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Rhode Island. Author of Neither Mountain Nor River (Riddle Brook) and Drifting: Two Weeks on the Hudson
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'Why are high fertility people always so weird?' A weekend with the pronatalists

us government went from telling miners “learn to code” to telling coders “learn to mine” in less than ten years

Gotta get people off pancreatic cancer treatment thresholds and into making mop handles.

Farmer wanted this dead oak down. Was leaning toward an Atlantic white cedar so used a swinging Dutchman cut to have the trunk swing away mid fall. The holding wood is removed on one side and made thicker on the side you want it to swing.

The 5th, the 8th, and bare minimum humanity.

I gave the rottweiler who killed all of my friends' babies a big, juicy steak and I'm here to tell you that you're all being a little melodramatic about Murderer the Rottweiler.

there’s a style of reporting that’s basically like “the left hasn’t been duped by the transparently bad faith framing of the right, but I, the reporter, very much have.”

Trump gonna funnel all this money (taxpayer money; your fucking money) to Musk and friends and if you are cheering for NC residents getting rogered because Trump won the state you are celebrating billionaires taking more of your money in addition to being a dick

RW: We’re running out of babies! Liberals: Here’s a detailed policy list that will ease parental burdens and free people up to have more kids if they want. RW: Fk that sht.

Yeah we're going to Bruenig Man, why do you ask

How much do I love/hate this headline?

The Boston Museum of African American History also includes the African Meeting House on Nantucket, where my 3rd great-grandparents were married in 1865. It’s a sacred space to me, and to many. But to this administration, literally nothing is sacred.

Glad to see we’re addressing the root cause of all of this: Luther’s heresy

Sure. Tell Grandma to just head on over to X to sign up for her benefits.

I once saw a guy get fired at a pizza place I worked at for giving a customer 8 breadsticks instead of 6, and it actually fucked up his life pretty badly. And yet these guys can just light enormous piles of money on fire and they’re still the most powerful and influential people on the planet 🥴

Cleared a windthrow off a field edge yesterday. Covered this pearl back up with leaves. Think it’s a northern dusky salamander.

even if we throw these people out of power the enduring legacy of Trump is that nobody can ever again trust the US government to keep a promise, and that will come back to bite us over and over again what a shameful thing this is

Wholly unqualified

Academics: I am now taking on freelance indexing jobs and would be thrilled to work with people in the humanities. My own expertise is in postcolonial studies, postcolonial literature (especially African and South Asian), law and literary studies, and legal and literary theory.

It’s amazing that things like cutting FDA funding are never framed as, “I think private companies should be able to profit from having you literally eat shit and you shouldn’t be able to do anything about it”

We must root out antisemitism, you see.

First spring ephemerals, not sure what kind. North Kingstown, RI.