I tried to get them all in a row but this is the best I could do #whattheflock #birdoftheday #birds

we totally do need a word for this. I’m still caffeinating here bros

I spend more hours each week grading for that particular course than any other activity with the exception of sleeping. Enroll in my course and you are getting hand-crafted, artisanal feedback on your writing. Weekly. Even in a room of ~280.

A Northern pygmy-owl in Cienega Canyon, in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico, on April 20, 2026. In the words of the birder who pointed it out to me, it's the size "of a Coke can." #nature #naturephotography #birds

Okay, I just ran across some native shooting stars yesterday, and I can confirm that they are delightfully fragrant. They don't bludgeon you with aroma like mock orange, but it's a delicate treasure for those willing to pause and get on their level. I never knew! #nativeplants 🌿🌱

‘Simply stop giving millionaires water for literally free’ is one of the most insane sounding but actually serious policy solutions out there

For anyone who would like to join in my Campbell and Forgan obsession, you want: Without Lawful Authority With Intent to Deceive / A Brother for Hugh Let the Tiger Die Now or Never A Knife for the Juggler Concrete Crime Ideally read With Intent to Deceive before Let the Tiger Die.

tiiiiny scroll!

The NHS is prime data real estate. The summary care records and other databases you are opted into, by default, are food for these slavering corporate fascists. You CAN opt out and not feed the Palantir beast via this link.

There's a herd of sheep on the hill just below the National Library of Wales, which is maybe like the most Welsh thing ever.

What a pretty picture

The itchy goats got a little treat installed today (actually 2 of them so they don’t fight)

"Lamb slumped back into a Toad of Toad Hall slump." From "Real Tigers," by Mick Herron.

A difficult concept to navigate properly is that *testing* is itself a major problem in education (most exemplified by the No Child Left Behind testing regimes. This can mean that the very tests revealing declines in learning are themselves part of what is causing the decline.

The sweetest little Blue Boys have showed up. This adult male won't hang out and will look for splashier habitat to start his showboating. Indigo Bunting.

The bird newsletter was riddled with typos tonight. It was a long day. Check out the website, where I think I fixed most of them, if you’re interested in cool bird behavior and/or my deteriorating brain and body. skwbotd.ghost.io/april-19-2026/

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté "I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved."

Yard work - a bit - happened. Raking is the next step and I dunno

The local wildflowers are transitioning out of the glacier lilies and into the camas and serviceberries. 🌿🌱 #nativeplants

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Ok I absolutely recommend making yourself a bird bag. Excellent weekend project. Extremely funny if you add legs. The pattern is pretty well done, I wish some steps included more detailed diagrams or photos. madison-makes.com/shop/fly-awa...

Oak Springs in East Austin are a seldom seen local water feature, but there are four springs on the city-owned Oak Springs tract abutting Oak Spring Drive and Airport Blvd, according to the city's property profile. The one 2nd closest to Airport is formally "Oak Springs."

Whimbrels whimbrels whimbrels

Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.

Hey! Sorry I missed this. I bolted and went to seed

Yellow!!!!!!

Great walk on Tunnel Canyon trail this evening. The daisy fleabane flowers are so cute!

Nice, although preferred usage nowadays is "JMJWD"

Good morning,10C, April 18th(how?!). The quince are in full blossom, the gang of goldfinches bouncing around,the wren is yelling at me,bluetits are on the budding roses cleaning the aphids off, Mrs Blackbird has been absent for a week so babies soon, red kites calling overhead. Spring has arrived.🌱🦔

tl;dr Brave was created by a guy who got kicked out of the for-profit part of Mozilla for being too for-profit and corrupt, so he created a browser that was focused around manipulating advertisements to divert the revenue and then threw several crypto scams on top of it when that failed.

#BirdOfTheDay #FeederFriends #nature #photography

My annual reminder that if you need to buy a window A/C this year do not simply buy the largest model you can afford. Energy Star has a sizing guide. Why do you want an AC that is sized for your room? Because an undersized A/C won't cool well and an oversized A/C will leave a space humid

shocking I know but my small sample survey suggests grads w/ highly involved/controlling/demanding (authoritarian) advisors report slightly high anxiety & stress but those w/ low contact/undemanding (neglectful) advisors have high burnout & depression levels, JUST LIKE IN CHILD/PARENT RELATIONSHIPS

TFW the friend to whom you lent Nancy Lemann’s Lives of the Saints for a trip to New Orleans texts you from the road, 50 pages in, to say it’s perfect. Read Nancy Lemann, friends.

Gold lichen shapes on a grey weathered stone.

Remember!

Status report, "A moment of vagueness" dep't: www.cafepress.com/shopdetail/S... 😏

Anyway, turns out when it's really windy sometimes your toilet gets a sewage gas blockage and it makes your tank drain suddenly and smell like poo. All you have to do is pour in a bunch of water. Did you know that? Now you do.

My variant cover for ACTION COMICS #1100!!! This is one of my all time favorite covers. I made it quite a while ago, not sure when it was coming out. I was thrilled and honored when I learned it was going to be released on this landmark issue of Action Comics! Whooo! #DCComics

Order isn't posted online yet, but NOAA probationary employees illegally terminated last year have been granted class status! (Earlier version of this post with the link to a different case was deleted.)

hair instantly on fire if I think about things directly

"ICE has been without a Senate-confirmed leader since the Obama administration." Read that again. www.cnn.com/2026/04/16/p...

Imagining how much more food I'd need to eat to use wings 💥

This is true and also why connecting to others especially in the firearms space can be important. Homies who can store your guns for you if you're in a bad spot are important.

omg guys we found the person who made the iconic yard sign (or more accurately, he found me)

wowwowwow!! Looking forward to putting this on our big screen.

New Mexico is the first state to regulate firefighting foams containing PFAS as a hazardous waste, after rules adopted this week.

My long tall shadow at Grand Marais Harbor last night

“In Working Girls, Dorothy Arzner reveals heterosexual marriage as ‘an instrument to hold both women and men hostage to appearances and enforced roles, and perhaps most significantly, hostages to excessive consumption’”.

Reading the absolutely bonkers "Staying with Relations" by Rose Macaulay. A delight.