Doing my homework for tomorrow’s test. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture...

When my former employer made plans to acquire a book on the “autism epidemic” I started charting my escape route. I started to realize that their managerial style wasn’t the trademark of a tough or demanding boss but something rooted in rage and contempt and paranoia and a whole lot worse.

I’d be ashamed to talk to friends and family confidently about a subject I know less than nothing about, never mind an entire nation. What a goddamn travesty of a human being.

When I need to laugh so hard it hurts, this is what gets me every time:

Here it is, your moment of birdass.

“Wordsworth” is an absolute banger name for a poet.

Hummingbirds that weigh 3 grams are about to fly over the Gulf of Mexico.

I will never be able to read the name “Edgar Allan Poe” without hearing “Excursions” by A Tribe Called Quest.

Just got an email from a scam academic journal asking if I wanted to "explore new advances in White Psychodrama" and it's just got me like: buddy, I can watch the news myself.

Feeling like your feed could probably use a double cat ball today.

The mosquito bites right around the ankles? Don’t like those, thanks.

Let’s all sigh and squeal over Bisou’s baby photo.

That decade-old terrible draft with one good line when you sit down to write a new poem:

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

Nice little feeding frenzy this morning with a Tennessee warbler, black-throated green warbler, and blue-headed vireo.

If you happen to be in the Monadnock Region, I’ll be at Keene Pride all day today, staffing Apple Hill’s booth on Main St just south of Central Square - come say hi, grab a free button and pick up an Apple Hill CD or t-shirt!

Sweet sassy molassy this is the cutest titmouse I ever did see 🥹🪶

My poem “Dry” published by Moist @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social

That decade-old terrible draft with one good line when you sit down to write a new poem:

Praying this holds

Scarlet Joe Handsome entering his autumn arc 🪶

the essence of conservatism is to object to knowledge because it leads to policy

Honestly crazy that companies haven’t yet realized that you can’t really preempt public opinion shifts and should just do what actually makes sense according to your values

This might be my favorite of hers since her self-titled, tbh. Quiet stunner.

Canned Ham Caught Ham Handed

Grouse Hollow? More like: grouse, holla! Video by @jerrishank.bsky.social

“That right there is a tree.” We had a good time!

Friendos, I’ll be reading some poems and maybe singing a couple songs at the second anniversary of the Vermont Forest Cemetery next month. Definitely RSVP—parking is limited on the mountain!

A memory I keep having is a high school assembly featuring some alumnus, a marketing bigwig who predicted to us that a style of sunglasses was going to be all the rage in 6 to 9 months not organically but because people like him had decided it and half of us looked horrified and half looked hungry.

this exists it is called thinking

Kitaro Anita Baker Mike + the Mechanics

night night

Wild vibes at this local PTA kids fun fair in the town south of us that voted red in 2024. Lots of middle-aged men with dead eyes and foot-long beards and prominently displayed crucifixes around their necks. Saw my first Alex Jones shirt, which is hella creepy.

I love how in so many 80s video games the refreshing pick-me-up your avatar needs to keep going is a 14-lb bone-in roast.

The new Joan Shelley album is characteristically lovely.

These are your words of the week crucible empathy hate speech genocide preempt antifa lulu www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

TODAY is the deadline to submit public comment on Trump’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would expose 45 million acres of national forest to permanent roads and their attendant environmental ills. Register your disapproval here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... #roadecology

“abundant, florid, and enervating detail” is my fave moment so far

so … you gonna finish them fries 🪶

If you’d like to be able to tell your musclewood from your hophornbeam (these are not euphemisms), I’ll be leading a free tree ID walk tomorrow at 10 in the Upper Valley. Just DM for deets! 🌳🪾🌴🌲

Inside you there are two wolves

Been seeing videos of Palestinian children being murdered for 2 years. Children dying in school shootings didn't raise concerns. George Floyd's on camera murder didn't raise concerns, and in fact some of you got "protest fatigue." Respectfully foh

Phew!

Huge, if true

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Timeline … er … cleanse? www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/far...

My wife’s new nickname for her is Spotty Pippen

My last name means something like “harvester” or “reaper” in Old French. When it came time to harvest the crops, it was very important for them to fin de siècle.