New York Movie Edward Hopper 1939

I obtained Flock license-plate reader audit logs that show police conducted 117 immigration-related searches of local data from Jan to March. One dept's reason to search: "Obstructing Justice – Suspicious female filming traffic stop & making comments about ICE” www.texasobserver.org/license-plat...

Nancy 4/24/26

Is there a way to change an app icon on Android? For instance, can I change the Libby icon to the Bluesky icon so that when I try to instinctively doomscroll, I am tricked into opening a book instead?

I'm about 1/4th of the way through Cameron Reed's What We are Seeking and it has an 80s/90s feel that I like. The deep study of alien biology makes me think of Xenogenesis or The Steerswoman.

Now reading. To quote my partner (RE: Louisiana), "you can't get a working government if you don't want one."

I don't have the kind of job where we usually get free lunches, so I always show up for the yearly event where we get a free Potbelly sandwich. My favorite part is that staff from all around campus come on their unique departmental carts so it turns into an alternative vehicle showcase.

Austin has been building more combined bike lanes and sidewalks, and I don't expect pedestrians to have to keep track of when the sidewalk becomes a traffic lane suddenly.

Can't wait to get my new glasses and be able to happily read a paper book.

"In 2025, 92 percent of all book challenges were initiated by pressure groups, government officials and decision makers, up from 72 percent in 2024. Less than 3 percent of challenges originated from individual parents." 📚 www.ala.org/news/2026/04... Follow @censorship.bots.law for realtime updates

Preparing for Tuesday's book club.

today is nonidi 29 Germinal in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV, celebrating blueberry

This morning, in the predawn black, the jays on one corner were in a ruckus. They weren't flying away like they were chasing a hawk; only making a lot of noise within the tree. The only creature I saw moving was a bat. Maybe there was a fox in the tree?

Landscaping, so that we can have a bug-supporting native yard.

If you look at someone's calendar and you think, "Wow, this is so packed! Where will I squeeze in the meeting I want to have?", you can always choose to not schedule another meeting.

I had to stay up late to give the cat her medicine so I wasn't up early enough to go check on my grackle "friend" before work.

I am in a book club that's reading Copaganda and every page fills me with rage that I can't do anything useful with. bookshop.org/p/books/copa...

I can't prove it, but I think I am looking at the same grackle that nicked me yesterday. He's doing zoomies to flirt with this lady.

Today I saw a bucket of softballs fall out the back of a truck onto a major street.

Tickled that yesterday I saw a woman warning strangers at the coffee shop about Amazon bricking their kindles.

Yelped at the cafe after being skimmed by a low flying grackle.

The New Yorker described a researcher as discovering peptides at "the turn of the century." I was confused about how he was still alive for an interview until I realized what century they meant.

Me: I feel so bad for not cooking a homemade dinner today My garmin: how are you even alive?! Please take a nap immediately because we don't have a way to display negative numbers on our app.

Also colleges restructured the way they function in response to the last waves of protests. My niece’s college did all they could to ensure no large groups could gather on campus for any purpose. Meetings / gatherings for organizing shut down. Kids punished academically.

There's a fourth letter, and it references Zoolander and tells the opposing writer to meet him at a certain dive bar.

bugs bunny would wipe the floor with Q from star trek

The crossword drama in the Austin Chronicle has me seeking out an issue every Wednesday. We are three weeks into an argument between two crossword fans in the letters to the editor. I can't wait to read this week's.

Damn even the Pope is like, "what can we do? Call our reps, I guess?"

ohhh we've got some stone-cold stunners, folks images.nasa.gov/details/art0... images.nasa.gov/details/art0... images.nasa.gov/details/art0... images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

I had to "per my last email" someone today.

Holy cow. Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman just officially named a moon crater “Carroll” in honor of his wife who passed away in 2020.

The cat did such a stinky poop that it woke me up.

newest Nancy ends with one of the most important panels ever, what a gift from @cashbrowns.bsky.social

I'm watching the new season of For All Mankind and I like the implication that if Al Gore had been President, hurricane Katrina would have been mild.

An ad for the new Harry Potter thing started and my partner and I immediately said "fuck off!" in unison.

😐 my phone suggesting I should respond "hahaha" to my own text.

MASSIVE fan of this one:

I read the interview and she's including time spent streaming music.

Vote to change independence day to the first Friday in July instead of whatever day the 4th falls on.

Going to see a ballet about Marie Antoinette as a vampire, wearing a bolo by @nora.zone

My friend said, "I think there's something in my shoe," then he pulled out a juul pod.

Libertarians

Went to a curried crawfish boil and ran into friends. They told me how yesterday they saw someone walking a donkey down the street and got to pet it.

Heard a Mapquest ad that said, "best of all, no prints needed!"

My cat every morning at 4 am

The latest trivial Austin drama is that the alt-weekly has a new crossword writer and people are big mad! I didn't do them previously because I only like crosswords that are in the perfect sweet spot of difficulty and they were pretty easy. Now I'm doing them just to see what's "wrong."

Shirt-printing operation

I have no dexterity until I drop something and then I turn into Michelle Yeoh. I was riding my bike across Koenig, and I dropped my smoothie. I caught it with my foot and held it against the crank, riding my bike another block until I could safely stop and retrieve it.