working on a piece about group therapy (specifically process groups / the "here and now"). if you have any experience in one + wanna share, reach out!!

i wrote the nyt mag letter of rec! www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/m...

no offense to yashar but if you dont understand this is how many voters experience and interpret politics, you have a major blind spot that needs immediate correction

Anyway shoutout to everyone who is sifting through job listings this morning.

Here's a fun one with the Sierra Club, which has a part-time editorial fellow position ($20/hour) for early career journalists:

phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf01/ats/ca...

I know a lot of science writers have been worried because, well, with the collapse of Twitter, how do editors and jobs find us?

@theopennotebook.bsky.social has come to the RESCUE and has made a science writer DATABASE! www.theopennotebook.com/writers/

Love this so much! Join! Hire from it! 🧪

I recommended Naomi Klein’s marvelous Doppelganger.

what was the book alex recommended to sarah on the broadcast news ep of @youaregood.bsky.social? i cant find it again

PSA: the CDC has a program that pays for your COVID vaccine if your insurer won't. The guy at CVS told me that my insurer had not added the new vaccine to its formulary yet, so I'd need to pay $190. I told him about this program, showed him the website, and paid nothing. 🤗

The California Senate has approved unemployment pay for striking workers

So many folks are sick again so I share this with love: you must rest. Rest won’t guarantee you don’t get long covid but it’s a huge mitigator. Even if you have an accute mild case. Even if you don’t feel it at all. Send this to your boss. Make your partner clean or use disposable dishes etc.

I wrote about how the phrase "climate anxiety" doesn't quite cut it. The proper, heavier, more foreboding feeling is dread.

my first for TNR! thanks to the great @mollytaft.bsky.social for edits

https://newrepublic.com/article/174710/stop-calling-climate-anxiety-its-climate-dread

btw if you have an interesting , underexplored story on this extreme heat and what it could mean for us over the short or long term — pitch me at mtaft@tnr.com! rates start at $350 @studyhall.bsky.social

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social Every example in this article about the dangers of e-bikes is someone getting hit by a van

https://archive.is/20230729124833/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/29/health/ebikes-safety-teens.html

feeling cute🥰

i finally found the limit of a fresh direct bag

preparing for my first Quaker meeting by rewatching Fleabag

did we know a cat lives in the camperdown elm?

what does one wear to the Rat Zone