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Celia

@celiayoung.bsky.social
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Reporting for Newsday Words at @hellgatenyc.com @nytimes.com Brick Underground @nygroove.nyc @commercialobserver.bsky.social @w42st.bsky.social @madison_mag @MKEBizJournal Opinions are few and mine (s/h)

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rax ‘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
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 21h
I 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.com
Long Island seniors fear their retirement money won't last
They'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.
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There 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...
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: 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...
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You 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 Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is adorable
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bruce 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.com
Bruce Blakeman's ex, Nancy Shevell, married to Paul McCartney, contributed $18G to Gov. Kathy Hochul's reelection bid
The donation came before he had officially jumped into the governor's race, though there were published reports about his interest at the time.
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
One of the worst parts of this story—Their AI slop factories stole real reporting and published it as their own work.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
NEW: 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...
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How 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 Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I thought this said infancy and that the speaker was Benjamin Button
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 08/09/2026
“Really, Pokémon Go is a knockoff of birding.”
theatlantic.com
All the Cool Kids Are Birding
A younger crowd is flocking to a hobby once dominated by retirees—and transforming it along the way.
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U.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 20/08/2026
Journalist 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.
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Journalist shot by federal agents in LA, taken into ICE custody
Independent journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias was shot in the arm and arrested by federal agents in Los Angeles, California, on …
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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Linda 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."
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ICE Maced the Wrong Septuagenarian
And more news for your Friday morning.
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Minecraft Mamdani, sewer socialism, I love the summer of our collective alliteration
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Oh my god the sheer look of terror in his eyes
Dog surfing in a fearful fashion
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Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The actual scandal is he won't do an interview on a bike ride with me
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Who benefits from a shortage of affordable apartments on Long Island? Online scammers targeting renters desperate for a home -- www.newsday.com/business/wal...
newsday.com
Scam rental listings exploit Long Island's affordable-housing shortage
Fake listings, bogus fees and stolen data target renters squeezed by Long Island's high housing costs.
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
As 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.com
Brookhaven National Lab research could help data centers expand nationwide
They're developing a tool that could help developers build new data centers faster and cheaper nationally, even as communities oppose local projects.
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Just 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.”
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
In 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.
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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.”
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New: 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-...
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Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage
For 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.
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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?”
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New York Focus @nysfocus.com · 02/07/2026
The 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.com
Extreme 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.
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Not even the combined powers of god and taylor swift could keep me from the Coney Island hot dog contest
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Dave @pauldebenedetto.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The following is an official statement from respected journalist Dave Colon on @bsky.app’s outrageous violation of his First Amendment rights
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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The 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...
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Tenant Hell Has Frozen Over
And more news for your "pools are open tomorrow" Friday.
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Who are the Etsy witches who got Frank Carone indicted
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New York Focus @nysfocus.com · 24/06/2026
In 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.com
NY Primary Results: DSA Set to Pick Up 6+ Seats in Albany
The DSA made gains in New York despite super PACs spending $9.6 million in state legislative races — nearly five times the total from 2024.
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J Escobedo Shepherd @jawnita.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
had 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
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I 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...
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slugs, happier ending
YouTube video by Celia
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Perennial 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...
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Forget what you’ve heard: You don’t have to pay a ‘good faith’ deposit for a rental
No, you don't have to pay a good faith deposit.
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
One 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).
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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Vicki 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...
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The Journalists at NYC's Largest Local News Print Chain Are Unionizing
Reporters at Schneps Media, which includes amNew York, Queens Courier, and the Brooklyn Paper, say they can’t afford to live on their salaries.
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
LETS FUCKING GO
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
you are allowed to slap someone across the face during the purge and in basketball. but only those two scenarios
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A 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
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Someone needs to check the refs bank accounts
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Update: the Knicks have Long Island nuns, probably the most potent kind
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The spurs may have the nuns but the Knicks have God
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 05/06/2026
NEW: 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.
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Nolan 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.com
Brookhaven IDA board member John Rose under fire for comments about affordable housing, recipients
John Rose, a Setauket developer, made the comments at a May 27 meeting of the town's Industrial Development Agency.
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Finding 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.com
See what $2,500 in rent gets you on Long Island
Cheaper apartments are often illegal or simply aren't listed, agents say.
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Someone is setting fireworks off in my neighborhood in Brooklyn let’s fucking go
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
LET’S GO KNICKS
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Uber 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.
An email from uber reading: “Stop Albany from making NY even more expensive
The New York State Legislature is pushing a reckless bill that will ban promotions and skyrocket your costs.
Dear Celia, Rideshare and delivery in New York is about to get more expensive, and we need your help. A new bill being pushed by the legislature will fundamentally change how much it costs to take a ride or get food delivered.”
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
the AI-generated red bean sesame balls can and will hurt you
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Knicks in the finals…all my friends using landlines and flip phones…1999 is so back
The cover of Newsday, announcing Knicks Mania as the Knicks make it to the NBA finals for the first time since 1999
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Celia @celiayoung.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My obsession with the shakers continues…
Shaker chairs and rocking chairs at Hancock shaker museum Shaker near a window at Hancock shaker museum Shaker stairwell and bell rope Shaker chair hanging (upside down!) in Hancock shaker museum
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I 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
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