Reposted by Celiarax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 21h(about to get in a fight, putting my dukes up) say hello to my good friends Isaac and Chotiner 1145934
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 21hI spent last week talking to more than a dozen seniors who are all very, very worried about one thing: that they'll run out of money before they die. (1/7) www.newsday.com/real-estate/...newsday.comLong Island seniors fear their retirement money won't lastThey're buying less meat, putting off home repairs and worrying about the cost of care. For Long Island's rapidly growing senior population, retirement is getting more expensive. 100
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There comes a moment in every political leader’s life when she realizes she’s hid under her last tablecloth www.nydailynews.com/2026/09/28/i...nydailynews.com 010
Reposted by Celiajon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comYou Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine MaxwellIdeapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. 181227537
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Bruce Blakeman’s ex-wife — who left him and then married! Paul! McCartney! — donated $18k to Kathy Hochul’s reelection campaign www.newsday.com/long-island/...newsday.comBruce Blakeman's ex, Nancy Shevell, married to Paul McCartney, contributed $18G to Gov. Kathy Hochul's reelection bidThe donation came before he had officially jumped into the governor's race, though there were published reports about his interest at the time. 000
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026One of the worst parts of this story—Their AI slop factories stole real reporting and published it as their own work. 011
Reposted by CeliaMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comHow Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per MonthBrown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism. 18882475
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I thought this said infancy and that the speaker was Benjamin Button 000
Reposted by CeliaEvan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 08/09/2026“Really, Pokémon Go is a knockoff of birding.”theatlantic.comAll the Cool Kids Are BirdingA younger crowd is flocking to a hobby once dominated by retirees—and transforming it along the way. 2226
Reposted by CeliaU.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 20/08/2026Journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias has spent more than 300 days behind bars, the longest known time a journalist has been in U.S. custody. In October 2025, he was shot in the arm and arrested by federal agents who boxed in his car for an immigration stop in LA.pressfreedomtracker.usJournalist shot by federal agents in LA, taken into ICE custodyIndependent journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias was shot in the arm and arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, California, on … 16747
Reposted by CeliaJessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Linda Wolff, 72, said she's been protesting at the ICE detention center Delaney Hall almost every day since May. Now, she's suing after an ICE agent maced her on video. "I've been maced three times. I was shot with a rubber bullet in the chest," she said. "But it's sort of part of the job."hellgatenyc.comICE Maced the Wrong SeptuagenarianAnd more news for your Friday morning. 1127
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Minecraft Mamdani, sewer socialism, I love the summer of our collective alliteration 020
Reposted by CeliaAward-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The actual scandal is he won't do an interview on a bike ride with me 1201
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Who benefits from a shortage of affordable apartments on Long Island? Online scammers targeting renters desperate for a home -- www.newsday.com/business/wal...newsday.comScam rental listings exploit Long Island's affordable-housing shortageFake listings, bogus fees and stolen data target renters squeezed by Long Island's high housing costs. 002
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 29/07/2026As locals block data centers on Long Island, one lab is developing a tool that could expand these facilities nationwide: www.newsday.com/business/ai-...newsday.comBrookhaven National Lab research could help data centers expand nationwideThey're developing a tool that could help developers build new data centers faster and cheaper nationally, even as communities oppose local projects. 111
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Just gutting: “In fact, when faced with aggressive enforcement, a common response by nursing homes is to threaten to close, and leave their patients with nowhere to go, multiple experts told New York Focus.” 044
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026In middle school I would prank local businesses by mailing them letters with insane pitches. One pitch was for a robot teacher with a TV head that could replace human teachers and play VCRs. The principal politely told me to go fuck myself straight off — no backlash needed. 230
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 21/07/2026“While he no longer treats women like sex dolls, he instead treats them like goddesses. He’s swapping one kind of object for another. As a culture, we have not outgrown the Madonna-whore complex.” 010
Reposted by CeliaJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/07/2026New: Apple says it has fixed a vulnerability that was revealing the real email addresses of Hide My Email users. Apple knew about this vulnerability for more than a year, but only actually fixed it after 404 Media covered the issue this month www.404media.co/apple-fixes-...404media.coApple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media CoverageFor a year, Apple knew that an issue in its Hide My Email feature was exposing customers’ real email addresses. Apple only fixed the issue after 404 Media covered it. 315954
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 14/07/2026!!!! “They’ll be able to say, ‘Hey, I’m student number 1234,’ and then the robot will be like, ‘Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that conversation?” 000
Reposted by CeliaNew York Focus @nysfocus.com · 02/07/2026The cooling safety net that provides free air conditioners to New Yorkers across the state ran out of funding in June, before summer officially started and ahead of the state’s hottest months. It’s the earliest the money has ever run out.nysfocus.comExtreme Heat Is Rising. New York’s Cooling Aid Isn’t.New York’s free air conditioner program ran out of funding before summer, even as extreme heat becomes a deadlier threat. 0138
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Not even the combined powers of god and taylor swift could keep me from the Coney Island hot dog contest 0132
Reposted by CeliaDave @pauldebenedetto.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The following is an official statement from respected journalist Dave Colon on @bsky.app’s outrageous violation of his First Amendment rights 38712
Reposted by CeliaJessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 26/06/2026The RGB is ushering in an historic 2-year rent freeze. How did tenants react? "I'm on cloud nine right now, I'm so serious,” Daryl Randall, a rent stabilized tenant, told our reporter post-vote. “And I'm really trying to say to myself, like, am I dreaming?" hellgatenyc.com/morning-spew...hellgatenyc.comTenant Hell Has Frozen OverAnd more news for your "pools are open tomorrow" Friday. 24851166
Reposted by CeliaNew York Focus @nysfocus.com · 24/06/2026In Tuesday's New York primary elections, candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America racked up victories despite an enormous wave of super PAC spending. The DSA is now poised to pick up at least six seats in the state legislature in November.nysfocus.comNY Primary Results: DSA Set to Pick Up 6+ Seats in AlbanyThe DSA made gains in New York despite super PACs spending $9.6 million in state legislative races — nearly five times the total from 2024. 115356
Reposted by CeliaJ Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 22/06/2026had a lovely chat with john early about "maddie's secret," which is great and also if he makes the sequel we discussed you will need to internalize the lore 051
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I cut Connor O’Malley’s Slugs video to “Going Shopping” by The Strokes because a sick little part of my mind knew it would work and it does m.youtube.com/watch?v=l9vs...m.youtube.comslugs, happier endingYouTube video by Celia 110
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Perennial reminder that it’s sketchy as hell for an NYC apartment broker to ask you for a “good faith deposit” to hold an apartment. www.brickunderground.com/rent/do-i-ha...brickunderground.comForget what you’ve heard: You don’t have to pay a ‘good faith’ deposit for a rentalNo, you don't have to pay a good faith deposit. 000
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 17/06/2026One NYC man apparently scammed more than a dozen people out of thousands by not returning “good faith deposits” — money meant to secure an apartment. These deposits aren’t legal (even though people pay them anyway). 000
Reposted by CeliaNick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Vicki Schneps-Yunis and Josh Schneps have built a NYC-metro local news empire on the backs of journalists making $40,000 a year. Today, those journalists announced they're forming a union and demanding fair salaries. hellgatenyc.com/schneps-edit...hellgatenyc.comThe Journalists at NYC's Largest Local News Print Chain Are UnionizingReporters at Schneps Media, which includes amNew York, Queens Courier, and the Brooklyn Paper, say they can’t afford to live on their salaries. 315947
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 14/06/2026you are allowed to slap someone across the face during the purge and in basketball. but only those two scenarios 110
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 11/06/2026A total stranger at my bar told us “she left me today. I need the Knicks to win.” And another total stranger gave that man a beer. And then the Knicks FUCKING WON LET’S GOOOO 050
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Update: the Knicks have Long Island nuns, probably the most potent kind 010
Reposted by CeliaHell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 05/06/2026NEW: Ali Najmi, a close ally of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and who scored a plum unpaid City Hall gig overseeing judicial appointments, is now appearing in court on behalf of the owner of the Mets and the largest fine in SEC history. 2477
Reposted by CeliaNolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 05/06/2026“A Brookhaven IDA board member is facing backlash … after he said at a board meeting he opposed tax incentives to spur affordable housing development because they attract residents who are "lazy" and don't "appreciate the way of life that we have here on Long Island." www.newsday.com/long-island/...newsday.comBrookhaven IDA board member John Rose under fire for comments about affordable housing, recipientsJohn Rose, a Setauket developer, made the comments at a May 27 meeting of the town's Industrial Development Agency. 6205
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Finding an apartment on Long Island is like finding a needle in a haystack full of fucking liars. Meet the renters dodging rental scams and trying *not* to spend $3,000 on a shoe box! www.newsday.com/real-estate/...newsday.comSee what $2,500 in rent gets you on Long IslandCheaper apartments are often illegal or simply aren't listed, agents say. 010
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Someone is setting fireworks off in my neighborhood in Brooklyn let’s fucking go 030
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Uber emailed users this morning to protest a New York bill that would ban surveillance pricing — when a company offers different prices to different consumers using their personal data. 010
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 01/06/2026the AI-generated red bean sesame balls can and will hurt you 010
Reposted by CeliaBrian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes 5793063869
Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Knicks in the finals…all my friends using landlines and flip phones…1999 is so back 000
Reposted by CeliaRachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I have an idea: what if we visited websites again??? hear me out: websites published by humans who are professionally trained to gather accurate information I KNOW IT’S CRAZY BUT IT MIGHT JUST WORK 39717