Love it when states try to block local control, because said local control is almost always things like 'transgender nondiscrimination ordinances' and 'residents should have a right to reject data centers.'

This is a beautiful piece in @orionmagazine.bsky.social about coral conservation and personal connections to the environment. Well worth your time!

The ripple effect of demolishing USAID just keeps getting worse and worse. Absolutely no fucking reason to have done this and the entire world is suffering.

Thinking this morning of the San Diego Muslim community, especially those mourning those murdered at the Islamic Center yesterday. No one should fear going to a place of worship.

If you're an early-career or aspiring MG/YA author who wishes your plotting skills were stronger, my friend Emily Lloyd-Jones is teaching a workshop at the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference that you should DEFINITELY take. There's other stuff at the conference too! Come visit!

Evette's piece this morning is so good and it has me thinking about all the ridiclous 'post-racial' rhetoric that made the rounds when Obama was elected; turning points can turn back.

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social do you enjoy flautists al fresco?

Okay animal rescue pals, if you have a Pet of the Week nomination for this week's @allmydeadcats.com, hit me! Any shelter, any species, anywhere.

This rhododendron has been going hard for like six weeks I wish I had this kind of energy.

Hey so uh locals what is the deal with the permanent puddle across the coastal trail’s Alder Creek entrance

Pouring one out for the Gallery Bookshop's Catsby, objectively the best bookstore cat ever, a ferocious defender of his territory from all canines, gentle tolerator of small children, and known, on occasion, to walk through walls. Enjoy the heated bed on the bookshop counter in the sky, my friend.

Man this whole thing would be a lot easier to deal with if my father's shitty so-called friends would stop being horrid and obstructive like this whole thing where they inexplicably withhold information and force me to spend weeks tracking down contact info that they already have is really PMO.

Really lovely profile of 77-year-old Father Ray, who has spent the last year serving immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Brewing scandal about a possible AI-produced short story winning a prize and published by GRANTA. The story doesn’t seem great but it also doesn’t seem totally like the slop I typically see. Twitter is ablaze about it and so I humbly submit it to this more enlightened audience (see thread)

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

A LOT of active duty military need food and housing assistance and other supports, watching the pentagon blow billions a day right now sure should radicalize them!!

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You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

For the urban planning crowd, great feature on dense development in Spanish cities and its many benefits.

I promise you none of the people who manage your local bookstores would say the same. www.nbcnews.com/business/ceo...

Hey so remember the fast food council that was a huge victory for California workers fighting for better pay and working conditions?

I feel like we all have at least one bad roommate story but this is a VERY bad roommate story.

Clustering homes and services in rural areas makes sense for a LOT of reasons, wildlife protection is just another one!

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

Hey kids remember to configure your dns so that both www dot yourdomain dot com AND yourdomain dot com will resolve correctly I’ve had to explain this to like ten people this week what are they teaching the kids these days?!

Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope you like tiramisu

The Four Love Languages

By the way, We'll be giving out at least two more disability zine microgrants this June-July. US only (sorry) and more info soon.

Watching yet another bullshit legacy media plagiarism scandal unfold and I am just hopping mad about all the incredibly talented writers, reporters, photographers, and editors out there who love their work and have integrity and are scrabbling for a dwindling number of freelance assignments.

This is the final ninety minutes of our sale! Now is the time! hellgatenyc.com/the-hell-gat...

My dad was at the college for so long that he basically taught critical thinking to two entire generations of local hoodlums and it genuinely means so much that so many of them are sending me notes as the news trickles out. It sure is telling to see who takes a moment out of their day to be kind.

today on the streetcar the man sitting across from me ended what seemed like an important business call with “well, as snoopy would say: gawrsh!” then he frowned, looked at me, mouthed “goofy?”, I nodded, then he said “I’m just being goofy!” and hung up, and gave me a thumbs up

Man dealing with bad-faith neurotypicals who think they're getting away with something is EXHAUSTING how do you people live like this? Every day?? Really???

This is SUCH a great feature about the Bia hơi cốc, a beer glass that isn't just a beer glass. I absolutely love culture reporting like this and it takes so much time and care. Subscribe to @thesundaylongread.bsky.social for more!

Got a great @allmydeadcats.com advice question coming up this week from a reader supporting a friend through long-term grief, which is a topic we don't talk about enough since people really think there's a statute of limitations on grief (for all species). Subscribe so it hits your inbox!

the real tricky bit about speaking truth to power is the fact that power is incredibly stupid, and also shady. they don't like what you say which of course always puts you directly in the path of danger or personal loss. but by fuck someone has to do it so every goddamn day that's what I do

our system of knowledge production is under attack from an extraordinary array of forces and if the people putatively on the side of maintaining it cannot commit to the most basic standards (not using fake citations, writing your own words, etc) I fear there is no hope

Hey remember that time Nick Kristof wrote that wild column claiming that parents were "pulling their children out of literacy classes" so they could live large on government benefits and then spent weeks and endless column inches defending himself?

This is gross and the thread only gets more gross!

I really love the care, time, and resources that @atavist.com dedicates to their incredible longform narrative features; they are always delicious reads.

Despite the shithole hell timeline that we live in, really cool science is still happening.

Hey uh Libby why did this come up when I searched for ‘Conflict is Not Abuse’ lol

I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you

A bunch of engineers spending a couple decades denigrating any field involved with soft squishy feelings has led to the literal inability to craft a narrative the average human wouldn't recoil from in horror.

If you plant oxalis as an ornamental, I just want to talk, real quick, behind this dumpster in a dark alley.

The grift economy blooming around ICE's rapid expansion is really something!

Sucks, as we like to say in this household, to suck!

I will always click on a link about Paris greening and pedestrianizing streets! I love thinking about this and I wish every city would do it

I am so tired of this wind!!!! Fuck off!!!!!! No one wants you

Sunday mornings feel like a good time to read some pet end-of-life advice! This was a fun one, because I always love sharing altar photos. Do you keep one? What do you display on it?