Distressed to learn it's already time for gift guides, but tickled to spot THE CREATURES' GUIDE TO CARING on @publisherswkly.bsky.social's nonfiction list! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... Get a head start on your holiday (??) shopping: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741329... 🧪

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something cheerful, thank goodness: the Vietnamese edition of Ways of Eating* is here, and we took it out for a sandwich. * the book on world food history and anthropology I co-wrote with my Mom, Merry White.

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I finished reading The Dragon Has Some Complaints by @wiswell.bsky.social, and my big takeaway from it is that hope is one of the most powerful tools we have against oppression.Believing things can get better, and working toward that, is such an audacious choice.

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Let the AI Rapture happen already. I am begging to be left behind.

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Yeah, you really just hope non-sufferers can bear witness without needing to relate. Chances are their emotions have never betrayed them in such a profound and sustained way (or at least, that they've been aware of).

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