Wings over the waves. Coast Guard Beach, Eastham.

Morning Bluesky.

All true

Scott McFarlane is an example of a journalist with a spine. He covered every step of January 6, trials, pleas, and debunked so much MAGA disinformation. America would not be in a mess if we had more journalists like him.

Excellence.

@reuters.com seeks a media editor: talkingbiznews.com/biz-news-hel...

“For anyone thinking about joining the Bluesky team: This is a rare moment. A platform with real technical foundations for decentralization, a passionate and growing community, and a lot of important and meaningful work still ahead. Come help build it!”

Spring and 80. I’ll take it ANY time. 🌱 #crocus #spring #sunshine #warmweather

Reminder that this is the time of year to bring in forsythia branches to force indoors. I've done cherry branches in the past too. (Just cut them and put them in water, they'll bloom in a few days.)

i now have 43M reasons to work on Bluesky every day

So excited to welcome Toni to the Bluesky team! Toni has been an advisor to me and Jay for years, and we're thrilled he has answered our call to lead us in the interim.

Welcome to the team, Toni!

Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO. More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Nothing to see here.

#junicardigan #laceknitting #linneaohman #showmeyourknits #knitblack

Feels like forever since I started these but they are finally all done! Whale's Greeting Mittens by Claire Burnett 🐋🧶 #knitting

‘ Franklin's favorite take on companionship came from Melville. While survival might force one into bedfellowship with a Queequeg or two, "truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.” ’

— Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations #MelvilleMonday

Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends! Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳🐳 “When a week had gone by, sailing steadily on, by day and by night, and nothing in sight but this selfsame sea, what wonder if disquieting thoughts at last entered our hearts?” ~ Mardi, C12

A snarled tangled fishing snag must’ve broken and fallen in the lake over winter. Ice melt, shoreline. Patience yields these barbed beauties, bobbers, leaders, swivels.

Think of the time when we ran up and down in our arbor, where the green vines grew over the great ribs of the stranded whale. Mardi. I/XLV. Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!

“[…] whether some things that men think they do not know, are not for all that thoroughly comprehended by them; and yet, so to speak, though contained in themselves, are kept a secret from themselves? The idea of Death seems such a thing.” (Pierre, Book XXI) #MelvilleMonday 🐳

🧵 attention fellow Alaskans!

The G7 has decided against releasing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Bloomberg reports. They’ll continue to monitor energy markets.

Willard Metcalf. youtu.be/ZwNjeZwQPKg

It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment

*FRANCE SAYS G-7 NOT THERE YET ON RELEASING OIL STOCKPILE that just relaunched Crude (and rolled stonks

“…then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander’s soul.” #MelvilleMonday

Not surprised to hear that @macfarlanenews.bsky.social is leaving @cbsnews.com. He's an excellent journalist who has done especially good work on all things Jan6th. Serious journalists who delve in facts, not MAGA-coded opinion are surely not a good fit in the Ellison/Weiss newsroom.

#alt #birdoftheday #robin #birds #birdphotography #photography #lightandshadow A robin catches the cold spring sunshine #clogherhead #Drogheda #Ireland

‘Bonjour, Pierrot!’ #Painting by Ethel Wright (1866–1939) #art

A portrait of a lovely horse to bring you Monday greetings. I was commissioned to portray this beautiful animal in 2019, using soft pastels on archival quality paper 😊

Politics really matters. Every bit of it. It's not about posting and it's not about vibes.

Iran's government is more hardline, its people are poorer and more isolated, the region's on fire, and the global economy feels like its about to go into shock If you want to know why people wanted to avoid war with Iran for so long, you're finding out in real time

Stock markets in Asia are falling off a cliff tonight. Oil prices are shooting straight up. Tomorrow’s gonna be a brutal day for the economy. So here’s an amaryllis flower, just now, cuz we desperately need hopeful things.

Degas

I should be able to share some good news next week about my new book project. It involves this writer ✍🏼 and his book.

Yes, we were in Paris. In the the spring.

Oseola McCarty. “She spent almost nothing, living in her old family home, cutting the toes out of shoes if they did not fit right and binding her ragged Bible with Scotch tape to keep Corinthians from falling out.” #IWD #philanthropist

Saw my first coltsfoot of the year today, always a much anticipated sighting #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Comb honey from Full Bloom Apiaries at Rogers Orchards.

"Sometimes the same plane can carry a new widow and a newly-wed wife: their cargo of past and future, earth-weighted grief enclosed in a large wooden box and winged happiness ringed by a tiny circle of gold— both immeasurable." #SundaySentence via Ruth Kessler. www.erikadreifus.com/2026/03/sund...

“Their heroism will never be forgotten.” #SundaySentence Eugene Goodman 📷 Ashley Gilbertson

Everything you ever wanted to know about #birdflu but were afraid to ask

“On behalf of a grateful Congress, this plaque honors the extraordinary individuals who bravely protected and defended this symbol of democracy on January 6, 2021. Their heroism will never be forgotten.” — Me

Installation Day 😍

It only took them five years... Jan. 6 plaque honoring police officers is now displayed at the Capitol after a 3-year delay : NPR share.google/eQh4HbWUwe5u...

The Jan 6 plaque has finally been hung at the U.S. Capitol Happened at 4am Happened three years late due to politicized foot dragging

#wip #writingsociety #writer #CharacterCrafting #writerssociety