gild the lilly
December 22, 2024
Christmas 2024
Brooklyn Christmas Bird of the Year: Red-Shouldered Hawk
Red-shouldered Hawk is not common in the city but as a regular winter visitor may be encountered with the good fortune of the season, like this one perched on a south Brooklyn streetlamp.
January 1, 2025 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1929 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1924!
Who knew ? Chia pets
Does "funnily enough" ever sound right?
was about ready for a new pair of hikers moreso after i stepped in dog shit and the cleanup took off more than just the dogshit. still wearable but i started looking. i was hoping for something other than the merrell moabs which are fine and you can usually find a good deal on them ive had two pairs but they are kind of drab but serviceable. when ive gone away from them i usually end up with something too stiff, ya know, for actual hiking, and i probably did the same again but i found a good price on these today $76 (!!!) so i figured id give them a go. not my first color option but thats what was available. even has free returns. i did check to see if the seller was legit and according to reddit they are.
NY sports concession history
Why is Tokyo so fashionable? Some theories. 🧵
— derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) November 27, 2024 at 1:43 AM
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saw the same thing yesterday as they shutdown down 33 st between 7th and 8th to create a pedestrian zone just north of msg.
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/11/27/sound-vision-two-broadway-blocks-to-get-permanent-upgrades
mike, lead the way!
with the post election swing bluesky is finally making serious inroads into twitter. thread has supposedly 200 million users but everyone just ported over an account from instagram and it hasnt quite become the place. bluesky just topped 18 million users but more importantly prominent journalists and sports media people have begun to use it in earnest dragging their brands in their wake. as proof of its popularity the trolls have started to show up as well. how this is handled will be an interesting test. so far ive seen block lists that are user generated but just today in one thread i saw numerous accounts that were newly minted to own the libs as it were. at the very least, theyll never be able to dominate as theyve been enabled to since buying placement in comments killed twitter threads which were toxic to begin with.
in the meantime i was just slowly scrubbing my follows on twitter once they make the move or are inactive already. otherwise fun to see who the last holdouts will be. someone mentioned it had to do with the fact that most of the software that allows you to post on multiple sites simultaneously havent added bluesky as an option yet but that seems like it will have to be rectified in short order.
haha. the onion bought infowars at auction.
prospect park brush fire
good thread on the long term effects of the invention of the cotton gin.
Had it with this guy. Who uses "extreme left" to identify college students
https://youtu.be/PQWslKu129g?si=N_TIbHlfvyy0zs6Y
hmm, seems an appropriate standard bearer for our times. maybe the italians can keep him.
dont know if any of the hundreds of devotees of dmtree recall dave winer.
As blogging pioneer Dave Winer’s site turns 30, it’s a reminder that good writing and thinking has flourished beyond the reach of social media
The sun setting on lower Manhattan and One World Trade Center in New York City on Labor Day #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #sunset pic.twitter.com/Puvo87zHLM
— Gary Hershorn (@GaryHershorn) September 3, 2024
flatiron goes condo
counterprogramming
https://www.nycgovparks.org/park-features/highbridge-park/planyc
the high bridge, NYC
In 2023, women made up 80 per cent of the book-buying market in the UK, US, and Canada, and accounted for 65 per cent of all fiction purchases in the UK according to Nielsen BookData