Drivers blame peds. Peds blame drivers. Everyone hates cyclists. In reality, we should all hate politicians for not fixing the infrastructure.

This is NOT only for professional food writers. It’s for someone who wants to make a family recipe book or a zine. Someone who writes but doesn’t consider themselves a Writer. Someone writing about other stuff who wants to do more with food. Someone working on their first book proposal...

Food Writing Retreat in Japan: What is a Recipe For? — MOKKEI What is a Recipe For? Hosted by Hannah Kirshner and Clarissa Wei, with special guest Bryan Washington Join us for a six-day food writing retreat in Yamanaka Onsen—a mountain hot spring town with cent...

Are you interested in the ethics and craft of food writing? Join me, cookbook author @dearclarissa.bsky.social, and novelist Bryan Washington for a writing retreat in Yamanaka Onsen this October. The application is pretty painless and we have a few scholarships available. Apply by May 15!

Word has already crashed twice. Is it just to spite me?

I'm living on the edge and trying to remember to hit ⌘s periodically as I revise my manuscript.

It is some real bullshit that Microsoft Word makes you give up privacy in order to turn on autosave.

I wish more of this could happen in Japan too

Wonderful illustration!

I do hope the eggs are laid 48 hours before delivery and not “hatched” as the article says. Are they serving chicks?

every time I am tempted to make a snide comment back at another account, I remember I can literally do anything else instead and my dog cannot read at all

Someone on X asks what the writing on these beautiful Shinto toriii gates means. A Japanese user, unwilling to kill the magic and inform them these are the names of individual & corporate shrine donors, replies, "There are things best left unknown."

But wouldn’t the expertise come through the research?

This is so cool!!

Cascade Red Foxes Are Notoriously Reclusive. So How Did This Photographer Capture These Stunning Images of the Endangered Species? Even the scientists who study the animals rarely see them except on camera. But Gretchen Kay Stuart spent a season documenting them up close

Although @smithsonianmag.bsky.social hasn’t made any posts yet, I’m delighted to share this article featuring the experiences of a photographer on our Cascade Red Fox team! She made some of the first and most detailed recorded observations at 🦊 den sites www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

and ice cream for breakfast is super-elite

If it’s translated by a human being, it must be someone who only knows textbook Japanese. either way, it’s disappointing.

It seems like Netflix is using crappy AI translation for the subtitles on FAKE MARRIAGE. メール gets translated as e-mail when they are clearly talking about texting. And 二日酔い (futsukayoi) as ”drunk fir two days” instead of hungover.

You are living in the future

And a huge part of living in these rural area is participating in the local community. If you don’t invest your time and energy into the social infrastructure, you bring hardship on both the neighborhood and yourself.

I do not regret owning such a house, but I roll my eyes at the idea that they can be a cheap vacation home (who is going to take care of it when you’re not there? How will you pay bills and taxes if you don’t read Japanese?)

I definitely recommend buying a “cheap” old house in Japanese if you like feeling the outside temperature inside, you would like to wage a lifelong battle against mold, and you are totally cool with parts of the abandoned house next door flying through your window in a wind storm. #cheaphousesjapan

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

The Japanese translation of WATER, WOOD & WILD THINGS is out now, with my illustrations on the cover 🥹🌸🌱 www.kodansha.co.jp/book/product...

#ハナの山里の暮らし　#booksonjapan #yamanakaonsen #山中温泉

Thank you, @caryjo.bsky.social!

The Japanese translation of WATER, WOOD & WILD THINGS is out now, with my illustrations on the cover 🥹🌸🌱 www.kodansha.co.jp/book/product...

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

Beautiful essay from @samhenri.gold about the joy of hacking, disguised as a review of the MacBook Neo.

samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

I don’t care which just PICK ONE