Les Nessman would now be considered a moderate republican.

Very, very hot sauce in progress! @chesterjankowski.bsky.social just got our 2025 batch going. Ghost peppers, habaneros, plus some milder ones. Will ferment for around 2 weeks, then purée. Will keep us going for the year

The joy of wandering through the stacks!

At midnight, celebrating 41 years with the ❤️ of my life @noramaynard.bsky.social. 🥂

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Composer Linda Catlin Smith is known for luminous, subtle music rich in colour and texture. Her piece Velvet explores touch—fingers on keys, and the aural texture of two pianos. Hear it performed by Jay Austin Keys & Fernando Yada Rodrigues this Saturday. eightforty.co.uk/events/200925/

Just eight months in and practically every media conglomerate is welcoming a fascist dictatorship

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Happy Pythagorean Theorem Day to all who celebrate! www.npr.org/2025/09/16/n...

Your daily reminder not to normalize white supremacy.

OK, so when I was in grade 8 in London Ontario, a few kids in my class took a fencing class at Western. The room where we trained must have been close to the Elbow Room, and we heard The Kings doing a soundcheck. They played Switchin’ to Glide, and I thought it was the coolest thing!

Goodnight, friends. #moon #manhattan #nyc

nyc:

Watching Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) w Kim Novak, Dean Martin, and Ray Walston. Loving the Beethoven sweatshirt!

Boy, it's a good thing the Democrats didn't do that for Biden. Very important to maintain the noooooorms.

Ezra Klein is really out here making it seem like whiteness is some intellectually crippling shit.

Happy birthday, dear @chesterjankowski.bsky.social! ❤️🎉🎸

The scene in Goodfellas when Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco enter the club through the kitchen? That’s this building.

Pre-game b’day dinner at Le Veau d’Or tonight! (sorry, terrible photo—was enjoying life)

Happy birthday (in 2 hours) to @garrt.bsky.social and @kgoldschmitt.bsky.social!

This is fun. Open letter from the bar manager at Le Veau d’or to a New York Times reviewer. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Gig is another great Central Park birder (and super nice person!) who also happens to be getting great birds on her balcony this season!

Seen on my run today: mini schnauzers!

Washington Square Park right now is full of people dancing salsa. Indestructible! New York City is the greatest.

I do like coming back to something I wrote first thing in the morning and thinking, "oh, that's good!"

This is good!

What Mamdani is saying here is that the people for whom Nadler was a hero and the people who are glad he's stepping aside don't need to be enemies—that both camps can honor his service and his decision. It's not just deft, it's coalition-building. It's healing.

Lotus Winnie Lee is also a great Central Park birder to follow!

The people who have spent the last three months gassing on and on about how "dangerous" Mamdani is are looking stupider and more dishonest by the minute.

Folks, if you would like to see some great fall migration bird pics from Central Park, please follow Bradley!

This one’s easy! youtu.be/dW62Q0TTgS0

The Poiesis was fantastic. Will say that I also loved Kairi and Arete's Mozart!

Hey, it may be a pop fly, but somebody’s gotta catch it! #humour

They also had “team Trump” stickers so it was nice of all the bigots and assholes to label themselves for us.

Oh yes, look what was waiting for me when I got back from FI! #YHGtBFKMwTS (cc @bcdreyer.social)

One of two male Wood Ducks was on the Reservoir in Central Park this afternoon🪶 #birds

So twice this week, people have complained to me about AI summaries of search results, and when I asked "why did you look at the search results?", they....didn't have an answer. Is it just me? We all know LLMs are bunk and can't be trusted, we also know to keep digging past their crap, right?

Working. Just checking in to see if it's happened yet.

omfg

Just got back from two weeks on Fire Island, and uh, what the what is going on here tonight???

fuck yeah im a one issue voter and the issue is human rights

I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.

Oscar Wilde wrote: “Some men only make this world better by leaving it.”

normal people don't say "triggered" or "heteronormative," they say they gave their life to christ in a cracker barrel parking lot

Starting Monday, the triennial Banff International String Quartet Competition, all livestreamed Arete Quartet—Seoul Cong Quartet—Hong Kong Quatuor Elmire—Paris Quartett HANA—Munich Quartet KAIRI—Salzburg Quatuor Magenta—Paris Nerida Quartet—Bremen Poiesis Quartet—Cincinnati Viatores Quartet—Berlin

“Good news!!! He’s dead!!!!” James Dobson, the man responsible for the physical and emotional abuse of thousands of children across the US for over 4 decades, is DEAD!! May his name be a curse, may people he hurt find a way to flourish in his absence

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also shout-out to the passive-aggressive Wikipedia contributor here "Did Chopin say thank you once????"

This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.