Shawnté Salabert

Just got back and this was the quietest, dead-est, weirdest SX I've ever attended...definitely felt like the last gasp in a lot of ways.

Any mention of transgender people has been removed from the Stonewall National Monument website. It's an absolute disgrace - FACT is, transgender people were instrumental in Stonewall & the subsequent movement for civil rights for LGBTQ people.

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Wowwwww. Dark grocery store humor at its best, I suppose!

Forest Service employees: drop stories my way via the secure contact form on my website.

By freezing federal funding, Trump is usurping powers that below to Congress, violating the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, creating a constitutional crisis, and sowing confusion and disorder.

Please write and/or call your representatives:

www.congress.gov/members/find...

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Writing Truth to Power: Tips for Writing to Your Legislators ADVOCACY TAKES MANY SHAPES AND FORMS. It might look like volunteering for an organization or grassroots coalition working for change in your community, reading up or participating in webinars on iss...

Here are a few tips on communicating with legislators:

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A friendly reminder: your elected officials are supposed to serve you - and us. Start *telling* them what you want them to do. I recommend calling (or emailing if that's more comfy) & setting it as a daily to-do item. Here's how to find your Congressional reps:

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

YouTube video by The Daily Show Royal Ramey - Former Incarcerated Firefighter on Prison-to-Public Service Pipeline | The Daily Show

This was such a good interview.

I even gave them the heads up - like, hey, folks, I woke up mid-procedure last time I had a sedative and it was gently traumatizing! Please don't let that happen! (And this is after the poor phlebotomist turned my hand into painful swiss cheese before giving up and going for the elbow!)

Lil miffed at everyone who said that I would be asleep during my entire colonoscopy, wouldn't remember a thing, and would wake up "refreshed," because that is 900% NOT what happened today. Second time ever that I've been under sedation; second time I woke mid-procedure in discomfort & confusion :\

Hi friends, if you're a journalist who has been reporting on the LA fires the International Women's Media Foundation is offering a virtual support group session next week and one/time grants up to $1500 if you need funding for gear. iwmf.org for more and if you need more details message me

We are so lucky to have people like Nikki and places like Octavia's in our community <3

(I evacuated; I'm fine. But many are not.)

SoCal Wildfire Resources

Amid the chaos, please don't forget about everyone impacted by the fires here - it's staggering how much help people are going to need and for how long. I'm maintaining a Google Doc of vetted GoFundMes & resources for people affected by the fires - please use / share: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The Forest Service Isn’t Hiring Seasonal Staff. Here’s Why Trail Runners Should Get Involved. - UltraSignupNews A budgetary shortfall has led to a USFS hiring freeze that will impact trail runners and race directors alike. Here’s what we can do about it.

Important read and call to action for trail runners

news.ultrasignup.com/the-forest-s...

Writers: yes, you are still a "real" writer if you
- have never published anything
- have no readers
- didn't write anything this month
- didn't write anything this year
- can't articulate words anymore
- can only float and mournfully wail
- were murdered ten years ago on this very spot

Don't worry, Colin - you're still middle-aged; you didn't lose *everything*

*chute

Wait...January IS next month.

Whatever.

Getting mine in January, so let's make this a jazz trio.

This is top-tier dadding, Colin (and a top-tier calendar, for real). A+++ work.

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

Look at all that freaky, fantastic geometry! Ugh, I love the infinite art gallery that is nature.

My Life As a Homeless Man in America An extraordinary firsthand account.

What an incredible piece from Patrick Fealey, an award-winning journalist and writer, who became homeless last year. I often think about how wide the gaps are in Britain's social security net compared with Germany's. But America is truly in a different league.

www.esquire.com/news-politic...

This is such a good story, and at its core is something that I think the scale of online shopping often hides from us in plain sight: So much of the abundance it promises is just a lot of disappointing sameness in the end

Ah, the movie that inspired my one and only attempt at being a 7-year-old runaway / vagabond / drifter, with only my Cabbage Patch Kid, Oliver, for company (couldn't get my cat to agree to ride in my backpack)!

Somebody Should Do Something About This - Semi-Rad.com if you are the big tree,

Nice lil reminder from @semi-rad.bsky.social that there's a 9.5-inch Silky Gomboy Curve 240 out there for all of us "somebodys"...

semi-rad.com/2024/11/some...

I mean, y'all - this is nearly an exact rendering of the owl that perches in the tree outside my house every evening, hooting sweet nothings to its lover:

I cannot recommend @tommysiegel.bsky.social's Extremely Accurate Birds calendar highly enough for anyone who enjoys birds and their very anatomically correct lil legs 'n buns:

I will not abandon you in cyberspace, Mike.