Dear Baristas of the world, when I ask for verbal confirmation that my latte is made with plant milk, I’m not being difficult or doubting your ability to do your job. I’m ensuring that I won’t become dangerously, violently ill for 2-3 days after drinking it.

This is FANTASTIC news. A street redesign that connects Grand Army Plaza to Prospect Park will be a huge win for a safer & a more livable Brooklyn. (1/2)

a Black man and a woman just circled the moon for the first time and it's literally because of Star Trek

Mystic Seaport, Yale. (I don’t envy the tour guide having to explain to a bunch of 12 year olds that the Gutenberg Bible at the Beinecke is a Very Big Deal. I think we were more impressed by the windows)

I still die a little inside when I remember how much of my precious photo budget I had to sacrifice to include this image in my wedding fashion book, but it had to be there. www.vogue.com/article/caro...

Me: "Let's go write an article". Cat: "I'll help".

This guy gets it.

The nicest thing about a snow day, and working while the college is officially closed, is that it's a snowbody bothering me day and I get more done.

I finally unsubscribed to their spammy emails, too.

So in order to cancel a Thrive Market membership you have to find instructions alllll the way at the bottom of the customer service FAQs, and then ask a chatbot to cancel it, at least 5 times. I wish this was hyperbole. @warren.senate.gov the CFPB should look into this.

Anyone who has a senator on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works cpuld make a call? share.google/g3tPznln0DCu...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Trump administration officials have falsely linked Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good to domestic terrorism. It's part of a larger pattern by the Department of Homeland Security. n.pr/45Arnsg

I just had to cut some hand-woven figured silk for a project for the college and OMG was that anxiety-inducing 🥲 Luckily I didn’t make any mistakes and now I can breathe before I start sewing.

@saalevine.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social In Connecticut, if groceries scan at the wrong price, you get it for free. The result is, the shops keep the pricing accurate. I wish we had this rule in NYC. I’ve had so many experiences with items scanning higher than the advertised price.

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/

You can tell that LotR was written by an academic because Gandalf disappears for like 20 years doing research to answer a single question.

Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ archive.org/details/sier...

Month three with no cooking gas, and I managed to make vegan baked ziti and sautéed broccoli rabe for xmas eve dinner with a single induction hot plate and a combo convection/microwave oven.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Ok but she looks absolutely fabulous in that outfit.

I’ve been trying, unsuccessfully for a week to get through the border caves platforming section in Silksong. My 17 year old champion gamer nephew did it in 20 minutes, having never played the game before. (You bet I unlocked the shortcut after he finished it.) #noshame

WELCOME TO THE DAY OF MANY CALORIES YOU SHALL CONSUME YOU SHALL INGEST YOU SHALL HEAVE YOUR SWOLLEN BODY ONTO THE COUCH MOANING AS YOU DO SO BUT WAIT THERE'S STILL PIE

A GUIDE TO REGENCY DRESS by Hilary Davidson, Yale Books, out now. No one does this kind of gorgeous, informative, meticulously researched, beautifully designed fashion history book better. A fine gift for every Janeite! @fourredshoes.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

Is it just us Gen X nerds or does everyone feel like all the dystopian SF of your youth is coming true?

Serious question—DOES THIS MAN EVER SLEEP?

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

"What is the lesson you learned from losing the primary?" "I'm not on tiktok enough"

IT IS THE MAYOR’S #1 JOB TO MARCH IN ANY AND ALL PARADES.

If you think the problem in this city is that my rent is too low, vote for Andrew Cuomo. If you know the problem in this city is that your rent is too high, vote for me.

My husband just described Curtis Sliwa as “if the New York Post was a person” 💀

After over 200 hours of gameplay, I finally made it to Act 2 of Hollow Knight: Silksong 🥹 Someone please congratulate me on this major life achievement. Also why do I love a game I am so objectively bad at?

Crystal Carter went to tour an apartment. Rent was $1,500 a month. “I’ll be paying with a Section 8 voucher,” she said. “Yeah,” the landlord said. “I don’t do Section 8.” This is what housing voucher discrimination looks like 👇 (Published 2020 w/ @ctmirror.org)

A tireless advocate for animals and the planet -- Jane Goodall's life was a gift to us all.

there are two kinds of people: either you read "Their Eyes Were Watching God" in high school and it lodged into your brain forever, not just because it has the best opening paragraph in the history of literature but because Tea Cake's death from rabies is so FUCKING horrifying, or you did not

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's. If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too. It's just a question of political will.

I don’t get the hate/complaints about Silksong. It’s a beautiful, worthy successor to Hollow Knight and yeah, it’s hard AF, but that will just make it last longer. I’m in no rush.

Definitely wasn’t me forgetting my apple watch and waving my wrist fruitlessly at the OMNY sensor this morning. 😳

Happy Labor Day! This holiday was established in 1894 to honor and recognize the American labor movement and the contributions of working people. Celebrate with us with some thematic reading, pictured below.

I regret to inform you all that the muji oscillating fan is worth the $$$.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.

Facebook keeps showing me unauthorized AI Hello Kitty slop and I have this really visceral, emotional reaction to it. Like, you leave Hello Kitty out of this. She is all things good and pure and sweet and I will not have you taint her good name with these planet destroying saccharine abominations.

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Report: It's Not Okay To Just Start Talking To People You Don’t Know theonion.com/report-...

I love PBS passport! I pay $10/month to NYPT Thirteen and get access to all the great shows I like to watch on my schedule.

I remember once astonishing a colleague’s husband when he naively asked why we (historians) couldn’t just look something up on the internet and we had to explain that WE are the ones who find the stuff and add it to the internet

Went to a farmers’ market in suburban CT today, and I was surprised how few of the vendors were actual farms. There was literally a booth from an investment firm, which feels like the most Connecticut thing ever. I did manage to buy some vegetables and maple syrup.