Freelance writing about the wild, old and dead. Bylines in NatGeo, SciAm, The New York Times, Texas Monthly, and many other places. Repped by @desir.ee at Looking Glass Literary (fiction) and @benglishhh.bsky.social at Transatlantic (nonfiction)
Asher Elbein
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1. Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.”
A Popular Information investigaiton reveals that it's a GOP front group.
Following along for receipts.
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Probably GOAT feels less fresh if you watch a lot of basketball, but I don't, so it all felt pleasantly alien to me
Anyway, that's my contribution to sports night around here
Threw on GOAT while D and I were looking after one of our friend's kids, and gotta say: very fun little movie with genuinely incredible character and environmental design
Difficult to think of a better example of Silicon Valley billionaire group chat brainrot than someone thinking the best way to combat the billionaire wealth tax would be to... buy up the company collecting signatures for the ballot measure. via
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Another round animal #specbio #creaturedesign
The U.S. is one of the most unique and diverse countries in world history and it would rock if we stopped sucking ass and actually were a good country!
That may never happen in my lifetime but that hope is the literal entire point of my political beliefs.
The process of moving natural gas is wasteful and inefficient; transport accounts for roughly half of methane emissions associated with fossil gas. In Mexico, new pipelines threaten the communities and environments they snake through.
apropos of the thing of the day: just about every construction regulation that you personally find to be annoying overkill is in place because somebody had a grisly, avoidable death. they don’t establish regulations ahead of disaster just to be safe. they do it to clean up horrifying messes
The Rough Earthsnake ranges into the northern quarter of the Florida peninsula. This one is from one of the most southern populations in the state. #herps
very emotionally invested in the Caring for a Bee with Mangled Wings Thread, imho this is one of its highlights
