Not counting book manuscripts I read for work (8-10ish) or rereads (like all of The Hunger Games series last week, definitely not inspired by my present anxieties)…at least 60. I read when I’m worried.

Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.

I will never forget the time my mother was working her ER shift and a guy came in with a daikon in his butt.

Rama Duwaji’s first big interview. Amazing pics as well www.thecut.com/article/rama...

This piece, alongside the excellent one on AI in education from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social earlier this week should be required reading.

Don't let Canada go down the same road as the US and UK on trans rights. Sign this, then make sure to verify your signature via the email link so it counts.

Democrats need to get ahead of something for once and go all-in on the data center fight. It’s the perfect wedge issue against billionaires and Trump.

With all caveats regarding stopped clocks, etc, I appreciate Governor Ayotte's willingness to disagree with her reprehensible allies and actually consider what is good for the people of New Hampshire when casting her veto on these awful bills.

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Because it’s a smash and grab.

Very rarely does a post warrant all caps, but: SEARCHABLE INTERIM MANUSCRIPTS CATALOGUE. At long last! searcharchives.bl.uk

any time you're told to use AI at work, turn your work in about half as fast and pepper it with obvious mistakes. if nobody cares, you have less to do, and if they do, you can tell them you'll never use AI at work again

VERY important to make clear that the passer-by who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters is a Muslim named Ahmed el-Ahmed. He probably saved many lives

Kudos to the Brown University students who are posting continuous live updates, spaced just minutes apart, on the campus shooting. A lot of grace and professionalism under immense pressure. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

6/ but wait, there’s more! This issue also includes @kvmfinn.bsky.social’s “Sirocco,” a beautiful short story focused on the character of #Palomides in Arthurian legend!! #medievalsky #arthuriansky

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.

The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to downgrade its recommendations to protect infants from hepatitis B is a dangerous move that will harm children. Click here to read AAP's full statement: bit.ly/3Y9ZQJT

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

This is a move toward justice for the Institute of Museum & Library Services. #IMLS Now we await the same for the National Endowment for the Humanities. #NEH

This is a wonderful, sweet book about friendship and embracing who you are. I read it to both of my children when they were toddlers, and it was a favourite.

I doubt it will feel real until I'm holding it, but this is for my teenaged self, who used these editions in high school and would never have dreamed she'd write the introduction to one. #Shakespeare #HenryVI

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Surely the party of Lincoln died with the failure of Reconstruction.

So you mistakenly dismembered a journalist?

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

God this is so utterly despicable. Trump is “he was no angel”- ing a journalist who was murdered and dismembered with a bone saw by agents of an authoritarian regime.

@annapwilson.bsky.social have you seen this???

You know who would have published a good obit of Alice Wong? Teen Vogue. But they closed it, just a week before Alice died, screwing her out of her columnist gig a week before her death and making sure TV didn’t cover her death, Dick Cheney’s death or Mamdani’s win. Thanks, Anna Wintour!!!

once again I'm begging and pleading with someone in the press to draw this obvious connection between trump/epstein and trump's precision defunding of programs that assist women who are the victims of domestic and sexual abuse

When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived. All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.

"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.

I ended up with a whole box of these as a child and read every single one. I also went on to read almost all the full versions at one point or another (sorry, Melville fans, Moby Dick and I did not suit).

Nice one, Zadie Smith.

An exciting update! Mass Freedom To Read has been working overtime to get amendments filed that substantially strengthen this bill, and all the amendments have been filed! It's time to contact your MA senators to urge them to support the amendment: www.massfreedomtoread.org/news/cta-sup...

In response to this claim that the "strategy didn't work." The people were on our side. We were building momentum to help save our democracy. We could have won - the premium increase notices were just starting. And giving in now will embolden him. Things will likely get worse.

I want to thank my sister for keeping me diligently updated on the nail-biting election for Cat Mayor of the Somerville Bike Path.

It's been 39 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

A film you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

The hit jobs on Mamdani keep coming. I always called my parents' friends "Auntie" or "Uncle" if they were South Asian, didn't matter whether or not they were blood relations. I love how they're wasting time on this instead of investigating, you know, flagrant top-level government corruption.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Apropos: sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

“The Ohio State University will be requiring every single student, regardless of their major, to undertake AI “fluency” training as part of their degree.” As an alum, (B.A., 2004), I am frankly disgusted with OSU’s nonsense—bowing to fascists, drinking the AI kool-aid…so deeply disappointed.

Mayor Johnson is cooking

Work/life balance is so important!

I think I am a hot mess and therefore somewhere in the 2-4 range, but was once told that I have "resting murder face" when I'm just out and about minding my own business, so clearly I don't see what others see.

"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it

Top story when you go to The Guardian this AM. Which it is not when you go to the Washington Post or the NY Times. Apt language here, whereas WaPo describes the day as an airing of grievances as though we are a bunch of whining George Costanzas, not a vast public fearful of losing everything.