A bald eagle had lunch in a tree 🌱 near our house, and then fell asleep for the next three hours sitting fully upright.
This caused my wife to google eagle behavior and say “The number one killer of humans is eagles.”
👀
Seconds later, “No, sorry, I meant the reverse.” Still not good, but…
“Scientists and other experts were preparing a first-of-its-kind assessment of the health of 🌱nature🌱 in the U.S. when President Trump returned to the White House.
“He canceled the report.
“The researchers went ahead and compiled it on their own. This week, they released a 868-page draft…” 🎁
A 10 inch oval sign with colorful fallen leaves decorating the top and bottom and a friendly Park Service vibe font inviting people to help the bees, butterflies, and other beneficial insects by leaving the leaves.
I know there’s much greater tragedy in the world, but today is the day of the Great Spring Insect Apocalypse when 8 people wearing gas-powered leaf blowers on their backs sweep across my neighbor’s yard.
My @xercessociety.bsky.social “Leave the Leaves” sign is working hard for the chickadees. 🌱
Last 3 words 😎
“Facial recognition technology has long raised civil liberty and privacy concerns for its potential use by governments to monitor citizens and suppress dissent, by corporations to track unwitting customers or by creeps at bars.”
Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.
10/10 ICE protest sign
Oh hey @costasamaras.com —GRID NEW DEAL!
Children’s choir dressed in white coats with navy blue scarves
Lt Gov Hashmi in sea foam green and Gov Spanberger in all-white wave and smile at choir
Good vibes only in #Virginia today as children from the largest Muslim community center in the commonwealth sing “this land is your land, this land is my land” to first woman governor @abigailspanberger.com and first Muslim woman to win statewide office in US, Lt. Gov. @senatorhashmi.bsky.social
Big yellow Big Bird character dominates a photo of the float with orange Elmo and blue Grover on either side
ABC News headline “What $9B s spending cuts could mean for PBS, NPR stations, especially in rural areas”
American split screen this Thanksgiving:
Macy’s crowd goes wild for the Sesame Street float … while fewer children will get to see it as the evil dictator’s cuts to public stations hit home.
We all need Big Bird energy this year!
We spend 90% of our time indoors, and unhealthy air is making us sicker and dumber than we need to be!
All humans who 🌬️breathe air 🌬️should listen to these great ideas.
Thanks for giving this topic some oxygen @volts.wtf and his guest Georgia Lagoudas of @pandemiccenter.bsky.social.
An underrated part of our misinformation problem: It's not just that we're awash in deliberate propaganda from ideologues and hacks. Huge, huge numbers of people are primarily getting their political news from morons. They're not deliberately lying; they just pull stuff out of their ass on stream.
Saturday morning sunshine: Detroit has 1,400 urban gardens, growing food for communities ... and peppers for hot sauce!
Fun story on the rise of 🌱agrihoods🌱 from @bibathediva.bsky.social.
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
Duh.
But @wired.com continues to understand the assignment! 🏆
Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy
Ahh sorry! I guess the great Edwina Von Gal isn’t yet on BlueSky. She does this now.
perfectearthproject.org/board/
Totally digging this new 📺 series (yaasssss that was a garden 🌱pun). TY @rebeccalovesplants.bsky.social
@edwinagurl.bsky.social
for the personal and inspirational tours. #NativePlants #EcologicalGardening
If you don’t have any Northern Sea Oats near a window, get one in the ground or a container now! 🌱 They provide 365 days of zen.
Also the larval host for 3 Skipper butterflies and seed provider for birds and small mammals.
Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
I love a good carved pumpkin, but if people spent 1/10 of what they spend on “seasonal decor” and “lawn maintenance” on planting and watering a few native 🌳shrubs and trees🍃, imagine the 🌱biodiversity paradise we’d live in.
Clarity:
The one thing that should be in any budget deal to end the government shutdown should be ending the Trump administration’s illegal power grab of Congressionally mandated spending.
Any other deal is Congressional “suicide.”
In my first real year of identifying volunteer native plants that I won’t “weed,” this bushy 🌱 plant that I think is a Small White Aster grew and grew, and finally bloomed this past week with what must be 800 tiny flowers.
I just counted about 8 different species of pollinators 🦋. It’s rockin’!
Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware collects, develops, and tests particularly good-looking cultivars of useful plants to make sure they’re still useful to nature.
One of their standouts is Solidago sphacelata ‘Golden Fleece’. We planted these 2 years ago.
And all the 🐝 bumblebees say yasss. 🌱
There is so much in the news cycle these days that the complete dismantling of the Forest Service -- so *our* forests can be auctioned off to Big TImber -- is unfortunately getting little air play. But if this happens, US landscapes may be almost unrecognizable in a decade, and never coming back. 🌍
A 4“ x 2“ mushroom that looks like a coral or a human brain, a very light cream color. Growing among some brown fallen oak leaves on a hillside under a chestnut oak.
The internet suggests this is Sparassis spathulata growing under our giant Chestnut Oak. First time I’ve seen one here. 🌱
We knew the forest has a brain, but this is just showing off!
Source: ultimate-mushroom.com/edible/221-s...
They’ve come for the ice cream.
Also, we are all now left wondering what that flavor was going to be named.
Red and white warning sign tacked to pole: DANGER DUE TO and someone hand wrote “FIERCE RABBITS”
Uh oh
Always look up
#birds 🦅
DC Uber driver: It’s awfully quiet. Not many cars at all.
Me: Why?
Driver: Ain’t no federal workers no more. And no one coming here.
Feels like the pandemic.
Me: Maybe a political pandemic?
Driver: Ha, you could say that. He’s a mess.
This feels very Homer Simpson.
Climate change makes winter less cold. We use less natural gas to heat. So Washington Gas bills us more so we're not shocked by paying less. D'oh!
www.washingtongas.com/billing-and-...
