I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

I know one of the scientists whose work is featured in this book, and as a non-scientist myself I'm very excited to peek through this gateway into his world. Pre-ordering on the strength of the reviews/blurbs, which promise beautiful, lyrical writing and a sense of awe.

TIL Draco was an actual dude. I always thought "draconian" meant "like a dragon is doing it, you know, those gold-and-power-hungry, violent, unreasonable animals that can kill you very easily"

We’re assembling a team

I happened into a big public Eid event last week. I found a clump of teen boys and politely asked a question about their holiday. I explained that I was Jewish, and often had to clarify my own religion/culture to well-meaning friends. They took the opportunity to ask me a bunch of questions, too.

My latest comic is about the rise of ChatGPT Dads and why it’s bad news for moms.

So you want to live in a major city, but you have too much money. NYTimes to the rescue!

Heartbroken for the women who felt they had to keep silent for years, to prevent precisely this kind of bad-faith opportunism. So many members of marginalized communities are forced to make decisions like that, and it's so unjust, and I'm so angry, and sometimes things get better but never enough.

Well this is horrible. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...

I don't know if it's the ADHD or having kids or if everyone's life is like this, but I can either keep up with all the routine laundry and food prep and pharmacy pickups and so on, *or* I can handle bonus stuff like doing the taxes and fixing the water leak and making plans with a friend. Not both.

Article was paywalled, but I think this is the app. (Found via reddit, where folks were saying it's Android only, at least for now.) play.google.com/store/apps/d...

I live in a timeline where a satirical online publication is dropping poetry that should be given a Nobel in Literature. This is genuinely one of the most incredible things I have ever read.

Not only can a colonoscopy catch cancer early and save your life, it can also *prevent* cancer if they find and remove any polys. If you're old enough to qualify, you owe it to yourself and to your loved ones to get it done.

The hateful rhetoric is what caused the killing of Melissa and Mark Hortman. That's what he's talking about, right? Right?

Today's PSA: If your email to your reps includes the phrase "Defund ICE", don't forget to edit after autocorrect turns it into "Refund ICE". A refund would be even better, but baby steps.

This is wrong. I was required by law to drive with my babies in backseat rear-facing car seats for their first 2 yrs, even though I'd never been in an accident and it made them cry and we couldn't interact when stuck in traffic. My carseats didn't even help protect other babies the way vaccines do.

Terrific "What You Need to Know about Tear Gas" thread. Reposting the (current) endpoint because it breaks midway through when clicking from the top.

THE HUMAN BRAIN: so we’re going to need between seven and nine hours of sleep every night in order to function HUMANS: okay THE HUMAN BRAIN: and I’m gonna do everything in my power to make sure we never, ever get it.

I noticed this when Roe fell. In general most of us experience federal policies only gently, but suddenly realizing that my children could not safely attend colleges like Emory, or accept jobs in places like Austin, really jolted me. And now the Minneapolis thing is on a whole 'nother level.

“Say her name” is not about allyship. It’s a term crafted for people who are the focus of violence that deliberately erases us. It’s not for her, and it wouldn’t be for her, even if she were Heather Heyer, who didn’t get it when she died for civil rights. Can you understand that?

The whole thread is great, but this graph really struck me. I would never have guessed that US oil consumption is barely higher than the peak in the late 70s. Not per capita, even, but total consumption. And that net imports have dropped so low!

It makes me sad that, because of WWII + assimilation, I can't speak the language of my ancestors. Please, by all means, help keep what remains alive.

Yeah, but he always tells us he aced it. Whereas Carney probably hasn't even *taken* a dementia test. America wins again, baby.

Ok, everyone, what book is sacred enough to you to get sworn in on? I saved up my allowance to buy this fancy illustrated anniversary edition of tLotR in 1992, even though I already had a paperback set that was much more comfortable to read.

“Go paperless to reduce clutter” now there’s just clutter in my fucking inbox

Happy holidays!

Also, a reminder that a KN95 mask is great for keeping your face warm in the winter, and helping prevent cold weather-related rhinitis (this message brought to you by me standing outside in the freezing wind without a mask a few weeks ago and the resulting runny nose that lasted 24 hours 🫠)

Yesterday my 11 yr old asked me where the "undo" button was on his keyboard, and argued with me when I said there wasn't a dedicated keyboard button to undo "closed browser window by mistake".

Pretty sure I pushed "Celtic" into one of my top genre spots because of that one night I stayed up for hours trying to track down a specific recording of a folk song I heard approx 30 years ago and suddenly needed to find for no reason. "But you can't have ADHD, you're so good at staying focused!"

Low-trust societies are so expensive, I swear. To bare my chest, my spouse and I just navigated two years of fighting for IDEA accommodations for our older kiddo whose dyslexia and decoding skills deficits were so pronounced that, in 3rd grade, their reading test scores were <1st percentile.

My son has offically diagnosed dyslexia. Could not read enough to even score his standardized tests in K/1st/2nd. Got IEP, repeated a grade, paid $$$ for summer school & private tutor. Finally he's reading just a bit below his new grade level. School wants to revoke IEP because he's doing too well.

Obviously there are stupider things about what Mullin said, but: He's suggesting you need a $ reward for being healthy. Most people would say things like longevity, living pain-free, etc *are* rewarding. It makes sense only if you assume "healthy" means a messed-up MAHA definition of healthy.

Sharing something happy: "I'm definitely Team Orca, all day, every day. But once that seal was on the boat, I kind of turned Team Seal" www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

This is especially necessary for kids with dyslexia or other neuroatypical learning challenges. A typical kid, with good home support, can muddle through any reading program. A kid with eg dyslexia isn't going to be able to suceed without a robust curriculum and trained teachers.

Like so many of you, I, too, thought he was way older than that and already already dead

In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, CNN published a misleading headline about a made-up criticism of one of the candidates instead of making an attempt to actually inform their readers.

For the record, I'm okay with "cancelling" people with Nazi tattoos. That's... good, actually?

Just reinstalled the Android puzzle app Boo (Bart Bonte games). Happy little pumpkin painting puzzles. If you're willing to either tolerate ads or pay $2, highly recommended.

Sympathy to all the parents out there with preschoolers. "Fall back" is the worst, and I am so sorry.

This is what it used to look like inside the lobby area.

Me and the family rewatched Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves the other night. It is delightful, this generation's Princess Bride. Very funny, charming, and inventive, it deserved to make a billion dollars. Cold comfort for the filmmakers, but I'd say it'll be rediscovered eventually.

1) That is not Marilyn Monroe, unless you believe an Elvis impersonator is actually Elvis. 2) I find it subtly gross that the author chose Marilyn Monroe, famous sex symbol, out of all the historical actresses and women he could have used to make his point.

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

Just sent an email to my own airport asking them to join PDX in refusing to violate the Hatch Act. Portland already has the frogs, we gotta hustle if we want to keep up. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

So I've come to realize that, as far as I can tell, a whole bunch of folks studied the Holocaust and decided that the takeaway was "don't be the Jews", when it should have been "don't be the Germans".

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Beyond parody.