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Mar 13

I wrote a one-sentence synopsis of my book: ✨It's a memoir-in-essays about transience, and about the ways that capitalism and colonialism rob people of a sense of home and belonging, and about how to resist those feelings of displacement in an era that seems to amplify them ✨

Apr 27

I have very few hard and fast rules as an editor, but one is that I will slash the word "enable" anytime I see it

Apr 24

Report from the Colorado Plateau: there’s a whole lot of snowmelt reshaping and refreshing canyons right now

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One lovely thing about adulthood is that, if you're lucky, you find people who were into the same weird books that you loved as a kid, and you realize that you weren't just a lone weirdo absorbed in words. There were other kids like you... you just hadn't found them yet

Apr 20

Me: puts away my winter clothes Colorado: enjoy this 22-degree morning, sucker

Apr 17

For the first time in nearly 39 years, I have just spelled the world camouflage correct on the first try

Apr 17

“While observation of a few… was educational, observation of the many revealed the beginning of a pattern, and pattern is the skeleton of story.” —the wonderful Brian Doyle

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

Fred Wellman

@FPWellman

Apr 14

Victims of rape or incest have to show proof or must carry the baby. That means a 12-year-old girl raped by her father has to go to the police and prove it happened. These people are fucking monsters.

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@NoLieWithBTC

Apr 14

My God. Ron DeSantis’ new abortion ban requires rape and incest victims to show their “documents” to prove they got raped. If they can’t provide it, they will be forced to give birth to their rapist’s baby. people.com/health/rape-in

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Had a goal of hitting 50,000 words in my manuscript tonight but I keep editing and cutting words and getting farther from my goal instead of closer 😭 #amwriting

Well this is BFN (Big Fucking News) for the Colorado River basin:

nytimes.com

Biden Administration Proposes Evenly Cutting Water Allotments From Colorado River

As the river shrinks, the Biden administration is getting ready to impose, for the first time, reductions in water supplies to states.

Apr 11

It’s amazing how much sweeter spring feels after a real winter

Derek Thompson

@DKThomp

Apr 10

New Pew/CDC data: Gun deaths among U.S. children and teens rose 50% in two years—up 100% in 10 years This is the highest level of gun violence against children recorded this century, and more than 2X higher than the 2012 low.

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Apr 6

It just occurred to me that without my dad, no one will keep me abreast of what's happening with the Red Sox. Casual sports fans who live away from your team, how do you stay in the loop without subscribing to a special TV station or checking a special website every day?

As an editor

, I read many pitches on traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous conservation, etc, which are—rightly—getting lots of attn. But it’s easy for non-Indigenous writers to mess up.

@TaotaoTasi

’s primer is a resource I’ll be returning to again & again 👇

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Angelo Villagomez

@TaotaoTasi

Anyway, I'm trying to make Indigenous-led conservation a thing, and this is how I'm trying to explain it the world Maybe it's right, but it probably needs some work Read more here: americanprogress.org/article/5-ways

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tbh i like the little akita glaring down at me. "why aren't you doing actual work," he seems to be telling me. or perhaps he's a shiba inu

Environmental journalists running from the avalanche of earth day PR every April

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Granta

@GrantaMag

We are launching the Granta Writers’ Workshop, a programme of online creative writing courses designed to help writers develop their skills and their understanding of craft, drawing on the archive of exceptional writing that has been published in Granta for over forty years.

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Hakai Magazine

@hakaimagazine

Apr 1

Arctic people and whales have communicated for centuries, and share a reciprocal relationship that goes beyond predator and prey—and non-Indigenous scientists are finally taking note. From our #ArchaeoArchives by

When Whales and Humans Talk | Hakai Magazine

hakaimagazine.com

Arctic people have been communicating with cetaceans for centuries—and scientists are finally taking note.

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story: Do you have or can you point me toward a photo showing the stunning but subtle beauty of old-growth pinyon-juniper forest? Has to be high quality for publication, and they pay, of course. TIA!

The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your Parents

Apr 2

“Nonfiction seems to me photographic; it poses the same challenge of finding form and pattern in the stuff already out there and the same ethical obligations to the subject. Fiction like painting lets you start with a blank canvas.” —

Thank you,

, for writing this; for quantifying and articulating the emotional and logistical rollercoaster of caring for a dying parent as well as a child of your own. I feel so seen.

nytimes.com

Randi Schofield is the sole provider for an ailing father and, at the same time, for her own children — a situation now common among Americans in their 30s and 40s.

Mar 30

Treasures from the Sea of Cortez. Living so far from the ocean HURTS

Mar 29

When you can’t stop reading but there’s no seats at your airport gate… cc

@Morgan_J_Talty

No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen

@NoLieWithBTC

Mar 28

The red line is when Republicans ended the national assault weapons ban.

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I have so many things to say about this oddly antagonistic feature, but I’ll hold them in and share

@sarahkaplan48

’s clear-headed response instead

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Sarah Kaplan is lunching out

@sarahkaplan48

Mar 20

I wasn't going to comment on this piece, but seeing as how I'm in the lede, I want to offer my two cents about why we see more climate reporting shifting away from "doomism" harpers.org/archive/2023/0

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Mar 20

Just thinking about how magical—and convenient—it would be if I could take a train between Durango and Denver

Mar 18

Not me, having a tad too much to drink and crying about how much I miss Alaska

Mar 17

Watching Fleishman is in Trouble and marveling that it seems totally normal to put your kids to bed in a Manhattan apartment and then just… leave for a few hours??

Mar 16

Great info; disagree that young people should just "move to the first city that sounds attractive." If u have community where u are, try staying. Try to make it more equitable. Uprooting yourself to chase the American dream only exacerbates the isolation that capitalism feeds off

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Simon Kuestenmacher

@simongerman600

Mar 16

Median income to median house price ratio in the US. As a young person you should essentially read the list from the top downwards and move to the first city that sounds attractive to you. Sometimes long images end up with low res on social —> Source: buff.ly/3ZCaYhM

Mar 16

I've had a CPA do my taxes since I began freelancing, but this year I find myself with no accountant lined up. Do I...

attempt to do them myself
21.1%
bring them to H&R block
13.2%
hire CPA & file extension
65.8%

38 votesFinal results

Suge Daye

@FDsignifier

Mar 14

I dream of a world where white folks dig into their precolonial culture and bring back dire wolves and witchcraft. Now all we got is blackcents and complaints about how "interpersonal" racism goes both ways...

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BIG BAWDY FOREIGN

@foreignman242

Mar 14

Your reminder that Whiteness isn't real and you, my palm coloured comrade, have been robbed of your culture.

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One of my absolute favorite creatures when I lived in Southeast Alaska 😢 I always dreamed of taking my daughter back to my old spots and showing her the abundance of weird, wild tidal life

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NOAA Fisheries

@NOAAFisheries

Mar 15

We're proposing to list the sunflower sea star as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. One of the largest sea stars in the world, it has recently experienced a sharp decline in abundance fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/ #Seastar #SunflowerSeaStar #EndangeredSpecies #MarineBiology

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book-writing inspo

Essayists, this looks sweet. And it’s FREE! twitter.com/summerbrennan/

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From Weed to Wonder - bioGraphic

My first-ever for

, in collaboration with

@ShaneGrossPhoto

, is a love note to seagrass, the tiny "epifauna" that cling to each strand, and all the bigger creatures (us included) that we're now realizing depend on seagrass in much the same way.

biographic.com

Once dismissed as an underwater nuisance, scientists are beginning to see seagrass meadows as vital to marine and coastal health.

It just occurred to me that Ross Gay and Brian Doyle have a similarly rambling ecstatic writing style and OF COURsE they are both among my absolute favorites

Mar 11

Can anyone point me to a really good synthesis, academic or literary, of how colonialism and capitalism profit off the displacement and alienation of people?