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Michelle
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Pixel thrower, avocado fan, slacker, cis she/her
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"The current affordability challenges in the housing market affect everyone, but especially first-time homebuyers"
Median age of US homebuyers from 1981 - 2025:
- all buyers (31 to 59)
- 1st-time buyers (29 to 40)
- repeat buyers (36 to 62)
www.realtor.com/news/trends/...
The typical first-time homebuyer in the U.S. is now 40 years old, a record high, as affordability struggles price many younger families out of the market. The median age of first-time buyers rose to 40 in 2025 from 38 the year before, and is up sharply from 33 just five years ago, according the annual profile of homebuyers and home sellers released by the National Association of Realtors® on Tuesday. The share of all home purchases that were made by first-time buyers fell to 21% this year, the lowest on records dating to 1981. Meanwhile, cash buyers accounted for 26% of sales, an all-time high. Chart of Median age of US homebuyers since 1981. The median age of all buyers (31 to 59), median age of first-time buyers (29 to 40), and median age of repeat buyers (36 to 62) are all at record highs.
November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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*and yet*!!!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
'After 10 minutes of Cuomo claiming Mamdani was going to drive New York into a post-apocalyptic nightmare, it was hardly surprising that there was a round of lusty boos and loud jeers when the former governor finally mentioned his opponent by name. But Cuomo appeared shocked by the anger. He suddenly adopted an air of contrition that was very much absent from his campaign. “No, that is not right, and that is not us,” he told his supporters. And yet.' from https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/andrew-cuomo-zohran-mamdani-new-york
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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City of Rochester, NY: "ADA Transition Plan Final Draft is ready for review. We will be presenting it at an online (Zoom) public meeting on October 28, 2025 from noon to 2 PM. This meeting will provide a review of the Draft Plan as well as an opportunity to ask questions."
City of Rochester ADA Transition Plan - Draft Final Plan Public Meeting Tuesday, October 28, 202512:00 - 2:00 p.m.
October 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Thank you,
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! Zines go nicely with interactive video toys.
GenAI Sucks zine arranged next to a computer running an interactive video toy
September 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Really lovely to encounter the work Allen Turner is creating at DePaul with his students, the Sankofa Seasons game.
"The matter of Black lives: Conversations of existence and survival while Black in America"
ogs.cdm.depaul.edu/sankofa-seas...
Loading screen for game Sankofa Seasons - title and "The matter of Black lives: Conversations of existence and survival while Black in America". Play and Quit buttons. Imagery: realistically modeled colorful hawk resting on a large carved brown jar at the front shore of a misty river with a forest on the other side
September 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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This person - trolling because a commenter on a Rochester politician's FB post predicted a policy reaction by their also-politician parent - is planning to continue benefiting from that parent's political legacy.
Anthony Morelle [user w/ art profile pic] I had no idea that cartoons had such opinions on opioid addictions and politics!
September 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Gary Clark, Jr at CMAC in NY tonight
Gary Clark Jr on guitar fronting band + backup singers on CMAC stage with red lights cutting through theatrical fog
August 31, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Hollywood and theater legend to be honored with George Eastman Award in Rochester
The Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winner will accept the George Eastman Award Oct. 29
www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2...
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2025/08/27/rita-moreno-to-be-honored-with-george-eastman-award-in-rochester-ny/85848222007 EGOT and and George Eastman Award honoree Rita Moreno poses in black separates and dramatic zebra print cape. photo: Bernardo Doral
August 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Interesting how Rochester's data centers park by our waterways, isn't it? www.datacentermap.com
Map of Rochester region with 4 data centers pinned, 3 of them very clearly are on/near waterways (Genessee, Erie canal)
August 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Strong Museum of Play
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Corning, NY📍➡️Rochester, NY📍In collaboration with Corning Museum of Glass, the world’s largest toy marble has made its way to The Strong! The wonderfully talented team at The Corning Museum of Glass created ...
museumofplayroc and corningmuseum Corning, NY📍➡️Rochester, NY📍In collaboration with Corning Museum of Glass, the world’s largest toy marble has made its way to The Strong! The wonderfully talented team at The Corning Museum of Glass created this incredible addition to The Strong’s newest exhibit, Marble Speedway. The exhibit is set to open this fall, but guests can see this nearly 50lb marble on display NOW. #CorningMuseumOfGlass #MuseumOfPlay [video of Corning Museum of Glass staff sealing a wooden shipping box, loading it on a truck, the drive to Rochester, the arrival at the Museum of Play, moving the box to exhibit area, gloved MOP staff unsealing the box to reveal the marble (large blue & red swirls inside clear glass), and carefully lifting the marble onto the metal prongs of its display stand.]
August 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, conceived and written by Dr. Seuss, looks like it was conceived and written by Dr. Seuss - wild stuff
On a foggy surreal set of chrome spheres and hills, a frightened young white boy stands atop a small chrome hill as men in baggy olive felt costumes run around the edge, waving boy-sized nets in primary colors. In a dungeon palace great room, green painted white men variously stand guard, dance, or play fantastical instruments - horns, giant harp, drums A sad, small, white boy (red and gray striped t-shirt, blue cap labeled "Happy Fingers" with a plastic yellow hand stuck on top) stands in front of a black piano with 5000 keys
August 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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I'm getting readings of 154 in Rochester rn
154 PM2.5 ☹️ Unhealthy (updated Sunday 12:35pm)
August 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Pride on display at Rochester Puerto Rican parade and festival
(WXXI News)
story and 📸 by Natasha Kaiser
www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...
A group of dancers at the Puerto Rican parade and festival in Rochester, NY Aug 2, 2025 photo by WXXI News intern Natasha Kaiser https://www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2025-08-03/pride-on-display-at-puerto-rican-parade-and-festival
August 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Harriet Tubman home and her Home for the Aged in Auburn, NY
(still being run and toured by an AMEZ pastor and funded entirely by AMEZ, not the NPS)
www.harriettubmanhome.com
Stuck mid-reno home of Harriet Tubman. Crumbly 2 story brick colonial Front of white 2-story house with white siding, patched roof, and wraparound front porch - Tubman's Home for the Aged
August 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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...and now all the @freedomflotilla.bsky.social #Handala livecams have gone black : <
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO_G...
Livestream image from Freedom Flotilla Coalition Handala's 4 cams July 26 at 22:43 (late night). Top right cam: at least a dozen IDF olive uniformed, helmeted, and armed soldiers standing over sitting people in orange life vests. Top left cam: small boat in the water alongside the Handala Bottom right progress map: red line of progress ending at red dot far from the intended destination in Gaza Bottom left cam: very front of Handala boat
July 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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"DR. WALTER COOPER [1928- ], scientist, humanitarian, activist, and educator, was born on July 18, 1928 in Clairton, Pennsylvania."
ITM585: "Dr. Cooper has and continues to inspire so many of us in Rochester."
Wishing him a wonderful 97th!
📸 Adam Eaton
www.inthismoment585.org/walter-cooper
B/W photo portrait of Black genius elder, Dr. Walter Cooper
July 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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1. Today, I joined Congresswomen... & Senators... in Washington DC to introduce a package of uterine fibroid Congressional bills.
2. In partnership with the Foundation for Women’s Health, I’m launching the FWH x Lupita Nyong’o Uterine Fibroid Research Grant.
Image of Lupita at the '14 Oscars with overlay text: "In March 2014, I won an Academy Award. That same year, I discovered I had uterine fibroids." IG caption: lupitanyongo 📣 I’m speaking up about uterine fibroids. This is my story. This Fibroid Awareness Month and beyond, I hope my experience will resonate with anyone else who has ever felt dismissed, confused or alone. And I hope to seek answers for the far too many women dealing with uterine fibroids (80% of Black women and 70% of white women by age 50!). We deserve better. It’s time to demand it. Silence serves no one! Here’s where I’m beginning ➡️ ...
July 16, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Beautiful evening at Rochester jazz festival. Trombone Shorty at 9
Outside looking over the festival stage and tall buildings at a blue sky with cotton clouds
June 26, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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If night-long trends hold... Lashunda & Kee Kee get
non-incumbent council seats, NO School Bd for Vince F.
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS [Rochester, NY]
Monroe County
Precincts Complete 0 of 237
Precincts Partially Reported 223 of 237
www.monroecounty.gov/files/boe/EN...
Precincts Partially Reported 223 of 237 16,452Ballots Cast - Total 15,685Ballots Cast - Democratic 767Ballots Cast - Republican 10Ballots Cast - Blank TOTAL Vote For 1 DEM Mayor City of Rochester Mary Lupien 4,081 Shashi Ranjan Sinha 1,187 Malik D Evans 6,830 Write-In Totals 70 TOTAL Vote For 5 DEM Member of City Council - At Large City of Rochester Stanley Martin 5,597 Victor H Sanchez 3,594 Clifford A Florence, Jr 1,892 Kevin Stewart 4,111 Kelly Cheatle 3,633 Luis Aponte 1,430 Miguel A Melendez, Jr 5,155 Ann C Lewis 2,578 Lashunda C Leslie-Smith 5,170 Josie T McClary 3,729 Chiara "Kee Kee" Smith 4,696 Mitch Gruber 5,162 Miquel Powell 1,412 Tonya Noel Stevens 1,340 Niner M Davis 2,962 Write-In Totals 94 TOTAL Vote For 3 DEM Commissioner of Schools City of Rochester Kareem McCullough 7,550 Vince Felder 4,262 Camille A Simmons 8,077 Heather Feinman 5,664 Write-In Totals 110
June 25, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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UNOFFICIAL RESULTS - Summary Results Report
2025 June Primary Election, Monroe County, NY
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS - Summary Results Report 2025 June Primary Election Monroe County June 24, 2025 Statistics TOTAL Election Day Precincts Reporting 49 of 237 Precincts Complete 0 of 237 Precincts Partially Reported 49 of 237 7,380Ballots Cast - Total 7,172Ballots Cast - Democratic 208Ballots Cast - Republican 4Ballots Cast - Blank TOTAL Vote For 1 DEM Mayor City of Rochester Mary Lupien 1,623 Shashi Ranjan Sinha 460 Malik D Evans 3,160 Write-In Totals 23 TOTAL Vote For 5 DEM Member of City Council - At Large City of Rochester Stanley Martin 2,356 Victor H Sanchez 1,501 Clifford A Florence, Jr 868 Kevin Stewart 1,680 Kelly Cheatle 1,529 Luis Aponte 632 Miguel A Melendez, Jr 2,295 Ann C Lewis 1,157 Lashunda C Leslie-Smith 2,334 Josie T McClary 1,712 Chiara "Kee Kee" Smith 1,879 Mitch Gruber 2,294 Miquel Powell 618 Tonya Noel Stevens 589 Niner M Davis 1,299 Write-In Totals 48 TOTAL Vote For 3 DEM Commissioner of Schools City of Rochester Kareem McCullough 3,357 Vince Felder 1,866 Camille A Simmons 3,589 Heather Feinman 2,519 Write-In Totals 56
June 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Rep. Al Green just now called for an impeachment resolution to be brought to the House floor for a vote.
Snapshot of CSPAN live broadcast with CC wherein Rep. Al Green is at the House chamber podium reading a proposed impeachment resolution, saying "...President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and..."
June 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Statement from Javannah J. Davis, President of WAVE Women Inc. (June 18, 2025)
"Today’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. v. Skrmetti, upholding TN’s ban on gender‑affirming care for minors, represents a devastating setback for trans youth nationwide. Despite overwhelming consensus..."
Today’s decision by the SCOTUS in US v. Skrmetti, upholding TN’s ban on gender affirming care for minors, represents a devastating setback for trans youth nationwide. Despite overwhelming consensus from major med orgs affirming the safety & necessity of gender affirming trmts, the Crt defers to political bodies, effectively stripping thousands of young people of essential care. This ruling underscores why it is more critical than ever to build & support Trans-led hlth insts; spaces governed by trans people, guided by trans med pros, & grounded in lived experience. These insts can provide culturally competent, evidence-based care tailored to the unique needs of trans youth & adults, offer safe havens, & empower communities through leadership, mentorship, & representation. It’s also time to hold our local & state pols accountable, especially those who are quick to march with us at Pride, cut ribbons at our events, or pose for pictures in rainbow sashes. If you say you support us, then stand for us when it counts. Trans lives are not for show; our safety is not seasonal. We demand more than presence, we demand policy, protection, & political courage! We are calling on Gov Hochul to sign the Shield Law 2.0 into law immediately; a crucial step toward protecting trans NYers, our hlthcare providers, & the insts that care for us from hostile federal attacks. This legislation would ensure that NY remains a sanctuary for gender-affirming care & trans dignity, even as other states attempt to criminalize our existence. It hurts that so many live will now be lost to care due to the malice & ignorance in the hearts of 6 out of 9 SCOTUS justices who ruled on this heinous decision. This should serve as a wake up call! Reliance on crts or legislatures alone is insufficient to safeguard our rights or wellbeing. We must prioritize & invest in, not just hlth care systems, but all systems by & for trans people where trans youth can access affirming, lifelong care in dignity & safety.
June 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The @nywfp.bsky.social *declined* to endorse incumbent #ROC Mayor Malik Evans. They also made excellent endorsements for ROC City Council, School Bd, FamCt Judge etc. (see snapshot below)
WFP Voting guide for all NY state primaries:
workingfamilies.org/2025/06/nywf...
Rochester City Council: Chiara "Keke" Smith, Stanley Martin, Kelly Cheatle, Kevin Stewart, Victor Sanchez Rochester School Board: Camille Simmons, Kareem McCullough Monroe County Family Court: Tonia Marie Ettinger
June 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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During cover of Phil C's "In the Air"
View of outdoor stage with Robert Glasper, his DJ, and guitarist playing
June 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Stage being set for theee Robert Glasper at #Roc Juneteenth Festival
View of outdoor stage with musical equipment and a giant video screen with image of artist ancestor Richmond Dutch, Jr.
June 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM