Mossy brackets from a couple of weeks ago 🍄 #FungiFriends

Social media has receded far into the background of my life and I’m quite ok with that (though I very much value the people I’ve met in such spaces)

Past me always has way too much faith in future me.

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My bro’s cat

The cat I’m hanging out with for the next few days 💕🐾

The doggie I’m hanging out with for the next few days 💕🐾

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

A robin I met yesterday #birds 🪶

With typhoons tearing across Southeast Asia this week while areas of Jamaica and Brazil are still clearing debris from damaging storms, delegates at Brazil's COP30 summit began grappling with how best to help climate extremes reut.rs/3WPcrBK 1/4

Midnight Oil is lifting me out of my bad moods lately and this is from one of my fave albums ever youtube.com/watch?v=16Y8...

Bunches of wild grapes & some droopy sumac

Foreground, middle ground, background. Dark darks, light lights. Working on this stuff.

More outside

I went into the outside part of the world a bit today

Very cute Smoke

Very cute Walter

I’ll take my little moments of happiness where I can find them tonight ….

I want to go back to not caring that baseball exists. I want my devastation and disappointment and near heart attacks to come from hockey again #gooilers😰🏒

Ugh baseball why

Go team!!! 🇨🇦⚾️💙

ChatGPT can be so good and then so very very bad which is a dangerous combo. What a weird world

I am going to be that annoying friend. Get your #COVID & #flu shots. There is little downside to getting immunized and it will spare you from being out sick, having to go to the doctor's office, hospitalization and yes, death. Too many people aren't stepping up to get the shots. Do it this weekend.

I just had the absolute worst experience dealing with Airbnb customer service on a booking and would welcome info on the best alternatives for staying in the Boston/Cambridge area in the future

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🇨🇦🇨🇦⚾️⚾️

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Ok that turned out to be fun 🇨🇦🎉⚾️

Ok I like the happy happy running and jumping

Baseball is weird

How microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds. “The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do.” Microplastics like those from car tires. The bigger and heavier the vehicle, the more microplastics shed.

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Green heron #birds

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

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The one time I didn’t bring my camera!!! (Just had my iPhone 😭😭😭)

Weather extremes are shriveling harvests on India's tea plantations, endangering the future of an industry famed for beverages as refreshing as Assam and Darjeeling, while reshaping a global trade estimated at more than $10 billion a year reut.rs/469aK6t

Juvenile American Goldfinch was having some difficulty with its food, but finally got it broken down & grabbed a drink too 💛

My hot take is that people should refrain from buying foods/gums/toothpastes with xylitol aka birch sugar in it given how lethal even tiny amounts are to dogs. And foods containing it should have warning labels given how lethal even tiny amounts are and how impossible to tell what may contain it.

I am starting to fall in love with dragonflies

Juvenile Northern Flicker on our deck railing! 🪶

I was recently caught in a rainstorm when traveling and was quite miserable until I came upon these happy characters (I couldn’t access my camera so I used my iPhone to capture the moment)

#Ketamine and #psilocybin possess rapid #antidepressant effects and work effectively for some people when traditional antidepressants and talk therapy fail: www.columbian.com/news/2025/ju...

The power of pulses: 15 easy, delicious ways to eat more life-changing legumes