Anandi Mishra

Elvia Wilk for @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social on streetlights, light pollution and what (all) we lose to light. It's an important, timely essay touching on fossil fuel-addled electricity consumption, night lights and its impact on work and endless consumption.

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The first time I genuinely felt old is when I tried to explain the concept of clipart to an apprentice at work. Everything I said was such an alien concept to them that I suddenly understood how my grandparents must have felt explaining rationing when I was 10

Seine swimming pool opening gives Paris mayor another jewel in her green crown Making the famed river swimmable is one of the final big projects Anne Hidalgo will inaugurate before she leaves office next year.

“Hidalgo spearheaded legislation that constrains her eventual successor from reversing her policies & long-term goals, such as the creation of 55 acres of new green areas by 2040…”

New Seine swimming pools are just the latest city-building legacies Paris Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social is leaving.

absolutely! stuff of intricate tattoo drawings

I think about this tweet all the time

cannot get over how gorgeous this petite lady is 🤎🤎

What Narendra Modi Is Taking From Me In redeveloping the Indian capital, the prime minister is remaking it in his image.

three years ago I published my first @theatlantic.com essay that somehow broke something inside me. have a read and share your thoughts?

#longreads #essay #redevelopment #centralvistaproject #Delhi

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Our grief is what brings us together - High Country News On a rapidly warming planet, we are not alone in our fear.

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"In the Anthropocene, the ability to locate emergency exits is essential... .This disorientation invokes Freud’s unheimlich — the “uncanny” — in which the familiar inevitably morphs into the unfamiliar, an intimacy turned rancid and raw."

"60K Gazans have been killed," in both number and passive voice, might as well be genocide denial at this point. I don't think that's edgy to say. It's way more than that number and we straightforwardly know who's doing it

I am kinda fascinated by the emerging joint deployment of “Mamdani would take away the NYPD’s ability to effectively deal with shootings like the one that happened on Monday” and “It’s impossible to prevent shootings like the one that happened on Monday”, sometimes on the same page of the newspaper.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Birds are dinosaurs who shrugged off a couple apocalypses. Some eat bone marrow. Some drink nectar. They outswim fish in the sea. They smile politely at gravity’s demands. ‬

‪I am grateful to see them. I am grateful to feed them. I am grateful to know them.‬

TS Eliot:

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How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.

How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? Sharon Lerner reports the inside story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.

What Narendra Modi Is Taking From Me In redeveloping the Indian capital, the prime minister is remaking it in his image.

three years ago I published my first @theatlantic.com essay that somehow broke something inside me. have a read and share your thoughts?

#longreads #essay #redevelopment #centralvistaproject #Delhi

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

I thought the worst thing about it was the ridiculous hyper-airbrushed texture we’ve come to expect from this nonsense technology and then I saw the actual full ad and apparently this fake woman made of environmental ruin and stolen art is about eight feet tall

to read dag solstad is to continuously fend off the urge to gulp down small, stark shots of Aquavit with, of course, that abiding pint of local beer.

I can so vehemently attest to that!

Summer blooms

🌿What are nature-based solutions?🔗 go.wri.org/nature-based...

NBS are interventions that use nature and the natural functions of healthy ecosystems to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time. #WRIExplains

WRI's 2025 summer #ReadingList is here!😎🌍

Our in-house librarians and staff have curated a powerful list of books that explore climate science, environmental justice, conservation, and hope for the future.

📚 Explore the full list👉 go.wri.org/climate-reading-list #WRIBookRecs

Ministers vow to tackle all forms of water pollution in England and Wales Exclusive: Commitment comes as data shows serious pollution events involving water firms up by 60%

“Ministers vow to tackle ALL forms of water pollution in England and Wales… They plan to tackle agricultural runoffs”

This is a very welcome acknowledgment from Steve Reed of the importance of agricultural river pollution. Let’s see what policies are proposed

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Father and Mother - The Paris Review “When they met she was living in a large apartment in the rue Bonaparte, with the sister closest in age, the one who’s going to die of alcohol and pills.”

“I loved my father, I loved my mother, like everyone does. So what?”

From Name by Constance Debré, translated by Lauren Elkin, forthcoming from @SemiotextePress.

Father and Mother - The Paris Review “When they met she was living in a large apartment in the rue Bonaparte, with the sister closest in age, the one who’s going to die of alcohol and pills.”

“You don’t fuck a queen up against a wall. You may think of nothing else, but you don’t touch her.”

From Name by Constance Debré, translated by Lauren Elkin, forthcoming from @SemiotextePress.

On a recent flight my seatmates learned I was a writer and asked my opinion on AI. They didn't understand genAI is based on work stolen from authors, and they DEFINITELY didn't know about the energy costs. Both shocked them. People just don't know.

“No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear: In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.” by Toni Morrison; excerpt reads: “Dictators and tyrants routinely begin their reigns and sustain their power with the deliberate and calculated destruction of art: the censorship and book-burning of unpoliced prose, the harassment and detention of painters, journalists, poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists. This is the first step of a despot whose instinctive acts of malevolence are not simply mindless or evil; they are also perceptive. Such despots know very well that their strategy of repression will allow the real tools of oppressive power to flourish. Their plan is simple: 1. Select a useful enemy—an “Other”—to convert rage into conflict, even war. 2. Limit or erase the imagination that art provides, as well as the critical thinking of scholars and journalists. 3. Distract with toys, dreams of loot, and themes of superior religion or defiant national pride that enshrine past hurts and humiliations.”

Toni Morrison:

David Ellis on the Yellow Bittern: Life before everyone became a bore David Ellis goes for lunch in 1982

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a restaurant that has divided all London food critics, The Yellow Bitterns, reviewed here by David Ellis with all his panache, dry wit and exuberance

ya but then there are creeps...

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