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Firefly sightings have begun!

This is great, but why do we need to be told here she's a mother of two? If she were a guy with kids, it wouldn't be worth a mention.

Kennicott: "[W]hen the history of Trump’s second administration is written, the whole sorry Kennedy Center chapter will be key to understanding the chaos, cruelty and grotesque egotism of the president, as well as the bravery and determination of those who resisted and persevered..." wapo.st/4eeHvEj

I LOVE this channel. Everytime somebody tries to make my neighborhood sound like a war zone.

Contrary to what you might have heard in some quarters, there's a lot of fine new writing for young readers out there. Case in point: two new novels I got to write about for the NYTBR—FOUND SOUND by Meg Wolitzer and Charlie Panek and STREAM by Aida Salazar. 📚 #BookSky www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/b...

Preach, Bruce!

I've switched from Google search, trying Brave and DuckDuckGo. It's mind-numbing to use Google already, let alone with this change. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Counterpoint: I am a bald, 5'8" cat lover who ended up married to an incredible woman through the power of Acting Normal

I just wish some of y’all fought for libraries as much as you romanticize them.

Catching up with budget-cut-related service changes at MIT Libraries. :( libraries.mit.edu/about/servic... #libraries

I did not get tickets for Springsteen's show at Nats Park tonight—not in the budget right now—but we could hear him singing while we were out walking the dogs! Grateful that he made DC the final stop on this tour.

Really sad to see this news.

As Springsteen prepares to take the stage at Nationals Park, a reminder that the nation’s capital is currently still the only American city under occupation by state militias invited by the sitting President.

Bookmarking this to read. My maternal grandfather (the child of Swedish immigrants) always grew rhubarb in his backyard in Massachusetts, and I was fascinated by it as a kid.

Snakes deserve better.

A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

Worth reading. (And my beloved neighborhood indie bookstore, East City Bookshop, features in this story!) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/b...

Obviously my students are self-selecting, but when I hear how they talk about AI vs. how university admin talks about AI...I don't think the university has any idea how much students resent it.

You could just read scholarship before you cite it and only coauthor pieces with other people who do the same.

finding it hard to put into words just quite upsetting I find the idea of Google getting rid of the "ten blue links" format of search entirely, genuinely feels like your landlord announcing he's removing your kitchen and replacing it with a bouncy castle, I need my kitchen, let me keep my kitchen

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

UVA faculty and staff told our reporter that a growing wave of outside scrutiny, from online harassment to sweeping demands for their course materials, has left them feeling exposed and increasingly unsafe. www.cvilletomorrow.org/locked-doors...

i keep seeing people share stills from that awful looking wapo opinion podcast and my main thought is that they might want to hire a wardrobe department before putting those dudes on camera

What a remarkably shitty thing to do. And a missed opportunity for some excellent Coachella PR, if they care, which apparently they do not.

And here's the Post's story on the NEH grants ruling [gift link]: wapo.st/4tpm4Vz

NYT story on the decision [gift link]: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

w00t! (Fingers crossed this sticks.)

If you happen to be in Lynchburg today, this looks like it would be worth checking out.

lol [My household has these too.]

What the headline doesn't say is that this move stems from an effort to protect beach-nesting western snowy plovers, which don't mix well with cars and ATVs on the beach.

Where are my birdy folk at? Share your recs.

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This is such incredible bullshit. I am alive, thriving, and writing books on health policy/politics thanks to antidepressants. Antidepressants aren't for everyone, but they can be literal lifesavers. Attacking their prescribing & use is stigmatizing and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Happy pub day to my friend @deborahkalb.bsky.social, whose new mystery novel, EVERYTHING SHE MOST ADMIRED, is out today! It's set at a magazine in DC, so I am doubly excited to read it. #BookSky 📚 bookshop.org/p/books/ever...

No shade on any particular analyses, but I resent how much of my reading attention I'm being asked to give the Lauren Sanchez Bezos phenomenon.

that’s right

For May 4th? An important reception of the Laocoön. Quartus vobiscum, y’all.

A little #bloomscrolling to kick off Monday: blooms on the catalpa tree (a native volunteer) in my Capitol Hill backyard. 🌸

Don't threaten us with a good time.

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Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

"humanities projects presented at the convening engage groups beyond the college campus with programs that deepen understanding about cultures and histories – both local and global – and help individuals grapple with big questions" bit.ly/4ulRdKj

Read @jenhoward.bsky.social's amazing book on this topic: www.stonesoupbooks.net/product-page...

The most infuriating thing about this is that his entire campaign was him saying “this time I’m going to be so much worse, you fuckers have no idea how shitty I’m gonna be”

When I teach print history, I have a repository of little facts I share to help both demystify very old objects and ask students to resituate the codex as technology. It's ✨️ cute little fact time ✨️ The space between lines is called "leading" in Adobe because metal pieces physically separated text.

Again, re: last RT: In response to the proliferation of AI-generated fraudulent research, I've seen several folks call for peer-reviewers to check citations, for librarians to weed out slop, etc — but of course we can't individualize the solution to this systemic problem....