Adulthood is just cycling between "If I don't say yes to every opportunity, no new opportunities will ever be offered to me" and "Oh no, I have said yes to too many things" over and over until you die.

I did this with and without VPN and the only difference with VPN is it thought I was in California. I am not I'm on Pluto

Love to cancel things. Plans. Subscriptions. Men. What gets cancelled does not always STAY canceled but it's worth a try. Check out the thread for more sensible suggestions!

Landscape art exhibition openings, a book hike, a creek tour, and more in What You Can Do this week.

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

I got my first tattoos when I was pretty young (15, 17, 23) and I insisted on drawing them myself. I am... not an artist anyone would pay for artwork, let's put it that way.

April was a good month to break my reading slump. I read BOG QUEEN, A TRUCE THAT IS NOT PEACE, IN PRAISE OF FLOODS, DEMON QUEEN, LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER, and THE END OF ROMANCE. 💙📚 #BookSky

I'm Increase Urban Vegetation drawdown.org/explorer

If billionaires insist on destroying the power of our vote, we have to try something different. Deny them your money. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

This concludes our #NationalPoetryMonth posting: 30 days, 30 poets, 30 poems with environmental connections that give us hope, ideas, evocative images, or big feelings. Who did we miss? What are your favorite poems about nature, climate change, and the environment?

I have been sharing the Magic 8 Ball analogy for a while now, but I think this is maybe the first time it's made it to print: >>

Yes yes, every day is Earth Day. But on April 22 I find myself thinking about Earth Day Philadelphia 56 years ago--the momentum that movement created, and what it changed. We could use that energy now.

This week, you can celebrate Earth Day with events involving art, books, urban studies, outdoor activities, and... striptease? Never change, Philadelphia.

post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you feel like it)

Where was @edzitron.com when I needed backup last night at a networking event, as I got cornered by a game designer earnestly explaining that he did NOT use genAI in his game art but he WOULD except for the stigma which is UNFAIR but people get so EMOTIONAL... www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never...

Wondering about that smoke plume we all saw Saturday? Curious where to go to get on a boat this spring? Get these questions answered--and don't forget you can meet us on Thursday at our infosession!

So you've heard about our Climate Education for Writers program and you're interested, but want to learn more about what you're getting into? Come meet with us at noon Eastern on Thursday, April 16. We'll present a few slides and then open the floor for your questions! upenn.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The world is so full of Horrors that I think we need more reminders that humanity is at its best when we are making weird little guys. So here is a gorgeous parade just full of weird little guys, an entourage of centuries-old nightmares and daydreams given new life and bobbing sweetly down a river.

DUDES! HERE'S AN EASY WAY TO BE AN ALLY: TELL US WHAT YOU MAKE (anonymously, for a survey, she's legit)

An exquisite learning opportunity for writers seeking to connect language and love for our environment. It's free. It's all part of the Buried Creek Collective initiative . Learn more here: buriedcreekcollective.com @buriedcreek @stephanie.feldman

I called my reps this morning and actually got through to a person in one instance. We're not calling enough.

April showers bring a blooming field of opportunities to learn, explore, and take care of the natural world.

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

I can't speak for other fields, but programming is headed for a future where the Morlocks eventually die off leaving a generation of Eloi who will be fine as long as the Second Law of Thermodynamics is wrong.

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

It's happening. Please share with any Philadelphia-area writers you know who might want to spend a few months this fall immersed in learning and talking about climate change, the unique environmental landscape of our city, and how to bring forward those themes in their creative work.

With thanks/apologies to @tunesandtales.bsky.social, whose annual poetry threads are a highlight of April for me.

Search your camera roll for "fool"

This month I read The Mars Room, Vagabond, Helm, and Dinner at the Night Library. 💙📚 #BookSky There are also a ton of links... lots of gross AI news this month, but also some fun literary reads.

This is what I keep saying when people try to tell me about generative AI as assistive technology. I've been a professional writer for a long time. I've used machine transcription for interviews for years. Spelling and grammar check, obviously, longer. I've watched all these tools get so much worse!

Read about fires and floods in the region. Learn from films and foraging walks and First Fridays. And plan ahead for April!

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

This week: Local and state news, educational events, and opportunities to engage in the state of nature.

Grateful that my morning doomscroll led me instead to this treasure. What an inspiration. Trying to bring this devastatingly calm and wry energy into any confrontations with the horrors today. youtu.be/0bNy7XO-SCI?...

Lots of learning opportunities this week--both free and ticketed, online and in person.

Invited some friends over tonight to party like it's 1969 by dipping food into my thrifted fondue pots. 🫕 I didn't realize I scheduled dinner for PI DAY. I have no pie.... but I do have marshmallows and GF graham crackers for the chocolate. Is a s'more a kind of deconstructed hand pie?

I've been focused on nonfiction lately, and this piece is from a few years ago, but I am pleased to announce that I have a short witchy story up in Corvid Queen, from Sword and Kettle Press. corvidqueen.com/stories/all-... #FlashFiction

Phenology is the study of natural cycles and how seasonal phenomena (like emerging flowers and mating birds) are linked. In March, you can plan walks to observe this. In the news, you can observe how the catastrophe of war and the gradual violence of climate crisis are also linked phenomena.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

For funsies, my comprehensive exams were in: 1. 20th century American modernism 2. Contemporary American lit (which, at the time, was like 1989-2009) 3. Books by white male authors my chair thought I should read 4. Books by women, queer authors, and BIPOC authors I wanted to read

Oh joy, I got my first literary promo email from an AI bot! Double joy, it is addressed to a whole other Sara Davis, offering to promote a book I most assuredly did not write. What a confidence boost on a day when I am literally actually trying to finish my first book. 😅

This week, you can stand up for science, read local environmental news, and plan ahead for the coming month.

Short month, but a good month of reading even though my local library branch was still closed for most of it. 💙📚 #BookSky

Climate links from 2026 so far: what the White House is up to, more plastics where we don't want them, and some odds and ends of interest.

What we're reading this month—featuring gorgeous prose that weaves personal stories of loss and recovery with environmental themes.

It's pretty snowy out there, but there are some great webinars this week, including one about biodiversity and storytelling.

OH MY GOD why did none of you tell me they were turning VLADIMIR into a limited series?! With Rachel Weisz?!?!