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Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales. Literally wrote the book on carbon. Born 326.17. He/him. "Bleakly amusing." —A. Martine. "The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." —Charlie Jane Anders. Bloomberg Green journalist
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Hey friends, just in case this is useful information for anyone, bookshop.org is doing a special sale on climate and community organizing books for the next couple of days, there's some very cool stuff for 20% off.

RFK Jr. paints autism in a apocalyptic colors. As an #ActuallyAutistic journalist who has spent the last decade writing about autism, I had to confront him about it. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

listen to your body

Two ways for journalists to be heroes: - Pick the right the word at the right time ( @tracyalloway.bsky.social ) - Change your mind based on data and apologize for picking a suboptimal word ( @weisenthal.bsky.social ) 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Spain is ignoring calls to reconsider its nuclear decommissioning plans, betting renewables and battery storage will make up for the upcoming energy shortfall. It migh be able to pull it off Free link to my latest on @bloomberg Green www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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We’re hiring a climate reporter to cover Latin America! Details here:

About 90% of Migrants Deported to El Salvador Had No US Criminal Record - Men were accused of ties to Tren de Aragua criminal gang - US court records show just a few charges for serious crimes 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

No news is good news

No news is good news

The scene here earlier

Great news!: Despite the trade war, dire wolf meat is now cheaper than it's been in 12,000 years. 🎁🔗: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The tariffs will continue until morale improves

Look, I know it *looks* bad, but some perspective please. It's not even worse than the 1929 crash, the Great Depression or World War II.

NOAA says it will NOT pull the plug on its research division websites, after the plan was reported by @bloomberg.com 's @laurenthal.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

just tarrific, thanks

tl;dr: "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

All cars look identical now. Yesterday I saw a Chevy SUV coming up 57th street. As it passed, I looked to confirm its Chevy-ness, and it was a Lamborghini.

SCOOP: NOAA to pull the plug on research division websites after canceling cloud-hosting services contracts. By @laurenthal.bsky.social 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

[ME reads the day's torrent of headlines for hours. Sees below story.] ME: Climate change better get in line quick if it's serious www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Whoa. Kirkus thinks The Fifth Season is one of the best books of the 21st Century so far, and TWO of my books are in Stacker's 100 best! www.kirkusreviews.com/fiction/best... stacker.com/stories/art-...

Someone had better have the story tomorrow of how Booker prepped for this marathon: calories, hydration, footwear, all of it

China Miéville: don't blame science fiction for its fans techcrunch.com/2025/03/30/a...

Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers Say www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/s...

How did this take 150 years? It's like a no-wheels-on-luggage situation. www.nytimes.com/athletic/624...

Was wondering what happened to that guy. (Great story on the challenges of predicting and preparing for flooding, h/t @madisoncondon.bsky.social ) www.ft.com/content/ff3b...

Wouldn’t have predicted that the most engaging read of the weekend would be a 3,000-word NYT mag feature on an Andy Kaufman documentary, but here we are. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/m...

Last 4 movies you watched: Donnie Darko (2001) Becoming Led Zeppelin (2025) The Brutalist (2024) A Complete Unknown (2024)

Update: social media getting more not less weird

Recent autocorrect highlights: - Low-Earth orbit ==> Lois orbit - Laudato Si' ==> Lord Autopsy - Eric ==> Rob

Just remembered about asteroid mining. That was a good one.