🌾🌼 Flowering Newsletter 2025 🌼🌾 "Flowers come in all shapes and sizes, from inconspicuous wind-pollinated grass flowers to the large flowers of California poppy with its bright petals" - @ucdflowerpower.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/JXBFNL?utm_so... A 🧵 incoming... #FNL25 #PlantScience 🧪 1/9

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯 Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚 And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋 youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Good morning, monsters. Fallen leaves are not only pretty, but an excellent place to hide. Or listen to sputtering rain tap on the leaves while you rest, where human concerns cannot find you.

It’s just wild to me how many iterations there are of the United States. I don’t know the place that so many people describe when they shout about saving democracy. I’ve never been there. And yet I’ve lived here all my life…

Portland Frog on getting pepper sprayed in his air intake: “ I’ve tasted spicier”

wizard frog is insane

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commit exactly one heinous crime that haunts you for the rest of your days. never tell a soul. this will allow you to look brooding and mysterious when you sit alone at a bar table in the wee hours of the morning.

Want my anti-ICE posters? I'm selling them at cost in my shop www.mollycrabapple.com/shop/p/icepr...

Oh oh oh!!!

“We have created a future that will ask us if we love it enough to live in it. There is no glory. This is it. An intimacy bound, feet first, to the damp and scorched earth.” Maya Pace on loving California (and maybe other things) emergencemagazine.org/essay/thin-w...

Oops looks as though I forgot about this app and so many other things until an unknown 4am October morning awakened in me my forgettings. A familiar thing, October.

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

I have an exoskeleton from all the lessons I’ve learned from farmworker women. I’m so lucky to be so close to the people who have been at the rock bottom of this country their whole lives.

SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

Rijksmuseum Research Library, Amsterdam.

FULL TIME!!!! 🌵🌵🌵🌵 #ElClásico

@lailalalami.com ‘s amazing book The Dream Hotel is about the surveillance state and the commercialization of personal information, but it’s also SUCH a woman’s book. About trying so damn hard for corporeal autonomy, the loss of anything secret, the daily invasion on femininity. #booksky

this week's BASKETBALL FEELINGS is about the contradictions of the nba playoffs — its active language of loss, the correct amount of want vs. pressure, and the weird green frenzy of energy that spills out right now before the postseason clamps up

Not all fossils are the bodies of animals or plants. Trace fossils like tracks & burrows preserve animal behaviour. This beauty is on display in Elgin Museum & labelled as Jurassic worm burrow. I would use the ichnogenus Gyrochorte but maybe @ichnologist.bsky.social can advise? #FossilFriday ⚒🌏🧪🔬🪱

I kinda like when passersby tell me “I like your tattoos. I want to get some, but I’m afraid they’ll hurt” and I get to reply “They always hurt, but then they don’t.”

Canada, congratulations on not following your neighbors on the road to hell.

Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.

ever get the feeling andré 3000's flute album came out like ten years ago

🧵 the mental part of this admin’s vertical decline into fascism is that its indiscretions are not based in complex matters of the law before the courts. The arguments are blindingly unsophisticated, but blinding nonetheless

What follows if we imagine rivers as having lives, deaths––& even rights? I wrote this essay about water & hope; imagining rivers “otherwise”; nature’s rights; grammars of animacy; & how our fate flows with that of rivers—& always has. It’s from Is A River Alive? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Tune of the day…Lee Morgan - Totem Pole. I find this Boogaloo tune way more memorable than the more famous title track. Worthy of being a part of one of Duke Ellington’s worldly suites. Solo highlights..Lee Morgan at 7:00 😮 & Joe Henderson going Eddie Van Halen at 4:00. #jazzsky youtu.be/kIF3TkssZfk

The cosmos is kaleidoscopic at either end, and, like a Möbius strip, it leads us backward and forward in time — at the same time. -Ronald Johnson

If there was a section at Barnes and Noble for paleobotanical romance I’d be hitting it NASTY.

wishing this was me and the homies again

My questions for the blue water lily. Mapping the blue-petal water lily (Nymphaea colorata) genome opened new questions about the first flowering plants.

scent hallucination: gardenia sampaguita jasmine sambac clematis magnolia the scent of white flowers all arranged in a circle

L/M, K/L #artsky #printmaking #typography #lettering #linocut

Lots of bad shit happening but also—55 days until new Little Simz album. #LOTUS

"Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships...effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions." apnews.com/article/ship...

The top 5 U.S. export commodities in 2024 were soybeans, corn, beef, tree nuts, and pork. Much of this land is owned by private companies with investors like JD Vance. Whomst among us doesn’t love a stable investment in American heartland commodities??? *wiley grin*

watching ken chang toss out banger shitposts on linkedin evokes the exact same feeling as watching mike trout put up 10 WAR seasons on the Angels

He's going to drop all of these tariffs in a couple months, and then he's going to declare victory and trumpet the fact that the DOW went up 1000 points, and I literally fucking beg the media not to just print that as news without context both in headlines and column inches

highly recommend @DorotheaLange.mastodon.ozioso.online.ap.brid.gy

When a person is abducted, there's a number to call to report & identify. A habeas petition challenging the abduction is electronically filed in that district, by a lawyer admitted in that district, within 30 minutes of the call. Anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day. Nothing else is good enough.

Thankful to @annakaharris.bsky.social for creating this incredible compendium that brings such depth of language to my reverence of the unknown. AND there’s a mindblowing portion on plant behavior! A total treat and a light in the current spiritual cellar.

slapping a "i bought this before icarus fell" sticker on my pair of wax wings

Good reminder

Save 30% on #NewBook "Unmaking Botany" by Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, which traces a history of botany in the Philippines during the last decades of Spanish rule and the first decades of US colonization. #Botany #AsianStudies buff.ly/Nrgkj2u

Really recommend this new small exhibition in Kew's Library Reading Room exploring shifts in the practices of 18 and 19C botany and how indigenous knowledge was used and acknowledged #BotanicalRevolutions #Archives #Kew