Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

New awareness campaign

For a @motherjones.com piece, looking to talk to a few people who purchased health insurance through the marketplace who have dealt with higher deductibles this year and how that's impacted you. Please reach out to [email protected] and appreciate reposts.

new summer phenology: the date you move the AQI app to the homescreen

tattered old library card replaced with black & white studious Bruce Lee edition 🤌

tonight I ran into the heron enthusiast who drives around with a plastic one sticking out of her sunroof 🪶

say what you will about linkedin and nemesis discourse but without their powers combined, I wouldn't have learned a college rival now sells AI tools to landlords

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

pretty pink checkerbloom coming up all over Mt. Tamalpais #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

👀🪶 all the public health-minded birders nodding solemnly as we read about the hantavirus couple visiting a landfill to birdwatch (lots of us hang out near wastewater treatment areas, iykyk!) abcnews.com/Health/wireS...

a thing no one tells you about birding is that you'll be peacefully, wholesomely tracking a warbler and a rather vulgar stranger will come barging along the path and crow at your partner, "WOW that is a BIG camera!!" 🪶

A coworker described this owlet as "sentient dryer lint" and now I can't unsee it 🦉

For @kqedarts.bsky.social, I visited the AIDS Quilt to encourage more Bay Area folks to assist a new project redigitizing many of its 500,000 panels. Love the beautiful photos!!

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

For @kqedarts.bsky.social, I visited the AIDS Quilt to encourage more Bay Area folks to assist a new project redigitizing many of its 500,000 panels. Love the beautiful photos!!

A big thank you to @brittashoot.com for this lovely story about the small team of volunteers working to rephotograph all 500,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Pro tip: have tissues handy. www.kqed.org/arts/1398904...

💌 Applications are open for @prismreports.org's Reflective Journalism Project: ICE Melts in Summer 💌 prismreports.org/reflective-j...

programming three whole hours of live radio on May Day, AMA

One of the problems with technology today is if you're a millenial/xennial you remember when tech worked.

shout out to fremont’s death camas, a beautiful leggy wildflower with an absurdly goth name #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

Big news!!!🌷🌷🌷My next book, SOCIAL DISTANCING, will be published by @semiotexte.bsky.social in March 2027!!!🎉🎉🎉 Watch out, world...💐💐💐

"We are people living with long covid, and we are ill. We're fed up of seeing public money spent on projects that put sick people in danger. We want real treatments, not behavioural and cognitive therapies or meditation..."

the thing no one tells you about writing a book over many years is you will eventually forget that all that you learned is not in fact in everyone else’s head just because it’s in yours now, hence: you are writing a book

Sometimes when I talk about how much masks improve my life, people mistakenly think I still want to be living in mid-2020. No! That sucked! It was stressful and sad! A main reason I wear & love N95s in crowded places is that I get to opt out getting sick while skipping the bad parts of that time!

an incredible array of older short (<90 min) Herzog docs are leaving @criterionchannl.bsky.social end of this month and I wish platforms weren't so broken so that I could share this info more widely #filmsky

We won. Tesla Chicago is closed. Their new location is in a ghost town. They sacrificed visibility to thousands/day--& proximity to the other luxury car dealerships--to get away from us, because we'd turned their brand ambassador location into a liability. Organizing works. @teslatakedown.com

young pope leo looks like a ska scene regular who goes by Upbeat but no one knows his real name

wrote about the most important architectural legacy of the Trump administration: the conversion of logistics warehouses into detention centers www.thenation.com/article/soci...

visited the AIDS Quilt warehouse today 😭

Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection

yet another beavertail cactus magenta cup #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

Neo-Nazis have shut down the entire federal funding office for social and behavioral sciences so they can spread election, war, and health disinformation without accountability, and we have to suffer the final indignity of the tongue-in-cheek lie we might be able to debate them into decency

legit incredible that this hasn’t happened in 25 years ago and the last time it was intentionally insulting (disgruntled departing roommate’s final rent check)

After many years, back in Bay Nature, writing in the spring issue about the Estero Americano Coast Preserve, an already wildly popular Sonoma shoreline reserve that's absolutely stunning this time of year! 🌊🌱🌼🦅

Again I’d like to point to all of the high school student walk outs that have been happening for months In Los Angeles even the middle school students are involved

Cops fractured his skull for standing by in peaceful protest. And people in power claimed he assaulted the cops. No hell greater for those who smeared him. RIP.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

A second photographer in Los Angeles lost an eye to law enforcement "less-lethal" munitions while just taking pictures at protests. These weapons are supposed to be used ONLY for immediate violent threats. Marshall Woodruff and now Tucker Collins were armed with nothing but a camera.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

war: how would you feel? polaroid taken in Joshua Tree last week...

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

Wild and a great example of why AI can’t replace humans in media. Generative AI can’t make these kinds of logical connections or do this kind of research. For this, you need a nerd (complimentary).

"They understand Canada, its winters & have at least a fighting chance of being able to drive acceptably on snow and ice," the document reads, a tidy version of the "Immigrants can’t drive" trope...Aspiring Albertans should be healthy, too, free of serious illnesses & "experimental mRNA injections."

being able to sit patiently with other people's thoughts, sit patiently with your own, and make both of those processes legible to someone who is not you is very valuable. if you can find a new way to do this that is fantastic news but I suspect it will at least resemble the model we've inherited

you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

haha YES (dropping fish guts all over an expensive tennis court that can't evict them)

LA weirdos! It appears that @uchicagopress.bsky.social is giving away my book OIL BEACH for FREE this month (as an e-book) Link is here: press.uchicago.edu/books/freeEb...

my library branch's newsletter opens like a horoscope! books for comfort and learning!

I recently had a close encounter with a pair of pyrrhuloxia and I'm just in love with the mix of gray and red feathers on these desert dwellers 😍 🪶 #BirdOfTheDay #Feathers