MsSarahMorgan

I should be writing right now.

[hope-for-the-planet]

70% Drop in Levels of Forever Chemicals Observed in Seabird Eggs Tracks Regulatory Success

These pescatarian birds are directly exposed to PFAS contamination due to the island's position near the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Over fifty years of data show a peak in PFAS (also known as "forever chemicals") content in seabird eggs in the 90s, followed by a decrease as regulations went into effect. The most recent findings show a 70% decrease of most common PFAS.

While continued vigilance a regulation is needed, this data indicates that regulations are working to reduce PFAS concentrations in marine ecosystems.

[sattarehi]

Yes!!!! I did a review of literature on PFASs in human drinking water about half a year ago, and there is a lot of really good progress! Please celebrate this, please don't let this solution be forgotten (at least so quickly) as the ozone layer or acid rain.

We are making genuine progress! Producers are dramatically altering how much they use PFAS and how much gets released in effluent, but also there's a lot better understanding of how to remove PFAS from the environment!

Environmental problems CAN BE SOLVED.

[anneemay]

[nyancrimew]

this is GREAT two sentence horror actually

[cross-mountain]

heron in watercolours+watercolour pencils

print here

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[santhipoma]

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[cosmonautroger]

[butchdotgov]

Millennial Sisyphus keeps entering all the information from his resume into the web form, only for it to delete everything when he tries to move to the next page. He just goes back and types it all up again, over and over again, forever, and he never gets a job.

[crystalandrock]

Millennial Tantalus has been promised that his unpaid internship will become a paid position as soon as the company has space for him. Every week he sees their new job posting. Every week he asks his boss if he can have a real job. The boss shrugs apologetically and says he’ll just have to make do with being paid in experience a little longer. He goes back and keeps working, over and over again, forever, and he never reaches the fruits of his labors.

[fiftysevenacademics]

Millennial Persephone can’t get a job without a degree, but because she had to take out loans to pay for college, she must spend 1/3 of her life working just to pay them off.

[sci-fantasy]

Millennial Cassandra’s title is Social Media Coordinator, she was hired to be the expert, but every time she tries to explain the problems in her company’s social media decisionmaking, the managers don’t listen…and end up hiring expensive PR flacks to repair the damage to their reputation when things blow up exactly as she predicted.

[necrofuturism]

Millennial Medusa uses multiple shades of primer and opaque foundation to cover the scars snaking across her face, hiding the bruises, aligning the asymmetry in her broken nose and jaw. Red matte on the lips, green shimmer on the lids. Flawless liner on the first try. She’s had lots and lots of practice. She films her transformation in secret for all to see and learn, and again, men are turned to anonymous stone faces screaming in horror. “Liar!” “Witch!” “Take her swimming on the first date!” These words do not discourage her. These words are a challenge. GlamGorgonXx posts another video.

[mao-tenno]

Millennial Prometheus uploads another PDF to his site. He’s lost track of the printing and edition of this textbook. He knows they just rearranged some of chapters then charge 150 dollars per copy, and the professor wrote the book himself. the ZIP fills uploads successfully, and he starts uploading the next one. He isn’t afraid of the potential lawsuit. knowledge shouldn’t held out of reach like this. 

[i-will-not-be-caged]

Millennial Circe screenshots all the lewd messages she gets from men on online dating sites and posts them on her very popular Instagram along with their pictures and usernames. When people accuse her of attempting to destroy their reputations, she insists she’s just revealing them for the pigs they truly are.

[jukeboxemcsa]

Millennial Odysseus is starting to suspect there’s something wrong with his GPS…

[solarpunkfool]

What if we win?

What if the children go to schools unafraid of tear gas and bullets?

What if the birds come back, and the bees are healed, and every species moves from endangered, to threatened, to thriving?

What if the rainforest ADVANCES?

What if every parking lot had solar panels? What if every structure had solar panels? What if we built climbing gyms and terraced gardens in the skeletons of old coal power plants?

What if you baked your neighbor bread, and they shared their home-grown blackberries?

What if every person who needed a home, had one? What if every person who needed healing was healed?

What if every body was treasured for what it was, not what it should be?

What if every trans child's parents attended their graduation, their wedding, their new-name-day?

What if every warehouse became a closed-circle repair station? Goods flowing out, and back, and out again? What if landfills started to SHRINK?

What if the water and air were clean? What if there was enough public transit that the cars dwindled, leaving the streets safe for kids on bikes, evening deer, midnight cats and foxes?

What if we win?

How would you win?

[mssarahmorgan]

Book 36 of 2026: Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Very atmospheric and melancholy and strange. It's told in two timelines--one where Meche is an angsty teen trying out witchcraft with her two best friends, Sebastian and Daniela, and one where Meche is back in Mexico City for the first time in years for her father's funeral. I loved the magic system in this--it's music-based, they have to find a record with power. I loved how selfish and raw the characters' wants were. I loved the atmosphere. Plus there's a playlist! I will eventually read everything Moreno-Garcia writes, because she's a genius.

What to read next: How to Succeed in Witchcraft, by Aislinn Brophy, for another angsty-teen-witches story.

[dailynarnia]

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

[userfish]

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

[userfish]

hey so this means radically pro ALL transgender. don’t put limitations on this. all trans people are radically accepted here.

[mssarahmorgan]

Book 35 of 2026: Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones

This book is such a romp! I mean, it does take place in a horrifying dystopia where witches are a) extremely common and b) burned at the stake, and there are inquisitors, and even children can be arrested and possibly burned for witchcraft...but it's so funny! Everyone gets into such ridiculous trouble; thousands of shoes are magicked into an auditorium; two boys in short gym shorts ride a semi-effectively flying mop and a broom; it's just very silly. And Chrestomanci shows up looking fabulous and has a fantastic time putting everything right. That's one of the many things Diana Wynne Jones is great at--writing adults who have a sense of humor and a sense of play, and who have a great time being as ridiculous as possible. What a treasure.

What to read next: Midsummer's Mayhem, by Rajani LaRocca, for another delightful, magical, middle-grade romp.

[paperpatchnotes]

Ok someone has to take this away from me before I drive myself insane attmepting to idk art better 🙈

Idk how long I'll be on this murderbot train but these ARE my new favorite books to ever.

[depsidase]

[mssarahmorgan]

Book 34 of 2026: The Stand-In by Lily Chu

So Gracie has just lost her job when the paparazzi mistake her for a famous Chinese actress going to a coffee shop in celebrity incognito (baseball cap, sunglasses). Pretty soon, the actress, Wei Fangli, reaches out to ask if Gracie will be her stand-in for PR events while she's in town. Tragically, this means Gracie will have to wear gorgeous designer clothes and hang out with the man everyone thinks Fangli is dating--Sam, an extremely hot movie star. Hijinks ensue, of course. This was sweet and funny and just a delight.

What to read next: The Princess and the Fangirl, by Ashley Poston, for a YA take on stepping into the shoes of a famous movie star.

[mssarahmorgan]

Book 33 of 2026: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

I didn't like this as much as I expected to, alas. I loved To All The Boys I've Loved Before, but this just didn't hit for me. It may just be written younger? I think because I was aware there's a series, and I've seen the promos for it and the stars are your typical 25-year-old TV "teenagers," I wasn't expecting just how young Belly seemed. I feel like the boys are pretty thinly developed, and Belly doesn't have a lot of texture as a character, either. I probably won't read the rest of the books, but I'm sure I will watch the show at some point.

What to read next instead: Cool for the Summer, by Dahlia Adler, for a really delightful YA romance about being torn between two people.

[bayesic-bitch]

Starting my speech at the Omelas city council with a child acknowledgement statement