Walked down two blocks in between doing laundry today because I heard this mural has been in my neighborhood for a few years @ny-knicks.bsky.social @jalenbrunson1.bsky.social In my defense, I didn’t know anything about basketball before last week 😅

New PhD thesis: Šmídová, Monika Markéta. Kissing for Dear Life in a Dead Land: English Folkloric Liminality in Queer Paranormal Historical Popular Romance.

Are you a writer, author, or scholar based in NYC? New York City deserves the kind of writers and thinkers that only consistently well-funded public libraries can ensure. Help us call on the Mayor and City Council to fund our library systems with our open letter: forms.gle/SvQYwiyiHqXT...

Hey all! If you want to help out, here is how you can do it!

Remember, this is how they respond to peaceful protests. Remember that when they indict our people. They do this to us and call us violent. They did this to a crowd without warning, without a dispersal order even. This video didn't even capture the flash bangs they deployed first.

After charging 15 people with "Antifa" crimes for participating in rapid response networks, federal agents are pepper-spraying people outside the Federal Courthouse in the Twin Cities right now. They want to establish an autocracy. Everyone's freedom is at stake.

Outside of the St Paul courthouse, protesters are fighting with agents. The feds are now charging 15 people with impeding immigration enforcement in Minneapolis- under the guise of "antifa". As an aside- in LA they have failed to obtain guilty verdicts in most cases brought against protesters.

Today is the last day to comment on the National Park Service website about what you think of Donald Trump's proposed Arch. Please take the time to share your opinion with them, and maybe repost so other people will comment too. The more the better. parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm...

I would love* to hear the reasoning why anyone thinks paying $91 for a thing you don't actually own, AND that expires after being used 26 times, is fair and reasonable. If this was YOUR money, would you pay that? *no I wouldn't. Because there is no reasoning.

HEA discourse again? Groundbreaking. Every few months, someone discovers that romance novels end happily and mistakes genre convention for creative failure. Just because you don’t understand the system doesn’t mean the system is shallow. #romancebks shelflovepodcast.substack.com/p/hea-discou...

seeing the posts about visitors discovering that you can walk around most of our cities and just be yourself in a multicultural setting, discovering tailgating, starting impromptu block parties, my muslim mayor, etc. etc. it's corny to say it but that's our secret sauce. and it means something

KNICKS IN FIVE! The New York Knicks rallied to win Game 5 in San Antonio, beating the Spurs 94-90 to win New York's first NBA championship since 1973. https://wapo.st/4uEvvBd

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

Looking for a #RomanceResearch piece to read during this Pride Month? We've got you covered: Jessica Taylor analyzes E.M. Hull’s The Sheik (1919) through the lens of queer and trans studies in JPRS' article "Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik". Find the article: doi.org/10.70138/VBE...

this level of edging is a lot #knicks

TRUMP CANT KILL OUR VIBES KNICKS IN FIVE

Wu-Tang cleansed the building. Thank goodness

People turned out! The verdict is that it was challenging (especially the music round) and fun. Excited to do more in the future, especially once season 2 of #HeatedRivalry is out @hrnews.bsky.social

Starting in about 25 mins

You gotta love libraries ❤️

ICYMI @hrnews.bsky.social #trivia this Sunday, June 7 for Queens Pride 2026, Queens public library

I think it's worth noting that this was something many BIPoC communicators and activist in tech circles spoke up about and were pushed aside and is a repeating pattern in AI and automated systems. A System carries the biases of it's creator and can not be divorced of this.

Music round, guess who’s wearing that round, and more! Come with friends—teams can be up to 4 people 🏳️‍🌈

Time to test that #HeatedRivalry hockey romance IQ... Sunday, June 7 @1 pm, @queenspubliclibrary in #JacksonHeights for #QueensPride2026

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Of course, corruption is not exceptional or unheard of, but the normalization of corruption *as* governance, so that the two concepts become indistinguishable, is crucial to the fascist project. People have already begun to shrug off Trump's manipulation and extraction as par for the course.

Time to test that #HeatedRivalry hockey romance IQ... Sunday, June 7 @1 pm, @queenspubliclibrary in #JacksonHeights for #QueensPride2026

Like Heated Rivalry? Maybe want to talk about it at the next MAPACA conference in 5-7 November in Baltimore? Consider submitting a proposal! 🏑 popmediaprof.com/2026/05/26/c...

CfP 🚨 Are you interested in #RomanceResearch and Sports? JPRS is calling for papers for its special issue on Sport Romance! 📆 300-word abstracts to be submitted by 31st May 2026 to Atlanta Tsiaoukkas ([email protected]). 🔗 Find all the information on our website: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

We’re seeing the reemergence of academia as a sport of the leisure class.

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In general, the focus on what professors do in the classroom is wrong. The focus should be on how the administrators run schools. Administrations hiring more fulltime faculty and reducing class sizes would go much farther to addressing the problem than any ideas about "engaging assignments"

The fight for a rent freeze is happening at @cuny.edu! Join the PSC outside this Thursday's meeting of the Rent Guidelines Board at @laguardiacc.bsky.social to fight for the affordable NYC that CUNY faculty, staff, and students deserve. RSVP here: PSC-CUNY.org/RentFreeze

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..." "One of her children recently enlisted in the military... www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Hi all. Today I'm barnraising and urgent need for a family with young children referred to us by an MPS social worker who owes February and March and have received eviction threats. Total need is $3600. Can you chip in or share? 🌻

𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘 𝐋𝐚𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 Enrollment at @laguardiacc.bsky.social is recovering from the pandemic-era decline. But at the college’s library, staff said that cuts to the workforce in this vital arena are degrading the quality of education. psc-cuny.org/clarion/onli...

I have some free e-print links to this article. Comment below and I'd be happy to share.

A good few days for publications by long-time romance scholars @profromance.bsky.social , @jessicatripler.bsky.social and @emselinger.bsky.social: Kamblé, Jayashree (2026). "Recolouring the romcom: humor, respectability, and race in a 1986 American category romance novel." Comedy Studies.

HELP

ICE is still here in MN, and our neighbors are still in hiding. Rent is due TODAY, and I’m scrambling to raise funds to keep immigrant families in need out of eviction court. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and give if you can! Thank you! 🌷

"The season’s wandering eye for subplots consistently nudges the central lovers out of frame." *BANGS ON THE TABLE*

Talking #Bridgerton and #HeatedRivalry in today’s @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

Part of why I am insistent that public libraries must be expanded is because they can offer us a foundation for unleashing creativity and for nurturing imagination. This is an affirmative project at a time when we desperately need to be FOR things and not just against them.

In @aunz.theconversation.com today, @profromance.bsky.social and I have a piece about adapting romance to the screen. What makes a good adaptation?

In a (vain, probably) attempt to combat the flood of romance-illiterate Valentine's Day thinkpieces, I wrote two of my own this year - one with @profromance.bsky.social about romance adaptations...

Oh this is an amazing deal on a wonderful series

Friday's court order says ICE agents can't stop vehicles that merely follow them. Agents claiming a car is "obstructing" them isn't enough. Judge Menendez says they would have to be "forcibly" obstructing, requiring force or the threat of force. Decision: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What an act of betrayal to the Hmong community by our own government. People who put their lives on the line during Vietnam.