Moira

Cats are really only suited to Pinter

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 imagine the choral harmonies during the big oil well gusher moment as being quite crunchy, almost atonal, all Sondheim/Sigur Ros

!!!! this is a roller coaster of a story and I am very glad all is well

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.

Never forget: they would rather see us dead than free.

All nine mayoral candidates are getting 5 minutes live on WNYC this morning to make their closing arguments.

👏👏👏 @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social this is excellent local journalism

I need to know more about the attendant

Air Conditioners for Refugees 2025 | Ruth's Refuge (Powered by Donorbox) 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...

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...

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.

Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions The Trump administration said that it would revoke guidance to the nation's hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical cond...

www.statnews.com/2025/06/03/t...

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.”

BOWL EP
BOWL EP
BOWL EP
go see it, it is fantastic fucking theater

gonna need a pope joke in this season of the The Bear

Brad Pitt To Star in Adaptation of ‘The Riders’ | Kirkus Reviews The film will be based on Tim Winton’s 1995 novel.

I’ve read The Riders a dozen times since I first discovered it as a battered used paperback in ‘98 or so. Like most of my favorite novels, it’s bewildering that I would connect with a story so utterly apart from my own experience. And yet, and yet.

So anyway, this is spectacularly bad casting

This is a gross betrayal of everything the NOAA stands for, not to mention good sense and responsible stewardship of the Earth.

RE: FUCKS

Fresh out.

Sincerely yours I remain warm regards etc etc

SINNERS is
1) fucking brilliant and
2) going to be an incredible Broadway musical

Create e-bike only lanes for deliveristas
Ban private trash haulers
Impound cars with altered exhaust systems
End placard abuse
Expand separated express bus lanes

Bury the BQE
Put speed camera everywhere
Build the IBX
Impound cars with altered plates
Cap the Cross-Bronx

Where Is Our Post-Car City? We need to be building it all right now. Instead, we’re stuck in traffic.

PREACH, Justin Davidson

Andrew Cuomo Used ChatGPT For His Housing Plan "Addressing New York's Housing Crisis" features garbled text and a citation from ChatGPT.

NEW:

Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board.

hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

Oh yeah, I blubbered happysad tears. What a lovely film

Yeah, no, fuck alllllll the way off, Cuomo. NYC doesn’t need an egotistical bully with daddy issues and a shaky grasp of appropriate workplace conduct.

If I thought for one second he wanted to help people and not just exact revenge on folks who dared to stand up to him then *maybe.* But no.

Line of people at the egg case, a security guard watching them

Trader Joe’s egg line, with security guard & multiple employees keeping watch

US officials ordered to issue permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications

This is vile, and yet another strategic step by the Trump administration to dehumanize trans people.

Call your reps. Today. Tell them 1) this is evil and 2) you expect them to stop it.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Go here! Take just a few mins!

e-register.vote.nyc

NYers! None of us moved to this city from Ohio or whatever to be led by a goofy ass fascist stooge, right?

If you’re not a registered Dem, how’s about becoming one for the upcoming mayoral primary? Mayor Adams 🤡 sold us out, let’s vote him out

Deadline to switch or register is THIS FRI 2/14

I so appreciate these posts, Alyssa. Relief from and perspective on the current moment 🖤

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

This is fucking terrifying.