“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” Time for Toni Morrison: www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/15/t...

Best new year’s ritual: watching the annual Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Day concert eith my mom. Long live the Radetzsky March. youtu.be/JcMxJ4OhJQk?...

I'm a firm believer that this liminal period between the holidays and New Year's is how we're supposed to live. It's peak existence. May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.

"It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation." --Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

One of the few things I miss about Facebook and Instagram is sharing reading journeys at the end of the year. Feeling good about my reading practice. It grounds me in all kinds of introvert-friendly ways. Good books are important treasures.

Become ungovernable

Great birding today! American kestrel, Violet green swallow, Mountain bluebird, and California gull. 😂🌲🪶

Baby fish mouth is sweeping the nation 💔

No. It is not surprising.

An article I started writing about a year ago is out. "Thinking with Jonathan Z. Smith and Drudgery Divine on the 35th Anniversary of Its Publication." Rereading it this morning, I'm feeling much gratitude for the web of wonderful scholars holding me and us. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

The internet is not what it once was, with so many apps and websites mere shadows of themselves. Thankfully, the inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee, has a fix that we should adopt

This is a very good sign about his understanding of what good governance involves

h/t @faineg.bsky.social

Last year, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social and Jim Kossin made the scientific case for a Cat6 cyclone. This week, Hurricane Melissa became the 6th storm in recorded history to smash through that threshold, with max winds of 216mph. And conditions leading to these storms are on the rise. Read more:

Depressingly accurate.

😢 h/t @phillipanderson.bsky.social

I just made a text and audio update on Jimmy Kimmel’s legal dilemma at the moment, and why he is one helluva bind. Please share this w/fellow free-speech and show-biz colleagues. The amount of nonsense that’s on SM about this case is absurd. I‘d like to inject some insider reality!

A smart Judith Butler response to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Some good news: for the last four years, I have been quietly working on a new book titled *For the Long Haul: How to Stay in the Fight for a Better World*. I have signed a contract with @akpress.org and they will be co-publishing the book with @btlbooks.com. The book will be out next fall!

If it’s run for profit, then it’s profiting off of … us. When I hear that the post office lost money, I think this: Good. We already paid for it. Why on earth should it make even more money from us? Who would keep the money? Would we see it?

❤️❤️❤️

Toni Morrison.

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

AMS released a statement on climate change today that points out five foundational flaws with the Department of Energy's 2025 climate report: www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

On a related note, there are plans a foot at the University of Oregon to possibly eliminate multiple humanities departments, including Religious Studies. Please read this and consider signing the petition in the comments: aarweb.org/news/an-appe...

Rewatching Nora Bateson’s documentary, An Ecology of Mind, about her father. I’m blown away by how much we need this kind of thinking now more than ever. Relations.

Blue Jay with his latest peanut. #birds

A pika on an old avalanche debris slope. Near Lindeman Lake, Chillwack Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia. #mammals 🌿 #bcnature #naturephotography

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

As of last month, there is no one left in the White House whose sole job is to keep the nation safe from biological threats. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Very not good

Crushed by a 14-wheeler because I got distracted by gayness

I sure do love this little guy.

ICYMI: UC Santa Cruz is launching a new medical training program in partnership with UC Davis, aiming to address a regional physician shortage and lay the groundwork for a future UCSC medical school. The initiative, part of the UC PRIME program, will begin in 2027.

Bending the knee only gets you this. It was never going to be anything different. University leaders who surrender don't just sell out their own institutions and communities, they encourage the persecution of others, as well

POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.

This interview with longtime Florida-based environmental and anti-prison organizer Panagioti Tsolkas is one of the most illuminating analyses of Trump's "Alligator Alcatraz" that I've seen.

It's a real "Fascism is already here but it's distributed unequally' sort of situation

The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work. Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.

Good morning Blue Sky

Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) Skomer Island - Late afternoon and back to shore....no fish :( #puffin #rspb #skomer #birds #wildlife #photography #ukbirding #naturephotography

* U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT UNIT THAT DEFENDS TRUMP POLICY HAS LOST TWO-THIRDS OF ITS STAFF, FORMER STAFF LAWYERS SAY * 69 LAWYERS HAVE LEFT FEDERAL PROGRAMS BRANCH SINCE TRUMP'S ELECTION, FORMER STAFF LAWYERS SAY @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Reading student discussion posts despairing about current politics. Sent them this quote: "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art."

Think Gestapo Think people disappearing because they didn’t salute the leader Think it can happen here because It is happening here And it *is* going to be on a scale across populations that the US has never seen before