Saw the thing

history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Personally I prefer when fish get bigger over time. news.umich.edu/fishes-young...

Sorry, but a lack of support for autonomous vehicles is not among Sec Pete's biggest missed opportunities at USDOT. For instance: 🔹 Failure to stop Tesla from lying about Autopilot, FSD, etc 🔹 Failure to curb car bloat 🔹 Continuing to spend fed $$ on highway expansions that won't fix congestion

Great administration we’ve got here

Will add that, though the study below deals specifically with megafauna’s role in regulating earth’s systems, biologists have told much the same story about the loss of diadromous fish, critical transporters of nutrients whose movements and populations modernity has thrown terribly out of whack.

this WHOLE thread - if you take three minutes to read anything this afternoon, please make it this thread

The speed with which salmon have returned to the Klamath - like the Elwha - after dam removal is overwhelmingly hopeful. And in both cases thanks to decades of tireless advocacy by local Tribes.

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

Meet the Apalachicola redhorse, a newly described fish species.

We were right to throw batteries at this guy back at Shea.

Perfect. 60 Minutes edited out an important part of its Trump interview in which he boasts about extracting millions from its parent company on an utterly meritless claim . . . that 60 Minutes selectively edited its Kamala Harris interview.

Belize’s blue reputation vs. reef reality: Marine conservation wins, and what’s missing (commentary) news.mongabay.com/2025/10/beli... 🧪🦑🌎🐠

Well everything about that was absolutely excruciating but you do have to hand it to Yamamoto — greatest World Series pitching performance since Bob Gibson or some shit.

thank god the mets aren’t involved in this fuckery

Weird how much Game Six discourse is about the dead ball play. That’s a textbook rule that any baseball fan has seen enforced. Also, it didn’t matter! Would’ve been a double anyway; maybe runner on first scores, but then Dodgers still win 3-2. I’m rooting for Jays, but that play isn’t why they lost.

Owl Man good.

Happy Halloween from this aspen cemetery. 🎃 🦫

A major shift in where L.A. gets water: The city will double the size of a project to transform wastewater into purified drinking water, producing enough for 500,000 people. The recycled water will allow L.A. to stop taking water from creeks that feed Mono Lake. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Who among ye Blueskyists studies Caribbean reef fish — their movements and migrations, their spawning aggregations, their interactions with corals, their capture in fisheries, their conservation status, etcetera? Thanks in advance for your leads!

🐻GRIZZLED🐻: Love Letters to 50 of North America's Least Understood Animals Def the biggest & most personal project of my career. Featuring artwork & foreword by Joel Sartore, as well as insights from a bajillion amazing scientists. 🧪 ❤️‍🔥I HOPE YOU LOVE IT❤️‍🔥 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804002...

Beavers doing the darnedest things: Fun to stumble upon this colony at 10,000 ft, in a windswept alpine valley disconnected from other streams and well above the aspen line, transforming a few scrubby willows & a couple CFS of flow into a picturesque terrace of infinity pools. Resourceful critters!

Cascades on either side of I-90 are reconnected via wildlife crossings at Snoqualmie Pass (albeit much work still to be done). East-west connectivity across the densely populated I-5 corridor is the next frontier for the PNW.

After years of research, scientist Leonid Pshenichnov concluded Russia + China cannot continue fishing krill, the main food source of many marine creatures, at current rates without risking breakdown of entire ocean ecosystems. Russia had him arrested: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@bengoldfarb.bsky.social's piece on Abundance is really good: defector.com/an-abundance...

I do think it bodes well for Bluesky’s future that it now occasionally hosts after-dark normie sports talk. (Also go Jays, but also also, pitch to Ohtani, you cowards.)

Just in case you forgot: hakaimagazine.com/news/nine-ye...

A traffic jam in a pivotal wilderness area that's full of animals, including bears. A regular occurrence for that area and emblematic of a real issue: Where does your right to view wildlife end and the wildlife's right to just go about their lives without interference or constant stress begin?

Hi friends! It's that time again. From today through Thanksgiving weekend, all prints on my website are 25 percent off, including a big old print of my recent mural painting in Tonasket! Go get you something nice 🦋 www.etsy.com/shop/HiddenD...

today is @theopennotebook.bsky.social's 15th birthday!!! 🎉🎂✨ thanks to @statnews.com @undark.org & others, every gift to TON today will be DOUBLED. help support thousands of journalists with free tools, training, and community: www.theopennotebook.com/15thannivers... #TON15

Now that folks have the book, please leave us a review wherever you bought it — if you bought it online, that is. It really helps other people find us and decide to buy the book. Plus, we know the trolls who will never read it will leave a lot of negative reviews so we'd appreciate the help!

FIRST GAR! Please enjoy my students’ excitement as they get their first Alligator Gar! I promise I was also really excited, but also needed to provide directions (I’m telling the fish to chill out not my students 😅) #GarWeek

I often hear my fly fishing buddies curse beavers for creating fish migration barriers, but they can also help these same fish by decanting suspended anorganics and filtering water.

Fun beaver/fish interaction: When I approached this pond, I startled brown trout preparing to spawn below it (beavs filter sediment & keep downstream substrate clean). The fish dashed to the dam & hid in its base. Beavers created perfect spawning grounds: pristine gravel adjacent to dense cover! 🤯🦫🐟

yeah this is a much more egregious form of vandalism than the ballroom thing

when the MFers try telling you that it’s impossible to mitigate drought and flooding at the same time

predictably, the GOP-controlled Congress is totally fine with Trump ordering the government to personally pay him hundreds of millions of dollars and are defending it by suggesting that he might consider donating some of it to charity. Possibly.

Who doesn’t?

“The Monday filing outlines where 2,050 positions would be eliminated; the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Land Management, and the main Interior office would be especially hard hit. Regional offices with the National Park Service are also targeted for significant cuts.”

It's pub day for the latest edition of Best American Science and Nature Writing! Honored to have my work featured along so many other writers I admire, incl @rossandersen.bsky.social @rebeccagiggs.bsky.social @bengoldfarb.bsky.social @sarahzhang.bsky.social Emma Marris & more. Congrats to all!

Happy pub day to this year’s edition of Best American Science & Nature Writing, out now from @marinerbooks.bsky.social. Thanks to editors extraordinaire Susan Orlean and @jaimealyse.bsky.social for including my @smithsonianmag.bsky.social feature on the art and science of wildlife tracking.

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered. levernews.com/book

Congrats to the Jays. What a triumph for all of Canada. Thrilling. Historic. Inspirational. The kind of victory they’ll be talking about for years. Now it’s time to get pressed into a pitiful cube of scrap metal by MLB’s equivalent of a trash compactor.

Subtext is for cowards

when you realize you only have one true literary interest

This is the good shit, by @gwenckatz.bsky.social:

mr trump as your comms strategist i can only encourage you to keep depicting yourself as a mad king dumping shit on people

Underrated accomplishment of NO KINGS is reclaiming the noble frog as a symbol of all that is good and just in the world. Wasn’t right that the Pepe meme became the definitive online frog image. Frogs deserve better and now they have it. Related: a few northern red-legged frogs from… Portland!

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