Settling in for a nine-hour flight while the woman in the seat in front of me tells the flight attendant she’s been sick to her stomach all day… 🫠😷 Seatmate, whispering: “…hopefully she’s pregnant?”

Termination dust spotted in Juneau! Winter’s on the way! #Alaska

The national weather service is predicting a hurricane-force storm for us on Monday, but for the moment, sunset rainbow. #Alaska

John Green… the author?!

This newsletter from @ianausten.bsky.social is delightfully strange. If I understand correctly, the government of Newfoundland and Labrador has sponsored one of the worst (or at least lowest-tier) teams in English soccer in an effort to... seduce health care workers into emigrating?

this is a really good piece (🎁) wapo.st/47HSqBu

Her trans daughter made the volleyball team. Then an armed officer showed up.

Half the country has banned trans girls from competing in girls sports. Jessica Norton didn’t suspect she’d be punished under one of the bans.

Shout out to the good folks at Blue Ridge Public Radio (based in Asheville, NC). They’ve battled power outages in the past 48hrs but have stayed on the air throughout most of the storm and flooding. If you live in western North Carolina, they’re a great resource for news and emergency info.

Oh, thank you! And I’m sorry to hear about your relatives. I wound up writing this because my mom died of a stroke (hemorrhagic though) and I was just kind of fixated on the fact that there was… nothing anyone could do. So glad to see progress on the ischemic side at least!

What I vaguely recall is that he hedged it, like, “unless you meant this as a question, X is incorrect” and I just said “I did mean it as a question” and then he deleted? But I’d have to go back to Twitter and look ha.

Possibly my proudest moment was getting that NYT Typos dude to delete a tweet in acknowledgment that I was right and he was wrong.