Inexplicably getting followed by sketchy accounts with generic center-Dem dogwhistles/reposts and giant American flag banners. Some of them are pretty fleshed out but if you look at the replies, they're clearly AIs or very vacant humans being paid to respond at random. Others are virtually empty. 🤨

Hot take but Jimmy Wales and the Wikipedia Foundation should get the Nobel Peace Prize

NEWS: Former At-Large D.C. Councilmember Elissa Silverman, who lost her re-election bid in 2022, says she'll run in the June 16 special election to finish out Kenyan McDuffie's term. (Recall it was McDuffie who beat her in 2022.) elissafordc.substack.com/p/i-have-som...

Shelby's suggestion: park in a sunbeam. #catsky #cats #therapy

More chill, fewer wackadoodles please. #2026

@tkingfisher.com it's been quite a while since I read The Tomato Thief so my memory's hazy -- are either Grandma Billy or Amelia intended to be the same character? Are all southwestern grannies with magic gardens secretly one Campbellian ur-grandma existing across time and space? 🤯

Just finished @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social 's excellent debut novel The West Passage. If you ever wished the Canterbury Tales were populated by Hieronymus Bosch (and really, who wouldn't?), this one's for you. TW for sudden violence - this world is rough. #fantasy #weirdlit #booksky #bookreview

I have voted faithfully for @markwarner.bsky.social and @kaine.senate.gov since their governorships but I'm afraid they're rapidly losing me. The left doesn't have many tools other than shut-downs right now -- either we use what we've got or we just keep losing ground. 🧵

PSA: Examples of a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant. ICE cannot enter your home with only an administrative warrant.

@petridishes.bsky.social hitting it out of the park as usual.

Our moment is now! Come celebrate our campaign launch and party with us for a DC that works for everyone. janeesefordc.eventbrite.com

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

waking up in 2026

Flip both houses of Congress so we can defund ICE please.

135 native Virginia saplings planted at the farm to start our year off right. Many places have funds available to pay for tree planting and other erosion control measures - check with your local government to see what's available! #treehugger #trees #nativeplants #bloomscroll #virginia

Happy holidays from our winter wonderland! #catsky #hike #farm

Y'all, I cannot emphasize enough how good Thievery Corporation is live. If you ever get the opportunity to see them with all 2748 of their vocalists and supporting musicians, absolutely do it. Incredibly talented performers.

Entirely too accurate

I regret to inform you, dear Bluesky, that I have lost Magic the Gathering -- killed by my own rampaging-bear-with-a-pickaxe when I tried to put plate armor on it. 🪦

If you’re going to make some phone calls today, call your senators immediately and tell them to vote down Mike Lee’s Amendment #3972 that could potentially signal to Interior that they can sell off #publiclands to the highest bidder. These lands are your lands. If we fight for them. #ParkChat

Don't shoot the photographer! An amazing mixed flock of avocets, gulls and stilts on the Great Salt Lake in moody Nov 2018. #groups #birdoftheday #birds #photography

Me: It's a dog eat cheese world out there Friend: You mean dog eat dog? Me: Bro have you ever even met a dog?

Pumpkin toadlet! www.popsci.com/environment/...

Help ID photos on iNaturalist! Follow this link to start tagging unknowns (even "plant", "animal", "fungus" helps!): www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Super cool science - boas hunting collaboratively in Cuba. www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...

We greet the day! ...and immediately return to snoozing. #sunday #catsky #cats #winter

Los Alamos, New Mexico from October - pulled off the freeway at an arbitrary spot with traffic zooming by in order to shoot this and fortuitously found a trailhead which you may thank for my not being smooshed. #cloudporn #landscape #nature #travel #desert #storms #sunset

Los Alamos, New Mexico from October - great spot for big storm clouds and beautiful mesas. #cloudporn #landscape #nature #travel #desert #storms

DSA endorsed councilmember @janeese4dc.bsky.social is officially running for DC mayor! Throw her some spare change or consider signing up to volunteer at janeesefordc.com

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Happy Thanksgiving from a few trail cam friends at the farm - chonky winter raccoon, coyote and mysterious paramour, and our infrequently seen grey fox. #eastcoast #wildlife #nature

For every carefree, "Don't stress, things always work themselves out!" person there is at least one extremely anxious, detail-oriented, forward-thinking loved one or coworker who has spent years behind the scenes making sure things work out

👩‍🌾 Grab your tools

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

Did you know that whale song wasn't discovered until 1967, and wasn't heard by the world at large until 1970? Sales from the recording thereof funded the Save the Whales movement, and the LP ultimately went multi-platinum.

Too funny - I put up an accidentally-delivered chorizo burrito on Buy Nothing and a pleasant grad student volunteered to pick it up. When I went to hand it off, he abashedly admitted someone had walked by just before me, to whom he said, with zero preamble, "...burrito?". Evidently they walked away.

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

Metacampanella subdendrophora growing on scotch broom in Pacific County, Washington. #metacampanella #mycology #macrophotography #fungi #fungifriends

The miracle of modern photography is that you can now be utterly dissatisfied with 600 shots in the time it used to take to be dissatisfied with a mere 24. Amazing!

We don't expect our leaders to be perfect. None of us are. But we shouldn't expect our leaders to be complete human atrocities, either. Most of us aren't.

Democrats need to go work WV, NOW. My rural VA border county went blue for the first time ever and our neighbors across the border are fed up. Tell them you value and respect miners' sacrifices and you won't leave them behind in the green future and they'll follow you. You just have to mean it.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Oh no... I deeply respect Tim Kaine, he's one of the good guys, so I genuinely believe he did what he thought was best for the most people. I just very very firmly disagree with him, and that sucks pretty badly since he's my senator -_-

Virginia, GO VOTE!

Is this a bad time to say I've never watched a baseball game?

I voted, and you should too! Lines wind all the way through the building and out the door so prep accordingly - leave plenty of time and bring a book!

Wow, early voting here in Loudoun County is PACKED 😍

Happy Halloween from the cyberpunk future!