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Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social |
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associate editor + explainer-in-chief at THE CITY (@thecity.bsky.social) • news if I must, local joy where I can find it • bird enjoyer • tell me something good: rsmith@thecity.nyc
📍 fun hell
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David Ho
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The French government has put thousands of homeless immigrants on buses and sent them out of Paris ahead of the Olympics. The immigrants said they were promised housing elsewhere, only to end up living on unfamiliar streets far from home or flagged for deportation.
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Camera-on-Hudson
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Greetings from 🗽 on Thursday, July 11, 2024 at 07:22.
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𝚏𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚝𝚝𝚙://
@fish.posting.lol
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finally! reese's without the beef
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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I’ve recently become a dedicated Dinner Party reader and it’s wonderful but also makes me really miss seeing @choire.bsky.social in my feed. all the good posters are scattered in the wind and I hate it
anyway subscribe it’s good
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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we’re running weekly raffles for this all summer! there will be a new round in next week’s newsletter
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anna ✨
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i don’t need another tote bag, but also i need the rainbow @thecity.bsky.social tote bag so Bad
donorbox.org/the-city-sum...
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Amanda Katz
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Love everything about these USA gymnast lewks and this awesome multimedia story showing how you make $3000, ultra-sparkly, crystal-encrusted leotards. That second one from the top right with the red white and blue and art nouveau detail, wow!! www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olymp...
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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to distract ourselves from the heat, the summer newsletter today is all about LOCAL OLYMPIANS 🤺🛹🏐🏓⛵️🎾 sign up to get it, out at 1pm:
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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an oldie but a goodie:
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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to distract ourselves from the heat, the summer newsletter today is all about LOCAL OLYMPIANS 🤺🛹🏐🏓⛵️🎾 sign up to get it, out at 1pm:
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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[to the tune of ‘walking on sunshine’] 🎶 i’m walking through souuuuup whooooaaaa 🎶
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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🫠🫠🫠
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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which of you nerds is going to the 12-hour "city of yes" zoning hearing today. don't be shy I know you're on here
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dr. e. katherine
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A deeply relatable bumper sticker from my partner's commute this morning
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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checking the dew point throughout next week’s forecast and feeling nothing but despair
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Angus Johnston
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Biden: "I'm staying in." Pelosi: "Well, you just need to decide." Biden: "I have decided." Pelosi: "Okay, but you should figure it out soon." Biden: "I'm staying in!" Pelosi: "Whatever you choose is fine." Biden: "I'm in!" Pelosi: "We can talk about it after NATO."
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Daniel Feldman
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Local angle. All the music in all the ice cream trucks in the country comes from a small Minneapolis company. qz.com/one-small-co...
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Jason Koebler
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Beloved Apple blog TUAW was shut down in 2015, sold to private equity, then sold to a company in Hong Kong. It recently relaunched as an AI content farm using the stolen identities and bylines of its former human staff. A nightmare:
www.404media.co/a-beloved-te...
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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I freaking love Train Time
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daryl "cherche le beau travail" bartley 🏳️⚧️
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I know there's been a lot going on but why hasn't anyone banded together to stop this
playbill.com/article/lin-...
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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SO many good questions
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Amanda Mull
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Honestly, the novelty has never worn off for me, and I’ve been here a very long time
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pilot
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NO BORDERS is doing a pop-up in Astoria on July 20th! cheap books (mostly $1-$5) and coffee/tea for sale, ways to donate books (more specifics coming soon), and other cool stuff. help us open a worker-owned bookstore in Queens! or donate here if you can't make it: www.gofundme.com/f/bring-a-wo...
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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yes!! so happy to hear this. I got into birding because I loved following birder photographers on twitter. at least one nice thing that came from social media!
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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don’t believe the stories; glad you had a good visit! new york is magic
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Elizabeth Cantwell
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today’s views
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Rachel Burdin
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This chapter of The Power Broker is describing a neighborhood in the Bronx full of working class leftist Jews who are embracing integration as Black and Latino residents are moving in! I'm sure nothing bad will happen to them! Let me pull up Google Maps and see where the Cross Bronx Expressway is!
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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screaming shouting making a SCENE WHAT IS THISSSSSS
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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lmao no, the only sixth borough I will accept is puerto rico
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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yup. we've all been there
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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lmao someone put a recommendation for a thing in westchester in one of our stories and an editor was like "WHAT IS OUR NAME" and cut it tough but fair. five boroughs or nowhere my friends
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Shannon Mattern
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Nooooo! Crest Hardware is closing! 😢
A few years ago I wrote about the Franquinhas’ Williamsburg store, my own family’s hardware store, and the whole history of the hardware + general store as a social infrastructure: placesjournal.org/article/comm...
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Joad The Wet Sprocket
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wait so NYC didn't have trash bins this whole time?
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Doug
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As someone who occasionally tries to get into my apartment building with my MetroCard, I feel you.
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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ah thank you!!
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That L-Named Person
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:) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jian_dui
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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in better news I took this advice this weekend, it was incredible!! my fav was the classic sesame ball with the red bean paste inside (I don’t know its proper name, I apologize) delish!!
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Rachel Holliday Smith
@rachelholliday.bsky.social
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just tried to use my building access card to swipe into the subway please do not ask me how I’m doing
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Irontuna
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My wife carries an ice pack when she has to go somewhere, which is a smart idea given how much I was sweating while walking to the subway at 8am
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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I have an entire dish towel tbqh
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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I love to bike but respectfully, today??? no way
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pee wee herman-palladino
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dabbing at my forehead with a wad of Starbucks napkins like a damn country lawyer
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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hell yeah brother (as in: we are in hell)
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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sweat rag season
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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there is no hiding there is no peace there is no god
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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an oldie but a goodie:
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Bruno J. Navarro
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Recently published hit books about Donald Trump and ‘90s con men, as well as in-demand fiction, hadn’t been acquired as of Monday morning, when THE CITY asked about their absence.
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Claude Monet
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Every day I discover more and more beautiful things.
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Rachel Holliday Smith
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the answer for me personally is: lose my mind expeditiously but here’s a guide for NOT doing that!!!
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