We've made so many people dizzy with toxins because some of us have refused to become sufficiently dizzy by facing their own contradictions.

Just read the robot Buddhist monk story. Unsurprisingly, it was all faked. "At its ordination ceremony, Gabi’s movements were remotely controlled from behind the scenes.. [and] its words had been prerecorded" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/t...

The shamisen is a three-stringed lute with a long neck and a square body covered in skin (historically cat or dog, though modern versions may use synthetic materials). It is played with a large plectrum called a bachi, producing a sharp, percussive sound that carries well in theatrical settings.

Happy to announce a new article from Luc Hagenaars, Grant Ennis, and myself in JAMA Health Forum on the “Harms of Framing Obesity as a Disease of Individuals.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

How can anyone enjoy the aftertaste of food with exhaust in their face?

Gleefully harming the climate, air, and water is one the very unlikeable things Trump is doing, and it’s so easy to add a point about that to Democratic campaign messaging about how prices are rising due to his broken campaign promises and corruption. Dems are missing an opportunity here!

“…disabled people are actually less likely to drive than nondisabled people and more likely to get around by walking and rolling and taking transit. Car-heavy cities are also disproportionately dangerous for disabled folks…”— @nondriver.bsky.social Don’t use accessibility “as a political football.”

💚🌎 Happy Earth Day 🌎💚 So grateful for Mama Earth 💚💙

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

#WonderfulBirdWednesday Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑 04/2026 #Birds #Nature #FlawlessTiming 🌟 #FMSPAD #SomethingThatFlies #Birdsky #Wildlife #Photography #BirdPhotography #Macrophotography

How come they keep spelling “open” wrong? Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth

Wow. SCOTUS’s “shadow docket” was first established to stop the Clean Power Plan. It’s remarkable how many assaults on democracy, or at least on established process, over the last decade have served to protect fossil-fuel interests from the energy transition. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

My son is an over-mischiefer

- Increases and prolongs reliance on fossil (so next crisis hurts even more) - Often doesn't pass through to consumers (fossil co's just pocket it) - Benefits enjoyed more by the rich (who drive bigger cars longer distances) - Decreases gov't revenue so you end up paying for it in different ways

"Someone tried to strangle Sneako", "Clavicular just had a drug overdose", I refuse to believe that understanding any of these headlines is better for me than chain-smoking

I wrote this a couple years ago, but equally relevant today www.resilience.org/stories/2024...

gotta love how the fascist-inflected @nytimes.com sanitizes Orban as 'populist'

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

KOIAS and Feral Ecologies Lab (Erasmus University Rotterdam) are pleased to invite all those interested in non-capturable technologies and ecologies to attend the TEA Symposium (Technological and Ecological Atmospheres), taking place in English next weekend April 18–19 from 9:00 to 18:30.

Big Oil and the plastics industry have known for decades that plastic recycling is “virtually hopeless.” So why are they still trying to convince us otherwise?

Biosemiotics at #Semiofest this year www.yogihendlin.com/semiofest-pr...

If you are considering quitting tobacco or nicotine products, or have a friend who is, please send them this open-access article of mine, which helps make the spiritual case for coming into right relation with this powerful plant. www.zygonjournal.org/article/id/1...

Uh, no. Absolutely not.

Very excited to announce our paper on corporate vectors of chronic disease - and what can be done about it - published in NEJM! Congrats to all our authors including @nickchartres.bsky.social @feralyogi.bsky.social @drlauraschmidt.bsky.social @traceywoodruff.bsky.social DOI: 10.1056/NEJMms2507028

Should just call this article "The Fascists are Succeeding in their Efforts to Muzzle Academia" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

Whenever you read headlines like this, keep in mind these decisions to loosen pollution rules are because chemical and polluting industries have captured EPA. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

"The JAMA study found that by 2023, a child in the US was 15 to 20% more likely to develop a chronic condition than they were in 2011—including neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism, behavioral problems, developmental delays, and ADHD." www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...

Omg

"The essays are fun and maddening in roughly equal measure. There’s a stubborn cattiness to them that is refreshing in our era of AI slop and algorithmic homogenization." www.thenecessaryfictions.com/p/trumps-war...

This is what ecocide looks like.

Distortions operate quietly. Strong emotions feel like lucidity from the inside — but that is precisely what makes them so dangerous. They are not evidence of truth, they are evidence of intensity.

ways of mind youtu.be/atCKrCvxkdQ?... #panpsychism

It's interesting that what we understand about bodies (you can't get stronger by sitting beside a machine that lifts weights) seems less well understood about minds. I don't think you can get more artful or more wise by sitting beside a machine that makes art or paraphrases ideas.

New article alert: I published on the pharmakon of tobacco, and how the problem isn't the plant, it's the industry www.zygonjournal.org/article/id/1... #Industrialepidemics

Gallup caves into fascist need to hide disapproval www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

What examples of technology working with nature have you encountered? What does a truly sustainable future look like to you? #solarpunk #sustainability #futureofcities #GreenTechnology #biomimicry #ClimateAction #biosemiotics

Slave patrols were also meant to control the white population | "The idea being to create terror against anybody who would stand up to the regime." statuscoup.com/join original Heather Cox Richardson video youtu.be/cZxpMWFJ6w4

Hopefully all these organizations can now be free from American hegemony and actually do what they need to do rather than be blocked as they've been for the last few decades from their full capacity. Europe needs to pony up some money now.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/w... “Antisemitism is on the rise, Jews are feeling intimidated, and they are being attacked,” said Mr. Marmorstein, spokesperson for the Israel Foreign Ministry. Gee, no connection with Palestine? It's not like Zionists are creating antisemitism, could it be?

all the jazz samples in full song form used by A Tribe Called Quest open.spotify.com/playlist/39J...

Competition is killing the next generation. Students and kids are so hyper worried that they will fail, or not be able to compete, that they often preemptively shut down, even with all the prodding and encouragement my generation never got. What is causing this hyper-sensitivity to criticism?

And since white collar crimes like wage theft, tax evasion, and environmental violations are rarely charged, the disparity here should actually be much bigger.

I wanna see an Erykah Badu / Hiromi collab so bad

For a glimpse of just how complex, fascinating and unexpected soil ecosystems are, have a watch of this video, and see if it doesn't blow your mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyGI...

Everybody thinks that their little world is the world. They confuse it quite legitimately because that's the only world they know. But no matter how big your little world is, it's still just your little world. It's not the world as it is simpliciter.

not now digitally-enhanced predatory gambling culture, we haven't finished our slop-firehose soul-crushing information toxification AI hype curve

Should You Have Kids? Choosing whether or not to have children has been a critical component of cultures around the world for millennia, and the choosing not to has always been as important as the choosing to. Read the full piece now on Planet: Critical: www.planetcritical.com/should-you-h...