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edmullen.bsky.social
Designer and strategist mostly working in civic tech. Currently Nava PBC, previously 18F, HC.gov... www.edmullen.com
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From @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social from her July 2024 appearance on On Being: "So mushrooms, I feel like they’re our great detoxer. They’re the ones who understand that nothing needs to be wasted; that everything can be used in some way..." onbeing.org/programs/adr...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Let's go #unrivaled!

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

"We conclude that human colonization in the late Pleistocene triggered a ‘blitzkrieg’ of the ‘megafauna’, but the operational details remain uncertain." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

I didn't know about Rex Brasher and his work. This little doc is really nice. vimeo.com/1017986345

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

5 years ago I published this reflection on aspects of Fred Rogers that are often overlooked. He was far more than a sweet old man on TV. He had a vision, bravely built his product, and retained the control needed to maintain it's authenticity. edmullen.com/all/thinking... Thanks again, Fred.

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

I recently finished @margaretrenkl.bsky.social 's The Comfort of Crows. It's a beautiful book, as many people say. But it's also elegiac. Renkl deeply understands the natural world around her, which means she can see the species decline, the shifting of seasons, migration changes. Not from a...

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

It seems like a critical mass is forming here. That's exciting. I loved the old days of twitter. It changed the trajectory of my career. It's decline, along with a job change amidst the pandemic, left me with a real loss of connection to a community I really valued. So I'm optimistic but cautious.

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

I really like this Ted talk from Ethan Hawke. Clips get pushed to be all the time, but the full talk is really nice. www.ted.com/talks/ethan_...

submitted 163 days ago • 1 comment

I've spent a lot of time this morning reading @aworkinglibrary's posts on everythingchanges.us/blog/. Every post is filled with clearly refined wisdom and such perfect metaphors they read as literature. "Energy makes time" resonated especially, everythingchanges.us/blog/energy-...

submitted 187 days ago • 1 comment

Hell yeah, Tim Walz! I'm am 48 year old white guy. Gov. Walz is so important because he offers a model of white masculinity that is compassionate, supportive, and inclusive. For so long, white men have had to contend with a weird inertia that expects a distorted, limited model of what manhood means.

submitted 196 days ago • 1 comment

The White House should stop ignoring Musk’s behavior & insulate agencies against risk, starting with shifting unique agency activity off of X. No American should have to use a private platform to read official statements or interact with our elected representatives or appointed officials.

submitted 205 days ago • 1 comment

Two summers ago, I watched an orb weaver build webs on the same goldenrod over the course of the summer. I watched the increasing sophistication of each web, from the early clumsy ones to highly engineered structures. It was remarkable to see this individual learn. www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/o...

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