If you don’t know your neighbors, now is a great time to go meet them.

This is a very powerful video from comedian Josh Johnson. Not just because what he says that's meaningful. But because it shows an emerging trend that high profile people have finally started speaking up, despite concerns it might alienate their followers. It is time to choose sides.

If you see this, post a photo taken in the mountains.

Top ten Bobby songs, that is, Bobby singing, no particular order: 10. El Paso 9. Throwing Stones 8. Estimated 7. Black Throated Wind 6. Greatest Story Ever Told 5. Promised Land 4. Weather Report Suite 3. Playin’ in the Band 2. Music Never Stopped 1. Other One Dylan cover: Hard Rain

Just priced a ticket on Delta, then logged in on the app to book it and got a price $150 higher. Searched in a different browser, got a third price. AI pricing is in full effect, and customer service completely denies it.

The Irateful Dead

Starting Invisalign during the holidays is simultaneously the best and worst idea I’ve ever had. Did you know it’s possible to make cookies without tasting the batter? 🌟

So proud to work for the Wilderness Land Trust so I can be part of projects like this! 650 wild acres that would've been turned into luxury homes for the 0.1%, now protected. #publicland #wilderness www.aspentimes.com/news/pitkin-...

Looking for a winter hike? CA’s short and sweet Lost Coast Trail has mountain lions, black bears, elephant seals, and views galore. Just be sure to check out the tide table before you go—multiple spots passable only when it’s low. #backpacking #lostcoasttrail #womenwhohike

I have been doing morning pages so faithfully lately that I have run out of notebooks and am relegated to actually writing in a hardbound journal that says “JOURNAL” on the front and has a ribbon bookmark. Had to mess up the first page to deconsecrate the damn thing from its work conference origins.

Happy 60th birthday to Mike D (with your bad self running things, with your bad breath onion rings). Don’t miss his Apple Music playlist. music.apple.com/us/playlist/... #beastieboys #bboysbgirls

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

Knitted myself a yoga mat strap. Noticed a nail in the corner where I keep the mat, thought why not be tidy and hang up the strap? Accidental, uh, Georgia O’Keeffe.

Reading Richard Osman’s latest, and just came to the startling realization that when a character in a book gets a text message and hasn’t looked at it yet, I get the same anxious-excited-pending feeling I would get from an unread text IRL. It’s Pavlovian rather than related to what the text may be.

Rest in Peace, Donna Jean Godcheaux

Happy Dumpster Fire-o-ween!

I love the holidays. Spouse just walked through the room singing a traditional folk song about Tyler Glasnow.

In honor of some very fine birds whose flock is headed back home to FINISH THIS! youtu.be/HtE7mHSAviM?...

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

A series of unforced errors makes the desert even more desert-y. But the animals are everything. greenalbum.substack.com/p/cdt-redux-... #continentialdividetrail #backpacking

Been all around the country this fall, from Snowmass to Mt. Washington, but the best of all is to be on the Huron River with my boo.

@crockett.house.gov It's because the BUNKER is below the East Wing. He's enlarging and modernizing/weaponizing it for the regime to hide from us because they never plan to leave. That's why the ballroom is elevated. We MUST remove them before construction is completed.

Delta customers: can you stop making us listen to insipid music while boarding Delta: here‘s Dance Monkey on violin

I like to think about what it will be like when we Gen X are old. Our caregivers will have modern names like Gertrude and Ethel. They’ll make fun of our old-timey tattoos and try to up our meds when we sing classics like Chocolate Rain, Hamster Dance, and Come on Fhqwhgads.

The free market lies to you because you ask it to. When we were told not to wear antiperspirant to mammograms because it can mess up the image, idiots heard “aluminum causes breast cancer.” Instead of setting them straight, every brand, afraid to lose, made an “aluminum free” version… w/ alum salt.

When your kid shows off their thrifting find boombox and you zoom in to see what tape it is ❤️

And for all those too young to remember as I do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_9...

#ProudBlue Friends attending protests. Please watch for kettles.

131 years ago members of my family attended a singalong for Union veterans from the Civil War. Here is their song sheet. Fair warning not all the language holds up, but Freedom and preservation of the Union was the focus. Sherman’s dashing Yankee boys indeed. Please let’s not do it again.

Extremely concerning. Is this why Florida wanted Ono? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just had a “doctor visit” where I was seen by a PA who used an AI tool to summarize our convo and still got things wrong, and didn’t see the drug allergy in my file so he tried to prescribe something I can’t take. Do better, Michigan Medicine!

Hellooooo I'm sure you've seen people suggest it's totally harmless to generate the odd AI image just for a bit of fun but let's take the theft from artists out of the equation...it uses the same amount of power to create five AI images as it does to boil the water for a mug of coffee.

“I’m supposed to reassure you with an upbeat tale of self-acceptance. Instead I’m going to make things awkward and tell the truth.” by @pennyred.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/first-p...

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Biz trip to Tucson meant I got to hike with my brother AND I learned how to do zoomer selfies. The kids are alright. #saguaronationalpark

I’m on a plane and finally watched Conclave. Ten minutes later, white smoke. You’re welcome, everyone.

At long last, I put my turkey hunting training to the test. (No turkeys were harmed in the making of this blog post.) #hunting #manisteenationalforest #liberalswithguns greenalbum.substack.com/p/thinking-l...

Hikers, if you’re planning a trip this summer and will need to replace your shoes on the way, consider buying them all now and sending to yourself in your resupply. In a couple weeks the shelves will be empty and no replacements will be coming until the tariff war is over. #thruhiking #resupply

One of the unexpected lingering effects of thru hiking last year is that anytime I go into a small town grocery store my brain thinks I’m on trail and need to buy ALL THE SNACKS

Y’all, I think I found that welfare state the right wingers keep crying about

Why do so many people live past 100 in some places and not in others? The secret may be the watering can. greenalbum.substack.com/p/carrying-w...

Many students here in Ann Arbor are so wealthy and clueless they throw furniture into dumpsters when they leave, too lazy to plan ahead to find it a new home. It’s so bad we have a volunteer corps who intervene to divert some of it from the landfill. I suspect high overlap with McKinsey hires.

In which I throw a bit of a temper tantrum about being gainfully employed. Can you get post-trail depression 6 mos later? Asking for a friend. #thruhikerblues greenalbum.substack.com/p/waiting-fo...

For days, Sen. Rand Paul has been slamming Trump tariffs. Momentum is building, public outrage is exploding — and Republican spines seem to be growing. “The whole debate is so fundamentally backwards and upside down. It’s based on a fallacy, and the fallacy is this — that somehow, in a trade,…

On returning to “real life” after a year of personal jubilee (and hiking the CDT). #backpacking #gardening #makeart #burnout #writing greenalbum.substack.com/p/coming-dow...

Anybody else suspecting that if COVID-19 hadn’t happened a lot more of this shit would’ve happened the first time the Grift Pumpkin was in office?

In which I try brushing my teeth with soap #backpacking #drbronners #ultralight #FDAcapture greenalbum.substack.com/p/wash-your-...

NYT re: Trump’s attack on Harvard: “Look what you made him do.” Do you have any scruples left??

The GOP’s SAVE Act is a direct attack on married women. If your birth certificate doesn’t match your married name, registering to vote could become a bureaucratic nightmare. 69 million women are at risk of being silenced—not by accident, but by design. #HandsOffHerVote @anitamd.bsky.social