The Bump, which sends me weekly emails with a subject line stating my baby’s age, now also thinks I’m ready for another baby. At 13 weeks 🫠

What hath we wrought

The weirdest part about this to me is how it sounds like it is virtually unchanged from *my* Titanic Experience at the Pacific Science Center … BACK IN 2001

It’s 7am! The baby is contact sleeping! The coffee is hot! Two hours of Ken Burns’ Dust Bowl in the hopper!

I think the biggest lesson we can learn from babies is that sometimes you’ve just gotta lie face down and scream into a blanket

I’ve gotten seven hours of sleep for the first time since September, I feel UNSTOPPABLE

I’m at the mall, a place I haven’t been in like seven years, and inside the mall, there’s a Tesla dealership? Inside? The mall?

Wait lol Eric Adams threatened Zohran with a ghost???

Air pollution in New York City down 22% after six months of congestion pricing #airpollution www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The Snoqualmie River is at its highest level in a decade due to the warm weather (snowmelt) and round one of the atmospheric river. And more rain is on the way…

oh my god

I’ll add: That line of thinking — that an open gangway is more dangerous — has never made sense to me. I’ve been stalked/harassed on the trains and in every case, I’d have felt *more* safe if I could have gotten the attention of an entire train rather than just my car bsky.app/profile/coop...

The thing about the average New Yorker’s objection to open gangway cars - that they’ll make the subway less safe because “bad people” can move between the cars - is that people already go between the cars all the time anyway. I’m tired of being held hostage in the city by people who are afraid of it

Jump scare of Trump showing up as the authority on Manhattan’s granite bedrock in Ric Burns’ New York lol

My baby has started babbling. She wants to participate in the discourse. She yearns to produce content.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

My husband and I are sleeping in shifts to take care of the baby, which means we both get 5-6 hours alone every day while the other is conked out in the bedroom. This has resulted in us both leaning into the most comical, extreme versions of our own interests lol

Pro tip: This is an excellent weekend to do an inbox unsubscribe purge, because literally every brand/organization/store with your contact info is going to email you

PBS is so good. You mean I can watch a doc on the War of 1812 after I finish Revolution??? I can finally watch Baseball, Dust Bowl, and The Vietnam War??? Ric Burns’ New York series??? History Documentary Girl Winter is a go!!!

Why did I suddenly remember these at 5:45 in the morning

Before I had my own, I never noticed babies, which is wild because every time I’m out with G, we’re swarmed by people who are like “LOOK IT’S A BABY”

This is very cool. Often food pantries need to spend their money making sure everyone has the basics to keep them fed and healthy, but not on the spices and flavors that make an enjoyable meal. www.burlapandbarrel.com/products/don...

When I go back to work and people ask what I did on maternity leave, the only thing I’ll be able to say is that I found a way to change the lyrics to every Beatles song to be about babies

I don’t know who needs to be deinfluenced this sale season but absolutely do not buy the Loftie clock lol

woah this came outta nowhere. thanks!!!! wow!!!!!! omg!!!!!!!

My Seattle suburb’s neighborhood Facebook group is doing a survey of what people think would improve the town and all the responses are like, “more parking” 😐

A weird thing about my schooling is I completely missed ever learning about the American Revolution in a classroom, so aside from what I’ve picked up from reading histories of New York and the like, stitching it all together with Burns’ doc is very fun! (Also yayyyy PBS!)

Sleeping for more than six hours is CRAZY. That’s SO LONG. Imagine how good more than six hours of sleep would feel!!!

dystopian ass weather report

Nuke the industry from orbit.

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

My mom is running late to her friend’s surgery because her commuter ferry is surrounded by orcas. Seattle problems!

Every GD day as an historian. We are speakers for the dead.

They warn you about sleep deprivation and losing your identity when you have a newborn but not about the suffocating weight of human history and the early morning meditations on our fleeting mortality

You ever think about how we’re born knowing absolutely nothing and we have to spend literally our whole lives learning — AKA catching up on at least the outlines of what everyone who came before us either did or figured out — and if we’re lucky, we get to add a little bit to that, and then we die?

I follow an Australian small biz that sells (great) breastfeeding bracelets on Instagram and they made an advocacy post about what moms *really* want for Cyber Monday & it’s wild to see what gets reached for in a society that has already met basic needs like parental leave & universal healthcare! 🫠

Happy Galloping Gertie Day to all who celebrate

We went to our first movie today!!!

Being a baby has got to be so hard. The only thing you can say is “do something!!!” but it comes out “wahhhHHHHHhhh!!!” so no one knows exactly what that something is. People are always putting you in goofy outfits with animal faces on the feet. You just get set places and have to deal.

This is a really good idea (especially because many non-profit newsrooms like us over at @highlandscurrent.bsky.social have matching grants through the end of the year thanks to NewsMatch.) Everybody come back here on Nov. 30th and recommend a news outlet that you think people should subscribe to!

In case you weren’t already feeling bad about the state of media, my husband tutors high-achieving students and had to explain to a ninth grader recently the difference between a newspaper and a magazine

Great collection of articles about how wildfires could fundamentally remake vast swaths of US life Including looks at the insurance challenges compelling relocation, the tricky ways to order evacuations & the reality that many people are stuck in place

I actually worked on this project with Dan Efseaff, parks director of the town of #ParadiseCalifornla, my colIeagues at the @consbio.bsky.social and #TheNatureConservancy. The world doesn’t have to be this way, or keep burning this way. We can change it with imagination and learning collaboratively.

In case you missed it — I spent my last trimester working on this package for @heatmap.news on what happens after wildfires, from rebuilding to relocating. Grateful to all the survivors, hotshots, and fire experts who spoke to me for it, and proud of what came together! heatmap.news/the-aftermath

Got back from my first night out since having the baby and the game is still on??? What’d I miss

I thought someone put a KKK hood on the local cow statue and then realized it’s supposed to be a ghost lol

IT’S HERE 🔥