Photoblog of my trip to another state park today, including some audio recordings of the reverb on the “Devil's Bathtub,” and of an interesting bird call
https://reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2025/03/mendon-ponds-park/
I've been taking more pictures lately — I didn't used to do it much, but I'm enjoying my new camera phone — and I've started photoblogging on my /notes page
Here's a cute trip I took with my partner:
https://reillyspitzfaden.com/notes/2025/03/watkins-seneca-daytrip/
Protest In Ithaca, NY
Indivisible Tompkins
Hey so I don't know how many people might be seeking a relatively low-paid job* at a very inclusive library in a mildly welcoming town, but my local library is expanding its physical premises and is now also hiring a new library clerk. This position is full time, doesn't require advanced degrees, and comes with good benefits and, if it's like my civil service job, also comes with a guaranteed pay raise of 2-3% every year.
*a bit less than 35K per year
Anyway my upstate NY people please spread this around!
#Hiring #GetFediHired #FediJobs #Classifieds #NYS #UpstateNY
Damn. A struggling small town newspaper. In print for 150+ years. But tariffs on Canadian products meant their paper costs 25% more now. That was the final nail in the coffin. The Cortland Standard, one of the 5 oldest family-owned newspapers in the USA, is shuttering.
#news #breaking #NYS #upstateNY
https://www.cortlandstandard.com/stories/goodbye-cortland-and-godspeed,133575
Omg so someone wrote a musical about bigots trying to cancel Drag Queen Story Hour, and it's debuting in Glens Falls NY! On June 6. On account of the story is about the Rockwell Falls Public Library in Lake Luzerne, NY, and will star Scarlett Sagamore, the original cancelled drag queen. I think this is a great way to deal with the confusion and trauma of such a series of events.
Indeed, they're still casting so spread the word, thespians!
#NY #upstateNY #Drag #DragQueens #theater #CommunityTheater #LGBTQIA #QueerCulture #DragQueenStoryHour #MusicalTheater #satire
#AlbanyNY served up about 47 #historicalmarkers in 1886 to celebrate the city charter's bicentennial. Shocking/not shocking that only one never made it to its intended destination – the one honoring Black citizens.
The full story is here:
https://hoxsie.org/2020/10/01/what-happened-to-the-burdett-coutts-marker/
The first college radio broadcast, in 1920, was under the personal call letters of Wendell W. King, a Black Union College student, the chief engineer and an avid amateur radio hobbyist from the age of 12.
WRUC did an excellent job telling his story, including the race-based discrimination he faced at #Schenectady General Electric. You can read it here:
https://www.union.edu/news/stories/201708/making-waves-race-radio-and-legacy-wendell-king-24
I love my little town.
I saw this at the supermarket I frequent and smiled so big.
Go home ICE.
No one wants you here.
The people have spoken!
