The gratuitous ordering of secondhand linen stuff for a warm-location warm-season vacation has commenced (but also I live in Maryland so it will probably see plenty of non-vacation use)

I recommend a giant jar of dry roasted soybeans on your desk (unless you are allergic).

Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

Fwoomp

Ready 🤩🪶

Second tick encountered, this time a dog tick 🫠

Pratchett posting: not a maiden, mother, or crone, but a secret fourth thing

ok I'm trying to tackle the cleaning I've been procrastinating and meanwhile I would request that people drop their favorite pokemon in the comments 🥰

Solid thread on today's 14th Amendment Supreme Court case, which you should be following if you are an American citizen.

not using AI and not eating meat have similarities in that while I'm typically not trying to be pushy or rude about it, any reason I give makes everyone really defensive and sometimes angry

Creeping phlox 🌱

The veg garden plants are having class outside today 🌱

This is definitely weird but someone’s pet rabbit swung by, delivered a chocolate cabbage, and then vanished. #nativeplants #swamp

The Google Photos default presentation is kind of a vibe

Similarly, very tiny blue vervain. 🌱 #nativeplants 🦀⛵ #Maryland 🌎 #ecoregion65

For your springtime digital wallpaper needs, lol.

Amateur phenology: Packera is in about the same spot as last year

Nose-to-the-soil spring is not the same as daffodils-and-cherry-blossoms spring

Seems neat 🌱🌿 usanpn.org/home

The National Phenology Network might be of interest to you.

making digital photo albums of every species of plant in my yard so I can look at a chronological feed of photos and know where they were at during whatever month in previous years you know, normal gardener stuff

Redbud and bee. #nativeplants

Get you a friend who shares video of the cute timberdoodle in Bryant Park

Eyyy #Baltimore gardeners 🌱 is anyone going to the Bolton Hill plant swap on Saturday? I've never been and I'm thinking about it.

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case in point, I "AHA!!"'d today when I saw ... ... The Mayapple Umbrella!! @caslon.bsky.social 🌱 #nativeplants 🦀⛵ #Maryland 🌎 #ecoregion65

It’s so wild that we combust natural gas and spew large amounts of chemicals into our living space every day and call it normal

TDoV adjacent content 🩶

Love 2 get a county exec primary push poll phone call before the end of the work day 🙃

xkcd @-ing me m.xkcd.com/3226/

Making calls about removing ivy from the shockingly lovely oak woods behind my house. Receptive so far, I need to sign a waiver bc it's church property though. Calls back expected. PPE required due to poison ivy. If the county "Weed Resistance" still exists maybe I will put a call out to them too.

@swampvids.bsky.social thought of you Wordle 1,746 4/6 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Look what my spouse captured 🐈‍⬛

For a good time just search for videos with the term "woodcock meep." I'm crying laughing

This eastern bluebird, photo'd in Jan 2025 at Huntley Meadows in #Virginia, qualifies as #tricolour for today's #BirdOfTheDay. #Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #EastCoastKin #Nikon #DSLR #LightroomClassic #ContentCredentials #PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited

Red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) Photos by Kathrin Swoboda taken March 17, 2019 at Huntley Meadows Park, Virginia. Due to the chilly early morning temps and her use of the morning sun as backlighting, Swoboda was able to capture the bird's breath forming smoke rings with his spring song.

In a normal administration this would be the biggest scandal in the history of the United States.

woof. Quoting for my fellow hobbyist wildlife gardeners who really want to get rid of invasive plants but don't have formal training in pesticide use. Speaking just for myself, idk if I could be careful enough for it to be worth it. 🌱 #nativeplants

I will take advantage of this opportunity to again talk up Chop Chop, the new knife sharpening place on the Avenue in Hampden They are great and so nice, I want them to be successful

Yesterday there were porch drinks.

Likely holiday card photo taken today

This is a reminder to sharpen your kitchen knives, or take them to a pro sharpener if you don't have the equipment to DIY. It is a real life improver. 🔪

The cats don't like it when our gas oven is on and they're right not to.

🌱 My entire rock wall section of plants died - creeping phlox, creeping thyme, sedum. There are a few tiny patches that are still alive but, damn. I can't afford to replace with more plants. Any full sun, medium to dry soil ground cover native flowers that grow well from seed for the Midwest?

Whenever I see the shortened East Coast Kin hashtag (ECK) it just reminds me of the airport code for Nantucket (ACK) which I suppose is a very East Coast experience to have

Flowers that are merely thinking about it, for now 🌱 #nativeplants 🦀⛵ #Maryland 🌎 #ecoregion65

Itty bitty Culver's root coming up. 🌱 #nativeplants 🦀⛵ #Maryland 🌎 #ecoregion65

Y’all, planting things is so good for the soul, the world is awful but I am making my tiny bit of it nicer and better for wildlife

Hey btw if you’re in the Baltimore area and you’re interested in getting into native plants I cannot recommend these people enough, prices are amazing and it’s a nonprofit herringrunnursery.bluewaterbaltimore.org

Mine came in the mail the other day and. It's like having glittery blue raspberry gummy candy nails. Forbidden snacks 💅