Truly, the best editor is the kind of editor who calls you up and says "I have an assignment for you and that assignment is explain how spiders balloon using electricity."

Absolutely loved being one of the editors on this bonkers story from @miss-elenius.bsky.social on a wildly addictive, perfectly legal drug whose side effects include (in one user) impulsively purchasing $4,000 worth of golfing equipment. missionlocal.org/2025/08/sf-s...

Who has two thumbs and was incredibly excited to learn that Spike Lee just released a remake of Akira Kurosawa's sweaty anti-income inequality art noir masterpiece High and Low? This guy: www.portlandmercury.com/movies-and-t...

Good luck, little butterflies! No presh. Some hopeful news amid the turmoil, from @strangerworks.bsky.social for @baynature.org 🌎https://baynature.org/2025/05/01/survival-of-the-flittest-relocated-butterflies-are-spotted-in-san-francisco/

Love a good second-day story that points out that the current DA is quoted as admitting to a freaking misdemeanor in the first-day story, and yet somehow that is not noted or contextualized (IT IS CONTEXTUALIZED HERE. COME HERE FOR THE CONTEXT).

This promises to be a civic gossip/civic policy spectacular.

Hey! A lot of our reporters and editors are on Bluesky — give them a follow! We're posting here every day, and we're already seeing ~much~ better engagement than at the other place. Thanks to everyone on here making that happen. go.bsky.app/ESTn14E

"It was never clear to me — other than being a bunch of assholes — what it is you guys want?" is but one highlight of this exit interview that @esksf.bsky.social and I did with Aaron Peskin for @missionlocal.org. missionlocal.org/2025/01/sf-a...

If you're mad at the health insurance industry — and you should be! — then please remember that every U.S. state has a department of insurance that regulates these insurers. The DoI can come down on them like a ton of bricks for fraudulent behavior. You can file complaints, talk to state reps, etc.

Loved so much about Queer, but when I saw the word "Joan" in the credits at the press screening my first thought was, "You have got to be fucking kidding me." www.portlandmercury.com/movies-and-t...

Love this history — I've never heard of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers' Movement before now.

When the same outfit trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth decided to bring back an extinct insect, they went about things very differently. Many thanks to Bay Nature, Kate Golden, and above all things Durrell Kapan for this road trip with a cooler full of butterflies. baynature.org/2024/04/15/t...

So grateful for these months of deep obsession with riparian ecology, the history of California’s state park system, and the most badass basket weavers I have ever had the pleasure of speaking with. baynature.org/article/afte...

Y'all I am SO excited for this. 🧪 Are you in NYC on April 10? Do you wanna hear about how we talk about animals we HATE?! This talk is for you it's me and @bug-gwen.bsky.social! THE DREAM TEAM. journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/eve...

So... if you ever wrote anything for Vice, today might be a good day to start saving those PDFs

First time I’ve called someone to do a fact-check and they’ve put me on speakerphone so that they can sort abalone shells at the same time.

Today's archival read: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr's survey of the state of California, with an eye towards what should be turned into state park land. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc...

One of the things that I learned from working on a podcast about climate solutions is telling people the solution is to vote is limiting because it suggests that they aren't the adults in the room. One of the coolest bits was when a dude told us we'd inspired him to *run* for utility board

This absolute treasure of a nightlife story in the @portlandmercury makes me long for the days of living in a city with a decent alt-weekly. www.portlandmercury.com/culture/2023...

i like a true crab/i like a false crab/i like a cute crab/i like a pointy crab/a long crab/a crab in ammonite/get your nails did/carcinze tonight

Bart police leave the train car, whereupon competing interests instantly crank up their respective smooth jams.

After a 100+ years of California wiping out of wild ecosystems, look who's crawling back to native plants begging them for little flood control, a little hillside stabilization, a little groundwater recharge? But there's a catch. Where you going to get those wild seeds from?

Late to this essay, but this rings so true: "A quarter of all animal species known to science are beetles. Look into the mirror. Are you so sure you're not a beetle yourself?"

Woke up this morning with the dim memory of saying, with great excitement, "It's called no-till farming but you can STILL PLOW" to some unfortunate soul at a party.

Amazing opportunity! Tell all your bb science journalist friends! Would that this opportunity had been around when I was a sproutling, trying to write way above my skill level for publications that didn't always fact-check, filled with raw terror of making grievous mistakes!

Biking all over SF and Oakland during this heat wave, and in the Castro only are the times recognized and met with denim cutoffs, sliced and frayed to bisect each butt cheek at a perfect 45 degree angle.

This woman on Bart with a teddy bear tattooed above each kneecap, in a baby pink sweatshirt printed over and over with the phrase "Assholes live forever." The rewards of public transit are myriad and glorious.

New All-Seeing Eyes of Dr. TJ Eckleburg just dropped.