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Come here, little one...

Time for spooky season poems.

Let me remember.

Mary Oliver. The black honey of summer.

You could say anything. Poem by Charles O. Hartman.

This cleft body.

the rate of progress in battery tech is *insane.* prices down 40% and space efficiency up by ~half in ONE YEAR www.volts.wtf/p/solarstora...

We are so busy.

Bill McKibben said something similar a lot of years ago (15, maybe?) at Vermont's diocesan convention: build community. Vibrant communities will do better than isolated wealthy suburbs. Local food, mutual aid, water protection, the bonds of local civic life - these are where resilience lie.

I think the fact that I'm now full of fighting spirit is a sign that acceptance and grief are enlivening, not deadening. So let's fight for mitigation. Let's fight for the fascists' overthrow. And let's pour energy into local communities and looking out for each other.

This, combined with the report of the Deep Western Boundary Current reversal, strikes me as correct. Our political, legal, and economic systems have not budged. This is not giving up: "The units of survival are going to be local communities, so I’m urging local communities to get together."

“Very funny, Jesus. Give it back.”

Here's another beautiful essay by Potawatomi author & botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer in @emergencemagazine.bsky.social, a meditation on life, death, and the cycles of nature. emergencemagazine.org/essay/becomi...

Poem for the week.

This, like, the 3rd time I've cried at my desk today. But in a good way, this time!

I... no words. Breathtaking. Is this art, actually?

Hot damn.

Read the whole thing— good political satire is extremely hard to find and this absolutely sticks the landing.

Gain advantage whenever you feel a fleeting moment of hope in a life beset by horrors on all sides.

Crivvens!

Reporting in from our local No Kings rally today in northern New England, I'd guess ~250 people lining both sides of main street! Excellent turnout, and a lot of support from folks driving through.

ea nasir is back baby awooo

This is probably the best road sign out there

*crab-walked

The news: there's a new pope! Here's what we know about his views! My discord friend: I know a guy who's played D&D with the new pope

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

You don't have to be dying to be held. @lena-oleanderson.bsky.social

“Putting a hat on a hat” is literally a term actual comedians use to describe something as trying so hard to be funny it is no longer funny.

Overheard in the group chat: William Henry Harrison had a better first 100 days, and he spent 70 of them dead.

I'll believe in your AI product when you believe in it enough to resign so it can take your exec job

degrowth should probably start with mark zuckerberg’s $300,000,000 yacht and not like your cousin’s adderall

After the rain.

Hear me out…. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/s...

Here are some nice mushrooms

GET SPIELBERG ON LINE ONE

I am SO glad I watched this.

Fighting back.

Imagine what I could do if I lived in a world where I wasn’t constantly fighting the disabling side of autism, in a world where people didn’t implicitly hate autistic people or dismiss them medically, socially, intellectually Autism is hard, yes But it’s mostly hard because of people like RFK

The fascists have never "made the trains run on time," because trains are a complex system that requires expertise, compromise, and concession - with reality if nothing else; no matter how competent you are as an administrator, you can't simply order that there will be no delays. Systems take work.

Denise Levertov.

We are gonna make today good okay, yesterday could have used some help

Gonna take this opportunity to say that I can personally deliver no script for as little as 7 million, and I know some other writers who can do it for as little as five million.

Speaking as an ornithologist, it's a fact that we just straight-up ran out of synonyms for brown when we got to the flycatchers

Media should stop referring to Elon Musk as "the richest man in the world" and start referring to him as "by his own definition, the softest, weakest man in the world."

Update: the 3 elections this week only strengthened this pattern, and at the highest electoral level we'll see until VA and NJ this fall. Dems outperformed by 15 and 16 points in 2 dark red FL districts points, and in the WI Supreme Court election by 11 -- a landslide win in a classic swing state.

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