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a red-lit bridge scene in Stark Trek Voyager - Across the Unknown. All of the characters appear to be wearing shiny latex uniforms because my nice CAD graphics card is not a video game optimized graphics card, I guess. Their skin is also very shiny, but their hair is not.

a view from the new stark trek voyager game, where my janeway has turned the bridge into a latex fetish club

Yes, NYCHA reps talk about it as a way to 'unlock' funds. The Public Housing Preservation Trust is a public agency that was created to access these Section 8 funds without going through a private developer, but it's so new that I'm not sure it was even an option when FEC voted to go PACT in '23.

love when the buds get swole

A tight crop on a pair of hands holding a big worm in shades of purple and green. The hands are sketchily painted but the worm is rendered in loving detail.

I finished the Big Worm

Boston Secor went PACT in 2024 supposedly so that private management could unlock funds to complete deferred maintenance.

Poster with fun fonts, 100% saturation multicolored highlights, and somewhat chaotic image placement. Text reads as follows: [all caps, magenta, Boucherie Block font, bold] NEW YORKERS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO AGE AND DISABLE IN PLACE! [sentence case, yellow, Aptos font] But they can’t if they live in a Walk-Up! Even if the Landlord wants to install an elevator, it CAN’T!! Because [green] Current Building Codes [red and bold] don’t allow small elevators in Multiple Dwellings. [underlined] So only walk-up buildings that are being gut-renovated can install elevators! [all caps, bold] WE CAN CHANGE THIS! [all caps, magenta, bold] ALLOW SMALL ELEVATORS TO BE INSTALLED IN: EXISTING OCCUPIED WALK-UP APARTMENT BUILDINGS [red]! [all caps, cyan, bold] JUST LIKE IS COMMONLY DONE IN EUROPE [blue text, white background over floorplan with 4'x5' elevator retrofit in red] Possible Retrofit elevator in a typical NYC Tenement Building [all caps, green, Boucherie Block font, bold] Create a Pilot Program to Permit Small Elevators in Multiple Dwellings [bold](And while we’re at it keep these units affordable, improve the life + health of shut-ins, protect EMTs, FDNY, NYPD, and improve the lives of everyone who needs an elevator) [yellow over image of elevator retrofit] Modern Elevators in Courtyards in Paris [magenta text, bold] Work with NYC DOB, FDNY, MOPD, disability groups, AARP, installers and US/European Elevator Manufacturers on a Citywide sample building Pilot to test out the initiative. Then Change the Code to Allow Small Elevators in Yards and Courts of Existing Occupied Multi-family Buildings.

cool that NYC DOB is interested in changing the building code to allow small elevators and also cool that the Time Cube aesthetic is alive and well and out there winning innovation competitions

www.nyc.gov/site/buildin...

When I was recovering from a concussion and literally couldn't read for more than a few minutes at a time, I would not have passed my classes without text-to-speech software for readings and recordings of lectures that I could replay and pause.

if you think someone is pretending to be a botanist to hide their deeply shameful death squad job, you can ask certain revealing questions like ‘what is this fruit’ or ‘got any thoughts on habitat fragmentation at the US/Mexico border’ or ‘hey is that a glock why would you have to shoot a plant’

Screenshot of text from a People article: The woman met Ross once at a neighborhood garage party during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, where she says he described his job to guests. "He said he worked with plants, as a botanist, so he lied about what he did," she claims. The neighbor says that Ross kept to himself in the neighborhood, and they never learned he was a federal agent until he was identified in the aftermath of Good's death.

Additional text from the People article: "[He said hel enjoyed border control... but loved plants," she says. "So when I found out he was the one on the news, I said, What! That's so crazy!' I had no idea he was an ICE agent." PEOPLE has reached out to Ross for comment.

wtf his cover story was botany

alright, let’s see the floor plans

PERFECT DAYS - Official Trailer YouTube video by NEON

a film rec for my public toilet enthusiasts

"It's hard to dig a hole in New York City"
- Katie Honan, 2025

L’Uritonnoir, a composting straw bale urinal by French design studio Faltazi.

Plenty of other unplumbed toilet options!

“Why aren't there more restrooms in our city? Well, there is a lot of infrastructure underneath our feet,” he said. “ This pilot, however, will allow us to install public bathrooms even where we cannot drill into the bowels of this city.”

The press release doesn't say that, but Gothamist has this quote from Mamdani:
gothamist.com/news/pee-pee...

Mayor Mamdani Announces New Commitment to Expand Access to Public Bathrooms

This RFP will be $4m for an automatic public toilet pilot project but I honestly just want a couple hundred European-style pissoirs scattered around the city.

Yes, okay, equitable access to facilities for everyone, but also NYC smells like hot urine and garbage in the summer.

Screenshot of the gif landing on penguins with the word ‘King’ overlaid in big letters. ‘Penguin’ is there too, but it’s white on the white background of their bellies and mostly invisible. This augury is inauspicious given the actions taken this morning by the subject of the No Kings protests.

Not liking these portents, Jer.

Do we think the Karakul caps are just warm hats for a special occasion or are Mamdani’s parents doing a callback to South Asian Muslim political leaders?

Super interesting garments regardless: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakul...

An ad full of normal words and phrases that all my New Yorkers say every day.

*exclaim to the tune of “Fancy” (2014) by Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX

IM SO SALTY

How will the New Gender bond these aggregates? Are you hoarding the secret to cementitious mucous excretion?

THIS IS MY FAVORITE FAN VENDOR. I've never spec'd their directional fans and I don't do interiors anymore, but their giant ceiling fans are some of the best you can get.

Yeah, I think so too? My issue with the source is that it obscures the origin of the term 'semite', which has a really nasty racist history all on its own.

It should not have ANY contemporary usage imo, but as an Arab who has been told to my face that I have a ‘Semitic smile’, I can confirm for you that racists are still using the term the way that the Göttingen ‘race scientists’ who made it up originally intended.

Fully agreed that no one should be using the term ‘semite’ at all and that ‘antisemitism’ has only ever been used to mean against Jews! I think this IHRA article obscures the origin of the term ‘semite’, which predated the coinage of ‘antisemitism’ and was used to deride many other groups than Jews.

The Problem with Defining Antisemitism Kenneth Stern helped write a definition now endorsed by more than forty countries. Why does he believe it’s causing harm?

Also, I’m always a little skeptical of the IHRA in any subject that touches on Arabs as their definition of antisemitism includes any criticism of the state of Israel. Here’s an interesting interview with one of the people who helped draft it: www.newyorker.com/news/persons...

The Wikipedia article on ‘Semite’ gives sources for the earliest use of the term to refer to people (including Arabs) as occurring ~100 yrs before this IHRA article says the first use of ‘antisemitism’ occurred.

I have a kitchen island which is also a kitchen table in a kitchen which is also a living room which is also my whole apartment 🗽

We are looking up at a small pink orchid propped up on twigs with blurry pine barrens landscape in the background. The orchid’s labellum is fringed, as one might expect from the genus Pogonia, which comes from the Greek word for ‘beard’.

People say the Pogonia ophioglossoides smells like raspberries, but I thought it smelled just like roses. Maybe some kind of olfactory illusion based on the common name, (Rose Pogonia) and also having sniffed a bunch of roses earlier in the day, though.