When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

There's a plaque about this in History Park in Lynnwood, WA with an old political cartoon predicting how much regret would follow swapping to highways and cars... Sigh.

There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden. From the NPR archives.

This is catastrophic.

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available. We decided to illustrate it.

Just when I thought I couldn't love puffins any more. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It's happening. Waymo cars are revolting: www.reddit.com/r/mountainvi...

To find your local No Kings march, go to: www.nokings.org

Hearing "Your average wait time is greater than 30 minutes," scares me. There is no maximum. Not even an estimate. n = >30 *waits forever* 🫠

Wow AI is just so innovative

85F where I am on this last day of *checks calendar* ...winter.

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in: 2008: 0.3% 2024: 19% @nytimes.com #GildedAge www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Oh, that was just a test of the emergency broadcast system. Good. Because. Y'know. Seems.... seems like I wasn't too confident 📻

Proud that I didn't let my hysterectomy break my Wordl streak. Priorities.

Polymarket to allow bets on the name of the new terrorist organization spawned by the war in Iran.

Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X. Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch. Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp. And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO. Yes, this is oligarchy.

I hope so.💠🌸

About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.

Just over here casually pulling a dozen espresso shots in a row to freeze ahead of my surgery next week since I won't be able to use my abdominal muscles and I have a lever press espresso machine. Normal. First you admit you have a problem...then you let us become your personality 🤝

Oh, more heartbreaking devastation this morning

ADP is ready for the end of this apocalypse. It's giving D.H. Lawrence: poets.org/poem/nothing... There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet. #poetry

Had a blast at this last year (as evidenced by the photo of me used to promote the event 😂) Sign up for a fun, casual little group ride to reclaim the streets! www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-el-ca... 🚲

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Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

When Zoom tells me my internet connection is unstable, I try to meet the internet with grace. So am I. So is the world right now. Be well, internet.

Peeped this new-to-me bike transit option on @vta.org today. Neat way to bring bikes on public transit 👍

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Sell me a vision? He looks like he wants to sell me a used car on its last legs. And culturally normal? Fuck that dog whistle.

So true! Copenhagen is one of the calmest, bustling cities I've ever been to 🚲 ✨

Tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

For your reading pleasure, War is a Racket www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH...

Can LLMs figure out who you are from your anonymous posts? From a handful of comments, LLMs can infer where you live, what you do, and your interests; then search for you on the web. New 📄 w/ @SimonLermenAI, @joshua_swans, @AerniMichael, Nicholas Carlini, @florian_tramer 🧵

Whew! The weather in the South Bay right now is full on chaos! Bands of unexpected heavy downpours are knocking all the pretty petals off the cherry and tulip trees. Ah, spring! Oh, sweet spontaneous!

Happy Ash Wednesday and beginning of Celtic Tree Month of Ash to all other Ash's out there 🌳🩶

Death Sentences // Updated for Linda Davis

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

👀 Check where there are Flock cameras near you: deflock.org

rainbows happen often enough here that i always know which direction to look, depending on the time of day. due north this morning, another stunner! 🌈

Oh, the euphoria Of surviving a moment Thought impossible Here's to getting through an intense medical appointment today and to the third deathiversary of losing my dad. Miss you every day, papasan. 🐸

Chat bots give the wrong medical advice more than half the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

Cartoon on Washington Post‘s mass layoffs

Re-upping an older piece to illustrate that Covid precautions - especially for athletes - are not “extreme”. It’s not just about performance on the day of competition; long Covid can literally cost athletes their careers

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Motion for football to be played like this? Eh?? Eh?!

Happy Bad Bunny Day to all who celebrate 🇵🇷

Got inspired by @blackforager.bsky.social and @justinthetrees.bsky.social and made some magnolia snap cookies, and magnolia ice cream with candied petals. That's some tasty nature!! 🌸

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May 2025)

Just here to remind other Android users that Gboard has amazing and horrific emoji mashup creations just waiting for you to conjure them 😘