Once dismissed as weeds, #NativePlants are now hot ticket items at garden centers grist.org/solutions/on...

"The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed, & apathy. To deal with those we need a spiritual & cultural transformation." This is indeed a terrible situation, but we are not helpless. Read, “It's Time to Think Globally, but Act Locally” greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2024/12/its-...

My expectations for @abigailspanberger.com were low already but vetoing collective bargaining rights for public workers? How do you swing and miss on such an easy home run? If the @democrats.org can't stand up for the working class, we truly only have one party.

The Rev. Jihyun Oh has issued a statement mourning the 18 people who have reportedly died in immigration detention this year and recognizing "their personhoods and the sacredness of their lives." Read the full statement here: pcusa.org/news-storyte... #PCUSA #Immigration #Advocacy

Snapdragons blooming on my yard. They decided this would be a good place to grow. 🌿

🎶 photo is from our friends at Pedalpawn …🎉🔥🎶⚡️😎 Collecting Guitar pedals is just the beginning of a wonderful journey and music where songwriting and playing music is not only fun but rewarding because you’ll never do without friends…

@jhspedals.bsky.social releases new #guitar pedals: Bit Crusher, Glitch Delay, and Ring Modulator youtu.be/bL7fxunBboI

Stunning Laburnum tree in flower today #SundayYellow 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night; And make us happy in the happy bees,

Autumn fern showing off spectacular color before the new fronds fade to their typical green. #Ferns #Plants

Fantastic native further north as well; one planted in my yard (Virginia) is a neat tidy mound of foliage about 18" wide and 12" tall and covered in pale purple flowers!

It's been one of those days where the slightest inconvenience is one thing too many and gets me irritated. My #AppleWatch randomly unpaired from my #iPhone and won't reconnect. This after finding out my Kindle is no longer supported by Amazon. Don't you just love planned obsolescence?

Had a no-good, rotten, very bad day at work today and I happened to be passing by a Coco+Hazel on my way home, and whoops, ended up consuming the entirety of this beast of a milkshake. Enjoyed every bit of it though!

Still unbelievable that this orange turd gets to verbally defecate on TV whenever he wants and the media just mindlessly acquiesces. #Trump #FDT #ImpeachTrump

I miss the days when people at least had the honesty to say they didn’t want to do something, rather than saying “yes” and then never following through or communicating that they changed their mind. If it’s an issue of not wanting to offend, I’m way more offended by being strung along/led on.

Watch out for the ground-nesting #bees! Don't spray 'em, www.richmonder.org/ground-nesti... #RVA

🌱 the saviors in early spring💜💛💚

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

Shop local, even when you buy #audiobooks bsky.app/profile/darr...

#Spring in Richmond, VA 🌸 #flowers #BloomScrolling

Dick didn't Fitt 🫢😆 #MLB #baseball

Whew! Just barely got it 😬 #Wordle 1,733 6/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 🟨🟨🟩⬛🟩 🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

We (as a society) peaked in the 90’s #culture #Internet chris.pagecord.com/we-as-a-soci...

Sad as this story is, I'm finding it really wild (in a bad way) that we charge 11 year olds with murder. It flies in the face of established science that says kids under the age of 18 are still developing mentally and cognitively. I'm sorry but this is a real stretch for me bsky.app/profile/12on...

Working on my #FantasyBaseball draft and I see a player named Charlie Condon. But I wasn't looking very closely and I swear I saw Charlie Condom. Nearly spat out my drink all over my computer, lol! #baseball #MLB

🌱 "A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself." —Franklin D. Roosevelt

It’s early March and temperatures here in Virginia SHOULD be in the 40s for highs and 20s at night but we’re having a heat wave and we’ve been near 80ºF for a week now. Plants at the nursery are waking up too early…our avg last frost date isn’t until mid-April, sometimes late April 😬

And newspapers wonder why no one takes them seriously anymore and consequently readership has collapsed, lmao bsky.app/profile/rich... I need to make at least $2000 a month just to get by, and that’s somehow “affordable” in the eyes of this paper? Yeah, ok.

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...