Pickleball is just gay tennis

🎻🎄✨

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

In line at the post office. Merry Beermas

pls read my ecomodernist manifesto—we could make a massive dent in our planetary crises by reducing our dependence on the two great efficiency sinks in American life: meat and cars. And we can do so in a way that's consistent with growth and democratic principles www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Not my LinkedIn year in review telling me my first connection was my dad 😂

@kennytorrella.bsky.social is the only one covering this very important story! I know Americans really like to eat meat but allowing the meat industry to contribute to the ruin of miracle antibiotics really strikes me as an irrational trade.

listening to my top song of 2025 over and over

🌱 I’m looking forward to moderating the panel, “Rooted in Opportunity: Connecting #NorthCarolina Farmers to the Plant-Based Economy” at the Global Forum for Plant Based and Alternative Proteins conference next week. 🚀 Register here: app.swapcard.com/event/global...

UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene. A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”

performing Handel’s Messiah this afternoon at 2nd Presbyterian! Free! Festive! Come out and sing! 🎄✨

Homemade Detroit-style pizza (vegan!)

gay 2-step 🤠 🌈

NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes. Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget. thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...

MY LATEST: Chain dollar stores promise big savings—but the low prices listed on the shelves often don’t materialize at checkout. As the cost of living soars, the customers bearing the burden are those who can least afford it. An investigation for @theguardian.com with @jocelynzuck.bsky.social.

One standout sentiment came from Andy Jarvis of Bezos Earth Fund:
"I’d love to see a real, meaningful coalition around sustainable protein emerge in the world—where the meat industry, AP advocates, gov'ts, and finance all realize this isn’t a ‘problem area,’ it’s a ‘massive solution’ area.” 👏

🌱 I’m looking forward to moderating the panel, “Rooted in Opportunity: Connecting #NorthCarolina Farmers to the Plant-Based Economy” at the Global Forum for Plant Based and Alternative Proteins conference next week. 🚀 Register here: app.swapcard.com/event/global...

we used to have it all

just fucked up an obscene amount of Fry Like An Eagle

Minecraft Lego assembly

Don’t talk to me or my son ever again

Fa la la etc

Immigration officers hauled away a construction worker in Cary NC. "A half mile up the road, they looked at his wallet and saw he was a citizen," said his supervisor. "They pulled him out of the van and threw his wallet out the window. He had to walk back here." #ncpol www.cbs17.com/news/local-n...

Saw the Chicago Civic Orchestra perform Holst’s The Planets and it ruled 🪐🌍🌙☄️

Partner’s nephew threw a paper airplane into the bonfire and said “it’s 9/11”

Let’s get after it everybody 👊🏻

Panoramic View of the Northern Lights last night over the Chicago Skyline.

Roses are red Chrysanthemums are gold

❄️

bangs

Impossible Foods is offering free products to folks experiencing food insecurity, including those impacted by the uncertainty around SNAP benefits. Please help by sharing with your network. impossiblefoods.com/blog/snap

Home recording for the mighty #Flatfoot56 🍀 🇮🇪🍻 hit me up if you need cello on yr songs! Can record tracks from home w/ quick turnaround 🎧 🎤 🔁

did we ever find out if it was counting or not counting gang violence

Hey so if this is true I'm cancelling my Fortnite subscription and uninstalling the game. I encourage anyone else who cares about trans people to do the same

Some really big news dropped in animal rights world last week that was made possible only by extremely competent activism—a top breeder of dogs for lab experimentation will shut down. So I wrote about it and what it means and says about science, etc. gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Paleontologists in North Carolina say they have made a groundbreaking discovery. They have evidence that a tyrannosaur species coexisted with T. rex, a speedy and agile creature called Nanotyrannus. www.wunc.org/term/news/20...

Lorge vegan desserts at Planta Queen w/ NC visitor @heyitswhitney.bsky.social

It’s even more extreme than that if you want full self-sufficiency. The average US diet requires ~2 acres of land (cropland + pasture)/person/year. So a family of 4 would need ~8 acres. (It’s less if you eat more plants/fewer animal proteins than avg American, but it’s still a looooot of land.)

Pure Michigan 🍎 🍂

Medusa 🐍 sneak peek

Lifting to Thich Nhat Hanh

One of the nice parts about cooking without meat is that you don't need to treat any of your utensils like a biohazard because you aren't getting meat juices on them.

Just taught my midwestern bf the term “nabs.” Do yall know what nabs are?

NYC wedding weekend ✨

Cursed directions

Have been reading so much good sapphic fiction

In rural Wisconsin, ordered a dish with no cheese and was met with responses of sheer horror

I love songwriting

there should be an industry wide boycott of this and everyone involved

Oo-la-la! ✨👌 “On September 13, New York’s dining scene gets a sweet twist with the debut of Délice de Bernay, billed as Manhattan’s first fully vegan French pâtisserie” 🇫🇷 vegnews.com/nyc-delice-d...