I love these little birds! I got to hangout with them when I spent a year in England. I remember doing some gardening and having one running around looking for bugs and worms right where I was working and later two of them tumbling around on the ground in a battle over said bugs and worms.

I ordered some native edible plants today! 15 cattails, 3 woodland strawberries (for my in-laws place), 6 yampah, and 6 California compassplants. All edible plants native to the west coast of the United States. Yampah and California compassplants are new to me, but hopefully they will work out. 🌱

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics. It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT. It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse. Transgender care saves lives.

UBI plus universal public healthcare would open up so many options for artists and others who want to do things that often don't pay a living wage. Maybe one day...

If I need to fly, I'm going to dress in a way that is comfortable for me. I will be in a much better mood and kinder to the people around me if I'm not dealing with sensory overload from uncomfortable clothes. And yes, that will involve sandals of some sort. Probably my hiking ones.

OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS

Trees are awesome, and this is a great video about the amazing biology of trees. 🌱

Abolishing ICE is only the beginning. Have you looked at your local cops? .. According to mappingpoliceviolence.us, police kill at least three people per day; from a meta analysis published in NYT, we now know the number could be six or even more.

I love the moopsy references in the comments. If you don't know. Moopsy is a creature in Star Trek Lower Decks that will drink your bones while looking like a cute little white ball. And it will say moopsy over and over. Very dangerous though can be distracted by teeth.

Stubby season is here in the Pacific Northwest and this chonker is showing some big feelings about being photographed by turning white and burying itself in the sand! This color change is super hard to photograph, let alone light, but I'm pretty happy with how these turned out. #marinelife

I’m beyond honored to have the support of Sunrise Movement! Together we will win a Green New Deal and finally make polluters pay. There’s so much work to be done but I’m proud to be in this fight with you, @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social 🌞 evanstonnow.com/abughazaleh-...

A mother and her 15 year old autistic son are reunited after nearly 50 days apart. Emmanuel Garcia went missing, and rather than check missing person’s reports, Houston PD called ICE. ICE sent him to the Office of Refugee Resettlement and his mom has been fighting to get him back ever since.

Got a whole bunch of logs and other wood pieces today. Two full truck loads that I loaded myself but got for free. All from a local golf course. Going to use them to create habitat for frogs and other critters in my wetlands. 🌱

Even if you look past the moral issues with generative AI, a tool that provides false information 35% of the time is just not useful. And these tools look to be getting worse not better over time.

"If confirmed, he will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes. CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism."-Bill Cassidy when he confirmed RFK Jr. in February 2025

I wanted to work in nature with a focus on protecting nature and restoring habitat for wildlife. I also wanted to work in the public sector to avoid profit driven work. And having a union job with at least some protections and benefits. Took awhile but eventually I got a job that fits this.

Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago. She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media. All charges against her have been dropped. In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.

Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place

Just ran 5.2 miles at an average pace of 7.58 per mile! I haven't been sub 8 min per mile in years. Feels good to be getting back to this pace! 🏃🏻‍♂️

1. Good riddance. 2. I am already seeing people on the left praising her and saying she should join the Democrats. HER ENTIRE RESIGNATION SPEECH WAS DUMPING ON TRANS PEOPLE AND IMMIGRANTS. www.huffpost.com/entry/marjor...

CN: Suicide “Suicide prevention for autistic people is being accepted for who they are, being able to be who they are without masking.” www.latimes.com/science/stor... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

1. Nearly every transgender person walks this earth knowing people like us who are no longer with us. In writing about transgender people every day, I hold in my heart the people who are now our ancestors, and I try to bring their light forward. These are the people I'm remembering today.

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

"They have almost no predators outside of a few hawks or other raptors, and don’t compete with local birds for food, since they eat a diet of almost entirely imported ornamental plants." - interesting article about the parrots of LA and how they live there. 🌎 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“‘Doing’ activism is neither linear or smooth and in times of frustration or exhaustion I tap into my memories of injustice. I remind myself of why I am doing what I am doing and this sustains me. Anger transforms into a battery charger that gives me a boost when it’s sorely needed.”

Planted 20 native great camas bulbs today! Really excited to have these in the ground. Hopefully they do well and multiply over time. I would love to have thousands of these growing on my property one day. 🌱

41% of the hospital beds here in blue Washington State.

Meanwhile the leading lights of civic society are still lamenting the dreaded Woke Times

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...

2nd photo here, also by Vondruska 2/2

Fingers crossed that this happens and that it's good. I admit that I'm very skeptical about new Star Trek movies despite really wanting more Star Trek movies and shows. 🖖🏼

Just a nice story about people helping wildlife. Just a note... These people are experts and knew what to do. If you find a baby animal that appears abandoned call your local wildlife agency and leave the baby animal alone unless they tell you what to do. 🌎 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's almost like when you tax the rich in a place you get to make that place a better place and even the rich just looking out the windows of their limos at most of that place in passing prefer to think "oh, that looks nice" rather than "I must prepare my bunker for the impending apocalypse"

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

the way basic human decency hits these days is crazy

I finally took the time to get reciprocal library cards with nearby libraries that have agreements with the one where I live. I now have 3 active library cards and soon a 4th! So good for ebooks and audio books!

Quiet the experience and interesting hunting techniques by the orcas (creating waves to try to knock the seal back into the water)! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Yay! My order of bulbs just arrived. Some daffodils but I'm most excited about the great camas bulbs! Got a bunch of them and I'm planning on planting them in clumps between some of our fruit trees. Great camas (Camassia leichtlinii) is a native flower here in western WA. The bulbs are edible too! 🌱

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

"One of the first people to make public allegations against now-deceased billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was Ava Cordero, a transgender Latina woman. Cordero, a model, was transphobically mocked in the media after she filed an October 2007 lawsuit"

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

For The Redoubt (@theredoubt.bsky.social), I wrote about Trump's killings in the Caribbean — his "kinetic strikes" — and the euphemisms we use to describe murder. www.theredoubt.net/how-we-talk-...

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

I was in medical school then, having already earned a 3.97 GPA in biomedical engineering. And the president of freaking Harvard said people like me were not suited for science. He still had a high-powered, prestigious career after that but tell me again about how cancel culture ruins men’s lives.

I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me. I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.