Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I 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. 140
Reposted by Jon MooallemDavid Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is what real leverage looks like 2216
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026every 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. 020
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 03/10/2026get AI out of schools so our children can acquire actual life skills. 000
Reposted by Jon MooallemNE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard 142163438
Reposted by Jon MooallemJon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026from Caroline C. Leighton's "West Coast Journeys, 1865-1879" 141
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026from Caroline C. Leighton's "West Coast Journeys, 1865-1879" 141
Reposted by Jon MooallemSeth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don’t want art for me! I want art from you! 2747
Reposted by Jon MooallemPaperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026reading a book is a great way to hang out with someone who is both dead and famous 337375
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 28/09/2026 treasury yields going bananas here is a coaster my friend Made For me Send, post 010
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Nothing 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.socialyoutube.comBen's Claymation | Parks and RecreationYouTube video by Parks and Recreation 1192
Reposted by Jon Mooallemweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63107212532
Reposted by Jon MooallemPhil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The 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... 1281680574
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026self-portrait on airplane with ginger ale and EXIT PARTY 120
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Re-upping this because it‘s beautiful and things like this matter 020
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Sam Green’s documentary made me feel excited to live. Sunday at the Roxy in SF, full list of screenings here: www.theoldestperson.com 020
Reposted by Jon MooallemRichard Warnica @rwarnica.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Sam Anderson on Dillard (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m... 062
Reposted by Jon MooallemJon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Here 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. 111
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Squirrel Power! (Gift Article)A single squirrel can disrupt and frustrate thousands of people at a time, switching off our electrified lives for hours. 052
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Terry Evans, Maple Burl Teapot, 2025. Maple burl, maple veneer, and black dyed veneer. Photography by George Post. 030
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I 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. 000
Reposted by Jon MooallemDavid Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 10/09/2026Hi 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 0101
Reposted by Jon MooallemJon 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.” 142
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.” 142
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My friend Laurel Braitman is so cool and smart. A midlife icon. laurelbraitman.substack.com/p/why-i-left...laurelbraitman.substack.comWhy I left my Stanford Professorship to Become a CowboyOn finding new gas for the ambition engine in mid-life 030
Reposted by Jon MooallemQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026AI chatbots have democratized billionaire brain worms by allowing everyone—not just the very rich—to experience total insanity-inducing sycophancy 6678163
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... 020
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Just 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. 200
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 08/09/2026in the future, every food will be contaminated for 15 minutes 010
Reposted by Jon MooallemChris Taylor @christaylornyc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Quite a headline 2427671
Reposted by Jon MooallemRocks & Plants & Birds & Things @gatcat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Another 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) 011
Reposted by Jon MooallemDr. NerdLove @doctornerdlove.com · 06/09/2026Y'all wanna see something rad as hell? 10730252
Reposted by Jon MooallemMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 06/09/202694yr 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. 18382601414
Jon Mooallem @jmooallem.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Timeline 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. 031
Reposted by Jon MooallemTamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Excellent overview of where we are on food-borne illnesses, by Dan Engber in @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...theatlantic.comThe Truth About American Food SafetyHave sprawling outbreaks become the norm? 176
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. 010