Human banner! I was right in the center of the “I.” It was a beautiful experience being among other people who care. Love San Francisco. #AbolishICE Gift link www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/h...

Yep. He’s at rock bottom in polling. Those Crazy 27%(tm) will never budge.

Lifecycle. Speulderbos, Netherlands. Nov 2021.

Things I’ve been paid for: - Grate cheese - Go through yr photos at the photofinishing kiosk - Giftwrap knives - Hang at the medical library looking for weird case histories - Mop my mom’s kitchen - Kick a computer to get it started (It worked! Cracked me up every time “Gonna boot yr computer now”)

I have a question. How come none of you are going to down there to get him

I think the only people who are thinking we can stop printing whistles now are a few Dem congresspeople. The administration is going to keep at it until they find a city that will comply with their desire for violent riots. Might be why they keep harassing Los Angeles, city of historic riots.

Protesters chanting "We're not cold, we're not afraid, Minne[apolis/sota] taught us to be brave" in Boston tonight outside Government Center station.

We have citizen patrols checking empty cars like this for children and animals that were left behind in the negative temps because that’s where we are at as a society.

would love to get a thread going of historical analogues to this incredibly strange temporality, i.e. the feeling of a centuries old social structure or set of them just dissolving in front of your eyes, on a minute to minute basis?

“Everything that existed left behind traces of itself, and people then lived by their memories, just as we nowadays live by our capacity to forget, quickly and comprehensively.”

A 12 yo Hmong child in Fresno made this quilt panel for a school project. The quilt was sold at auction, was undated, and most of the panels were, well, 7th-graders… but this one, man. I had to frame it.

God. What can one do when everything is going off the rails in such an awful way? Well, I bought a gift certificate from and to Mischief Toy Store. Now I’ll look for a clearinghouse source for assistance to others whose livelihoods are being targeted by the fucking FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

I also saw two archosaurs respecting each other in the Everglades

Unleash the lobstahs of war

Notable decades get names, eg the Roaring 20s, The Me Decade. Halfway Into this notable decade we have the winner: The Unsustainably Bananas 20s

Remember everybody, charge your burner phone, make sure there isnt a SIM card in it, enable the PIN, and rig your pictures and videos to save in a folder hidden under an entire gigabyte of dating app dick pics provided by your lady friends. Tomorrow, we scamper forth

It’s the time of year when photographers take stock of what they made during the past 365 days. Here are some of my favorites.

From our archive ~ Abraham Werner's wonderful 19C book Nomenclature of Colours gives swatches of all colour tones, & where to find them in nature. So, for example, Bluish Green is the colour of thrush’s egg, underside of rose leaves, & the mineral beryl mymodernmet.com/werner-nomen...

You literally can't guarantee shit under this administration, friend. She looks like she could be from Antifastan. If she mouths offered a little bit, might as well hem her up and haul her into a detention center for a check. And it'll probably be a brown ICE agent to boot.

CEO of We Make Stuff Corp: “We have just about eliminated labor costs. My stock options are flying! My neighbors are soooo jealous!” Later: “Wait, how come nobody‘s buying our stock? What? Well then how come nobody‘s buying our stuff? Buh?” Later: (Jumps out highrise window like it’s 1929)

Nearly a quarter-century ago, Dick Cheney personally meddled in a govt report finding that Klamath Basin fish actually need, y’know, water—an act that led directly to the catastrophic salmon die-off in 2002 and thus paved dam removal’s way. Now Dick’s dead and the Klamath lives. Makes ya think.

Aside from everything else, RAIN INCOMING! That’s an event to celebrate here in usually-parched California. It was a lovely day to be out cloudwatching. It was even nicer to get home, crack a beer, and check out election returns. Good job, American voters. Sanity incoming!

Some beaver handiwork on Stoner Creek. A welcome sign after 10,000 acres of wildfire on both sides of the creek this summer.

The larch trees where we parked to put the canoe in, along the Slocan River. #canada #october

Every other journalist in their Rolodex was already tied up on the phone with a different flag officer. The sports reporter for the Bland County Messenger probably has a two-star blowing up his phone right now, looking for someone to gripe to.

Just another day at the office.

Equinox lakelight. Half all gold light, half all reflective shadow.

Every time I feel an earthquake I nervously judge if it might be the Hayward fault, which will be a catastrophe when it really goes off. This one did feel like the Hayward fault judging from the v brief pause between waves. I’m about 20 miles east. Got the ShakeAlert right between the two waves.

Yep. My favorite yarn is sold from Denmark. Even if they still ship to US and I were willing to pay some unknown amount of ridiculous tax, it would likely be held by Customs for months bc officers will have no guidance. “Tariff? 10%? 25%? No tariff? Under $800 no tariff? Nobody tells me nuttin”

I'm excited to share high-quality photos of Fritillaria kordestanica Advay, a newly discovered species from 2022. We traveled 2,300 km round-trip from home to capture this unique plant that only grows inside springs. Kurdistan province, Iran April 2025; 2000 m #Fritillaria

Some fun and wholesome posts for yr timeline

this guy is the Bob Ross of Bonsai and Niwaki. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2vS...

Everything’s terrible but I’m listening to the great Paulette Jiles narrated by the great Grover Gardner while I crochet silk/cotton chemo turbans to donate. It’s not much but it’s something. It’s not *all* terrible: Jiles, Gardner, and the folks in Turkey who make this lovely yarn are good’uns.

Suddenly I’m getting flooded with digital library books I had on hold. I like to think that all those people ahead of me in line finally had a chance to relax and catch up on their reading over the weekend.

For SOME reason I’ve been listening to a lot of early Dylan, his youthful songs of rage. So many great insightful lyrics but I think this one just kinda nails everything (from Hard Rain): “Where the executioner’s face is always well hidden”

Hiding from the world and working with some very pretty cotton yarn #crochet #BlanketFortLife

Old bridge over Crooked River, OR (I wish I were a better photographer; neither of these photos do this fantastic bridge & scenery justice)

A little historical context as Eaton fire moves toward Mt Wilson - photo shows the observatory watching fires from the 1924 season, which was considered monstrous at the time, and might be taken as the first of a century-long cycle of historic conflagrations.

This road is lined with over ONE HUNDRED Giant Sequoia Planted in the 1860s as a memorial to the Duke of Wellington. Wellingtonia Avenue - Crowthorne, England The trees were actually called Wellingtonia at the time until science settled on Sequoiadendron giganteum

I kept changing my mind which Carter cartoon i should go with. Here's all three.

I’m rereading The Stand after many years and completely smitten with the sound of “clocking” down the road in worn boot heels. No clomps or clops or clacks or whatever for Randall Flagg. Clock is just too perfect. @stephenking.bsky.social

It’s been foul smog for days. I finally opened my window anyway and soon there was a sudden flow of sweet clean air. Night flow down from the mountain as the air up there, above the smog, cools. Now it’s 4 am and I still don’t want to go to sleep bc it’s raining and 55° and the air is SO FRESH

Shhhh! The trees have ears…

Lively morning on the west coast

Thank you to all my lovely followers - now up to 6,000 (1/3 of what I had on Twitter and yet so much more engagement) - I will continue to post lots of lovely photos of Iceland until I run out (which will be never!). And here's a bit of swooshery from last month at Stokksnes in #Iceland.

"Nature's Runes" A Septarian nodule (fossilized mud bubble) eroded from the Cliffs of Moher and polished by the Atlantic ocean. County Clare, Ireland.

This place could use a chunky dose of delicious satellite imagery. So here are some of my favorites I've shared over the years. Impossible to not start with the unbeatable, the epic... von Karman vortices

Some pretty trees from my walk today.