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Bailey Kane
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Building, teaching, helping small businesses. Education, climate, arts, music.

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Installed a peg board for tool storage in my mom's craft room, and I think it actually looks good? Some rough edges, but came together in a few hours and a single trip to Lowe's so I'll call it a success
A photo of a corner of a room. A long brown pegboard is installed on one wall with various tools hanging from it. Various storage shelves sit below and around it, and a large desk sits in front of a window. It's nighttime outside.
August 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Making progress

- Clinton Hill (the cat on the sticker is named Pickles!)
- Park Slope
- Williamsburgh (not a typo! to my delight)

4/62 done ✅
A photo of a booklet with entries for each Brooklyn Library branch, open to the page with Clinton Hill's entry. There's a green sticker next to the entry with an icon of a cat, which I learned is named Pickles. A photo of a booklet with entries for each Brooklyn Library branch, open to the page with Park Slope's entry. There's a blue sticker next to the entry with an icon of a fence with a flower and a plant sticking over it. A photo of a booklet with entries for each Brooklyn Library branch, open to the page with Clinton Hill's entry. There's a blue sticker next to the entry with an icon of a gavel.
July 29, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Lol turns out @bklynlibrary.bsky.social has an official "visit every branch" program, so i went back to the Brower Park branch today to get my booklet and start my journey over. 1/62 done ✅

Check out the program here: www.bklynlibrary.org/browse-the-b...
A photo of a booklet listing the Brooklyn library branches, with focus on the Brower Park branch. The text reads, "Brower Park. Located on Brooklyn Children's Museum's ground floor, this branch is a special space for kids and families. Enjoy youth programs, an outdoor terrace and 'Collections Connections,' a mobile community gallery with museum artifacts on everything from animals to music to trains—and beyond." A blue sticker with the outline of a dinosaur and the text, "Brower Park LIbrary" is attached next to the text.
July 17, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I am ELATED with how this art project turned out. Leftover stones, driftwood, and preserved moss (terrarium supplies), turned into a table centerpiece with flower holders and space on the edges, so you can swap the flowers and candles out for different moods 🌱🪻🕯️

Giving it away at an art swap soon 🥲
A photo of a table centerpiece on a coffee table. The centerpiece has a thin slice of a log as the base, with stones, driftwood, and preserved moss glued into a natural scene on top. There are flowers coming out of the scene, and two candles on either side of the centerpiece. A photo of a table centerpiece on a coffee table. The centerpiece has a thin slice of a log as the base, with stones, driftwood, and preserved moss glued into a natural scene on top. There are flowers coming out of the scene, and two candles on either side of the centerpiece. This is an alternate angle of the first image in this post. A photo of a table centerpiece on a coffee table. The centerpiece has a thin slice of a log as the base, with stones, driftwood, and preserved moss glued into a natural scene on top. There are flowers coming out of the scene, and two candles on either side of the centerpiece. This is a close up on some of the rock and driftwood features. A large rock spans horizontally, with moss coming over the top and surrounding it, and driftwood is on either side. Green flower stems are visible throughout.
June 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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The bounty grows 🥕🥬🥔🫜
A photograph of a coffee table with two kitchen towels laid out, with assorted vegetables from a farm on top. Carrots, leafy greens, potatoes, radishes.
June 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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New library card acquired from Springfield City Library in Springfield, Massachusetts. The collection grows 😈

(the collection: www.baileykane.co/library-cards)
A cropped photo of the front of a library card for the Springfield City Library. The motto says, "All yours, just ask." There is a yellow and blue repeating geometric pattern across the entire card, and a red stripe with white, "My library card" text along one side.
May 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Happy to report that we are also now knee deep in carrots and curry
A top-down photo of an orange curry in a bowl, with cilantro and greens mixed in, on top of rice.
May 6, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Forgetting the cold winters and the very poor heating systems in my apartment is easy when spring days are as bright and warm as this
A photo of a sunny day from an apartment rooftop deck. A set of patio furniture, a small fence, trees, and a row of similar decks from adjacent apartments is visible in the background.
April 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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I found an iPod Touch from 2009 while helping my mom move. It's beautiful ❤️

Any ideas for what I should do with it?
Photo of an old iPod Touch, turned on, showing the default home screen. It's being held by a hand on a desk, with a 30-pin charger cable plugged in.
April 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Latest stop on my journey to visit every branch of the @bklynlibrary.bsky.social: Brower Park, which has the pleasure of being right next door to the wonderful, and colorful, Brooklyn Children's Museum
The entrance to the Brower Park branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. A bright yellow second story sits above a concrete entrance and tall windows Rows of bookshelves in a library, with a mural sitting above the books on the longest wall, and selected books displayed on top of each bookshelf
March 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Nurturing this plant back to health, and even to flowering(!!), after a plant shop gave it to me for free because it was dying, is the highlight of my plant caretaking career this far
A flowering codonanthe plant sitting on a wooden desk with a keyboard and other desk accessories in the background
February 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Decided to channel my anxiety about the world into an act of appreciation for the great institution of libraries ❤️📚

I collect library cards when I travel, and now my collection is on my website: www.baileykane.co/library-cards

#buildinpublic

Design loosely modeled after: poke-holo.simey.me
January 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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After `console.log(post)`-ing ad nauseam with post data from the Bluesky API, I figured I'd make a little JSON explorer tool instead. A couple hours in, it's clunky but functional!

Planning to include profile metadata, threads, etc.

#buildinpublic
Screenshot of a basic website with a search bar for Bluesky profiles, and a results list that shows Bluesky posts alongside the corresponding JSON data from the Bluesky API.
January 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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There were some tough moments for my family last year, and we don't have the easiest time talking about them with each other

I made a bunch of these little friends to help us share how we're feeling (send a picture instead of typing it out), and they were a hit! Great desk companions too
Three small rocks sitting on a wooden desk. Each rock is decorated with a googly eye and drawn-on facial features. From left-to-right: a happy face with a medium-sized eye, an angry face with a small eye, and a sad face with a large eye
January 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The styling of my Bluesky feed on my personal website is getting cleaner ✨

I'm for sure stumbling with the Bluesky API though, without understanding all of the core concepts. Baby steps

#buildinpublic
Screenshot of two side by side websites. The left shows an old version of Bluesky posts embedded on a website with darker, more cramped styling. The right shows a new version, currently in development, with cleaner styling, using the Bluesky avatar of each post's author, and an updated timestamp format.
January 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Beautiful New Hampshire
Snowy path through the trees with light shining through Blue skies and snowy trees, with lakes and small mountains on the horizon, taken from the top of a mountain Top of a rocky mountain, with ice, rock, and snow covering the face. Icy trees scattered around A cold, icy lake with a few ducks in the middle. A snowy bank on the far side of the lake with trees around
December 2, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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I hope to never take for granted the wonder of houseplants having babies, and being able to nurture new plants in my home
A baby spider plant in a small terracotta pot, just cut from a mother spider plant.
November 20, 2024 at 6:04 PM