(OC) My new OC, Alyk! 🗡️
January 30, 2026 at 10:15 AM
(OC) My new OC, Alyk! 🗡️
This city's obsession with *mandating* unnecessary parking is going to be the death of us all.
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Important news from @smaldo.bsky.social on NYC's proposed zoning overhaul to create more housing: A compromise is in the works over the mayor's proposed elimination of parking requirements in new construction. That could seriously set back how many new apartments the plan would enable.
How Parking Will Drive the Coming Adams-Council Housing Development Deal
Eliminating mandates to create spots for cars is key to creating more apartments in the mayor’s sweeping City of Yes proposal heading to a crucial vote Thursday — but a compromise that could halve new...
www.thecity.nyc
November 20, 2024 at 2:39 AM
This city's obsession with *mandating* unnecessary parking is going to be the death of us all.
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Oh-so-savvy spender Andrew Cuomo burned a mere $65 per vote. Frugal!!! bsky.app/profile/alyk...
Updated records show Mike Bloomberg gave more than $13 million to efforts to boost Cuomo and attack Mamdani, including the group that tried to link Mamdani to 9/11.
Cuomo Backers Burned $65 Per Vote, Including $13.3 Million From Bloomberg
A blizzard of outside spending on ads, including a spot that linked Zohran Mamdani to 9/11, failed to move voters and may have even backfired.
www.thecity.nyc
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Oh-so-savvy spender Andrew Cuomo burned a mere $65 per vote. Frugal!!! bsky.app/profile/alyk...
Adams' first police commissioner left after she was sidelined on basic decision-making following her decision to discipline Maddrey for abuse of power. The next commissioner made the charge go away.
Inside the Turmoil That Led N.Y.P.D.’s Commissioner to Walk Away (Published 2023)
Keechant Sewell walked into Mayor Eric Adams’s office unannounced on Monday and told him she would be leaving. No one but her closest aides saw it coming.
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Elon Musk is stealing from New York bsky.app/profile/alyk...
"FEMA records posted online show that other cities, states and organizations — including in Texas and Arizona — received allocations under the same program from the prior administration. But New York City is the only grantee publicly targeted by Musk."
Trump Administration Claws Back $80 Million Sent to NYC to House Migrants
Officials in the city comptroller’s office spotted the unprecedented grab at congressionally approved funds that were already in the city’s bank accounts.
www.thecity.nyc
February 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Elon Musk is stealing from New York bsky.app/profile/alyk...
Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social nos habla a menudo de gatos y Toxoplasma. Estos dibujos de Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social nos sirven para ponerle cara a ese protozoo gatuno.
[os recomiendo la excelente serie de dibujos de organismos microscópicos que nos regala regularmente Smart Alyk]
[os recomiendo la excelente serie de dibujos de organismos microscópicos que nos regala regularmente Smart Alyk]
DAY 385
SPECIES 385 - Toxoplasma gondii
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen
T. gondii is a single celled protozoan parasite that infects most warm blooded animals, including humans
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
SPECIES 385 - Toxoplasma gondii
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen
T. gondii is a single celled protozoan parasite that infects most warm blooded animals, including humans
#sciart #watercolor #paint #protist #eukaryotic #protistsonsky
June 25, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social nos habla a menudo de gatos y Toxoplasma. Estos dibujos de Smart Alyk @smartalyk.bsky.social nos sirven para ponerle cara a ese protozoo gatuno.
[os recomiendo la excelente serie de dibujos de organismos microscópicos que nos regala regularmente Smart Alyk]
[os recomiendo la excelente serie de dibujos de organismos microscópicos que nos regala regularmente Smart Alyk]
DAY 115
SPECIES 115 - Microbacterium alkaliflavum
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek paper, Chromatek and QoR Watercolor, Writech pens
M. alkaliflavum is a newly proposed bacterial species, isolated from mangrove sediments.
#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art #paint #artist #alyk
SPECIES 115 - Microbacterium alkaliflavum
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek paper, Chromatek and QoR Watercolor, Writech pens
M. alkaliflavum is a newly proposed bacterial species, isolated from mangrove sediments.
#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art #paint #artist #alyk
September 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
DAY 121
SPECIES 121 - Oscillatoria limosa
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. Chromatek, HWC + QoR Watercolor. Charsoco pen
NOTES: A bit rushed on tonight's painting but excited to be doing some more Cyanobacteria! 🙂
#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art #paint #artist #alyk
SPECIES 121 - Oscillatoria limosa
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. Chromatek, HWC + QoR Watercolor. Charsoco pen
NOTES: A bit rushed on tonight's painting but excited to be doing some more Cyanobacteria! 🙂
#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art #paint #artist #alyk
October 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
DAY 122
SPECIES 122 - Oscillatoria tenuis
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. Chromatek+ QoR Watercolor. Writech pen
NOTES: I find myself thinking more and more about solving these puzzles of light when I paint.
#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art #paint #artist #alyk
SPECIES 122 - Oscillatoria tenuis
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek Paper. Chromatek+ QoR Watercolor. Writech pen
NOTES: I find myself thinking more and more about solving these puzzles of light when I paint.
#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art #paint #artist #alyk
October 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
DAY 131
SPECIES 131 - Gloeotrichia echinulata
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek watercolor + Paper
G. echinulata is a colonial cyanobacterium that forms small, fuzzy, spherical colonies about the size of a pinhead.
#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art #paint #artist #alyk
SPECIES 131 - Gloeotrichia echinulata
STAGE: Bacteria
MEDIUM: Chromatek watercolor + Paper
G. echinulata is a colonial cyanobacterium that forms small, fuzzy, spherical colonies about the size of a pinhead.
#sciart #watercolor #bacteria #painting #art #paint #artist #alyk
October 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I truly do not understand why Hochul has tolerated this nonsense. She should've the plunge to remove him. Some Democrat somewhere should do the right thing and take a stand against blatant corruption.
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The FBI got clearance to use a Stingray cell-tower simulator to locate Eric Adams' phones, so uncertain they were of which ones he was using when and after they searched him — at least seven in the course of the corruption investigation, according to newly released search warrants.
Eric Adams Search Warrant Records Show Scramble to Evade FBI Scrutiny
Dozens of documents ordered released by judge in the mayor’s dismissed federal corruption case show evidence investigators chased involving allegedly fraudulent campaign fundraising.
www.thecity.nyc
May 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I truly do not understand why Hochul has tolerated this nonsense. She should've the plunge to remove him. Some Democrat somewhere should do the right thing and take a stand against blatant corruption.
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So a report on anti-Semitism that leans heavily into an anti-Semitic trope. Got it. Get bent forever, Eric Adams.
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A parting gift from Eric Adams to Zohran Mamdani: an 80-page report from the new Mayor's Office to Combat Antisemitism that emphasizes "connection to the Land of Israel" as inextricable from Jewish identity and includes plans for 2026.
www.nyc.gov
December 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
So a report on anti-Semitism that leans heavily into an anti-Semitic trope. Got it. Get bent forever, Eric Adams.
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More lovely microbes painted by Alyk. It's always nice to see microbes get this treatment for a change.
December 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
More lovely microbes painted by Alyk. It's always nice to see microbes get this treatment for a change.
Another beautiful archea painting by Alyk.
December 31, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Another beautiful archea painting by Alyk.
do not ever use a positive light to speak of “closing out the weekend” in my presence bsky.app/profile/alyk...
June 8, 2026 at 1:11 AM
do not ever use a positive light to speak of “closing out the weekend” in my presence bsky.app/profile/alyk...