Root posers. #dogs #PNW

Spotted in the wild at @villagebookswa.bsky.social Congratulations, @carolinebonin.bsky.social, on a big week in a long journey!

Is there any more interesting topic? We are in an uneasy-weird warm spell right now. Last time this happened I went for a walk just past dusk and all the BATS had awakened.

I want to watch this all day.

you can just go ask crows stuff instead of asking chatgpt

Getting into this weekend routine of going to protests like people go to church.

I was skeptical about my 2025 Merriam-Webster word of the year, but then in March I sold my first book to a literary micropress, SO.

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

4 types of characters I write 1. Does not need to be rescued from their organizational aptitude 2. Willful garden 3. Older woman ready to bend your ear; 92% chance she knows what she’s talking about 4. Person with sense of time and place suspiciously like my dog’s

Convenient that the classic Christmas greens are considered invasives here, so nobody minds if you pull a few out of the woods.

Cup of tea and a little solstice rosebud.

I will not have takes until I see the film. I will not have takes until I see the film. I will NOT HAVE TAKES UNTIL I SEE THE FILM.

I don't understand how he doesn't burn his legs. #dogs

Happy Birthday #JaneAusten! Nobody did it better.

Doing your baking for the holidays? Why not resolve to bake the way Emily Dickinson did and write poetry at the very same time, using, if needs must, the wrapper of your baking chocolate as your surface? (This lovable little scrap is at the Amherst Museum.)

Bryan Austerberry (Canadian Artist, born 1950) "Owl in Pose", 2023. Drawing, Colored Pencil. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Atmospheric river selfie. #PNW #bike

The Tower Castle Rackrent Small Things Like These Prince Caspian Object Lessons

idiot guy: i'm like the wolf i'm stalking my prey alone through the forest and being raw as fuck even if i'm in a group i'm the alpha actual wolf: i love my friends so much!!! i love to romp and kiss my bros and work together as a family <3 awooo etc etc have you seen the puppies oh my god come see

Evergreen huckleberries. So pretty. Sixth straight month of #berries from the yard for breakfast. #PNW

"I mean, it's fine as long as you don't care if you never get published."

This is the sky the gods smother you with when they're sick of your bullshit. #SkyPortrait

My first weathergram! On scratchy brown paper. Today's too windy for me to get a photo of it in action, but it's been installed on the porch.

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sunrise this morning. Cascade foothills. Have a beautiful day. 🧡

Fallen big maple leaves hung in the little maples.

For the first time in 60+ years, the Uncle Sam sign in Chehalis, Washington says something factual: "Native Land." www.facebook.com/thecentralia...

I quit Canvas this semester, print out readings for my students, and we're doing great!

Silent and beautifully eerie Constitutional puppets by @puppetresistance.bsky.social at yesterday's #NoKings

Relics of Ruin won the Endeavour Award?!?

Please observe my color-coordinated autumn trail buddies.

Frogtifa

Today I had my first-ever in-person #calligraphy lesson and I came prepared with all kinds of verses in my head to inscribe and instead I spent two hours making o's and e's and s's, and I cannot remember when I have felt so mentally exhausted.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist and printmaker of Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

In the age of ChatGPT, I find I have come to value the sort of student paper where Odysseus comes home to Icarus.

What's your sign?

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

Love these. And this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3IP...

Oh, fine, whatever, make me like fall.

The mountain Taranaki Maunga on New Zealand’s North Island was granted legal personhood in January after unanimous parliamentary vote. By treating it as a living legal entity, it now holds rights to protection, preservation, and the ability to initiate legal action. buff.ly/5xnPDqm #ShareGoodNewsToo

Gift link Fantastic to see Sun Day getting so much press!! Thank you @billmckibben.bsky.social for keeping this front and urgently center! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/c...

North Cascade Range in Washington USA www.facebook.com/100068245939...

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

It's on. explore.org/fat-bear-week

So what’s the verdict? I am an ✨🍂AUTUMN🍁✨

"He saw the harpist's face go suddenly still, as if the wind had snatched in passing its expression and breath. The uncertainty ended in him like a song's ending." Patricia McKillip's Riddle-Master trilogy. (Buying secondhand as and when you find them, you don't have the luxury of matching sets.)

This is what the surface of a comet looks like. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, photographed by ESA's Rosetta mission from an altitude of 16 km.

Dessert mode ACTIVATE: Best pie: oh please all of them Best ice cream: lemon Best donut: maple bar Best bar: Nanaimo Best cake: chocolate Best other: pear butter shortcake