Cats should live as long as we do. 🙁

Since I’ve been on a Spring bird craze here’s an oldie from my archives. An Indigo Bunting for the #BirdWhisperer Project (May 2016). 💙 #birdart #sciart #drawing #art #colorpencil

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Sophie Carr‬ ‪@sophiecarr.bsky.social‬ · 1d A nice green arc of northern lights over the eastern end of Vestrahorn at Stokksnes, #Iceland, Nov 2025.

She has lived with us for four weeks and we have determined that Poppy is perfect, actually.

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TBOSG: MAY 14th 🔎 Our first, and to date, only record of Red-spotted Bluethroat - Luscinia svecica; with an adult male found at the bottom of a hedgerow on Rushmead Lane, Marshfield on May 14th 1998. www.thebirdsofsouthgloucestershire.co.uk #UKbirding #Southglosbirds

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

There are lots of non-retired non-Republicans down here and we hate this crap!

absolutely recommend "The Sheep Detectives" -- but only if you know what to expect, generally; a truly delightful shaggy-sheep story with wonderful (human) voices including that of Bryan Cranston as a stalwart ram.

not an expert on Florida but the state's public health spokesmen are certainly not speaking for the many highly educated & acutely health-conscious retirees who live in wealthy enclaves in Florida. must be that there are two Floridas: wealthy retirees, many from NYC; "real"--"red"--Floridians.

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

The good news is that Mr. Crazy eyes who ought to still be in prison will be gone, the bad news is that his replacement will probably be worse.

yes

Is that a rain water barrel?

Thank you for Joyce, Joyce's mom! @joycecaroloates.bsky.social

for Mother's Day reposting a very old snapshot with my dear mother Carolina Oates & a black kitten; looks as if I am fretting, as usual; background, our old farmhouse in Millersport, NY, just south of Tonawanda Creek on Transit Road.

May 10, 12:30 PM with this post I am publicly identifying myself as first (or, as T***p would say, FIRST) on Bluesky to declare KASH CASHIERED!-- in anticipation of the imminent much-anticipated firing. to repeat, the FIRST. to repeat, KASH CASHIERED! wait for it.

Very moving piece by @joycecaroloates.bsky.social on her mother.

congratulating Princeton colleagues Yiyun Li on winning this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Memoir for Things in Nature Merely Grow, and Patricia Smith on being named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for The Intention of Thunder: New and Selected Poems. both brilliant, deeply moving.

Dusk, Bayberry Hill

This artwork is an abstract watercolor painting titled "Untitled" created by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee in 1914.

I Fully Endorse this Idea….

This guy is clearly looking for trouble.

This artwork, titled Moonshine (also known as Moonlight), was created by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee in 1919.

Memories of My Mother, Carolina Oates open.substack.com/pub/joycecar...

Congratulations! Highly recommend Erika Krouse's excellent story collection "Save Me, Stranger."

interesting. other observers have thought this, too. "cold, corporate realism"--but seemed to some of us to resemble a gigantic video game. the test of adapting the "Odyssey" is: what do you do with that bloody ending? we will see how Nolan handles the challenge.

Seems much better for someone like del Toro

Sorry but everything I've seen of Nolan's Odyssey just looks so bereft of imagination and beauty. His cold, corporate realism seems like a poor match for this story. The casting feels like a studio exec's. The dialogue is vapid. Maybe the movie will be better than the marketing.

Bayberry Hill nearing dusk

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sorry to have missed you the other day in Montclair, Scott-- I was being hurried away to the Colm Toibin event.

Fascinating conversation between Joyce Carol Oates and a Harpers magazine editor about Oates' novel Breathe. Breathe is a too rare, experimental novel, a hallucinatory fever dream about profound loss. Disorientating and heartbreaking. @joycecaroloates.bsky.social youtu.be/8gDn4U7Ab0o?...

Gary, how did you find this? I have never seen/heard this before. but good memories of this fascinating conversation with Christopher Beha, writer, former editor of Harpers, former Princeton student.

where's Dad?

My painting SUMMER STORM

good luck! this is about as likely to be passed as a bill for impeachment or to open the Epstein files.

🌿💖🤎 may the beauty of this moment, bring you joy 🤎💖🤎

Dog has a condition that makes it hard to get food down so he eats in a special high chair. In dogs with megaesophagus, the muscles in the esophagus cannot properly coordinate the swallowing movement. As a result, food, and liquid accumulate in the esophagus.

the selectivity of law enforcement has been disheartening. since the FBI & DOJ have become politicized we can assume that white-collar crime is flourishing with little or no oversight; the US president cares primarily about punishing his so-called enemies by "law fare"--making their lives

Asheville, NC high schoolers are currently schooling the presidency on what real leadership looks like. It is inspiring to see thousands marching behind a generation that is done waiting for permission from a government that doesn't care about the people.

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

This painting by Australian artist Richard Claremont depicts a tranquil bedroom scene, with a large window offering a view of the coastal landscape. It clearly echoes the style of Edward Hopper’s artwork.

Lilith shares the wish with you that our national forests & parks can be preserved. Please, do all that you can!--we need to oppose T***p's intention to privatize much of this beautiful public land.

Too true