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Speaking with a professor about the evolution of plants, terraforming planets and extinction events

New podcast. I chat with a paleobotanist about the evolution of plants and how they shaped life on earth. open.spotify.com/episode/4BCU...

The MTA and Gov. Kathy Hochul have promised the Interborough Express for so long that it’s understandable readers have forgotten where it will run: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/OjVvFd

showing up matters (if you are able)

Your Guide to NYC’s Ballot Questions for 2025 Voters will weigh in on housing reforms, a change to election years and an Olympic Sports Complex in upstate New York.

There’s a LOT on the ballot in NY-including 6 Ballot Questions- more about those here.

Early voting starts in 3 weeks. www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/06/b...

Just noting that this reporting is from the correspondent for that radical rag...The Economist

RIP to one of the great storytellers and thinkers. Manchán Magan. ❤️

Also @christopherquirk.bsky.social re: your newsletter; we are stardust. Something I often think about along these lines (going back to when I first started doing yoga)- breathing. Breathing out puts some of me into the world. Breathing in puts some of the world into me.

@christopherquirk.bsky.social I love the Media Res images in here. Wow!

@christopherquirk.bsky.social

This trucker built a scale model of NYC over 21 years. It’s drawing museums’ attention. Joseph Macken said he did the project as a hobby in his upstate basement.

I would love to see this!!! Hopefully The Museum of the City of New York displays it.

#nyc #scalemodel #nycmap

🚨 Daylighting Rally and Lobby Day September 15! 🚨

Join us, a coalition of street safety groups, and City Council members this Monday at 9:30 a.m., at City Hall Park.

We’re fighting to pass @cmjuliewon.bsky.social's Intro 1138, the bill to bring universal daylighting to New York City.

There's nothing chaotic about the race! The runaway winner of the Democratic primary has a comfortable ongoing lead in the polls! The only chaotic element is the mind-traffic of the small circle of self-appointed civic elites melting down over their refusal to accept a straightforward situation.

not true sir. you are a wicked storyteller.

2 Brooklyn authors, among others, reach $1.5B settlement over pirated books used to train AI The settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in legal battles between AI companies and creatives.

Happy these authors were paid for their work! After the fact and after it was stolen without pay.

#Ai
#PayArtists

Back in March, @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social helped MAGA fund Trump’s coup thru Sep 30. Now it’s time to pass new funding & once again the GOP needs Dem votes. Join us on 9/15 at noon to let them know we can’t afford another Schumer Surrender. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

glad to hear you made it to a new place.

Mamdani raises nearly twice as much as each of his mayoral competitors, filings show Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani outraised his competitors by nearly 2 to 1. The democratic socialist took in $1 million between mid-July and mid-August. [ more › ]

Mamdani raises nearly twice as much as each of his mayoral competitors, filings show https://gothamist.com/news/mamdani-raises-nearly-twice-as-much-as-each-of-his-mayoral-competitors-filings-show

Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.

Looks good!

i’m not his constituent but he has been the real deal for the last few years.

Saw this and was impressed. Someone with a backbone.

Glad you will get to respond live. And having heard you speak in front of an audience, I relish the thought! I feel bad for them (almost, not).

It’s the part about regulations for me. They literally want to live where there are no regulations. Regs on earth make them have to acknowledge other humans have a right to live on the same planet as them.Literal fantasies of starting their own kingdoms free from all considerations of other humans.

Blue and red book cover: STORIES ARE WEAPONS: PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AND THE AMERICAN MIND By ANNALEE NEWITZ

Timely read

#booksky
#nonfiction

Thank you for doing that.

Yes invest in City Parks & Rec pools! The future is only going to be hotter unfortunately. (also I love Red Hook pool and it needs to open)

image of the Firehouse, a building that houses DCTV cinema in lower Manhattan.

Screenshot of film Heightened Scrutiny on the Firehouse/ DCTV website. States: New Release, July 18-24, 2025. HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY Directed by Sam Feder • 2025 • 89 min Produced by Amy Scholder, Sam Feder, Paola Mendoza.

Now on @dctvny.bsky.social /the Firehouse. “Must watch” film Heightened Scrutiny which premiered here last week, is showing several times per day now thru Thursday… docu by @samfeder.bsky.social about @chasestrangio.bsky.social and Dec 2024 SCOTUS case.

Catch it while you can.

I’m a huge fan. Secret of the Dead, Nova, etc!

“Uganda Miss Me” is the best. 😂

Using humor to show the ridiculousness of right wing media. (& specifically NY Post headline writers)— brilliant.