Check for ticks! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/08/m...

Things so necessary dissappearing in plain sight. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“gerontonomia"? Bring back Logan's Run www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Evening jam. Nice surprise www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQFG...

Science! www.popsci.com/environment/...

Way too important to paywall. Please share with reporters you know in the national media. Children's book authors now have to sign into hotels under assumed names. Two book imprints have gone under, partially from the hit they took from censorship. rickperlstein.substack.com/p/an-ignoran...

This is a pro seed library account. Get your library into it.  ediblesema.com/backyard-gar...

Gift link here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Worthwhile read.

Thoroughly entertaining, positively cinematic interview with Looney Tunes' Pat McGrath.

Morning jam www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8RZ...

Worthwhile read yourmoneymatesarah.substack.com/p/the-manosp...

my new weather app www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how...

How about fines and taxes?

From an excellent book from PM Press called Fire&Flame.

New science is out on one of Earth's critical "tipping points": the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which brings warm Gulf Stream water toward Europe and helps make the mild climate of northern Europe possible. (🧵⬇️)

“Cognitive surrender” sounds about right

governor abbott took away our rainbow crosswalks but we replaced them with much more visible rainbow sidewalks, and some businesses have followed suit (one added rainbow exterior stairs)

Hopeful that this project moves forward in the Westport River newbedfordlight.org/new-england-...

Since you made it through tonight's stochastic annhilation threat, time to worry about your future being looted. Sweat dreams cepr.net/publications...

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

A fascinating story about basketmaking, ash trees & the emerald ash borer - insideclimatenews.org/news/3003202... 🌱

Must read. Really well done. "Continuation funds and other extend-and-pretend schemes also trap portfolio companies in the grasp of private equity, which can devastate workers, damage quality, and monopolize markets in ways that keep prices high"

Really fantastic article. "But ours is not a home with permanence — there is no “forever home.” As Bachelard said, “A nest is a precarious thing, and yet it provokes confidence and security.”

Really good new exhibit at New Bedford Museum of Art

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

"The essence of Trump’s movement is an attack on the very concept of American citizenship". Good read

Good read. thebaffler.com/salvos/warfa...

evening jam www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLDH...

"A man would shelter, if he could in the nook behind this new plywood. The building, abandoned, the man is too. How I wish you'd imagine if that it were you" Seen in Rochester, New York

Profiteering is not a bug but a feature of wars. TotalEnergies took “advantage of the wartime disruption to make a bumper profit” of more than USD 1 billion. The right response to this war is to end the war, cut off windfall profit opportunities and stabilize prices. www.ft.com/content/eba8...

“My daughter Heather was eight years old when dirty water killed her,” Maughan said in the programme. “That summer we went on holiday as a family of four and came home as a family of three.” oceanographicmagazine.com/news/sewage-...

This is terrible news theradavist.com/paragon-mach...

Kids being kids www.theguardian.com/music/galler...

The normalcy bias in this fucking country is just unbelievable. You can watch people get murdered, witness the constitution getting shredded by the day, hear the tech fascists say, in no uncertain terms, what kind of dystopian hellscape they’re working to create, and be like, oh, I’m sure it’s fine.

Have taken 6 ticks of our dog in the last 3 days. Little shits survived the winter. Check youself for ticks as your return outdoors.

If you have not read We Go Where They Go you really should. 5 bucks and supports a good cause? Add to Cart!

This Dogon AD record by Julius Hemphill is unreal. On repeat newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-ha...

Worthwhile read. preview.mailerlite.com/i7q7k3w0x1/2...

Enshittification, not just for software. prospect.org/2026/03/19/u...

"The new Tasks app from food delivery app DoorDash has nothing to do with delivering food—it’s all about gathering training data from humans, that’s you, for improving generative AI models and humanoid robots." Bleak is right.

Agree

For Business Insider, I read three books about Palantir and wrote about how "Palantirianism" -- unabashed nationalism, tech building up the US security state, ready to commit violence on behalf of the US and our allies -- is ascendant in Silicon Valley. www.businessinsider.com/palantir-gui...

"Because we're full up on the bottomless bloviations of the unremarkable."

sobering forecast

Word of the day Apophenia.

Worthwhile read www.thefarce.org/man-who-spat...

"As homebuilding consolidated, and an institutional asset ownership class emerged, the big builders started working with Wall Street to craft single family homes from scratch that would never go on the market. This “Build to Rent” sector took off..." www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-senat...

“The project felt like destiny; finally, I was merging my skillset as a librarian with my experience as a skateboarder.” 📚🛹

My email is an endless stream of “upgrade to get access to—“ I don’t want it. I want to downgrade. I want to get less access. I want the opposite of what you’re selling.