Clergy friends, your moral voice matters so, so SO much in this moment. In the public square. Pushing your electeds. With congregants. At actions. Teaching the truths of your tradition & using the authority of your office. & calling in all that damn social capital. What ELSE is it FOR

Three more #kakapo nests found on Pukenui/Anchor Island yesterday. Here's Konini with her two eggs. We have found nests for 26 out of the 36 adult females on the island, with more to come in the next few days. It's a big year! #conservation #kakapo2026 A

@peculiarityshop.bsky.social I am smitten. The dragonfly and blue sun, especially, are unique and exactly the kind of biophilic design I love. Great finds!

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever. A thread.

Full moon rising over Lake Placid, from three days ago.

Here's a tale of how nature triumphs in the end. And the Slag Queens! Steel mills dumped molten slag in parts of Chicago and nearby areas. The slag hardened in layers up to 15 feet deep. These places became barren wastelands. Other industries dumped hot ash and cinders there. (1/n)

Lake Champlain ferry from Vermont to New York. It’s four degrees F outside, windy as hell, crunchy ice. Bracing!

In case anyone wants a little break, here are a few of my favorite facts that I learned in 2025, in no particular order. Some trees benefit from, and may even encourage, getting struck by lightning because it kills their nearby competitors nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

OK, I can't quite believe this. Sometimes you read a sci-fi story & think, "well, that was fun - but *obviously* there's zero truth in it!" In "20 Trillion Leagues Under the Sea" by Adam Roberts, a retelling of Verne's classic, there's a vast ocean *under* our seas. Total nonsense? Well... 1/

She's ready to ride, and keepin' an eye out for troublemakers. #parrots

Good morning! Here’s a quick thread of snow shoveling tips from a middle aged dude: 1) Treat it like a workout. Would you roll out of bed dehydrated, with cold, tight muscles, and immediately start doing loaded reps? No you would not. That’s a recipe for injury. Warm up. Stretch. Hydrate. 1/?

There’s a rally going on in Boston rn and they’re chanting “we’re not cold, we’re not afraid, MN taught us to be brave!” and I might cry

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Advice on how to dress for wicked cold weather, as written for my freshman at U of Vermont. This is all stuff learned from mountaineering, skiing, MIT Winter School, etc, & have practiced for years. If you're about to experience cold like you've never seen before, here's how to dress safely: 1/

Advice on how to dress for wicked cold weather, as written for my freshman at U of Vermont. This is all stuff learned from mountaineering, skiing, MIT Winter School, etc, & have practiced for years. If you're about to experience cold like you've never seen before, here's how to dress safely: 1/

Mid-Atlantic and Northeast gardeners, here's a worthy distraction: Mt Cuba Center just released their trial garden report on goldenrods! One of my favorite native plant families! Such a love/hate relationship with these, but they're great for insects and birds. 🌱 mtcubacenter.org/trials/solid...

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social Hey Mark, your support for us rebels here in MN inspired me to create a new Rebel Loon Alliance logo.

Just noticed this new FAA NOTAM from Jan 16th, which prohibits drone operators from flying within 3000 feet laterally or 1000 feet above DHS, DOD, and DOE "facilities and mobile assets, including ground vehicle convoys and their associated escorts." tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=d...

Know what I liked best about this #Patriots game? Watching head coach Vrabel celebrate with every SINGLE person that came through the tunnel after the win - players, staff, everyone got a handshake or shoulder slap or something. Huge smiles all around. (Needless to say, Belichick would never)

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Weekly Wednesday protest at ICE detention facility in Burlington, MA, just outside Boston. Almost 1000 people today, and most of us are old enough to not give many shits about cops or counterprotesters.

Episcopalians going *hard*

I gotchu

I reposted the video of the Minneapolis shooting, then rethought that and took it down. But it's out there. Don't let the government hide the evidence of murder committed by ICE, or gaslight you into thinking it was the victim's fault. Prosecute all ICE agents who break the law. Abolish ICE.

This world is heart-crampingly beautiful sometimes. Don’t forget that.

Thank you, Mississippi! You passed an absolutely dingle-headed age restriction law for social media, and now I can't use Bsky on my phone unless I go through... whatever the hell this process is. Obviously, Meta and Alphabet properties are not bothering. Ugh.

I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this. Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?

Merry Christmas from Nuestra Senora de las Manos Artesanas, Xcaret Hotel Arte. (I mean, we're not there right this minute. But isn't she gorgeous? Created by 18 Mexican artists.)

The Swiss typeface designer Adrian Frutiger — creator of Univers, Frutiger, and Avenir — designed this book as a Christmas gift for personal and professional friends in 1969. It contains the creation myth from Genesis in four languages, accompanied by his own modernist illustrations. 1/n

Just a thing about this: a common statement in writing is that you can fix crap, but you can't fix a blank page. I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft. Now, to be clear, fuck this. But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.

The USA has officially banned ALL new device models of "UAS and UAS critical component parts that are produced in foreign countries" as of today. Which means this ban extends beyond just DJI. This will devastate the currently-thriving drone data services market. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

This thread and the one nested therein are delightful and must be read if you need levity today. (Don't we all?)

It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born. From the NPR archives.

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

Moonrise over the suburbs of #Boston tonight. Man, I love how a drone can get you up over the rooftops and trees for shots like this!

Talkative African grey parrots are charismatic internet stars. @wire-wildlife.bsky.social journalist Rene Ebersole investigated the global scramble to source and sell the birds, which is threatening their survival. 🧵1/7

New calligraphic work: "On Resisting ICE and the DHS" This one is complex enough that I am providing a key to how it's structured, similar to those keys you see that show how a Talmud page is divided up. See the alt for the explanation.

When it gets really cold bluebirds roost together in a pile using collective body heat to help them survive. They arrange themselves so they don’t smother & alternate positions within the pile. Photo by Wildlife Rehabilitators of North Carolina (WRNC). Thank you Van Harris for sharing this. 🐦 #birds

#Boston skyline this evening, with Route 2 and Spy Pond in the foreground. Gorgeous clear sky.

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody

A key difference between Trek and Wars that can get lost easily. One is submarines, the other is fighter jets.

Old-growth grasslands still exist in the eastern US! Two orgs in this article are searching them out, documenting them, and harvesting seed. These important bio hotspots are overlooked compared to forests. (And I've gone on a bio hunt with Devin - good guy.) #nativeplants Gift link: wapo.st/49Rtfzu

Why do our neighbors in Nova Scotia send a Christmas tree to Boston each year? This tradition was born from a terrible tragedy in Halifax 107 years ago today, on December 6, 1917. 🧵

With the aurora popping up again last night, I thought I'd repost this adventure from last year. I drew this when the great @nepeteaa.bsky.social wondered what night-migrating songbirds might make of it all. Part 1/2

So sad this keeps getting shared with the attribution cropped out.

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."