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jasper davidoff @pocketsquar.es · 6h

documentedny.com

Documented

New York's Source for Immigration News

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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jasper davidoff @pocketsquar.es · Sep 6

spotted this morning at the marine park salt marsh

a great blue heron with its neck crunched in flies over water

a common tern with its head angled down flies over trees

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Aug 13

look i just wish the magazine called The New Yorker would stop making so many geographical references to the city of New York in their Daily New Yorker crossword is that so much to ask!!

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Abby Sewell @sewella.bsky.social · Aug 25

Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.

She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
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Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital

A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · Aug 24

been at the eric adams scavenger hunt all day. mostly we were in a crawlspace under a house in howard beach learning “how to out-hustle the rats.” not sure what this does for the campaign

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ProPublica @propublica.org · Aug 22

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.

Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

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ceej @ceej.online · Aug 20

(nodding) night corn

screenshot of a chumbox link that reads "Chuck Norris: This Night Routine Makes Me Feel Years Younger" and a photo of chuck in front of a microphone superimposed over a blurry photo of two grilled corn cobs

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · Aug 18

This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; out of sorts, perhaps

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jasper davidoff @pocketsquar.es · Aug 12

I wrote about corn salad for the New Yorker Daily newsletter because, sure, why not

On childhood road trips through Illinois and Wisconsin, my brother and I would chant about the crops growing on opposite sides of the state highway: "Up with corn! Down with soybeans!" Call it self-indoctrination, but these days a bowl of corn salad is the first thing I think to pack for a picnic in Prospect Park. It's simply a big pile of tasty produce: no skips, all bangers.

On the corn-preparation question, I'm kind of a square-blanching is my preference. It rounds out the kernels' sweetness and preserves just enough crunch to accentuate the other veggies. Make no mistake, though: canned or frozen is verboten for this dish. When I'm tearing husks and strewing silks all over the kitchen, that's how I know it's summer.

Versions vary, but here's mine: Place four or so ears of corn in a pot of boiling water until they're tender, then throw them in an ice bath until cool. Cut off the kernels and add them to a bowl with any combination of diced cherry tomatoes (or one heirloom tomato); diced red onion; a diced cucumber; one cup of feta or cotija cheese; and an avocado, in small chunks. Add a few handfuls of cilantro or mint (but not both). And finish with a few glugs of olive oil; a splash of red-wine vinegar or lime juice; and salt and pepper.

—Jasper Davidoff, puzzles-and-games producer

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jasper davidoff @pocketsquar.es · Aug 11

precisely

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jasper davidoff @pocketsquar.es · Aug 11

people should know that I am not obsessed with chipotle and haven't actually eaten there for a few years. I just felt a journalistic responsibility to stick with this story

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jasper davidoff @pocketsquar.es · Aug 10

an unbelievable update: chipotle seems to have noticed this tweet and is now opening a focal superchipotle to harness and channel the power of the seven central brooklyn chipotles

a chipotle sign on a white brick building under a "coming soon" sign behind the second floor windows

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jasper davidoff @pocketsquar.es · Aug 10

oh my pencil game is So weak....

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Jeff Steck @jefstec.bsky.social · Aug 1

A method involving "introducing beavers" to help create a wetland.
US Patent 12349618

Patent drawing of beavers gnawing away at trees.

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kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · Aug 1

Can we have one nice day where the air isn’t cigarettes

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Gabriel Kahane @gabrielkahane.bsky.social · Jul 27

In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight

A love letter to music listings

www.theatlantic.com

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jasper davidoff @pocketsquar.es · Jul 26

debuting a new abstract photography series called "pictures my phone took autonomously while charging in my tote bag"

a blur of white, brown, and black colors

a blur of yellow, brown, and blue colors

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · Jul 20

Elevated door
Black Creek, NC

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jasper davidoff @pocketsquar.es · Jul 14

unfortunately defeating a curse ultimately costs at least $95k

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jasper davidoff @pocketsquar.es · Jul 14

god forbid a young person start a small business in our city gothamist.com/news/nypd-na...

Police arrested a Manhattan woman for allegedly stealing nearly $90,000 through the seldom enforced crime of fortune telling, according to police and court documents.

And a former New York cop-turned-psychic-hunter said he was instrumental in the arrest.

Pamela Ufie, 29, was arrested Thursday for a 2023 incident during which police say she told a 43-year-old client that the woman's son suffered from a generational curse. Ufie allegedly convinced the woman to spend $87,000 on "specialty materials necessary to conduct rituals that would help the Defendant defeat the curse.”

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luis, the king of crops @itsluisgomez.com · Jul 9

much like trees falling in a forest, if your magazine goes up like 14-2 over two innings of slow pitch media softball before the game is called for thunderstorms, did anyone ever really win it?

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · Jul 8

briefly noted

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · Jul 6

Ducklings drop down into Lake Michigan through a hole in the concrete at Montrose Pier.

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jasper davidoff @pocketsquar.es · Jul 2

we should hold a home run derby to pick the nominee

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jasper davidoff @pocketsquar.es · Jul 1

sick! didn't know if I was missing out on, like, a live music letterboxd (musicboxd?)