Julie/a

I read this as “attractive” / the heart wants what it wants

I wish we could see what this looked like before those glass blocks were installed.

An honor and a privilege

One of the best things I did in 2025 was getting a reader’s card @newberrylibrary.bsky.social — looking forward to returning in the new year!

But did it work

Your love for Cocaine is old hat. Don’t even worry about it.

Color photo of a Little Library painted with the cover of Ezra Jack Keats's book, The Snowy Day. Little guy in red snowsuit looking back at his prints in the snow. Colorful building and traffic light in background. And, get this, snow on the ground around the Little Library too

Same, Peter, same

I believe the word is “canned”

Honk honk

May I just say WHEW

That photo quality is how you know they’re truly excelling in their field.

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?

I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire

Gift 🔗

For me, it was always the wink

They clean up after natural disasters. Now they’re getting sick. Brothers Santos and Mariano have been chasing jobs after hurricanes for nearly two decades. And the grueling work of cleaning and rebuilding after natural disasters has taken a toll on their bodies. T...

As the Texas flood clean up continues, I'm thinking about how after the tragedy of a natural disaster, its often immigrant workers that come in to clean up and are left to fend for themselves amid loosely regulated worker safety rules

by @mizamudio.bsky.social

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Had Peach Fuzz not closed, I would have a clear answer.

Buy the kid zutano booties online?

The Ecstasy of Sam Malone | The Brooklyn Rail This story from Marie-Helene Bertino’s newest collection, Exit Zero, confirms her status as a master of slippery twilight, a true believer that if one sidles up to a threshold just right, she can pass...

The Cheers + Marie-Helene Bertino mashup I didn’t know I needed: brooklynrail.org/2025/04/fict...

On any platform, your account delivers the details people are looking for, sir

Respect to Frog for doing what writers fear doing: confronting your personal cliches instead of pretending you have none
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Save the Chicago Reader - Leor Galil's Fundraiser on Donorbox I published my first Reader story in the summer of 2010. It concerned a Logan Square DIY space called Strangelight, which operated out of a storefront in the Congress Theater. I was 24 at the time. Be...

I wrote a brief appeal about why you should donate to the Chicago Reader to keep my newsroom afloat. Please donate if you can

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But will the sidewalks be clear 🙃

Bruce’s talent! Museum quality American crafting.

Perennial fav

I caught two buses with no wait or transit app use today. ✨

A screenshot of the USGS river gauge data for the Winooski River in Montpelier, Vermont shows this week’s data overlaid with last year’s data for the same dates.

Flood watch from the current storm hitting on the anniversary of last year’s flood is pretty deeply uncool

Baltimore by Night In the city of vivid dreams, I take a call from a friend. He’s coming to the potluck, he says, he’ll bring eggs. Wild, I think, because in the dream I just had, he brought eggs to a party, cracked …

Mazel to @juliaheney.bsky.social in the New England Review!!

Life without a post office leaves Montpelier area residents scrambling - VTDigger After a mail carrier retired, residents and businesses in Montpelier and Middlesex have been left without mail and no physical post office to pick up their medicine or bills. The delivery problems are...

The capital of Vermont and hasn’t had a post office since July. Now a carrier has retired, leaving residents with no delivery and no place to ask for mail. Elections are in a month, 30% of residents vote by mail but showing a total lack of urgency, a USPS spokesperson says there are no updates.

The blood on that neck really sells it

Can’t stop listening to this album, lovingly blame Nina

Sure, but it’ll take forever.

Nooooo