took a trip to the eastern shore with friends this weekend and my friend asked me to create her a tree identification game similar to maptap etc so i made her this, so we can up our tree knowledge. now she wants a bird one too lol. luv my friends. treedle.app

Surely #baltimore bluesky has some answers for the internet’s strongest plover advocate

I reviewed I LOVE BOOSTERS, which @bootsriley.bsky.social brought to @phillyfilmsociety.bsky.social last week stephensilver.substack.com/p/i-love-boo...

Prepare your galoshes for a Jane Jacobs Walk in Station North this evening at 4:00pm, rain or shine. Meet at Area 405

Everyone’s calendars are filling quick but just wanted to give you a heads up

“Even if you don’t like fishing and you don’t go canoeing or kayaking, you don’t know how to crew, and you don’t go sailing, you should be able to just get to the water. You should be able to feel the wind on your face and experience Baltimore, the Chesapeake city.”

None of us alive will experience climate better than what we have now. How much worse it gets is up to us.

More than 373 MILLION birds are forecast to fly across the East Coast and eastern Midwest tonight. Help keep them safe and on track by turning off nonessential lights from 11 PM to 6 AM. Learn more about migration, window safety, and sign up to get alerts: birdcast.org/migration-to...

Hains Point is a national treasure & a beloved civic space for hundreds of thousands of Americans who live in DC. The community golf course & surrounding parklands need maintenance, but not at cost of permanent loss of public access for all public uses. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...

Come hang out with me tomorrow pls #Baltimore #nativeplants people

I’ve seen Baltimore experience four homicides in a day - even the span of a few hours - countless times. April just saw 4 homicides for the entire month, a single-month, all-time low for the records we have going back to 1970. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...

OK. Apparently this is content that my Bsky community wants. So here goes. Ranking the AgSecsUSA.

I like my cities to be sittable, shittable, and public transittable.

Brutal heat & drought here in the Shenandoah Blue Ridge. This is the most extreme spring I have experienced as a gardener. We’ve had to hold off transplanting in fear of plant killing temps. When scientists say the climate crisis is a global food crisis these are the conditions they’re referring to.

they should put Merlin Bird ID on everyone’s phones automatically, like when they did the U2 album. could solve a lot of problems

The grim almost-satisfaction of working late, missing your train, finding out it was delayed anyhow.

my friend’s coworker is missing, anyone in Baltimore/MD keep an extra eye out 🙏🏼 His bike was found today on President Street

Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

Can’t hardly wait

Alright here's a proud mama mallard with 9 sleepy babies to help me get to bed. 🪶 🐣

#ICYMI, the federal government is planning to remove part of the protected bike lane on 15th Street in Washington. Join tomorrow's Bike Lanes Save Lives demonstration in solidarity with @waba.org and everyone who believes in safer roads for all! 🔗 RSVP: www.facebook.com/share/1HwM5D...

Getting to that time of the year when night herons return to their nests in Fells Point in Baltimore. This year, volunteers are planting a variety of bushes, small trees, and plants to cushion the fall when heron babies fall out of the nest. A great project.

Put another way, we could get rid of corn ethanol, switch 30% of the freed-up farmland to solar to generate 100% of US electricity, and use the other 70% of the freed-up land for whatever we want.

TOMORROW 🌳 Rails to Trails Conservancy hosts Greenway Trails Network community meeting: Chinquapin Run We're seeking feedback on the proposed alignment of the trail and the redesign of intersections along the trail.

Read it for yourself but it really bothers me that this is framed as a choice between two options with advantages and disadvantages rather than what is on a more significant level; a choice of whether or not to eliminate billions of infrastructure spending in Baltimore City.

Searching photos for hell

Lots going on in the woods today: skull season after a tough winter continues, fun guys abound, a new and large burrow 👀

So who’s coming to monster cross, any of y’all?

Hopefully I will need help with jock problems

Baltimore: if you have or know someone who has a little time and inclination: we need more folks to serve on the board of the last remaining conservatory in our city. We are a small and scrappy board and we need to build up our numbers to be more effective !

"This program is for high-school aged youth (14-18). Over 7 weeks, learn how to rebuild, repair, and customize a bicycle to meet your needs and your style. Then take it home."

What a disaster. I'm glad someone in this article said it - massive failures like this shouldn't always be the catalyst for more funding to repair infrastructure. www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/p...

Fascinating (and sad) read on how trails across the US are disappearing for a myriad of reasons.

Post a car picture you took

Back at the beginning of this program I was a volunteer docent for the hapless helpless adorable little plovers for a couple years. It seemed like maybe nothing could be done but we would at least try. And look it more or less worked! Sandoval did it and is doing it still! ucnrs.org/20-years-of-...

Interesting article on energy in Ireland - I lived there so long ago my Dublin apartment was heated with peat (air quality was crazy bad!) and it’s such a sense memory just to read this about it.

NEXT WEEK 📢 Jones Falls Gateway public meeting Join us on January 15 for a public meeting to review the 30% design and design alternatives for the Jones Falls Gateway Project.

Baltimore! Check out Mr Angelo. Tie a li’l ribbon around this handsome gent’s neck and treat yo self this Christmas. What a cutie

We are planning the Chinquapin Run Trail, a proposed 1.8-mile trail through Chinquapin Run Park that will connect to the Baltimore Greenway Trails Network. The trail is designed to support walking, biking, skating, and running, safely separated from traffic.

“Cut Cats, however, remains confident in its ability to provide a higher-quality delivery service compared to what can be done through apps or, increasingly, robots, its employees said. “‘We’re really good at it — like, stupid good at it … We do such a better job. It’s a no-brainer to me.’”

Snow ride with some of the BBWR folks in the park this morning

more and more i see people talking about how difficult it is to make friends as an adult. i have so many thoughts, but this piece expresses it better than i ever will: theshadowedarchive.substack.com/p/an-existen...

I asked the students in my AI engineering and policy for climate class: whenever they see "AI said" or "A LLM said" written somewhere, imagine it as "Microsoft Excel said". Don't be friends with Excel. Excel is not alive. Ask it for conditional formatting and pivot tables.

Also the hold steady, always killer live Ted Leo The Waco brothers J Roddy Walston (used to always do the holiday special at ottobar) War on Women

We should just start the call for circling back now, “see u in Jan”

Delegates from 190 countries are meeting in Belém, Brazil, for the 30th climate negotiations, or COP. A decade ago, in Paris, they agreed to take global heating seriously. But the world in which they are gathering today looks nothing like the one envisioned back then.

Are you involved in/or can you direct us towards best practice, learnings or approaches in dealing with the specific road safety challenges that neurodivergent young people face? Please reach out…I would love to talk to you…

As the leaves disappear from our trees, we can suddenly notice an abundance of what look like green shrubs growing in many trees. These are mistletoes, plants with an important role in our Christmas celebrations, but a far more important ecological role in forests all over the world.

The Baltimore Halloween Lantern Parade. Always a great event.

I am posting this in the hope my followers in Maryland and the surrounding area have knowledge of this car and its driver. Maryland woman killed in hit-and-run; police release suspect vehicle details