The Wainwright Building Architects: Adler & Sullivan, 1891 St Louis, Missouri

Every time.

I don't usually catch cormorants in sunset light, so I'm always surprised to be reminded how gorgeous their feathers can be. #birds

This is a really useful post about what you need to know about Cyclospora. I learned things. You will too

Do bumblebees sploot when they sleep? Mine do.

Look at this gorgeous fluffy girl

This is what peak performance looks like #birds

Reveling in the cooler temps and clearer skies like…

Our apartment complex may be old and janky, but building it into a community means when Frankie is howling mournfully and his mumma is still at work everyone gets worried and goes to hang out with him for a bit. 🥲

So… Cheyenne, WY won't take data center wastewater anymore after Meta/FB's "Fill and Flush" process (how they test data center cooling systems) was responsible for polluting their whole community's wastewater reclamation system with Cupriavidus gilardii bacteria: cowboystatedaily.com/2026/07/02/c...

The Snowy Tree Crickets have started stridulating tonight and will continue into Autumn! Click alternate text to learn how to tell the temperature with these crickets. #SoundsOfSummer

Things they are wildly overrated: fireworks. Things they are not wildly overrated: fireflies.

Green Heron hiding in the brush.

Elephant head flowers. So many tiny pink elephants.

“Monarch butterflies are the predominant theme throughout the mural; like many people who pass through this station daily, monarchs are migrants.” Ice-Cream Dream by Hector Duarte

The moon tonight from Denver, painted in wildfire smoke orange

Smol friends! #pollinatorweek

We got a big bump in traffic yesterday when people learned about us on NPR. Thank you to @npr.org for covering our launch and bringing our story to people's attention! And thank you to all our new followers. We can do this together! 🌍️🧪💪 #ClimateAction #ClimateForUs #ProtectScience

Someone on the Northside has a sense of humor

Your yearly reminder that if your hippo is noise-sensitive you can train him to wear headphones and listen to a soothing playlist to get through the booming chaos nights. *cue Willie Nelson singing Stardust* #dogsofbluesky #househippo

Good morning! 🪶

Was pretty psyched to find an io moth here! I’ve done *many* moth nights in the pine barrens but rarely see this one!

This is a fantastic article and I'm glad to see this issue getting wider coverage. I am also glad the article focuses on how these giant vehicles are marketed as a way to assert your dominance over other road users.

A Dad can be a person you are not even biologically related to, who steps up and does stuff for someone else in a consistent, caring, stabilizing and deeply meaningful way.

Trump is trying to shift the decision about who gets to vote from the states to his administration, using benign sounding rules changes. There’s nothing more important to be aware of right now than this. Details here: substack.com/@joycevance/...

I gotta bring my real camera out here because imagine if these were in focus smh.

Good night, moon!

activating CATURDAY PROTOCOLS

Vaccines are humanity's greatest scientific achievement.

The only acceptable use of Claude

Seen in Jamestown, Colorado

#soon 🌱

It begins with Willa Cather, and with a lottery ticket I found in a copy of one of her novels, and Orwell, Brecht, Adrienne Rich, moviegoing and San Francisco's Castro Theater all have their moments in it.

Guy at the pyramids called after me “sir!” No response “maam!” No response, after a few seconds he tries again “cousin!” I think we’ve cracked it. There is a gender neutral honorific.

Some of my favorites from Denver Bike Fest 2026

Bat Season Joy! The Yolo Bypass has one of the largest colonies of Mexican free-tailed bats in California! #davisca

Flowers from the veggie garden, culinary sage, kale and chives.

John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For the Performing Tarps

This is very dangerous: voter registration group being treated as criminal www.ms.now/news/ohio-pr...

Good morning! 🪶

“.. creating a ‘chilling effect’ that pervaded local economies, hurt businesses and affected American-born workers ..” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bookends

OH HI! #birds

Early mountain bloom

Good fish.

Morning crossword puzzle challenge.😼

I love all the new research showing bees are so much smarter than we thought. www.theguardian.com/environment/...