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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: tThe final mayoral debate of the NYC election season is happening tonight at 7, moderated by a dream team: @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social, @errollouis.bsky.social, and @katiehonan.bsky.social. Listen on @wnyc.org! www.wnyc.org/story/listen...

Join WNYC’s Brian Lehrer and colleagues from The City and NY1 Wed. night at 7 p.m. for the final debate between the three major candidates remaining in the New York City mayor’s race.

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 3d

Gorgeous www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

Meet Jackie, a 1-in-30-Million Calico Lobster Caught Off the Coast of Massachusetts

Now living at Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center, the striking crustacean has a bright orange shell with black freckles and blue joints

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 6d

@wnyc.org’s David Furst meeting my giant thermos for the first time

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 6d

inspired choice, excellent, no notes www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tawny frogmouth named 2025 Australian bird of the year winner

Perennial runner up finally claims the crown in the biennial Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll, ahead of Baudin’s black cockatoo and gang-gang cockatoo

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 11d

How to be a pro-library voter this election season bookriot.com/library-elec... via @bookriot.bsky.social

Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 11d

“As President Trump’s immigration crackdown has begun to target more underage migrants, New York schools have become a quiet locus of resistance, with teachers, classmates and neighbors banding together in their defense.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/n...

These Students Are Scared. Friends and Teachers Are Their Protectors.

The outdoor chain’s flagship, its only store in the city, will shut down late next year.

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 15d

AAAAAHHHHH www.curbed.com/article/rei-...

The Soho REI Is Closing

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 18d

News you can use: NYC ballot questions, explained www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/06/b... via @thecity.nyc

Your Guide to NYC’s Ballot Questions for 2025

Voters will weigh in on housing reforms, a change to election years and an Olympic Sports Complex in upstate New York.

www.thecity.nyc

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 22d

oh I am sad -- I spent many happy hours reading Thomas Perry www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b...

Thomas Perry Dies at 78; Writer of Popular, Unconventional Thrillers

Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 27d

"A single mom agrees to be the partner of a bird enthusiast for a birding competition but misunderstands the assignment and tells everyone she's his new girlfriend instead of just his teammate." www.hallmarkchannel.com/adventures-i...

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Hudson Yards Developer May Get Another $2 Billion Boost From New York

Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 27d

"New York City is poised to pay $2 billion to build a platform over a Manhattan rail yard at the behest of one of the country’s biggest developers, who would then erect mostly luxury housing along the Hudson River." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

Are These Fish Sending a Message With Their Mysterious Spots?

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 29d

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · 29d

I, for one, welcome our new redfish overlords www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...

Redfish with perfect numbers, letters and symbols on their tails are all the rage on the water.

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Sep 17

My long national nightmare is over www.vulture.com/article/heav...

Heavyweight’s Return From the Dead

Jonathan Goldstein’s podcast has survived multiple podcasting eras. Will it outlast this one?

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All Of It, with Alison Stewart @allofitwnyc.bsky.social · Aug 25

You have one week left to complete the All Of It Summer Reading Challenge! You can do it! And when done, remember to tell us what you've read by filling out the form here www.wnyc.org/story/all-it...

All Of It Summer Reading Challenge | All Of It | WNYC

This summer, from July 1st to the end of Labor Day weekend, we are challenging YOU, our listeners, to complete a summer reading challenge. Just like in school, but for fun!

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Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost).

Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 22

Libraries: one of humanity's greatest achievements www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...

At airport libraries, books fly off the shelves

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 21

I love this! Also: FLYBRARY www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...

Little Free Libraries, book exchanges and honor-system stores are bringing literary joy to terminals across the country.

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 21

“I can see how this looks strange” is really quite understated in this circumstance www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips

THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

www.thecity.nyc

Why Is Everything Spicy Now?

Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 18

"The first person to eat a hot pepper probably did it somewhere in the lowlands of southern Mexico more than 10,000 years ago, and I would guess they probably thought it would kill them. But they went back for more, or at least they told their friends." www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

More Americans are setting their mouth on fire—for extreme sport, and for everyday thrills.

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 15

Have construction costs been revised downward!?

Kate Hinds @katehinds.bsky.social · Aug 15

Say what now

Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · Aug 15

The agency has heard the critiques of how many people worked on the tunnel boring machine for the first phase of the subway and reduced the staffing by 40 percent