Connecticut Freedom Trail, Juneteenth.

I hope everything is ok. personally speaking. #ThankYou #nature #photography

A #sparrow #moment at the feeder #BirdoftheDay (alt) #birds #photography

cedar waxwing #Multicolour alt #BirdoftheDay

blue heron #BirdOfTheDay #LongLegs

chickadee, warrior. #inflight #BirdofTheDay #photography

a hummingbird fight on my lawn. (free) @alan678.bsky.social #BirdofTheDay #YourChoice

they can sing too. #caturday

I hear it’s #SmallBirdSaturday - in the #BlueSkyArtShow see fledgling graduated to the dogwood tree

THUR JUNE 11, 7PM DATA CENTERS ARE NOT INEVITABLE National Coalition w/Food & Watch Coalition partners and organizers across the country discuss successful stories of resistance against data centers, as well as what critical campaigns are underway at local, state, and federal levels. Virtual, FMI:

#egret fishing at sunset; human #coping thereby #nature #photography

reality =

My great uncle was a top gunner/ engineer in WWII, flew on D-Day yesterday, today & every day for too long 82 yrs ago, the missions multiplying per catch-22. My dad, 7, said when he returned, he talked more than ever, but never about the war. (How it was then.) All he talked about was flowers. #Dday

#egret #photography #nature #Monday

it’s time… boomitra.com/regenerative...

Feed: "NYT > Top Stories" By: Jack Healy, Reis Thebault and Scott Dance on Monday, May 25, 2026

I just discovered Maine Needs on instaG. Also -> @maineneeds.bsky.social What a clearinghouse of creativity & compassion. This #Maine nonprofit makes giving to people without what they need easy and fun. Plus #MaineNeeds approaches need from every angle. #Vote www.instagram.com/p/DY0ZVdwoG8...

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egret, alone

#egret behind the scenes on #Stunday in a small cove off a cove off a cove of the might narragansett river, east providence, RI. #photography

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestoftheMonth. This red-shouldered hawk lives with its mate in the woods behind my house. I see them all the time. The are stunning raptors, in my humble opinion. #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #ECK #birds #Nikon #Z8 #hawks

I love getting lost in the Mendocino Botanical Gardens. You never know what delights are around the corner. 💚✨ #nature #photography #wild #gardens

Ancient rhythms in the high plateau. A Tibetan farmer guides yaks, adorned with sacred red tassels. A documentary testament to faith and labor in this high-altitude landscape. #tibet #documentary #photography #culture #agriculture #faith #yak #landscape #luiscordobapharchive #tradition #himalaya

A Bluejay mugshot. #bluejay #birds #nature #photography #birdphotography

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth, whatever bird captures you see as your best from April 2026. I'm going with this one. I love his crown, his attitude and his beautiful crimson feathers. #northerncardinal #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

#OpenTab day 6 A call for #lawn reform homegrownnationalpark.org/news/stories... Doug Tallamy 4 Landscape Ecological Goals (that lawns fail at) 1. Support diverse #pollinators thru growing season; 2. give energy 4 local #foodweb; 3. keep their #watershed well; 4. & remove carbon from atmosphere.

youtu.be/lvvkeYubL28 “I seen another world. Sometimes I think it was just my imagination.” - Pvt Witt in “the thin red line” looks like someone’s online #artentrepreneur course pushing someone’s buttons

Maybe this is the AI war we’ve been warned about.

#instrumental #flute

#OpenTab day 5. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#blueskyMonday #MountainMonday

View of #Androscoggin River Valley from West Bethel Road, #Bethel #Maine (June 2020) #nature #landscape #photography

#OpenTab number idk. healfoodalliance.org

Early morning fog in the Western Mountains, #Maine #nature #landscape #photography

OpenTab 4. #openTab Singing Flutes singingtreeflutes.com/products/ara...

Open tab #3: #OpenTab Mata Kaulan, a spiritual Sikh woman, 6th Sikh Guru era. Obsessed w/ Sikh culture ca. 2023 farmers’ strikes- to where I got an inside joke in Panjabi on podcast re. Amritpal Singh, a badass hero, just re-arrested, it seems. A righteous culture. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_Ka...

Next open tab, Regeneration International. #openTab Soil health was a wild ride. I just wanted to know when to water 18 flower beds. Led to the cosmos. Promo video is sound, but i’d feel scammed if i didn’t already know more background. Why do grown ppl need cartoons? regenerationinternational.org

Revisiting open tabs day#1. In a liminal space, judge me, fine. Just sharing therapy idea & tabs. If there’ll be a #2? Likely. Link: I find the kind, confident tone of agency in the text refreshing & the comments too. Not endorsement. #openTabs #brokenMirror www.twowaymirrors.com/broken-mirro...

bird news #photography

HR 7551, the National book ban bill, has passed the markup and is being recommended to the House with amendment. Here’s who voted how. This isn’t over. CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS NOW.

“Then millions of human beings are marched to Russian prisons or to Nazi gas chambers without knowing why, because once a little boy didn't know why he was being punished.” -Alice Miller (The Untouched Key) #Stalin #history #His #Story

Don’t hate the earth out of boredom, dry up her aquifers for fun. I tell you, me.

Will need to re-listen, but as far as I can tell, at issue is that Anthropic raises their AI to be ‘virtuous’ and *not* dumb, unethical, blindly loyal or undemocratically minded, rendering it useless for the current admin. The rep added that ‘virtuous’ models work better. That he even had to say it.

world inside each of us, still in reach #poetry #translation #empathy #HumanLanguage #humanity

Don’t wait—Booth 848! Poetry in bilingual editions translated from Mandarin, Russian, Catalan, Korean, Hebrew, Cantonese — 15 languages and counting! Everything on sale.

unreflective of the news cycle, and yet. Alt text: sunlight through clouds (Something new is now making the ALT Save button elusive)