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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

This site allocates #nycprimary super PAC spending to donors, in order to graph which donors are for or against which campaigns, rather than which super PACs are. (May take up to a minute to load: free host.) Suggestions for improvements are welcome. super-pac-app.onrender.com #civicdata #opendata

bar graph of super PAC spending on NYC City Council District 39 campaigns

bar graph of super PAC spending on NYC Democratic mayoral primary

bar graph of super PAC contributor spending supporting or opposing candidate for Council District 38 in the NYC Democratic primary

bar graph of NYC primary campaigns by amounts spent by Michael Bloomberg

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Thanks for all the great reporting from @thecity.nyc. The NYT editorial also neglects to mention that - even if neither Cuomo nor Mamdani win the primary - they will still both be on the ballot in the general. Instead, they frame a choice not to rank Cuomo or Mamdani in the primary as irresponsible.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Beautiful photos. Great job working with such shallow depth of field.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Thanks for posting this: before the sale ended, I picked up this Birdie and Chick hat as well as these sweet looking panda stickers. The Cable one really got me when I first saw it. 🙂

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Thanks for posting this. The video has lots of great artwork from Jacques Leclercq's The Nuclear Age (1986) archive.org/details/nucl...

Reactor building, in the style of Italian engraver Piranesi, by Jean Pattou

Cutaway illustration of a Fragema advanced fuel assembly

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Paris has some nice ones too. 🙂 Photo by M. Galerne from tinyurl.com/opl34

Paris tramway T9 with trees between the tram's directions and grass between the tracks and directions.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Giacomo Balla, 1912, Dinamismo di un Cane al Guinzaglio (Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash) #futurism

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Hi Jon - may I ask where this is quoted from?

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Thanks for posting this. Really like how they look furry. Also: the tails on Rhamphorhynchus are wild.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

The colors and sharpness of that last one are great.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

The orange and yellow armband is a nice contrast with the rest of the uniform. Neat symbol, too.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The DOB has a nice, city-wide, interactive map of active shed permits: all 9,025 of them (2.1M feet) with an average age of 487 days. The map can be filtered by permit age, each marker has details on its shed, and the underlying data - which is updated daily - can be downloaded. tinyurl.com/shed-map

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Active Sidewalk Shed Permits

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Thanks for the detailed reply! Also: Cryptic Critters is full of potential as a name/title.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Wonderful imagery on your site. What did you use to produce this one?

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Thanks for posting this. Not sure if I had seen it before. Reminded me of East River from the 30th Story of the Shelton Hotel (1928).

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Surprised to find out that electronic copies of transcripts from @council.nyc.gov cost $20 per hearing and need to be requested from the City Clerk. Couldn't they be available at legistar.council.nyc.gov? cityclerk.nyc.gov/content/transcripts-of-city-council-proceedings #transparency #oversight #nyc

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Office of the City Clerk - New York City

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Fig. 34 (NYS Climate Action Scoping Plan App. G 12/22) projects that a stable capacity to complement wind/solar will still be needed in winter 2050. NYSERDA cited Fig. 34 in its Draft Blueprint for Consideration of Advanced Nuclear Technologies 9/24. #newyork #cleanenergy #energytransition #fission

A mountain graph estimating available sources of energy for New York State, during a winter week in 2050, during which there are limited quantities of sunlight and wind. The graph includes a space that denotes the energy needed in addition to the limited quantities produced by wind, solar, and other sources of clean energy.

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https://climate.ny.gov/resources/scoping-plan/-/media/project/climate/files/Appendix-G.pdf

A mountain graph estimating various sources of clean energy produced in New York State in a spring week in 2050. 5 of the 7 days have excess energy from renewable sources. The graph posits that long duration storage solutions will be in place to capture the excess energy for use at a later time.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hi Richard, those are both excellent questions. I looked before posting the link and saw room for improvement in the Representative's effectiveness (might be due in part to the ambitiousness/unpopularity of some proposals 🤷). Curious to hear your thoughts about H.R.7569, H.R.7782, and H.R.5154.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

👍 List of bills - with links to details/docs - on which the Representative is a primary sponsor (from congress.gov) : tinyurl.com/AOC-bills-sponsored

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I'm wondering if the last one (on the right) is Jerry Nadler.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I don't think I ever knew of this form of White-throated Sparrow, with tan stripes. Thanks for posting it. I love the spot of yellow between the eyes and bill of the others.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thanks for posting these. I didn't know Halouze. The first one reminds of George Barbier, but that might mostly be the clothing. I really like the second one and the simplicity of the fourth.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hi Martin - I understand the criticism in your comment, but I wish we could try to make social media more civil, given how much damage it has already done to our political discourse and social fabric.

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ChrisRWK @chrisrwk.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This weekend!

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'm keeping my eye out for some Wood Ducks who are still in the neighborhood. Nobody out of the ordinary. I was glad to see a flock of Dark-eyed Juncos in some Kwanzan Cherry Trees.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The Varied Tit's colors and pattern are wonderful. Thanks for posting this. I was not aware of them. Always happy to see Tufted Titmice and Black-capped Chickadees here in New York.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Those are beautiful reflections, especially the sharp one in the fourth.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I didn’t spot the squirrels right away. 😂 Nice photo of the juvenile.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I like how ectoplasm has the same dismayed expression across roles. 🙃

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

That’s a really nice color gradient on the horizon. 🙂

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

👍 This is a graph of station-openings/year using cleaned up data from tinyurl.com/ejsk3. The last year with ≥5 openings was 1956, with 13. Out of 140 years, 46 had new stations. I agree with @marklevinenyc.bsky.social though that more public transit is needed, especially in the other 4 boroughs.

A bar graph of the 472 operating NYC subway stations, by year opened, from 1885 to 2024. 458 of the 472 (97%) opened before 1960. The graph does not take into account the openings of the 10 permanently closed stations.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Thanks for posting these! They're great. My favorite option is the first with grays and oranges.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Yup! Good case of pareidolia. 🙃

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I like the idea of a Martian King Luther II. Some typos can build fictional worlds with only a letter. 😉

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Great illustration. Thanks for posting it. This one was in Central Park last spring.

Double-crested cormorant looks to the side with water in background.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

New York City photos by Anthony Angel from the LOC tinyurl.com/nyc-anthony-... #anthonyangel #nyc #1950s #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography

Woman sitting on luggage in Grand Central Terminal, September 1958

Man on bicycle crossing Park Avenue, June 1959

Two nuns next to map of the United States with route markers and lights, suitcases on ground, November 1957

A woman stands near a building entrance on a bustling city street. August 1958

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New York Focus @nysfocus.com · 13/11/2024

NEW: Since 2021, nearly every civil court judge in the Bronx has hired a political consulting firm directly tied to the leader of the Bronx Democratic Party. The pattern raises concerns about a pay-to-play element within Bronx judicial elections. nysfocus.com/2024/11/13/l...

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Want to Be a Bronx Judge? Pay these Firms.

Firms close to borough Democratic party chair,Jamaal Bailey are cashing in on local civil court races.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

Getting a Mirthmobile feeling from this.

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David MacLeod @davidmacleod.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Giuliani left office at the end of 2001. Were the raids in the mid-1990s or 80s or am I a missing something?

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