BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight

Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.

Hands Off!

FINALLY stores have the good trail mix ingredients again!

Three pies for Pi Day

Best thing I heard today: “You can’t just go around saying “the sky is falling!” The sky IS falling. Now what?”

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

After my #StarterPack of writers seeking an #agent I made a waiting list. It got huge. So instead I've done Pack 2, adding other people #querying Please repost to help them out. If you want one of the few places left, please follow the instructions at the end of the thread #booksky #writingcommunity

Many thanks to my Valentine for clearly separating the sprite from the rolling rock in the fridge so I don’t keep grabbing the wrong one every time no matter which I’m going for.

OK. One thing we know for sure, is that none of *these* notebooks has gotten my life together and my book written. But don’t worry—there are lots more notebooks out there. One of them has to work. #writing

‘BACK TO PLASTIC!’: Why Trump is coming after paper straws again What if we just give this one to him? Tell you what, Mr. President—you put the federal government back, and you never have to use a paper straw again.

“Everybody sing!” Thank you, Pete. youtube.com/watch?v=wnvC...

A Seussian, Orwellian moment

@laracp-oly.bsky.social Thanks for telling me about #fungifriday

Wait. I have to make all those TikTok recipes right now? Rice paper noodles and clementine cake for dinner it is!

Come, children! Take all the joy, all the happiness, all the light! Wrap it in newspaper, and put it in these dusty boxes.

Guess I’ll be here on the couch for a while

If you make eggnog this season, do not shove the shells of a dozen eggs down your garbage disposer. And that, my friends, is $1300 worth of advice

mewy cwismis

“We’ve begun to feel the effects of climate change in communities across the country….At the same time, the decarbonization agenda has driven investment and created jobs….And yet, the U.S. climate movement is without a central animating message.”

My 15yo just told me her friend’s fish are named Swim Shady and Swimothy and it gives me so much hope for the next generation

All these scary climate projections--are they the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of the things that May be only? A Christmas Carol meets Climate Science open.substack.com/pub/seekers/...

Me: would you help me sort the laundry, please? Kid: aaargh. I don’t want to. I know *eye roll* you don’t want to either, but you got to choose for yourself to start this task. Me: That’s true. And why do you think I chose for myself to start this task? Kid: The patriarchy?

Exactly! Should we be worried about climate change? Heck, yes. (But let’s make sure we get the facts right, and skip the most extreme doomer yarns — which aren’t based in science…) Should that freeze us into inaction? Heck, no! It should lead to agency and action!

Fascinating, hopeful case: legally enforceable rights just granted to the Snohomish River watershed in Everett City, Washington State. “Voters in Everett…enshrined the watershed’s rights to exist, regenerate and flourish.” insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...

Good news! You’ve got more time to share your feedback on the Safer Products for Washington’s Draft Report to the Legislature. Share your thoughts on reducing harmful chemicals in everyday products from now to Dec. 31, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. ecology.wa.gov/events/hwtr/...

#Scurvy in Canada Is a Symptom of Our Sick Politics, by @crof.bsky.social thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... via @thetyee.ca #sdoh

There’s never four horsemen of anything good

An important read by @bradstulberg.bsky.social in the NYT. Viktor Frankl’s “tragic optimism,” described so well here, is a central tenet of the work I do in climate therapy.

On #WorldAIDSDay, we remember and thank all the inspiring activists who helped turn the tide on this deadly pandemic www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

Climate psychologists are often the first to say: ‘information alone doesn't change green behavior’ ❌ Particularly where big cost/convenience barriers exist But 85% of us report knowing little about how to be green 📉 🔁 Follow this 🧵 for 11 climate comms hacks ⬇️ My blog on this ➡️ bit.ly/3VdcFlO

"This will make it likely that the limit of 1.5C will be surpass in this century". In Germany, scientists are publicly reading the @ipcc.bsky.social AR6 synthesis report at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . You can contact your local group to organize a reading.

Cleaner energy AND more wine!

Mitigation costs in perspective

If the work is traumatic, what can we do about that? Well, we can't make the trauma go away. It is probably here to stay. But we can offer meaning-making spaces in organisations. We can allow, indeed encourage, time off (Yes! Even you! Take your annual leave! Take your duvet days!). And...