Have you considered slacker punk about eating pizza in the city?

The green algae growing in the reflecting pool in Washington D.C. was first examined under a microscope by a French soldier in the Napoleonic era who learned botany while stationed in Haiti. Pierre Jean François Turpin became famous for his illustrations of plants.

I've been heading east to Interior Cedar Hemlock habitats near Canim and Mahood Lakes when I can. This week I found a partially-shaded mossy talus slope with some lichens I didn't expect. 🌿 Nephroma arcitca for one.

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Please don't steal my identity

I live in that part of the world where the word "Nickelback" is spoken with hushed reverence.

Ontology is asking, "Is Waldo?"

Where's Waldo? Twelfth-Century Popular Piety, Charisma, and the Elusive Waldo of History

just copped 10 CDs for $35 from Polyvinyl’s garage sale www.polyvinylrecords.com/collections/...

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

Here's the BBS trip report. 73 species on the count, plus one Barred Owl calling from outside a point count radius. No rarities this time. And we saw a wolf. 🌿🪶 ebird.org/tripreport/5...

More like someone swallowed its tail 🌿

I'm setting my alarm for 2:45. Gotta see some birds. Or hear them, rather. It's Breeding Bird Survey season!

My sport is getting ready for a Breeding Bird Survey route

Right now I could just post "WHAT?" and you all would assume it's about sports.

Some greatest hits here

Canadians will say "I had the BEST Mexican food" and it's basically Taco Bell.

New A Place For Owls music tonight

This weekend I visited Mahood Lake at the west edge Wells Gray Provincial Park (my side). The interior Cedar-Hemlock habitat has some unique birds for the region. But I mainly went for the unique lichens. I was enthused to find abundant Tinted Rag lichens (Esslingeriana idahoensis). 🧵🌿

Your moth spot update for June 9, 2026: moths! 🌿

"Sam, I AM": Dietary Codes, the Tetragrammaton, and Green Eggs in Ancient West Asian Legal Corpora

Post your warning sign

I’m in a SoCal discord. And the group created Keanu mocked up this poster 😂

Merge two movies: Little Miss Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I don't mean to brag, but I can see the world's largest cross-country skis from my work office.

Revisiting a classic this morning

What's the best Appleseed Cast album, and is it actually Illumination Ritual?

I wrote about my idiosyncratic list of 100 favourite albums from the aughts. Take a gander if you're into that kind of thing. the-wondering-tattler.beehiiv.com/p/100-albums...

My non-birder friends sometime don't believe me when I mention seeing a snipe. Yes, they are real birds, and also real weird guys. 150 Mile House, BC 🌿🪶

Morning, friends!

Since there's been essentially as much good post-punk in the 21st century as there was between 1978 and 1982, give or take, we made a list of our favorite 21c post-punk albums I wrote a lot of these blurbs. Dive in, it's good stuff!

Grunge Is not very interesting

Anyone hungry?

Oh, you mean to say I'm a theological weirdo who's whole project is basically just vibes in the grammar of Greek patristics? Yeah okay, you got me

I found a moth spot late last summer. It's a brick pump house with lights on at night. I check for moths in morning when I can. These are from the last week. There's a new surprise almost every day. 🌿

Albums I could listen to every day: Joanna Newsom- Ys Pink Floyd - Shine On... Digable Planets - Blowout Comb MewithoutYou - Ten Stories Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball The Cure - Disintegration Wilco - A Ghost is Born Paul & Linda McC - Ram PP Arnold - First Lady... Rika- How to Draw a River...

I have to share this photo from a recent DBH newsletter

My preschooler and I have a band called The Coughing Burpers. I can't leave that out.

Introduce yourself by the names of bands you were IN. One practice or more=in a band No band too small! The Flaming Donuts Burnt Dreams The All Encompassing Failure Seth Applegate Nick Ridout and the Norwegians Finance Chris Hoke and the Jumper Cables Summer Hands A Paul and his Garfunkle

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Bill Mallonee mewithoutYou Low The Appleseed Cast The Eisenhauers In Medias Res Porcupine Tree Shad Nickelback Petra

Not Crosby, Stills, or Nash, but a secret fourth thing.

Trying something out www.inaturalist.ca/observations...

Quote etc.

If you're in or near the south Cariboo, I'm co-leading a bird amd botany walk at the Horse Lake Farm Co-op on Sunday. Come on by! horselakefarmcoop.ca/events.html

a funkadelic of owls

There are way too many trucks and cars around with Confederate flags for tiny town nowhere Canada

It's bug season, friends.

Double Ten Stories posts today. That's like 20 stories. bsky.app/profile/cale...