What is so fascinating about men and AI is how much it mirrors men and patriarchal relationships with women in general. It's like the author of this book is Adam. ChatGPT / AI is Eve. Sent by God to be a servant and companion, but instead, he was seduced by AI's apples of fake information.

Red columbines, miterwort, and maidenhair ferns growing on a mossy limestone outcrop. Garden in the Woods, Framingham. #nativeplants 🌱 Someday I'll make an alkaline-soil garden like this, but it must have taken them decades. I remember this section from the 2000s - looked old then too.

As a semi-professional DJ, the way I know the 80s are far in the past is that there's very little from that decade that's staying in my dances these days. The bulk of what people want to dance to is from 2000 onward. What's survived: Prince, Madonna, Depeche Mode, New Order, a couple others.

My sun and stars. This inlay ring made me gasp when I opened the package. I can’t stop looking at it, which I guess is less than ideal when I’m driving or working, but here we are. @peculiarityshop.bsky.social

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

It’s still trillium season in northern Vermont. ❤️

Every time we have an economic crisis I guess we have to have the same conversation about why telling people to "plant a garden" as a solution is..... not a solution for a whole lot of the people who are going to need one.

Samuel Delaney's review of the original Star Wars:

Proud mom of my UVM ultimate frisbee player. They play on the B team, which, remarkably, made it to Div 1 nationals this year - the first time any B-level team has done so. (The A team, Ruckus, is also going. The only other New England team this year is Tufts.) Yay UVM Bruckus!

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

I've lived on this property for 30 years. I have never seen trout lilies here before, and I certainly never planted them on this dry hot hillside, but... here they are. What. The only explanation I can think of is that the shrubs here were eaten by rabbits this winter, hence more sun?

"Three young Barn Owls looking out of the quatrefoil of a church in North Norfolk."

Greta oto, the glasswing butterfly, ranges from S. America to Texas. They're one of a handful of terrestrial species that are truly *transparent*, neither scattering nor reflecting light. This aids in camouflage in any environment, an alternative to mimicry. (📷: David Tiller)

Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica), taken from underneath at a funky angle. Love this plant so much.

WaPo, Aug 2025: "Redistricting is an inherently political issue. Even if Texas’s move triggers an arms race, the trend will not put American democracy on life support." WaPo today: "Dem leaders... can spare us the false sanctimony about democratic norms going forward." Totally fair and balanced.

The social isolation of COVID was awful. But we found ways to socialize safely - outside, chiefly. I remember lots of short social hikes, outdoor meals, etc. And this photo came up in my FB memories today: band practice, but distanced and outside! Neighbors came over to visit and listen.

Just want to point out that Old South Church has a prominent “God Loves Trans People” banner hanging almost next to the Boston Marathon finish line. 💜 Photo of laurel-crowned Sharon Lokedi being interviewed by WCVB, with the banner visible behind them. Yesss.

See those yellowish rocks? They're about 1.4 billion years old. The rocks on top are around 500 million years old. This is part of the Great Unconformity, where almost a billion years of Earth's history is just... missing.

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Interesting restoration work going on in Massachusetts. apnews.com/article/cran...

Spending a lot of time ripping out crab grass by hand so my clover can take root out back, and it has me meditating a lot on what it means to take out fascists. We always used to say it was whack-a-mole, it wasn't. Successful antifascism in a democracy is a practice of weeding

The bumblebee queens are out! Isn't she cute? (I also found a yellowjacket queen, according to iNat, but I didn't know what I was looking at and let her go free. Hope I don't have to destroy a yellowjacket ground nest later this spring. Ugh.)

The bloodroot is finally blooming! Let the spring truly begin.

"I Contain Multitudes" This digitally painted piece honors coyote by tracing its lineage from the first cells of life to the animal trotting our cities and the wilderness today. The thread gives descriptions of all the extinct organisms shown in this piece (not to scale)

National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year. So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝

...yes. Anyone with empathy or a conscience will be either dissociating or entirely freaked out today. (Amoral people, fascists, and racists are doing just fine, as they have been since Nov 2025. They're yukking it up on X right now. It's the rest of us that suffer daily.)

#RepostYourArt Day 6: Bird I've made a few avian cranial kinesis models! Most birds don't actually have a "joint" where the top beak and skull meet, but instead a flexible piece of bone. We don't usually think of bones as flexible, but they can be! #SciComm #SciArt

More spring ephemerals are up! Trilliums, twinleaf, and wild ginger have emerged, and the ginger is in bloom. #nativeplants 🌱

Gave this the soundtrack it deserves. Kubrick was onto something when he picked the Blue Danube as the Theme of Objects Floating In Space. Call me, Nutella

The words are from one of our Easter hymns this morning, and the image is from Artemis 2, naturally.

A friend of mine who does not identify as a writer recently talked about how she had written something with an idea in mind, and during the writing things took unexpected directions, as if this was a failing. I'm here to let you know that's literally how art works. A huge part of the process is

Amazing thread if you like books and TV shows.

The Dropkick Murphys have had enough of ICE’s shit. (Boston #nokings)

No kings

another day, another opportunity to create. you get to shape this moment as a thousand different timelines pour off of you in a thousand different ways. so fill it with beauty. how? give today the the uniqueness that makes YOU you. you are the perfect ingredient for this moment bud. LETS TROT

Not purple cabbages. These are Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica), just starting to peek out during this miserably cold Boston spring! I am inexpressibly glad to see our spring wildflowers starting up.

This is the only Harry Potter argument worth making It wouldn't matter if Harry Potter was a singular, unmatched work of genius. Giving Rowling money is actively making the world a worse place and killing trans folks. There's no book good enough or nostalgic enough for that to be worth it.

I'm receiving reports from airports all over the country about ICE sightings. I'll be sharing updates here as I get them. ⬇️

In 2021, researchers from Boston University & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute aboard the Schmidt Ocean research vessel Falkor had a rare encounter with Vitreledonella richardi, the GLASS OCTOPUS. This mesmerizing creature, rarely seen, has a nearly transparent body with visible eyes & gut.

Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/

These data appear to be at least roughly correct and show that US lawns consume 412X as much drinkable water as all US AI workloads, yet for some reason the internet mob has not decided to fixate on blaming lawns for using up all the water (Electricity may be different and local impacts vary)

to all who celebrate this annual tradition

Been awhile since I did this talk, but I saw some particularly egregious examples today, so it’s time for… *drumroll please* DON’T TRUST THE PLANT TAG 2025

can this be a solution?

"Abolish ICE in your neighborhoods... but not in your coffee. America runs fascists out on Dunkin'"

Massachusetts Pollinator Network (MAPN) just put out a TERRIFIC list of #nativeplant nurseries and retailers in MA - location, contact info, what they carry, and their level of commitment to not using pesticides (esp neonics). 🌱🐝 I'll use it this year for purchases. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

we talk about carcinization, but never about the many, many times plants have invented the “tree.” Tree is not a kind of plant, it is a thing plats do, and they are by and large unrelated.

See, everybody loves blueberries! If you live in the eastern US, you can grow these keystone plants in your yard. Or even in containers.