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[?]your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 » 🌐
@blogdiva@mastodon.social

RE: mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/11

am a Head Start baby. Union Settlement in El Barrio was one of the test sites. it started in 1965. twas born in 66. was 3-4 years old when i was in the program.

Union Settlement was also a test site for Sesame Street and that’s why one of my earliest memories of was identifying triangles and other shapes. was an old ass woman when i found out my baby voice is in a 15 seconds segment on shapes.

anyways… am a proud Head Start baby. most likely why am a smart ass 😁

Ted M. Young boosted

[?]GeePawHill » 🌐
@GeePawHill@mastodon.social

Head Start is the second most thoroughly researched and documented education policy success of the 20th century.

(Only free food--already gutted in many parts of the US--outperforms it in terms of "proof of success".)

These people are doing very bad things.

    [?]Jason Yip » 🌐
    @jchyip@mastodon.online

    [?]Sumana Harihareswara » 🌐
    @brainwane@social.coop

    RE: social.coop/@brainwane/1173461

    I wrote the "how to navigate Legistar" guide I wish I'd had years ago when I started doing policy advocacy, complete with warnings about subtle bugs. Along the way, I point to tools intro.nyc and legislation.support, with explanations of what they can and can't do.

    [?]Sumana Harihareswara » 🌐
    @brainwane@social.coop

    How can it be that till now no one has titled a blog post "Legistar Trek"?!

    New post on exploring legislation harihareswara.net/posts/2026/l , with copious shout-outs to @jehiah

    A screenshot of Legistar's page for Int 0078-2026, with red boxes around the file number, name, event history, bill text tab, and Alerts. 

https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7861511&GUID=05BA3489-38FD-436D-9B55-B35A46A6CD96&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=1429

    Alt...A screenshot of Legistar's page for Int 0078-2026, with red boxes around the file number, name, event history, bill text tab, and Alerts. https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7861511&GUID=05BA3489-38FD-436D-9B55-B35A46A6CD96&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=1429

        [?]Sumana Harihareswara » 🌐
        @brainwane@social.coop

        How can it be that till now no one has titled a blog post "Legistar Trek"?!

        New post on exploring legislation harihareswara.net/posts/2026/l , with copious shout-outs to @jehiah

        A screenshot of Legistar's page for Int 0078-2026, with red boxes around the file number, name, event history, bill text tab, and Alerts. 

https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7861511&GUID=05BA3489-38FD-436D-9B55-B35A46A6CD96&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=1429

        Alt...A screenshot of Legistar's page for Int 0078-2026, with red boxes around the file number, name, event history, bill text tab, and Alerts. https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7861511&GUID=05BA3489-38FD-436D-9B55-B35A46A6CD96&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=1429

          [?]Michael Magras » 🌐
          @michaelmagras@mstdn.social

          [?]your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 » 🌐
          @blogdiva@mastodon.social

          RE: digipres.club/@foone/117287044

          i think it’s funny that in lingo, scuzzy (as we called SCSI back in the day) also means dirty, indecent, corrupt.

          nyc in the 1990s was the “civilian” Silicon Valley ―tech without (direct) USMIL contracts, paid for mostly by blood money from Wall Street and the newly deregulated corporate mediocracy.

            [?]Sumana Harihareswara » 🌐
            @brainwane@social.coop

            [?]Sumana Harihareswara » 🌐
            @brainwane@social.coop

            New Yorkers don't know where our nearest automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are, so when someone has a heart attack, more people die. A new City Council bill would change that. Help improve it & get it passed! Submit written testimony by 10am ET, April 2nd.

            Not a New Yorker? We need expertise in education & . Or do 30 minutes of research about AED public data in your area. You don't have to write a lot! A paragraph is fine.

            harihareswara.net/posts/2023/n

            Public Access Defibrillation Sites in New York City 2010. Data source: NYC REMSCO May 31, 2010; map prepared by DOHMH CVD Prevention and Control Program. A map of dots showing the neighborhoods in New York City that have PAD sites.

This is the most recent published map of public AED sites in NYC.

            Alt...Public Access Defibrillation Sites in New York City 2010. Data source: NYC REMSCO May 31, 2010; map prepared by DOHMH CVD Prevention and Control Program. A map of dots showing the neighborhoods in New York City that have PAD sites. This is the most recent published map of public AED sites in NYC.

              [?]Sumana Harihareswara » 🌐
              @brainwane@social.coop

              New Yorkers don't know where our nearest automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are, so when someone has a heart attack, more people die.

              A City Council bill, Intro 814, a.k.a. The HEART (Harihareswara Expand Access to Rapid Treatment) Act, would change that.

              Tomorrow it's going to a committee vote. harihareswara.net/posts/2023/o

              I wrote about what might happen tomorrow, how and why the bill is better than it was in March, and data bureaucracy nerdery!

              Public Access Defibrillation Sites in New York City 2010. Data source: NYC REMSCO May 31, 2010; map prepared by DOHMH CVD Prevention and Control Program. A map of dots showing the neighborhoods in New York City that have PAD sites.

This is the most recent published map of public AED sites in NYC.

              Alt...Public Access Defibrillation Sites in New York City 2010. Data source: NYC REMSCO May 31, 2010; map prepared by DOHMH CVD Prevention and Control Program. A map of dots showing the neighborhoods in New York City that have PAD sites. This is the most recent published map of public AED sites in NYC.

                [?]Sumana Harihareswara » 🌐
                @brainwane@social.coop

                NYC, opendata, NY City Council, liveposting [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                I'm at City Hall, in the Council chambers, where the Health Committee is about to vote on The HEART Act.

                council.nyc.gov/#location-cham The livestream should start at or a little after 9:30am ET.

                If it passes the Committee on Health then there's a strong chance it'll go to the noon meeting of the full Council and get a vote today.

                  [?]your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 » 🌐
                  @blogdiva@mastodon.social

                  if you weren't here, you will never understand that one of the most incongruous things about that day was how beautiful it was.

                  there was not a spec of smog or a whisp of foggy haze. the air felt clean, pristine. after a brutal summer, it was so lovely to wake up to a sunny day that felt like a warm embrace.

                  til it wasn't.

                    [?]your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 » 🌐
                    @blogdiva@mastodon.social

                    RE: sfba.social/@vij/1172444632655

                    woke up today so and angry and sad about this 9/11 report, yet couldn’t cry. i most likely developed breast because i live within the contamination radius.

                    and it is not just me.

                    so many of my neighbors developed cancers and other diseases, just like the first responders. yet the government didn't set a penny aside for our health.

                    everything i have written or said publicly about this American Fascism is true ―and has affected me in more ways than one.

                      [?]Hi I'm Sean [He/Him] » 🌐
                      @seano@masto.nyc

                      Sweet Jesus, Hellgate. I'm always torn between "this publication is genuinely poetic sometimes" and "if the roles were flipped, I would never consider this a legitimate news organization." I should maybe work on that

                      My family must never learn of my guilty reading pleasure

                      Hellgate calls Rudy Giuliani a "sentient cigar lounge urinal cake."

                      Alt...Hellgate calls Rudy Giuliani a "sentient cigar lounge urinal cake."

                        [?]Mike Roberts » 🌐
                        @mikebroberts@hachyderm.io

                        Rainbow over Prospect Park this morning

                          [?]Jason Yip » 🌐
                          @jchyip@mastodon.online

                          [?]Jason Yip » 🌐
                          @jchyip@mastodon.online

                          [?]nullagent » 🌐
                          @nullagent@partyon.xyz

                          When cenorship and bombing civilians doesn't work the US and Israel resort to directly threatening Iranian dignitaries.

                          This morning U.S. envoy to the UN Mike Waltz threatened Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Amir-Saeid Iravani:

                          “He should be careful with his words sitting on American so"

                          Protect that man!

                            [?]nullagent » 🌐
                            @nullagent@partyon.xyz

                            There are rumors that Luigi could plead guilty in Federal court tomorrow.

                              [?]nullagent » 🌐
                              @nullagent@partyon.xyz

                              BREAKING - Luigi Mangione this morning plead guilty to two Federal Stalking charges.

                              Meanwhile in the NY State Murder case Luigi has maintined a not builty plea.

                              Given his lawyers statements outside of the court it appears Luigi copped the lower charges and now will rely upon double jeopardy protections to fight the larger charge of murder.

                              abcnews.com/US/luigi-mangione-

                                [?]nullagent » 🌐
                                @nullagent@partyon.xyz

                                I posted back in January when Luigi had the Federal murder charges dismissed.

                                Linked below is his lawyer's remarks on the win against the capital charges earlier this year.

                                partyon.xyz/@nullagent/1159862

                                  Cassandrich boosted

                                  [?]nullagent » 🌐
                                  @nullagent@partyon.xyz

                                  So the full history here on how Luigi beat the murder charge AND triggered double jeopardy lies in the fact that the DOJ really over played their hand.

                                  You see the federal murder charges REQUIRE that the murder be in commission of some OTHER violent crime.

                                  The fact that the Feds ONLY other alleged crimes were simple stalking... which does not meat the requirement of accompanying violent criminal charges.

                                  rnz.co.nz/news/world/585526/lu

                                    [?]Evan Prodromou » 🌐
                                    @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org

                                    New York Fediverse Meetup Friday 14 Aug 2026 7PM

                                    Mallory and I (Evan) will both be at HOPE in New York tomorrow. Mallory is giving a talk on I-Stars: Protocols and Power on the main stage which looks awesome. I'll be holding a workshop to help people Get on the Fediverse Already - setting up their Fediverse accounts for the first time. Since we're both there, we want to have a meetup with the wider Fediverse community in New York! So, we're organizing a Fediverse Meetup at the Irish Exit inside the Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station at […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                    Mallory and I (Evan) will both be at HOPE in New York tomorrow. Mallory is giving a talk on I-Stars: Protocols and Power on the main stage which looks awesome. I’ll be holding a workshop to help people Get on the Fediverse Already – setting up their Fediverse accounts for the first time. Since we’re both there, we want to have a meetup with the wider Fediverse community in New York!

                                    So, we’re organizing a Fediverse Meetup at the Irish Exit inside the Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station at 7PM. HOPE is just a block away at the New Yorker Hotel, so we think this is a good location. And who doesn’t love Penn Station?

                                    We’ll grab a biggish table and put up a sign — you should be able to find us pretty easily. All Fediverse denizens and lovers of the Open Social Web are welcome. We will be around for a couple of hours at least — if you have a favourite evening talk at HOPE you don’t want to miss, please feel free to stop by. And watch the hashtag for news and pics.

                                    [?]jmac » 🌐
                                    @jmac@masto.nyc

                                    RE: masto.nyc/@warren/117082936387

                                    This offer's still open to anyone who wants a comp badge to the HOPE hacker conferrence in in this weekend, and is able to help staff a table about Masto.NYC and the Fediverse for part of it!

                                      [?]Sumana Harihareswara » 🌐
                                      @brainwane@social.coop

                                      The REI shop in Soho, closed last month. One of my strongest memories of that location:

                                      I once noticed the bra area divided into three sections: "Comfort" (basically a hammock approach), "Support" (structure that allows limited movement), and "Control" (strapping and locking everything down to achieve zero jouncing). This immediately struck me as a Goldilocks-type metaphor. A manager ought to go for Supporting their subordinates, rather than trying to completely Control them, or going too far in the other direction of laissez-faire Comfort.

                                      Please enjoy this gem of and be gladdened that I did not attempt to turn it into a book proposal.

                                        [?]Star12Mt@Masto.NYC [She/Her] » 🌐
                                        @Star12Mt@masto.nyc


                                        Happy Monday! I'm here to give my review of The Rocky Horror Show at Studio 54 (from a Sunday afternoon) I will CW in case of any spoilers.

                                        A color photo taken inside of the Roundabout Theater at Studio 54. You can see a bit of my hand holding up the play bill for the Rocky Horror Show. On the right side is the back of a seat that is wrapped in silver tape. The silver tape all over the backs of the chairs reflected some of the overhead lights casting everything in a shade of green Just above the play bill is a gold statue of a naked person with their hands on their hips (ready to do the time warp). Next to the statue is a small alcove to the side of the stage with its own curtain. That is where the narrator is during the show, played by Rachel Dratch.

                                        Alt...A color photo taken inside of the Roundabout Theater at Studio 54. You can see a bit of my hand holding up the play bill for the Rocky Horror Show. On the right side is the back of a seat that is wrapped in silver tape. The silver tape all over the backs of the chairs reflected some of the overhead lights casting everything in a shade of green Just above the play bill is a gold statue of a naked person with their hands on their hips (ready to do the time warp). Next to the statue is a small alcove to the side of the stage with its own curtain. That is where the narrator is during the show, played by Rachel Dratch.

                                          [?]Mike Roberts » 🌐
                                          @mikebroberts@hachyderm.io

                                          Turns out you can go to your first hard techno night of your life at age 48 and it’s all fine. Not sure I’ll do that specific type of music too often, but because has such a huge dance music scene, it turns out, I have many other options.

                                            [?]jmac » 🌐
                                            @jmac@masto.nyc

                                            Am now achingly curious whether anyone here has seen the Central Park Rock With A Bolt In It. westsiderag.com/2026/07/29/the

                                              [?]jmac » 🌐
                                              @jmac@masto.nyc

                                              Today was a gorgeous day for it, so I went out questing for the bolt, and found it! Thanks to @debcha for mentioning that there’s an Atlas Obscura article about it. I ended up using this photo by “z22” as contextual reference; the caption on the page has a clue to its general vicinity. It felt very pleasantly side-questy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cen

                                                [?]jmac » 🌐
                                                @jmac@masto.nyc

                                                My own photo, which isn't better than anyone else's. But it was neat to appreciate the X etched onto its top—this spike was meant to mark the future site of a particular street-and-avenue intersection, after all, before the city got other ideas.

                                                Close-up photo of an ancient metal spike driven vertically into a boulder.

                                                Alt...Close-up photo of an ancient metal spike driven vertically into a boulder.

                                                  Matt Blaze boosted

                                                  [?]MissConstrue [She/Her (Crone Extraordinaire)] » 🌐
                                                  @MissConstrue@mefi.social

                                                  Lifelong activist, organizer and educator Denise Oliver-Vélez has died at the age of 78.

                                                  She was a central figure in the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s and was the first woman elected to the Young Lords Central Committee, a radical Puerto Rican human rights group modeled on the Black Panther Party, which Oliver-Vélez was also a member of. She later became the first Black female program director in public radio and taught at SUNY New Paltz.

                                                  democracynow.org/2026/7/17/den

                                                    Cassandrich boosted

                                                    [?]your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 » 🌐
                                                    @blogdiva@mastodon.social

                                                    @Saltssaltgirl as a parent and former professor: always make your state university your #1. if you live in , make or your . we passed legislation here in the city and state to make sure kids graduated with the least debt.

                                                    private colleges cannot compete with almost free college education, so they use the same tactics of a time-share or MLM huckster.

                                                    your kid can transfer to a private college to finish their BA, BUT! save the money for a Masters instead.

                                                      [?]Zhi Zhu 🕸️ » 🌐
                                                      @ZhiZhu@newsie.social

                                                      "Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal."
                                                      - Mayor Zohran Mamdani
                                                      bsky.app/profile/mayor.nyc.gov

                                                      The International Criminal Court declared that Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, but as far as I know, Mayor Mamdani is the only US politician brave enough to state it in clear unequivocal terms.

                                                      Please watch his whole video statement.

                                                      Screen shot of a social media post (BlueSky) by Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani ‪@mayor.nyc.gov‬ with text and video.

Text:
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Video still: Mayor Mamdani sits behind a desk with the US flag and the NYC flag  behind him. The closed captioning reads, "the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people."

7:13 PM · Jul 21, 2026

                                                      Alt...Screen shot of a social media post (BlueSky) by Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani ‪@mayor.nyc.gov‬ with text and video. Text: Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. Video still: Mayor Mamdani sits behind a desk with the US flag and the NYC flag behind him. The closed captioning reads, "the architect of a horrific genocide against the Palestinian people." 7:13 PM · Jul 21, 2026

                                                        [?]Mike Roberts » 🌐
                                                        @mikebroberts@hachyderm.io

                                                        Last night's was Death of a Salesman. Worthy of its Tony win (again), but I never expected to see Willy Loman as a failed Trump-like character. The play's words with this direction amplifies its damning indictment of the American dream. Lies, exceptionalism, bluster, that all ends in tragedy.

                                                          [?]Jason Yip » 🌐
                                                          @jchyip@mastodon.online

                                                          [?]Sumana Harihareswara » 🌐
                                                          @brainwane@social.coop

                                                          From p. 135 of a 949-page compilation of comments to the charter review commission nyc.gov/assets/charter/downloa .

                                                          The last few sentences, on peace, really speak to me.

                                                          [Screenshot of a web form.]

Public comment:

MAMDANI, PLEASE READ THIS BECAUSE THE LAST THING I NEED IS SOMEONE IGNORING THE FACT I'M DOUBLE SURE THAT EVERYONE WANTS FREE VISAS AND AN ACTUALLY GREAT PIZZA PARTY ON THE NIGHT OF THE WORLD CUP. SPEAKING OF WHICH, WHAT IS A WORLD CUP IS THE WORLD CAN'T EVEN FUCKING REACH THE US ANYWAY? I NEED SOMEONE TO MARCH OVER TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND GIVE TRUMP A MASSIVE SLAP TO HIS FACE! WHY CAN'T ANYONE VISIT THE STATES ANYMORE? I LIVE ABROAD (NOT SAYING WHERE, CUZ PRIVACY), AND I WANNA VISIT NYC SO FUCKING BAD BUT GETTING VISAS IS HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRDDDDDD. ALSO, I HATE POLITICS! WHY DO THEY HAVE TO AFFECT CIVILIANS ON A DAILY BASIS! AND IN ADDITION, THE ICE HAS TO MELT AT SOME POINT! FREE THOSE IMMIGRANT KIDS ALREADY! I DON'T NEED ANOTHER NIGHTMARE OF A CHILD REPEATEDLY CUTTING HIMSELF WITH A PLASTIC KNIFE! CAN WE PLEAAAAASSSEEEEEEEE PAY ATTENTION TO HOW KIDS AND TEENS ARE BEING TRAUMATIZED DAY AND NIGHT? I WANT PEACE. ABSOLUTE. FUCKING. PEACE. IN NEW YORK! AND THE STATES! AND THE WORLD! EVEN IF IT WERE FOR A FEW HOURS! IT'S TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE! AND I WANT A CHANCE FOR THE WORLD TO REMEMBER PEACE AT SOME POINT!

                                                          Alt...[Screenshot of a web form.] Public comment: MAMDANI, PLEASE READ THIS BECAUSE THE LAST THING I NEED IS SOMEONE IGNORING THE FACT I'M DOUBLE SURE THAT EVERYONE WANTS FREE VISAS AND AN ACTUALLY GREAT PIZZA PARTY ON THE NIGHT OF THE WORLD CUP. SPEAKING OF WHICH, WHAT IS A WORLD CUP IS THE WORLD CAN'T EVEN FUCKING REACH THE US ANYWAY? I NEED SOMEONE TO MARCH OVER TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND GIVE TRUMP A MASSIVE SLAP TO HIS FACE! WHY CAN'T ANYONE VISIT THE STATES ANYMORE? I LIVE ABROAD (NOT SAYING WHERE, CUZ PRIVACY), AND I WANNA VISIT NYC SO FUCKING BAD BUT GETTING VISAS IS HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRDDDDDD. ALSO, I HATE POLITICS! WHY DO THEY HAVE TO AFFECT CIVILIANS ON A DAILY BASIS! AND IN ADDITION, THE ICE HAS TO MELT AT SOME POINT! FREE THOSE IMMIGRANT KIDS ALREADY! I DON'T NEED ANOTHER NIGHTMARE OF A CHILD REPEATEDLY CUTTING HIMSELF WITH A PLASTIC KNIFE! CAN WE PLEAAAAASSSEEEEEEEE PAY ATTENTION TO HOW KIDS AND TEENS ARE BEING TRAUMATIZED DAY AND NIGHT? I WANT PEACE. ABSOLUTE. FUCKING. PEACE. IN NEW YORK! AND THE STATES! AND THE WORLD! EVEN IF IT WERE FOR A FEW HOURS! IT'S TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE! AND I WANT A CHANCE FOR THE WORLD TO REMEMBER PEACE AT SOME POINT!

                                                            [?]Mike Roberts » 🌐
                                                            @mikebroberts@hachyderm.io

                                                            Fun flight path into LGA last night

                                                            Photo of view from a plane over Manhattan from about 4000 feet looking north. The skyscrapers of midtown and Central Park are clearly visible.

                                                            Alt...Photo of view from a plane over Manhattan from about 4000 feet looking north. The skyscrapers of midtown and Central Park are clearly visible.

                                                              [?]your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 » 🌐
                                                              @blogdiva@mastodon.social

                                                              RE: mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/

                                                              today’s because this will make living in 100% better:

                                                              ❝ MAGA is apparently now boycotting going to NYC because they hate the mayor. They say they will never go there again. I mean is this guy fucking amazing or what? That place is going to be a fucking paradise now.❞

                                                              FUCK YEAH! i get to live in the great republic of

                                                              Bill Seitz boosted

                                                              [?]Vee » 🌐
                                                              @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social

                                                              Time to head to the Big Apple!

                                                              ❝ MAGA is apparently now boycotting going to NYC because they hate the mayor. They say they will never go there again. I mean is this guy fucking amazing or what? That place is going to be a fucking paradise now.❞

                                                              Alt...❝ MAGA is apparently now boycotting going to NYC because they hate the mayor. They say they will never go there again. I mean is this guy fucking amazing or what? That place is going to be a fucking paradise now.❞

                                                                [?]Sumana Harihareswara » 🌐
                                                                @brainwane@social.coop

                                                                nycpol [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                youtube.com/watch?v=sT5i5yxD0nk Lina Khan is about to speak at a Mamdani press conference about a push against junk fees in

                                                                  [?]Jo - pièce de résistance » 🌐
                                                                  @JoBlakely@mastodon.social

                                                                  The quality of the build and engineering looks so poor on that Pfizer remodel, so greedy in developers desire to maximize profits, those beams looked thin and made of lead instead of steel.
                                                                  I would never want to move in to it. I’d be so nervous that the whole thing is just a ticking time bomb, built without integrity of any kind.
                                                                  How the fuck did it get approved?
                                                                  It looks treacherous.

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