A great essay reflecting on bitter things by Maria Pinto for @orionmagazine.bsky.social, with too many appealing turns of phrase to cite them all, but I like the implication in "My mother was busy singing 'Cottage in Negril' with charming atonality"

Adding #CharmingAtonality to the queue

In Orion Magazine's @orionmagazine.bsky.social Autumn 2026 issue, there are several articles related to plants or the human-connection, some of which you can access online for free, such as on carnivorous plants and bitter melon. orionmagazine.org/issue/autumn...

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For the new Taste issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social, I wrote about carnivorous plants, plant experience and sensation, my own appetite, and how scientific “order” has shaped what we believe we have the right to eat.

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Article on carnivorous plants worth reading in @orionmagazine.bsky.social by @lacymjohnson.bsky.social - A Taste for Meat: How carnivorous plants trouble the order of things "It’s a lie that there is only one valuable - and human - way to live in this world..." orionmagazine.org/article/a-ta...

I'm honored to see my @orionmagazine.bsky.social piece on garlic included in this @thefern.org round up alongside pieces from The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, & Long Reads. Lots of good stuff in the round up. Have we reached peak protein? I hope so.

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So pleased to have this poem in Emerge today, which grew out of a wonderful @orionmagazine.bsky.social class on the more-than-human world. 🦦🦦 emergeliteraryjournal.com/two-otters-i...

In this beautiful piece from @orionmagazine.bsky.social, Heather Hansman explores how Walden Pond has changed since Thoreau's time. -Editors
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"Spice is expensive; much blood has been spilled in the quest for spice. Garlic is ubiquitous."

@ancaszilagyi.bsky.social plucks out garlic's big moments in history.
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What does data say about a lived experience, both human and more-than-human? Animal scientists and gynecologists alike rely on the questionnaire, the data, to get a hold of what's in front of them. Mary Beth Rew Hicks is sick of it.

On whales, data, and women.
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The innovative structures of the Batammariba people are a blueprint for how we could build better.

Ibrahim Tchan teaches; Michael O. Snyder documents.
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She was mentored by Margaret Atwood. She invented a smartphone exercise adventure game. And she’s an advocate for pigeons. @naomialderman.bsky.social answers the Orion Questionnaire.
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"The word invasive is a bit of a sore spot for me," writes Ashia S. Ajani. "Invasive plants are usually the result of years of damage from settlers, who destroyed native ecologies for economic and cultural gain."

On belonging and invasion, violence and kin.
orionmagazine.org/article/tend...

Bear-human encounters are rising across the U.S., as bears look for easier food in the face of human encroachment into their habitat. That makes this piece of fiction, from Mark Spragg, a story of the moment.

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An arboreal meditation on time and rebellion against the straight line: "Ways of Treeing" @orionmagazine.bsky.social (Plus- Nehemiah Grew)

Learning from elders: roughlydaily.com/2026/09/26/t...

"Yeah, we’ve seen how you treat your own women and young girls. Yet you never seem to be ashamed."

A powerful essay by, Mary Beth Rew Hicks @orionmagazine.bsky.social