Sean Redmond
@rdmond.bsky.social
Senior Product Manager at NYPL (formerly Guggenheim, AMNH and Brooklyn Museum) Also https://mastodon.social/@rdmond. Freelance classicist. @hemerologion.bsky.social
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Alt text must provide context for people who cannot see the image. Describe the image's context and purpose. Do not write alt text for cute or clever jokes based on visual content you expect users can see. This is an abuse of alt text, as it violates the whole point of alt text.
November 18, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Alt text must provide context for people who cannot see the image. Describe the image's context and purpose. Do not write alt text for cute or clever jokes based on visual content you expect users can see. This is an abuse of alt text, as it violates the whole point of alt text.
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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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We could solve like half the problems in education with smaller class sizes (like 15 instead of 30 kids crushed in a room). Including that it would be easier to find teachers b/c they wouldn’t get so burnt out.
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 1:29 AM
We could solve like half the problems in education with smaller class sizes (like 15 instead of 30 kids crushed in a room). Including that it would be easier to find teachers b/c they wouldn’t get so burnt out.
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somewhere along the line post-1990 or so we lost the ability to write macgyver & quantum leap-level opening credits bangers and that's where everything started to go wrong
November 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
somewhere along the line post-1990 or so we lost the ability to write macgyver & quantum leap-level opening credits bangers and that's where everything started to go wrong
I wish people better understood how much having a car in a city is about going *out* of the city. Like, my mom lives 250 miles away and the main reason I would have to get a car is to cover the last 5 miles of that trip I can't make by train. Uber has no impact on that calculation
Remember all the hype about how Uber and Lyft would allow people to live car-free?
Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all.
Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter:
glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...
Well, it turns out ridehail has no discernible impact on car ownership at all.
Analysis from Glenn Mercer's excellent newsletter:
glennmercer.substack.com/p/the-impact...
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I wish people better understood how much having a car in a city is about going *out* of the city. Like, my mom lives 250 miles away and the main reason I would have to get a car is to cover the last 5 miles of that trip I can't make by train. Uber has no impact on that calculation
Easy choice, really
Dispatch #2042 from FalconSAT-8 (Q CLEARANCE)
1. Jade Light Monastery
2. Creepy Data Center
1. Jade Light Monastery
2. Creepy Data Center
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Easy choice, really
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Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to.
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to.
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/
[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
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If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
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Kensington mentioned!!!
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Kensington mentioned!!!
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Kensington shout out!!!
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Kensington shout out!!!
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Cheering in the streets in Kensington
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Cheering in the streets in Kensington
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Mamdani has won more votes than there are people in South Dakota.
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Mamdani has won more votes than there are people in South Dakota.
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You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
You African Studies majors out there: you too can become mayor of New York City!!!
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The wealthy didn't even flee NYC in the 1970s
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
The wealthy didn't even flee NYC in the 1970s
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It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
If I were to sum up my advice to the Democratic party leadership about how to defeat Trumpism, it would be to set aside policy for now and focus instead on articulating a vision of what American society should look like and what role the US should play in a rapidly changing world today.
November 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars:
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…
Since the AI in this directs you to cards with preselected quotes, I have a hypothesis that people would get just as much from a I Ching style casting of lots. It would be an equally shallow engagement with Baldwin but at least it wouldn't use electricity
I understand that literature-as-inspiration is lucrative, but a James Baldwin as spirit guru, a Baldwin whose mission is to equally uplift anyone and everyone — a Baldwin who never challenges you — is not really Baldwin at all any more. (And this distortion goes well beyond this one project.)
Can the James Baldwin Typebot Tell Us the Meaning of Life?
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Since the AI in this directs you to cards with preselected quotes, I have a hypothesis that people would get just as much from a I Ching style casting of lots. It would be an equally shallow engagement with Baldwin but at least it wouldn't use electricity
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Taking a quick break & then resuming zombie facts. If you want to hear more about zombie bugs in person and you're in the NYC area, I'll be at NYPL's Stavros Niarchos Library on Nov 5, talking to the supremely talented @paulacroxson.bsky.social! It's free!
Details/RSVP: mindyweisberger.com/events/
Details/RSVP: mindyweisberger.com/events/
October 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Taking a quick break & then resuming zombie facts. If you want to hear more about zombie bugs in person and you're in the NYC area, I'll be at NYPL's Stavros Niarchos Library on Nov 5, talking to the supremely talented @paulacroxson.bsky.social! It's free!
Details/RSVP: mindyweisberger.com/events/
Details/RSVP: mindyweisberger.com/events/
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The Late Bronze Age collapse plunged the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East into a period of chaos and starvation, but 300 hundred years later, the region emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Could the same thing happen here in the United States?
October 28, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The Late Bronze Age collapse plunged the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East into a period of chaos and starvation, but 300 hundred years later, the region emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Could the same thing happen here in the United States?
Loving that my *entire* timeline is people agonizing over this endless #WorldSeries game 3. I only wish the #Dodgers weren't in it
October 28, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Loving that my *entire* timeline is people agonizing over this endless #WorldSeries game 3. I only wish the #Dodgers weren't in it
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every sports team is a Ship of Theseus
October 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
every sports team is a Ship of Theseus
My childhood library system!
Our team's Lisa Varga was thrilled to be in Virginia for a screening of the new film "The Librarians", along with staff and leaders from the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library and library workers from across the state (many from the VA Library Association).
Thank you JMRL for a wonderful event!
Thank you JMRL for a wonderful event!
October 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
My childhood library system!
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🏺 The Khalkeia (Χαλκεῖα), a festival of crafts-people, was celebrated today in honor of Athena and Hephaistos
October 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🏺 The Khalkeia (Χαλκεῖα), a festival of crafts-people, was celebrated today in honor of Athena and Hephaistos