This is good fun and you should go, Worcester!

Worcester, do you have @gwlandtrust.bsky.social's Donker Farm Fest on your calendar for tomorrow? www.gwlt.org/farmfest.html

JUSTICE FOR THE EM DASH (from @ellecordova.bsky.social) youtube.com/shorts/XKsPa...

Had a wonderful time poking around Boston Aquarium & the MFA this week.

OpenAI right now

Hi all! My amazing wife, Lea Deschenes, will be reading on Zoom for Rick Lupert and the Cobalt Presents series! You're really not going to want to miss this one!

HAY NEWS FLASH! Tomorrow a.m., Tues the 21st, we are getting a delivery of hay at Donker Farm & we need hands to move 50 bales into the sheep shed. Any help is most welcome & necessary. We will use wheelbarrows & make short work of this. Thanks gang! Email: colin @ gwlt. org - for RSVP or details

My interview with Tresha Faye Haefner is online now! We had a great time talking about "Suffer For This" and a whole bunch of other things! It was a great time!

Accurate.

For residents of the City of Worcester: The city is seeking guidance on where to allocate money from the Community Preservation Act, which includes projects related to conservation. Take the survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"Suffer For This" has been up on Amazon for ages, and we've basically pretended it wasn't there. It's better for both authors and publishers to order books from the publisher, if possible. But ... there are some holidays that involve gift-giving coming up, so if you need it quick, happy holidays! 😎

Sunday! Release party for "Suffer For This," at The White Room, presented by Bedlam Books and hosted by Joslyn Fox! Featuring performances @oliverdelapaz.bsky.social, James Keyes, Lea Deschenes, Mckendy Fils-Aimé, Jenith Charpentier, Karen Sharpe, Joe Fusco Jr. and Laura DiCaronimo, and more

8:15 pm UPDATE! We are $350 away from a 2nd bench! We would place that on South Flagg St to benefit the residents of Bet Shalom senior apts. who walk down to the conservation area & back. We could provide a place for them to sit, rest, & look over the conservation area before heading back gwlt.org

Cascading Waters is one of the City's core trailheads, but lacks a place to sit, wait, rest, & enjoy. This #GivingTuesday please consider helping GWLT install a granite slab on granite blocks as a bench for the ages. There is nothing as solid & lasting as rock! www.gwlt.org

The @sandiegozoo.bsky.social Safari Park is my happy place and I was very glad to get a chance to visit while we were out promoting Victor's book and seeing old friends. I'm always as impressed by the plant conservation as the animals.

Nice mention of @gwlandtrust.bsky.social here: patch.com/massachusett...

This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...

In het taalkundenerdenhoekje.

You can never post this too often!

*snort*

“The hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars used to build this new stadium will benefit everyone in our city, as long as they own the stadium and the billion-dollar sports team playing inside.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/thi...

quick guidelines for writers: a period indicates a pause of about ten seconds. a comma, about seven second. an em-dash should be pronounced as loudly as possible. an ellipsis should remove a month from your lifespan. a semicolon should taste like dirt in the reader's mouth. a sentence can end wherev

Daphne Gottleb is a great writer and a fantastic human being as well. Help her recover from her legal battle. Then go read her books. Thanks to @charliejane.bsky.social for clueing me in. gofund.me/9872583f

The Crows Who Watch the Dawn by the Stones Happy solstice everyone!! Go make friends with your nearest crow 🐦‍⬛

"We romanticize the broken genius, the tormented poet. (Forgetting that, for many of these people, the most productive intervals of their life were those most buttressed by help, friendship, and simple money against the causes of their suffering.)"-- @maxgladstone.bsky.social

A few pics from last week's walk at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden & today at Tower Hill Botanical Garden. Hooray for reciprocal membership!

National Trails Day Part II !!! Worcester, MA Event: In Green Hill Park there will be Sat. afternoon trails & parks events & local organizations. At night there will be a public showing of a family friendly movie in the park! This is all being led by the Green Hill Park Coalition!

TrailsFest is tomorrow, Sat. June 1st! Join us at Wachusett Mountain Ski area for hikes, food, music, & more! The TrailsFest is being held at the Wachusett Ski Area on the MidState Trail, & the sky ride to the summit will be open, too! Check out midstatetrail.org/trailsfest/ for more! See you there!

There is no demand for AI. It’s being shoved down our throats, and it’s an ecological nightmare. “US slows plans to retire coal plants as power demand from AI surges” on.ft.com/3yGcvuD

Today is a creatives birthday trifecta: Happy birthday to Siouxsie Sioux, Vincent Price, and Christopher Lee!

When cookbooks were honest #PulpSabotage

My God, this is the best poem I've read in months. "When My Daughter Tells Me I was Never Punk," by Jessica Walsh. (Sorry the alt text doesn't go all the way to the end, but you can find the poem online.)

I needed this today @alt-text.bsky.social

My latest Guardian Books cartoon.

Thanks so much to Senator Edward J. Markey for meeting with Kestrel Land Trust, the New England Forestry Foundation, & the @gwlandtrust.bsky.social as part of the Land Trust Alliance's Advocacy Days to speak to local and national conservation priorities!

Thanks so much to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren for meeting with Kestrel Land Trust , the New England Forestry Foundation , & the @gwlandtrust.bsky.social as part of the Land Trust Alliance 's Advocacy Days to speak to local and national conservation priorities!

Happy #TransDayOfVisibility! I hope it's a joyous one. You're valued and loved and you make the world a better place to be in.

EXCOMMUNICATE EXCOMMUNICATE

“She really gave a bunch of weirdos and misfits and late-night people a safe haven. You'd go in there at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning and there would be a dozen different people from all walks of life hanging out, having early breakfast or late dinner, and just talking,” MacMillan said.

Thanks to the Worcester Magazine for running a great article about the upcoming Wild & Scenic Film Festival on Fri, March 22nd! Check it out! www.worcestermag.com/story/entert...

Bears are waking up!!! MassWildlife reminds the public that March is when hungry bears emerge from their winter dens & seek out food 1. Take down your bird feeders 2. Secure other human-associated food sources on your property 3. Protect your pets For all the details! www.mass.gov/news/take-pr...

I trimmed the description in that sequence because suspension of disbelief broke. You had to believe, and the truth was too much.

Women are allowed to do this.

Out w @gwlandtrust.bsky.social reopening trail at Southwick Pond that was blocked by an enormous pine tree that broke 25' up and fell across the trail. We counted about 85 rings from the tree that would have been about 50' up, so we're calling it roughly 100 y/o. It was a fantastic project w Olivia!

"Sorry kid, I don't have a song for this shit"

Every year, AAAS hosts a "Dance Your PhD" contest. The goal is to "explain your research through interpretive dance." This year's winner, Weliton Menário Costa, explores kangaroo behavior & promotes diversity. It is, by far, the best I've ever seen. youtu.be/RoSYO3fApEc?...

The global average sea level has been rising around 3.3 mm per yr since the early 1990s and that rate is accelerating. Groundwater depletion, sediment & fill compaction, add subsidence to the equation. Add in major Atlantic storms and you have a sinking coastline www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...