In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Winsome Earle-Sears has no policy positions, has shared no plans for what she’d do if elected, grants no interviews, and isn’t even on her own campaign bus as it tours the state. She’s a candidate in name only.

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
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Straight people think about queer people more than we think about ourselves. It’s fascinating. And boring. And creepy. Y’all don’t even go here!!!

And they aren't even reading books at school. If I assigned a book to my freshman they'd all stop coming.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

keep your wonder alive, keep your aliveness alive

Every beloved novel ever written was once somebody's half-articulated dream.

I know it's small in the midst of the big but we're still doing 2-3 letters of rec for gd residencies, fellowships, grants and apps and it makes me want to lose my mind. I'm relatively connected, have a decent job, publish here and there, and I have no one to ask for this shit? It's such a barrier!

It is also an important time to be reading and writing.

Fortifying yourself with truth & good argument. Rest and take a break.

Repeat as needed.

This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer:

African-Americans are experts on America.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025.

Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan.

Legacy media failed the country.

Wild

who doesn't like THE MUPPETS?

Here I am once again with my dry mouth
At the fountain of thistles
!!!!!!!!!!

Thinking about all of my US colleagues today that work for USGS, USFWS, US Parks Service, NOAA and the EPA. From front line environmental practitioners to scientists and policy makers, these folks ensure that waters are swimmable, fish are edible, that natural areas are accessible, etc, etc, etc.

It’s not just that video is too slow. It is that. It’s also not my own understanding happening. I also truly believe that the mind and life I want to have does not happen through watching but does through reading. Wild that this is even a little bit provocative but I suspect that mostly just online

This passage nearly broke me.

Someone could and maybe should write a paper on the developing lexicon for talking about This Moment, especially in higherEd and non-profit type spaces.

Maybe that already exists? But it’s wild to me how I go to meetings full of people who say things like, “all of this” and “these times” etc.

Oh I love this!

Oh shit!

There's so much to be mad about but almost daily I go to watch a movie or show I used to OWN on dvd and it's only available to rent or buy again. We donated all our stuff back then because streaming was supposed to be better! I know. I was duped. We all were. I'm buying a dvd player.

It's so wild. The amount of class based jokes made about people who shopped at Wal Mart in my small town where we were all kinda trashy (and didn't know) was insane. And this video was absolutely not 2002. More like 97.