is New York City dead?

They do. This is basically just for funsies and I have no idea why they’re reporting it.

— Daniel Festa (@_danfesta) June 29, 2021

explain the world in one tweet

What’s the best concert you’ve ever been to?

Curtis Mayfield at the Wingate Concert Series. At that concert there was a rainstorm and the lights fell on Curtis Mayfield and they actually paralyzed him at that concert. He died a few years ago, but it was an amazing concert before that happened. Just so unfortunate.

― adam, Friday, June 25, 2021 8:01 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yeah I saw this too. Pretty deranged stuff.

Go Go Garcia

Adams claiming the results look suspicious, sounding like another New Yorker I remember

Huh. I don't remember if I ranked Garcia. That may have been a mistake.

Tabulating the incomplete rankings when absentee ballots are not yet out is just a recipe for provoking more confusion and outrage when late mail ballots skew progressive, as they have done to a huge degree in Seattle for years. It allows headlines about a “comeback” in the days after Election Day but it’s just an artifact of which votes are counted when.

The ranking complicates this logic, but if the 16000 vote gap were in a two-way race the person trailing would need 70,500 of 125k (56%) of outstanding ballots, which is within the realm of possibility. So whoever this fucker is could still lose.

Remember six months ago when we were all doing this for individual counties in Pennsylvania, good times

I can't do the math but I wonder if there's any chance the absentee ballots could put Wiley back ahead of Garcia.

*supposedly* the districts featured heavily in the absentee ballots lean garcia, but who knows. (not sure about wiley tho.) and yeah releasing results piecemeal like this is absurd

also why the fuck does this take so long? it's a million votes; entire european countries count this shit in a matter of hours, not weeks

Generically the issue in the US is late postal votes. In New York specifically the problem is that the boe is a patronage mill of people who get out of bed at like 2 in the afternoon and can’t count to 100.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/nyregion/nyc-voting-election-board.html

absentee ballots weren't even due until today (as long as they were postmarked by election day)

It’s always great when “bungling” is in the headline

Lmao

The Board of Elections appears to h ave taken down its ranked-choice tabulations from earlier today pic.twitter.com/xBjOuK3mhh

— Dana Rubinstein (@danarubinstein) June 30, 2021

A lot of people have been blowing the whistle on NY's election administration for years, but this is the most botched election results reporting by an official agency I've ever seen in the U.S.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) June 30, 2021

We are aware there is a discrepancy in the unofficial RCV round by round elimination report. We are working with our RCV technical staff to identify where the discrepancy occurred. We ask the public, elected officials and candidates to have patience.

— NYC Board of Elections (@BOENYC) June 29, 2021

What was wrong with the old style of voting, like where everyone gets one vote

Lots of things rly

pee after sex or you’ll get an rcv

— vacation ember 🐺 (@embernic) June 29, 2021

What was wrong with the old style of voting, like where everyone gets one vote

Here's a treat of a story about being an NYC poll worker:

Oh boy. Gonna break my twitter silence for a hot minute to talk about this election. I was a poll worker at a site that will remain nameless because I'd like to be allowed to do it again. Buckle up, buttercups, we're on an express elevator to hell, going down... https://t.co/t4IJRpHvvU

— every cop is a policy failure (@Dr_Memory) July 1, 2021

oh god.

made it about 10 tweets through that thread before closing my laptop in anger

I honestly don't understand the commotion about RCV. I thought it was obvious and easy to navigate. Yes I know everyone says it will be harder for "the elderly" which I'm sure that's true for some but there are mentally alert elderly people too. What I *do* know is that elected officials who had been in office for multiple terms and had budgets for community outreach DIDN'T DO COMMUNITY EDUCATION early enough, probably because some of them were trying to stop it from happening.

oof

Eric Adams: 50.5

Kathryn Garcia: 49.5

--Fin--https://t.co/qGzrF0xeVf

— David Freedlander (@freedlander) July 6, 2021

Looks like Wiley's votes went 2-to-1 to Garcia, but still wasn't enough.

Very annoying

That's an 8400-vote margin with 139,459 inactive ballots. Dammit.

— Second Ave. Sagas (@2AvSagas) July 6, 2021

New York has had a Black mayor. New York has never had a female mayor. This is a much closer result than I expected.

Yuck

bleahhh.

So you think there is a way to use stop-and-frisk that isn’t abusive?

Well, there’s a word that’s missing in there. It’s called stop, question, and frisk. So 2 o’clock in the morning, you look out your door, you see a person standing in front of your house. He places a gun in his waistband. You go to call the police, I hope. That police officer responds. He needs to be able to question that person, “What are you doing with that gun?” If we’re telling police officers you can’t question people, we are jeopardizing the safety of the city. Police officers must follow the rules to be able to question if there’s reasonable suspicion that someone is carrying that firearm. That’s not what we were doing. We were stopping and frisking people based on their ethnicities and based on the communities they were in. That will never happen under my administration.

Greeeeat

What a dumb answer. That's actually responding to a call, it doesn't have anything to do with stop-and-frisk, and the only reason to say it in response to that question is to avoid saying you're against stop-and-frisk.

"Obviously we should be able to STOP someone who just fired gunshots and then FRISK them to see if they have a gun! So therefore I don't think we should completely end stop-and-frisk!"

"stop, question, and frisk" = it's fine to stop and frisk someone as long as you interrogate them also

Which, i mean, they always do anyway

he was vocally against stop-and-frisk earlier in his career, maybe this'll be one of the many campaign promises he breaks en route to tammany hall 2021

Shahana Hanif, the councilperson i voted for appears to have won.
https://www.shahanafrombk.com
Lander and Williams seem to have won handily as well.
Adams seems a putz but generally the voting at the borough and district level seems progressive and positive. i have hope.

Eric Adams dined this evening at Rao’s with John Catsimatidis and Bo Dietl pic.twitter.com/bV0LPiPQc5

— David Freedlander (@freedlander) July 9, 2021

I read that for a moment as Eric Adams died this evening

This guy is not good.

don't panic, he was just trying to negotiate a way to get vinyl back on hbo

That show is not good.

does kinda seem like a show that eric adams would like, though

I should watch one episode of that now that I have HBO Max. Just to see if it's really as bad as people say. (I already hate most "prestige TV," so I'll likely hate it even more than other people did, but my morbid curiosity is strong.)

People on Twitter are eulogizing the Astor Place Kmart. It never meant anything to me but apparently it was a very weird Kmart and people liked to rendezvous there before going out on the town.

Lovely eulogy (from 2018, slightly premature) by ILM's own AlexInNYC:

Once upon at time, Kmart stood out like a cow pie on a prayer rug. Now it’s basically just a field of cow-pies, to use an incongruously rural analogy.

https://vassifer.blogs.com/alexinnyc/2018/01/sunset-on-the-astor-place-kmart-.html

it was a weirdass kmart and everytime i went in there it felt like entering a retail tardis

Alex otm, mosly. RIP. I didn't live down there but didn't mind it, occasionally had a need to go in there and enjoyed seeing it from the subway platform.

Ha, forks.

My only time there was Christmas shopping with my wife and looking for legos for someone. Let's just say I've seen swap meets in rural PA with a less discarded and depressed vibe.