NancyKay Shapiro 📖🎸🐶🎶🗽
@nancykay-alt-acct.bsky.social
Call me NancyKay or NK. New Yorker, lady of a certain age, enthusiast, ever curious, queer, flaneuse.
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Books, pop music(s), fine art, humor, history, cities, TV, dogs, Star Trek, #Spirk, etc
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Fix your heart, or die.
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Books, pop music(s), fine art, humor, history, cities, TV, dogs, Star Trek, #Spirk, etc
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Fix your heart, or die.
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Me around age 9 or so, having breakfast with my Dad. Circa 1970
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yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
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Loved having this Barred Owl spend a few days in Central Park. We hoped it might stay longer, but it chose to move on. Farewell, friend! 🦉🦉🦉#Owls #centralpark #birding
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Loved having this Barred Owl spend a few days in Central Park. We hoped it might stay longer, but it chose to move on. Farewell, friend! 🦉🦉🦉#Owls #centralpark #birding
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I cannot tell a lie--this was fun to write. (Please note that it was conceived, written, edited, and closed well before recent events involving the mizzdeedzz of zzertain journalizzts.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...
How to Get Revenge
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I cannot tell a lie--this was fun to write. (Please note that it was conceived, written, edited, and closed well before recent events involving the mizzdeedzz of zzertain journalizzts.) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t...
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Science Fiction is so often presented with a sleek, minimal aesthetic… Monochromatic greys, whites, and metal shades predominate. One of the things that makes Star Trek stand out is its extravagant use of color.
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Science Fiction is so often presented with a sleek, minimal aesthetic… Monochromatic greys, whites, and metal shades predominate. One of the things that makes Star Trek stand out is its extravagant use of color.
@lorvee.bsky.social look what came from the framers. #spirk #startrek.
Hard to photograph without glare from glass.
Hard to photograph without glare from glass.
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
@lorvee.bsky.social look what came from the framers. #spirk #startrek.
Hard to photograph without glare from glass.
Hard to photograph without glare from glass.
Not everything is terrible
I still quote Beaton's GREAT GATSBYS every chance I get.
If you haven't seen it, you're in for a treat.
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If you haven't seen it, you're in for a treat.
www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Not everything is terrible
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I need this guy outta this country
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
Read more in our new cover story: theatln.tc/q9hXxlbM
November 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I need this guy outta this country
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Piet Mondrian inspired beach fashions from Burda Moden, Summer 1966
November 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Piet Mondrian inspired beach fashions from Burda Moden, Summer 1966
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I could have gone on watching The Sandbaggers indefinitely, but alas there are but 3 short seasons. Guess I’ll have to watch Marsden as Det Dalgliesh instead.
November 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I could have gone on watching The Sandbaggers indefinitely, but alas there are but 3 short seasons. Guess I’ll have to watch Marsden as Det Dalgliesh instead.
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Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
November 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
I wanted to be a midlist fiction author. After college, I landed a series of awful admin asst jobs in NYC based on my typing speed. After a few miserable yrs I thought I’d try advertising creative. Consulted a head hunter who steered me into pharma adv …. 1/
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I wanted to be a midlist fiction author. After college, I landed a series of awful admin asst jobs in NYC based on my typing speed. After a few miserable yrs I thought I’d try advertising creative. Consulted a head hunter who steered me into pharma adv …. 1/
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🥺 MELIA needed some quiet time from the noisy shelter. A volunteer took her to their car. Please adopt her. She needs a peaceful adult only home. No dogs. Cats are ok. 3.5 years old. Around 50 lbs. Where's her hero
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
[email protected]
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
[email protected]
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
🥺 MELIA needed some quiet time from the noisy shelter. A volunteer took her to their car. Please adopt her. She needs a peaceful adult only home. No dogs. Cats are ok. 3.5 years old. Around 50 lbs. Where's her hero
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
[email protected]
(516) 785-5220
3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
[email protected]
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POSSIBLE NEW IDIOMS:
Baby’s gone absolute brush bristles
Soup’s too thick
Rhinestone choker & gun in the garter
Kkssh! Check your upstairs window.
& THAT’S a Uruguayan mouthful
Picnicking the analysis
Shaking a pie tin while saying you’re Stevie Nicks
Loper, loper, time to get a corset
Baby’s gone absolute brush bristles
Soup’s too thick
Rhinestone choker & gun in the garter
Kkssh! Check your upstairs window.
& THAT’S a Uruguayan mouthful
Picnicking the analysis
Shaking a pie tin while saying you’re Stevie Nicks
Loper, loper, time to get a corset
November 22, 2025 at 7:12 PM
POSSIBLE NEW IDIOMS:
Baby’s gone absolute brush bristles
Soup’s too thick
Rhinestone choker & gun in the garter
Kkssh! Check your upstairs window.
& THAT’S a Uruguayan mouthful
Picnicking the analysis
Shaking a pie tin while saying you’re Stevie Nicks
Loper, loper, time to get a corset
Baby’s gone absolute brush bristles
Soup’s too thick
Rhinestone choker & gun in the garter
Kkssh! Check your upstairs window.
& THAT’S a Uruguayan mouthful
Picnicking the analysis
Shaking a pie tin while saying you’re Stevie Nicks
Loper, loper, time to get a corset
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November 22, 1965
November 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
November 22, 1965
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Dooley Wilson and Humphrey Bogart rehearse on the set of "Casablanca" 1942
November 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Dooley Wilson and Humphrey Bogart rehearse on the set of "Casablanca" 1942
Yesterday on the upper west side, I saw Xmas trees for sale. USUALLY they go on sale the Friday AFTER T’giving. It is still more than a whole-ass month before Xmas eve, people, get a grip.
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Yesterday on the upper west side, I saw Xmas trees for sale. USUALLY they go on sale the Friday AFTER T’giving. It is still more than a whole-ass month before Xmas eve, people, get a grip.
Autumn colors are great even when it’s cloudy. This is the courtyard behind my building
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Autumn colors are great even when it’s cloudy. This is the courtyard behind my building
I love it that ZM has no problem saying he doesn’t know the meaning of a phrase while on national television.
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I love it that ZM has no problem saying he doesn’t know the meaning of a phrase while on national television.
I love the colors these 2 small trees that were put in last spring. This is behind my apartment house.
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I love the colors these 2 small trees that were put in last spring. This is behind my apartment house.
Repost with an iconic fictional band
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Repost with an iconic fictional band