Tove Danovich
@tkdano.bsky.social
Writer focusing on animals and the human-animal relationship.
Author of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them.
Find me weekly: tovedanovich.substack.com
Author of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them.
Find me weekly: tovedanovich.substack.com
Emma Pattee’s TILT is out in paperback today and I fully expect it to become a NYT bestseller!
On the surface it’s a page-turner about a 8 month pregnant woman trying to find her husband after The Big One hits PDX. But it’s so much more than that.
Highly recommend! Go read immediately! #booksky
On the surface it’s a page-turner about a 8 month pregnant woman trying to find her husband after The Big One hits PDX. But it’s so much more than that.
Highly recommend! Go read immediately! #booksky
December 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Emma Pattee’s TILT is out in paperback today and I fully expect it to become a NYT bestseller!
On the surface it’s a page-turner about a 8 month pregnant woman trying to find her husband after The Big One hits PDX. But it’s so much more than that.
Highly recommend! Go read immediately! #booksky
On the surface it’s a page-turner about a 8 month pregnant woman trying to find her husband after The Big One hits PDX. But it’s so much more than that.
Highly recommend! Go read immediately! #booksky
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If a random adult man shows up unannounced to a daycare demanding to see other people’s children, you might assume he’d be arrested, and yet
White dude with camera arrives at daycare and demands to see kids.
Daycare workers keep doors and windows closed.
White dude alleges fraud.
Every Republican backs white dude.
That's the current story in Minnesota.
Daycare workers keep doors and windows closed.
White dude alleges fraud.
Every Republican backs white dude.
That's the current story in Minnesota.
December 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If a random adult man shows up unannounced to a daycare demanding to see other people’s children, you might assume he’d be arrested, and yet
The first bird you see in a new year can set the tone for the year ahead.
I wrote this essay about my favorite birding tradition (superstition?) for Orion a year ago and wanted to reshare.
I want to hear about your first birds! Don’t forget to look.
orionmagazine.org/article/firs...
I wrote this essay about my favorite birding tradition (superstition?) for Orion a year ago and wanted to reshare.
I want to hear about your first birds! Don’t forget to look.
orionmagazine.org/article/firs...
First Bird - Orion Magazine
Making meaning in the New Year
orionmagazine.org
December 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The first bird you see in a new year can set the tone for the year ahead.
I wrote this essay about my favorite birding tradition (superstition?) for Orion a year ago and wanted to reshare.
I want to hear about your first birds! Don’t forget to look.
orionmagazine.org/article/firs...
I wrote this essay about my favorite birding tradition (superstition?) for Orion a year ago and wanted to reshare.
I want to hear about your first birds! Don’t forget to look.
orionmagazine.org/article/firs...
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This is New England's version of the Louvre heist.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
$400,000 worth of lobster stolen en route to Costco stores, shipper says
The lobsters, which were not alive, were on their way to Costco stores in Illinois and Minnesota, according to Rexing Companies.
www.nbcnews.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is New England's version of the Louvre heist.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
December 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
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The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The @nytimes.com Lost Science series continues. Here's my Q&A with a scientist who was studying how wildfire smoke threatens human health when the EPA decided that her research was no longer a funding priority. Gift link: nyti.ms/4jhpw14
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When it comes to development projects & Native American sites,wetlands,endangered species,designated historic sites, etc,it’s a “rule” rather than an exception the resource loses
GOV higher ups are nearly always hard wired to approve projects not slow down or stop them
www.hcn.org/articles/was...
GOV higher ups are nearly always hard wired to approve projects not slow down or stop them
www.hcn.org/articles/was...
Washington approves over 99% of archaeological permits, records show - High Country News
As tribes struggle to protect their heritage, the nation’s leading state archaeologist says she lacks the authority to stop development projects.
www.hcn.org
December 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
When it comes to development projects & Native American sites,wetlands,endangered species,designated historic sites, etc,it’s a “rule” rather than an exception the resource loses
GOV higher ups are nearly always hard wired to approve projects not slow down or stop them
www.hcn.org/articles/was...
GOV higher ups are nearly always hard wired to approve projects not slow down or stop them
www.hcn.org/articles/was...
Got my new copy of @orionmagazine.bsky.social and am thrilled to be in this issue with writers I know and love like @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social @k-e-c.bsky.social and J. Drew Lanham. Can’t wait to dig in!
December 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Got my new copy of @orionmagazine.bsky.social and am thrilled to be in this issue with writers I know and love like @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social @k-e-c.bsky.social and J. Drew Lanham. Can’t wait to dig in!
Disgusting
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Disgusting
I’m reading the book The Secret Garden and Mary Lennox is the most autistic coded child I’ve ever come across.
![she should ever see him, but she knew that if she did she should not like him, and he would not like her, and that she should only stand and stare at him and say nothing, though she should be wanting dreadfully to ask him why he had done such a queer thing.
[highlighted text]” People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises." [end highlight]
She thought of the robin and of the way he seemed to sing his song at her, and as she remembered the tree-top he perched on she stopped rather suddenly on the path.
"I believe that tree was in the secret garden—I feel sure it was," she said. "There was à wall round the place and there was no door."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bavuvxxglynrevcbj2oiw3gg/bafkreicdiapqitngi7cz6i36dpnadkjyhkjn4qepuo75r6usjrkwtsu75u@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I’m reading the book The Secret Garden and Mary Lennox is the most autistic coded child I’ve ever come across.
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Just as in the case of Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, a consumer backlash is now underway: CBS fans are hearing about the "60 Minutes" imbroglio and calling/emailing local CBS stations to register their concerns. "We have no real support," a reporter at one of those stations told me.
December 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Just as in the case of Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, a consumer backlash is now underway: CBS fans are hearing about the "60 Minutes" imbroglio and calling/emailing local CBS stations to register their concerns. "We have no real support," a reporter at one of those stations told me.
Nothing is on sale at the grocery store and the sticker prices are wild. Merry Christmas!
December 23, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Nothing is on sale at the grocery store and the sticker prices are wild. Merry Christmas!
I’m trying to actually use my camera more. These photos of a hawk being mobbed by crows was too blurry (a lesson to double check shutter speed!) but I still like the drama of it.
December 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I’m trying to actually use my camera more. These photos of a hawk being mobbed by crows was too blurry (a lesson to double check shutter speed!) but I still like the drama of it.
My mom was part of a successful class action lawsuit against Home Depot in the 1990s for gender discrimination. They’ve always been bad.
“A Home Depot in Los Angeles installed three high-pitch noise-emitting machines outside to deter day laborers from seeking work there, causing them to suffer headaches and nausea, advocates alleged at a press conference on Wednesday.”
Noise machines installed by LA Home Depot ‘torture’ for day laborers, advocates say
Advocates call for removal of machines and demand that company speak out against ICE raids in parking lots
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:14 PM
My mom was part of a successful class action lawsuit against Home Depot in the 1990s for gender discrimination. They’ve always been bad.
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There is this guy Manny Rutinell running to unseat a republican congressman in Colorado and I keep seeing his ads on Instagram and … he is like… movie star handsome. Like???
July 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
There is this guy Manny Rutinell running to unseat a republican congressman in Colorado and I keep seeing his ads on Instagram and … he is like… movie star handsome. Like???
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If you read @bengoldfarb.bsky.social's terrific book "Crossings" or heard him discuss it on our podcast, news.mongabay.com/podcast/2023... ...you'll see the value in this
And it's proof of bipartisan will in the US gov't to do things for the environment 👀
Bill would provide funding through 2031:
And it's proof of bipartisan will in the US gov't to do things for the environment 👀
Bill would provide funding through 2031:
Wildlife Crossings Could See Permanent Federal Funding Through Bipartisan Bill - Mountain Journal
Led by Montana's Zinke and Virginia's Beyer, Congressional bill aims to extend nation’s only federal program for wildlife crossings
mountainjournal.org
December 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
If you read @bengoldfarb.bsky.social's terrific book "Crossings" or heard him discuss it on our podcast, news.mongabay.com/podcast/2023... ...you'll see the value in this
And it's proof of bipartisan will in the US gov't to do things for the environment 👀
Bill would provide funding through 2031:
And it's proof of bipartisan will in the US gov't to do things for the environment 👀
Bill would provide funding through 2031:
Well I have cry face after watching episode 5 of Heated Rivalry
December 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Well I have cry face after watching episode 5 of Heated Rivalry
I just emailed my senators urging them to vote against HR 845, disingenuously referred to as the “pet and livestock” act.
It would federally delist the grey wolf and allow states to “manage” the species how they want. This would be a free-for-all in any state with livestock interests.
It would federally delist the grey wolf and allow states to “manage” the species how they want. This would be a free-for-all in any state with livestock interests.
December 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I just emailed my senators urging them to vote against HR 845, disingenuously referred to as the “pet and livestock” act.
It would federally delist the grey wolf and allow states to “manage” the species how they want. This would be a free-for-all in any state with livestock interests.
It would federally delist the grey wolf and allow states to “manage” the species how they want. This would be a free-for-all in any state with livestock interests.
I started the sexy hockey show and it’s so good. It’s what I wanted movies like Babygirl to be.
The consent plus hotness factor and how the 🌶️ scenes plays into the development of the relationship between the leads is so well done.
The consent plus hotness factor and how the 🌶️ scenes plays into the development of the relationship between the leads is so well done.
December 19, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I started the sexy hockey show and it’s so good. It’s what I wanted movies like Babygirl to be.
The consent plus hotness factor and how the 🌶️ scenes plays into the development of the relationship between the leads is so well done.
The consent plus hotness factor and how the 🌶️ scenes plays into the development of the relationship between the leads is so well done.
I can’t decide who would do this pop song but it’s definitely a hit.
Cracking up since a robotext earlier couldn't make up it's mind on what to text, so it just sent EVERYTHING AT ONCE
December 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I can’t decide who would do this pop song but it’s definitely a hit.
I think it’s time for “Judy” to make a comeback as a first name.
December 18, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I think it’s time for “Judy” to make a comeback as a first name.
Imagine what the news cycle would be like if people hadn’t elected them again.
December 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Imagine what the news cycle would be like if people hadn’t elected them again.
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Everything is vindictiveness and revenge for these people. Everything.
Human beings cannot sustain decent societies based on retribution and cruelty.
Human beings cannot sustain decent societies based on retribution and cruelty.
SCOOP: American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr. Research included reducing sudden infant deaths and identifying autism early. Me and @Paigecunningham.Bsky.Social
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr.
HHS cuts key AAP grants, citing concerns about “identity-based language” and insufficient focus on agency priorities. The organization said the cuts could harm child health.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Everything is vindictiveness and revenge for these people. Everything.
Human beings cannot sustain decent societies based on retribution and cruelty.
Human beings cannot sustain decent societies based on retribution and cruelty.
This whole interview is great
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This whole interview is great
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Holy fuck
Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Holy fuck