Clustering homes and services in rural areas makes sense for a LOT of reasons, wildlife protection is just another one!

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

Hey kids remember to configure your dns so that both www dot yourdomain dot com AND yourdomain dot com will resolve correctly I’ve had to explain this to like ten people this week what are they teaching the kids these days?!

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope you like tiramisu

The Four Love Languages

By the way, We'll be giving out at least two more disability zine microgrants this June-July. US only (sorry) and more info soon.

Watching yet another bullshit legacy media plagiarism scandal unfold and I am just hopping mad about all the incredibly talented writers, reporters, photographers, and editors out there who love their work and have integrity and are scrabbling for a dwindling number of freelance assignments.

This is the final ninety minutes of our sale! Now is the time! hellgatenyc.com/the-hell-gat...

My dad was at the college for so long that he basically taught critical thinking to two entire generations of local hoodlums and it genuinely means so much that so many of them are sending me notes as the news trickles out. It sure is telling to see who takes a moment out of their day to be kind.

today on the streetcar the man sitting across from me ended what seemed like an important business call with “well, as snoopy would say: gawrsh!” then he frowned, looked at me, mouthed “goofy?”, I nodded, then he said “I’m just being goofy!” and hung up, and gave me a thumbs up

Man dealing with bad-faith neurotypicals who think they're getting away with something is EXHAUSTING how do you people live like this? Every day?? Really???

This is SUCH a great feature about the Bia hơi cốc, a beer glass that isn't just a beer glass. I absolutely love culture reporting like this and it takes so much time and care. Subscribe to @thesundaylongread.bsky.social for more!

Got a great @allmydeadcats.com advice question coming up this week from a reader supporting a friend through long-term grief, which is a topic we don't talk about enough since people really think there's a statute of limitations on grief (for all species). Subscribe so it hits your inbox!

the real tricky bit about speaking truth to power is the fact that power is incredibly stupid, and also shady. they don't like what you say which of course always puts you directly in the path of danger or personal loss. but by fuck someone has to do it so every goddamn day that's what I do

our system of knowledge production is under attack from an extraordinary array of forces and if the people putatively on the side of maintaining it cannot commit to the most basic standards (not using fake citations, writing your own words, etc) I fear there is no hope

Hey remember that time Nick Kristof wrote that wild column claiming that parents were "pulling their children out of literacy classes" so they could live large on government benefits and then spent weeks and endless column inches defending himself?

This is gross and the thread only gets more gross!

I really love the care, time, and resources that @atavist.com dedicates to their incredible longform narrative features; they are always delicious reads.

Despite the shithole hell timeline that we live in, really cool science is still happening.

Hey uh Libby why did this come up when I searched for ‘Conflict is Not Abuse’ lol

I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you

A bunch of engineers spending a couple decades denigrating any field involved with soft squishy feelings has led to the literal inability to craft a narrative the average human wouldn't recoil from in horror.

If you plant oxalis as an ornamental, I just want to talk, real quick, behind this dumpster in a dark alley.

The grift economy blooming around ICE's rapid expansion is really something!

Sucks, as we like to say in this household, to suck!

I will always click on a link about Paris greening and pedestrianizing streets! I love thinking about this and I wish every city would do it

I am so tired of this wind!!!! Fuck off!!!!!! No one wants you

Sunday mornings feel like a good time to read some pet end-of-life advice! This was a fun one, because I always love sharing altar photos. Do you keep one? What do you display on it?

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social forecast isn’t looking too great. (Flash warning)

When the pitter patter of seven loud legs accompanied by hootin’ and hollerin’ is directly followed by sepulchral silence, it’s best not to ask questions.

New — I spoke to parents whose kids are former patients of NYU Langone's trans youth health care program about the Texas criminal subpoena for their private health records. "I was furious. I was in disbelief. I was scared for my child's well-being." Read my full report:

‘I’ll go for a nice little walk to celebrate all the hard work today,’ I said. The wind: el oh el dude

they are trying to separate trans kids and adults as if those are not the same people at different points in time. have you never seen a christopher nolan movie. those are the same people and they all need to be protected!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Respectfully, I need more muscle mommies in on this TikTok ‘crush a watermelon between your thighs for women’s heart health’ trend

In other news, I do always relish a chance to talk about how much Peter Singer sucks.

I'm only 48 paid subs away from hitting my YEAR END financial goal for Burns Notice. Do you have $4/mo or $40/year to spare for good journalism from a trans writer?

tfw you cut a 2,000 word section that's genuinely really good and has lots of cool stuff and 100% doesn't belong there and you know it's better but still oof, baby

One thing I love about @conversationalist.org is their explicitly international perspective that ALSO surfaces underrepresented stories, like this about intersex activists in Ghana.

"Palestinian workers have suffered about $9 billion worth of losses over two years as a result of being prevented from reaching their workplaces, in addition to the destruction of local productive sectors, primarily agriculture, construction, and services."

I'm on @theflytrapmedia.com today with a reprint of this Gamergate retrospective from 2017! I originally wrote this with PAX East as a framing device, but we updated it a bit for 2026 -- which, sadly, wasn't a very heavy lift 🥲

Get the Flock out of here! You love to see it.

SUCH a cool article about an artist who builds bird decoys used in conservation, with amazing photographs!

A lot of reporting on wildfires focuses on the West, but it's a nationwide problem. Great feature with fantastic photography on the challenges of managing wildfires in Nebraska.

Restraint and seclusion “rooms” are being used in Alberta schools too, amidst the UCP’s ongoing cuts to EA supports. They’re back peddling on that now because an election may be coming but the solutions don’t fix the erosion of safe and adequate universal education #ableg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

For my newsletter, I wrote about the killing of Juniper Blessing and ruminated on who the media thinks deserves attention in death. Friday newsletters are usually paywalled, but I have made the mini-essay portion of this post free to all: www.burnsnotice.com/her-name-was...

Today's Bitch Media reprint at @theflytrapmedia.com is truly evergreen because we are still dealing with Gamergate!

Hey so this is fucking disgusting. FYI restraint and seclusion of disabled kids is totally legal with few guardrails and happens in schools all over the U.S., usually targeting Black, Indigenous, people of color students who are already facing disparities in access to disability services.

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social this is a rich, multi-layered text, you may need to watch several tunes for the full effect.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

If you care about staying informed re all legal/administrative news developments re abortion rights and how all key actors are navigating the nuanced political landscape and you are not subscribing to AN and following @susanrinkunas.com + @garnethenderson.com - wtaf are you doing?