40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

“Characteristically, people stay and help each other”

An osprey enjoys a snack somewhere north of Jenner, CA on highway 1 🪶

Once again I am begging everyone to stop the "wine moms" commentary (I am NOT saying the OP did this, but it's happening in quotes). Ask yourself why you need to give these protestors such an irrelevant and disrespectful social media tag. Then get out to a protest yourself.

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I really do think The Sick Times is doing some of the most important journalism of our generation. And I can tell you firsthand that Miles and Betsy are the real deal. They care so, so much about getting it right. They’re incredible humans in addition to being such good journalists.

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Search request support for archive, vinyl, history, radio, physical media posse: See this 1971 KGIL earthquake reporting record? Seeking similar albums & striking out using words like live news broadcast, disasters, emergencies, etc. What terms would you search for? (Or do you have album recs?!)

The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.

Sandwich Guy thanks everyone for their support, “emotional, spiritual, artistic or financial.” Intones, “Let us not forget that the great seal of the United States says…‘ out of many, one.’…You all have a right to live a life that is free.”

timeline cleanse with this quiet pair who seem like they’ve been in thoughtful dialogue & looking out for one another all their years together 🤎🦉

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

Security bars Boron, CA

Someone replied that it‘s always been this way but media consolidation into a tiny number of corporations mostly controlled by people with truly boggling wealth (not “rich” so much as “basically aliens“) is, yes, a real thing with effects.

Regular reminder that Covid & chronic illness activists are doing this work for free and with many with low spoons

I can’t make you mask, but don’t get mad at me when I won’t hang out with you after I’ve seen so many photos of you in public indoor spaces unmasked! Don’t ask me to put myself in danger because you’re a fully grown adult who still can’t handle peer pressure and wants to look like everyone else!

parts of the Mojave desert are carpeted with teeny yellow chinchweed (pectis papposa) clusters right now — sneaker toe for scale — some kind of metaphor for the power of the masses #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

“There’s a concerted effort to disassemble the CDC. The current regime is blocking science, & their political will is in destroying public health rather than building it.” After massive cuts at the CDC, what’s left of COVID-19 mitigation? @lauralew105.bsky.social speaks to public health experts.

With the Criterion Mobile Closet visiting Chicago International Film Festival, I spoke to those standing in line about what it felt like being there while ICE and the No Kings protests swirled around the city. Their thoughts via @ebertvoices.bsky.social

not into the whole seasons thing but actually quite taken with these autumn colors

The vacant, former Hanig’s Footwear at the base of the Hancock Center is like a Donald Judd

a great thing about birding is that it can happen anywhere 🪶

The audible gasp that you hear at the end of the clip above is the beginning of the end of our social contract. We live in the echoes of that gasp. Of course it was all a lie. But it was here that white feeling began to overwhelm empirical reality. A somatic revolution.

a great thing about birding is that it can happen anywhere 🪶

red passionflowers blooming in Berkeley #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

Again and again and again I go to these events and take these photos to tell you YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

Waiting. 🪶

a key reason why Signal and Bluesky have done pretty well is because they're actually really easy to use: I desperately wish more people in the open source and responsible technology world would look at those examples and go "huh, maybe we should do that too"

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]: 1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]? 2. Who's already doing work around this injustice? 3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them? 4. How can I be constructive?

soft-bodied leave me be found myself out in the wild 🐙🫡

Biking on the trail just after sunset and what gets caught in the bike lights? The first burrowing owl of the season! So great to have these back in the Bay Area for the winter! 😍 🪶

[Swingers voice] Don’t tell me we didn’t make it. We made it! We are here.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

Actually COVID advocates are clean air advocates! To make this claim without doing any research is shameful. Terms like "COVID doomer" and "mask scold" originated on the anti-vaxx, COVID denying far right. When even people like you adopt their views, funding clean air becomes an impossibility.

When you get your COVID vaccine don't forget to thank the COVID conscious people whose activism forces our government to keep it available.

Red crossbills hanging out in Half Moon Bay, CA 🪶

Honestly, I don’t need you to mask everywhere. I just would appreciate it in grocery stores, medical facilities, airports, and airplanes. That would make my life so much safer. Just orders of magnitude safer.

We banged our heads against the true costs of healthcare cuts this week and JFC. It's not just ACA price hikes + people losing Medicaid coverage, though that's already bad It's also hundreds of hospitals and nursing homes poised to fall like dominos. Healthcare will be worse for all of us.

for an American, I have excellent healthcare. Yet seeing specialist today *for a condition frighteningly exacerbated by Covid* I was lone masker in huge medical building. Doc mentioned surgery & my first thought: I’d be unsupported advocating for hospital infection protocols. THAT is unreasonable!!

everyone has a role to play and I sincerely love the pedestrian overpass crews of the yay area

been banging my head against the wall working on a @thesicktimes.org story lately so it’s a good thing they sent me a soft hat for protection!!

even the smartest folks whose takes i otherwise appreciate, who otherwise want to resist fascism themselves & encourage others to, find wearing a mask in, at least, public indoor spaces—to prevent the harms of this administration from impacting others—to be a bridge too far; it’s shameful, frankly.

I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice.

one perfect poppy anemone #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS. This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.

I was 61 years old (I’m 62 now!) when I learned that you can tell a juvenile bird by its “gape flange” - that fleshy area right behind its beak, that allows it to “open wide” for its parent-provided early meals. As the bird matures, the flange disappears. #BirdOfTheDay #JuvenileBird #EastCoastKin

good morning only to this dog

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.