Sign on a telephone pole saying “do your friends keep giving you items with chickens on them” with a QR code for UNDER THE HENFLUENCE

Flyer saying “do your friends call you a crazy chicken lady to your face?” With a QR code for the book UNDER THE HENFLUENCE

I have a ton of deadlines so of course I spent a couple hours making flyers for my book and posting them up around town.

When I testified in front of Congress in 2021 on illegal logging and its impact on communities, I recommended increasing funding for the U.S. Forest Service which got audible bipartisan support in my hearing. It's almost unbelievable how things have changed. These research stations are vital.

A shift in formatting has changed how we write online I can't stop thinking about this

This is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time.

Online writing defaults to block paragraphs with spaces between them and no indents. I think it really changes something about how we read and how I—at least—write.

tovedanovich.substack.com/p/a-shift-in...

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

My Western Edge co-founder @leahsottile.bsky.social obtained the 911 calls related to this death. A worker who called for an ambulance described a man who was bleeding from some type of headwound and was blue in the face while some employees were told to keep working.

What a bombing in Nevada reveals about the nation’s appetite for violence - High Country News There is no definition of domestic terrorism. And the reason why is complicated.

I love @leahsottile.bsky.social work but this piece on how to define domestic terrorism for @highcountrynews.org is especially excellent. I couldn’t stop reading.

www.hcn.org/issues/58-4/...

These Towns Want a Tsunami Shelter Before It’s Too Late

Much of the West Coast and Hawaii faces some degree of tsunami risk. But if communities lack high ground to flee to before the waves hit, they really have one option: build up.

Tsunami shelters are ubiquitous in tsunami-prone Japan, but the US has only a handful.

🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/r...

Writing Wild: How to Tell a True Story About Nature In this all-levels nature writing workshop, we’ll explore how close observation becomes the foundation of powerful personal essays. In this outdoor class, you’ll practice noticing the small, telling details of a place and learn how to weave those observations together with memory, emotion, and meaning.

I’m teaching a nature writing class IN THE FOREST! Come write about the wild world under tall trees @birdallianceoregon.bsky.social

birdallianceoregon.org/event/writin...

Six book recommendations for springtime Writing that is exuberant, joyful, and full of curiosity

In case you need some books to read in a field while birds sing

tovedanovich.substack.com/p/six-book-r...

Editor: This paragraph is confusing, can you reword?

Me: *deletes paragraph*

The perfect Easter moment

I spent literal years trying to figure out a song I kept hearing snippets of on the radio.
One day I rushed home and tried to search random lyrics I remembered (it was 2003) and finally found out it was St Theresa by Joan Osbourne. I cried the first time I was able to fully listen to it.

A GOOD ANIMAL by @saramaurerwrites.bsky.social is the most beautiful novel I’ve read in a while. The setting, the sheep, the characters all felt so real I couldn’t believe I’d never see them again when I finished the last sentence. A heart-squeeze of a story.

#booksky

I think I bruised my tailbone and it’s becoming more painful every day. Does anyone have advice?

Internet seems to say just wait it out because there’s nothing anyone can do but give it time. Hopeful there’s a cheap way to be in less pain!

What a mess

Starting the new season of Jury Duty (this time at a company retreat) and I hope sweet Anthony finds the best full time job in the world.

ahhhh looks like the old Pretend To Be A Famous 193-Year-Old Tortoise's Veterinarian And Say He Died And Then Solicit Crypto Donations Through Social Media scam

i've seen it a million times

Yes, you can make friends with trees. Here’s why it’s a good idea. We form interspecies relationships with our pets. So why not plants?

Love this piece by Kate Morgan:
It’s not all that unusual to feel a particular bond with a specific tree. It’s also not unusual for that bond to feel a lot like friendship. We form interspecies relationships, he points out, with our pets. So why not plants?
www.washingtonpost.com/home/2026/04...

This is something tech people don't grasp about nonfiction writing: the process of deep research, of deciding which little details are interesting or which obscure anecdotes have historical value, is all part of the creative work of writing. It's not grunt work. It can't just be automated.

The party of the rich just taxed the rich in WA. Can that hold? About 8 in 10 of the Washington residents who will have to pay the new millionaire's income tax live in Democratic districts. Legislators there say their rich constituents are fine with it.

Washington state passed a tax on millionaires. A lot of the usual suspects have been screaming & tearing their hair out & warning of apocalypse.

But the actual rich people of Washington? Turns out they are mostly Democrats & they mostly support it!

They’re power washing right outside my apartment today which is really messing with my nap schedule!

Might have to try sleeping in noise canceling headphones like a baby at a concert.

Screenshot of goodreads review. 4 stars. Well. Now I own six chickens. March 28, 2026

This review of UNDER THE HENFLUENCE might be my favorite one yet.

The four stars adds so much mystery. Is one star being taken away because it led to her getting chickens? Are chickens themselves proving to be a 4-star experience?

A real “baby shoes never worn” of a review.
#chicken

I’ve been rewatching too. It’s so good!

A staggering new finding from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies: since 2001, the money left over each month for lower-income renters—after paying rent and utilities—has fallen 60 percent to a record low of $210.

$210 left over for food, healthcare, childcare, and everything else.

Oh no

Just finished BRING THE HOUSE DOWN by Charlotte Runcie. It’s been a long time since I read a book in a night but I simply couldn’t put it down. It’s the post-MeToo reflection on gender and relationships and even male/female friendship I’ve been waiting for.

Run don’t walk. #booksky

A blonde woman absolutely ecstatic to be feeding a piece of lettuce to a capybara. The capybara is a perfect creature with a face so calm it seems unreal. He looks almost as large as the woman because they are both sitting

I don’t know what this insane year has in store but at least 2026 will always be the year I met a capybara IRL

Wow. Talk about an 'urban' heat island.

These animals can cause big trouble. Why are states unleashing them by the millions? Introduced species can wreak havoc on native ecosystems. Many states are flooding their waterways with them.

These animals can cause big trouble. Why are states unleashing them by the millions?
Introduced species can wreak havoc on native ecosystems. Many states are flooding their waterways with them. www.vox.com/climate/4831... 🧪 🦑 🌍️ 🐟️

Time sensitive: this is the last day to submit comments opposing the Bureau of Land Management's clearcutting of Oregon's ancient forests. This is a tool that educates you on just how diabolical it is, and it helps you submit your comment. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...

I just noticed this, but: where the fuck are this man's nipples