Travis Nichols
@travisjnichols.bsky.social
Director of https://tinyurl.com/y2y3rkts
Editor of http://bit.ly/326rRrY
Author of http://bit.ly/2x7mxCB & http://bit.ly/2CO2DSi
Formerly of CARE, Stand, Greenpeace, Poetry Foundation, Wave Books Poetry Bus, Seattle PI, Amherst Books, Flagpole, AHS Web
Editor of http://bit.ly/326rRrY
Author of http://bit.ly/2x7mxCB & http://bit.ly/2CO2DSi
Formerly of CARE, Stand, Greenpeace, Poetry Foundation, Wave Books Poetry Bus, Seattle PI, Amherst Books, Flagpole, AHS Web
“Standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work."
Whatever the merits of ending the shutdown as a political strategy are, it's fair to say Angus King's confident delivery of the stupidest framing possible is enough to make a person join the seasteading movement.
Whatever the merits of ending the shutdown as a political strategy are, it's fair to say Angus King's confident delivery of the stupidest framing possible is enough to make a person join the seasteading movement.
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“Standing up to Donald Trump didn’t work."
Whatever the merits of ending the shutdown as a political strategy are, it's fair to say Angus King's confident delivery of the stupidest framing possible is enough to make a person join the seasteading movement.
Whatever the merits of ending the shutdown as a political strategy are, it's fair to say Angus King's confident delivery of the stupidest framing possible is enough to make a person join the seasteading movement.
"Is Trump Sending Checks to Mamdani and Blaming Kim Kardashian’s ChatGPT Marching Band Robot?"
Your Daily #InstrumIntel for Monday, November 10, 2025
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Your Daily #InstrumIntel for Monday, November 10, 2025
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November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"Is Trump Sending Checks to Mamdani and Blaming Kim Kardashian’s ChatGPT Marching Band Robot?"
Your Daily #InstrumIntel for Monday, November 10, 2025
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Your Daily #InstrumIntel for Monday, November 10, 2025
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Ain't that the truth
October 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ain't that the truth
Chainsaws : Trees // GOP : America?
September 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Chainsaws : Trees // GOP : America?
I feel like the people of Southeastern Iowa should be both insulted and relieved by this story from the Epstein files.
September 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I feel like the people of Southeastern Iowa should be both insulted and relieved by this story from the Epstein files.
Someone should ask him if windmills have the same allowed "take" (ie # of whales they can legally kill) as oil rigs web.archive.org/web/20140722...
August 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Someone should ask him if windmills have the same allowed "take" (ie # of whales they can legally kill) as oil rigs web.archive.org/web/20140722...
August 11, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The EPA wants to revoke the Greenhouse-Gas #EndangermentFinding, one of the most effective tools we have to stop the #climate crisis.
Did you know there is a public comment period?
Go to:
www.regulations.gov/docket/EPA-H...
Scroll down to “Comment”
& tell the EPA why it's a terrible idea.
Did you know there is a public comment period?
Go to:
www.regulations.gov/docket/EPA-H...
Scroll down to “Comment”
& tell the EPA why it's a terrible idea.
August 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The EPA wants to revoke the Greenhouse-Gas #EndangermentFinding, one of the most effective tools we have to stop the #climate crisis.
Did you know there is a public comment period?
Go to:
www.regulations.gov/docket/EPA-H...
Scroll down to “Comment”
& tell the EPA why it's a terrible idea.
Did you know there is a public comment period?
Go to:
www.regulations.gov/docket/EPA-H...
Scroll down to “Comment”
& tell the EPA why it's a terrible idea.
( using the InstrumIntel Headline Haiku Maker: www.instrumentalcomms.com/instrumintel )
July 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
( using the InstrumIntel Headline Haiku Maker: www.instrumentalcomms.com/instrumintel )
The MAGA “foreign agent by association” plan to kill climate groups (warning: wacky) www.instrumentalcomms.com/blog/the-mag...
July 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The MAGA “foreign agent by association” plan to kill climate groups (warning: wacky) www.instrumentalcomms.com/blog/the-mag...
I made some refinements to the #OrpheusAI poetry collab machine …. youtu.be/pGZw9At-kz0?...
July 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I made some refinements to the #OrpheusAI poetry collab machine …. youtu.be/pGZw9At-kz0?...
The “prohibited foreign entity” & “foreign-influenced entity” labels in the #BigUglyBill -- § 7701(a)(51)–(52) -- would bake "national-security" rhetoric into the tax code, making it easy for MAGA to brand green nonprofits as Beijing-backed (& then go after them).
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
June 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The “prohibited foreign entity” & “foreign-influenced entity” labels in the #BigUglyBill -- § 7701(a)(51)–(52) -- would bake "national-security" rhetoric into the tax code, making it easy for MAGA to brand green nonprofits as Beijing-backed (& then go after them).
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
June 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Subscribe to Instrumental for the full natural history of destruction on Fordo Mountain mailchi.mp/277b21199481...
June 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Subscribe to Instrumental for the full natural history of destruction on Fordo Mountain mailchi.mp/277b21199481...
Full page ad for the new print edition of @theonion.com in today’s NYT.
“The Only News Outlet That Exists.”
“The Only News Outlet That Exists.”
June 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Full page ad for the new print edition of @theonion.com in today’s NYT.
“The Only News Outlet That Exists.”
“The Only News Outlet That Exists.”
A lot of comms/content people are probably in the middle of "rapid response moments" as the resistance to federal ICE raids continues to unfold in LA & around the country.
I have some tips on how not to lose your mind, if you're interested: mailchi.mp/277b21199481...
I have some tips on how not to lose your mind, if you're interested: mailchi.mp/277b21199481...
June 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A lot of comms/content people are probably in the middle of "rapid response moments" as the resistance to federal ICE raids continues to unfold in LA & around the country.
I have some tips on how not to lose your mind, if you're interested: mailchi.mp/277b21199481...
I have some tips on how not to lose your mind, if you're interested: mailchi.mp/277b21199481...
Flashback to some worries from 2016, based on some worries from 1999:
medium.com/thecodex/a-d...
medium.com/thecodex/a-d...
June 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Flashback to some worries from 2016, based on some worries from 1999:
medium.com/thecodex/a-d...
medium.com/thecodex/a-d...
How #AI is like a #maliciouscompliance genie, as explained by a hairless cat + Steve Miller Band.
June 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
How #AI is like a #maliciouscompliance genie, as explained by a hairless cat + Steve Miller Band.
FYI: Calling protests “rebellion” and sending in armed forces to stop them is not a good precedent.
June 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
FYI: Calling protests “rebellion” and sending in armed forces to stop them is not a good precedent.
The case for nationalizing SpaceX (and StarLink) is a good one.
Let’s make this billionaire slap fight work for the people!
jacobin.com/2025/06/musk...
Let’s make this billionaire slap fight work for the people!
jacobin.com/2025/06/musk...
June 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The case for nationalizing SpaceX (and StarLink) is a good one.
Let’s make this billionaire slap fight work for the people!
jacobin.com/2025/06/musk...
Let’s make this billionaire slap fight work for the people!
jacobin.com/2025/06/musk...
Are #AI Companies Colonial Empires?
@karenhao.bsky.social #EmpireOfAI
More: www.instrumentalcomms.com/blog/eat-bra...
@karenhao.bsky.social #EmpireOfAI
More: www.instrumentalcomms.com/blog/eat-bra...
May 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Are #AI Companies Colonial Empires?
@karenhao.bsky.social #EmpireOfAI
More: www.instrumentalcomms.com/blog/eat-bra...
@karenhao.bsky.social #EmpireOfAI
More: www.instrumentalcomms.com/blog/eat-bra...
New from the Instrumental Newsletter: Classrooms as the New #AI Frontier (YIKES!) www.instrumentalcomms.com/blog/eat-bra...
May 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
New from the Instrumental Newsletter: Classrooms as the New #AI Frontier (YIKES!) www.instrumentalcomms.com/blog/eat-bra...
Hey so I made a version of Emily Dickinson poem 1096 made up of quotes from movies (and some TV).
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
May 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Hey so I made a version of Emily Dickinson poem 1096 made up of quotes from movies (and some TV).
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
New from Instrumental Comms -- how a culture of "ethical storytelling" led to Dalmar Ainashe & Hillol Sobhan's award-winning CARE News story "What Famine Feels Like":
www.instrumentalcomms.com/blog/you-don...
www.instrumentalcomms.com/blog/you-don...
May 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
New from Instrumental Comms -- how a culture of "ethical storytelling" led to Dalmar Ainashe & Hillol Sobhan's award-winning CARE News story "What Famine Feels Like":
www.instrumentalcomms.com/blog/you-don...
www.instrumentalcomms.com/blog/you-don...