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Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales. Literally wrote the book on carbon. Born 326.17. "Bleakly amusing." —A. Martine.

"The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." —Charlie Jane Anders.

Bloomberg Green journalist.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 2 days
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 2 days
The hydrangeas are BONKERS this year. (Inset: For comparison, oversized complete 7-volume Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 5 days
Ya, thought that was a clever approach. Tx!
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 5 days
#MakeAHeadlineMoreInterestingByTurningAHyphenIntoAComma
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 5 days
🤣😂🤣 Outstanding. Also: Film Gogol's short story "The Nose," starring the Ghoul.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 6 days
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 6 days
Will check this out! Thought of you the other day bc I read The Dechronization of Sam Magruder. Imagine you have thoughts one way or another about it?
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 7 days
As I walked down into the subway an hour ago, I was struck by how consistently the temperature rose 3° with. every. step. down. It was a lot of steps.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 7 days
I included the a gift link so that anyone can read it
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 7 days
At Mar-a-Lago, Extremism Is Good for Business How Trump's famous Florida property went from socialite gathering up to right-wing extremist HQ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
At Mar-a-Lago, Extremism Is Good for Businesswww.nytimes.com President Donald J. Trump’s residence and private club has become an oasis for the MAGA wing of the Republican party, according to a Times analysis — and its transformation has been tremendously profi...
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 7 days
I can tell if a kitchen sink sponge still needs to be wrung out all the way by eyeballing it from 10 feet (3 meters) away.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 7 days
Look. Try to see it my way. Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 7 days
Data investigation: How Mar-a-Lago Became the Center of Gravity for the Hard Right www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Mar-a-Lago Became the Center of Gravity for the Hard Rightwww.nytimes.com President Donald J. Trump’s residence and private club has become an oasis for the MAGA wing of the Republican party, according to a Times analysis — and its transformation has been tremendously profi...
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 7 days
You can get it wrong and still you think that it's all right.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 8 days
Today's East and West Coast temperatures made 2x-5x more likely by carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases. csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
csi.climatecentral.org
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 9 days
The one uncontested victory for AI is auto-transcription, so no interviewer ever ever ever needs to hear their own voice again.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 10 days
😂 Just came across the phrase "Be Kind. Rewind" for the first time since the 14th century.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 10 days
miss you already!
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 14 days
yes
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 14 days
When were the good old days?
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 15 days
Your honor, with all due respect, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are.
Avatar Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 15 days
Your honor, with all due respect, I wanna be sedated
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 15 days
well, enough of that, let's see what's going on in today's seventh-tier also-ran stories... 😳
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 15 days
Amazing quote! I love it so much I tried to source it. After spending [looks at watch] too much time on it, I can't. The closest thing is Louis Menand in a 2001 essay paraphrasing Beckett saying something like this, but there are no quotes around it: archives.acls.org/op/49_Market...
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 15 days
would it kill the internet to source something?
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 17 days
I've had Peter Gabriel's "Big Time" in my head continuously for two weeks. Help
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 17 days
I'm beyond the help of the medical sciences. My jaw is sore from stretching my mouth to let those big words come right out.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 17 days
I just mask everywhere so I don't have to figure out which kind of filter every last gd thing needs. it's worse than device charger adapter plugs.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 18 days
i got a guy
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 18 days
Turn "hard" books into "easy" books by reading more.
Avatar gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 18 days
I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 18 days
Except for an anomaly in the 1920s, people generally thought everything was real until Sgt. Pepper's seeped deeper into the English-speaking cultural mainstream.