“Writing is a profoundly embodied act, as physical as climbing Mount Everest or making love.” I got mores sucked into this craft paean about writing from @emergencemagazine.bsky.social than I was expecting to. Step away from the LLM! emergencemagazine.org/essay/in-def...

“I don’t know if the technologies that get people into the streets are so good at keeping them there.” Great quote from historian Paul Gilroy in 2020

an insightful read www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

putting this here — I’m looking for drystone walling projects for the 2026 season. patios, steps, stairs, walls, retaining walls, etc. working in the Hudson Valley and beyond where budget allows: www.ianchanges.com/seeking-ston... #drystone #drystonewalling #masonry #hudsonvalley #gardening #forhire

I’ve been going to the gym where I’m staying & thought ‘I have to take a #gay #selfie and say hi to the #humpday guys’ so, hi 👋

hello from this wet & sticky brooklyn blizzard here’s a #gay little #selfie for you

I wish there were a great dance remix of Natalia Lafourcade’s ‘Cocos en la playa’ ok goodnight

this intrigued me. i am a bit skeptical of its claims to “cultural omnipresence” in the age of the filter bubble, the echo chamber; is that kind of presence even possible anymore? i’m not so convinced. conceptually energetic, young, a great #gay read www.tank.tv/magazine/iss...

Andy Goldsworthy has been a lot more interesting to me since I got obsessed with dry stone walling so I was excited to read this profile. He say a number of insightful things … www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

good look at a tactic that used AI to astroturf public comment to prevent implementation of sound clean air policies in socal - www.latimes.com/environment/...

“The defining aspect of cinema is not just large-scale projection, not just seeing it in the dark with strangers. The defining aspect of the cinema is that you don't control the time at which it starts and stops.“ reading A. S. Hamrah makes me want to go to the movies

Daniel Lefferts with a great short story in the @yalereview.bsky.social serving up a dose of scathing gay horror — too real, too close ! yalereview.org/article/dani... #gay #fiction

here are some reads I’ve enjoyed lately starting with Jennifer Kabat’s essay about knotweed in @thebaffler.com thebaffler.com/outbursts/th... #nature #naturewriting #recommendation

and as a little treat here is me as a happy #gayguy taking a selfie with an amanita in the warmer times. what do you see ? #gay #selfie #lol #🍄

i mean, this was probably the most perfect bolete i have ever seen. what are some good resources for identifying american boletaceae? i would love to learn more about ways to identify boletaceae if anyone has good resources for that. #🍄 🍄‍🟫 #bolete #mushrooms

going through old photos - a grey-green russula from a few seasons ago - i know enough now to know russula can be a tough identification and there are definitely many species growing in the catskills. #🍄 #mushrooms #russula

chronicled the cow of the moment defector.com/veronika-the...

up early after the party reading @mckenziewark.bsky.social happy 2026 out there

great essay about #gaza and #art #nangoldin #berlin and the #artworld www.equator.org/articles/how...

enjoyed this combo review that sketches two quick multi-decade profiles of Jensen Huang at #nvidia and Sam Altman at #openai in @lrb.co.uk all about #ai #machinelearning #neuralnets #tech

this was good, i recommend listening to the audio, about #🍄 for anyone looking for an open-ended read about #ecology emergencemagazine.org/conversation...

great essay about #cruising and #plainclothes

Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R

“human thinking is largely independent of human language — and we have little reason to believe ever more sophisticated modeling of language will create a form of intelligence that meets or surpasses our own.[…] We use language to think, but that does not make language the same as thought.” #ai #llm

i see mental images, non-linguistic thoughts. how about you?

watch where your recipes come from out there … thought in particular this observation was notable that "Because the content isn’t an exact copy, traditional takedown tools like DMCA aren’t straightforward, leaving creators with almost no remedy even when the imitation is obvious.” #ai #food

Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about

I wrote about the irony of the AI bubble, a phenomenon driven by storytelling and imagination in an industry that has contempt for both

youtube.com/watch?v=x76Z... two talented friends got together to make this beautiful music video for a beautiful song - give it three minutes ! #musicvideo #newmusic

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

just ordered a copy of @kristiedegaris.bsky.social ’s memoir,‘Drystone' - I’ve been excited and curious to read this for a while, and it’s nice to order a book from an independent publisher, Birlinn, that I’m not familiar with

among the best things I’ve read in a while harpers.org/archive/2025... #pervert #art #writing

did not expect reading this piece about toxicology and frog sex to be as riveting as it was ! #climate #🐸 #queer #biology

*while driving through krumville*

my first time seeing a venomous eastern copperhead — it was coiled and not moving at all and definitely not a mushroom. spotted in the mohonk preserve a week ago. #🐍

a nice pair of lactifluus or lactarius of some kind. I’m still searching for a positive ID. any ideas? I think maybe L. piperatus or L. vellereus. Do you know these July-emerging #🍄 in a deciduous New York forest that ooze a whitish liquid from broken gills ?

🧵 a thread here about #nyc, the #subway, #surveillance, and #immigration … because I saw something and I want to say something about it, and ask if others have seen stuff like this, too. tl;dr is I wonder if I saw a tech test for a tool intended to accelerate and assist with deportations. (1/21)

saw @blackforager.bsky.social making a fab looking pate with a black-staining polypore right after seeing this GIANT specimen at the base of a big old oak tree. this was another new-to-me sighting this season. shaping up to be a wet and bountiful mushroom summer in the Hudson Valley #🍄

in other #🍄 finds recently, this singular long-stalked gray cup was a new mushroom for me - a thin stipe and a cap shaped like a bowl with an irregular rim

a friend asked about a favorite mushroom & my first thought was these red chanterelles, which fruit gregariously, are so smol & brilliantly carmine, a sign of summer starting to appear in july, and pack a kind of white peppery perfume on top of the typical stewed apricot chanterelle smell #🍄

"the results from the analysis showed a dramatic discrepancy: subjects who used ChatGPT demonstrated less brain activity than either of the other groups.” www.newyorker.com/culture/infi... great read from from @chaykak.bsky.social #ai #chatgpt

for anyone who needs a #sunrise #landscape moment #📷

If people are overwhelmed by manipulation, confusion, and information engineered to mislead, they’re not free. They’re vulnerable. Disoriented. Easy to exploit. That’s not liberty, that’s abandonment.

And when debate collapses, power doesn’t disappear, it just becomes unaccountable. Truth becomes tribal. Institutions become hollow. People are left shouting across a void, each group certain the others are insane or evil. That’s not freedom, it’s fragmentation.

When this happens at scale, it’s not just bad information, it’s a breakdown in how society makes decisions. We lose the ability to deliberate, to find common ground, to hold anyone accountable. That’s what disordered discourse really is, a collapse in collective reasoning.

The danger isn’t just that people believe lies. It’s that entire communities become locked into belief systems that can’t be challenged, where loyalty replaces evidence, and disagreement feels like betrayal. That doesn’t just distort truth, it breaks trust.

this thread is so sharp & insightful. (don’t bother with the Cato link imo!) going to repost a few parts.

saw mushrooms on a menu in Barcelona as “champis” & i love it

hi ! just a shamelessly #thirsty little sunday night post for #pride . i love being #gay — what’s going on my gaysky guys ? plz follow & send mail #🏳️‍🌈

cute pair of boletes popping out of some moss #🍄‍🟫 #fungi #boletes #mushrooms