This may be the best way to enjoy a pretty enjoyable book 📚

I know everyone is asking for giving tuesday donations, but if you're keen to give to higher education, think about an organization like CUNY and @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social www.cunytuesday.org/organization...

Now that my child has graduated from Virginia Tech I can just be happy that UVA is going to win this game

My public service announcement for today is that America’s Test Kitchen, which is infinitely better then NYTimes Cooking, has introduced a new gift link option that has no limit on how many you can share and each link lasts 30 days.

NYPL well represented on these committees by three great people (Hiba Abid, Garfield Swaby, and Brian Jones)!

Taught myself accidentally useful skill while procrastinating on my PhD thesis (luckily at one of the times in internet history when it was possible to start a non-gross career that way)

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

The Mystery of the Charlotte County Deteriorated Court Records 📜 uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov/blog/2025/11...

Aristophanes would have haaaaaaaaaaated Zohran Mamdani. An earnest, not-rich person thinking he could lead? Aristophanes would not have let up on him one second. Like the NYTimes times 1,000,000

Gonna email Mayor Mamdani on his first day asking him to set up an NYC Interest in Conflicts Board to create more municipal D&D adventures

This is incredibly delightful, down to the very end that notes "As a government work, to the extent provided by all relevant law this module is to be considered as existing within the public domain." I may need to sort out a way to play this. More government works like this please. 🙏🏻

The opposite of the Moms for Liberty wave should get more attention

Today (2025-Nov-21) is Posideiṓn 1, νουμηνίᾳ Ποσιδειῶνος, day 149 of 384 in the year 2025/2026.

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

We need libraries for so many reasons. www.11alive.com/article/news...

We could solve like half the problems in education with smaller class sizes (like 15 instead of 30 kids crushed in a room). Including that it would be easier to find teachers b/c they wouldn’t get so burnt out.

somewhere along the line post-1990 or so we lost the ability to write macgyver & quantum leap-level opening credits bangers and that's where everything started to go wrong

I wish people better understood how much having a car in a city is about going *out* of the city. Like, my mom lives 250 miles away and the main reason I would have to get a car is to cover the last 5 miles of that trip I can't make by train. Uber has no impact on that calculation

Easy choice, really

Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to. Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/ [Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]

If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Kensington mentioned!!!

Kensington shout out!!!

Cheering in the streets in Kensington

Mamdani has won more votes than there are people in South Dakota.

You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!

The wealthy didn't even flee NYC in the 1970s

It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars: 1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…

Since the AI in this directs you to cards with preselected quotes, I have a hypothesis that people would get just as much from a I Ching style casting of lots. It would be an equally shallow engagement with Baldwin but at least it wouldn't use electricity

Taking a quick break & then resuming zombie facts. If you want to hear more about zombie bugs in person and you're in the NYC area, I'll be at NYPL's Stavros Niarchos Library on Nov 5, talking to the supremely talented @paulacroxson.bsky.social! It's free! Details/RSVP: mindyweisberger.com/events/

The Late Bronze Age collapse plunged the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East into a period of chaos and starvation, but 300 hundred years later, the region emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Could the same thing happen here in the United States?

Loving that my *entire* timeline is people agonizing over this endless #WorldSeries game 3. I only wish the #Dodgers weren't in it

every sports team is a Ship of Theseus

My childhood library system!

🏺 The Khalkeia (Χαλκεῖα), a festival of crafts-people, was celebrated today in honor of Athena and Hephaistos

Today (2025-Oct-21) is Puanopsiṓn 30, ἕνῃ καὶ νέᾳ Πυανοψιῶνος, day 118 of 384 in the year 2025/2026.

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

Wowo wow incredible

Aw hell

I would love to know how Paul "Big Paulie" Castellano found himself in possession of a Jack Kerouac manuscript

Hi everyone! #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth is here. Please support by spreading the word! www.phaidon.com/en-us/produc...

giant pike side view, fishing hall of fame, hayward, wisconsin, hayward, wisconsin, 1988

First NYPL director John Shaw Billings mentioned. Around these parts we know him best as the creator of a system of call numbers in which asterisks are now inconveniently significant characters

"Hwæt" Beowulf, 1000 Unknown 🇬🇧

October 5: Apologies for the bad news, but today is one of the 3 unluckiest days of the year in the Roman calendar. Definitely let people know that the underworld opens up to the living today (mundus patet) and so you just can’t leave your house, especially to sail (also on August 24 & November 8).

🏺 The third and last day of the Thesmophoria (Θεσμοφόρια), an important fertility festival the rituals for which were performed entirely by women. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesmophoria