USAID is a criminal organization,” Mr. Musk wrote on Sunday in a social media post that many aid workers saw as confirmation the agency would soon be absorbed into the State Department and that some viewed as a potential threat to their personal safety. “Time for it to die.” THIS HAS TO STOP.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u... This is all so insane. I ask this genuinely: what do we do?

Wtf is this guy even doing? These kind of resource-related untruths are the smoke and mirrors that distract people from large-scale disasters in-the-making. Similarities to past events under dictatorships in other parts of the world (thinking of Maoist China) are hard to ignore.

Hooray for High Five Books! So lucky to be in their orbit.

The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry's poetic antidote to despair, animated

Happy year of the snake! I would argue that the snakes of the United States are just as varied and pretty as our birds. A few years ago I made a poster to try and prove it. Drawing this took many months and a lot of research. You can get it here: topatoco.com/collections/...

Dying to finish the book, but my kids keep falling asleep because, you know, nighttime. Promised I wouldn’t read ahead but I might be a liar.

Semester starts tomorrow. Had a dream that I showed up to first class and my classroom was an active restaurant. Had projector but projector broken. Had to reschedule for when restaurant was closed.

Ok, I’m here. Now can we please not let the crazies take this one over too?

Umm...this is pretty much the same thing as pre-EM Twitter, right?