Geoffrey Thomas

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geofft on most other websites. Advocate for Rust in your kernel, protected bike lanes on your streets, and other ways of saving lives through infrastructure.

A screenshot of an air quality map of the NYC area on a phone, showing mostly orange, a small pocket of green near Pleasantville and Valhalla, and brighter red towards Manhattan and Brooklyn in the southwest.
Psalm 120 (NRSV) from a hymnbook, which ends with the two quoted verses.
Screenshot of a tweet from Elon Musk on 12/19/24: "Oh … forgot to mention that I’m also going to be funding moderate candidates in heavily Democrat districts, so that the country can get rid of those who don’t represent them, like this jackass"
Screenshot of New York Daily News article "Layoffs loom at NYC street homeless outreach...": Ever since 2019, the city Department of Homeless Services has annually allocated $8 million in so-called “hotspot funding” for nonprofit groups that deploy staff who provide New Yorkers living on the streets with medical care and try to persuade them to enter shelter or other housing. However, the municipal government’s 2025 fiscal year budget, which was first adopted in June by Mayor Adams and the City Council, only renewed the hotspot funding at $4 million covering the first six months of the fiscal year — meaning the allocation is set to dry up on Jan. 1. There were discussions at the time the budget passed that the second half of the funding would be allocated later in the year, sources say.
December 13, 2024 Dear council members, There is a saying attributed to H. L. Mencken: “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” At Wednesday's hearing, we heard the author of Intro 606 repeatedly characterize his bill as a “simple” and “common sense” solution. It is certainly simple—too simple to meaningfully address the problems it is claimed to address. Those problems are serious and complex, and they deserve a serious answer. I write today (and I also testified on Wednesday) to oppose the unserious approach in Intro 606, as well as to support Intro 1131, not because I have any particular fondness for more task forces and studies, but because it is clear we do not yet know the right answer to these problems and they deserve a thoughtful answer.
Google Street View showing 431 Concord Ave, a fenced-off empty lot between two buildings, overgrown with grass and weeds.
A Zoom meeting at "120 Broadway Hearing Room." "In my interpretation of the comments from the Borough President, I am reading that I would be supportive of the development team adding additional affordable units and lowering the AMI. The second part is also true in the sense that without compromising everything else, but it sounds like you are responding to a really unified message in this regard." "Absolutely. And just as a side note, we would just note that 431 Concord across the street, which was proposed at 100% affordability, was approved in 2021 and has not been built. I think that one of the reasons for the Bronx Borough President's recommendation is that they recognize, they want to see this, they want to see this development and everything it provides, and so whatever it takes to make this happen, they want the applicant to do." "Thank you, I appreciate it."