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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 9d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6d

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · 15d

In Categories We Live By, Gregory Murphy argues our constant need to categorize influences everyone and everything from language and law to life and death.

intertwingled.org/categories-w...

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · 17d

"My dearest wife,

It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee..."
— @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

www.meditationsinanemergency.com/letter-from-...

Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)

My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · 19d

...so I'm excited JMRL Library will join the fine-free movement next year. As a Trustee, it was an honor to vote for this change, and I look forward to showing our patrons that libraries work better when, instead of a punitive system, we work together to cultivate a community of trust and respect.

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · 19d

In the past decade, the vast majority of public libraries in the United States have gone fine-free, because the evidence shows that removing fines increases access and equity, boosts circulation and return rates, simplifies operations, and builds trust and goodwill...

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · 27d

In The Embodied Mind, Thomas Verny draws upon neuroscience, epigenetics, and mindbody research to show that intelligence, emotion, memory, and consciousness aren’t confined to the brain but are distributed throughout the whole body.

intertwingled.org/embodied-mind/

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Sep 13

Scottsville, Virginia

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Sep 8

Central Virginia, but close enough

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Sep 8

So long, country road

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Aug 23

Good question! I asked ChatGPT to create a graphite sketch of the Dead Man's Fingers fungus. It came out looking too much like an actual human hand, which in a weird way is a reminder that we share a lot in common with fungi :-) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylaria...

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Aug 22

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake is a brilliant exploration of the hidden lives of fungi and of the many ways they transgress and confound our categories and mental models.

intertwingled.org/entangled-li...

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Aug 20

We’re delighted to share our Charlotte’s Web Book Study in hopes of improving literacy and compassion for animals among children. sentientsanctuary.org/how/

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Aug 18

Claudia pops a wheelie (and yes, as a parent, it's scary to know your daughter is a daredevil)

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Aug 8

This story feels like good trouble youtu.be/0nBbBnFUG14?...

The USA is a "Third World" Country for Millions of Americans #costoflivingcrisis

YouTube video by Raising Wildflowers

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Jul 19

Yesterday we took our donkeys, Calvin & Hobbes, for a walk in the woods, and Calvin freaked out. We had no idea what scared him, until an hour or so later, when we saw this little guy wandering through our hay field.

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Jul 17

I'm working with our #llamas every morning (haltering, walking, feeding, cuddling), and it's paying off; all of a sudden, Magick and I are besties ❤️

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Jul 16

Today I received a beautiful email from a woman who received Animals Are People as a Mother's Day gift. She says, "After reading your book, my soul felt validated, and I in turn gifted a copy to my mother." So now I'm a happy author! ❤️

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Jul 15

I never see a snake and a rope at the same time. The change is instant. When we reclassify, we literally see differently — categorizing is seeing is believing.

intertwingled.org/categorizing...

Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Jul 11

I love seeing folks use my photos of the Eishin Campus archeyes.com/eishin-campu...

Eishin Campus by Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language in Built Form | ArchEyes

Explore the Eishin Campus by Christopher Alexander—his most complete built work—designed through participatory methods and pattern-based architecture in Japan.

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Jul 7

In Connectome (2012), Sebastian Seung describes our audacious effort to map the brain — to understand what makes us unique, from our personalities to mental afflictions.

intertwingled.org/through-the-...

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Jul 2

We all default to simplicity most of the time. In writing Animals Are People, I decided to use "animals" the way most people do, rather than specifying "non-human animals."

Anyway, your book is now a source of inspiration for the new book I'm working on, Natural Information Architecture, so thanks!

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Jul 2

In The Moral Circle (2025), philosopher @jeffsebo.bsky.social calls for a revolution in ethics, arguing that we should expand our “moral circle” to include insects, AI systems, and microbes.

intertwingled.org/the-moral-ci...

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Jul 1

...interesting story about Alan Turing and the Apple logo www.manchestersfinest.com/articles/man...

Myths of Manchester: The Apple Logo & Alan Turing

Is the logo of the biggest company in the world inspired by Alan Turing?

www.manchestersfinest.com

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Peter Morville @morville.bsky.social · Jun 25

An insight flashes into consciousness days after a butterfly flaps her wings in the unconscious. Creativity is like a fungus. Most of the action occurs underground.

intertwingled.org/organizing-f...

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