Brian Boyer
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Make empanadas and elevate your leftovers
If you've got extra (leftover leftovers!), they freeze up great for a quick weeknight meal!
beantips.com
New bean tip! Get yourself some frozen empanada wrappers and stuff 'em with beans. Your future self will thank you. beantips.com/make-empanad...
Big news day for… soup? I’m gonna publish more homemade soup recipes soon, but here’s a favorite: beantips.com/quick-and-ea...
Quick and easy chickpea and kale soup
I don't even like kale that much. But in this soup, it does something special. Simmered in the slightly sweet, smoky and peppery broth, the kale's mustardy flavors come out and just... sing.
beantips.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Big news day for… soup? I’m gonna publish more homemade soup recipes soon, but here’s a favorite: beantips.com/quick-and-ea...
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book machine day book machine day
Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
n.pr
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
book machine day book machine day
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Y'all!
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is "Dawn".
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is "Dawn".
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
Next Monday, 11/24, two celebrated writers and scholars explore the craft and influence of Octavia E. Butler. Join @imaniperry.bsky.social and @tananarivedue.bsky.social for an evening dedicated to the revered SFF author’s luminous imagination. RSVP for free: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica...
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Y'all!
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is "Dawn".
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork,
"Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is "Dawn".
Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST
Online, Free
“Increase daily active users by 5 percent” ooooh this one is gonna get its own slide in my analytics talk
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM
“Increase daily active users by 5 percent” ooooh this one is gonna get its own slide in my analytics talk
Road trip status: music.apple.com/us/album/the...
The Big Country (Live at WCOZ Northern Studio, Maynard, MA, 11/17/77) by Talking Heads on Apple Music
Song · 1978 · Duration 5:04
music.apple.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Road trip status: music.apple.com/us/album/the...
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Fuckin rocking out
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Fuckin rocking out
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"Perhaps the old left v right binaries really are dead. This was a case of game recognising game – of Queens recognising Queens."
Grew up in Queens, and nah. It wasn't.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Grew up in Queens, and nah. It wasn't.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I ❤ NY: Queens recognises Queens as Trump gives Mamdani warm reception
No fists, no fire – the president and the mayor-elect met in Washington, and things went bewilderingly, bizarrely well
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
"Perhaps the old left v right binaries really are dead. This was a case of game recognising game – of Queens recognising Queens."
Grew up in Queens, and nah. It wasn't.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Grew up in Queens, and nah. It wasn't.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Chicagoans: This is going to be a very good and fun book. (And if you’ve not yet taken one of Will Quam’s brick tours, hie thee to his website and book one. You won’t regret it.)
Fire and Clay
A remarkable exploration of Chicago’s architectural history through the humble brick. By the late 1920s, at its peak of brick making and consumption, Chicago was making over a billion bricks a year ...
press.uchicago.edu
November 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Chicagoans: This is going to be a very good and fun book. (And if you’ve not yet taken one of Will Quam’s brick tours, hie thee to his website and book one. You won’t regret it.)
Canadiens in my replies seem excited
Shit. We’ve lost the beer school.
NEW: Today the Siebel Institute—the US' oldest/most prestigious brewing school & a cornerstone of the industry globally—announced its relocation from Chicago to Montreal, citing "[r]ecent regulatory changes in the US [that] have made it much more challenging for many of our international students."
November 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Canadiens in my replies seem excited
Shit. We’ve lost the beer school.
NEW: Today the Siebel Institute—the US' oldest/most prestigious brewing school & a cornerstone of the industry globally—announced its relocation from Chicago to Montreal, citing "[r]ecent regulatory changes in the US [that] have made it much more challenging for many of our international students."
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Shit. We’ve lost the beer school.
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My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
Trans News Initiative
A database and analysis of news coverage affecting trans communities.
transnewsinitiative.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My new big visualization project is out: The Trans News Initiative, a collaboration between UM's School of Communication, the Trans Journalists Association, and Polygraph (The Pudding): transnewsinitiative.org Here's a piece about it in the Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/news/visuali...
Tonight! Get yer butts down to the Chicago Theater for Patti Smith’s second date in town. Last night’s show was unreal.
November 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Tonight! Get yer butts down to the Chicago Theater for Patti Smith’s second date in town. Last night’s show was unreal.
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Horner Park, Chicago
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Horner Park, Chicago
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Real dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...
New Chicago Review of Architecture wants younger voices weighing in on the city’s built environment
An offshoot of the New York Review of Architecture, the magazine will feature “erudite, humorous and hyperlocal writing.”
www.chicagotribune.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Real dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...
First time I’ve seen the Northern Lights in Chicago. (More colorful on camera than with my eyes)
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
First time I’ve seen the Northern Lights in Chicago. (More colorful on camera than with my eyes)
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Make enough to go around. All Belt cookbooks are on sale for the holidays.
10% off if you buy one, 20% off if you buy two, 30% off if you buy three, 40% off if you buy four, and 50% off if you buy five. www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...
10% off if you buy one, 20% off if you buy two, 30% off if you buy three, 40% off if you buy four, and 50% off if you buy five. www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Make enough to go around. All Belt cookbooks are on sale for the holidays.
10% off if you buy one, 20% off if you buy two, 30% off if you buy three, 40% off if you buy four, and 50% off if you buy five. www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...
10% off if you buy one, 20% off if you buy two, 30% off if you buy three, 40% off if you buy four, and 50% off if you buy five. www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/...
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this is pure joy
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
this is pure joy
@elizabethboyer.bsky.social asked me to rank the 90s(-ish) Star Treks last night and to everyone’s surprise Enterprise came in second.
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
@elizabethboyer.bsky.social asked me to rank the 90s(-ish) Star Treks last night and to everyone’s surprise Enterprise came in second.
Great words you don’t usually find on a car website: “in a country where most politicians and taxpayers are unwilling to fund basic, reliable public transit… Enter the Sentra” www.theautopian.com/the-2026-nis...
The 2026 Nissan Sentra Is A Great Value For A Really Decent Car - The Autopian
Perhaps the two biggest challenges in the auto industry today are how to sell electric vehicles profitably and how to offer customers affordable vehicles. With the average transaction price of new veh...
www.theautopian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Great words you don’t usually find on a car website: “in a country where most politicians and taxpayers are unwilling to fund basic, reliable public transit… Enter the Sentra” www.theautopian.com/the-2026-nis...
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...
How Brutalism Became Both a Utopian Dream and a Dystopian Meme
Brutalism, an architectural movement associated with state power and science fiction, is perpetually misunderstood – yet it has left an indelible imprint on popular culture.
www.sothebys.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...
Oooh
Another good one from Georgigregori@instagram
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Oooh
Big moon and a busy night on the ORD flight path
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Big moon and a busy night on the ORD flight path
It must be a huge hassle to sort through, um, millions of packages from abroad, but they're already pretty good at that, and the "disbursement fee" has me wondering if the tariffs are actually making FedEx money in the long run?
Correction! Tariff hassle caught up with me. Paying more to FedEx for processing than I'm paying to the gov't. That makes sense, I'm sure. :/
November 5, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It must be a huge hassle to sort through, um, millions of packages from abroad, but they're already pretty good at that, and the "disbursement fee" has me wondering if the tariffs are actually making FedEx money in the long run?