In 2026, I want to read.... a lot. Please suggest a book I should read to better understand the world around me or to simply enjoy this place a little bit more. #booksky #readsky

Just a little tbr pile to get me started in the new year 💙📚

A curious fox that came to my camp at sunset in Algonquin, painted acrylic on 16”x20” canvas in the style of Giovanni Segantini, one of my favourite artists. Day 20 of #ArtAdventCalendar #OpenHouse #natureart #BlueSkyArtShow #canadianart

Day nineteen of #ArtAdventCalendar. Tonight, I’m sharing a collection of raven stones.

Day seventeen of #ArtAdventCalendar Tonight I’m sharing this painted stone of the Seven Whistlers. Years ago, when people heard the Whistlers flying at night, they thought of it as a bad omen. Sailers would refuse to sail the next day, and miners would avoid the mines.

A family portrait I did awhile back. Watercolor, micron, colored pencil. #BirdoftheDay #birds #heronsandegrets #ArtAdventCalendar #birdart #sciart

Day 14: #ArtAdventCalendar Tisha Mark ©2025, Late Autumn Wish, oil on gessobord, 6"x6" tishamark.com/product/late... #art #painting #TraditionalArt #SciArt #bsnm

🐙 Halcyon the Nebula Octopus 🌌 Hand sculpted from clay ✨⭐ #ArtAdventCalendar 🦑🐡

Day 13 of #ArtAdventCalendar "Murmuration 2" Starling hand embroidery thread painting artwork. www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p23/st... #birds #embroidery #WildlifeArt

Little garden collage for #ArtAdventCalendar

#ArtAdventCalendar day 10 - an old sketchbook drawing that I'm planning to redraw sometime soon

Here's a snowy night for your #artadventcalendar

This painting is from the period when my Mum was experimenting with colour. #ArtAdventCalendar

December 8 #ArtAdventCalendar is my best to date watercolour (I think). I honestly really like the look of this. #art #watercolour #saskatchewan #learning

Day 8 of #ArtAdventCalendar Testing a new tune of two tone granulating color I just got! I love the tone so much. Already thinking about purchasing a bigger tube. On a side note: My paintings should really be more diverse. I paint too much snow lol #art #watercolor #artsky

Can't wait for the conversation!!!

A trio for day 4 of #artadventcalendar Atlantic Puffins hanging out #watercolor #seabird

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RIP Claude 😢

Oh, seeing now that Kai Erikson passed away last month. “Everything in its Path” was really formative to me early on in grad school, and when I decided to study Paradise after the Camp Fire. It’s probably become more relevant than even he could have imagined…an important legacy to leave behind.

A busy month of November reads 📚💙 I especially loved Misinterpretation, Martyr!, and When the Cranes Fly South (😭 alert for that last one, though). Careless People and On Muscle were great nonfiction reads

Rewatching The Hobbit with my family and I’m struck by Bilbo’s monologue about how he misses his armchair, his garden, etc. People always quote that on the internet to justify wanting to retreat from the world…

About to watch this John Candy documentary and absolutely lose it 😭😭

Can we just not www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Impacts add up when gov stops working… From 2018: “coal plants released 15 to 20 percent more particulate matter during the 35 days when the government was shut down and EPA enforcement officers were furloughed.”

Our op-ed in the Sacramento Bee last week calling on Gov. Newsom to show more leadership on pfas regulation. This is critically important from states as the fed dismantles our environmental regulatory system. Recent events show more than ever that we need courageous leadership

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

I am relieved that both Arizona Senators, @gallego.senate.gov and @captmarkkelly.bsky.social, have both announced that they will vote NO on the CR, which “promises” a vote on ACA subsidies “at some time in the future”.

Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.

Waiting all day for this 49ers/Rams game, and I already wish it was over

This man is not just willing to let people starve. He *wants* them to suffer

Describe your cat’s personality with one photo

I love GBBO and all its earnestness, but the way they fawn over a Hollywood handshake is so embarrassing to me

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...

I really enjoyed reading and reviewing this book

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

Damn shameful. “Mgmt plans to lay off 6 of our members, most of whom are BIPOC women or trans, including Teen Vogue’s Politics Editor—continuing the trend of layoffs at Condé disproportionately impacting marginalized employees…Teen Vogue now has no writers or editors explicitly covering politics.”

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

I've finally got around to curating a selection of films about the #climate crisis 🎥 There's lot of mediocre climate films out there, but for me these stand out head & shoulders above the rest 🎞️ They make excellent resources for classrooms, lecture halls, or community cinema's 🎬 Thread:🧵Plz RT

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani? great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

11 years ago my friends and I reached the Gulf of Mexico, 77 days after leaving Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota in a canoe. I had barely been in a canoe before we started that trip. We met incredible people along the way, and it was at times the most free I have ever felt. #adventure #canoe

Truly the best show in television right now

Busy reading month in October. Mostly good, especially (and pleasantly) surprised by Lonely Crowds, I who have never known men, and Everything is Tuberculosis 📚💙

Where can lefties improve? I think knowledge about Christian nationalism is a big gap with progressives, lefties, socialists, etc. This is a problem because it means that people aren't always strategizing around the opposition we actually face. Here are my recs for self-ed 🧵

Please Note: As of now, the majority of SF Bay Area restaurants that plan to offer free or reduced-priced meals to families who will lose #SNAP benefits are owned by ethnic minorities. There are TONS of eateries across the SFBA: are white owners pitching in, too?🧐 www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

How is it that writing can feel so impossible for so long, and then you wake up one morning and it’s suddenly so easy? Every time I feel like I’m done for, and like I’ll never write again. What is this magic?!

there's an affirmative, joyful case for migration and immigration and if you're a leader you could make it pretty easily if you don't think in zero-sum terms or if you're not a weirdo bigot