Conversation this morning _as Gaeilge_ with ChatGPT (this is the end of the conversation):

Me: go raibh maith agat, a bhot

ChatGPT: Ná habair é! 😊
Agus sea — a bhot is go hiomlán ceart gramadaí.

Má theastaíonn cúnamh eile leat le Gaeilge, cuir ceist orm am ar bith!

Like President Catherine Connolly of Ireland:

“He just retained a great police commissioner,” says Trump, lavishing praise on Jessica Tisch, who Trump says is a good friend of his daughter Ivanka.
(I can't stop laughing at that....) #Mamdani #Ivanka #JessicaTisch #surprises

And from the NYT article above: "Trump, always a student of the media, notes to reporters how many world leaders have visited the Oval Office but few get as much attention as Mamdani. The president seems impressed by how adept Mamdani is with dealing with reporters." -- i.e. he's learning from M.

And my theory about why: Like Obama, an early endorser of Mamdani, Trump likes COOL. He's flattered that this handsome, popular, charming young up-and-up politician wants to meet HIM: Wow, he thinks, I must be Something! It's all Charm and Cool. He wants me to like him!! And I do! #Mamdani #Trump

I always insist of making my own index, because the professional indexers just list the proper nouns or obvious generalities. There's a lot of room for eccentricity and charm in the creation of an index, e.g. funny little things to list, bizarre sub-categories, mysterious page numbers, and so on.

Strange Bedfellows

A wonderful interview and a great photo too.

@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social's launch of
FILLY
@bansheepress.bsky.social last night @booksupstairs.bsky.social & introduced by @jesstraynor.bsky.social 💫

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

transition2025.com

ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.

Zohran Mamdani cradling a cat in his arms

This is the kind of mayor of NYC I've always wanted. #Mamdani #cats @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social @johnghoakes.bsky.social @janeclarke.bsky.social @dralicekelly.bsky.social @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social @annaoakes.bsky.social

Politics is local Indignity Vol. 5, No. 194

"He presents [NYC] as a fundamentally good place...He makes it sound as if people are a part of something, and as if they have the ability to make that thing better. If anyone's searching for a winning way to talk about democracy, they could try to do the same." www.indignity.net/politics-is-local/

Catherine Connolly and Zohran Mamdani: now isn't that grand?

Yes, that's what I've been thinking. Even as far back as the June primary, I thought, Mamdani reminds me of Obama. And Obama saw the similarity too, because even though their stated ideologies are quite different, Obama endorsed him.

🎉💪 A judge has ruled that ICE agents who are caught trying to arrest someone at or around a Chicago courthouse can now be arrested. This comes after several weeks of ICE agents grabbing people on their way in or out of the courthouse. #StrongerTogether #ResistanceIsNotFutile

Have you tried the NLI? I read many years of FJ there and got excellent copies of all the pages I needed.

Relief… and (to quote Gilbert and Sullivan) ‘modified rapture.’ Very pleased with the outcome of the NYC mayoral election.

New York is facing a tougher tax on the rich than the UK - and millionaires support it Democratic mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani plans to freeze rent and make buses free by taxing the rich

Democratic mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani plans to freeze rent and make buses free by taxing the rich trib.al/MGpBxqr

A perfect autumn day in the Republic of Greenwich Village

If only it could happen here..........

#NoKings 125th St. NYC -- an imaginative and passionate group

Wish I could been there for the launch of Filly...but I read it in May and loved it five months before the launch!

High (and well deserved) praise for Filly by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social ✨️✨️✨️

@bansheepress.bsky.social

Happy publication day to FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social 🐎

‘Filly is a testament to the savagery and exaltation of love’ Mary Morrissy

‘Raw and poetic, tender yet unflinching’ Louise Hegarty

‘I devoured Filly in a day’ Liz Berry

‘A perfectly formed sucker punch of a book’ Jan Carson

ChiasmUs. Sorry!

A perfect chiasmys!

Mamdani to Cuomo in the debate last night: ‘What I don’t have in experience I make up for in integrity; what you don’t have in integrity you could never make up for in experience.’

Wonderful pic of Kevin. The firewall won't let me read all the review. Maybe you can scan and post it? in your 'free time'....