Rachael Nevins ❌👑

& she is 💯 correct

"Hello" has something to do with telephones? I think?

Prefer to leave it mysterious at the moment . . .

Every day of life under Trump is waking up to a headline like, “Wyoming is missing”

only my second run this year with two-digit mileage & I’m feeling it rn, lol

I trust the process & etcetera but hard to believe I’ll be in good half-marathon shape in just a few weeks

People sitting on benches and children playing at the edge of a frozen lake, on which geese are walking

though Prospect Park Lake is still icy enough that the waterfowl can walk on its surface

snowdrops

winter aconite

pale purple crocuses

and this afternoon’s 10-miler! flowers everywhere!

a snowy tree-covered hill on a sunny day

snow, trees, the shadows of trees, seen on a 4-mile midmorning run on Friday 2/27, before heading upstate for a retreat

Bare trees, hazy sky, sun in the trees

photographing the hazy sun, on the morning of Thursday 2/26

a thread of recent runs, this one on Tuesday 2/24

“The fame that I received probably had something to do with my getting a divorce,” said Mrs. Miller [aka Kathy Switzer], “I got into the public eye. Maybe that set up a competition with my husband, with me getting the attention. There is always a rivalry when a woman becomes famous.” 🤔

like, the main subject of an article on the women who placed first & second in the 1973 Earth Day Marathon is not their accomplishment, but rather the fact that they are getting divorced

been investigating the history of road running in the mid century through the 1970s & the way that women runners are discussed is truly wild & depressing

I know better & maybe shouldn’t be shocked but am shocked all the same

😭😂

not, to be clear, a warning of another blizzard somehow on its way toward us, which is what I thought first, but simply a confirmation that the storm that hit us a couple weekends ago was indeed a blizzard

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blow things up, create content, look strong, feel manly

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

“a computer game for our children”

historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball

[pointing at kids going sledding] that’s a slippery slope

@briandupont.bsky.social & I figuring out via text message that we are on the same Q train

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

My baby turned 14yo this Sunday, which has had me thinking about how very mature & sophisticated I once thought I would be when I turned 14 myself, an expectation that was based entirely upon the world of Deep Valley, Minnesota as experienced by Betsy & Tacy in Heaven to Betsy.

The idea of “collaborating” with an LLM when writing really troubles me. LLMs are presented as replacing unconscious thinking as well as the social aspects of thinking. It’s been a minute since I’ve written an essay, but part of the pleasure of doing so is talking through my ideas with my husband.

lol

32.2 million people??!?!

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That makes sense to me.

If I don't see the state of the union, it can't hurt me

Maybe my parents did? Back in the pre-cable days?