David MacLeod

bar graph of super PAC spending on NYC City Council District 39 campaigns

bar graph of super PAC spending on NYC Democratic mayoral primary

bar graph of super PAC contributor spending supporting or opposing candidate for Council District 38 in the NYC Democratic primary

bar graph of NYC primary campaigns by amounts spent by Michael Bloomberg

This site allocates #nycprimary super PAC spending to donors, in order to graph which donors are for or against which campaigns, rather than which super PACs are. (May take up to a minute to load: free host.) Suggestions for improvements are welcome. super-pac-app.onrender.com #civicdata #opendata

Thanks for all the great reporting from @thecity.nyc. The NYT editorial also neglects to mention that - even if neither Cuomo nor Mamdani win the primary - they will still both be on the ballot in the general. Instead, they frame a choice not to rank Cuomo or Mamdani in the primary as irresponsible.

Beautiful photos. Great job working with such shallow depth of field.

Thanks for posting this: before the sale ended, I picked up this Birdie and Chick hat as well as these sweet looking panda stickers. The Cable one really got me when I first saw it. 🙂

Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942)

Reactor building, in the style of Italian engraver Piranesi, by Jean Pattou

Cutaway illustration of a Fragema advanced fuel assembly

Thanks for posting this. The video has lots of great artwork from Jacques Leclercq's The Nuclear Age (1986) archive.org/details/nucl...

Very nice composition here.

Paris tramway T9 with trees between the tram's directions and grass between the tracks and directions.

Paris has some nice ones too. 🙂 Photo by M. Galerne from tinyurl.com/opl34

Giacomo Balla, 1912, Dinamismo di un Cane al Guinzaglio (Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash)
#futurism

Driven by Lemons - 2nd Print Edition (2024) — Joshua W. Cotter The story of an anthropomorphic rabbit in Chicago experiencing an autistic meltdown, expressed through psychological symbolism and abstraction. Out of print for 5 years (RIP AdHouse Books), Driven by...

Driven by Lemons by @joshuawcotter.bsky.social is excellent.

tinyurl.com/jv2lq

Hi Jon - may I ask where this is quoted from?

Thanks for posting this. Really like how they look furry. Also: the tails on Rhamphorhynchus are wild.

The colors and sharpness of that last one are great.

The orange and yellow armband is a nice contrast with the rest of the uniform. Neat symbol, too.

The Rise and Fall of John Lindsay - Part 1 - The Flamboyant Idealist Listen to the podcast here.

Looking forward to listening to the next part of this series from @errollouis.bsky.social and Co.
tinyurl.com/Lindsay-Flamboyant-Idealist

The DOB has a nice, city-wide, interactive map of active shed permits: all 9,025 of them (2.1M feet) with an average age of 487 days. The map can be filtered by permit age, each marker has details on its shed, and the underlying data - which is updated daily - can be downloaded. tinyurl.com/shed-map

Thanks for the detailed reply! Also: Cryptic Critters is full of potential as a name/title.

Wonderful imagery on your site. What did you use to produce this one?

Thanks for posting this. Not sure if I had seen it before. Reminded me of East River from the 30th Story of the Shelton Hotel (1928).

Thanks! Found them.

Surprised to find out that electronic copies of transcripts from @council.nyc.gov cost $20 per hearing and need to be requested from the City Clerk. Couldn't they be available at legistar.council.nyc.gov? cityclerk.nyc.gov/content/transcripts-of-city-council-proceedings #transparency #oversight #nyc

A mountain graph estimating available sources of energy for New York State, during a winter week in 2050, during which there are limited quantities of sunlight and wind. The graph includes a space that denotes the energy needed in addition to the limited quantities produced by wind, solar, and other sources of clean energy. page 49 https://climate.ny.gov/resources/scoping-plan/-/media/project/climate/files/Appendix-G.pdf

A mountain graph estimating various sources of clean energy produced in New York State in a spring week in 2050. 5 of the 7 days have excess energy from renewable sources. The graph posits that long duration storage solutions will be in place to capture the excess energy for use at a later time. page 48 https://climate.ny.gov/resources/scoping-plan/-/media/project/climate/files/Appendix-G.pdf

Fig. 34 (NYS Climate Action Scoping Plan App. G 12/22) projects that a stable capacity to complement wind/solar will still be needed in winter 2050. NYSERDA cited Fig. 34 in its Draft Blueprint for Consideration of Advanced Nuclear Technologies 9/24. #newyork #cleanenergy #energytransition #fission

Hi Richard, those are both excellent questions. I looked before posting the link and saw room for improvement in the Representative's effectiveness (might be due in part to the ambitiousness/unpopularity of some proposals 🤷). Curious to hear your thoughts about H.R.7569, H.R.7782, and H.R.5154.

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List of bills - with links to details/docs - on which the Representative is a primary sponsor (from congress.gov) : tinyurl.com/AOC-bills-sponsored

I'm wondering if the last one (on the right) is Jerry Nadler.

I don't think I ever knew of this form of White-throated Sparrow, with tan stripes. Thanks for posting it. I love the spot of yellow between the eyes and bill of the others.

Thanks for posting these. I didn't know Halouze. The first one reminds of George Barbier, but that might mostly be the clothing. I really like the second one and the simplicity of the fourth.

Hi Martin - I understand the criticism in your comment, but I wish we could try to make social media more civil, given how much damage it has already done to our political discourse and social fabric.

This weekend!

I'm keeping my eye out for some Wood Ducks who are still in the neighborhood. Nobody out of the ordinary. I was glad to see a flock of Dark-eyed Juncos in some Kwanzan Cherry Trees.