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Lecturer at Yeshiva College in #18thC & #19thC #Literature. #Bentham & #queer #aesthetics (wrote Uncommon Sense, UVaP 2022), national #debt and #slavery, #Bronx […]

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We finished Cozy Stickerville, which was way too addictive and fun to save for later, and a sick weekend at home was the perfect excuse to plow through it. It reminded me of when we had COVID in 2020 and could not stop playing Legacy of Dragonholt […]

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A completed game of Cozy Stickerville, showing a map of grass, rivers, and mountains covered with stickers representing farms, shops, civic centers, and other public spaces.
December 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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More #boardgames for an under-the-weather weekend: Click-A-Tree (another Uwe Rosenberg game about sustainable farming in Ghana with clever gameplay mechanics) and Cozy Stickerville, an addictive cooperative legacy game about farming and building […]

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December 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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We are sick with a cold and missing a fun night with friends, so I demanded #boardgames
All of these are new to us! Pacts, Hits & Outs, and A Wild Venture, which we had to restart twice before the rules made sense, but we really enjoyed it! (alt text on edit)
December 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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We have been rewatching Midnight Diner again (the coziest of all shows) and getting painful stabs of yearning for simple Japanese food. In honor of the karaage and butter rice episodes, I had to make tofu karaage and butter rice for lunch, with a little cucumber dressed like seaweed salad.
Two slices of crispy chicken-fried tofu with a shredded cucumber salad with sesame seeds and some jasmine rice dressed with melted butter and two drops of soy sauce
December 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I realize not everyone has access to a perfect black cat at all times, so here is Camilla to brighten your #caturday
#catsofmastodon
A long-haired black cat with yellow eyes in autumn sunlight on a writing desk, surrounded by a coffee mug, books, papers, and headphones
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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One sure proof that I have a writing deadline is that I spent a lot of time on a new recipe today: 锅盔 (guōkuī), Sichuan-style, stuffed with a crumbled tofu filling (with finely chopped garlic, scallions, ginger, and red peppers, seasoned with salt, pepper, MSG […]

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A golden crispy coil of fried and baked stuffed dough, looking a bit like a flat knish.
November 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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@mxtiffanyleigh She says thank you to you all with this seductive pose.
The brown tabby cat is sitting up with one back leg and her tail sticking out in front of her, elegantly posed.
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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It's not too late for Dolores to tell you how moody she is with @mxtiffanyleigh out if town for PAX in Philly. #caturday #catsofmastodon
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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It is difficult to express in words how excited I am that this has arrived at our apartment! 鄭和宝船 The Treasure Ship of Zheng He, by the designers of Yokohama (one of our favorites). #boardgames #boardgaming
A large boardgame box showing the Ming-era explorer Zheng He in gold and purple in front of the prow of a Chinese ship. The box says, in gold hanzi, 鄭和宝船 The Treasure Ship of Zheng He, designed by Hisashi Hayashi and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Dolores is tapping your hand to remind you not to bring up you-know-what in front of you-know-who. #catsofmastodon
A brown tabby cat with green eyes is looking insistently past the photographer while reaching all the way out with one paw toward the other side.
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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I woke up to that disgusting Vaseline-lensed NYT essay about how the world of Epstein was a long-ago different time when male power bonds emerged according to the ancient affective paradigms of NYC, lost in the mist of #metoo and I am desperate to know why no […]

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TEXT: The apparent simplicity—the unity—of the continuum between “women loving women” and “women promoting the interests of women,” extend- ing over the erotic, social, familial, economic, and political realms, would not be so striking if it were not in strong contrast to the arrangement among males. When Ronald Reagan and Jesse Helms get down to seri- ous logrolling on “family policy,” they are men promoting men's inter- ests. (In fact, they embody Heidi Hartmann®s definition of patriarchy: “relations between men, which have a material base, and which, though hierarchical, establish or create interdependence and solidarity among men that enable them to dominate women.”) Is their bond in any way con- gruent with the bond of a loving gay male couple? Reagan and Helms would say no—disgustedly. Most gay couples would say no—disgust- edly. But why nor? Doesn't the continuum between “men-loving-men” and “men-promoting-the-interests-of-men” have the same intuitive force that it has for women?
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Camilla knows that I am at my desk playing boardgames with remote friends, but she would like to remind me that she is also my friend and she also likes to play. #caturday #catsofmastodon
A very fluffy black cat in the sunlight on a desk, looking up at the photographer with pleading yellow eyes. She is on her side, showing her soft inviting tummy.
November 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Kenny got really excited about the Brooklyn crowd actually singing and listening and not just filming the whole thing. He demanded a mosh pit and crowd-surfed into it. At one point he hinted that he had been thinking of quitting. Hoping tonight was proof that […]

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The singer of a punk band, a Black man in his late 20s, wearing a pinkish collared shirt with a bolo tie and an electric guitar, leans into the microphone with his eyes closed in front of an eager crowd
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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This 10-year-old tabby cat has never loved playing with toys, but she has just today discovered the fish that flops when you pat it. #catsofmastodon
An older, ultra-cute medium-haired tabby cat with a white chin looking up excitedly from a rather realistic fish plush toy
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Ooh, these black garbanzos are a star. I made them with cabbage, sweet potato, garlic, etc with couscous.
A bowl of black garbanzo beans stewed with sweet potato cubes and cabbage next to a pile of fluffy couscous
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Winter #ranchogordo #beanclub shipment is here! The crimson popcorn is the best I have ever had, and the black eyed peas have me looking forward to 2026. But I will be devouring those black garbanzos tonight.

Every time I go to a friend's apartment, he makes […]

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Seven 1-pound bags of Rancho Gordo dry goods, from top left clockwise: Super Lucky 2026 black-eyed peas, yellow eye beans, domingo rojo beans, negro de suelo beans, cassoulet beans, crimson popping corn, and black garbanzos
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Last night on #caturday I was on my way to DARE to Karaoke on the Lower East Side, and I was fondly reminiscing, walking down the block where @mxtiffanyleigh and I had our first date 9 years ago, when I was surprised by this tiny airplane-eared bodega cat, keeping a watchful eye on her store.
An open bodega door advertising an ATM with $10 and $20 bills is being guarded by a little black domestic shorthair cat. She is calm, but slightly annoyed by or wary of something, possibly the looming photographer trying to catch her eye.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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An immmmmmersive play about Frankenstein!
A playbill for A New Immersive Play-- Disremembrance: The Night Mary Shelley Wrote Frankenstein. The playbill is illustrated with a painting of Mary Shelley
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Boardgame design has come a long way. We have games about birds, space, insects, abstract shapes, steampunk technology, scientific history, music, ecological preservation, and then there is this garbage. Still. Every year. Award-winning. Games about settler […]

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A news card about a game just added to Boardgame Arena called Imperial Settlers: Empire State of Mind. Description: "Hear ye, hear ye! Gather round as your Imperial Settlers are venturing to newly discovered lands. They will craft new buildings to strengthen their economy, carve mines and plough fields to gather precious resources, and build barracks and training grounds to train soldiers. All of that to realize that this new land is far too small for everybody. And then the battle begins... In Imperial Settlers, you lead one of four factions: Barbarians, Egyptians, Japanese, or Romans. Your goal is to expand your empire far and wide and stop your opponents from doing the same."
November 1, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Voting early on Halloween in the Bronx means you get cool stickers. It also gave me the occasion to report illegal electioneering at the poll site. (These Cuomo obsessives are out of control.)
Two voting stickers, still on paper. On the left, a red sticker with a blue zoo gate design says "The Bronx votes early" and the other is an orange sticker with a pigeon in a witch hat holding a pumpkin bucket in its beak that says "Halloween Voter 2025"
October 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Richard II at Astor Place Theater will make you wish you had a half dozen slutty flatterers in the guest house
The playbill for Richard II shows Michael Urie, a 30ish white man with brown curly hair and visible nude shoulders, with a pink crown graffiti'd over his head. It is being held up so you can see the darkened stage before the play starts, which has the barely visible mostly naked Michael Urie inside a glass box, seen from behind.
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Two girls enjoying a #caturday night in
On a gray couch, a tabby cat with a white chin is behind a long-haired black cat wrapped up in a floral quilt. Both cats are looking at the camera.
October 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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This whole season of The Lowdown, I have been waiting for a cameo by my high school pal Ryan RedCorn, who suddenly popped up as menacing handgame dude in ep. 6!
Ethan Hawke is in the foreground in a red western shirt. An Osage man with a yellow ballcap and a purple Haskell sweatshirt is standing behind him, unsmiling Same people, but now the man is smiling, in an unnerving way
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Big shout out to the person in my building repping a 21-year-old British web animation for Halloween. I see you and I hear you.
A big oval pumpkin painted with the green creepy face of Salad Fingers, with haunted pin-prick eyes and filthy chiclet teeth. Near the face in a creepy red lowercase font, it says "i like rusty spoons"
October 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Does no one film on the dead platform at Hoyt-Schermerhorn anymore? It's filthy like no one has stepped there in a while. (The extraneous third platform at Hoyt-Schermerhorn used to be used in movies, dressed up like other subway stations, because it is never in use.)
Looking from a cleanish modern NYC subway station into an unlit filthy train platform with Hoyt-Schermerhorn St on the sign.
October 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM