Another of my diaristic pieces about the sea and sea-dwelling has just been posted to the Azores-based Sea-Water Amplification project's substack.

Gorgeous essay by @ccohanlon.bsky.social seawateramplification.substack.com/p/unmoored-b...

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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If you're in our area, NF fiction editor @bookbent.bsky.social will be coming to town next week for an event.

We should all be asking ourselves why we can't do this in the United States. 🌞 🌬 🌞 🌬

MAMDANI!

THERE IT IS

Shut down American airspace rather than extend people’s health care benefits, which their own constituents want, and which numerous House Republicans have proposed?

Big day! Go vote!

EXCLUSIVE: Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know. The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list. theintercept.com/2025/11/04/t...

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“Only a masterful portraitist of the tuned-out could deliver ‘The Passenger Seat,’ a fully tuned-in record of a friendship’s headlong plunge into catastrophe.” In @necessaryfiction.com, Diane Josefowicz reviews Vijay Khurana’s debut novel, “The Passenger Seat” - necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

NBCC member Diane Josefowicz reviewed "Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances" by Lucas Mann for The Providence Eye:

A warm poppy from which fled a yellow butterfly like a frozen bit of honey on the wing… —“Spring in the Forum” by Anna de Noailles, translated from the French by Diane Josefowicz in @lespritlit.bsky.social, is on our #WomenInTranslationMonth reading list: lespritliteraryreview.org/2023/06/14/t...

Writing Advice from My Teachers booksbywomen.org/writing-advi... by Diane Josefowicz

Welcome November guest editor - C.C. O’HANLON!!! @ccohanlon.bsky.social JOURNEYS Physical, Psychological, and Imaginary, embracing words and images, in all forms, as well as complexity, resisting the superficial, algorithmic narratives of social media. Sendx burninghousepress.com/2025/11/01/n...

Quite a sporting event this evening I gather

Search “Christ” by latest. Hilarious.

Book launch, funeral, gala, date night, dinner party, deadline. Life.

Venezuela doesn't produce fentanyl Venezuela doesn't produce cocaine Venezuela produces oil

42 million people will lose their SNAP benefits on 1 November.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

lot of overlaps here The pain falls mainly on the plains.

Let’s all remember the $40 billion for Argentina as Trump shuts down SNAP for Americans.

Today we publish this masterpiece of Italian letters. A revelation, a jolly existentialist nightmare, a comic freakout of the highest order . . . Sean Wilsey’s translation delivers Pirandello’s scary, hilarious delights with a remarkable touch. —Sam Lipsyte archipelagobooks.org/book/one-non...

Fund a reprint of Giono's The Serpent of Stars by Archipelago Books. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social secure.givelively.org/donate/archi...

Please share: If you watch one thing today make it this and ask everyone you know in California to vote YES on Prop50!

Coming in May... Preorders are open! There's a cover & a sell page & everything! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804471...

all these passing things

Looking good, feeling good, happy to be here!

Are you NATURALLY ENTHUSIASTIC

Getting a real hedgehog theme going today 🦔

Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), artist who has created a series of 'Garden Icons' - mini paintings inspired by local wildlife #womensart

Horse and Hedgehog by Franz Marc, 1913 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137876

Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 1916 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135241

I've done this and got to read a fabulous book AND learned a lot about writing reviews. Highly recommended!

The Peach https://www.wikiart.org/en/agnes-martin/the-peach-1964

Alberto Giacometti, Annette, 1962 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135674

Vacuum cleaner

Just saw a tufted titmouse AND a red-bellied woodpecker in my yard — that’s a lot of variety for this little spot

BREAKING: The Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will not be issued on Nov. 1 amid the government shutdown. It said: “Bottom line, the well has run dry.”

Auto loan delinquencies have surged to their highest level in 14 years, per FITCH

"Because the composition of this book spans over 15 years, my choices are less about remembering what song shaped the writing than thinking about what musical analogue the story evokes." Sara Jaffe shared a playlist for her story collection Hurricane Envy largeheartedboy.com/2025/10/27/s...

Calling all book reviewers: Check out @necessaryfiction.com's list of books available for review! I'm excited about this list -- good reads ahead! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Taps glass @whitehouse.senate.gov @amo.house.gov

This ballroom was made for Trump and his donor friends – not for you.

OK. *deep sigh* If we’re really doing this … If anyone has information about this alleged $130 million “donation” — including the identity of the “donor,” if such a person or corporation exists, and any legal opinions purporting to authorize this — please send it my way. I am at crg.32 on Signal.