Feels right though 2025

#Halloween 🎃

Annual autumn walk along the Toronto waterfront. #morningwalk

So happy to be in Toronto right now. Wish I could stay longer. Like forever.

These climate-change induced 80° F October days, though. ##morningwalk

My favourite Jane Goodall quotes....so many, so to the point, so wise. How different the world would be if enough people listened to her.

Why I drag myself out of bed in the morning. #morningwalk

All those generals and senior officers flown in from their actual jobs, at enormous taxpayer expense, only to listen to two idiots blathering in ways that defy credulity. Their group chats must be on fire.

He’s already winning

So much is dependent on the phone and internet companies

(much) stronger case for stalking than for murder #Dateline.

Finally able to watch #Dateline in real time and it's @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social YAYYYYY what a treat.

Ithaca is gorges. #afternoonwalk

A rose is a rose. #morningwalk

This is Jade. She just met the biggest dogs she's ever seen. But quickly learned they have the biggest hearts too. 13/10 for all (TT: catimtins.pscal)

And so another day begins. #morningwalk

I’m worried it can still get stupider

Everything's going to shit. This Finger Lakes pét nat riesling, though.

And yet in public, on the record…crickets.

A monument for then and now. #afternoonwalk #resilience #richmond

Powerful people, conservatives and corporations surrendering power to Trump and Big Government once claimed to believe in sharply limiting federal authority. They talked about a government so weak they could drown it in a bathtub. Now they're racing to curry favor with Trump and Federal bureaucrats.

This Friday, Sept 19th, I will be on public radio's Science Friday, chatting with Ira Flato about the surprising recovery of once-rare birds. It will be available to stream or podcast after. And remember to throw some green to your local public radio station. Now more than ever they need it. 🦉🧪🌎🌿

A president who is crashing the economy, destroying public health and terrorizing immigrants keeps slipping in the polls. He could: A) stop his bad behavior to stem the slide or B) try to crush free speech to cover up his failures. Right now, he’s choosing B.

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

This is Finny. He doesn’t go chasing waterfalls. He carefully studies their timing and arrives in advance. 14/10 very impressive (TT: jordancain70)

End of summer Keuka days.

This is Ziggy. He couldn't contain his excitement for pool day. There's nowhere he'd rather be than here with his fish. 13/10 (IG: k9aquaticcenter)

TAUNT #morningwalk

So it's pretty easy to see that their next steps will be taking away women's right to vote and their right to hold office so can we jump ahead and start defending those right now?

Catching sunrises again. #morningwalk #northeastsummers

I’ve given myself some time to calm down and now I’m furious

A Great Blue & a Cormorant walk into a creek.... #morningwalk

This dog already saw this week's news and decided her dad didn't need to know all that. 14/10 (Sasha via ViralHog)

"The only orange monarch we want is a butterfly." #lunchwalk

!Important! Had to run out on an extended lunch to go get @boomboomhiller.bsky.social 's book from @talkingleavesbooks.bsky.social. I may or may not respond to your ridiculous email upon my return. #OOO

Guy who hates accurate job counts also hates accurate vote counts

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

Your moment of calm today... an otter that was kind enough to hang out on an adjoining rock formation. For ten minutes!

Welp

Blazing Stars #morningwalk

If a man tells you you’re pretty it’s a scam

Secretary of Energy outright lying about the reality of climate change on Elon Musk's hellsite, where for some reason good people, including climate scientists and journalists, still linger, so they told him off. But. Trump has taught the right that you can bully the truth and sometimes win.

Daily smile for today... ☺️ #bluesky