Tove Danovich
@tkdano.bsky.social
Writer focusing on animals and the human-animal relationship.
Author of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them.
Find me weekly: tovedanovich.substack.com
Author of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them.
Find me weekly: tovedanovich.substack.com
I don’t love that just *visiting* a website is enough to add me to their email list now.
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I don’t love that just *visiting* a website is enough to add me to their email list now.
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This is a fantastic longread on a community in Oregon that was wrestling with a groundwater contamination crisis...and then Amazon moved in and made it so much worse. It's also an interesting story on how a Republican rancher/elected officials got radicalized by that crisis.
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is a fantastic longread on a community in Oregon that was wrestling with a groundwater contamination crisis...and then Amazon moved in and made it so much worse. It's also an interesting story on how a Republican rancher/elected officials got radicalized by that crisis.
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
Need a gift idea for a bird-lover? What about ordering a copy of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them from your local bookstore?
It’s all about chickens and was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award. Best of all (imo) I wrote it! #booksky
It’s all about chickens and was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award. Best of all (imo) I wrote it! #booksky
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Need a gift idea for a bird-lover? What about ordering a copy of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them from your local bookstore?
It’s all about chickens and was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award. Best of all (imo) I wrote it! #booksky
It’s all about chickens and was a finalist for an Oregon Book Award. Best of all (imo) I wrote it! #booksky
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One woman said her father called in June to say he was going to be paroled after serving 20 years for car theft.
Then in September, she got another call: He was instead being transferred to await deportation.
It was the last time she heard from him.
With @veritenews.org
Then in September, she got another call: He was instead being transferred to await deportation.
It was the last time she heard from him.
With @veritenews.org
Louisiana Made It Nearly Impossible to Get Parole. Now It’s Releasing Prisoners to Deport Them.
Gov. Jeff Landry eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those already in prison. Then he set all of that aside for one group: undocumented imm...
www.propublica.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
One woman said her father called in June to say he was going to be paroled after serving 20 years for car theft.
Then in September, she got another call: He was instead being transferred to await deportation.
It was the last time she heard from him.
With @veritenews.org
Then in September, she got another call: He was instead being transferred to await deportation.
It was the last time she heard from him.
With @veritenews.org
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
What is the deal with all the horribly understaffed pharmacies? I assume it’s a pay/burnout situation happening post corporate buy out of every pharmacy. But is anyone trying to fix this at all?
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
What is the deal with all the horribly understaffed pharmacies? I assume it’s a pay/burnout situation happening post corporate buy out of every pharmacy. But is anyone trying to fix this at all?
It’s very upsetting that VelociPastor isn’t available to stream ANYWHERE.
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s very upsetting that VelociPastor isn’t available to stream ANYWHERE.
I really wish newspapers would stop the “tense standoff between millennials and Gen Z over baggy pants” article framing. It’s fine if the youth want to do something I do not want to do/wear! I am simply not spending my waking hours “at war” over it.
November 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I really wish newspapers would stop the “tense standoff between millennials and Gen Z over baggy pants” article framing. It’s fine if the youth want to do something I do not want to do/wear! I am simply not spending my waking hours “at war” over it.
Took my dog on a pre-sunrise walk and was delighted by this Great Blue Heron who decided to fly up and perch in the tree next to us.
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Took my dog on a pre-sunrise walk and was delighted by this Great Blue Heron who decided to fly up and perch in the tree next to us.
And I bought another book.
I told myself I would stop getting books from the library for two months to catch up on the books I already own.
Not only have I not done that, I’ve also purchased more books.
Not only have I not done that, I’ve also purchased more books.
November 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
And I bought another book.
TFW your author photos are so good it makes you feel better about your entire career.
#authorsky
Brilliant work by my photographer Kait De Angelis (on film!)
#authorsky
Brilliant work by my photographer Kait De Angelis (on film!)
November 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
TFW your author photos are so good it makes you feel better about your entire career.
#authorsky
Brilliant work by my photographer Kait De Angelis (on film!)
#authorsky
Brilliant work by my photographer Kait De Angelis (on film!)
I really liked this piece in @theguardian.com about human exceptionalism and the cost of denying that we too are animal.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman
Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I really liked this piece in @theguardian.com about human exceptionalism and the cost of denying that we too are animal.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
And so the uprising begins….
A train crew found a loose chicken on an N train this morning—and couldn’t get it to leave.
Loose chicken fouls N train as subway stowaway slows morning commute
A loose chicken gave new meaning to “free range,” scoring a gratis subway ride to Coney Island on the N train Thursday morning after it was discovered fouling a subway car in storage.
www.nydailynews.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
And so the uprising begins….
Trader Joe’s is selling Harry and David pears. My grandma used to send them to me every year and they were the most expensive pears ever but also so delicious.
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Trader Joe’s is selling Harry and David pears. My grandma used to send them to me every year and they were the most expensive pears ever but also so delicious.
Of course the only bones my dog likes are the expensive, $25+ ones.
November 20, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Of course the only bones my dog likes are the expensive, $25+ ones.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
AI is everywhere. Attention spans are shrinking. Streaming services want you to listen to favorite tracks, not albums.
So what does it say that Rosalía’s LUX the album of the moment?
tovedanovich.substack.com/p/this-album...
So what does it say that Rosalía’s LUX the album of the moment?
tovedanovich.substack.com/p/this-album...
This album will change your life
we want media worth giving our attention to
tovedanovich.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
AI is everywhere. Attention spans are shrinking. Streaming services want you to listen to favorite tracks, not albums.
So what does it say that Rosalía’s LUX the album of the moment?
tovedanovich.substack.com/p/this-album...
So what does it say that Rosalía’s LUX the album of the moment?
tovedanovich.substack.com/p/this-album...
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MUPPET KNIVES OUT
Am I a hypocrite for wanting this after giving a hard no to muppet knives out
Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 AM
MUPPET KNIVES OUT
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now
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NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
Families of DC-area immigrant drivers snatched by feds stuck with tow bill
Elected officials and activists note work vehicles removed lightning fast, resulting in hundreds in fees.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
Ah the annual “government keeps sending me emails saying I haven’t enrolled in health insurance even though I completed my enrollment” anxiety attack.
November 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Ah the annual “government keeps sending me emails saying I haven’t enrolled in health insurance even though I completed my enrollment” anxiety attack.