Fall in New England, as I see it through the dirty window of my hotel room:

TIL that "mentee" has been in use since 1965. I was sure the term was coined by Gen Z. This makes me sad. It sounds like an ocean mammal, or maybe a mint that makes Diet Coke explode. I will not assimilate! "Protégé" will remain my preferred term for a person being mentored.

I guess I'll get to wear these again on Saturday. Unfortunately. #Resist #ARProtest #Arkansas #LittleRock #NoKings #ARpx

Still no sign of the white-throated sparrows' return here, but a white-throated kitten showed up last evening. Collar w/no tags, covered in fleas, very hungry. Hoping her people are looking for her, but fear she was abandoned/dumped. Looking for a new home if she is not claimed, #Arkansas friends!

Make good trouble Saturday! Bring your signs, your energy and your walking shoes. #Resist #ARProtest #Arkansas #LittleRock

The regime wants chaos – it supports their fictional account of our opposition. We'll give them peace instead. #Resist

I'll see all my fellow doers and show-uppers there! #ARpx #Resist #ARProtest #Arkansas #LittleRock #NoKings

10/10 LITTLE ROCK, AR We're in the streets this week. Who are we fighting for? Your kids. Our future. 🗓️TODAY: 🪧 Capitol & Broadway. 🗓️SAT: 🪧 Solidarity Without Borders @ Sabor Latino. 🗓️OCT 18: NO KINGS 2 LR. Be there.Get loud. ✊️ #50501Arkansas #ThePeoplesProtestsAndMarchesAR #50501LittleRock

Finally revealed: the true cost of 🍊💩's flying palace "gift."

Looking forward to voting for an intelligent, compassionate, qualified candidate: @jonesforar.bsky.social. Saying "BYE, French Hill" will just be the icing on the cake.

Thanks for admitting your cowardice. Later, you can thank all the people who were brave enough to face arrest or being "disappeared" by speaking out out so that you can continue to post fascist-enabling drivel like this. #Resist

Looking at you, Tom Cotton, John Boozman, French Hill. #Resist

Every time I see PeeWee German's cruel face, I think of this story. How broken do you have to be to have grandparents who fled persecution to immigrate to the U.S. and still have the self-righteous arrogance to support, encourage, and enable a government to do the same to others?

More reason to ❤️ her.

*Somebody's* playing a Thin Lizzy cover at the CALS main library reopening/book festival. (Not the Metallica version.)

I understand they'd most likely, eventually, beat any legal action, but don't make this easy for them, @uhaul.bsky.social and Budget! #Resist

Cool ice sculpture at the member preview of the Architects of Being exhibit at AMFA.

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#FirstBirdOfMyDay: Because the sun had risen minutes before I made my way outside with the feeders, I was met by an angry mob of northern cardinals and European starlings, plus one eastern gray squirrel ready to join the protest. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

🍊💩: "I say, they spit, we hit. Is that okay?"

#FirstBirdOfMyDay: Northern cardinals fussing from the trees because the sun had nearly risen but they hadn't eaten yet. 🙄🌙😴

3 things about this: 1. Trump learned new term, esprit de corps, & wants to use as much as possible (He's so, so close to actually understanding it). 2. My hope: Purpose of Tuesday mtg really as ridiculous as 🍊💩 & 🇺🇲🍆 say it is. 3. My fear: We are well & truly fkd as of Tuesday. Führer Oath, anyone?

Here it is, what we all knew he eventually was going to do: deploy troops against citizens of their own country arbitrarily labeled as terrorists.

I don't post about my family a lot (or at all), but ending ICE terror is important to me: My sister-in-law, niece, and nephews were all born in Guatemala. They are American citizens now, but I worry about them every day. Will ICE believe they are citizens? Will ICE even care? No. The answer is no.

I needed a good laugh today, and this was it. #Rapture #Rapture2025

Anybody lose their #birding book in the Everglades? #birds #Florida

Keep up the good trouble, everyone! #Resist #ARProtest #Arkansas #ARpx

Has anyone bothered to point out to 🍊💩 that if he's anti-antifa, that means he's pro-fascist?

Discovered today that 14 people have blocked me on Bluesky. I was really upset and bewildered, I mean, just don't follow me, right? Then I looked at the numbers for the account of someone I greatly admire: They are blocked by 2,840 people. Now I think I'm too kind and not ruffling enough feathers. 😄

Waitaminute. Anti-fascists have been getting funding? **All this time, I've been fighting fascism for free!** What a sucker I've been. Where do I sign up for the $$?

Here you go, short but sweet (rantlette, perhaps) – Dear 🍊💩 and flunkie goons: Can you actually fkn hear yourselves, you cruel, selfish, hypocritical fascists?

I suppose next they'll order ABC to give Stephen Miller a late-night show and tell all of us to "laugh ... or else."

Something that the right seems unable to grasp: DEI and affirmative action *do not* put unqualified people in jobs. DEI and affirmative action *do* ensure that qualified people of all genders, races and abilities have equitable opportunities to be hired for those same jobs.

Welp, he just came right out and threatened it, plain as day: If you express even so much as a question that does not exalt 🍊💩, they'll probably come after you. Free speech is done, Constitution and its no "abridging freedom of speech or of the press" be damned.

This sums up how I feel, as well. I have been against gun violence and for gun law reform ever since I became aware of the issue as a teen. I'm against the fact that someone was able to freely obtain a gun to commit this murder. But the irony of his death by gun violence is not lost on me.

Anybody else getting tons of AI/bot follows, profiles usu. "female" "photographers?" I use quotation marks because they are not people, so are neither female nor photographers. Their profiles check all the right boxes, but if you read their comments on others' posts, they are 💯 stilted AI replies.

We're ba-aack! #ARpx #Resist #Arkansas #ARProtest #ARBlueDots #LittleRock mobilize.us/s/rmDDKs

Not that they really care about our comments but at least we can go on record opposing the rollback. "... roadless areas protect wildlife habitat, biodiversity and migration corridors, help keep invasive species at bay, prevent pollution and soil erosion into streams and boost climate resilience."

My prediction is Trump will agree with Russia's friend, Belarus, and their Russia-enabling excuse of "Oopsie, that's technology for you!"

Yep. How's your day going? #Resist #Arkansas

Orange is for butterflies, not fascists. #Resist

This doesn't seem like something a person would do if he were trying to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.

You know FOR SURE your country is in trouble when *Russia* accuses your president of threatening regional security. Well, I suppose they are the experts.

How to record ICE: 1) Record from a safe distance. DO NOT INTERVENE. 2) Put the DATE, TIME, & LOCATION on the video. 3) Ask for NAMES & BIRTHDAYS 4) CONTEXT, how many people were taken? What happened? How? 5) If possible, document vehicles used and agents, even if masked. @eltragon.bsky.social

Me: The Epstein victims are holding their press conference today. I wonder what 🍊💩 has planned for a distraction. OH: If he died, that would wipe them off the news feed.

I really thought this was a headline from @theonion.com. Alas, it is not.

Ever take a holiday off from work? Congratulations: You've benefited from the labor movement. Let's use our day off to let our lawmakers and leaders know that our numbers will matter more than the handful of billionaires when election time comes. #ARpx #Resist #LittleRock

Working on my sign. See everyone Monday. #ARpx #Resist #Arkansas #ARProtest #LittleRock

The moment hopescrolling returns to doomscrolling.

It's chimney swift migration season in #Arkansas! If you've never watched migrating swifts funnel tornado-like into a roost at sunset, here's your chance: