This book reminds me of planetary romances from the likes of Ursula K. Le Guin, Nicola Griffith, and C.J. Cherryh--meditations on humanity and culture through the lens of an alien world.

Commentary: Because of the slashing of RIPTA’s service, affecting 45 out of its 63 lines, tens of thousands of Rhode Islanders have lost time, income, and the ability to access educational, civic, medical, commercial, and religious opportunities.

I hate the framing of “Ms Rachel has found a new cause—“ because no she hasn’t. Advocating for children kidnapped and locked up by ICE is not incompatible with her advocacy of children in Palestine. You just want to make her advocacy sound frivolous and fleeting. She’s being consistent.

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll She was born on March 20th, 1915

The launch of my book Coverage Denied (out 4/23) will be at the White Whale Bookstore on 4/28. If you're in Pittsburgh, register to attend here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc... And if you're not local, you can register for the livestream! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Hope you can make it!

The ProPublica union has voted to authorize a strike. Around 150 journalists, videographers, copy editors and more voted to authorize, with 92% of the union voting yes. ProPublica allegedly rejected restrictions on replacing jobs with AI, and hasn't met other union concerns.

It's always disorienting when a shitposter I follow mentions something about having an office job or whatever. It's just not right. Good shitposting should at least cover basic necessities to ensure that our finest shitposters don't need to go out and do normal people things

Happy equinox!

Friday at last…

Shared this picture with @dariaphoebe.com saying "it's Nip!" She said "did you just feed him?" Me: ".... No. I guess it is that time. 😅" Feeding him will of course not make him stop.

Best charitable fundraising headline of the year so far

FOLKS,

The city paper rising from the dead fucking rips and I'm glad that they're back www.pghcitypaper.com/news-2/pitts...

Seattle Sounders FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC playing at ONE Spokane Stadium - home of Spokane Zephyr FC and Spokane Velocity FC - in the #CCCFever Quarterfinals. This is a real thing that's happening. #GainbridgeSuperLeague #USL-1

Dessa: Still fantastic to see live. ☺️

FUCK ME, Bluesky's vibe coded pile of shit just switched off "require alt text". Go check yours.

Work-related person: "Why do DNS responses for an A request have all of these CNAME and other records?" Me: "O muse, let me sing a tale of time gone, of packets that traveled long and late returned... Lo, when the Internet was young and spirits of flame still walked the Earth..."

this is an awful, devastating, and absolutely necessary read: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for." --Dolores Huerta

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Strike! ✊ Fight the Power! Turn off CBS!!!

I watched Sinner for the nth time last night and am again pulling out my megaphone that Grace was right to let them in when she did. Remmick was going after Sammie one way or the other. The longer they waited, the more locals he would've picked off. He would've forced them out of that mill.

It's going to be a cold night tonight but should be fun. ☺️ www.youtube.com/live/8QsyKXq... (Kickoff at 7pm US Eastern time.) @rhodeislandfc.bsky.social #UpTheTide

I say, with the voice of experience, that breast cancer sucks but modern treatments are astonishing. Canceling this research is an act of cruelty.

The FDA has asked Raw Farm to recall the cheddar cheese linked to the outbreak and "it has declined." But E.coli 0157 H7 is a very pathogenic bacteria. So buyer be aware and beware here. 1/3

I feel like having flights double in price due to fuel costs isn't going to help on top of the everything else which is worse.

A stunning (yet unsurprising) graph of who gets identified for special versus gifted education in Oregon. Graph reported by @mattbarnum.bsky.social.

so we rescued a set of cinema film scanners does anyone need a set of cinema film scanners? if you have a need for a cinema film scanner (or can give it a good home!), and can arrange to have it transported from the Seattle area, message me on fedi or e-mail me at [email protected]

Search your camera roll for “hell”

Guys, taxes aren't you purchasing services. Taxes are simply a way to prevent there from being too much money in circulation, which causes inflation, when the government is spending money (putting it into circulation).

top surgery and bottom surgery are all well and good, but when can i get strange surgery and charm surgery?

Loungin.

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

It's really important to highlight the way that the City pairs AMEs and closures because it reveals a lot about their thinking and because it highlights the way that intentionally conflating and confusing things is bad for people and for public accountability.

*crying in the corner* Make it stop, make it stooop

Americans drive a lot more than people in other rich countries. If we didn’t drive so much, we wouldn’t die in so many crashes. It’s a simple point, but one that NHTSA, traffic engineers, and many road safety org’s have yet to learn. Me, in Bloomberg 🧵

Dessa is phenomenal live! Not sure I can make this show, but if you can, you should.

Rhode Island friends: RIPTA’s section of @govdanmckee.bsky.social’s FY2027 budget will be up for a hearing tomorrow at 4:30 pm (State House Room 35) While Gov. McKee’s budget allocation of $13.8m prevents cuts from happening this year, it’s not enough to reverse the devastating cuts from last fall.

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

Beyond the avoidable tragedy, I wonder whether repeated deaths at the same intersection despite demand for change will lead to increased liability for cities and traffic engineers. Will we ever have a lawsuit and landmark court case that will change street design toward safety?

The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope is out! A hundred and more micro-essays about narrative game writing, by a huge list of writers and designers. I’m one of them. Compiled and printed by Jon “Inkle" Ingold. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/03/the-... www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope/

It's not widely known enough that the moment the UN formally recognized "genocide" as a phenomenon, Black Americans filed a petition charging the US with genocide against Black people. The conditions they describe have continued. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

Our series on Naoki Urasawa’s “Monster is over but not forgotten! Here’s a snapshot of what we covered, starting with: An Introduction to “Monster” bsky.app/profile/sequ...

oh ffs. *that'* why it's suddenly so late. 😓

So I scoped out the start of the Sporting Jax va Hartford #USL-C match and the players are 100% pausing for one minute at the start of every game. The league's broadcast carefully showed none of it and just said "there's a delay of kickoff".

Beat Takeshi's the Muppet Show.

For folks who want to be in solidarity with the #USL-C players: remember to wait for what actions *they* call for. Don't boycott in anticipation. Support the team and the players and the league as you always would, right up until the actual call to action.

www.instagram.com/p/DVkMNCzkYt... Solidarity with the USL Championship players here. I hope the league is listening and sees their resolve.