Anyone got any styling gel? #birds

“Part of it is knowing you can’t grab everything but doing the best you can,” said Mr. Alvarado, who was assigned to cover the Knicks’ championship parade in Lower Manhattan on Thursday. @nytimes.com #NY

Yet is there hope. Time and tide flow wide.

The research team found that the patterns of brain activity were roughly the same whether bilingual participants looked at Spanish or English words. @nytimes.com

“Reading is discovering one's own riches and one's own possibilities through the words of others.” (Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz) Art: Edward Hopper 1882-1967 American realism painter. “Reader on the Train,” 1965.

The first Red-tailed Hawk fledgling of 180 Central Park South raises its mighty wings.

So be cheery, my lads, let your hearts never fail, While the bold harpooneer is striking the whale!

The Argentine sports broadcaster became a global sensation for his iconic “Goooooal!” call. @nytimes.com

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies!

Sunset & clouds tonight.

The Jackdaw plucking fur off a moulting deer the bird gather soft warm nesting material, and the deer gets a free, highly appreciated, grooming that removes itchy, loose winter hair and ticks

They knew the coach had his eye on them as he finalized the roster of 15 players — the best out of more than 200 aspirants — to represent the United States. My latest in @nytimes.com, with visuals by José A. Alvarado Jr. #soccer #football

Last Saturday, I was going on my first reporting outing since pre-pandemic 2019. I had to dig through my belongings to find an unused reporter's notepad. I couldn't find my trusty digital audio recorder, but wait, the phone could do that much better now. ⬇️

When Valerie Wald, a high school teacher, walks to work through Central Park, she enjoys watching their “characteristic behavior of doing absolutely nothing,” she said. @nytimes.com

this is my kind of company motto right here

the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open

"Most people misunderstand that and say 'Slowly is the quickest way to get to where you want to go,'" De Shields told Morning Edition. "That is not what I said, and it's certainly not what I meant. I remember when fast meant dependable, meant secure." @npr.org

Momentarily Clouds held vaporous splendour Heed, inkless weather #Haiku #Poem #BlueSkyPoetry #BSPP54 #Poetry #June #SunDog #InklessWeather

I try all things; I achieve what I can.

Large majorities of students and faculty also worry about AI's impact on creativity (83% of students, 82% of faculty), job security (82% of students, 78% of faculty) and the environment (80% of students, 84% of faculty).

Now, faced with a sudden surge in deaths, many refused to accept that the #ebola virus was real and focused their ire on the hospital, Mongbwalu General, which has 135 beds. @nytimes.com

“The fact that we trust AI with its own policing feels like a dystopian hell,” Ms. Brochu said. (The Globe and Mail) #writing

There! there again! there she breaches! right ahead! The White Whale, the White Whale!

“A society that guarantees employment to only a small fraction of the population, despite having a high level of technical development, risks exposing many to forced inactivity,” he wrote. @nytimes.com

On pen and paper: "Writing is not just a motor activity, it's a window into the brain," says kinesiologist Ana Rita Matias, from the University of Évora. (Science Alert)

“There’s always a question of how to respond to a world gone mad,” he said. “Strangers noticing one another and doing it with kindness,” he said, “feels like one way.” #journalism

A Dublin mountains #painting. Once upon a time, way back when I lived in Firhouse, I climbed on the roof of the shed down the garden and painted the view. Titled "Killakee View" (for personal reasons), it's of Montpelier Hill - the one with the Hellfire. #art #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #MountainMonday

A new analysis suggests that more than 100,000 children have been separated from their parents during the Trump administration’s #immigration crackdown. And roughly three-quarters of those children are likely U.S. citizens, according to estimates. @nytimes.com #news

It wasn’t right for Rangel’s body to be frozen at the mortuary, but how was José to know that it was waiting for him to release it from forced suspension. "In Memoriam," a story of mine published today in @pangyrus.bsky.social : www.pangyrus.com/fiction/in-m... #shortstory

For a good laugh, and more | The voice in his head, he recalled, was that of his mother when he was growing up in the Republic of Congo. She taught him to respect others by not making a big deal of their mistakes. @nytimes.com

With scrutiny mounting, the U.S. boat strike campaign against alleged narco-boats in the Caribbean and Pacific has killed over 190 people. @npr.org

“I believe people deserve reality rather than looking at everything through rose-colored glasses,” said Rocky Loveless, discussing his father's obituary. @nytimes.com #obituaries

Many of the deaths were attributed to a lack of heat at an unauthorized warehouse that Sloth World was using, officials said. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/u...

No one noticed that the book was missing until 1989, when it did not turn up as the Whitneys took an inventory of the estate’s holdings. @nytimes.com

“It took a lot of, I guess, soul-searching, for lack of a better term — inner strength — to allow this to happen, because this is my life’s work,” he said. “This is why people might talk about me after I’m gone, right?” @sopandeb.bsky.social in @nytimes.com

NASA is set to send four astronauts — three from the United States and one from Canada — on a trip around the moon and back without landing there. @nytimes.com

"I am thoroughly confused by this strange turn of events.” We have been mispronouncing Thoreau's name, apparently. @nytimes.com

Mr. Titinger, his biographer, said that in his fiction, Mr. Bryce Echenique elaborated from the “quotidian,” from themes of “friendship, love, tenderness,” and wrote from the “point of view of failure and the loser.” @nytimes.com

An investigation by The New York Times found extensive evidence that the United Farm Workers co-founder groomed and sexually abused girls who worked in the movement.

Even as he continued to record, Mr. Colón told The Herald, he felt increasingly at odds with an industry focused on commercial appeal over innovation, including a trend toward performers who in his estimation were far more physically attractive than musically gifted. @nytimes.com

Through the power of his language and his preternatural energy and ambition, he became a moral and political force in a racially ambiguous era, when Jim Crow was still a vivid memory and Black political power more an aspiration than a reality. @nytimes.com

For a long time, the passageway was somewhat of a mystery. Theories included that it may have been a laundry chute or a secret passage for younger members of the family. @nytimes.com

Desire lines often stem from necessity, at times when officials neglect human experience or certain regions altogether. @nytimes.com

"Our relationship with images has changed with the internet and digital photography. Many of us fall into an endless sea of images on social media as soon as we wake up, sometimes spending fractions of a second with them." @nytimes.com

A look at the battlefield technology used in immigration enforcement operations. @nytimes.com

Over the course of two decades, the country went from democracy to dictatorship. Its government nationalized foreign-owned assets and began a dangerous sparring match with the United States — only to run out of cash when oil prices crashed. @nytimes.com

“Now I laughed, and I laughed when I saw the photo. My mom laughed, my friends too. They made stickers and memes and all that,” Camargo said. “But I still see the videos of what happened that day, of the explosions, I hear the sounds and I still feel this sense of panic.” @apnews.com

Over the course of a turbulent year, photographers captured those and other events with intrepidness and determination — even as they so often put themselves at risk. @nytimes.com

As border crossings dried up, Mr. Trump lifted restrictions on whom immigration officers could target elsewhere in the country. More deportees are now drawn from this wider pool. @nytimes.com

The guidance, issued on Tuesday to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices, asks that they “supply Office of Immigration Litigation with 100-200 denaturalization cases per month” in the 2026 fiscal year. @nytimes.com