarity and unity. Tech Guild members will return to work Tuesday and march into the office together in the morning as a symbol of what's to come for The Times. “Our Election Week ULP Strike was a warning to The Times,” said Kathy Zhang, Tech Guild unit chair and a senior analytics manager at The New York Times. “We clearly demonstrated how valuable our work is to The New York Times, especially on election night, and showed that we have the full support of subscribers and allies across the country going forward.” Tech Guild members are advising supporters they can resume playing New York Times games as well as use the Cooking app. Instead of bargaining with the Tech Guild, Times’ executives stubbornly put a critically important Election Day at risk. The New York Times earned a notorious distinction on Election Day, as it was the site of the first NewsGuild-CWA strike coinciding with a presidential election in 60 years. A quick look at some of the impact the Tech Guild had on Election Night coverage through their ULP Strike: No state-level or non-presidential needles were live on election night. iOS news was not displaying ads intermittently, a significant loss of revenue for the company. The apps and website were slow to load. Publishing issues produced intermittent and visible error messages for readers on articles and updates.
Times subscribers received hundreds of thousands of emails with broken links. “The systems and digital products that worked over the election did so thanks to the hundreds of unit members who worked for months preparing everything to run smoothly,” Zhang said. “What broke down during this strike broke because our members weren't at work.” Subscribers across the country showed Tech Guild solidarity by boycotting the Cooking app as well as NYT games such as Wordle and Connections. Tech Guild members even created their own games site, akin to a strike publication, that earned more than a half million page views and more than 320,000 active users. “Times management — in particular CEO Meredith Kopit Levien and Chief Technology Officer Jason Sobel — made the conscious decision to put Times journalism at risk on election night rather than come to the bargaining table and work with us to get this contract completed,” said Anthony Napoli, NewsGuild of NY treasurer. “Our members will continue the fight until a fair contract is secured. We will accept nothing less.” About the NewsGuild of New York: The NewsGuild of New York, Local 31003 of the Communications Workers of America, is a labor union representing nearly 6,000 media professionals and other employees at New York area news organizations, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Thomson Reuters, The Nation, TIME, PEOPLE, Wirecutter, and The Daily Beast. The NewsGuild of New York advocates for journalists to have a voice in the newsroom, for press freedom, for inclusive and diverse workplaces, and for just cause, no exceptions, for all media professionals.
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.)
