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 🔥

Think of all of the catastrophe that hit Western North Carolina in the wake of Hurricane Helene. Now consider that was after the hurricane went over hundreds of miles of land first. Haiti and Jamaica are going to be, comparatively, hit straight on.

I can't speak to Jamaica, but I can speak to Haiti. Haiti is incredibly mountainous. The tallest mountain in North Carolina (referencing cause of Helene) is Mount Mitchell at 6,684 feet. The tallest mountain in Haiti is Pik Lasel it is 8,793 ft

Hurricane Melissa which is en route to decimate Haiti and Jamaica rapidly intensified to category 4 storm. Rapid intensification is a hallmark of climate change, but that category is only a measure of its wind speed. It is also expected to bring up to 40 inches of rain

Survived a nine-hour power outage with our newborn please clap

“Okay so that’s not actually a maple leaf but a representation of a maple leaf.” —My husband Barthesplaining a contrast card to our five-week-old

My mom conspiratorially asked me if I knew sometimes AI is *wrong*

It might be the sleep deprivation but what if I got really into fonts

Seattleites are going through it today lol

Why did it have to be an Astro to do it

If you were not familiar with the concept of the Seattle Mariners before, this is a good game to catch you up to speed

Mariners gonna Mariner

I have a one-month-old 😭

My husband has started referring to our wiggly baby as the Little Worm (sweet, cute 🥰) but he’s also started calling me the Mother Worm (☹️)

The best thing about maternity leave is that I didn’t learn about the Time cover until just now

Flex

Krasz!!!!!

Hormones are so powerful, I’m looking at photos of myself pregnant like, “I miss that.” (This is completely deranged, with the exception of about two weeks in my second trimester, I was completely miserable for all nine months)

Oh hell yeah bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Coffee for new moms should be covered by your HSA

This is really really bad news :( www.opb.org/article/2025...

I had an idea awhile back to try to get a Bluesky prompt going asking people to share photos of their desks/workspaces (I still want to see them all, share yours with me!) so I’m absolutely in heaven with this @wallpapermag.bsky.social feature www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...

“How’s the newborn phase?” I have accidentally called my daughter by the cat’s name at least twice

When your phone falls off the arm rest while you’re nap-trapped by a nine-day-old

Looking at photos of my baby on my phone while my baby is asleep in my lap

When you have a newborn but also there’s a new PTA in theaters

WHOA

EVERYONE SAY HI TO JEVA’S BB G THEYRE SO COOL AND CUTE AND AMAZING

Hello G. Welcome to Earth. There’s only one rule that I know of: God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.

love when a restaurant realizes they have no vegetarian options and are like "uhhhhhhh fuck ok blistered shishitos"

A high of 58 would fix me. Probably heal the nation, now that I'm thinking of it.

lol NYFF

Okay I have officially reached my limit for reading pieces about Charlie Kirk but thanks to all players

"We need a transition between an area that is going to burn, and that we can let burn, but not in a way that is catastrophic." @jeva.bsky.social speaks to Dan Efseaff, the restoration ecologist building a wildfire buffer in Paradise, CA:

Every year, I am reminded of this story of David Carr’s about finding a copy of “Elements of Style” that blew out of the WTC

I've just done this (for a piece I'm very excited about, TK soon!) and agree strongly that pubs should do it more!

Another September, another deluge of social media posts from PNWers convinced they have fiddle, wolf, or recluse spider infestations. Comrades. It's just giant house spider mating season. You don't have an infestation. They've been there the whole time. Now they are risking death for girlfriends

I splurged on a really nice reading chair (okay okay it’s a nursing chair, but until baby gets here, it’s for reading) and it’s been such a game changer, I should have invested in a comfy reading chair yearssssss ago

It’s like buying a car “and then running it into a tree after a few years, just to save the price of tank of gas,” said David Crisp, a former scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/c...

So we’re just fully beyond Doublespeak now I guess lol www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...