Happy #MacroMonday, time to look at some mosses. #EastCoastKin #photography #macro

What is the argument for voting for Democrats for harm reduction if the harm is not fucking reduced

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Healthcare premiums are about to go through the roof. Food assistance will still be cut. Billionaires, insurance companies amd corporations are the only winners tonight. Now more than ever we need folks to wear a mask. People can’t afford to get sick. Masking is resistance!

Democrats: always eager to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

This shit is why people don’t trust the Democratic Party.

Happy #stunday here is a sunlit flower #EastCoastKin #macro #photography

I have a referral for physical therapy, I got the paperwork filled out at the doctor's so I shouldn't get fired! Unfortunately I have missed a week of work unpaid at this point. Upcoming bills, bus fare, cat supplies are all going to be hard. Shares help a lot

#Evening by the Hudson River for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #photography

Happy #FlyDay, here is a small skirmish amongst starlings #birds #EastCoastKin #photography

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

And the other #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LunchTime, so here is a lunching vulture, happily feasting from the dumpster next to a sushi place. #birds

I hear the #BirdOfTheDay is #Fluffy, so here is a fluffy wren. #birds

I thought he was just a guy from LI who didn't want to have to live in NYC under Mamdani. I was wrong, he's from NYC. He has financial ties to Israel and no firefighting experience (he was appointed last summer and uhm a lot was going on). From wikipedia.

Perhaps you need a blue dasher? #macro #EastCoastKin #entomology #bugs #photography

you can win without billionaires supporting you you can win without party leadership endorsing you you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

So just a heads up being supportive of trans folks wins you elections.

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

CRANK IT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcK...

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

Perhaps you need a crow? #birds #corvids #EastCoastKin #photography

Getting back to digital painting, painted this one tonight. #EastCoastKin #Art #StunDay

It is very clear the gutting of Teen Vogue is about silencing their excellent political coverage. Corporations want you uninformed and shut off from meaningful journalism. And they’re staggeringly successful at it so far.

Perhaps you need a bluebird #birds #BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin

Happy #MacroMonday here is a blue wasp. #macro #entomology #EastCoastKin #photography

Vultures are definitely #underrated. I love them so much. #BirdOfTheDay #birds

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #underrated, birds you feel have beauty but don’t get appreciated. The alternative is #worst. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin Many think the American #Crow is just a pest and boring to photograph because "just black" but I love them! #Corvid #cawmunity #Corvid

Happy #StunDay here is a little summer-y vibe as we lose daylight. #EastCoastKin #macro #photography #entomology

Pumpkins #Autumn #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin

Some sunlit #Autumn leaves for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #photography

Happy Halloween! Here is a black vulture. #birds #EastCoastKin #halloween #photography

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

Perhaps you need a mockingbird? #birds #macro #EastCoastKin #photography

Most plastic items are too small for recyclers to bother sorting and processing, or they're assembled in such a way that it's less expensive to just make new plastic. In fact, only 5% of Americans’ plastic finds new life. (Published Aug. 2024) By @lisalsong.bsky.social

Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet

My dad sent me this

Happy #MacroMonday here is a bumblebee. #Macro #ColorADay #PinkMon #photography #flowers #nature #entomology #EastCoastKin

“What is an AI minister and how does AI get pregnant?” is a real thing I just said out loud, to my spouse. I’m not living my life right. Why 83 babies at a time? Why do I look at my phone? Since AI babies don’t exist, we all agree the AI minister is experiencing a hysterical pregnancy, right?

Happy #StunDay #EastCoastKin #photography

Happy #SparrowSunday! #birds #EastCoastKin #macro #photography

A painting of a turkey vulture #inside for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin

Since today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #sunlit, here is a heron at sunset. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

Happy #FlyDay here is a heron. #birds #EastCoastKin

“Let them go a month without meals. Maybe they will get a job” First, many SNAP recipients have jobs. They’re just living below the poverty line because of tremendous wealth inequality. Second, many are disabled and children and can’t work. Third, no one should starve to death.

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

We could just keep mask requirements in healthcare settings instead of allowing illnesses to spread first. Of course, we should also make the provided masks respirators 😷

This Zammara smaragdina cicada was hanging out outside my kitchen, so I spent some time photographing it this afternoon. At @casabentbill.bsky.social #cicadas #insects #invertebrates #costarica

61% of American Jews believe Israel has committed war crimes and 68% have a negative opinion of Netanyahu, according to a recent poll from The Washington Post. Andrew Cuomo — who joined Netanyahu's legal team and has defended Israel at every turn — does not speak for or represent the views of Jews.

Perhaps you need a crow? #birds #crows #EastCoastKin