Sean Redmond

@rdmond

Senior Product Manager at NYPL (formerly Guggenheim, AMNH and Brooklyn Museum) Also Freelance classicist. @hemerologion.bsky.social

746 Folgt678 Follower860 Posts

Bluesky

Ist das dein Profil?Übernimm es — dann gehört dir rdmond.dirty.social.Profil übernehmen

Sean Redmond@rdmond· 9d

Then in The Bourne Ultimatum he starts remembering his past, which he sees in fragments in dreams, on a beach (followed by leaving the beach and killing a lot of people)

Still from The Bourne Ultimatum, Matt Damon as Jason Bourne sits in a darkened cabana at a desk illuminated by a lamp, through the window and door behind him you can see a beach and the sea

Sean Redmond@rdmond· 9d

I was also distracted by the fact that in The Bourne Identity Matt Damon is also found floating in the Mediterranean, is nursed back to life, and can't remember anything

Still from The Bourne Identity. The dark outline of a human body floating in a blue sea, seen from below

Sean Redmond@rdmond· 15d

The Right Stuff does have a sex scene

Slippered feet seen under the wooden doors of two adjacent bathroom stalls. What's happening is the astronaut candidates are masturbating to give sperm samples, one is a marine, the other navy, and they start singing their respective corps' official song

Sean Redmond@rdmond· 19d

I just think @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social missed to boat by not calling it the "Commission on REAL Government Efficiency" or CORGE (📷 by Pmuths1956 via wikimedia commons)

A handsome Corgi standing in grass with its head turned looking straight at the camera

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Jul 2

My heart goes out to gamers and game developers but, phew! @obsidian.md is not the Obsidian that's trending

Bluesky "Trending" list with "Obsidian" at the top spot

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Jun 27

Literally no one is suggesting that people should regularly bike across this rural Ohio county, but rather that it would be better if kids who lived within a mile or two of one of these schools could safely ride there

Map of Medina County, Ohio. It's a 25 by 20 mile rectangle with a bit taken out of the northwest corner and looks pretty rural with three large and three small towns spaced out across it

Map of the area surrounding the city of Medina in Medina County, Ohio. The locations of a dozen or so schools are indicated, clustered in Medina with none in the surrounding countryside

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Jun 27

Most trips to work anywhere are more than a mile, but those aren't most trips. My work is 8 miles away but my last bike ride was 2 miles to a bar. It's not really obvious why the trip on your map isn't bikeable (maybe the routes are completely unsafe). Plus NOLA isn't that much hotter than NYC

Graph of monthly average minimum and maximum temperatures in New Orleans showing that the max is 91.4 Fahrenheit in August

Graph of monthly average minimum and maximum temperatures showing that the max is 86.18 Fahrenheit in July

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Jun 21

Advertise your BlueSky account with a Simpsons image

Grandpa Simpson, talking to "Old Jewish Man," says "Lousy Greeks"

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Jun 18

Every time Mamdani says "For 53 years" I can't help but hear

Still shot from Matrix Reloaded, Morpheus giving his speech to Zion with the quote "I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines"

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Jun 18

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

Richard Benjamin dressed in the blue uniform of the captain of a garbage collecting spaceship, flanked by the rest of the cast including two scantily clad blonde women. The seem to be sitting on a pile of sci-fi garbage bags

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Jun 4

#Knicks reading list from NYPL! Something to fill your time between now and tomorrow's game 2 www.nypl.org/blog/2026/06...

Let's Go, Knicks! Get instant access to these books for basketball fans with your library card

Sean Redmond@rdmond· May 25

Fake Star Trek: The Next Generation title card with the Enterprise coming towards the viewer as if leaving the orbit of the blue planet behind it. The title of the episode: Magnifica Humanitas

Sean Redmond@rdmond· May 19

Got to see this gem today at the Schomburg Center—Romare Bearden’s “Untitled (From the Iliad Series) Don’t tell the twitterchuds tho

A painting of two almost cubist figures, their bodies suggested by strong strokes outlining the shapes that make them up. They stand before the suggestion of an ancient city wall. The scene shifts from a soft green to fiery reds

Sean Redmond@rdmond· May 10

#Knicks fans right now

Two frames from the Simpsons. In the first, Marge looks troubled and asks "What's that strange feeling". In the second, she looks satisfied and says "it's 'of accomplishment'!" but over the word accomplishment is amateurishly superimposed "Making Every Imaginable Shot"

Sean Redmond@rdmond· May 1

Sorry, Atlanta, but this game could not be more fun to watch

NBA game score showing the Knicks leading the Hawks 60-19

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Apr 25

I'm not sure @nytimes.com knows what "but" means

New York Times article with the headline "Trump Confronts Iran's Atomic
Stockpile, and His Role in Expanding It" and the text "President Trump withdrew from the Obama-era nuclear accord in 2018. But Iran responded with an enrichment spree that haunts the negotiations to this day."
7 MAIN DEAN

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Apr 10

I can't be the only person who might pay for a monthly box of good lathe swarf

Screenshot of a YouTube video. In the lower left corner is the channel name, "HAL Heavy Duty Machining Australia." In the background of video is an enormous metal lathe. Most of the frame is filled with the presenter's slightly dirty hand showing to camera a handful of curled steel chips, called "swarf", that came off the metal being shaped in the lathe. Their blue color suggests that have been heated to 600 degrees Fahrenheit by the sheer mechanical forces of cutting on the lathe

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Mar 31

This graph makes me happy for the petty reason that this asshole is still parking illegally all over my neighborhood

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Mar 30

Something it took me a while to appreciate after I moved to NYC in '89 is that the music and art scene were enabled by historically low population (and rents). In the early 70's 1M people had moved out. Their former apartments were just sitting there, empty. It ended when NYC filled back up

A bar chart showing NYC population by decade from the 1950s to the 2020s. In the 1970s and 2000s the population was about eight million. In the 1980s it was just under seven million and in the 1990 just over seven million. The population grew higher in the 2010s and 2020s. There are lines marking out 1973, when CBGB opened and 2006 when it closed and these lines bracket the low populations of the 80s and 90s

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Mar 29

OMG the link at the bottom of the page. The Old Oligarch is an incredibly important text but... just a little on the nose

A link to "Next Post: The Artistry of 'The Old Oligarch'"

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Mar 29

Imagine thinking that Twitter was better now

Screenshot of text with a highlighted passage reading "The noise is blessedly quieter now that so many members of so-called 'Classics Twitter' fled X for BlueSky."

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Mar 15

Took this pic for my mom *just yesterday* at the Museum of Arts and Design. She organized a class based on it when it had just come out

A vintage copy of Our Bodies Ourselves in a museum exhibition vitrine

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Mar 11

Scene from Moneyball. Jonah Hill sitting in a darkened baseball office video room, with a look a bemused affection, saying to an out-of-frame character "It's a metaphor"

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Mar 1

Ugh. The Pauly-Wissowa article on Peisistratos is, as you'd expect, really thorough overview of all the sources but the author, Fritz Schachermeyr, keeps reminding you that he was a Nazi: "Peisistratos was of noble birth, undoubtedly with a considerable amount of Nordic blood"

German text from Paulys Realencyclopädie (XIX,1 159) reading "P. vor der Machtübernahme. P. war adliger Herkunft (Aristot. Ath. pol. 28, 2) und blutmäßig zweifellos in sehr beträchtlichem Maße nordisch bestimmt". Translated: P[eisistratos] before taking power. P was of noble origin (Aristotle Athenaion Politeia 28.2) and undoubtedly with a considerable amount of Nordic blood

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Jan 21

Retaining the aorist passive imperative is hard core!

Screenshot of part of the Wikipedia page for "Pontic Greek" saying "The imperative form of passive aorist in -θετε (anc -θητι): εγαπέθετε, εκοιμέθετε, εστάθετε."

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Jan 13

RT this with your home river. Behold the mighty Rivanna

A shallow, slow river on a sunny day with forest on either bank, some rocks sticking up in the middle, and a narrow beach--a patch of dirt really--on the opposite side

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Jan 12

They are a one company-car crime spree! That's AI for ya'

Screenshot from howsmydrivingny.nyc showing a number of violations: 5 for blocking the crosswalk, 2 for parking in a bus lane, 1 for double parking, 1 for failure to display a meter receipt, 4 for failure to stop at a red light, 2 for parking in front of a fire hydrant, 4 mobile MTA bus stop violations

Screenshot from howsmydrivingny.nyc continuing from the previous image. 4 red light violations, 2 fire hydrant violations, and 4 mobile MTA bus stop violations are repeated from that image. It continues with 3 violations for parking during street cleaning, 1 for obstructing a driveway, 1 for an expired or missing registration sticker, and 7 school zone speeding violations

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Jan 12

They did the (also illegal) thing where you put a fake NYPD something on the dash as if you're a cop responding to a crime. They aren't. They're parked in front of a hydrant. A hydrant in front of a house that was *actually on fire* a month ago.

Looking inside a dark green SUV. The name of the company, Legora, is visible on the outside of the door. A Hi-Vis yellow vest is folded on the dashboard so that the letters NYPD can be seen from the outside

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Jan 12

Curious A) Why an AI legal services startup (Legora) needs an SUV and B) Why it would be parked in the middle of Brooklyn blocking a fire hydrant. I mean, even an *AI* legal company should know that's against the law

Screenshot from xcancel.com of the twitter account of a company named Legora located in Stockholm, Sweden. The description says "Our mission is to empower exceptional lawyers. We’re building the world’s first truly collaborative AI for legal professionals." They have tweeted 15 times and have 1,311 followers

Sean Redmond@rdmond· Jan 1

In honor of the first year of congestion pricing, remembering that time when the DOT needed a word worse than gridlock and Sam Schwartz went with "syzygy" (NYTimes, Dec. 15 1989)