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Sumana Harihareswara. New York City woman who reads scifi, improves open source software, and does stand-up comedy. https://harihareswara.net ; also @brainwane@social.coop on Mastodon.

[Screenshot of a web form.] Public comment: MAMDANI, PLEASE READ THIS BECAUSE THE LAST THING I NEED IS SOMEONE IGNORING THE FACT I'M DOUBLE SURE THAT EVERYONE WANTS FREE VISAS AND AN ACTUALLY GREAT PIZZA PARTY ON THE NIGHT OF THE WORLD CUP. SPEAKING OF WHICH, WHAT IS A WORLD CUP IS THE WORLD CAN'T EVEN FUCKING REACH THE US ANYWAY? I NEED SOMEONE TO MARCH OVER TO THE WHITE HOUSE AND GIVE TRUMP A MASSIVE SLAP TO HIS FACE! WHY CAN'T ANYONE VISIT THE STATES ANYMORE? I LIVE ABROAD (NOT SAYING WHERE, CUZ PRIVACY), AND I WANNA VISIT NYC SO FUCKING BAD BUT GETTING VISAS IS HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRDDDDDD. ALSO, I HATE POLITICS! WHY DO THEY HAVE TO AFFECT CIVILIANS ON A DAILY BASIS! AND IN ADDITION, THE ICE HAS TO MELT AT SOME POINT! FREE THOSE IMMIGRANT KIDS ALREADY! I DON'T NEED ANOTHER NIGHTMARE OF A CHILD REPEATEDLY CUTTING HIMSELF WITH A PLASTIC KNIFE! CAN WE PLEAAAAASSSEEEEEEEE PAY ATTENTION TO HOW KIDS AND TEENS ARE BEING TRAUMATIZED DAY AND NIGHT? I WANT PEACE. ABSOLUTE. FUCKING. PEACE. IN NEW YORK! AND THE STATES! AND THE WORLD! EVEN IF IT WERE FOR A FEW HOURS! IT'S TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE! AND I WANT A CHANCE FOR THE WORLD TO REMEMBER PEACE AT SOME POINT!
On a shelf at a store: a Catholic-style pillar candle kitschily depicting "Saint Zohran Mamdani" with a "New York, NY" postmark forming a halo around his head
List of voting recommendations - text in http://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/2026-nyc-democratic-primary-election-endorsements-all-in-one/ changed text: "Queens County, Judge of the Civil Court (select up to 2): Edmond Wong and Edward Irizarry. Sadly, Irizarry, John J. Ciafone, & Julie M. Milner are all allies of Monserrate, but Irizarry seems least so, and is approved by NYC Bar. Ciafone & Milner also have other troubling stances."
election recommendations; reflects text at https://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/2026-nyc-democratic-primary-election-endorsements-all-in-one/
Early voting June 13th-21st Election Day Tues. June 23rd Sumana's personal endorsements for the Democratic primary (research & full reasoning at my site, harihareswara.net) QR code (linking to URLs shared in Bsky post) Long list of election recommendations replicated at URL linked in Mastodon post, then More info on local races from news sources I like: thecityreporter.nyc cityandstateny.com hellgatenyc.com CC BY-SA
Independent Ink Magazine INDINKMAG [magazine cover has a photo of a volcano's caldera] Spring 2011 | Issue 001 Nina Badzin Courtney Thomas Vance Guy Cranswick Keith Lewis Libby Cudmore mobot a Literary adventure of daringly off-beat Short Stories kindle edition [image of Kindle device]
Logo for "SatRang Mahotsav" that includes a rainbow and script in Devanagari that flows into curlicues.
What we know: These are thigh-high ribbed socks, where fabric covers the leg from the thigh to the toe, and then fringe cascades from the elastic hem at the top of each sock down to (on the 5'10" model) mid-calf or so. https://www.vetirapp.com/product/69c3b621b749412a59c36437/ala-a/fringed-knit-high-socks , https://www.neimanmarcus.com/p/alaia-high-fringed-socks-prod289020083 , and https://www.youtube.com/shorts/smRtgAArqXU Only one size available. "One size, comfortably fits a UK 1-6/ US 4-9/ FR 35-40" https://www.vetirapp.com/product/69a94ee04ee73e414325a46d/ala-a/fringed-knit-high-socks Question: how does the elastic at the top feel? How robust is it? Does it feel like each sock will stay on? Is the ribbing part of that, structurally? "Seeing that they are attached to the thigh like that with elastic or whatever, I'm surprised they wouldn't combine this with a garter belt. Either that or the fringe doesn't add any appreciable weight OR the band at the top is so tight it runs the risk of cutting off the circulation to your feet." Question: what material is the fabric, and what material is the fringe/tassels? "These socks are spun from soft silk" says Vêtir; "Viscose" says Neiman-Marcus. Question: "I get these are not made for fats but why is everyone pretending they won’t instantly tangle together/ knot up between your thighs/ look like shit real fast?" Question: "what happens when you're sitting rather than standing."
[poster showing a batter in front of bright lights] Saturday 16th May Governors Island, NYC 19th Century Base Ball Match Hoboken BBC vs NY Mutuals Noon start on the Parade Grounds hobokennine.jimdofree.com
Screenshot of the top of the page: Logo (Texas Exes: New York Chapter) Home About Us Chili cook-off [and then a bunch of blank space after that]
Three hyperlinks in a row: Home About Us Chili Cook-off
[screenshot of portion of email] Sumana, Let me know if you are interested in playing on Saturday. We may be short a few players.
A pitcher, standing on a patch of dirt, pitches underhand to a batter near a catcher. In the background is a fielder standing on a grassy field, then many lush trees beyond. All the people are in old-timey clothes and hats; the pitcher's shirt has a big H on it. Photo from https://hobokennine.jimdofree.com/2026-photos-videos/
[hyperlink]: posted at cityjobs.nyc.gov April 17, 2026: [italics] Associate Speechwriter, Office of the Mayor Key Responsibilities: .... Speechwriting: - Write remarks in Mayor Mamdani’s voice. [end of italics] Dear Director of Communications: For too long, I have not had this job. Fiorello LaGuardia said th [cut off]
INDEX But there's no index. It is not safe. It is a temptation to skip. And people should not skip - at any rate, when they read this book. It is not polite to skip, anyway. When an author has taken the trouble to write a long story for the entertainment of people, people should meet him half way and read it all. The author would not write it if he did not expect it to be read. It is not fair to read what you like and to leave unread what the author likes. The author is trying to do you a good turn in tempting you to read what you don't like. It is for your good, not his, that he writes it. He knows it already. You ought not to have pie all the time. You don't appreciate pie unless you eat plain biscuit between times. Now, whatever other ingratitude you are guilty of, don't be guilty of the ingratitude of skipping in this book. You may know all that is in it already; but it is bad to skip and you should not set the example. Ten to one, though, you don't know it all. It would be no compliment to you to think that you thought you did. [alt text continues in next image]
Elections 2026 Graphic display of upcoming election dates in several US states such as: April 7 Georgia runoff April 16 New Jersey April 21 Virginia May 5 Indiana and Ohio May 12 Nebraska New Jersey and West Virginia and several others list in textual form at https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/calendar/
Doc got out and strolled under a Byzantine archway and into the seedy vastness of the main gaming floor, dominated by a ruinous chandelier draped above the tables and cages and pits, disintegrating, ghostly, huge, and, if it had feelings, likely resentful -- its lightbulbs long burned out and unreplaced, crystal lusters falling off unexpectedly into cowboy hatbrims, people's drinks, and spinning roulette wheels, where they bounced with a hard-edged jingling through their own dramas of luck and loss. Everything in the room was lopsided one way or another. The ancient bearings on the roulette wheels made them spin erratically faster and slower. The classic three-reel slots, set long ago to payout percentages unknown south of Bonanza Road and perhaps to the world, had since each drifted in its own way, like small-town businessfolks, toward openhanded generosity or tightfisted meanness. The carpets, deep royal purple, had been retextured over the years with a million cigarette burns, each fusing the synthetic nap to a single tiny smear of plastic. The all-over effect was of wind on the surface of a lake. The level of the main floor was ten feet below that of the desert outside, providing natural insulation, so the chill in this vast indeterminate space wasn't all from air-conditioning, which had been set on low in any case to save current. Grill cooks, tire salesmen, house framers, eye doctors, stickmen and change girls and other black-and-whites off shift from ritzier rooms where they weren't allowed to play, old horsemen fallen on faster and more crowded times, their feelings of custody now transferred to F-100s and Chevy Apaches, were ranged sparsely in the softly shadowed light, weaving in place as if trying to stay alert. Drinks here weren't free, but by way of real-life neighborhood civility they were cheap enough.
The prize ballooned after the lottery held more than 40 consecutive drawings without anyone matching all of the game’s six numbers. Whenever a drawing fails to get a winner, the lottery rolls over the winnings. The game’s terrible odds of 1 in 292.2 million are designed to generate big jackpots and ever-larger prizes. There are three drawings each week.
Curtis Sliwa, on the other, other, *other* hand, is also out of the question. Earlier on Wednesday, Sliwa told a reporter that an endorsement from Paterson, who is married to Sliwa's ex-wife, was "a kiss of death." (Paterson, when asked about Sliwa's remark, said, "I think Curtis Sliwa is the kiss of death.")
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[Gothamist logo] More than a dozen residents of Morningside Gardens, a complex of six 21-story apartment buildings in Upper Manhattan, said they either did not sign a form endorsing the mayor’s independent candidacy, that they were tricked into signing for Adams, or that the people who allegedly signed did not live at their address. Leila Lieberman, 93, was stunned to learn her stepson, Adam, supposedly signed the petition and listed her apartment as his address. He died by suicide in 1997, she said. “I’m sure that they [politicians] do things to get on the ballot, to get elected, but that is something they shouldn’t have done,” she said.
Comments: [contents of a webpage text box] Dear Commission: I write to share comments on two of the sections of the interim report. Regarding Ballot Question #5: Even-Year Local Elections: I am, like Common Cause, in favor of this change, to increase turnout and improve representation of the entire electorate. Regarding "open primaries": Like Common Cause, I am deeply concerned about the speed of your potential decision. The "jungle primary" change is being pushed by our current Mayor because of his own agenda, and in today's polarized political environment, we need to consider how extremist sabotage and wealthy interests' subterfuge would subvert the will of the voters in many "open primary" structures. More deliberation and study is required. Please do not, in your July 21st [typo in original: "June"] final vote, define the language of a ballot measure to change our primary system. Thank you for your work and consideration, Sumana Harihareswara
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Leonard on stage, holding up a rectangular glass object (the award)
several Fediverse posts from 1 year ago, by different users, each nearly simultaneously saying very similar things, such as “Infrastructure is how we care for each other at scale” - @brainwane #PyConUS or "infrastructure is a way of taking care of each other at scale" - @brainwane at #PyConUS
Slide: Untold stories from many years caring through infrastructure Sumana Harihareswara [footer on slide: PyCon US '24 By the community, for the community] Speaker note below slide: ...which are untold stories from many years caring through infrastructure, because I took care of you. Because infrastructure is a way we take care of each other at scale.
2 negative antigen tests. Each test is negative for COVID, RSV, and Flu A/B. Additional text overlaid on the image labels the top test "Leonard" and the lower test "Sumana".
Top editors: Editor statistics over the history of the page. Top 10 by edits [pie chart showing Sumanah has made a little over half the edits] Sumanah · 64 (53.8%) Opostylov · 18 (15.1%) Skoosh · 10 (8.4%) Wizzito · 8 (6.7%) Therequiembellishere · 5 (4.2%) Johnny Rose 11 · 4 (3.4%) 86.11.24.155 · 3 (2.5%) IJVin · 3 (2.5%) JDDJS · 2 (1.7%) Chiral-Matter · 2 (1.7%) Top 10 by added text (approximate) [pie chart showing Sumanah has added a little over 3/4 of the page text] Sumanah · 54,309 (78.1%) Wizzito · 4,348 (6.2%) Opostylov · 4,150 (6%) Skoosh · 2,675 (3.8%) Mpen320 · 1,386 (2%) 86.11.24.155 · 1,104 (1.6%) Chiral-Matter · 665 (1%) Therequiembellishere · 511 (0.7%) Gobonobo · 212 (0.3%) GreenC bot · 209 (0.3%)
The text of the "What you need to know about Trump's Tariffs" website https://trumpstariffsexplained.com/ explanation, duplicated and split onto 2 sheets so that someone can print it double-sided and then cut the page in half to make two leaflets.
Enter The Protective Tariff Activity Zone (doofus-looking guy's head popping out of a hole near "Activity")
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From the UK show "The Repair Shop": a woman restoring a painting uses a tool to gently test the paint surface and says, "Well, the flaking is a lot more extensive than I thought."
A still from the black-and-white film "Christmas in Connecticut"; a man in a military uniform and a well-dressed woman, both white, smile as one of them says, "Imagine us being arrested. Ha ha!"
From June 1982: a blond male news presenter with eyeglasses faces us. Inset: "NOT GUILTY" on a photo of a similar-looking blond male with eyeglasses.
Free Shipping October 8 & 9 "the anti-prime sale" and Bookshop logo printed as repeated pattern on tape that seals closed a cardboard box
me at dentist: yellow adhesive Readimask is stuck on face over nose, like a duckbill, leaving lips uncovered
me, an Indian-American woman, wearing glasses and a P100 respirator