These words from @cherilucasrowlands.com made me happy: "After reading a series of articles lamenting the death of higher education and critical thinking in the age of ChatGPT, I tempered my despair with Simon Lewsen’s somewhat hopeful essay on the humanities" longreads.com/2025/09/10/d...

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

GBBO, my 9-year-old would like a word

I've moving from 900 to 2,400 square feet, which means: MORE WALL SPACE FOR ARTWORK! Stoked to decorate my new house with more art, cat wall furniture, handwoven wall hangings, a living wall . . . I welcome recs of your favorite artists, literary pubs with merch stores, and small businesses.

"The California I wanted doesn’t exist. It was never a place, with all of a place’s complex webs of land and culture." Sublime was part of my life's soundtrack from ~1997-98, so there's a lot in @caylinct.bsky.social's new @longreads.com essay—on Bradley Nowell, addiction, and limits—that I love.

BREAKING NEWS: Water sausage shows off his impressive skills.

Someone asked if I consider myself neurodivergent, and I think it's probably best to describe myself with some astrological-like phrasing: I'm Neurotypical with ADHD rising, if you get my drift, just like I'm an Introvert but my moon is in Social Butterfly.

Some exciting personal news: Looks like the @longreads.com piece that I wrote about Amanda Arafat and her family was named a #JamesBeard finalist in profile writing this morning. Thrilled and humbled because that's some pretty impressive company to be in — but especially glad that this very 1/3

Pondering life’s important questions in the latest @pioneerwork.bsky.social issue #caturday

Hot take: Wheat Thins are a seriously underrated cracker

"Dry-erase ink is not similar to tattoo ink, but it is almost identical to ink from a permanent marker. And if you leave it on a surface for long enough, especially a porous surface, it will remain." A new essay by Aaron Rabinowitz:

Your gummy thought of the evening: So much of life is just showing up, and the internet allows too many people to not show up anymore. The rest of the world is just some shit that’s happening on television

I don’t read things written on substack if I can at all help it, this is true of many folks who are too polite to say it for fear of putting off those who write there, but you should know if you’re still on that platform!

why is everyone mad at me

I considered a few excerpts from @crivera.bsky.social's new book, "My Oceans." I was so drawn to this one, in which she writes about whales, the missing language we need in a time of change, and the spaces in between things.

Tried to google the word count of On the Road.

All of us at @salvationsouth.com thank @cherilucasrowlands.com for seeing how Tracy Thompson’s “Solastalgia” “sinks into you.” It surely does. Thanks for including us is @longreads.com’s top stories.

Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.

Today has Friday energy but Wednesday tasks

Is there anything as charming as a child who falls asleep reading, the book on their face?

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

What do you hope to accomplish during the next pandemic ?

Obsessed with this kids song, such a vibe, it goes so hard www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWD0...

Evergreen request: For @motherjones.com, I am always looking for stories of local projects led by disabled/chronically ill people to help other disabled/chronically ill people. These days, we need hope. If you have any leads. My email is [email protected]

i wrote about my favorite director for @longreads.com huge thank you to @cherilucasrowlands.com for heroic edits & @sidehilling.bsky.social for taking photos and sharing pie longreads.com/2025/01/30/r...

For @longreads.com, @k-e-c.bsky.social wrote about her visit to the real Twin Peaks, and the conversations she had with other David Lynch fans about art, place, weirdness, and grief. longreads.com/2025/01/30/r... 📸: @sidehilling.bsky.social

Feel free to use this the next time someone posts something snarky and you approve.

omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain

Yes okay it works youtu.be/66M8NwkRmew

"She sees the details. She observes with wonder. I, on the other hand, am constantly adjusting my lens. Or not looking at all." @cherilucasrowlands.com revisits 2024 #longreads at @orionmagazine.bsky.social, @nytimes.com, @vox.com, @atmosmagazine.bsky.social, and more: longreads.com/2024/12/12/a...

Always a great list! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Markets need information to operate well, in a recent discussion I wondered aloud what would be the result if real estate ads were legislated to do climate disclosures - so I mocked one up.

Feels like 80% of the drivers on the 5 today have no idea how to drive on the 5

I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t trust cats.

"In France, the use of stylometry — the study of variations in literary styles — has largely been confined to academic circles. The Grégory case is the first time it has been applied in a major criminal investigation." 📝

Hey what’s a great article you’ve read recently that isn’t just rage clickbait/an embarrassing op ed? Let’s get eyes on those.

We're trying to create the ultimate map of Calif regions, define where NorCal, SoCal, Central Valley, Central Coast start/end. When we introduced the project to @sfgate.com's newsroom, though, things descended into chaos. We decided we need your help to get it right: www.sfgate.com/california/a...

Grey sky > Blue sky

"There is no such thing as 'my Substack', there is only your writing, and a forever fight against the world of pure enshittification."

"what can bluesky be for?" is a more interesting question than "will bluesky be the next twitter?"

"I think that the pathway to living in a world of gifts is quite simply, paying attention to the earth, whether as water or a peach or a bowl of cereal or a flock of geese in the sky. It’s an act of resistance to reclaim your attention from what the market wants of you." Love this conversation ⤵️

"An entire culture—an art, a politics, an economy—rests on Mexican pilgrimage." For some people, believing in the miraculous is a way of being in the world. For Kayla, the writer of today's new @longreadsmag.bsky.social story, the journey she embarks on becomes an exercise in faith and doubt.

The bad news: someone already took @longreads. The good news: our handle is now an actual #longreads.

Periodic reminder: You can submit your own work for consideration for The Best American Science and Nature Writing. (Editors, ofc, you can, too.) Info and submission form is all here, please share: jaimegreen.net/basn #scicomm #sciwri #sciencewriters #sciencewriting #naturewriters #naturewriting

"The humans caught in this ghostly loop cannot escape the past." Elizabeth Friend has a GREAT story on North Carolina's version of the "vanishing hitchhiker" legend for Longreads, going deep on "Lydia's Bridge" and the true story behind it. Highly recommended Halloween reading:

Glad to be on Bluesky! If you're interested, check out our full archive—that's 156 stories and counting. magazine.atavist.com/archive/