ok sure

a bit proud of this one

one of the failures of my first book was that I accidentally wrote an introduction chapter that was way too long. not going to let that happen this time. today i successfully resisted writing a full paragraph about the "old mole" and instead wrote one sentence instead. baby steps!

free idea for the SF writers out there: our protagonist is navigating an UBIK-like world in which they must solve a crime. but every bread crumb trail leads to a piece of evidence hidden behind some veil of summarization.

getting back in to the writing game during my truncated winter break. knocked out 2k words, though they got pretty suspect towards the end. hoping i can finish this chapter in 2 weeks...we'll see if i still have it in me.

at the horrifying stage where I'm writing the book in my head while I sleep

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really cool article from Harriet Hawkins on a very fun video game, Kentucky Route Zero. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Programming note -- I'll be a Rachel Carson Visiting Scholar at Chatham University's Falk School of Sustainability and Environment in October-November 2026. obviously a ways away, but any Pittsburgh people say hi, happy to hang out!

cleared out the peer review backlog. 18 article reviews (or re-reviews) and three book manuscripts this year lol!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The Indigenous Peoples' Specialty Group of the AAG has released a statement of endorsement and support for the Geographers for Justice in Palestine Organization (see below).

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

2025 // 1982 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcZ0...

Happy to finally launch Disjunctions with an article from the editorial team! Stay tuned for our first issue, which we will start publishing in the new year.

“How Do You Solve for Impact?” An interview with Patrick Bigger on leaving academia, strategic research, and scholar activism climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/how-do-you...

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.

Nominations for the Cultural and Political Ecology (CAPE) Outstanding Book award are due December 20, 2025! as a past winner of this award, I highly encourage specialty group members to submit books that have rocked your socks off recently!!!

really cool article - "Free as A Bird: Nature as Freedom and Interval in Karl Marx’s Capital" by Christina Chalmers muse.jhu.edu/article/908409

a big new one from me: I profiled a group of neighbors in west texas who have become the face of the abandoned well problem in the heart of oil country for @motherjones.com - an unlikely group of former industry workers and ranchers who are fed up with how Big Oil won’t clean up its messes:

When we strive to "meet people where they are," how do we reach the conclusion that we know where they are??? @kaibosworth.bsky.social ponders how to create opposition to pipelines, finding improbable candidates for #climateaction in traditionally conservative parts of the United States.

extremely sad news that Asad Haider has passed away. i didn't know him personally but it'd be impossible to overstate how important his writing and editing in Viewpoint was to my trajectory. as I said last night, we are losing too many comrades.

any scholars writing about the Honduras silicon valley crypto island thing?

i know peer review is a desperate process in 2025 but i just got asked to review something so wildly out of my area of expertise by a legit publication that it makes me question what the journal is up to

reminder -- today is the last day to comment on AAG's "background report" on BDS!

it's weird that geographers have so disavowed the concept of "region" that we now have basically invented "urban political ecologies of the rural"

Air Products has said it is trying to "derisk" the $4.5 billion complex by finding buyers for its low-carbon products.... It also wants to sell ammonia plant and carbon capture pieces and the company's rights to state-owned underground storage areas. www.nola.com/news/busines...

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Right now the big two-day Labour Environmentalism conference is kicking off at the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social in Berlin. I'll be taking live notes here on bsky.

heart of the beast shout out on mst3k lol

wow, i got an external grant! that has never happened before

what degree of not working is acceptable today

Just ordered! At $20.97 this works out to LESS THAN $1 AN ESSAY for, e.g. @asheeshksi.bsky.social on "Board of Trustees"; @cnewf.bsky.social on "Degree"; @dennismhogan.bsky.social on "Endowment": & (one I read in draft) @andyhines.bsky.social, @kaibosworth.bsky.social et al on "Sustainability" 💥

With COP 30 winding down, we're reposting some of critiques of Green Capitalism and productivism from the previous year. By @kaibosworth.bsky.social , @andrewonearth.bsky.social , @beniuliano.bsky.social , @alastairiles.bsky.social , @adamcalo.bsky.social , and Maywa Montenegro. Links 👇🏽

comrade JCO gets it completely CHOP FROM THE TOP (solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)

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wow after so many years, it looks like this volume is finally out! really excited to dig in to intense theorization on questions of ideology. Includes chapters by Massamiliano Tomba, Elisabeth Anker, Adam Kotsko, Alberto Toscano, and so many more! www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

an author who is a friend for whom i get asked to review EVERY one of their articles. i always say yes because it gives me a chance to read them anyway. but i keep waiting to run into them in person (been 10 yrs) so i can finally say "we've secretly been in correspondance on EVERYTHING you write"

good commentaries on Sandra harding / standpoint? have the Weeks on deck, but there's mountains...

Pope Leo absolutely cooking

claudio magris y or n, anyone?

Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe is the latest prominent Democrat to join Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future, a fossil fuel industry front group that seeks to influence liberals to embrace methane gas as clean, climate-friendly energy

Trump trade war costs US Italian pasta: “Exporters say import and antidumping duties totaling 107% on their pasta brands will make doing business in America too costly and are preparing to pull out of U.S. stores as soon as January.” Via WSJ

interesting history of practical attempts at "geo-psychiatry," as promoted by Agnès Masson briefly during a stint at Saint-Alban. here geo-psychiatry is described as "integration with human geography," though practically seems to just mean going outside. www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/wom...

ok krasznahorkai finally got me with the beekeeping eco marxist forest ranger lolol

I find this simultaneously cringe and delightful www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

been thinking about this all day -- just a perfect example of the impossibility of liberal institutional neutrality! they called it antisemitism that so many companies operating in Israel kept popping up on the human rights filter - wonder why! and now Morningstar will no longer consult UN HRC 🤔

important context on Morningstar, whose "human rights" and other ESG screening tools are used on AAG investments jewishcurrents.org/how-a-giant-...

can't tell whether twitter or bluesky is more of a "dead internet" at this point. both seem to have just completely gutted any attempts at interaction, can't post anything that finds its audience.

unprompted Google chrome pop up asking if I want it to do my homework for me

best recent works in feminist STS?