Warm feelings: Almost two years after New York City Housing Authority replaced steam radiators with eco-friendly heat pumps in a public housing complex, residents are thrilled with the energy savings.
Warm feelings: Almost two years after New York City Housing Authority replaced steam radiators with eco-friendly heat pumps in a public housing complex, residents are thrilled with the energy savings.
I'd like to learn to darn a sock - just saw a video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DOmm8HL5fwY about how to make a patch using a Speedweve Style Mending Loom and that seems fun. I'd like to try it out before I buy a bunch of stuff. Anyone in #Queens #NYC have one and interested in letting me try theirs out? Or maybe I could check whether one of the NYC makerspaces has one I could try.
One Community Response Team officer swerved into a motorcyclist, killing him. Another needlessly stopped a pedestrian, then shoved him into a car window. A third hit a man and then kicked his head.
https://www.propublica.org/article/eric-adams-nypd-community-response-team-police-nyc-misconduct-transparency?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#NYC cop/mayor reconstituted the notorious Street Crimes Unit into his own personal Abuse Squad.
"How Eric Adams Embraced NYPD’s Community Response Team Despite Misconduct Concerns"
https://www.propublica.org/article/eric-adams-nypd-community-response-team-police-nyc-misconduct-transparency
What a fun an busy week. I managed to stuff the doodle I coated and pulled myself into an acrylic box with paracord. I think I could use a larger box in most areas... and a slightly different box design... But I am certainly excited about putting more doodles in boxes and making them way less fragile.
I also baked a few breads. I am currently on bread 14. Here is a photo of bread 12 (top with additives) and bread 13.5 (second bread of a kilogram flour starter mass) also with the same cashews an olives.
With bread 13, I have begun noticing my liquid starter will be all floating about 12 hours after I feed it on a good day. So for bread 13 I caught it at one of these moments of peak ripeness before inoculating the bread dough with it. I also have been going in the fridge at night and taking it out during the day for two days. The added time added to the bread's fluffyness an rise.
From sanitation to skyscrapers, water towers to world class collections of knowledge—science underpins everything we do in modern life.
It is criminal to turn our backs on centuries of research and progress, because some numbnut thinks he knows more than anyone else.
#standupforscience #nyc #washingtonsquarepark
Multigenerational, multidisciplinary, multinational—united against ignorance
They left their labs and lecture halls, some still in their white coats. Older ones described the pain of watching longterm projects simply collapse, while younger ones were determined to fight. A fantastic turnout for midday Friday—with gale force gusts of wind keeping it chilly.
An iron horse is taking me to #standupforscience #nyc so I’m cataloging examples of science-y things.
A new dock to replace the old one damaged by ice this winter
A massive bridge spanning the Hudson River
"I wanna scoot you to school one more time as a 13-year-old."
— "I'm turning 14 in a day. Don't you teach your MBAs about rounding errors and false precision? Sheesh."
@taylorlorenz
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where I get all my #KN95
In Japan, about most of the people in stores ONLY wear #surgicalmasks I never saw a N95 in like 2 years or more.
Until about 6 months ago, mask wearing in stores were like 99%, now down to about 70%, imo
I saw the audience at The Late Show with Stephen #Colbert on Feb 20 2025 and zero masks. Guess folks in #NYC dont worry about the #flu
Ah fuck. #Measles in #NYC? This shithole country... https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-reports-two-confirmed-cases-of-measles/6171176/
"In a city that never sleeps, Gorton wasn’t allowed to sleep, either. Even in the richest and most glamorous neighborhoods of Manhattan, the font would be there, doing the devil’s work without complaining. Gorton made Gotham feel bougie; American Typewriter touristy."
@mwichary on #typography: https://longreads.com/2025/03/04/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/
loved every noisy page of the (extremely hard to photograph) beat it! anthology, collecting 1977-1978 #nyc zine by julia gorton & rick brown. in-the-moment scene reports/gossip/reviews etc. catching the crash between #punk, new, no, & other waves. https://www.juliagorton.com/coming-new-products/beat-it-zine-compilation @bookstodon
pssst kids! NYC DOE wifi blocks facebook, X and instagram… (as they absolutely SHOULD!) but *not* the fediverse and mastodon. #badinfluence #goodInfluence #socialmedia #fediverse #nyc #education
This is part of a traveling sculpture exhibit from Quebec. It sits in the public space next to the Flatiron building. This sculpture is by Mirari and is meant to be spoken through and the sound waves are changed into light from surrounding poles. The artist was exploring the interactions of light and sound. It is much prettier at night when the neon lights on the top of the poles glow #nyc #publicart #sculpture #photography #BlackAndWhite #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome