letting children have an imagination! what a concept!

waist-deep in research as always and this bit from Norman Douglas's book on Street Games has me misty-eyed

deli&cia food place

I'm at the deli. I'm at the central intelligence agency. I'm at the combination deli & cental intelligence agency.

once again I find myself acquiring language books at a dizzying rate…thriftbooks dot com hates to see me coming

hello today I wrote about something that's been driving me crazy lately: the proliferation of beloved local businesses turning to off-putting AI slop. I sat down with one of them to ask why nygroove.nyc/local-busine...

(a friend once told me that insecurity is tacky, so maybe I will delete... but what is bluesky if not a safe space to be gauche)

doing research for a reference book feels like looking up symptoms on webmd. there is a 100% chance that I find something deeply panic-inducing, only in this case it's brilliant writing on my book topic that reminds me everyone is smarter and better at this

astronaut setting their email OOO (out of orbit)

it was only out of respect for my fellow gawkers that I didn't start singing "somebody come get'urrr"

also I should note that the american woodcock does in fact have fans, hundreds of whom are gawking at close range in bryant park (myself included) atm

thank you @rachelholliday.bsky.social for enabling me

if the american woodcock has no fans I’m dead

many things disturbing to me about polymarket and its ilk but one thing I can’t get over is that turning every aspect of your life into a bet with stakes is literally the definition of OCD

there’s a new business of some kind opening in north williamsburg and the storefront right now just says “unlock food’s potential” and I think we did that when we figured out you could eat it to stay alive

there’s a subtle difference between a depression nap and a thinking nap, can’t really know which one I’m taking until I wake up

can’t explain it but this is how I want to look at my wedding

to be clear I am referring to a mission to the real moon as seen on the roku tv, not the moon in roku city

it is insane that we can watch astronauts headed to the moon on Roku

I cannot believe we are living through a resurgence of ballet flats

doodle of the american woodcock

doodle of a silly little guy

apparently there is a show on hulu called “that thrift show” — real abbott & costello hours when a friend asked me if I’d seen it

🚨🚨🚨🚨ok this is becoming a daily scavenger hunt for me between library visits

you can't put musical syllables into a word and expect me to take it seriously

if the FDA wanted me to be afraid of artificial sweeteners they shouldn't have made "phenylalanine" sound so whimsical

introducing my kids to the concept of pronouncing things wrong on purpose

let me just say, in no uncertain terms, that this is my favorite bluesky account

hmmm after careful review I have decided I prefer clap on/clap off