Jennifer Lovett

The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation

This is long but truly one of the most fun things I've read online in a long long time harpers.org/archive/2025...

Was so bummed I couldn’t make this show. This is one of the songs I’m most looking forward to seeing live, thanks for sharing!

Met a defense contractor tonight at a conference who told me my greatest purpose in life in light of AI’s forthcoming sentience was to become a mother. Do men not have the foot in my mouth feeling?

Fire smoke has been bad up until now, but the air finally cleared up enough to get some views of downtown Denver and the front range

Joel Eisiminger in a helmet, goggled and gloves, holds a chainsaw. A headline reads: ‘If I Live to 25, I’ve Lived a Good Life’ Photo by Joel Eisiminger

“At the end of the day, if I live to 25, I’ve lived a good life.” Joel Eisiminger started fighting wildfires as a teenager. After inhaling smoke on the front lines for six seasons, he faced an impossible choice. nyti.ms/4mV9tXM

Flying into Denver next week and have been researching public transportation options. Pleased to report that Colorado DOT has a regional bus system they call Bustang

Let’s get that bluegrass Ends!!

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Alabama Wildlife Center unveils license plate dedicated to wildlife rehabilitation >> https://www.waff.com/2025/08/27/alabama-wildlife-center-unveils-license-plate-dedicated-wildlife-rehabilitation/ 

Had the privilege of watching the emergence of this Cloudless Sulphur over the past few days 🦋

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia Officials say a flying osprey dropped its catch, which then struck power lines, causing sparks that ignited dry grass.

A small brush fire and power outage in British Columbia started on Wednesday when an airborne fish struck power lines, according to fire officials.

Travel Mug Regales Other Mugs With Stories From Road

Travel Mug Regales Other Mugs With Stories From Road

If You Talk in Your Sleep, Elvis

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🔗: https://www.al.com/news/2025/07/dark-money-turns-alabama-attorney-general-race-into-a-million-dollar-mystery.html?gift=8af6fcf4-f6db-490f-8c2c-f4be89434e84 

"The only person who can say, 'Enough!' is you," columnist @warondumb.bsky.social writes.

With no public debate, Louisiana enacts sales tax break on luxury boats • Louisiana Illuminator Louisiana passed a sales tax break, which took effect July 1, for boats worth $200,000 or more.

NEW: While on a friend’s yacht, Gov. Jeff Landry praised a new tax break on boat purchases in a short video he shared to social media.
What the governor didn’t mention is the tax break only applies to boats worth $200,000 or more. @jsodonoghue.bsky.social reports lailluminator.com/2025/07/10/w...

Long time coming.

@kbeccaandrews.bsky.social, @johnhammontree.bsky.social and I are about to drop an 8-part podcast about serial bomber Eric Rudolph and the rise of Christian/white nationalism.

We're excited about it. First episodes out July 30. Follow on Apple Podcasts to help us get it started.

@johnarchibald.bsky.social

Islands in the Sky A Comic Anthology - Uniting Stories, Art, and Survival in the Wake of Hurricane Helene

Hey folks, take a look at this brilliant idea by my friend Andrew Aydin - telling the stories of Hurricane Helene vivitms with COMICS. This can reach so many people. Please consider supporting however you feel comfortable. Folks in W NC still need our help

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This is fascinating. The team at Anthropic wanted to see how Claude would do running a small vending business for employees. It gave everyone who asked discounts, hallucinated a payment account, and had what the Anthropic team termed an identity crisis www.anthropic.com/research/pro...

An image of a red, rocky landscape with scattered shrubs in the foreground in Utah. Text overlay states, “44% of American voters support drilling and mining fossil fuels on public land in the U.S.”

Utah GOP Senator Mike Lee proposed a bill to sell millions of acres of public lands. The bill faced criticism from conservative groups, including hunters, who say it would harm their way of life. Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has ruled against this bill: www.eenews.net/articles/sen...

The senator who lives in Florida, yet is somehow allowed to represent Alabama

I don’t think Alabama gets enough credit for just being really pretty

Lightning strikes Albertville Public Library, staff cat rescued from flames Lightning strikes Albertville Public Library, staff cat rescued from flames

A believed lightning strike is the culprit of a fire at the Albertville Public Library, which started around 11 p.m. Tuesday.

Is there anything better than a summer time farmer’s market?

Advocacy Group Erecting 300 Billboards Across Country In Support Of National Parks Three-hundred billboards lamenting the plight of national parks under the Trump administration are to be erected across the country on Monday.

More Perfect Union put up 300 billboards across the country highlighting the cuts to funding and services at our nation’s national parks.

Sidewalk is an incredible organization that promotes local and regional talent and overall just good conversations and community focused on art and movies. Their work is important and I hope we’re able to support them through this.

Alabama’s largest film festival losing $25,000 in Trump arts cuts: ‘Have to make tough decisions’ The Sidewalk Film Festival’s NEA grant was withdrawn just a few months before the event in August.

Alabama's Sidewalk Film Festival has taken a financial gut punch from the Trump administration, as $25,000 in federal funding has been withdrawn.

Walking through an older neighborhood in Huntsville and came across this, hard to imagine the amount of paperwork and meetings this would generate if they tried to put this near any homes today. Hard to be mad with those views though..

#DOGE in action: Went to reserve a rental bike for one of the days Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is car free during my visit next month and was told the car free days have been postponed due to layoffs. #GSMNP

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Group warns Alabama families face ‘life-threatening’ risks after cuts to utility assistance program "Without this critical assistance, many households face the very real risk of utility shutoffs, leaving families in unsafe, even life-threatening, conditions without power."

Energy Alabama said in a Thursday press release that low-income families receive help with energy bills through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, especially during extreme weather. The nonprofit called for “immediate federal action to restore this crucial program.”