Spring has sprung at the nursery this week! #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling

What went right this week: the good news that matters www.positive.news/society/good...

Nature-positive cities: five urban centers proving #biodiversity can thrive happyeconews.com/nature-posit...

New brain stimulation approach could treat #depression in five days rather than six weeks www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants House Dems to “behave themselves” during this #StateOfTheUnion. I hope they ignore him and get rowdy. The future doesn’t belong to corporate-owned centrists.

Concrete derived from coffee grounds waste could cut construction emissions by 26% happyeconews.com/coffee-groun...

The number of people who are apparently ok with spending insane amounts of time sitting in traffic every morning and evening is mind boggling, doing nothing productive. I mean, sure, I like to listen to podcasts during my commute too but I also want to just get the hell home and relax, have dinner.

Mind blowing the things we could fix if we simply made billionaires pay taxes instead of subsidizing their extravagant lifestyles. Because let me tell you, housing insecurity is not a great thing to go through.

Aloe capitata var. quartziticola (from Madagascar) blooming at UC Botanical Garden today 🌿

Nopal (Prickly Pear) fruit (Opuntia ficus-indica) today at UC Botanical Garden 🌿

Maybe at some point we can stop talking about social issues (it is the year 2026 after all) and get on with addressing the insane cost of living problems this country has. Just saying.

Toronto River once so polluted it caught on fire, now flush with fish www.goodnewsnetwork.org/toronto-rive...

I feel seen 😂

Just added happyeconews.com to my "positive news" bookmarks folder. Good reminder that it's not all bad news out there. #ClimateChange #Environmentalism

Shameless self-promotion continues...🙃 You might find this #fern book in your local bookstores! mailchi.mp/btiscience/f...

@fernymoss.bsky.social Thank you for the likes and reposts. Here's a book I would highly recommend, Ferns. bsky.app/profile/fern... I also recommend this small field guide. Inexpensive, <$20US Identifying Ferns the Easy Way: A Pocket Guide to Common Ferns of the Northeast By Lynn Levine

#SCOTUS allows California to use new voting map, boosting Democrats www.bbc.com/news/article...

Check out the lineup for this the Annual Symposium! This virtual 2-day program will highlight how #nativeplants bring vibrant life and beauty in both natural and managed landscapes and how you can design and plant for a living landscape. Full program, speaker bios and tickets at: vist.ly/4qdx6

How about this instead: abolish private insurance, tax the wealthy at 90% at least, close tax loopholes, and have the government cover people’s healthcare costs; oh and how about universal basic income while we’re at it? Basic necessities shouldn’t be luxuries that only the privileged can afford.

Made the mistake of using price comparison websites to find somewhat affordable car insurance and now my phone is blowing up with calls and texts and emails 😭 Word to the wise: check each insurer individually or use a broker

Yes, there is a directory of North American native plant nurseries by region pinned to the top of the #nativeplants feed. Here's the post. bsky.app/profile/beec...

Some of the #EpsteinFiles were released today and quickly screenshotted or otherwise compiled and saved before the DOJ redacted them. Spread them far and wide. This president is a rapist and pedophile. www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ltwcy...

“That’s some bad hat, Harry…” male Gambel’s Quail 🪶

Yesterday I learned that Sean Bean hosts a #birding show in the U.K. and now I’ll never look at Boromir the same way again 😆 Dude just wants to get back to watching his birds!

If you’re wondering whether it’s worth it to join #Threads, let me tell you: it’s not. Stay far away from Threads. The discourse there is some of the dumbest I’ve ever seen. That place is ripe for a major disinformation campaign.

Really enjoying this chill instrumental desert rock I found the other day; nice background music to work to www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-fz...

I feel like it doesn’t get talked about enough how difficult it is to make friends as an adult, even as a young adult. I don’t know if it has to do with people just becoming more distrusting as they get older, or if it has more to do with work schedules that demand long hours. Maybe both?

Just got a text from my boss this morning that several greenhouses at the nursery collapsed from the weight of sleet and freezing rain this past weekend 😭 Fingers crossed we didn’t lose too many plants but it doesn’t look great

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Hard to say no to that face #DogsOfBlueSky #Frenchies

I’ll be honest, I’m actually feeling optimistic for a change about defeating this fascist regime. I’m seeing things that I’ve NEVER ever seen before in American politics in my 23 years of being active in campaigning. Finally there is a mass uprising happening, people who used to be disengaged are

Rudbeckia laciniata, out Cutleaf Coneflower, blooming on the Fryingpan #nativeplants #FallbackFlowers #FallBack to July 26 🌿

I’m becoming increasingly convinced that the enshittification of the web by Google, Meta, X, Spotify, the streaming services, and others is going to bring about the return of personal blogs, DVDs, some new iteration of LimeWire, and other “analog” channels of communication and entertainment. 😆

You can turn off AI searches in your search engine which is using huge amounts of energy and water in your communities. www.consumerreports.org/electronics/... www.igeeksblog.com/how-to-turn-...

On a happier note, Guatemala is re-wilding their main oil fields as part of their effort to conserve rain forest! #Conservation happyeconews.com/guatemalas-e...

So, what's the plan since no help will be coming from the feckless, spineless national @democrats.org ? Can we finally start getting engaged in primaries to rid ourselves of these weak AF neoliberals? #AbolishICE

#PlantMoreNatives! Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) appreciation post by Native Yardening. This aggressive vine is native to eastern North America & is in the grape family (Vitaceae). It supports birds & moths. For more info, here's its FNPS plant profile: www.fnps.org/plant/parthe...

Not looking forward to over half an inch of ice coming Sunday. Younger me would’ve enjoyed being stuck in the house for a few days but in this particular season of life for me, I find myself itching for social events, which won’t be possible for at least a week between the ice & temps near zero 😭

Good advice! bsky.app/profile/rjsz...

The forecast for this weekend is calling for upwards of 2 feet of snow....in Richmond, VA of all places, which I've seen experienced since maybe the early 2000s, maybe 2010s somewhere? No lie, it's making me giddy like a kid 😆

Ugh. Too much light pollution where I am to get any halfway decent view of the #auroraborealis

#Virginia state senator Louise Lucas spitting facts as only she can! 😂

Speaking later today at my county planning commission meeting, where the community is rallying against FOUR proposed data centers that want to set up shop in the county. Data centers that will strain the grid and drain our streams and rivers to benefit a wealthy few. #EatTheRich

Apparently 5mg is the sweet spot for me with #THC. Nice feeling without the nervous system freakout that usually follows. #Cannabis #Weed

Ooof. Seems like the #RedSox are going to once again sit pat and hope for different results from the same group of largely young, less experienced players. Good luck with that. #MLB #Baseball

Our plant room is looking more like a jungle room now with more #houseplants added in the last two weeks!

Sad to see a once-great university helping Big Tech bros plunder our future via #AI. Not exactly "higher learning" Why the hell would I want to learn how to help machines eliminate my job?

Trying to figure out what exactly Ibanez thought they were doing with this new Alpha series #guitar they just introduced. Looks more like Telsa attempted to make a guitar. Tesla CyberGuitar? 🤨

Imagine if all the Democratic Senators wringing their hands over the ICE incident in Minneapolis, actually did something like say, file articles of impeachment, rather than just express mild disapproval on social media.