schmonz.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/117379389682294857
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 #nyc 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 😁
#MTA says #Trump's #tariffs added $1B to cost of #NYC's new train cars, buses https://gothamist.com/news/mta-says-trumps-tariffs-added-1b-to-cost-of-nycs-new-train-cars-buses
RE: https://social.coop/@brainwane/117346193800499943
I wrote the "how to navigate Legistar" guide I wish I'd had years ago when I started doing #NYC policy advocacy, complete with warnings about subtle bugs. Along the way, I point to #CivicTech tools intro.nyc and legislation.support, with explanations of what they can and can't do.
How can it be that till now no one has titled a blog post "Legistar Trek"?!
New post on exploring #NYC legislation https://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/legistar-trek-or-exploring-new-york-city-legislation/ , with copious shout-outs to @jehiah
How can it be that till now no one has titled a blog post "Legistar Trek"?!
New post on exploring #NYC legislation https://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/legistar-trek-or-exploring-new-york-city-legislation/ , with copious shout-outs to @jehiah
I love him. What a great idea to help popularize opera. #Music #Opera #ClassicalMusic #Culture #NYC #NewYork #Mamdani #ZohranMamdani https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/arts/music/mamdani-met-opera-free-tickets.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DlE.Sq_d.2G0FpuHHonM3&smid=url-share
RE: https://digipres.club/@foone/117287044688987437
i think it’s funny that in #nyc 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.
I've added a "three years later" postscript to https://harihareswara.net/posts/2023/aed-location-data-nyc-public-on-jan-1/ .
The #OpenData dataset: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/New-York-City-Automated-External-Defibrillator-AED/2er2-jqsx/about_data
The resulting map: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/NYC-Automated-External-Defibrillator-AED-Map/2ync-kihj
This data needs validation, and I'm getting back to that work, with other #NYC volunteers. Happy to have company.
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 #health education & #data. 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.
https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/nyc-improve-open-data-bill-prevent-heart-attack-deaths/
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. https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/opening-aed-location-data-in-new-york-city-progress-update/
I wrote about what might happen tomorrow, how and why the bill is better than it was in March, and data bureaucracy nerdery!
I'm at City Hall, in the Council chambers, where the Health Committee is about to vote on The HEART Act.
https://council.nyc.gov/#location-chambers 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.
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.
RE: https://sfba.social/@vij/117244463265588316
woke up today so and angry and sad about this 9/11 #asbestos report, yet couldn’t cry. i most likely developed breast #cancer 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.
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
#NYC reports first human case of #WestNile virus this year https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2026/08/20/west-nile-virus-new-york-city-summer-2026
How many new homes does #NYC need? 700K, housing agency says.
https://gothamist.com/news/how-many-new-homes-does-nyc-need-700k-housing-agency-says
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!
#Iran #NYC #UN #MikeWaltz #AmirSaeidIravani #US #KhameneiAssassination
There are rumors that Luigi could plead guilty in Federal court tomorrow.
#LuigiMangione #Luigi #Allegedly #NYC #UHC #BrianThompson #CourtWatch
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.
#Luigi #luigimangione #KarenFriedmanAgnifilo #UHC #unitedhealthcare #BrianThompson #NYC #CourtWatch
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.
https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/115986269480271698
#Luigi #luigimangione #SaintLuigi #KarenFriedmanAgnifilo #NYC #Feds #DOJ #CourtWatch
#Luigi #CourtWatch 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.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/585526/luigi-mangione-will-not-face-death-penalty-us-judge-rules
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 #fediversemeetupnyc hashtag for news and pics.
RE: https://masto.nyc/@warren/117082936387404992
This offer's still open to anyone who wants a comp badge to the HOPE hacker conferrence in #NYC in this weekend, and is able to help staff a table about Masto.NYC and the Fediverse for part of it!
The REI shop in Soho, #NYC 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 #management 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 #ThoughtLeadership and be gladdened that I did not attempt to turn it into a book proposal.
#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.
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 #NYC has such a huge dance music scene, it turns out, I have many other options.
Am now achingly curious whether anyone here has seen the Central Park Rock With A Bolt In It. #NYC https://www.westsiderag.com/2026/07/29/the-218-year-old-metal-bolt-in-central-park-its-significance-and-its-secrecy
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. #NYC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Central_Park_Bolt.jpg
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. #NYC
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.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/7/17/denise_oliver_velez
#DeniseOliverVelez #RestInPower #YoungLords #BlackPanthers #CivilRights #PuertoRican #NYC #SUNY #Activism
@Saltssaltgirl as a parent and former professor: always make your state university your #1. if you live in #nyc, make #CUNY or #SUNY your #1s. 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.
"Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal."
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani
https://bsky.app/profile/mayor.nyc.gov/post/3mr722e77z22z
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.
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #War #WarCrimes #ICC #Netanyahu #BenjaminNetanyahu #Politics #USPol #News #Mamdani #ZohranMamdani #NYC #NewYork #USA #US #UnitedStates
Last night's #theatre 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.
Air quality worsens in #NYC due to #wildfire smoke, city makes masks available https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-libraries-giving-out-masks-as-wildfire-smoke-sinks-air-quality
From p. 135 of a 949-page compilation of comments to the #NYC charter review commission https://www.nyc.gov/assets/charter/downloads/pdf/COGE-BATCH-1_COMBINED.pdf .
The last few sentences, on peace, really speak to me.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116909666295511851
today’s #altTxt #yaddayadda because this will make living in #nyc 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 #antifa republic of #Mamdanistan
#ZohranMamdani #socialism #democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT5i5yxD0nk Lina Khan is about to speak at a Mamdani press conference about a push against junk fees in #NYC
The quality of the build and engineering looks so poor on that #NYC 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.