Carelessness with technical details is going to completely ruin a work for some of its audience (for me inaccurate botany does that)

Since this has gotten a few likes, I'll direct people to this STL file: www.thingiverse.com/thing:2933021 I tried a couple of different pre-builds, and this is the one I liked best: very light and small, and very loud (I metered it at >115 dB). I like the first version better than the "fixed."

Ask not how many cars you can power with solar power instead of biofuels, but how e-buses, trains, and e-bikes can move people affordably in a clean grid. #Sufficiency

Had a fabulous dinner featuring gravenstein apples fried with ripe jalapenos, onions, and quince vinegar (I made it, but the concept was my partner's).

Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.

Now with #AltText

It’s quite the loophole. A get out of laws free card. Murder is illegal, but logging is not. So Trump says that person is a tree. Voila, killing is legal. Sound absurd? Real claims include: Unarmed migrants are invading foreign soldiers. Drugs are military arms. Peaceful expression is rebellion.

M.O. of Counterfeit Nobles

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

What to make? Camas sushi, camas icecream, camas filled crepes, camas salsa, camas cupcakes? As many of the above as I can manage! And maybe some new ones too.

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state. Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide. Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

I mixed up an in person meeting with a virtual meeting and now am on the wrong island (fortunately that's because I stayed on the island where I live).

Doing some research, I just came across this image of shad fishermen checking their nets in the Bay of Fundy. I'm sharing because it's cool. Have a good day.

Just one of our projects is a federal contract. But it's a project with time sensitive tasks, and I have a stop work order on it because of the US government shutdown.

A delight at this time of year is the huge variety of apples on sale in 🇫🇮……was not expecting an intense red flesh when cutting into this one

It is a fabulous fruit year in the islands and I'm trying to share as much of it as I can with y'all.

Our Camas Festival is moving to Padilla Bay this year! Save the date: Saturday October 25th for a camas focused potluck including a presentation by Sam Barr of the Coast Salish Youth Coalition on the revitalization of camas culture by Coast Salish youth.

We made a batch of ciderkin from pomace that was about half seedling crabapples--much more interesting than last year's random apple versions.

I'm glad of the opportunity to attend memorials virtually, but it is such a different experience of grieving.

Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can capture much of their goofiness in one photo. 🪶

my one Liam-Neeson-in-Taken life skill is that I will instantaneously find the part in the methods section where you finally explain where you're drawing your sample from, no matter how much it's buried

Some of the apples that will be at tomorrow's tasting with the Lopez Island History Museum: Belmont Esopus Spitzenburg Fameuse Gloria Mundi Glowing Coal Golden Ball Gravenstein (including Olga Red Gravenstein) King (of Tompkins County) Greensweet Northern Spy Twenty Ounce Wolf River

Can confirm: Glowing Coal is sweet and crisp and has sticky juice that runs down your hands when you eat it. The flavor is honey-like. Really lovely apple, ripe now (around the same time as many local Gravensteins).

The stated rationale is that we don’t grow coffee in the US. This is true. We don’t grow chocolate in the US either. Instead of a carve out for one product why not reassert Congress’s authority over trade policy? The Trade Review Act of 2025 would require congressional approval of unilateral tariffs

live your life so that when you die everyone talks about how hot you were and not how you were a hateful bigot

Nanaimo! Part 2 of our boulevard native plant + pollinator project happens this Sat, Sept 20. We’ll clear weeds, lay down cardboard + add a bunch of new soil. This event + other event info: nalt.bc.ca/events-calen... Plants go in at our Sat Nov 15 work party! #nanaimo #nanaimobc #snuneymuxw

New cartoon about (gestures vaguely) www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Robert Munsch wrote such beloved books as “The Paper Bag Princess” and “Love You Forever” by performing them to audiences of children. Now dementia is causing his tales to slip away. nyti.ms/4mc35tT

Just like there are no people without history, there is no landscape without history. #EnvHist

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The Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys is hiring a volcanologist who would work with the Alaska Volcano Observatory. A fantastic opportunity to work with great people and study very active volcanoes. Details in link below. Applications close on Oct. 1. ⚒️🌋🧪 bit.ly/3IkqN9n

Bluesky really doesn't want people to say "rest in piss" about Charlie Kirk aftermath.site/bluesky-char...

🚨Job alert!🚨 We are looking for a new lab manager to join our group at the University of Oregon! Applicants with experience in microbiology, evolutionary genetics, or protein biochemistry are especially encouraged to apply. See the link below for more information: barberlab.org/contact/

A little ditty I wrote

PROTECT AND SUPPORT OLDER TRANS PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO COME OUT AND/OR TRANSITION LATER IN LIFE

Apple nerds: anyone familiar with variety Greensweet? It was identified in one of the heritage orchards we sampled on San Juan Island and is a new one to me. I plan to visit the orchard next week and sample the fruit, but would love any intel.

Hades is a unique cross of Alexander and Ben Davis (genetic results from Dr. Cameron Peace's MyFruitTree at Washington State University).

i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social

FREE TREES FROM THE CITY WOW

anyway, maybe filling the world with machines that oscillate at frequencies audible to human ears (and irritating to human minds) wasn't the super greatest

Delete your Twitter account.

What is your favorite type of tea? Now that hoodie season is coming up, im trying to expand my tea tasting for the season.

have to say that i liked this one quite a bit

**Attention fly enthusiasts!** We're looking for presenters for the Dipterists Society General Meeting at ESA @entsocamerica.bsky.social in Portland, OR (November 11th) If you're interested in giving a talk, please DM me for a link to submit a title/abstract. Deadline to submit is October 10th.

One year ago today 🌿 Asplenium trichomanes, our rare Maidenhair Spleenwort, found on Horsetooth Rock deep in a crack in a rock. This species hasn't been observed in this area since 1897. S1

Me and the opossums at the local Dem shindig

If you are in NY/NJ and would like to adopt Hornet please get in touch. I am only fostering her. She is a huge sweetie and already good at being held, lap time, and silly baby stuff. She knows how to use her box also. She would be a great cat for a cat wanter.

Strongly suggest thinking about (as medically able, ask your doc, not medical advice, i am not a doctor) getting a TDAP booster ASAP. There is higher uncertainty than acceptable (to me) about continued “easy” vaccine access so long as Trump & RFK Jr et al in power. Here we are.

Pies! Tatin (sweet or savory) Quince Sour cherry Wild berry tart Pot pie