Happy (rainy) Tuesday, #Boulder. I've got a new story for you all about a new temperature-stable, single-injection rabies vaccine developed by @colorado.edu researcher Ted Randolph. www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library: • Get a library card ⭐️ • Use your library card 🌟 •Visit the library 💫 •Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

Most red states are just violently gerrymandered states. AND — as I’ve said before and will say again — if you genuinely care about liberation, you want liberation for EVERYONE. Freedom is not to be hoarded.

Maggie Smith: "If we’re going to withstand the rise of AI, I think we need to double down on our humanity. We can do things that generative AI can’t do, because we have experiences that AI can’t have. We can dream and imagine. We can second-guess ourselves, doubt, regret. We can hope and grieve."

The only piece of life advice I have in 2025 is if you feel like you’re doomscrolling endlessly you probably are, and the minute you feel that way you should take some kind of action—and this can even just be donating 5 bucks somewhere—and then putting your phone anyway.

"We’re a tech-forward, future-oriented company that doesn’t shy away from the promise of new innovation—even if that innovation is a Giant Plagiarism Machine™ that copy-pastes existing innovation into fake sentient sentences."

Ten Vital Services Provided by NOAA (Beyond the National Weather Service) blog.ucs.org/science-blog...

on this date eight years ago, Tom Holland wowed Zendaya on Lip Sync Battle with his cultural critique of impervious surface stormwater runoff.

Did you know that the 2-week #1000wordsofsummer extravaganza starts on May 31, a little more than one month away? Join more than 50,000 people writing every day for two weeks straight. It’s really fun and you just might shift your life a bit. ❤️ 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/about

once again: if it weren’t valuable, they wouldn’t be stealing it

Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪

For every $1 spent on climate resilience and preparedness, communities save $13 in damages and cleanup costs. NOAA saves lives AND billions of dollars. Trump and Musk's dismantling of NOAA has nothing to do with "fraud" or "waste" — it's just mindless destruction that will make us all worse off.

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

any way, things are awful, but i will always find solace in people taking time to create things out of sheer joy and love

People to deserve to know when a hurricane is coming toward them and deserve to not die from the flu and deserve to have an egg sandwich sometimes

If “it took a bunch of strangers… calling my office to tell me how to do [my job], I would widely be considered bad at that job. Many elected officials are not like this. They look for… the threat of losing votes… democracy asks this participation of us.” joshgondelman.substack.com/p/120-people...?

I think we really need to repeat, and keep top of mind - The federal employee firings are NOT ABOUT SAVING MONEY. What is spent on those employees is peanuts compared to most of the money in the government. Firing federal employees sows confusion, depletes morale, and degrades government service.

Hello Friends! Welcome to #MSWL Day 2025! 🎉 This is our first #MSWL Day on Bluesky, and we have new features to share! Rather listen than read? Here’s a how-to! vimeo.com/1055984106 Here’s our Bluesky search guide: youtu.be/LnZt1MCjKZE?...

Mark your calendars! If you want to make serious progress on your manuscript, there is no better, more uplifting way than #1000wordsofsummer

Look up this weekend: Venus and Saturn will be visible in the southwest, with Mars and Jupiter in the east. All four will be visible to the naked eye.

These are very good suggestions, but a few key ones are missing: attend library board mtgs and speak in favor (many are on zoom), donate $, and vote for measures and bonds to increase funding. Patrons have real power. Don't let a handful of bigots destroy your library.

shit's weird out there, y'all, lets make art

A good study that shows what many teachers have been experiencing for a long time – even before the pandemic: an onslaught of education technology that just made our administrative load worse.

Don’t you dare “circle back” on January 2nd!!! We gonna ease into this mess as a COMMUNITY.

How to turn off MS Word scraping your writing to train its AI medium.com/illumination...

Same.

[ominously] now the jingle hop has begun

Our 7-year-old at the skatepark: Do you DARE me to drop in on this? Uncomprehending 2-year-old on a strider: … Yeah

Jane Eyre Jane Fyre Jane Water Jane Earthe Long ago, the four Janes lived togethir yn harmonye... Until the Fyre Janes attackid.

I mention this all the time in conversations and no one I speak to seems to have heard about it. theconversation.com/ai-is-a-mult...

One of the lessons my hippie school was big on was that it’s the job of the strong to protect the weak and the vulnerable. That doesn’t change when the job gets harder. Quite the contrary.

Authors I’ve read 5 or more books by… VE Schwab Emily Henry Alexis Hall Jasmine Guilloroy KJ Charles Terry Pratchett

PSA Everyone who uses Canva: they have opted you in to training AI, you will need to get into your privacy settings to stop these assholes scraping your stuff. #WritingCommunity

More detail: When booksellers get pre-orders, it's a quantitative and qualitative signal that there is like *something here* about a book. The avalanche of new books out there is hard to communicate if you're not in the industry, and pre-orders are one of vanishingly few signals. It is a real thing!

A note from me to you: “Whatever happens today / tomorrow / next week / next month is a question we were sent into this life to answer. And we will answer it together.”

It's fall

“Have you watched-“ I haven’t. My child is 7. I will see that movie you’re talking about when it’s on streaming in a year, about 35 minutes at a time, over the course of two weeks, possibly on my phone.

The indirect benefits of free lunches

USPS has-restarted free delivery of COVID tests. special.usps.com/testkits

this probably-google-translated restaurant menu gets me every time / is a wealth of excellent discord server nicknames

I am *super* late to the party, but this is one of the most articulate, fascinating, layered, and beautiful pieces I've read in a long time: orionmagazine.org/article/spar... @emilyraboteau.bsky.social @jamiattenberg.bsky.social

🧪Hello science friends! Looking to speak with scientists who are caregivers, particularly if you are caring for a spouse or relative. It's for an upcoming piece in Nature. Please spread the word and RT!

"Writing is hard and takes a lot of focus and discipline and we don’t always have all the answers and we don’t always write beautifully, and also sometimes we don’t quite have the wisdom or information we need yet." @jamiattenberg.bsky.social is just plain wonderful.

man what am i even supposed to do here

The existence of the writing retreat suggests the existence of the writing attack. *unsheathes a fountain pen* We ride at dawn.