Reposted by Kim GreenThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/09/2026News Analysis: Among the growing fears about artificial intelligence, the possibility that A.I. models trained in biology could be used to create a new wave of biological weapons — like bacteria or fungi designed to be unleashed against armies or civilians — has been alarming. nyti.ms/4h7vLni 103219 32
Kim Green @aviatrixkim.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Experimental peach-blueberry galette. Pastry skills need work. Who has a flawless galette dough recipe to share? 100 1
Kim Green @aviatrixkim.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Silly little essay about holding onto stubborn book-love at a time when reading feels endangered Includes book recs, obvi ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ pursuitmag.com/writing-abou...pursuitmag.comWriting About ReadingNews flash: Reading is apparently dead. At PursuitMag headquarters, we didn't get the memo. This spring and summer, we've been doubling down on book 000 0
Reposted by Kim GreenPamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 14/07/2026A rave review in the @nytimes.com of my new book, CATCH THE DEVIL, which is out today! Written by one of my writing heroes, @tedconover.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/b...nytimes.comBook Review: ‘Catch the Devil,’ by Pamela ColloffIn “Catch the Devil,” Pamela Colloff vividly tells the true story of the con man who traded on other prisoners’ “confessions” for clemency. 45013 50
Reposted by Kim GreenNPR @npr.org · 07/07/2026July's crop of notable releases features new work from Colson Whitehead, Sigrid Nuñez, Daniel Mason and Nathaniel Rich. Plus, new nonfiction from award-winning journalists. n.pr/3SD4px3n.pr10 new books you won't want to miss in JulyJuly's crop of notable releases features new work from Colson Whitehead, Sigrid Nuñez, Daniel Mason and Nathaniel Rich. Plus, new nonfiction from award-winning journalists. 413412 134
Reposted by Kim GreenAfter Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 01/08/2025“The worst men have the best jobs, the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.” - Charles Bukowski 0305 30
Reposted by Kim GreenD. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 24/07/2025I’ll be on WXNA’s ‘Psychobabble’ with a bunch of great folks tomorrow at noon to talk about the @nashvillescene.com’s late, great Jim Ridley. Tune in! More details here.nashvillescene.comWXNA Plans Salute to Jim RidleyA variety of shows on the community radio station will celebrate the late, great Scene editor’s 60th birthday 0102 10
Reposted by Kim GreenD. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Reporters Madeline Fening and Lucas Griffith of alt-weekly Cincinnati CityBeat were arrested Thursday while doing their jobs, covering a protest in Northern Kentucky.wcpo.comGov. DeWine 'concerned' about arrest of journalists during protest on Roebling BridgeOhio Governor Mike DeWine said he is checking with Northern Kentucky authorities after over 13 people were arrested during protests on the Roebling Bridge Thursday — including two journalists. 21512 15
Reposted by Kim GreenThe Onion @theonion.com · 19/07/2025DOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From Website theonion.com/doj-rem...theonion.comDOJ Removes All Mentions Of Justice From WebsiteWASHINGTON—In the latest of a series of escalations in President Donald Trump’s highly publicized war on “woke,” the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly removed all mentions of justice from its website Friday. The purge follows a directive from the DOJ last week to roll back pro-justice programs and delete thousands of webpages that contained banned […] 603268535 3.3K
Reposted by Kim GreenAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/07/2025"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...theatlantic.comThe Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency FoodFederal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste. 35644563194 4.5K
Reposted by Kim GreenBookPage @readbookpage.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Charlie English’s entertaining, inspiring THE CIA BOOK CLUB tells the story of the agents and resistance members who waged a literary campaign against totalitarianism in Cold War-era Poland. @randomhouse.bsky.socialbookpage.com 111 1
Kim Green @aviatrixkim.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Thrilling! We went to Caracol several times in the early 2000s. Gorgeous, haunting site, the huge ceiba trees and roars of howler monkeys echoing in the deep green. Almost no visitors then, and we hung out with some of the archaeologists once. One of my favorite places on earth. 020 2
Reposted by Kim GreenPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Bonkers story. Always amazing how many hardcore committed criminals use messaging acts with spectacular stupidity about exposing themselves. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/w...nytimes.comThe Wild Russian Plot to Burn a London Restaurant and Kidnap Its Owner 2314 31
Reposted by Kim GreenNashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 07/07/2025We're partnering with The Porch on a summer writing contest for Vodka Yonic, the Scene's personal essay column for women and nonbinary writers. Submit an original essay by July 25 for a chance to win $200, a free Porch class, and publication in the Scene! Learn more: www.porchtn.org/vodkayonic. 065 6
Kim Green @aviatrixkim.bsky.social · 08/07/2025I’m happy to show up & bring Cambodian food to book clubs when folks want to read SLOW NOODLES & ask questions about how Chantha & I collaborated. I will admit that some people say/ask very weird things. I’m getting used to people telling me they “couldn’t get into it at first.” 110 1
Reposted by Kim GreenPamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Robert Kaiser--an innocent father who was wrongly convicted and imprisoned thanks to the flawed theory of shaken baby syndrome--has been added to the National Registry of Exonerations. Kaiser is the 41st person on the registry cleared of SBS accusations. exonerationregistry.org/cases/14212 04111 41
Kim Green @aviatrixkim.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I loved all his work, but his aviation stories were unequalled. My favorite was “The Turn,” a 1993 piece on the physics of how an airplane banks & yaws. He explained it so elegantly that I began to see turning flight as extraordinarily beautiful. I would have loved to take a flight lesson with him. 020 2
Reposted by Kim GreenSteven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Some argue that AI will be wildly powerful and dangerous; others say it will be a stupid waste. My take is that it will be a wildly powerful and dangerous stupid waste. 032 3
Reposted by Kim GreenAlison Fitzgerald Kodjak @alikodjak.bsky.social · 03/06/2025@propublica.org is continuing to follow what has happened in the wake of the destruction of USAID. By Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester www.propublica.org/article/trum...propublica.orgDeath, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile LocationsExclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining... 218071 180
Reposted by Kim GreenJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 03/06/2025I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...amandaguinzburg.substack.comDiabolus Ex MachinaThis Is Not An Essay 1571652594 1.7K
Reposted by Kim GreenSteven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 02/06/2025"The owner tried chasing the zebra through traffic Saturday, but it escaped in a wooded area." fox17.com/news/local/z...fox17.comZebra on the loose: The search for a pet zebra in Rutherford County continuesThe search for elusive pet zebra continues Monday after the animal escaped a Rutherford County home Saturday. 021 2
Reposted by Kim GreenThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/06/2025As a child, Shamsa Sharawe was brutally cut. As an adult, she underwent hours of reconstruction surgery. As a mother, she vowed to protect her daughter from female genital cutting. And now as a social media influencer, she is persuading others to do the same. trib.al/z8NU9U3 562874519 2.9K
Kim Green @aviatrixkim.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Yesterday my husband said we couldn’t get a handmaid because she would be called “Ofhal.” 010 1
Reposted by Kim GreenEd Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 30/05/2025I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding. It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job. unbreaking.org/issues/medic...unbreaking.orgMedical Research Funding — UnbreakingHow the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us. 361365805 1.4K
Reposted by Kim GreenTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 30/05/2025today, a special feature arranged for your delectation by @davidswanson.bsky.social: notable sandwiches of literature, from dickens to roth to morrison: buttondown.com/theswordandt...buttondown.comNotable Sandwich Special: Literary HeroesWelcome back to Notable Sandwiches, where my editor David Swanson and I pull up a chair at the strange table that is Wikipedia’s List of Notable Sandwiches... 2275 27
Reposted by Kim GreenJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 29/05/2025the people here probably already know this but really spread this far and wide: tell your normal offline friends and family to stop using ChatGPT for legal advice. it's happening constantly now. I'm always explaining to people why the advice this silly thing gave them is not real legal advice. 203224800 3.2K
Reposted by Kim GreenHolly McCall @jhollymc.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Really one of the best times of the year. 1103 10
Reposted by Kim GreenJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Also, rail against whatever you include in "MSM" if you want to, but if you're doing so without subscribing to/financially supporting an alternative even as you have the means to do so... 51149 114
Reposted by Kim GreenJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Whenever I have to go out (and I don’t feel like it) I imagine there’s a group of birds who are “people watchers” that have been waiting their whole bird lives to spot an introvert in the wild and that they’ll be telling their bird friends about me for years and it kinda helps 391258105 1.3K
Reposted by Kim GreenThe Onion @theonion.com · 26/05/2025A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again theonion.com/a-shatt... 297242383325 24.2K
Kim Green @aviatrixkim.bsky.social · 26/05/2025So excited to learn that 13th century Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II was known as the “Astonishment of the World,” and now I want to get another cat so I can name it that 000 0
Reposted by Kim GreenDebbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 26/05/2025If you love a book, write a nice review. It gives the author encouragement for bad days when they want to take up scorpion petting. - @lianabrooks.bsky.social #WriterSky #BookSky #KidLit 815944870 5.9K
Reposted by Kim GreenProPublica @propublica.org · 24/05/2025In one dramatic example, Gambian officials said the State Department issued a veiled threat of cutting funds to their fragile democracy if they didn’t approve a license for Musk’s Starlink.propublica.orgThe Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers… 48697382 697
Reposted by Kim GreenNPR @npr.org · 24/05/2025Your state DMV probably won't text you about unpaid fees — but scammers will.npr.orgAmericans are warned as latest DMV phishing scam targets phonesYour state DMV probably won't text you about unpaid fees — but scammers will. 19536401014 3.6K
Reposted by Kim GreenAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/05/2025The Hungarian government is about to pass a law that will allow it to destroy the tiny online outlets that represent the last vestiges of independent Hungarian press 444.hu/2025/05/22/v...444.huViktor Orbán’s crackdown on free press does not only affect Hungary. It affects all of EuropeThe so-called “Transparency Law”, currently pending approval, significantly undermines freedom of expression in Hungary — and its impacts are unlikely stop at the country’s borders. 10821511020 2.2K
Reposted by Kim GreenThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/05/2025Johan Helberg woke up because his neighbor was pounding on his door, telling him to look outside. “I thought, who in the world rings the doorbell at 5:45 in the morning? I looked out the window, and he said: ‘Haven’t you seen the ship?’”nytimes.comCargo Ship Crashes Into Norway Man’s Backyard 811072215 1.1K
Reposted by Kim GreenPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025 12 months ago he had fended off another attack, that time by a great white shark. "I feel like they're trying to kill me, all these animals," he reportedly said. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comPort Macquarie: Kangaroo 'tries to drown' man in Australia floodwatersThe marsupial held the man down in floodwater after they got into a fight near Port Macquarie. 33015 30
Reposted by Kim GreenSteven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 20/05/2025“a growing recognition that women’s pain should be treated.” 392 9
Reposted by Kim Green💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing! 53156377392 15.6K
Reposted by Kim GreenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/05/2025No actual writer wants this shit. Please stop forcing it on us. 712089288 2.1K
Reposted by Kim GreenTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 16/05/2025i wrote about a beautiful memoir, cambodian history, the num pang sandwich, rice and bread: buttondown.com/theswordandt...buttondown.comNotable Sandwiches #126: Num PangWelcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, your host, along with my editor David, lay out the multifarious and strange feast that is... 212222 122
Reposted by Kim GreenTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 16/05/2025and today's sandwich forms the bookend of the trio, and is partly the book review of an amazing memoir by cambodian author chantha nguon about fleeing cambodia and returning, and the food that sustained her along the way: buttondown.com/theswordandt...buttondown.comNotable Sandwiches #126: Num PangWelcome back to Notable Sandwiches, the feature where I, your host, along with my editor David, lay out the multifarious and strange feast that is... 0333 33
Kim Green @aviatrixkim.bsky.social · 17/05/2025This is an absolutely stunning piece of writing. 000 0
Reposted by Kim GreenLucretia Baskin @lucretiab.bsky.social · 16/05/2025If you’re not reading Talia Lavin’s wonderful series about sandwiches, you should totally start. 36915 69
Reposted by Kim GreenBetsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 28/04/2025www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...nashvillescene.comWith Southern Festival of Book Imperiled, 'Read With Jenna' Comes to TownThe 'Today' show host's book festival costs $399 a ticket 242 4