Bwahaha. I got fonts. Mostly for fun but what if stationery

Do you still buy print books? All genres or just certain ones?

If I'm making wool jacket things, like hoodies but no hood, for indoor use, what should I line the collar with so they're not scratchy? Velvet is impractical since I will probably be hand washing these.

Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.

I haven't started my car for almost six weeks. What do we think, will it run well enough to get me to the doctor today?

so india was hard and fascinating and complicated and fucking sad (my grandmother died at almost 106 so like, fair but also SAD). But funny thing, while I was traveling I kept getting Lowdesk ads. I have one, from when they were called Uppeal, and it took YEARS to get my desk but I love it.

Through the national flood insurance program. Renters insurance doesn't cover flood. It will cover your contents and depending on the rider might help with temporary relocation costs

Many of the people who were hit by Katrina, who then resettled in Houston were hit by Harvey. Most of the funds for rebuilding are targeted to homeowners not renters and if you're not in a FEMA flood zone it might not occur to you to get flood insurance. Renters can also get flood insurance

Grijalva not being sworn in means she doesn’t have access to funds as a member of Congress, which means she can’t help her constituents. She has repeated this multiple times and Mike Johnson knows this but he’s going to keep lying about it anyway. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/a...

well. I got all ready to work on my website, you know, the one that will actually attempt to describe the specific kind of small-ethical-business-consulting I've been doing for the last two+ years? yeah, AWS is down and apparently my hosting relies on that. *goes back to writing copy in Joplin*

I drove past a zoo yesterday that had the event Oktobearfest Beer - Bears - Brattwurst And I thought, well that sounds like a movie that needs to be made

Good ask for a good cause!

hey friends, I've got a big ask, but I really need this I've got an opportunity to get a mobility aid that would work so much better for my living circumstances than most for hundreds of dollars cheaper than usual but it means I need to make $3960 by the end of the month please help if you can 💙

I honestly don't think everyone talks enough about how amazing it was when the world came together to fix the hole in the ozone layer, so I wrote this: everythingisamazing.substack.com/p/lets-all-r... It's a good reminder of what we're capable of.

The Nut Haus soft open is a hit! 🛖🥜🐿️

Small drones are increasingly being used by armed actors to target civilians all over the world, and I really need to figure out how I can devote my time to researching (and thus, trying to somehow address) this horrible problem www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Breaking news: Giorgio Armani, the famed fashion designer, has died at 91. He was the president, chief executive and sole shareholder of his self-titled luxury fashion house.

The best place to read tributes to Andrea Gibson in the middle of the night when I can't sleep turns out to be my substack notes feed. It is such a good company to long for their exquisite presence in.

The good posts are the prodigy shit that drop at 3am. Like farmers are waking up and breaking the thin pane of ice covering the washbarrel with their giant hands while I'm here with a kinda funny thing I just need to let the world know about before I fall asleep in the sitting position on the couch.

We should be putting a gargantuan amount of money into solar and storage. War economy levels. It should be free to have a guy from the government solar your house up. Electricity should basically cost nothing.

There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC. But no City agency has posted it on this platform. Please help spread the word. “If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

Thinking of Andrea Gibson, who died this morning. Who are five of your favorite poets? David Whyte ee cummings Ntozake Shange That person who wrote that no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark Gibson themself Maya Angelou Ok that's six but how can you say no to Angelou?

Coupled with changes in mosquito habitat and survival due to climate change, no AC in parts of the US could result in *huge* infectious disease burden. Malaria and yellow fever used to be common in the southern US; we’re newly seeing locally-acquired dengue there this year.

Three quarters left over. Did we forget?

It appears that we now know the answers and are arguing about whether we should use them, across the board. Sustainable transit, sustainable energy, human rights... ...one can only conclude that some portion of the leadership does not wish humanity to be sustained.

Counter: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a moor in possession of a strong gust shall be in want of a wind turbine. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bike lane opposition is always about vibes. Advocates have hard data about safety, traffic, and economic benefits. Opponents just say things "feel" different. Despite the city's own Better Bike Lanes Project showing no impact on congestion.

People are like “you really think we should normalize air conditioning? That pales in comparison to my plan of insulating houses and providing AC to vulnerable populations and then not insulating houses nor providing AC to vulnerable populations.”

Recalls the family holiday where we all got heat exhaustion at White Sands national monument. US deserts and national parks are a different scale of hot and a different scale of big to anything we’re used to.

Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

Earlier this Spring, I found a Great Horned Owl sitting on a nest. After keeping an eye on the location for a few weeks, I was rewarded with getting to watch these four owlets emerge and begin exploring the world. #wildlife #birds #owls

Please observe this very fine bee. The mallow flower he’s in is about the size of my fingernail.

Moral choices do not have a time degradation mechanic. If it's still wrong you still should act accordingly. It's not milk expiring in your fridge.

"There were never any rules, but there were consequences," is something I heard recently regarding women talking about their prior relationships and I never saw it like that, but yeah

What I'm often trying to explain to people is how deeply physical the experience is.

“I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, ‘You don’t have rights to anything’,” Francisco Galicia said. www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...

Satisfyingly stabbity.

substack.com/@askdrdevika... The aap is going to keep publishing their own vaccine recommendations, for people who trust the pediatricians more than the federal government.

if Trump were actively trying to impoverish and deskill the united states for the sake of our competitors, what would he be doing differently?

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The National Science Foundation has sent an email out to its members to collect signatures for a dissent declaration similar to the NIH’s Bethesda Declaration and the EPA’s Declaration of Dissent. This comes on the heels of Lee Zeldin putting 139 EPA declaration signers on admin leave

Day 1943 #ArtKicksCovid19 "Hay Harvest at Éragny" (1901) Camille Pissarro. National Gallery of Canada. Pissarro was born on this day in 1830. In 1884 he and his family moved from Pontoise to Éragny-sur-Epte, in the Oise department in northern France.

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

“.. traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter ..” @niemanreports.org #Hellsite niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

In the last week, more than 200 veterans have volunteered to attend immigration hearings with Afghans who worked with U.S. forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan, according to Kyleanne Hunter, CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. #OnYourSide www.kpbs.org/news/border-...

All of this.

Must be nice not having oligarchs on your Supreme Court. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...