Stingless bees in the Amazon have become the 1st insects to be granted legal rights anywhere. In the Peruvian Amazon’s rainforest, these native bees now have the right to exist and to flourish. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Writing as Repair: an environmentally-themed writing class live on Insight Timer on Monday at 2 PM ET. Everyone is welcome! 💚 #environmental #writing #writingcommunity #ecowriting insig.ht/fXx9xOWCDZb

A flower for a rooster. Poppycock. A shaved dog running. Balderdash. A fish treated roughly. Codswallop. A very clean pig. Hogwash. Stuck between two hands. Claptrap. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. All of the above. #vss365 #balderdash

Mountains under a full moon In Cancer and Chiron trying Finally to break through to Move forward in Care-a-lot And four pine trees rising Under a winter black sky— These are not an abstraction When reflected in your eyes. #vss365 #abstraction

My wife and I tied for strength training workouts for the year - this may be the most lesbianish thing ever! 💜 #Healthy #QueerSky #NewYear

Head into nature to start the new year right. #nature #eco #writing #environment #SouthCarolina @congareeanthology.bsky.social @nationalparks.bsky.social @nationalparkfdn.bsky.social @nationalparkspics.bsky.social @postandcourier.bsky.social www.postandcourier.com/free-times/o...

When the first tarot card of the year is The Sun, the only possible explanation is that the universe is telling you to head toward delight. #vss365 #delight #HappyNewYear

Last night I had a dream about the daughter of a poet mentor of mine who has been gone from earth for two years and in the great house she lives in now, there were horses outside and a party to host and friends to feed and I offered to go to the store for more. There is always more. #vss365 #dream

Let Me Help You with Your New Year Resolutions #writing #poetry #nature #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #environmental #ecoanxiety #mindfulness #journaling #trauma #healing open.substack.com/pub/cassiepr...

Why travel when you can unravel the mysteries of life with paper and pen? #vss365 #travel #writing #writingcommunity

It can take a toll To be the sole To dig the hole To fill the bowl To train the foal To scoop the coal To raise the pole But it does sate the soul. #vss365 #sole

Yes, I look to the stars As did our ancestors, Even before the names Of Mars and Jupiter and Venus, when our stories Around fires sustained us, And it is this sameness That still shines over time. #vss365 #Mars

#Caturday video of the year: “HER MY BEST GUY”

C’est clair, She finally does declare. I cannot get any air In a situation so unfair. You see it as square But forget the wear and tear. Pain cannot be compared. But if you will not share Then this will never be a pair. #vss365 #air

Why struggle When you can snuggle? #vss365 #struggle

The way to thrive And not just survive Is to dive into the tale, Release immigrants from jail, Give a high five to justice And let love set sail. #vss365 #survive

Our Christmas Ball was a BALL!

Merry Christmas Eve! 🎄 The fam comes over today for our Christmas Ball. Everything on the menu is in the shape of a ball. The star of the show is plant-based glazed BBQ meatballs — because we didn’t want to shoot any animals. And no East Wing was destroyed either. #vss365 #shoot

💛🐣💛 Tue, Dec 23 On Dec. 10th, K pod was in Puget Sound w/a new calf, since designated K47. Yesterday, K pod was back in Puget Sound, little babe included❣️ SRKWs were audible on Sunset Bay hydrophone ~3am, let's see what daylight tells us 💛 📸 K47 & K36 by Maya Sears NMFS/NOAA Permit 27052 #psws

Just Undulate Matriarchal Power #vss365 #jump

🩵🫧🩵 Mon, Dec 22 Orcas reported this morning in Central Puget Sound. We look forward to seeing who it is. A gray whale, presumably CRC53 Little Patch, has been keeping a presence around Whidbey/Camano. 📸 J45 Se-Yi'-Chn launches while inland Puget Sound on Dec 14th. By Hongming Zheng #psws

This is your #Saturn return? Yeah. In the 10th house of career. With my Sun and Black Moon Lilith. Audre Lorde also had her Lilith here. What does that mean? Work, for me, is a responsibility to shine light on the invisible and ostracized. But you’re an environmental writer. Exactly. #vss365

Happy Solstice!

No need to fight, humans. Solstice is coming. #vss365 #fight #solstice #wintersolstice #Sunday

Humble comes from the Latin humus "earth" — which in turn gave rise to human. And we’ve spent millennia forgetting this connection — and making the disconnect into an arms race — or denying it was ever even there in the first place. #vss365 #humble

🪅☔️ Thu, Dec 18 Bigg’s orcas spent yesterday in southern Puget Sound. Did they stay overnight? Tuesday, J pod exited the Sound & met up w/Ks & Ls off San Juan Island, we look forward to the next SRKW foray this way. 🩵 📸 Matriarch J16 Slick off Point No Point 12/14 by Hongming Zheng. #psws

Gratitude is a gift We give ourselves When we say, Yes, this. This bird. Yes. This flight. Yes. This word. Yes. This life. Yes. This death. Yes. This world. Yes. Yes to all. All is bliss. #vss365 #gratitude

Don’t let Regret Be what gets You set On disappointment Instead Refuse to fret And bet On on the duet Of now and yet #vss365 #regret

Join @cassiepremosteele.bsky.social for writing in the new year! This class, focused on mindfulness & the natural world, starts in February: loft.org/classes/eart...

Call your people in Recall when Calling was a sacred act Call to the wind Recall what happened Call your spirit back in Calling all parts hidden Recall that we are all Calling for a world to live in #vss365 #recall

New America Adapts pod! 🎧 @keenanclimate.com joins me (again) to talk about his new book, North: The Future of Post-Climate America. It’s not about disasters — it’s about how the U.S. is already changing as we adapt. We also touch on Florida through a fictional chapter set in 2079! #Adaptation

When I published this book 25 years ago, no one was talking about collective trauma - and we have yet to understand that healing from traumatic memory will be collective, too. #vss365 #memory

On The Climate Brink, I write about the connection between climate change and flooding in the Pacific Northwest. Yes, climate change is enhancing the flooding.

Flo Jo plays Boho has a phase A hobo cannot stay — From the crow’s eye We are all the same. Walking and talking Birds who’ve forgotten How to fly and still Try to make a way. #vss365 #boho

The hardest part about the Bondi and Brown shootings is that it’s so monotonous — because this is what has become of us — we are species that cannot even keep to the categorical imperative of all life — to keep ourselves safe and to live with love. #vss365 #monotonous

To understand how our relationship with the natural world has shifted, researchers are studying the media we produce. Eg, a study published in the journal Earth this summer found that use of nature-related words declined >60 % from 1800-2019. grist.org/language/nat...

They say we are free When oppression is at its apogee But seems to me That when we try to flee We carry pain like an amputee And it becomes a seed That grows into a tree When we agree The oppressor’s key Is in the hands of you and me Then freedom will be Not in distance but in we. #vss365 #apogee

My newest column for @postandcourier.bsky.social Free Times: on birds and fear and what winter can make clear. #nature #birds #environmental #writing #SouthCarolina www.postandcourier.com/free-times/o...

His successor will not be an Oppressor, will know how to hold Presser, won’t get off on being an Aggressor, won’t need a skilled Hairdresser, will allow more than Yes, sir, and we won’t need an Intercessor. #vss365 #successor

The only love That is illicit Is in the minds of Those politicians Who miss it And must pay To have someone Kiss it. #vas365 #illicit

Pitch: Mad Men meets Bewitched but in the future when advertising is used to keep spirits up once the bots have taken over and make it queer #vss365 #bewitched

It’s cold It’s wet It’s rainy But our consolation prize Is this nutty squirrel Jumping caterwaulwize In joy When he finds a nut #vss365 #consolation #nature #squirrel

We have officially entered the annual phase of when the phrase “I need toothpaste” elicits a “It’ll go in your stocking” response.

“Romeo, Romeo, where art thou, Romeo?” “Give up the soliloquy, Juliet. It won’t end well. Never has, for 430 years. And before us, Pyramus and Thisbe tried this shit under a mulberry tree. Believe me. Move on. You don’t need us. You won’t like where you end up.” #vss365 #soliloquy

In my experience, it’s not the placenta that makes a family but how closely your magenta matches and whether your top song of the year is Pink Pony Club and you can sing it together while visiting the penguins in their little Antarctica habitat tub. #vss365 #magenta

In a world of gaucherie and debauchery, look up. Your augury is in flight. Drink light from her cup. #vss365 #augury

#Chic #vss365