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Writer and folklore devotee from New England. Author. Poet. Editor. Chronic illness bard. 2x stroke survivor. Forest wanderer. Lifelong pagan. Dog person. Amateur baker. Occasional balladeer.
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And now, to soothe your timeline, a patch of Illinois tallgrass prairie.

submitted 10 days ago • 11 comments

This RECALL THURSDAY is brought to you by WORKING CARBON MONOXIDE ALARMS! When you absolutely must detect an unseeable, unsmellable, and unlivable poisonous gas called carbon monoxide, NOTHING works better than WORKING CARBON MONOXIDE ALARMS!

submitted 10 days ago • 50 comments

This happened because of you. You protested at TeslaTakedowns and made his name and his company’s product reviled. You protested outside federal agencies slated for DOGE cuts. You barred doors, protected data. You sued and won. You WORE HIM OUT. Don’t let them spin it any other way.

submitted 10 days ago • 239 comments

The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

submitted 11 days ago • 501 comments

Donald Trump has long-espoused eugenicist and ableist beliefs. For @motherjones.com, I put together a timeline of some of these greatest (or worst) hits, which shows a pattern, starting back in the 1980s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

An existential question in the abstract. But in practice, mass marketing AI systems as “friends” is a good way to manipulate people.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

“I can’t believe that there’s people out there who would actually entertain taking away care for people who need care." The idea is “absolutely criminal.” Read more here: bit.ly/4jsHThL And send a letter to your Senators to stop this big, ugly bill here: bit.ly/4kEejHg #TaxTheRich

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

Oh, so now we care about what people post on social media? Wild how student visas are getting paused for a vibe check, but some of y’all have been posting red flags for years and still got a security clearance. Make it make sense.

submitted 11 days ago • 188 comments

“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” Schwartz added. “It keeps me up at night.”

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

submitted 15 days ago • 196 comments

There is a very long history of white Americans romanticizing Indigenous people as symbols of natural health while simultaneously enacting policies that harm or erase them.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

News from the world of companies using AI to cheat, lie, and steal. Share this story. It is despicable, and what’s worse, in due time it’s going to be tragically typical and unremarkable. Unless we fight them. NOW. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

submitted 11 days ago • 279 comments

White Americans preferred to shut municipal swimming pools post-segregation than share them with PoC. Lesson for today? You can't simply win over far right voters with progressive economic policies because *you can't build socialism with people who oppose equality and don't want to share*.

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

Liverpool John Moores employs about 2,500 people, UCLan employs more than 3,300. If Dan Carden and Jonathan Hinder want to close those universities they’ll have a lot of people in their constituencies suddenly out of a job.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

I resent so thoroughly how much ChatGPT has made people recoil from the em dash EMILY DICKINSON AND ALSO ME HAVE NOT LIVED AND FOUGHT IN VAIN THE ARTROOMBA ROBOTS WILL NOT TAKE THIS FROM US

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed. Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

submitted 11 days ago • 34 comments

The bipartisan framing of Chinese people as dangerous to the United States has been building up for years and has created this deeply racist and xenophobic opening for the Trump administration. I stand with my Chinese colleagues and all of our Chinese students. 🧪

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

Instead of protecting the nation from sickness, US is now taking away people’s rights + tools for prevention. Insurance companies should know that the cost of a shot is immeasurably lower than the cost of infection, treatment, hospitalization, death or #LongCOVID. www.instagram.com/p/DKOBWYAu7sY/

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

talia's piece is fantastic and everyone should read it. as someone who has struggled *time and again* with orthorexia, i can say with confidence that it is NOT a guiding principle we want from our parents, let alone our surgeon general!

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Using AI for your writing feels like a kind of madness to me. The work of writing IS THE POINT of writing. If you don't find the work of writing satisfying just do something else

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Haven’t seen a Nazi retreat like this since 1945

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments