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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I got my mother-in-law a potted redwood sapling for Christmas, told her to tend it on the porch of her condo until it got big enough, then we‘d plant it at our house. It’s time! Searched for tips. Didn’t occur to the computer I’d be interacting with an actual tree, only tree in computer.
AI overview, requirements to plant a “redwood” tree in some kind of online universe where you need 6 dragon fruits to pay Alexandra for protection against disease
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David Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is what real leverage looks like
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Al Gourd”
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
every so often I like to post this photograph, in which I happened to have identified Bing Crosby's grandfather, in case anyone is paying attention and finds that interesting.
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
get AI out of schools so our children can acquire actual life skills.
Someone holding a carrot over a toilet and it says “Why wasn’t this taught in school?”
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
hello to all. Good morning.
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hunky firefighters, 1885. (MOHAI collection)
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026
ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard
“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
brings back so many memories
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
me every time I do a post
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
from Caroline C. Leighton's "West Coast Journeys, 1865-1879"
"There had been a very severe storm, which we thought was over; but it had a wild ending, after we were on our way, and beyond the possibility of return....Our only course was to hasten on. The spray was all rainbows, and there were low rainbows in the sky—incomprehensible rainbows above and below, —and the strongest wind that ever blew. It was all too wonderful for us to be afraid: it was like a new existence; as if we had cast off all connection with the old one and were spirits only."
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
from Caroline C. Leighton's "West Coast Journeys, 1865-1879"
"There had been a very severe storm, which we thought was over; but it had a wild ending, after we were on our way, and beyond the possibility of return....Our only course was to hasten on. The spray was all rainbows, and there were low rainbows in the sky—incomprehensible rainbows above and below, —and the strongest wind that ever blew. It was all too wonderful for us to be afraid: it was like a new existence; as if we had cast off all connection with the old one and were spirits only."
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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don’t want art for me! I want art from you!
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
reading a book is a great way to hang out with someone who is both dead and famous
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i am in the woods, replying to this
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
treasury yields going bananas here is a coaster my friend Made For me Send, post
A beautiful clear resin coaster embellished with a sort of psychedelic pattern reminiscent of a peacock a baby chew toy
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nothing gives me the "Is hopping timelines real?" shivers than remembering how, 20 years before this iconic bit aired, I sat for days in my basement as a depressed tween, painstakingly shooting a claymation video set to R.E.M.'s "Stand." www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCUz... @kentremendous.bsky.social
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Ben's Claymation | Parks and Recreation
YouTube video by Parks and Recreation
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Everyone. Look at this tree goop.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The light is really beautiful right now.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The first architect of the White House ballroom resigned after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes, the Washington Post reports. “I am the code,” Trump said www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
By Sarah Blaskey and Jonathan O'Connell
In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions and corroborating documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
James McCrery II withdrew from the project last October after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.
Trump brushed off McCrery's concerns, they said, and the president countered that no building codes apply to White House construction.
"I am the code," Trump said.
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
self-portrait on airplane with ginger ale and EXIT PARTY
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Re-upping this because it‘s beautiful and things like this matter
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Carpe DM
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sam Green’s documentary made me feel excited to live. Sunday at the Roxy in SF, full list of screenings here: www.theoldestperson.com
Movie poster for The Oldest Person in the World
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Richard Warnica @rwarnica.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sam Anderson on Dillard (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Here is Alice's book trailer for my book of essays, SERIOUS FACE. If it this makes it a bestseller, I will pay Alice her $250.
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Squirrel Power! (Gift Article)
A single squirrel can disrupt and frustrate thousands of people at a time, switching off our electrified lives for hours.
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Terry Evans, Maple Burl Teapot, 2025. Maple burl, maple veneer, and black dyed veneer. Photography by George Post.
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I don’t know them, or know anything about them, and I find it very obnoxious when people presume things about celebrities, but purely as a visual matter, it‘s really bumming me out that Timothee C and his dad didn’t cuddle a little closer to take a pic on their hiking trip in the Dolomites.
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Reed Price @rveep.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This why I love my job
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What are you 9/11 memories?
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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 10/09/2026
Hi Dana, I'm an expert in the semiotic failure modes of AI systems with multiple verified exploits credited to my name. I've spoken at conferences in NY and EU. We aren't doomed! If I can help further, please let me know. David
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“You can’t put any old gasoline in an engine built to run on anxiety and hypervigilance. I experimented with ADHD medication, deciding to become a person with hobbies, being nicer to myself (barf), therapy, visualization…But the thing that has worked most of all is horse.”
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“You can’t put any old gasoline in an engine built to run on anxiety and hypervigilance. I experimented with ADHD medication, deciding to become a person with hobbies, being nicer to myself (barf), therapy, visualization…But the thing that has worked most of all is horse.”
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My friend Laurel Braitman is so cool and smart. A midlife icon. laurelbraitman.substack.com/p/why-i-left...
laurelbraitman.substack.com
Why I left my Stanford Professorship to Become a Cowboy
On finding new gas for the ambition engine in mid-life
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
AI chatbots have democratized billionaire brain worms by allowing everyone—not just the very rich—to experience total insanity-inducing sycophancy
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Guess it's up to me," I mutter, an ordinary middle-aged father of two, as I finish my yogurt, put in a load of laundry, and start coming up with a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence...
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just listened to the NYT's automated voice read a big profile of Sara Bareilles, mispronouncing "Bareilles" the whole way through. Is it not possible to fix that? Do they not care? Do they care but not care enough? Do readers not care? Seems representative of a widespread slackening. I just woke up.
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
in the future, every food will be contaminated for 15 minutes
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Chris Taylor @christaylornyc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Quite a headline
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Rocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Another splendid episode from 99pi’s riveting 100 Objects series, with the inimitable Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social (cw: will make you laugh and/or cry)
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Dr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 06/09/2026
Y'all wanna see something rad as hell?
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
94yr old JOHN WILLIAMS delivered a surprise performance of ‘The Imperial March” from Star Wars in front of 13,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night. He is the soundtrack to our lives.
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Timeline blessed this morning with videos of 16yo speed metal guitarist Nene Royal and 93yo John Williams conducting the Imperial March in a wheelchair. Thank you.
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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Excellent overview of where we are on food-borne illnesses, by Dan Engber in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
theatlantic.com
The Truth About American Food Safety
Have sprawling outbreaks become the norm?
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Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@jdickerson.bsky.social was halfway into a bowl of spaghetti this morning when I heard your chatter. Head high, we are legion.
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