I have not spelled my endless last name on the phone all these years for nothing. 🇧🇪

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We are such a childish embarrassment right now. ⚽️

“At some point, Weston clashes with his mother over her use of ChatGPT, and decides to explore Kyoto by himself while the rest of the family visits a nearby temple.” He was apparently concerned about AI’s environmental impacts. www.cnn.com/2026/06/06/u...

Putting myself out there as a total beer ignoramus. I barely drink at all and as a result got asked twice to be a judge in a home brew contest at our biotech company. They assumed I would be a perfect neutral voice. My comments? “Tastes like chemicals” or “tastes like yeast”. This is better. 👇

Early June garden bouquet (from a few years ago but my eyes and brain need this kind of thing today-perhaps yours do too) 🌿

On a conference trip to France in 2019, I dragged a historian friend to Utah Beach and D-Day museum. She is Canadian, not a war historian. I did not understand war and soldier’s experience. We both learned a lot. 👇Good piece on the D-Day invasion. Highly recommend, whatever your position on war.

The replies are a delightful collection of mispronunciations from those of us who learned words from books. 🙃

More on this locations recent history here... www.ansolasoir.com/post/erosion

This is the most corrupt administration in American history.

Lordy…

Here is a link to the whole series. i shouldn’t be shocked that the “nuclear triad” included a sacrificial environment and population that would “absorb” an attack. I shouldn’t be shocked that most of us don’t know this. But with this President as the sole controller of our nukes…😬

Well, huge kudos to @usatoday.com for the excellent series on the US “Nuclear Sponge”— the aging land-based missile system that could absorb missiles from a nuclear attack. Here is an interactive map with fallout projections depending on weather ☢️ 💨: www.usatoday.com/graphics/int...

I asked for a book recommendation at Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, and the ranger pointed to Eric Schlosser’s “Command and Control”. Well-researched, gripping tale of the Damascus Titan II missile accident interspersed with the history of US nuclear weapons development—and accidents. 1/3

I followed Chanda’s advice and used this summary to write a personal comment: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of.... It took me <10 min.

So Idaho Dept of Health and Welfare will protect the dairies and put future customers of said dairies at risk? Can some please explain the mission of a department of “Health and Welfare”?

If only someone could figure out how to make milk safe to drink! It'd be such a big deal the process would be named after them.

What he said. 🫡

Drawing of a Woodpecker Made with a bic pen #art #birds #nature #sciart

Californians: find your drop box by city, county, zip, distance caearlyvoting.sos.ca.gov

BREAKING: we are NOT accepting media reports as proof that the $1.8B slush fund & "settlements" associated with it are dead That's why we @democracydefendersfund.org have just filed a new lawsuit to make sure this ENDS --on behalf of former J6 prosecutors with Platkin LLP, WLG & Heaphy Smith

Big “Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" energy from Scott Pelley here.

My husband can take the occasional good photo 😉 💛🖤

This whole thread…🏆

WIN: A federal court ruled today that the federal government’s attempts to undercut Endangered Species Act protections for the sake of coal mining were illegal. Coal mines will now be required to follow the law and ensure their activities don’t harm protected plants and animals.

The biggest dinosaurs are only known from partial skeletons and isolated elements. Why is that? Well, consider how long it would take to bury a hundred-foot-long, 60 ton reptile. My latest for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🧪🦕

Did you thank a Heron today? 💙 #HeroneerTipOfTheDay

Enjoy the #Coverbirds this month and please consider a donation to @birdscanada.bsky.social through my #birdathon to support their science driven conservation work. It's for the #birds! (5/5) 👉 www.canadahelps.org/me/6nERdCBw

Happy #WorldOtterDay "Otter" Hand embroidery artwork #WildlifeArt #embroidery #ThreadPainting

After 10 years of driving by the St. Regis Travel Center in Montana, I stopped for a huckleberry milkshake. The billboards are most likely exaggerating that they are the best ever, but they are good.

Obligatory bison from Wind Cave National Park. A Canadian hiker was killed last week in adjacent Custer State Park. They came upon a band of bulls, let them move ahead, and then rounded a corner to find them again, too close this time. Bull tossed one of them. Bison are scattered by dry conditions.

Sunrise from our campsite at White Earth Campground on Canton Ferry Lake. We’re headed west to get out of a series of heat wave/afternoon thunderstorms. This was a morning-of choice and as far as I could safely drive. So far, so good. it’s a lovely camping area and sleepy after the holiday.

Well, that was heavy. But relevant. Minuteman Missile National Historic Site is 20 minutes north of my campground and a visit felt important. I grew up with kids like those in the display. And I never really understood why we endured that fear because it wasn’t covered much in school… 1/2

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday at Badlands National Park started cool and sunny, warmed up to 72F, then turned into rain and thunderstorms. It’s cold and rainy this morning. I’m glad to be van camping- the tent folks have packed up and left (no shade- I would have). 1/2

So far we have dodged serious storms. A front swept to the south of us and there were reported tornados in southern Minnesota and North Dakota. We got some rain and made it back to Theodore Roosevelt with mild rain and wind. Skies cleared overnight for a brisk below freezing evening and sunrise. 🤞

Seen just outside Devils Lake State Park in Wisconsin. Gotta admire human creativity. 🙃

@mrsa2003.bsky.social Some zinnias for you - they endure & are beautiful

Maybe having a few bison as neighbors wasn’t so bad after all. At least in comparison to this.

Fuck off forever with this “why can’t I just configure the creative work of others to meet my specifications?” bullshit. Sorry but part of engaging with the creative work of others has to be engaging with the choices they made. Feel free to critique them but art is not your Starbucks drink order.

I went back to get better photos, but my favorite moment was a cell phone capture of young kids experiencing the whooping cranes @savingcranes.bsky.social . 🪶 Of course, the whoopers know what to do to inspire the next generation: they came to fish right in front of the kids. 😎

It' #ManitobaDay! My home province is often overlooked by the rest of Canada as flat and not as interesting as the mountain or coastal provinces. However, it's a vast land full of amazing natural diversity that I'm lucky to have the chance to explore it thoroughly. #Manitoba #Canada

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

Why I will never take a cruise, reason #1001.

I literally drove hours to stay in Baraboo, WI to visit @savingcranes.bsky.social and found my mid-range camera battery was dead. I don’t have my best camera because I literally could not find it when I left home. So I’m eating lunch by the campground shower house to charge the battery.🤦🏻‍♀️ 🪶

Okay, any birders knowledgeable about Wisconsin (Baraboo area)? Trying to figure out this super distinct song. Side note- I was complaining about the non-electric sites being by the road until I realized the tree buffer between the campground and road is just chock full of birds. 🪶

So thoughtful you forget they are a sewer district focused on keeping people away from our 💩. 🥹🥹🥹🥹

This makes me smile. Good job people.

Informal poll alert. I passed through the lengthy paving in Medora, ND. The prez will visit in July for some odd reason since he hates public lands. One flagger said he would come to see his motorcade, the next said the prez and vice prez were sociopaths enriching themselves at our expense. 🤔

We stopped in Steele, ND to fuel up and check out the world’s largest Sandhill crane statue, unimaginatively named “Sandy”. It’s a great hook- the signs showed where the birds congregate around prairie potholes and gave decent directions. Blustery, cold wind out of the north today.

The dogs react so differently to wildlife when they’re not on trail. Dug loves wildlife watching from the front seat while Buddy didn’t even notice the giant bison bull scratching itself on the water spigot. Buddy is barky at big animals on leash so we’ve been avoiding 🦬 . He’s learning 🤫 quiet.