I’d quit Meta platforms all over again if I could.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Absolutely spectacular performance (as well as detailed rundown thread). I hope more people from the U.S. learn that “America” isn’t just the U.S.

if you're using Gen AI to create, you're furnising your home with stolen objects and expecting praise for your design choices, expecting to be paid by others for filling their lives with stuff fenced out of an unlabeled box truck.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact

No new pics, where are you at mentally:

late-night reminder to get involved in some way and it even counts if you do something small like buying snacks or hand warmers or making cookies take care of your community, bit by bit. it all adds up.

Recently read through a course catalogue and got so excited about some of the classes. It’s such a good feeling.

Moral support from my office companion.

Don’t discount the West during the 250th anniversary celebrations this year. Learn more about the history of the Presidio of San Francisco in my article for National Geographic.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

If you didn’t make calls yesterday, it’s not too late to do so today. It won’t take long. You have time.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

I missed this the first time around, but I’m glad I read it today. It’s chilling.

just sending a little saturday morning message to family in another state

A book visibility and search presentation strategist emailed me yesterday about marketing a book she thought was mine. Before I could respond, she sent a snotty follow-up because I didn’t reply promptly. She must be very successful.

Dog fam siesta in Todos Santos, BCS

While I don’t generally follow the social trends, the 2016 throwback has made me review a lot: how my family traveled together and how we made connections at home and around the world. I have so many hopes for us all, as well as for our children. Take good care of yourselves and your neighbors.

Thanks to @travmedia.bsky.social for featuring me as Travel Writer of the Week. travmedia.com/UpdatePublic...

Women could not get credit cards in their own name.

Loved this story!

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

I can’t remember if I posted this story before, but our dog Saoirse has saved two peoples lives.

Who’s naming all these military operations? They sound like porn films.

The Dogs of 2025 youtu.be/K_1tNbud-8g?...

When I park my car outside, it becomes a playground for saffron finches.

Let it snow? No! Hawaiʻi beach day!

Hawaiʻi holiday tree

Settling her brain for a long winter’s nap.

Who else has convinced their child that the dog’s sleepy twitching means she’s casting spells? Just me?

"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."

Hawaiʻi country Thanksgiving morning: met the neighbors, trimmed a runaway lilikoi plant, pulled the husband’s mower out of a ditch, got a huge amount of food cooked in the neighborhood imu. Mahalo.

You know you’re truly home when the rainbows greet you right outside your front door.

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Artificial unintelligence or just bad writing?

Hard to overstate the extent to which executives across the arts actually hate the arts (and artists).

“Interesting Times” I see.

Solid take

I’ve always felt that San Francisco is the magic. ❤️

Happy 8th birthday to Mae!

No thank you, AI bot. I’m good.

Kakaruai (New Zealand’s South Island robin) checks me out before a hike.

I forget how wonderful it feels to fly domestically without all the security stuff until I’m in New Zealand, and… yeah. The dream.

Incredible in-depth recipe drama. I’m in!

The first flat white in country is always special. Kia ora, Aotearoa.

www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n... #RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth On NPR!!! please share!

Creative people can run circles around AI.