Nelson
@nappell.bsky.social
Public Librarian. Long covid. Husband, Dad, cook, baker, writer, occasional sketcher, often surrounded by pets.
This is a hell of an interview, and if you need a piping hot cup of hope poured from the pot of historical relevance, listen. It’s worth your time, for many reasons.
New fun podcast interview up, partly about history, partly about finding hope in our present: www.wmnf.org/rethinking-t...
Rethinking the Renaissance: Ada Palmer on Myths, Power, and the Future We’re Fighting For
Uncover the reality of the renaissance through conversations with Ada Palmer. What does it reveal about our current struggles?
www.wmnf.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This is a hell of an interview, and if you need a piping hot cup of hope poured from the pot of historical relevance, listen. It’s worth your time, for many reasons.
Same.
I want the last 35 years of Tecmo Super Bowl with the exact same gameplay, just updated rosters.
I would like to know! 🤓👾
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Same.
Also the narrative disorder angle…
also, a #narrativedisorder angle: contrast this grim picture with the decades of media showing us totally unrealistic projections of what it's like to live in the US, from the NYC apartments of FRIENDS to idk the suburbia of TO ALL THE BOYS I LOVED BEFORE to any small-biz romcom...
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Also the narrative disorder angle…
This truly shocked me.
“If you keep Orshansky’s logic… but update the food share to reflect today’s reality, the multiplier is no longer three.
..if you measured income inadequacy today…
It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000.”
“If you keep Orshansky’s logic… but update the food share to reflect today’s reality, the multiplier is no longer three.
..if you measured income inadequacy today…
It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000.”
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This truly shocked me.
“If you keep Orshansky’s logic… but update the food share to reflect today’s reality, the multiplier is no longer three.
..if you measured income inadequacy today…
It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000.”
“If you keep Orshansky’s logic… but update the food share to reflect today’s reality, the multiplier is no longer three.
..if you measured income inadequacy today…
It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000.”
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Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
"The Map of Knowledge" by Violet Moller is a terrific history of the movement of knowledge in the years 500AD to 1500AD. Readable, fascinating, and yet another corrective to a simplistic notion of The Dark Ages. Scholars traveling MiddleEarth in search of books reminds me of someone... #booksky
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 AM
"The Map of Knowledge" by Violet Moller is a terrific history of the movement of knowledge in the years 500AD to 1500AD. Readable, fascinating, and yet another corrective to a simplistic notion of The Dark Ages. Scholars traveling MiddleEarth in search of books reminds me of someone... #booksky
Dad advised me to be a lawyer, a doctor, or an accountant. So I majored in economics, wandered the world for a half-decade, became a librarian, then waited another decade to start my first librarian job.
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Dad advised me to be a lawyer, a doctor, or an accountant. So I majored in economics, wandered the world for a half-decade, became a librarian, then waited another decade to start my first librarian job.
The guy in the coffee shop listening to Facebook videos at full volume has turned into high comedy for me. Just disrupting everyone. People staring. F-bombs dropping with children around. He occasionally looks up. Is he even thinking? Has he noticed the empty chairs forming a curve around him.
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The guy in the coffee shop listening to Facebook videos at full volume has turned into high comedy for me. Just disrupting everyone. People staring. F-bombs dropping with children around. He occasionally looks up. Is he even thinking? Has he noticed the empty chairs forming a curve around him.
Made rusks today. Last year we ran out of them quickly, so I doubled the recipe. I knew something was off when I made a vat of buttermilk-butter - soup. Wife then reminded me that last year we halved the recipe. Friends, we are lousy with South African health rusks. Great with a morning coffee!
November 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Made rusks today. Last year we ran out of them quickly, so I doubled the recipe. I knew something was off when I made a vat of buttermilk-butter - soup. Wife then reminded me that last year we halved the recipe. Friends, we are lousy with South African health rusks. Great with a morning coffee!
In my whiniest voice: But I don’t want to feel like an entrepreneur.
Negotiating your own health insurance sounds like being stuck in hell which isn't that far off from what we have now
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
In my whiniest voice: But I don’t want to feel like an entrepreneur.
Target employees are now all Milford-men.
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Target employees are now all Milford-men.
Based on the volume of books I see as a librarian, it is my personal opinion that, America, we’ve gotten very weird about the Kennedys.
November 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Based on the volume of books I see as a librarian, it is my personal opinion that, America, we’ve gotten very weird about the Kennedys.
Attacked by the local wolf pack, one wearing angel wings.
November 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Attacked by the local wolf pack, one wearing angel wings.
My dreams last night featured my forgetfulness. This means the team working the command center upstairs is aware of the absent-mindedness. Guys: get to work. I know, that you know, there’s a problem. You can fix this.
October 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
My dreams last night featured my forgetfulness. This means the team working the command center upstairs is aware of the absent-mindedness. Guys: get to work. I know, that you know, there’s a problem. You can fix this.
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It’s POTS awareness day—a blood flow problem common after Covid.
POTS can be subtle—I often wonder how many people who feel rundown, anxious or distracted have this treatable condition.
Main criteria is heart rate going up >30bpm when going from laying down to standing—smthg you can check at home!
POTS can be subtle—I often wonder how many people who feel rundown, anxious or distracted have this treatable condition.
Main criteria is heart rate going up >30bpm when going from laying down to standing—smthg you can check at home!
October 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
It’s POTS awareness day—a blood flow problem common after Covid.
POTS can be subtle—I often wonder how many people who feel rundown, anxious or distracted have this treatable condition.
Main criteria is heart rate going up >30bpm when going from laying down to standing—smthg you can check at home!
POTS can be subtle—I often wonder how many people who feel rundown, anxious or distracted have this treatable condition.
Main criteria is heart rate going up >30bpm when going from laying down to standing—smthg you can check at home!
Carnegie libraries are getting $10,000 gifts from the Carnegie Foundation to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. If your net worth is soaring, you could do worse than support the nation's public libraries. You, too, could be praised 100 years from now.
October 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Carnegie libraries are getting $10,000 gifts from the Carnegie Foundation to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. If your net worth is soaring, you could do worse than support the nation's public libraries. You, too, could be praised 100 years from now.
It’s sixty degrees with a cool breeze, and I can sit on a porch with a warm coffee, as God intended.
October 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
It’s sixty degrees with a cool breeze, and I can sit on a porch with a warm coffee, as God intended.
“ Workplaces need to accommodate people with long COVID by reducing hours, redesigning job demands and offering flexible leave. People also need support to rebuild social connections.”
I would change this to “workplaces and schools.”
I would change this to “workplaces and schools.”
Long Covid is having an enormous impact on society.
This article suggests that 1 in 7 people now have #LongCovid
theconversation.com/long-covid-i...
This article suggests that 1 in 7 people now have #LongCovid
theconversation.com/long-covid-i...
Long COVID is more than fatigue. Our new study suggests its impact is similar to a stroke or Parkinson’s
Long COVID isn’t just a bunch of lingering symptoms. A new study shows it can stop peoole doing what they want to do, and need to do.
theconversation.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
“ Workplaces need to accommodate people with long COVID by reducing hours, redesigning job demands and offering flexible leave. People also need support to rebuild social connections.”
I would change this to “workplaces and schools.”
I would change this to “workplaces and schools.”
“And for families already affected by long Covid, absence after absence is prompting threats of investigations for truancy that have led to children being removed from school altogether, either by choice or upon the advice of the district.”
This is very real.
This is very real.
Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
October 17, 2025 at 3:13 AM
“And for families already affected by long Covid, absence after absence is prompting threats of investigations for truancy that have led to children being removed from school altogether, either by choice or upon the advice of the district.”
This is very real.
This is very real.
This book is brilliant, and now it’s a paperback. Just Read it. Thats my pitch.
“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes.
“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”
RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25
Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror
“Adam in the garden…”
“Today?” replied the boy. “Why, it’s Paperback Book Release Day sir!”
RING SHOUT paperback w/foreword by author| Tor Nightfire | 10•14•25
Out Today! #Bookrelease #horror
“Adam in the garden…”
October 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This book is brilliant, and now it’s a paperback. Just Read it. Thats my pitch.
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I need a sign to tap that says "Civilization isn't going downhill, you're just old", most of all to make sure *I* don't forget
October 8, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I need a sign to tap that says "Civilization isn't going downhill, you're just old", most of all to make sure *I* don't forget
I think about this way too much. It confuses my brain.
Did you know the *18th* century was the *17* hundreds? Stupid and confusing, IMHO.
October 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
I think about this way too much. It confuses my brain.
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Did you know the *18th* century was the *17* hundreds? Stupid and confusing, IMHO.
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Did you know the *18th* century was the *17* hundreds? Stupid and confusing, IMHO.