Alex Leviton

Such a great museum! Plus: If you have a chance to eat at the cafe, it's one of my favorite restaurants in Durham. Nom nom nom.

Holy crap! I mean, he is kind of the Pauly Shore of government ...

What everyone has shared (Mt St Helens!), but hands-down, by far my favorite: University of Arizona and their work on Biosphere 2. biosphere2.org

Whoaaa. Coincidentally, I am literally a travel writer for the region around Sequim.

Word.

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There’s going through the highs and lows of your messy, personal, gorgeous human existence to connect with other humans via the tin-can phone line of your soul's creative expression..

And then: there's AI art.

Ahem.

From @theoatmeal.bsky.social

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

So. Good. I love how our greatest philosophers these days are in standup, The Onion or comics. (Plus, he lives on our island!)

Haha. Hee-larious typo. Facing his *mortality*!

If he’s facing his morality and envisioning the planet without him, maybe he just wants to take a bunch of us with him. Giving off some serious pharaoh vibes.

Aww. 😊 I do see the family resemblance. 💛 (inside and out; Janna is one of the good ones)

It’s a good life tip: When the universe gives you more color, you gotta do the color. Because, man; color is rarer than you’d expect.

It’s a good life tip: When the universe gives you more color, you gotta do the color. Because, man; color is rarer than it should be.

SNL needs to do a sketch with, like, Manifest Abundance folks conducting a seminar on the power of positive thinking in war zone rubble.

Happy Best-Month Eve! 🥳

Which is Sept obvs (school starts, the smell of tomato leaves, college football, etc).

My full ranking:

1) Sept
2) Oct
3) July
4) May
5) June
6) Aug
7) Nov
8) Dec
9) Jan
10) Feb (or Feb > Jan, open for debate)
11) April
12) March

This just happened to be the card section I photographed (weirdness accidental). What else would you call the intangible/emotion category (machete will move, I promise!). #psychology or #neuroscience peeps: Interoception? Internal? Personal?

My kingdom for a trivia partner who knows Dua Lipa and baseball since 1994.

A mosaic bench in Mexico of two skeletons getting married.

Testing some weirder ‘You As’ Perspective cards. Any ‘oh totally!’ or ‘hell no’ first impressions?

* You on your deathbed
* You + bad life choices
* You on the Death Star
* Your liver, personified
* Your evil twin
* You, vomiting

#playtesting #boardgames #creativethinking

Opinion | Bad Bunny Just Wants to Stay Home. So Do I.

The best example of financial tourism creativity I think I’ve ever seen, coming from one of my favorite places on Earth, Puerto Rico.

Bad Bunny Just Wants to Stay Home. So Do I. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

Funny Times once ran a story: drug dealers sold their products under an ancient oak tree right next to a school. The police spent $$$$ dealing with this intractable, societal problem. Their solution?

They cut down the tree.

Trump doesn't know how to *not* cut down the tree.

Westworld syndrome. If I delete one of the robots, the other robots shouldn't complain.

Funny Times once ran a story: drug dealers sold their wares under a big oak tree right next to a school. The police spent $$$$ dealing with this intractable, societal problem. Their solution?

They cut down the tree.

Trump doesn't know how to *not* cut down the tree.

17 quintillion … 🤯

What’s the box version of saying ‘a metric crapload of play combinations’?

Mathers, people who can math or have ever mathed: Can you help our game?

Right? We did milk crates for decades; we could totally start a returnable box system.

Opinion | We are losing our humanity. I am searching for an antidote. The challenge of our time is to recover what we have lost: in nature, and in our communities.

Nature, oak trees, creativity, connecting over sharing our preferences for any of these things … antidote to our discontent? Beautiful piece by @danamilbank.bsky.social in WaPo www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Joy is sharing the board game you and your partner created with your OPALs creativity group, and it creates even *more* joy and creativity in the world. 🥰 #boardgamecommunity

Are rhododendrons epiphytic?Holy crap.

I just wrote about epiphytes TODAY. (Guidebook about Olympic National Park.)

I'm in writer deadline hell level 6, the spray cheese level.

#ilovewriting #ihatewriting

I'm not a scientist, but I've become obsessed with how our perception and perspective affects our creativity, and how understanding the link could enhance our creative thinking. I'm hoping to get to your new exhibit one of these days!

“The social benefits of nostalgia are particularly well supported.”

Yep yep yep. Memory, senses, and story bring people together.

Want to connect across divides? Start with the sound of Chewbacca’s voice. Or the smell of gasoline. I’ve been using this to teach for 15 years, and it’s magic.