Guess what I did for Mother's Day weekend? Restored an oyster reef! With other bucket brigade volunteers at a #SinkYourShucks event in St. John's Bay, Goose Island State Park. Local eateries recycle the oyster shells to restore habitat for fish, crabs, shrimp. And oysters for us!

I go through phases. I’ve been in a reading slump lately that’s paralleled a writing slump. Anyway, I’ve had the hankering to read some chonky book epic fantasy lately.

I got a coupon for a free rotisserie chicken. Took it to the grocery store and got a free rotisserie chicken, no questions asked. Feels like I robbed a jewelry store. I don't want to hear about "loss leaders," I am sitting on a free chicken here and I'm delighted.

THAT'S RIGHT, MOTHERFUCKERS, I WON A WEBBY AWARD. Here's my 5-word speech. #webbys

New!: The Tree Thieves by Thomas Dambon in Clinton, Iowa, USA. 10 Giant Trolls by Thomas Dambon: streetartutopia.com/2025/06/19/g...

Guess what I did for Mother's Day weekend? Restored an oyster reef! With other bucket brigade volunteers at a #SinkYourShucks event in St. John's Bay, Goose Island State Park. Local eateries recycle the oyster shells to restore habitat for fish, crabs, shrimp. And oysters for us!

Great Blue Heron at Goose Island State Park.

LOUDMOUTH: EMMA GOLDMAN VS. AMERICA (A LOVE STORY) by @dheiligman.bsky.social (Farrar/ @mackidsbooks.bsky.social @mackidssl.bsky.social @fiercereads.bsky.social ) www.hbook.com/story/2026-s... #HBSummerReading #SummerReading #HBFamilyReading #FamilyReading #kidlit #HighSchool #YA #yalit

Got a little teary eyed. Happy 100th Birthday, David Attenborough. From, Planet Earth.

Her: I thought you said you didn't eat cookies or candy bars because of your health kick. Me: It's a Biscotti, damnit!. It's a twice-baked Tuscan delicacy dipped in dark Belgian chocolate with artisanal almonds and a drizzle of hand-pulled caramel. It's art AND medicine combined. Leave me be!

To the authors of children's books, and the illustrators, the librarians, the booksellers, the editors, the marketers, the teachers, the reading specialists, the literacy professors, the tutors and the volunteers: I see you. What you do matters. Children's books matter. All of them.

If you are flipping out, outraged, and feeling super-censorious about 94.7% (and counting?) read this and put on your thinking cap. I don't entirely agree with Mac Barnett, but...thinking is a good thing. readingmiddlegrade.substack.com/p/make-belie...

solastalgia | noun | sadness or melancholy due to environmental loss

I think politicians should start wearing sponsor jackets like F1 drivers, so we can see who owns them.

One of the things I appreciated about Turner that I haven't seen too many people in the media talk about: The guy was naturally funny. He had a good sense of humor. He didn't take himself or too many other things in life seriously...unlike Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and Thiel.

Just finished my Mother’s Day gift for my mom. I followed a video tutorial and made a slight change to the pattern. Not bad for two hours of work. #crochet

Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, has died at the age of 87, the network announced reut.rs/4d9u6Mg

Good morning Bluesky. Have a wonderful Wednesday! Strawberry flowers 🍓 #garden

I accidentally went to the bookstore at lunch—now I have three new books.

Being part of the fiction jury for the Pulitzer Prize means you read A LOT of books. Inevitably, there’s more excellent work than you can count. Since the prize has been announced, I’m recommending five other books that I read and loved during the process. Read ‘em all!

“They’ve Landed” Lenticular cloud over El Capitan. Guadalupe Mountains National Park/TX #RockinTuesday #ECK

In a world of fakey fake fakers, let's celebrate real experience and expertise! Please tell me something you're an expert in, even if it seems small or silly. Eg: I'm ace at looking at leftovers and knowing the exact container they'll fit in due to years of cooking more food than necessary. 😁

me at a zoning hearing

We got bluesky Pulitzer Prize winners in this bitch.

Bobby Pulido *has* to do a show with these guys

Um...so I accidentally stumbled onto the UVA law library's collection of 6,000 drawings by courtroom sketch reporter Ida Libby Dengrove, who worked in NYC mostly in the '70s & '80s, & they're kind of...amazing..?? This one is tagged "Clown Attack" (thread) archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/18...

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

May the Fourth be with YOU, from the Obama Presidential Center. Opening June 19.

Fun fact: we interviewed both the actors who played the young hockey players Shoresy keeps on chirping at his reffing job. One of them runs his lines with his mother. So imagining the mom saying Shoresy's lines is my new favourite things.

The marsh marigolds are resplendent now; large areas of them, in their glory amid the skunk cabbage, sedges and mosses. (Yesterday afternoon, in a local wetland.)

Will y'all stand with us? Will y'all make good trouble with us? They are banking on y'all shruggin' and whatnot.

Good advice to any young person.

Combo meal! I spotted this Greater Roadrunner while on my drive to work yesterday morning. 🪶

Washington DC wildlife: Male rose-breasted grosbeak this evening on Rodman Street. 🪶

Today, for some reason, I turned on the Kentucky Derby and saw history being made by a woman. Congrats to the Golden Tempo team!

My dad, who's been serious about horse racing for as long as I've known him, calls me yesterday and goes, "You gonna watch the Derby?" I say, "Probably not." He goes, "Well anyway, a horse named Golden Tempo is going to come from way behind to win it. Write it down. Golden Tempo." Me: "Ok, sure."

In Texas there are towns (big and small) with local, family-owned taquerias. Retired cops, firefighters, educators congregate there for coffee and breakfast tacos and GOSSIP.

This thread. 🍏

first day of the st johns farmers market and i had three great organizing conversations right off the bat. farmers markets, those queens of third space

Nesting Spoonbills #birds

This thread. 🍏

SOMEDAY it will dry out enough that I can get the last of the yard work done! I shouldn't complain; rain is needed, and we'll probably have drought conditions this summer. #haiku #HaikuSaturday

oh wow this is my first may day as a union member. i joined wga east when i became a full time employee. happy may day!

So here's where @petersagal.bsky.social and I pretend that we're simply joshingly one-upping each other in the service of a good cause when in truth either of us would shiv the other to secure the top bid.

Pizza dough never has to pretend to be cauliflower to get people to eat it. I rest my case.

The face of someone who’s devoted their life to service, science and space exploration needing to listen to some draft-dodging, out-of-shape bozo brag that he easily could’ve been an astronaut.

On Jon Hamm's Good Hang rec to Amy Poehler... watching Shoresy with subtitles on because it's basically in a foreign language.

Baby Falcons at the Great Spirit Bluff Cam!

Absolute truth from Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich. We warned you. You did it anyway. At that one moment, all you had to do was check the right box for a thriving, peaceful and successful life. And now every decent American is under complete, life-threatening assault.