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passionate ❤️‍🔥 about climate adaptation strategies, neighborhood voices, governing regimes and mixed-methods in changing urban landscapes. @USL_NYC

[vero @verotto19]

Damn this passage about Björk "disappearing from femaleness by going into other species" while Rosalía "goes deeper into female itself, drilling down into it, past the mutilations of flamenco to some place of power where she feels new" .. they are just v different performers

[Albert Gil 📕 @LarryAlbertGil]

Per si no ho sabíeu, la guanyadora del Nobel de Literatura va escriure tot just fa un mes un article sobre un concert de la Rosalia.
https://t.co/YnjsCMdUoS

[vero @verotto19]

I would stare at them with the same intensity, wishing they could tell me what brought them to nyc.

[Manhattan Bird Alert @BirdCentralPark]

Two American Barn Owls enjoying a pleasant Wednesday night on Manhattan's Upper West Side. 🦉 🧡 🦉

[vero @verotto19]

left and center-left politicians cannot be progressive on wages and forget about rent-burden, bcs increases in wages never match what's needed to pay rent in major cities and thrive. as Garbaudo puts it "mildly reformist policies are no real cure" for deep housing inequality.

[Paolo Gerbaudo @paologerbaudo]

I wrote for Jacobin on what Spain’s housing protests reveal about where social movements are today compared with 2011 and the 15M/Occupy movements. https://t.co/3ACQUthXUY

[vero @verotto19]

@auteurhouse AI and humans will make art that will make us feel, many artists are dismissing it as a joke, but some are already collaborating with it in incredible ways. Stay open.

[vero @verotto19]

@timcrinion @annemariegray @NYCMayor Many cities in Brazil use land value taxes for this purpose and prevent that low income or informal housing is pushed to peripheral areas.

[vero @verotto19]

@ieatantz Hey but c’mon we are talking about Iñárritu here! How does Digger compare to Birdman (his most surreal)?

[vero @verotto19]

this is the kind of soil dryness that contributes greatly to frequent, prolonged and untameable #wildfires.

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

France’s ongoing drought has once again pushed soil moisture further below historical levels than any previously recorded drought.

Uncharted territory.

[vero @verotto19]

@JonWhere Polombia

[vero @verotto19]

@RyanWeather Temperature's asymmetrical peristalsis towards greater heat extremes.

[vero @verotto19]

“Words are events, they do things, change things… transform both speaker and hearer… feed energy back and forth and amplify it… feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it..” (U.K. Le Guin)

I spoke and I changed everything.

[vero @verotto19]

this metaphor hard and soft.

[vero @verotto19]

I helped on the research for a new publication out with some folks @USL_NYC and beyond. The paper builds on work done for the NYC DCP back in 2019 focusing on identifying most #vulnerable neighborhoods to stormwater under different #climate scenarios! https://t.co/ALUwWSQgkl

[vero @verotto19]

More humility in power

[Tyler Evans @tylerevansokay]

"It's very unusual that people call you, as Mayor, by your first name. Why do you think people call you, 'Bernie'?"

Hbd, Bernie.

[vero @verotto19]

Never seen this Frida quote before. It frames the power of love so eloquently

[Hesse Philosophy @HermannHessed]

“In the end,
I believe there is nothing we must do to be loved.
We spend our lives trying to look more beautiful, more intelligent.
But I've understood two things:
Those who love us see us with their hearts and give us qualities
beyond the ones we truly have.
And those who refuse to love us will never be satisfied with all our efforts.
Yes, truly.
I believe it is important to let our imperfections be.
They are precious,
for they help us understand those who see us with the heart.”

— Frida Kahlo

[vero @verotto19]

“Writing freezes speech and in so doing gives birth to the grammarian, the logician, the rhetorician, the historian, the scientist - all those who must hold language before so that they can see what it means, where it errs and where it is leading”. (Neil Postman)

[vero @verotto19]

¡wepa! Connecting struggles and èxitos across time. Tu mensaje es algo muy lindo mi alcalde!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

From Washington Heights to the Lower East Side, Nuyoricans have defined this city for generations.

Here's to celebrating their contributions, their history and the future of our city.

[vero @verotto19]

@nypost This is a calculated move to get ppl riled up about demanding Kathy to tax the rich and/or enterprises. Hope it works!

[vero @verotto19]

Warzel in @TheAtlantic discusses the long arch of #nihilism in the online world. imo it is a transmutation of the offline world variant we see in Gregg Araki's absent parenting lost generation movies of the 90s.. first of all, youths today must find joyful and caring role models

[vero @verotto19]

Day 6 of the Mamdani administration @NYCMayor and the spotlight is on safer streets for biking and walking complete with shovel in hand to fix the bump and apologies speeches for those who lost dear ones to accidents. Promising!

[vero @verotto19]

Zo�� Hu thanks for your clarity! The left touts solidarity as antidote to the dehumanizing effects of capital, but for many young men this concept and its practices don't resonate anymore. so what should the alternative be? https://t.co/9ma9hUuHmy