I love these little Jewish yarmulke warblers! ✡️ Shalom!

While any move to solar is good, these large scale models are more prone to centralized/corporate control and billing, and disrupt large swaths of habitat. A distributed model is better (every home/biz a solar array).

Ruby throated hummingbird is back!! 🍾

I actually 100% agree with this. The Democratic consultant class needs to be put on a boat and shoved out into the Sargasso Sea.

It is Eastern Bluebird and Tree Swallow season! Of the 15 boxes I monitor, 14 have nests, eggs or babies in them! #birds #birding #bluebirdMonitoring

When the highest, unbiased US court shows it's stripes...

“Say … what’s a mountain goat doing way up here in a cloud bank?”

Please don’t put out hair for bird nests. Chicks get entangled in hair balls. Just had to cut hair strands that were tying 3 blue tit chicks together, and wrapped round the throat of one skinny chick that couldn’t swallow food. Hopefully saved in time 🤞

Indigo buntings were showing up in force today on my walk. I must have seen at least 20. #birds #birding 🪶

Frog and Toad Together

Bizarre, psychedelic advertising for Levi's: The Stranger (1971), dir. John Urie, Snazelle Films

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

ducks!

Proud parent moment: My FA son saved a life yesterday. Medical emergency on board, passenger having a heart attack. My son was purser, had to get the AED on the guy, and then told the captain, "He's not going to make it to Denver, he'll make it to Omaha." 30kft corkscrew descent. The guy survived.

“You know what I’m sayin’? … Me, for example. I couldn’t work in some stuffy little office. … The outdoors just calls to me.”

Virginia Supreme Court declaring Democratic gerrymandering illegal while Republicans are literally wrapping themselves in Trump flags while disenfranchising black southerners is the most on brand moment for the modern USA.

I basically let The Bear fall off my radar. It’s well done but I don’t like content that funnels reality-based stress into my life. I don’t watch The Pitt for the same reason.

A few more fallow pastures wouldn't be a bad thing at all.

-Farm bankruptcies are indeed on the rise...from historic lows, back to still-slightly-lower-than-normal levels. -The US used to grow a lot of crops for export. We can't sell them anymore. We SHOULD cut back on crop acreage. To keep growing the same amount we used to would be absolutely insane.

7/ And hot off the press, here's Cory Doctorow's debut tech column on his new green energy hero, Donald Trump... www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, an Agatha Christie novel, an alluring rainstorm, a crackling fire, a kettle on the stove, and a basket of freshly-baked emotional support scones?

oh buddy

feeling the hump day vibes this morning #mammals

Birds on barbwire. Ms. Orchard oriole in the green screen studio.

Fantastic thread. 🦆🦆🦆

“God, Collings, I hate to start a Monday with a case like this.”

With Indian Drips getting a lot of attention lately, thought I’d expose yall to some South Indian swag 💖

My retirement account is a map with GPS locations of all my favorite berry patches

My first attempt at growing lettuce. 🥬

A highlight from Parker River NWR, Massachusetts today: the purple martins are back in town! 🪶🌿

Another treat on the market...a cargolade, or snails in tomato and garlic.

Such a pleasure to bird The Ramble in #NYC Central Park. No Christian Cooper sightings, alas, but we did find several Ovenbirds, Prairie Warblers, Black and White Warblers and a Blue-Headed Vireo to name a few.

HAROLD. We talked about this

Days with Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel

A great #birding weekend. 89 species! ebird.org/tripreport/5...

Bird-a-thon Weekend! 68 species so far and still going!! @loudounwildlife #WhiskyDrinkingWarblerWatchers

The most British of all posts...

I want to inject this headline right into my bloodstream www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/apr/18/...

A former Prince William County school board chair made this over on Facebook and I wanted to drop it here because the voters in Fairfax matter just as much as the voters in Wise -- there are just a lot more of them, and more votes is how you win elections

After waking with a dreadful head-cold and a night of no sleep, I can report that Sir David Attenborough's voice, on this here documentary, is a soothing balm for my aching head.

i actually think this is a pretty clarifying example in the conversation about generative ai use. "humanoid robot ran faster than human" is the same as "claude wrote a novel" or whatever. who gives a shit? these accomplishments are significant *because people do them*, not in and of themselves.

First of season Blue-Headed Vireo, Northern Virginia. #birding macaulaylibrary.org/asset/655407...

Nice little eastern bluebird nest at my neighbor's house.

Evening grosbeaks.

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.

He's running.

Child abuse and cover-up are fine... But an outspoken Pope is a bridge way too far!

“Be still and the earth will speak to you.” ~ Hopi

Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.