Ohi new followers, bedraggled pigeon here. If I ask you a question, generally I really sincerely want to know your answer, unless I indicate sarcasm via emoji. I am, generally, exactly what I seem to be. It’s too exhausting otherwise.

I really wish people would respond when I ask what they are replying to. Please remember how thorough the nuclear block is, and that some of us subscribed to ill-advised blocklists. I’m trying to remedy that now, but short of unblocking everyone, which is not on, I rely on the help of my friends.

#SongOfTheDay This is the requisite musical number from the 3rd season of the amazing series Code Black. for background, see next post. youtu.be/fdxaSuOj_RY?...

Jackie Kennedy planted roses and other flowers beside the White House. This guy tore them up to put in a place like a personal club, and he’s now destroyed the East Wing to build a ballroom. And you believe him when he says he has no plans to name it after himself?

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Homicide: Life on the Streets is so amazing, but Marcia Gay Harden in S04E04 just leaves everyone in the dust. And I haven’t even got to the Vincent D’Onofrio episode yet. What an amazing series.

PS folks who found the very existence of Ukraine offensive? Yes, I blocked you.

#SongOfTheDay Enjoy Yourself! It’s later than you think. (other vetsions follow) youtu.be/IdMWHB6Kz3A?...

For the record, I have neither the time nor the energy nor the will to examine who does or doesn’t follow me. And similarly, if I haven’t followed you back, it only means that I’m exhausted. Nothing personal. It’s just that I’m 71 going on 72 and finally have time to, like, do stuff.

JHMC He was “a builder” in the sense that he erected (word deliberately chosen) gilded abominations. It was always a hobby, in the sense that no sane person wants to live or work in his gilded towers, unless they can’t avoid it.

The fact is, much as I love Hugh Jackman’s voice, nothing you could do would entice ne to view a film about a Neil Diamond tribute duo. Nice try though.

Just a moment. But in Bluesy I have hundreds of times more engagement, and I’m not even trying. People just seem to like my random thoughts. Wild.

Hi friends. I know you don’t expect recipes from your favorite bedraggled pigeon, but here I am. I love this minestrone from Marcella Hazan, and while you don’t have to follow it in every respect, the relative balance is important, as is the 3-4 hour simmering. Don’t even think about shorter time.

My dear friend and colleague used to love The King, and this song certainly shows off why he deserved that title.

Skeet of the day.

#SongOfTheDay Sittin’ here, forgotten, like a book upon a shelf. No one left to turn the page, you’re left to read yourself… youtu.be/Xh7FJGf90o4?...

Two things: 1) Focusing on Trumps physical changes is stupid. It's the fascism. 2) People keep commenting on the skin of his hands etc and folks, as a doc who cares for old folks, this is all normal skin aging esp in people with a lot of sun exposure.

No ALT text, and to make matters worse, no source. For shame

Please remember that Gareth Jones’s courageous exposé of the Holodomor started with his wondering how the USSR could afford the 5-year plan during a global depression, when the ruble was worth almost nothing www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/putin-is-a...

#SongOfTheDay Sittin’ here, forgotten, like a book upon a shelf. No one left to turn the page, you’re left to read yourself… youtu.be/Xh7FJGf90o4?...

Snow Falls on Manhattan.

If only we had an amendment to the Constitution, let’s say the first one, because it would probably be, that protected the press in this country.

I know he’s currently or soon starring in that mess that is absolutely not a Neil Diamond biopic, but, hell, a man’s got to make a living somehow. So here he is at the top of his game, folks, Hugh Jackman in Les Miz. #SongOfTheDay youtu.be/COiLnBhVdkY?...

Snow Falls on Manhattan.

So pretty. So quiet. I love NYC covered in snow.

It’s snooooooooooooowing!

U can’t touch this. youtu.be/otCpCn0l4Wo?...

RFK Jr being the ignorant person he always has been, and PLEASE don’t forget to add the Jr to his name. Bobby wasn’t a eugenicist.

Begging you all please to include the Jr in that guy’s name. His assassinated father didn’t share his eugenistic goals. 100% of the other Kennedys and their married relatives have rejected this guy. Don’t let him be confused with his late father.

He walked the walk while you were talking the talk.

The reason why we need to teach students about activism and movements. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I liked this essay very much.

If you base your whole life around “Stranger in a Strange Land” you probably also think having a way-too-plastic fake girlfriend tell you “I will always love you” is a sign that you are a good and worthwhile person.

To make it more clear: When we (University instructors) make assignments, they include instructions specifying what the student must do. In the past several decades, there has been a push to make these instructions ever more explicit, on the assumption that students don’t understand…

Can I just say how much I hate that Leon stole from a pretentious Heinlein story when he named “Grok”? Doubly pretentious. It was cringe before cringe was a thing.

OMG I’ve been reposted by George Takei. Pardon me while I plotz.

I’m really getting tired of the takes on this. The assignment came with instructions. The student received a failing grade because she did not follow the instructions. That she used the Bible (assuming she did) is irrelevant. She did not follow the instructions in the assignment.

Name & Shame.

This point is well-taken, but is inaccessible to those using screen readers. Use ALT text. It would only take 30 seconds or so, to save the screenshot and select-copy-paste the text, maybe 15 seconds more minimal editing, and would show that you care

#SongOfTheDay Sometimes in Winter, maybe tomorrow, my love. youtu.be/KMlLhYz1PXY?...

Yes. Scientists and scientific societies should be pushing back on this, right now. Our democratic and liberal institutions are failing us. Fight, not fold.

need a little hug rn. No big thing, just feeling a bit lonely.

TNR, at least please include ALT for screen-readers. For shame.

Ooh, I’m going back to Massachusetts. youtu.be/FuoWykVNwyI?...

#SongOfTheDay Be Ever Wonderful youtu.be/xD83FtlqlOo?...

Your periodic reminder that Micah Lasher and Jack schlossberg already live in NY-12 We don’t have any need of carpetbaggers. (Term chosen on purpose.)

Gotta say, I am not enjoying this Hall of Shame as much as I used to enjoy Song of the Day. But whatever it takes to make you take it seriously.

To overstate the obvious, but which I failed to mention: George Conway does not (currently) live in NY-12. That doesn’t stop him remedying his address in advance of the primary, but then, he could choose any one of a dozen flippable seats for that.

Re-upping this for the reason that NYC isn’t your open-air market where you get to snatch congressional seats as you wish. We have history and we are quite capable of making our own choices, ty very much. NYC has neighborhoods, and you don’t automatically become a member by buying property there.