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Why do like 10 people follow me every day here and why are you all actually bots

Incredible water management and infrastructure map from @ucanrwater.bsky.social and affiliates! This one is going straight into my “CA Water Management 101” files I use when I brief folks who are new to the water space. 👏 watermanagement.ucdavis.edu/application/...

Things I need to remind myself of every time I make the mistake of commenting in an ag-centric Facebook group.

Explainer for anyone who feels scandalized by the cost of ag water versus municipal water👇 Thanks for laying it out so clearly, @ppicwater.bsky.social & @ppicnotes.bsky.social! www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

I stumbled on an @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social “State of the Estuary” report from 1992 and this is easily my favorite graphic. Birbs here. More birbs over there.

ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers https://theonion.com/ice-opens-new-supermax-detention-center-for-most-harden-1827838332/

Record warmth across much of the West this winter has left the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains with very little snow. “That is the classic global warming mountain snowpack signature.” @weatherwest.bsky.social Graphics by @sean-greene.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com

Snow survey ❄️

get in loser, we’re saving the sewers.

Lori Petty was in Free Willy

MTV ends tomorrow. We both turned 44 this year. MTV had an indelible impact on me: from watching Madonna’s blasphemous “Like A Prayer” video to watching Kurt Loder report Kurt Cobain’s death, seeing Pedro die of AIDS on the Real World, and then watching the resurgence of pop via the TRL era…

Our second was so much harder as a baby than our first but I don’t know what I’d do without this dork now, omg 😂😍

Scientists @ucanr.edu are trying to prevent New World screwworm from entering California. It lays eggs in open wounds on warm-blooded animals, including humans. “They actually eat the living tissue of those animals,” Alec Gerry @ucrentomology.bsky.social told @newsnation.bsky.social

I was promised an atmospheric river. Where the hell is it?

Every other third grader in California is named like “Connor Sanchez” or some shit and right wingers want you to believe Hispanic immigrants don’t assimilate into American culture.

Essentially, all Action 5 does is remove the conservation actions that go beyond simply avoidance of jeopardy. That should not be particularly controversial, IMO. One of the actions removed was Fall X2, which both the state and feds agreed to suspend last year when USFWS said it wasn’t effective.

A single phone call asking a city council member or state legislator to vote your way on a specific legislative proposal has *significantly* more political impact than a social media post with 1,000 shares.

Just for the record, I want people to know that my reply isn’t an endorsement of solar in Imperial on productive ag lands. Rather, I just wanted to note the very real cultural and economic forces that farmers there are grappling with…

Fie on Elon. Fie on him forever for killing happy place (Twitter).

These things for stripping herbs from their stems are useless if you just have fingers and thumbs (complete with nails).

Really curious about transportation politics in the Island of Sodor, @ansel.lundberg.com and @louismirante.bsky.social

I need Bluesky to bring more irreverence into my life in the same way Twitter did.

Who says cutting alfalfa isn’t pretty? (Yesterday in Imperial Valley…)

🚨HAPPY EXPLODING WHALE DAY🚨 1/n www.oregonlive.com/travel/2024/...

I’m the worst at social media snooping because my thumbs are undisciplined. Sorry, I looked at your pics from all the way back in 2011 and now you know.

I didn’t agree with some of Vice President Cheney’s decisions, but he and his boss never seemed to govern with open contempt for America and vast swaths of its population, which in 2025 is notable.

Youngest people at the Smiths cover band show

I purchased a Hamburgler costume for Halloween, HELP

We are accepting public comments on our proposed Tuolumne River Voluntary Agreement until November 7, 2025 . To submit comments and get info on our public workshop, visit: shorturl.at/TJtWl

My second grader is having active shooter drills tomorrow if you want to know what it’s like to be a parent in the American Dystopia of 2025

Last night the Dive Bar mermaids learned that Ken doesn’t have a subbasin, but Kern does

Mt. Shasta from my vehicle window on the way to WEF’s inaugural Klamath River tour! Follow along as I tweet terrible photographs all week

Only woman at the dive bar happy hour underlining and annotating

You do not often see the Speaker of the CA State Assembly and the President of the California Farm Bureau coauthoring opinions. That this moment has called for it underlines the unusual times we are in.

“Scaring immigrant farmworkers and depleting the agricultural work force will weaken an industry that has been one of our nation’s strengths since its founding. These workers are not strangers, and they’re not a burden on California or the nation.” 👏 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o...

Welcome back Gap 👏🏾👏🏾

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

Funded by USDA-NIFA, California 4-H launched a series of drone camps this summer, preparing teens for farming’s future. "Agricultural drone pilot is an emerging career opportunity," Sean Hogan @ucanr.edu told Offrange ambrook.com/offrange/tec... @jessehirsch.bsky.social

Tomorrow I’m playing nine holes with a set of clubs I haven’t played with since 2004. Wish me luck. Thoughts and prayers!

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There’s a lot of agreement in the ag community that we need a quicker off-ramp for landowners with Williamson Act contracts and chronically unavailable water supplies. The question is how to keep it narrow enough that it doesn’t unravel the act’s needed protections in other areas.

Last July 2024, we marked the first 5 years of the SAFER program, launched after Governor Newsom signed SB 200 in 2019; we are building on the progress we’ve made so far to accelerate access to safe drinking water for all Californians. waterboards.ca.gov/press_room/p...

@jrlund.bsky.social shared some AI-generated (writing, poetry, painting) about CA water in the style of various artists. So I asked ChatGPT to describe the Delta in the style of Maya Angelou and I’m ashamed to say that I really like it. chatgpt.com/s/t_6877b3b2...

At the vet and there are 4 other cats in the waiting room: Beans, Peas, Cat Stevens, and Willie Nelson

@floodlab.bsky.social examined flood hazard maps and found that the summer camp's cabins were within a federally designated “floodway.” "There was a breakdown somewhere along the way, in the understanding of risks and the ability to take action in a timely way." www.latimes.com/environment/...