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brainwane @harihareswara.net · 28/09/2026
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.
A screenshot of Legistar's page for Int 0078-2026, with red boxes around the file number, name, event history, bill text tab, and Alerts.

https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7861511&GUID=05BA3489-38FD-436D-9B55-B35A46A6CD96&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=1429
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 22/09/2026
Saw The History Of Concrete last night. Highly recommended, especially if you liked How To.
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 09/09/2026
Indo Java is, somehow, #22 on the Times’ list of 100 top restaurants in the city. The chef only cooks on Tuesdays. The next in the list, #21, is Le Bernardin.
Small, cluttered store with two yellow tables and two giant yellow fans
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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
how is this real
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Signal @signal.org · 11/08/2026
Introducing Automatic Key Verification! Complementing the existing safety number system, automatic key verification provides an additional, streamlined way to confirm the privacy of your chats. signal.org/blog/automat... TY @cloudflare.social and @trailofbits.bsky.social our independent auditors 💙🙏
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Introducing Automatic Key Verification
Signal now offers a feature called “automatic key verification” which complements the existing safety number system. Signal is always end-to-end encrypted, and automatic key verification provides an a...
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 11/08/2026
Accidentally made a pinhole camera with my curtains. This is my wall.
A wispy image of the exterior of a building, with windows and a fire escape, is projected onto a white wall above a wood floor.
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 18/07/2026
Je suis juste là pour ne pas avoir d'amende.
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 15/07/2026
It’s 97 degrees with an AQI if 157 outside, but they’re painting the walls of my buildings hallway and I’m thinking of opening a window
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13/07/2026
Hey, New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani is recreating the city's digital service, after Mayor Adams destroyed it. They're hiring devs, designers, and product folks to work on-site in Brooklyn, starting now. You don't even have to be a city resident. Get on it!
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NYC PIT Crew
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 02/07/2026
I made the most ridiculously fancy rice and beans yesterday. Cranberry beans from Rancho Gordo with Hokkaido Nanatsuboshi (10% mill) from The Rice Factory.
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If you’re not following this guy on Instagram’s day-by-day account of building a lightweight Phoenician war-elephant outfit centered around his toddler in the command seat so that he can hike over the Alps in it in the footsteps of Hannibal—you should be. www.instagram.com/reel/DaOO7iV...
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 01/07/2026
Corona currently matching the energy of Brooklyn for Knicks game 6
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 28/06/2026
We’re living in the age of AI-generated legal service billboards
Billboard for an immigration law firm mounted on a Lamar billboard structure above a graffitied building. The illustrated ad shows a smiling man in a stars-and-stripes suit and red “Alvarado Law” cap running forward through a broken border wall, leading a crowd of diverse people—including figures in a sombrero, a parka, a turban, a chef’s coat, traditional Asian dress, and business attire, as well as a small grey alien—all running across desert sand. Text at the top reads “CONSULTAS GRATIS 212-202-0056” with a WhatsApp icon, and a red banner at the bottom reads “ALVARADO LAW” and “ABOGADOS DE INMIGRACIÓN.”
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Signal @signal.org · 24/06/2026
We just increased the maximum number of pinned chats from 4 to 10, so you can show 6 more people how much you love what they have to say.
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 24/06/2026
The was mitigating context, but I was accused of this after saying “you clearly didn’t go to preschool in France”
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 21/06/2026
With a massive score of 6.3, Curacao Is now winning the "group stage points per mullion residents" competition
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 18/06/2026
Church Street @ Vesey Street traffic camera
There's a huge crowd of people. Most of the in Knicks gear. The current date and time is in the top left.
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 14/06/2026
Amazing that the loser in the Curacao - Germany game was Brazil
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 14/06/2026
Brooklyn
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 13/06/2026
The ref head cam footage isn’t cool enough to justify how dorky it looks
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 12/06/2026
Should I sell it?
Screenshot of an email. Subject: "Offer to Purchase The New York Times"

Body: Hi Simon, 

I hope this email finds you well. Wanted to see if I could get a hold of you regarding The New York Times. We have a PE firm that is actively acquiring businesses in your industry. 

Are you available this week to discuss the opportunity?
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
20 Facebook pages spreading fake news to their 200,000 followers. A network of connected websites, and real money behind it. We investigate a sprawling content farm. It gets pretty dystopian. escapecollective.com/fake-cycling...
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Fake cycling news, real money: How content farms are hijacking cycling media
Inside the automated ad-tech machine flooding Facebook with AI-generated cycling misinformation.
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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Recent status: watching someone that works at Zoom take a past due security training about not taking meetings in public spaces while he was on a train going between Copenhagen and Stockholm. He completed his training then had a sales meeting about volume discounts.
A photo of a Dell laptop screen taken between two train seats. The screen has a training video with the text "You never know who's sitting next to you" showing on it. The picture taker is sitting behind the person taking the training, so it's OK.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 22/05/2026
Here's the FTC press release: www.ftc.gov/news-events/... "this service did not, in fact, listen in on consumers’ conversations or use voice data at all [...] Instead, the service the companies provided consisted of reselling—at a significant markup—email lists obtained from other data brokers."
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FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service
The Federal Trade Commission will require Cox Media Group (CMG) and two smaller marketing firms to pay a total of $930,000 to settle allegations they deceived customers by falsely claiming to offer
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 17/05/2026
I’m going to be annoyed if Apple launches disappearing messages in Siri before iMessage
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Peter G @zigzackly.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
P s. (It does not specify, so I am assuming international sign-ups are allowed.) And I just found that @jelaniya.bsky.social is here in the blue firmament, though they do not seem to be regular.
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 12/05/2026
Nine of these are within five minutes of my apartment, and there have been weeks where I've been to three or four of them. I love JH/Elmhurst.
nytimes.com
Best Restaurants in NYC
The annual list is back. Our new chief critic ranks her favorite places to dine in all five boroughs.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Full keyword list.
Screenshot of TikTok Pixel client-side code showing a predefined keyword list used to filter sensitive data before it is sent. Categories include race and ethnicity (asian, black, white, caucasian, hispanic, latino, arab, middle eastern, african american, native american, indigenous, pacific islander, jewish, afro, mulatto, mestizo, racial, ethnicity, ethnic group); religion (christian, catholic, protestant, baptist, orthodox, muslim, islam, islamic, sunni, shia, jewish, judaism, synagogue, hebrew, hindu, hinduism, vedic, bhagavad, buddhist, buddhism, taoism, shinto, atheist, agnostic, secular, religious belief); sexual orientation (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, gay, lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, queer, asexual, sexual orientation, gender identity, trans, transgender, nonbinary, non-binary); political affiliation (democrat, democratic, republican, libertarian, conservative, liberal, progressive, nationalist, communist, socialism, socialist, marxist, left-wing, right-wing, maga, antifa, alt-right, green party, political party, political ideology); union membership (labor union, trade union, union member, collective bargaining, strike, unionized, organized labor, workers' union, teamsters, AFL-CIO, IBEW, union dues, union card); and criminal record (arrest, arrested, convicted, conviction, felony, felon, misdemeanor, parole, probation, criminal record, jail, prison, inmate, suspect, indictment, charged with, mugshot).
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
An interesting finding here is that TikTok’s “sensitive data” filter for state health sites is a bizarre keyword list with terms like MAGA, antifa, Teamsters, bhagavad, mulatto, queer, and nationalist. If your answer isn't on the list, it could still get sent w/ @suryamattu.com and Tanaz Meghjani
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 04/05/2026
Excellent reporting, alarming findings. Bloomberg's @dmehro.bsky.social et al found U.S. state government health websites are sharing people's personal info (sex, citizenship & race data) with tech giants via pixel-sized webpage trackers. Several states pulled the trackers after Bloomberg disclosed.
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State Healthcare Sites Are Sharing Personal Data with Big Tech
Race, location and immigration information has been sent to TikTok, Meta and others.
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 21/04/2026
Curious to see what DOT does with this road they're merging with the adjacent park (h/t @capntransit@urbanists.social on Mastodon)
Screen shot of an intersection with an arrow labeled "street to be closed and annexed to park space" pointing at the bottom streetScreenshot of a drawing of an intersection intersection. The bottom part shows trees and sidewalk instead of a streetScreenshot of a satellite view of the street in question. It is bordered on both sides by trees. There is a pond on one side as well, and a construction site nearby.
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🚲 @bicycle.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
it’s happening. a safer grand army plaza is on the agenda.
nytimes.com
Can This Chaotic Brooklyn Plaza Be Car-Free? Mamdani Says Yes.
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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
It is delightful that the tense space adventure has turned into an IT help desk call
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 08/04/2026
New, by me at TechCrunch: The developer of the widely popular Wireguard VPN says he is also unable to ship software updates to Windows users after Microsoft locked his account, marking the second high-profile app developer (VeraCrypt) in the past few weeks to face this issue.
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WireGuard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account | TechCrunch
The popular open source VPN maker is the second high-profile developer to say Microsoft locked his account without notifying him and are blocking their ability to send software updates to users.
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ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild.org · 08/04/2026
We’re on strike today! Support our fight for a fair contract by NOT visiting the @propublica.org website or engaging with ProPublica stories today. Tell ProPublica’s management you won’t cross the picket line: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
We're on strike! Don't visit propublica.org on April 8
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...
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Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages
A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI
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Zed @zed.dev · 03/04/2026
We heard you loud and clear, so we went ahead and built the git graph.
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 02/04/2026
I thought this must be fake but I found the source video and it's real
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 02/04/2026
Moon!
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 31/03/2026
This looks cool: calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
calcareers.ca.gov
Investigative Technologist - Consumer Protection Section
Looking to make a difference? Join our strong and mighty workforce. We offer benefits and growth opportunities and impact the lives of millions of Californians.
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 28/03/2026
@offprint.app are you taking bug reports somewhere? The pages of publications indicate they have an RSS feed in the html, but the link 404s.
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Todd Feathers @toddfeathers.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
MyMove. If you've been there, you know. www.wired.com/story/the-go...
wired.com
The Government’s Shittiest Website
For more than 30 years, the US Postal Service has sent people who need to change their addresses to MyMove. Experts say the site uses dark patterns to trap visitors in an online purgatory of “deals.”
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NYC DOT Projects Bot @nycdotprojects.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This bot now uses social cards for posts, rather than the separate link and image it was doing before! PDFs don't have social previews, but since Bluesky cards are built on the client side that doesn't matter. The bot can construct one itself. Also super excited about this project.
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 19/03/2026
This is extra funny because it wouldn't even accurately track how far he ran. And his recorded pace presumably varied wildly each time he changed direction.
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Signal @signal.org · 19/03/2026
New: Group member labels, a way to describe yourself or your role in a group chat, only visible to that group chat. Label yourself the “Goalie” to your soccer team or “Favorite Child” to your family to stir some drama. Available on Android, Desktop & iOS signal.org/blog/group-m...
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Label yourself
We all take on different roles in relation to our friends, neighbors, family members, and colleagues. Keep those different roles clear in your many Signal group chats by using group member labels, now...
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Kevin Duggan @kevinduggan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani is ending the Adams/Tisch-era policy of slapping cyclists and e-bike riders with criminal summonses for low-level traffic offenses. -- with @sophlebo.bsky.social nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/18/m...
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Mamdani Ends NYPD's Criminal Crackdown on Cyclists, E-Bike Riders
Mayor Zohran Mamdani finally makes good on his campaign promise to end the punitive criminal crackdown on cycling in NYC.
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 18/03/2026
OK this new Kagi "feature" is incredible
Translation from english to "GWAR". English: I would like to see the menu. GWAR, in all caps: BRING ME THE LIST OF FLESH TO CONSUME, PUNY MORTAL!Translation from english to "GWAR". English: Hello what is your name? GWAR, in all caps: LISTEN UP, PUNY MAGGOT! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU CALL YOURSELF BEFORE WE SLAY YOU?
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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Someone was hit and killed by a train shortly before 5:15p, and first responders turned off third-rail power. Queens Blvd Line is basically non-functional at the moment. Story TK
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 10/03/2026
All the Queens Boulevard lines suspended during rush hour. What a mess.
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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 10/03/2026
When I first started playing with Rust I was writing as if it was Python; now that I'm writing Python again I'm writing it as if it was Rust. Which is actually working out pretty well. Probably because from what I can tell the Python ecosystem is trying to slowly become Rust.
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