Emily J Gertz
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Emily J Gertz
@ejgertz.bsky.social
Journalist, author, knitter.

"If you want to know what the first great AI apocalypse is, we're already living it. It's total information collapse." — Carole Cadwalladr
"Wow, even Van Jones can't find something to be unhappy about toni..."
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
NYC Board of Elections unofficial results:
candidate / votes/ percent

Mamdani 999313 50.38%

Curtis A. Sliwa 142632 7.19%

Eric L. Adams 6020 0.30%

Andrew M. Cuomo 823490 41.52%

Total votes counted so far: 1,983,364
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
With 15% of NYC precincts reporting, Decision Desk HQ has called it for Mamdani.
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Brooklyn votes.
November 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
November 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
October 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
October 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
October 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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September 13, 2025 at 1:04 PM
August 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Yep: USGS recorded a 3.0 magnitude quake in Hasbrouck Heights, NJ at 10:18:52 this evening.
August 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
August 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Seen In Brooklyn, NY.
July 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Join @womendonews.bsky.social &
@wikimedianyc.bsky.social on July 17 for the NYC 400 Women Do News Edit-a-thon, an in-person evening of editing & updating Wikipedia pages to raise the visibility of women, women-identified & non-binary journalists. Register here:

www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-400-wo...
July 9, 2025 at 1:46 PM
July 6, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Brooklyn this evening.
July 4, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Found this overheating fledgling this morning. Wild Bird Fund suggested putting the wet cloth on its head to help it cool down. Hope it recovers. If not, at least it will die comfortable instead of on the sunbaked sidewalk.

I think it’s a pigeon.
June 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Why We Fight, tidily summed up in today’s @nytimes.com online:
June 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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