ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

About Doughnut Economics | DEAL Meet the Doughnut and the concepts at the heart of Doughnut Economics.

Doughnut Economics is exactly this! Not an elegant visualization but a reframing of what economic 'success' should be that puts sustainability at the forefront doughnuteconomics.org/about-doughn...

and after he recorded all those street names for us!

When you get their attention, please tell them that women, much like men, come in different heights 😡

I don't mind the original quote, "The customer is always right in matters of taste". The second half of the phrase has for some reason (cough capitalism cough) been mostly forgotten.

There are people in Minnesota who are violating the law, and it's the people who are flash-banging babies, shooting people who pose no threat, and deploying tear gas against peaceful crowds.

The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.

Both recommended especially 'Social Life of Small Urban Spaces'! An urban planning must-see and very funny to boot.

Very funny and apropos that there was no seating at Fulton Transit Center to watch the former, especially given the context of the latter, how much of it centered on how public spaces are created without adequate seating out of fear of 'undesirables' but how it in fact makes things worse for all

A Data Love Letter to the Subway

Finished off my 'before work starts again to-dos' with Giorgia Lupi's "A Data Love Letter to the Subway" www.mta.info/agency/arts-... and William Whyte's The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QkJ...

picture of Jerma985 in a red baseball cap and t-shirt reaching towards the viewer for a handshake/hand holding. the caption says "let's SURVIVE 2026 together"

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Soliciting opinions on my data story for my "Understanding Data" class at MICA! It's due in a week and I would love any and all opinions. Not optimized for phones, sorry! public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

I watched this recently! It's a lot of fun. I also wondered why it never became a cult classic!

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

What Would $50 In 1940 Rent A New Yorker Today? With the average Manhattan rent hovering around $3,800, it can seem impossible that there was a time when one could find a whole apartment for $500 to $600 a month, let alone something in the...

Time to vote, New York friends! Vote Mamdani for a city we can afford to live in. Rents have risen at a rate far beyond either the general rate of inflation or wage growth and it's only gotten worse since this article was published in 2013. ny.curbed.com/2013/11/21/1...

Cuomo, Now an Advocate for Saving NYCHA, Oversaw Public-Housing Demolition as HUD Chief - City Limits As HUD secretary in the 1990s, Andrew Cuomo approved the demolition of tens of thousands of public-housing units around the country. Results for tenants were mixed.

So what DID Cuomo do while Clinton's HUD Secretary?

"Cuomo’s allusions to the heyday of public housing were ironic given the significant role Cuomo played during his time as federal housing secretary in the dismantling of public housing across the country."

Oh.

citylimits.org/cuomo-now-an...

Anyone who doesn’t understand that multiethnic, polyglot New York is the _real_ New York, the only New York that exists, in reality, today, is living in the past and is unfit to be mayor, Andrew Cuomo whoops that last bit just slipped out

Let me get a BEC.*

*Bringing Economic Change

time for the really, really, really big knitting needles

Love that my camera phone sharpens every picture it takes so much it looks like garbage and my only options are 1) download a different app which yes I know is easy but I really just want it to be a setting I can turn up/down or at least on/off or 2) only shoot raw

Using food to show where I grew up

I just got Merlin!!

I did a thing! Animation by me from Christi Bertelsen's lovely film Two Socks, background by @artbonnie.bsky.social and animated in RoughAnimator!

Here's with a bit of animation :) Animation by @meaghansketch.bsky.social

could someone check with John Roberts whether accepting a $400 million plane for your personal use is a core executive power that congress may not constitutionally regulate or merely an action for which the president is presumptively immune from any accountability?

Reminder that the emoluments clause is in the constitution because someone wanted to give an American diplomat a gold snuff box

So scary! Glad you listened to your instincts and that you are okay!

Chilling in the music closet

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