The bottom line is that NYC Public Libraries need increased and most importantly STABLE funding annually. Mayor Mamdani promised both and this preliminary budget is a BROKEN PROMISE. There’s time for him to rectify this. NYC library patrons expect that he will.

OK, let’s discuss what’s happened with the proposed NYC public libraries budget for FY 27. Mayor Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov released his preliminary budget yesterday. This kicks off the city budget process. [Long thread]

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

STOP MAKING ME LOOK AT RFK AND KID ROCK!!!!!

I dare you to read this and not be moved to donate. Fart on, my guy. Fart on.

unfortunately the blob has run into some serious medical issues and his people could use a financial hand gofund.me/e837f1a1c

It is so hard not to reply to the weirdos in my mentions sometimes because I’m like surely this person will see the way No. They will not!!!

while you were studying the blade, I was also studying the blade. we have the same blade exam and I want to do well.

Oh, you think it's ai because of em dashes? Where did ai get em dashes from? WHERE DID IT GET THEM, MOTHERFUCKER?

I think Bluesky is currently the best social media platform for keeping misinformation to a minimum, maybe because it’s not popular enough to be a target yet Half the shit my friends, including fellow academics, share on Facebook is made up crap that they believe is real Threads is atrocious too

Take 35 points of psychic damage

ten years ago, I started this company with the promise of building a cheap, sustainable launch system to deliver commercial payloads into upper orbit. that company failed. so today we are pivoting our fleet of one-way shuttles to tap into an underserved market: customers eager to die in space

I would shoot the computer with a handgun five to eight times

BREAKING: An immigration judge has *terminated* the Trump-Vance administration's efforts to deport Columbia pro-Palestine student protestor Mohsen Mahdawi. Mohsen was first detained 10 months ago, when agents ambushed him at a citizenship interview.

“Subscribe to my Substack!” Me, knowing there are Nazis there:

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler! Happy Mardi Gras from the…

“She’s not from here.”

And this was interestingly unanimous— and not being that well reflected yet in the offerings from actual Dem politicians. Word to the wise

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Just saw a crow fly by with a piece of toast in its mouth like its late for school in an anime

I guess you guys weren’t ready for that post yet. but your kids are gonna love it

The US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, a pioneer of progressive Democratic politics, close ally of Martin Luther King Jr, and two-time candidate for the presidential nomination, has died at 84. See his life in pictures: bit.ly/3OxOT3f

Hugo Award nominees... Dramatric Presentation - short form... (My final choice) MurderBot... Season One... Episode 10... "The Perimeter" Since one can't nominate a series' full season, I nominate its final episode.

“These hoes wanna live in Omelas” is going to stick with me.

Gavin Newsom looks like one of the masks they wore in Point Break

This is the thing I think trolls, etc don't understand: Once I block you I literally never think about you again. Shit, five minutes after I block someone I don't remember who they are or why I blocked them. They simply and literally don't exist for me anymore. If this is a victory for you, fine.

do you think dragons ever want to take the drag off

Cop: Can you describe the man who stabbed you? Me: He kept going like this [stabbing motion]

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

thinking once again about how dem electeds don't idolize their own past presidents the way they do republican ones

Telling people to vote for Newsom on Bluesky in February of 2026 feels like posting on Facebook that they can’t use your likeness or content

I saw someone say "Bluesky Elder" in the subway and they instantly turned into a pile of pulverized psyllium husk. I can't make this up

contrast this to a year ago when there was very little anti-Trump messaging in public from anyone in a position of power or influence this is an big change and it does indicate his power over the elites - who have been much more deferential than society at large - is starting to wane

Share the good news when we have it: PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ are falling in North Atlantic whales after phaseout news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

deadpool vs q

HELL yea

ah damn, another absolute irreplaceable legend. RIP www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

I finished Baldur’s Gate 😭

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

This, basically:

i agree that American culture is pretty much English-Scotts-Irish as long as your concept of culture doesn't include music, food, vernacular, fashion, sports, dance, or comedy

medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday

It *literally* does. Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

I’m about a quarter of the way into the audiobook of Tracy Deonn’s Legendborn (which takes place locally to me!) and man it really is as good as everyone says

the bad news is that I had just gotten out of the shower and put on my jammies when my husband texted to ask me to pick him up the good news is he is getting us a metric shit-ton of sushi and also a cocktail for meeeee

This is blackout poetry to me