Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

A reminder to use encryption, install VPNs, and diversify from corporate social media (including and especially Facebook) into decentralized, de-federated online spaces. Everything you say and do online is skywriting. LINK 1: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u11C... LINK 2: substack.com/@neoteotihua...

Oregon. Just Oregon. That's the post.

So passes one of the absolute greats.

I regret to share that the Pacific Northwest has once again disgraced itself.

Week of filming down on the Gulf of Mexico.

Martian vistas, captured two days ago by Curiosity #Mars Sep. 26, 2025 - Sol 4671 🧪🔭 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

'One Battle After Another' is not just the best film of the year and probably the best film of the decade...it's very likely PTA's best. I've never seen our moment so fully on-screen like this. It's an incredible movie.

Inside the Pensacola lighthouse.

Dance with me NASA's McDonald Geodetic Observatory studies the Earth’s shape, gravity, and rotation and how these change over time. mcdonaldobservatory.org/research/telescopes/mgo

Commercial fishing near commercial shipping vessels in the Gulf Of Mexico.

A significant decline in deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon under President Lula da Silva’s administration by @_HannahRitchie www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/amazon-2024

For anyone concerned there may be something to the Tylenol-autism BS, I present:

Every Sept. 19, Mexico City holds an earthquake drill. Twice on that date the shaking was real.

Dropbox is a cancer.

RIP #RobertRedford. This was his best. Inspiration to all of us journalists whose mission is holding truth to power. Still such an important message on the corrosion of democracy. Solidarity to my colleague John Lyons, preparing a story on the current climate for our program #4Corners. #journalism

It really breaks my heart watching all of these hearings and reading the op ed’s etc from our public servants who were fired or otherwise forced out because it really shows how many good people we had working to make our lives better

The commonplace tradition of denigrating the government workers who sustain the public good is a blight on us all. I'm reading Who is Government? edited by Michael Lewis, with fascinating profiles of public servants written by Geraldine Brooks, W. Kamau Bell, Sarah Vowell, Dave Eggers, and others.

We were fiddling while the world burns. But, boy this was some fiddling. "Catspaw" takes it this year. Old girl still had some life in her. #startrek

Another image from this surreal sunset last month in Greenland…

I have been a little stubborn about watching The Substance because everyone on earth has told me how much I would love it. I regret now to inform my curmudgeonly past self that in fact everyone was right and this movie fuckin rules

A kiva from Pecos Pueblo, 2024.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

Listen - I have a really great idea for a film.

Navajo Nation also goes into Utah. It’s rather disturbing to me what Gov. Cox said about praying 33 hours that the shooter wasn’t “one of their own.” What??? People forget Utah has 8 tribes and it’s been their home before even the concept of Utah or Mormonism.

Many of New Zealand's unique birds are heading toward extinction. So the country is taking on an ambitious conservation project: eradicating the invasive species that prey on them.

The leaked Trump plan for Gaza comes directly from the US playbook for Native Americans. The plan calls for the US to take over the Gaza strip and to hold it in trust for development. Gaza’s residents would be encouraged to leave “voluntarily.”

Shame on Brazil… …for making us look feckless.

A fast-growing digital movement means Indigenous people no longer rely on outsiders to speak for them.

One-stop resource from NASA about yesterday's announcement of a potential biosignature on Mars: science.nasa.gov/mars/the-mar...

1/n Hello All, I wanted to let you know that on Fri Sept 5, 2025 The Assembly of First Nations Canada (representing ~634tribes) drafted, voted on & approved by an overwhelming majority to demand the whole country of Canada, research funders & Genome Canada to cease & desist any & all DNA collection

Airlines: I'm not checking into a flight if I'm not at the airport. And certainly not 24 hours before because - and here's the crux of it - I'm not going to the airport 24 hours before I fly. I already signed up to fly. You'll just have to wait. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Reminder.

Dragon Con 2025. DC continues to be the best in the business.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Dragon Con 2025

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

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First costume sighting at Dragon Con sets the tone.

Ernst Haeckel’s Sublime Drawings of Flora and Fauna: The Beautiful Scientific Drawings That Influenced Europe’s Art Nouveau Movement (1889)

"Writing itself is a language you learn the same as the language you learn from your parents. It obeys the same principles, but you're not writing in a language, you're writing AS a language." - Russell Bates

Guatemala and rebirth of a language: Youth in the vanguard of reviving native Xinkan culture

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."