Sara Davis

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!

A grant-funded, one-day retreat for trans fiction writers in Philly. Tell your friends! www.shendelman.com/fictionists

All the climate-related links I've been bookmarking for the last few months, including climate impacts, what the White House is up to, and some good news.

Anyway, AI doesn’t have any value for me in anything I do. I understand this says something about *what* I do. But also? It’s only practically existed for maybe 18 months. I loved and worked almost 45 years without it so yeah, I’m cool.

This isn't funny. It's only what we expect when Trump and Cuomo use genAI to make social content--conservatives *love* disinformation and exploiting env. resources. (Recall: HR 1 initially proposed an AI regulation ban.)
But if we are against those things, then we don't use ChatGPT. Even for jokes.

Reminder that Spotify has still not gotten rid of their ICE ads. They think they can just stay silent without answering to the public. Let’s show them how wrong they are, let’s hit them where it hurts! These corporations don’t understand anything unless it hurts their bottom line.

This month I read The Crying Book, Women, and The Wax Child. (I also reread a stack of familiar favorites for comfort.) 💙📚 #BookSky

Got my 35mm film from the 10/18 march developed. Suddenly Chewie's got his New Hope look back lol.

Nikon FM2n, Nikon Nikkor 24mm f2.8, Kodak Gold 200.

#BelieveInFilm #35mmLoveLetter #NoKings

Watercolor doodle of a butterfly standing up on two legs like a human and smoking a cigarette. It says, make shitty art if you want to, who's going to stop you?

#MakeAThing

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For the price of one of the several Substack newsletters I cancelled this year, I just invested in worked-owned feminist media--and you can too!

I'm seeing an influx of new folks--Hello! Welcome! I hope you like it here more than the Other Place!--so it seems like a good time to reshare this group of awesome storytellers and creatives. We are international, we love books, and we always want to talk about the environment. go.bsky.app/9HqWB1b

On an environmental fiction kick and really loved how deftly this one ties the natural world and human relationships! expositionreview.com/issues/vol-x...

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

If you use Word and don’t want Microsoft snooping in your stuff, this is your reminder to go to File - Options - General - Privacy Settings and uncheck all “optimization” settings. 🙄

This month I read Creation Lake, H is for Hawk, and Theory of Water. 💙📚 #BookSky

I love my dictionary. No slop, except for the definition listed under s.

and every time you use AI, you are justifying the existence of these data centers. you are implicitly agreeing that it's ok to charge these households for the additional power the centers are using.

Today in Cities Are Good: got home from a day-long walk and found my neighbors all sitting around folding tables in the middle of our block. Eating pizza & potato chips, dogs on laps, little kids running around. I didn't have anything to contribute but they pulled out a chair & plate for me anyhow.

I am just a volunteer Tree Tender, not an arborist. But if I were in charge of this tree, I would move the flowers growing around its trunk and make sure the root flare isn't covered in dirt or mulch--the tree might not be getting enough air and water.

I wish I had taken literally any science course in college. I APed out of them all, which means when I decided to take climate change courses as a post-bacc, those were my first science classes since high school--public high school in the American South. 🫠 I really felt that knowledge gap!

HIGH Nationally, the wastewater viral activity level for COVID-19 is currently high.

Just FYI: while CDC is no longer tracking much of anything, wastewater data is still being reported. COVID-19 levels have just been nationally upgraded to “high”

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

I've been wanting to sign up for this fabulous newsletter. Leaving Substack is the perfect occasion to subscribe!

(The author gets into the WHY in this letter, if you've somehow remained in the dark about why Substack is bad for writers.)

if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you

1348: Valentine for Ernest Mann by Naomi Shihab Nye Today’s poem is Valentine for Ernest Mann by Naomi Shihab Nye.

Today's Slowdown poem is such a banger that I had to read it aloud. www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

My hand holding two CVS coupons and a 90-ct bottle of Zyrtec

Wow, not only did I get mt covid and flu shots today, but I ALSO got $20 off of my $40 allergy meds. Get vaxxed while you can, Philly!