Margaret Renkl
@margaretrenkl.bsky.social
Author, most recently, of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year. Contributing opinion writer for The New York Times (appearing on the first and third Mondays of each month.)
So many of us remember coming home in the gloaming.
November 11, 2025 at 2:35 AM
So many of us remember coming home in the gloaming.
Thank you for reading, Alan
November 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Thank you for reading, Alan
What a lovely thing to hear!
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
What a lovely thing to hear!
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Hoping more people will see this Washington Post illustration by replying with it here. As usual, nobody who can is stopping nor even overseeing this.
October 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Hoping more people will see this Washington Post illustration by replying with it here. As usual, nobody who can is stopping nor even overseeing this.
With heartfelt thanks to the indispensible Steve Cavendish.
October 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
With heartfelt thanks to the indispensible Steve Cavendish.
I wouldn’t call it ignorance so much as ecosystem-specific awareness. Purple martins in the western US don’t use the martin houses we have in the east.
September 4, 2025 at 3:12 AM
I wouldn’t call it ignorance so much as ecosystem-specific awareness. Purple martins in the western US don’t use the martin houses we have in the east.
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You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.
“We” is more important here.
“We” is more important here.
August 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.
“We” is more important here.
“We” is more important here.
Really, though, if you absolutely had to, couldn’t you trim it down to one?
August 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Really, though, if you absolutely had to, couldn’t you trim it down to one?