The difference is NOT because this small suburb suddenly stopped having neighborhood announcements to share. This photo was taken on the same day, at the family-owned independent grocery store a block away. As you see, THIS bulletin board is overflowing with announcements.

The first photo shows a bulletin board in a bank lobby that is devoid of anything except for company advertisements. In 2010, this was filled with thumb-tacked business cards & neighborhood announcements. That was 3 buyouts ago (Abington Bank->Susquehanna Bank->BB&T-> Truist) 2/3

I feel unaccountably gleeful that AI companies are already having to advertise on the basis of how bad AI is.

Weirdly, the artist doesn’t appear to have an Instagram or a website. I only found a freelancer site where he seems to be selling his graphic design services, but even that is minimal and frankly kind of sketchy (the site, not the artist).

And this one, of course, is Albuquerque.

I liked this one a lot. #ArtSky

Picked up some fun postcards when I was in New Mexico. The artist is apparently someone named Frank Nichols.

It’s not art in the sense of something intentionally created as such (or at least I don’t think so), but this 3,000-year-old brick from Egypt, now in a Berlin museum, makes me feel so connected to this long-ago human. The instinct to leave our mark is so strong!

My copy already arrived!

Philadelphia represent! Nothing more Philly than to open your theater program and see an actor bio that concludes with “Go Birds!” 🤣 🦅

Nielsen sent me a dollar so that I would agree to become one of their ratings households. Joke’s on them; I have watched a grand total of six hours of television in this house in the last three years. 🤣 (#HeatedRivalry, if you’re curious.)

Cosign the sign.

#BloomScrolling

#BloomScrolling

Sometimes I just marvel at how many extraordinary people have chosen to make the US their home. This story about 96-year-old Indian immigrant Prafulla Mukerji voting in 1980 is so cool. What a badass. mailchi.mp/saada/how-we... Hat tip to the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA).

Made these to take to my volunteer gig. Verdict: Pretty good! Although they didn’t spread out nearly as much as the recipe led me to believe they would. www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/crea...

I have been baking for 45 years, and I have never before owned a cookie scoop. I regret to announce that spending $25 on a purpose-built tool has been genuinely life-changing. I try not to own kitchen gadgets that can’t serve many different purposes. Guess this is going to be an exception.

OMG that one is really priceless to ask when abortion opponents get going. Is a tumor life? What if it’s one of those ovarian tumors that has teeth and hair?

Agree completely. And we also need some other folks working on off-line education of journalists. I cannot believe how many reporters still don’t even understand very basic things like “leaving is the most dangerous moment in a relationship,” and “choking/strangling as a lethality risk.”

Today I found out that there are 102 Bird Towns in Pennsylvania. Very cool to see municipalities working to improve bird habitats like this. birdtownpa.org

Spotted at a local consignment store. I have SO many questions.

I brought this graphic novel home and read it immediately. It’s the first prison memoir I’ve read that made me understand why streetwear design is such an important form of artistic expression. (Author is one of the Exonerated Five, fka Central Park Five - the teens that DJT wanted executed.) 📚💙

An optimistic postapocalyptic novel about climate change?! This I had to buy. 🧪 📚💙

I like the colors in this book cover. This one will also find a happy reader at a books-to-prisoners program. Wooing the Witch Queen, by Stephanie Burgis. 📚💙

I had no idea the multitalented @chriswarcraft.bsky.social had written a book! The genre isn’t my cup of tea, but I know for sure that it will find a happy reader at the books-to-prisons nonprofit I am donating it to. 📚💙

I 100% purchased this book because of the gorgeous cover design and the soothing texture. Cover design by James Iacobelli. Cover design inspired (?!) by Corina Nika. 📚💙

Been excited for this one since I saw him signing books at ALA last summer! Burn Down Master’s House, by Clay Cane. 📚💙

Pirate Enlightenment? Not gonna lie, you had me at pirates. 🏴‍☠️ 📚💙

A romcom about a matchmaking tour in Vietnam?! Sounds hilarious and totally endearing. Adam and Evie’s Matchmaking Tour. By Nora Nguyen.

In the 1970s, the Young Lords went door-to-door in the South Bronx to screen families for lead poisoning. Looking forward to learning more about their trailblazing work in this new book from @haymarketbooks.org . 📚💙