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David MacLeod

@davidmacleod.bsky.social

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

June 24, 2025 at 1:39 AM

David MacLeod

@davidmacleod.bsky.social

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. 🙂

May 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM

David MacLeod

@davidmacleod.bsky.social

Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942)

May 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM

David MacLeod

@davidmacleod.bsky.social

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

May 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM

David MacLeod

@davidmacleod.bsky.social

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.

April 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM

David MacLeod

@davidmacleod.bsky.social

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

April 16, 2025 at 11:18 PM

David MacLeod

@davidmacleod.bsky.social

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).

December 9, 2024 at 3:36 AM

David MacLeod

@davidmacleod.bsky.social

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.

page 49
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.

page 48
https://climate.ny.gov/resources/scoping-plan/-/media/project/climate/files/Appendix-G.pdf

November 30, 2024 at 4:27 PM

David MacLeod

@davidmacleod.bsky.social

👍 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.