Steven Romalewski
@sromalewski.bsky.social
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Director, CUNY Mapping Service at the Center for Urban Research, CUNY Graduate Center. More here: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/people/steven-romalewski Some posts are work-related, some are personal.
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Some NYC RCV 2025 mayoral primary map updates from @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. We've published our interactive map of round-by-round (non-batch-eliminated) vote patterns at www.urbanresearchmaps.org/nycrcv2025/ For each election district we display a vote transfer diagram for all candidates. (🧵)
Screenshot of CUNY interactive map of NYC 2025 mayoral primary ranked choice vote transfers. https://www.urbanresearchmaps.org/nycrcv2025/
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Remember the first few months of this year, when all we talked about was DOGE and spending cuts and waste, and this administration gutted USAID?

And now they’re giving $40 billion (!) to Argentina.

Insane the amount of amnesia in this country and in our politics and media.
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Using ChatGPT
What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?
I didn’t want to say they stole the idea from you (it’s probably not a copyrighted thing), but I wanted to make sure they knew that you (likely) had it first!
Here’s the local NYC version via @beta.nyc cc @noneck.org

bsky.app/profile/none...
Happy No Kings day!

@beta.nyc is offering these great donation gifts as a thank you for supporting our public programs.

www.beta.nyc/support-us-n...
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Now that’s a size-comparison map that I hadn’t seen before: Hawaii 🌺 overlayed on top of the contiguous US shows just how far spread out the Hawaiian islands are. Big geopolitical importance for a lovely corner of the world.
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"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore
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Senator Banks recently called the 2020 Census a “fraud.” In our latest blog post, we break down the facts.

Yes, there were challenges, but overall the count was remarkably accurate. The one thing we can all agree on is that Americans deserve a fair and accurate decennial census.
Census 2020: Fraud or Fairly Conducted? | America's Data Index
dataindex.us
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“Historicizing the present robs it of its sense of inevitability, and restores its sense of human agency” ~Mike Wallace

Congrats to Mike Wallace, NYC historian extraordinaire, for a lifetime of work & his new book Gotham at War. Gotham Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social - what a rich legacy 🗽
Screen that reads “Historicizing the present robs it of its sense of inevitability, and restores its sense of human agency.” A quote by Pulitzer-prize winning New York City historian Mike Wallace. Photo taken at Gotham at War Book Event — a celebration of the culminating book in Mike Wallace's Gotham series and of his contributions to understanding NYC's history, organized by The Gotham Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, October 2025
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One of the few places he hasn’t yet visited via a connecting flight from Istanbul?
When do we get that apology from Maureen Dowd? cc @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Idiotic NY Times opinion headline from Maureen Dowd: “Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk”
Flying there via Istanbul, or is that not the vibe anymore?
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Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
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Not a map. MTA itself calls it a "subway diagram".
At first I thought (among many other things) that Adams dropping out will make our election result map(s) less interesting but more focused (just 3 candidates). But he may still get enough votes to make a difference in some election districts. We’ll see!
To the voting booth on Election Day to vote for him because he’s still on the ballot and he was a protest vote to begin with
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People who appreciate the intoxicating euphoria of reading from a real dictionary expertly hand-crafted by diligent human lexicographers.

Also. people who love the Oxford Comma more than some family members.
Who's the audience for a paper dictionary these days? (Serious question.)
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:
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DOGE was a failure because its entire premise was flawed, and, on top of that, the people who ran and implemented it were both arrogant and ignorant.
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He stood in front of the world at the UN today, and every other word out of his mouth was a lie. I’ll say it again, we’ve not been here before. An American President who lies as he breathes. It’s a terrible place to be. Shame on the media & everyone who’s normalized his lying and/or doesn’t care.