I made my first forest friend in Aotearoa, New Zealand! We were walking deep in the forest (they say “bush” here) when this adorable, very tiny, very round and friendly Pīwakawaka (New Zealand Fantail) flew right up to us and landed on a fern about 2 feet from my face. Photo by @uskiwi13.bsky.social

This beautiful place is known by a few different names. Aotearoa. New Zealand. The Land of the Long White Cloud. Middle Earth. But my favorite is: My new home. 🇳🇿

We did it! We sold our house, our cars, most of our belongings & boarded a one way flight for New Zealand! Longer threads are harder to post here (maybe that’s on me) so I’m sharing by way of screenshots instead. Got attacked by tons of MAGA trolls & bots for this on Threads but I hate them anyway 🤷🏻‍♀️

Rose-breasted Grosbeak, a rare visitor to our backyard. We usually only see them briefly for a day or two during the spring and fall migration. This was my only action shot today and sadly I didn’t zoom out in time. The bird arrived here on the *exact same day* it did last year: April 27.

There is nothing more disappointing than someone you once loved and considered family deciding to change their vote from Bernie (in 2016 and 2020) to a vote for Trump (in 2024) and still (literally today) standing behind that decision. So, anyway, I said goodbye forever to an old friend today.

Hi everyone, I slid on my back across sharp sticks and leaves while barefoot to get this photo of a gorgeous Red-shouldered Hawk that landed in our backyard today, so please look at my picture 😁

“In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.” — Paul R. Ehrlich I hope you are still chasing the butterflies, wherever you are. 🦋 Rest in peace, Professor.

Have you ever seen the movie Contact? The movie was based on the novel by Carl Sagan and the character of Dr. Ellie Arroway (played by Jodie Foster) was based on Carl’s friend, the astronomer Jill Tartar. Jill is famous for her work searching for life beyond Earth with SETI.

Leilani Munter, y'all.

Beautiful tribute to Bobby at the Grammys tonight. Husband to Natascha. Father to Monet and Chloe. Guitarist, singer, and songwriter to the soundtrack to the lives of millions of people all over the world. The first Dead show my big sister Natascha brought me to was in 1986,

Portland has fallen!

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

hello world help! thank you The united States

SAD!!

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

So not surprising that the people who fetishize assault rifles kill more Americans than those who don't.

You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.

Next year, Americans will see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years. Meanwhile, the six largest health insurers raked in more than $31 billion in net income last year. Still not sure if we need Medicare for All?

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🚨 UPDATE on the current COVID vaccine access situation in the US. Please note that this is based on state laws but different things may be happening on the ground, and some pharmacies are defaulting to federal guidelines instead of state laws.

Pettiest man alive.

Why, though? 🤡

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024. Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay. The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year. Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M See the problem?

I’m not an ornithologist. Can anyone identify the bird in this photo?

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider : are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No. *but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no. *but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no. maybe you're not being negative *enough*

imagine if someone promised human cloning then handed you an animatronic baby, and when you pointed out it was a robot covered in rubber, they told you the technology would improve, while someone from WIRED wrote an article about how they believed it was a baby this is genAI

Sending love out to every author who learned that their publisher’s marketing plan for their new book was to have an intern visit a remote woodland in winter, dig a hole in the frozen earth, and whisper their book’s title once, ‘neath the crescent moon.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

Republican gerrymandering in North Carolina handed Donald Trump control of Congress. We can’t let that happen again. Democrats must match Republican gerrymandering - for now, at least. Check out my opinion piece in the Raleigh @newsobserver.com. 👇 www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...

Cool, I've always wanted to obscure my views of natural beauty with meaningless AI drivel techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/h...

I just saw a documentary so powerful I had to do my first movie review on Letterboxd. Please visit checkpointzoo.com to watch the trailer and see if this incredible film is coming to a theater near you. Honestly I haven’t felt this strongly about a film since The Cove came out in 2009.

This is insane. I am so sad for what our country has become.

fed is clearly embarrassed to be doing this shit

This is perfect.

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces he will cancel $500 million in vaccine development projects.

Solar panels over canals could provide benefits beyond energy pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

Jeff Daniels speaks out.. He's everything that's wrong. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us.

Thousands of jobs. E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

In 2009, Steven Colbert interviewed me on his hilarious Colbert Report. It was, by far, the toughest interview I’ve ever done. He was smart, insightful and rapid-fire. Sadly, Paramount took down the show from the Comedy Central website. We can no longer enjoy his clever skewering of nuclear policy.

This one’s for Stephen.