Fitbit was bought by Google--and now they've replaced the Fitbit app with the Google Health app. Anyway, the Google Health app is very optimistic and keeps counting my commuting through Penn Station, the subway, & two blocks to my office as "exercise". It'd be funny, if it wasn't so inaccurate. 🙃

My hatred of Windows 11 knows no bounds.

I bought a barcode scanner to help with book cataloging, and it's life-changing.

Just casually mentioning that I adored SOON BY YOU, and I need a sequel featuring Akiva, please. 🙂 (Also, delighted to see Yekke mentioned in a book, which I don’t think I’ve ever seen outside Jewish genealogy books/articles.)

I made a cheesecake. 🙂 www.instagram.com/reel/DYnT6Zg...

I made a cheesecake. 🙂 www.instagram.com/reel/DYnT6Zg...

The federal government plan to renovate Penn Station doesn't remove the number one issue with Penn Station, which is freaking Madison Square Garden. Without removing it, there will always be narrow passageways between support columns on the train platforms, which will be hell in an emergency.

Myrtle does not own one single thought. I mean, why snuggle with your warm sleeping sisters when you could pretend to be a potato instead?

Literally, I've read books in English, and then tracked down citations in the Polish language from those books. I do not speak Polish well, but the source was worth it.

I adore Totoro and completely agree with you. ❤️ (My husband and I took our kids to the Studio Ghibli museum in Japan, and they got to play on the stuffed catbus there.)

Illustration: William Harvey, 1838–40, woodcut I finished final edits for A DARK AND NARROW HOUSE -- and with that a six year journey comes to an end. The book, started mid-pandemic in April 2020, has achieved its final strange shape at around 105,000 words.

I'm researching the S.S. Graf Waldersee, for genealogy reasons, and I came across this article from The Boston Globe from May 1, 1912. It's eerie to think of the ship finding wreckage from the Titanic, which sunk two weeks before the article.

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

”Campus” by Vampire Weekend Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. 🙃

I'm here to report that The Sheep Detectives was awesome. ❤️

*discussing politics with the big kid* 14 year old: Congress is like toddlers. Me: Yes. 14 year old: Who go to recess a lot. Me: 100% yes.

A Woman Is Responsible for Everything by Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach, which is a fascinating deep-dive into the lives of European Jewish women in the early modern period. 🙂 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

My daughter's high school English teacher makes all kids write a first draft, by hand, in the classroom. Then, the teacher has to approve the first draft, before the kid is allowed to type it--again, in the classroom. It seems to be preventing rampant AI use, thankfully. 🙂

After a busy day at work, this thread is giving me life. ❤️

I have made a fatal mistake and bought too many dumplings. They are, however, excellent dumplings.

I’m just saying, AJR has an amazing trumpet player named Arnetta, who totally rocks every live show with them. 🙂 youtu.be/0nAmII39Kp4?...

10/10, no notes. ❤️

Introducing, coming to Winnipeg this summer: Other Places Books. A bookstore specializing in science fiction and fantasy. opbooks.store

There is a critical mass of tree pollen out there. 😭

I'm here to tell you that today's party is the NJ Transit train, which is totally packed with people taking their kids to work for Take Your Child to Work Day. (Kids ride free today!) ❤️ (My kids are here, too, btw.)

I'm reading The Beheading Game, which is excellent, but also, I keep needing to stop to google historical facts. As one does with an Anne Boleyn zombie-esque novel. 🙃

*quietly stares at the pile of side projects I have to finish* 😅

100% agree. New Jersey diners forever. ❤️

A beautifully folded Crouton. ❤️

My hot take today is that over the last few years, the West End has had more innovative musicals than Broadway. 🙂

I should mention that cases like this have been the majority of my genealogical research work this year, which is both rewarding and challenging. 🙂

Very happy 😂

I'm just going to leave this here because it's Yom HaShoah. #genealogy forward.com/culture/8186...

Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

Apparently, a train ahead of us broke, so now our train gets to rescue passengers. The poor conductor keeps repeating, "The next stop is not a station stop. Do not exit the train. We are rescuing passengers." So, that's tonight's adventure. 🙃

We don't have a real cat at the moment, but my 9 year old insisted that Cheddar the stuffed cat needed to play, too. 🙂

Ditto. So much this.

I am so desperately worried about the stupid heat shield. I blame The NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...

For @wendellwrites.bsky.social. Dinner. 😍

Look, I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm eagerly tracking my DoorDash order because I can eat chametz at 8:11 PM. 😍

Overheard by my 14 year old in school today. One kid asking another, after lunch time: "Wait, so you can eat matzo, but not gelt?!" 😂

I have a made a casserole thing with matzo, which is supposed to be a mina? It's tasty, but I remain convinced that it would be better with lasagna noodles (and maybe some cheese) rather than matzo layers.

I am just old enough to remember the Cold War and the threat of nuclear weapons well, and this whole week has been A LOT. But we did get moon pictures and four brave astronauts, at least. 🙂

OK, that was weird. It snowed (in April!) for like 5 minutes then stopped. Something has gone wrong with the physics of this universe! (Yes, we're all about pushing The Subtle Art of Folding Space today, its release day.) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

✅ #Artemis II update: the spacecraft entered the lunar sphere of influence this morning at 05:37 BST/06:37 CEST, 6 April, at about 51 000 km from the Moon (the region of space where the Moon’s gravitational pull is stronger than that of Earth’s). www.nasa.gov/image-detail... @exploration.esa.int

I'm just saying, it was impossible to find kosher for Passover maple syrup this year. All the supermarkets said there was a national shortage. 🤷‍♀️

Instead of Thanksgivukkah, this year, we got a Passover moon launch, which is a pretty cool way to start a Seder. 😊

One such historical example where lists were weaponized: the UGIF. The Germans wanted to know where each and every Jew in France were. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_g...

Great advance @publisherswkly.bsky.social review for @mollycrabapple.bsky.social 's Our Country, on the Bund, anti-Zionist Jewish socialists. Good companion read to Rachel Cockerell's book Melting Point, on the search for a homeland outside the Middle East. www.publishersweekly.com/9780593229453

I'm just saying, this headline makes me feel much less safe in this country.