This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

I used to write a vegetarian food column for our local newspaper and once revived mail from a reader explaining how each vegetable was clearly the product of intelligent design. Did not know how to respond beyond “Thanks!”

I mean, she was born in Mississippi. Unintended policy consequences?

My small child asked to help with dinner and after some tedious de-stemming work, she gave each beet a name and personality and inter-beet drama and now she’s screaming* as I grate them in the cuisinart. NOT HELPING.

* expressing their inner lives and voices, not her own horror

Don’t know if the culprit was autocorrect or the state of my brain this point in the semester, but I noticed today that the dental appt for my son (Wren) was in my calendar as “Warn dentist.”

Oooh! What do you assign for light justice reading?!

300+ edits later and OUR PROOFS ARE IN.

I am getting ice cream, I tell you what.

Stop! Ungulate, and listen…. It’s messy as you move back and forth across the Atlantic. Caribou and reindeer are the same thing?

Out in November! Will be Open Access!

Pleased that MIT Press never made a peep about the f-bomb

Today I planned to finish the proofs of our (@emilypawley.bsky.social & 100 other folks’) Handbook for Saving the World. Was faltering with sorrow/rage but found the line “fuck that—no more fossil fuels for you” & it got me over the finish line. Page proof done. No more fossil fuels for you.

Your super duper interview, I should say…

And I just went over the page proofs on your interview for our super duper Handbook today. We’re gonna save the world (from itself)!

Pulling my historian hat down so it’s nice and snug AND JUDGING RIGHT NOW.

A citizen group working to prevent large data centers from being built on prime farmland are seeking a noise expert who can speak to detrimental effects of noise from data centers, especially low frequency sound. They're able to pay.

Any recs, incl names/contact info, asap would be so appreciated 🙏

What region? In the U.S.?

I had some luck checking academic membership directories. It’s another series of steps, though for sure. See also texting mutuals for contact info, like a stalker.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

This entire thread is lovely but this one is of course my favorite.

My large public research university in the Deep South has Friday and Monday off! I have very mixed feelings about it!

There is, apparently, a very specific high that comes with buying (with miles!) one-way tickets.

Text of white background: how to solve the oil crises: compost billionaire arrow to gas prices and downward arrow.

If we compost billionaires, gas prices will come down. I have made a helpful diagram.

That the dogs did it?

I’m pretty sure our dog-sitter sharpened all our knives.

Photograph of the inside of a small office door. Insulating ties have been attached to it and it has been painted a shiny institutional grey, which matches the white cinderblock walls, grey institutional carpet. Recently moved book boxes are in the foreground. It is a portrait of dull sadness.

Returned from Spring Break to find my old office (in a historic register building) completely disappeared and sodded over and the inside of my new office door has insulating tiles for muffling my screams of anguish.

A post from the official White House account with the text, "The goal is not just to reach the Moon, but to stay," followed by a moon emoji. Below the text is a vertical image with a black-to-dark-blue gradient background, topped with a white icon of the White House. High-contrast white text centered at the top of the image reads, "AMERICA WILL NEVER GIVE UP THE MOON AGAIN." The center of the frame features a detailed, high-resolution photograph of a gibbous moon.

"We will bring down the price of cheese, Gromit."

I missed this tour by moving to town a month late and am still mad at my parents about it!

I started sixth grade in Davis halfway through the year and my new classmates would not stop talking about their recent tour of the Jelly Belly factory. Another reason to resent being dragged away from SoCal.

Photo of a little in a purple dress pointing at Humans: A Monstrous History on the display table with lots of other slightly less awesome books, at the giant independent (and thriving) bookstore in Pasadena, CA.

@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Look what we found on the big table by the checkout at Vroman’s Books on Colorado in Pasadena!