My little Portland suburb just opened a new barber shop where you can get a haircut for $40, beard trim for $25, and a drum lesson for $30.

content over trust, service, people, or stories. disgusting and counter-productive.

Prego Pivots From Budget-Tier Pasta Sauce to Small Microphones That Listen to Your Family's Intimate Conversations Prego, the pasta sauce brand, announced a new lid-shaped device designed to record and preserve family dinner conversations.

Every day I read a news story that makes me feel like I need to apologize to at least one insane person in a John 3:16 van and today it’s this one

You know how I feel about murder-mushrooms!

You probably should give yourself a treat after that!

I worked in public libraries for 32 years—my co-workers were the best. Being able to serve so many different communities, filled with patrons from around the world, was a real privilege.

Poster for described event with photos of the authors and the cover of Moor's new book, which features glossy bronze silhouettes of serpentine trees on a black background speckled with stars. Text reads: Powell's Books presents Robert Moor with Ferris Jabr Powell's City of Books. Thursday, April 30, 7PM

On Thursday, April 30, 7PM, I'll be joining @robertmoor.com at @powells.bsky.social to celebrate & discuss his truly wonderful new book, IN TREES. It's a brilliant meditation on trees literal & figurative; botanical, familial, & conceptual — trees as ways of thinking & being. Highly recommended!

we all know I have no life, so:

Congratulations to all the amazing finalists!!!

This is such wonderful news!

Ahhh, this is the cutest!!!

Oooh, I look forward to checking it out! I've been using Pocket Cast, which works well, but I love the idea of anything community built.

Scrivener, I don't know how your dictionary includes the word "gloaming" and not "calendula."

Oh my gosh, I had no idea this had come out and EEEEEEEEEEE!!!
I love the original so dang much.

ABOLISH ICE/DHS

Oh man, heartbreaking!

There are some important things to remember in terms of Awards-shortlist day etiquette. A short thread.

Even folks I really like and respect make some blunders on this stuff.

1) Allow people to enjoy the shortlist. Avoid dismissing the finalists (whomever they are) for at least a month.

Leah Sottile and Ryan Haas on deconstructing ‘true crime’ in podcasting and journalism - Nieman Storyboard The team behind ‘Hush’ discuss the ethics of narrative journalism and creating a serialized podcast that's sensitive to victims and families

"What you realize pretty quickly in the show is that we directly interrogate what true crime is." @leahsottile.bsky.social and @ryanjhaas.bsky.social

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#podcasts #storytelling #journalism

YOU are awesome!

A whole new scam aimed at writers:

- get an email from a writers conference asking for you as a speaker
- google the conference: it's real
- say 'yeah, let's do it'
- the 'fee' is mentioned for the first time
- you check with friends listed for the event and find out the email reply address is fake

That's all very neato!

Whoa, cool!!

Ooof, too real!

Dang, there's a really big difference between "heedless" and "headless."

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

It's probably grumpy that we have only vegan snacks!!

Oh my goodness, yes, all the fist bumps! It's a very bifurcated way to live. Thank goodness for the little escapes into the garden, the woods, the neighborhoods.

One of the kitchen cupboards has decided to spontaneously and very audibly burst open at random times.
And by random, I obviously mean "whenever the kitchen cupboard ghost wants to scare the crap out of me."

Parmotrema perlatum with a tiny Usnea cornuta on a Pedunculate Oak twig, in woodland near Eason's Green, East Sussex