The Trump admin. released final plans today that strip protections for the #GreaterSageGrouse on about 50 million acres of federal #PublicLand across eight Western states. Previous proposals over the past decade were intended to prevent #extinction of the iconic dancing bird. bit.ly/4pL6N0d

i just watched a redbull video where 3 guys in wing suits flew through a drone light show shaped like a red bull can and then landed on the back of moving jet skis next to each other. i htink this is the only modern marketing campaign that's a net positive for society. maybe the dr pepper CFB ads

High clouds kept the temps in the lower desert in 70's yesterday instead of predicted 80's. Hopefully more clouds during today's Christmas Bird Count organized by the park. Toro Peak in the first, and Borrego West Butte in the second photo's background (Photos: Sicco Rood)

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

Please do not include prompt injections as i am sure these are all going to be read by humans

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Wild turkeys in Cuyamaca mountains here in San Diego county. Beautiful iridescence. 🪶

In the USA even the very wealthy old men must perform as gladiators until death in inhospitable outposts like Indianapolis in order to provide their children with medical care.

CALLER: Please hurry!! They're mixing and mingling in the jingling feet!! They're jingling around the clock!! 9-1-1 OPERATOR: Ma'am, our bloodthirstiest officers are already on their way.

The Desert Where Life Goes To Die - Horrifying Planet

A dramatic monsoon sunset on these clouds earlier this summer that didn't get posted yet (Photo: Sicco Rood).

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

North America be like

Tubi rules because deep in the "Based on a Book" section you will see Creepshow 2 then Barry Lyndon

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Sneering douchebag: "You're gonna be famous on the internet!" The Internet:

Waning gibbous moon sliding behind East San Ysidro Mountain this morning.

Your uber is here

Both sides of a conflict are calling each other evil and corrupt, rendering me, a humble journalist, helpless to discern the truth. Best I can do is let you know that both sides are in fact saying those things. Hope this helps

A critical bedrock environmental law is under attack. The U.S. House of Representatives will soon vote on legislation that would gut the National Environmental Policy Act — #NEPA for short — and let developers call the shots on #PublicLands. U.S. supporters, please take action ➡️ bit.ly/3MrzoZz

While I'm at it, here's the Christmas episode from 2020 because we worked extra hard on it, but more because I love the section with @annamerlan.bsky.social. Karl Young played the shakuhachi part. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

New episode! "Christmas In Chelsea with St. Nicholas" St. Nicholas, Sinterklaas, and Clement Clarke Moore. The music's mine, except for the brass ensemble part. Written, produced, edited, and narrated by the holly jolly @kenlayne.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

the body keeps the score. and i'm losing really bad to white castle

Thanks to my local newspaper Hi-Desert Star for running an announcement about Electronic Brain Magazine bookshop.org/a/197/978196...

Roadrunner vs. Rattlesnake. A few of many spectacular sculptures down here in San Diego’s Desert in Borrego Springs. I hope this Roadrunner qualifies for the bird feed. 🤣🪶

Why it matters

Anti woke

strength to your arm, cost company 🙏

Flowers got another good drink of water during the last rain event to keep them going through the winter (Photos: Sicco Rood).

Sometimes the good guys win.

A boat dropped us off along a temporary shoreline to meditate on yesterday, eternal and ephemeral, in the canyon country archive. Nine days to lose count of with no words to find. Just you, me, the desert, and more water and wonder than we can absorb. open.substack.com/pub/wildword...

i hate it when the package tracking says "being processed at carrier facility" bitch you're the carrier. you're in there playing with my christmas presents arent you

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more

Just ran down two teenagers out on the famous "cousin walk". Maybe if they weren't high they would've heard me careening around the bend.

A coyote trotting through the wide open abandoned farmlands around Borrego Valley Sunday morning. Toro Peak shown here with snow on top rises up to 8,717 ft (2,657 m) in the background (Photo: Sicco Rood).

ok this is the first car-tailgate manifesto that i actually agree with tho

I may sound like a broken record on this but that's the nature of trauma: every one of these children will be traumatized for life. For life. My own separation from my mother via immigration was just about the gentlest imaginable version... and it's still the central truth of my adult life. I'm 60.

New Thanksgiving episode! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Black-browed Albatross #FalklandIslands

imagine walking down the beach and seeing jesus carrying some guy

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

The love for the river, and especially Glen Canyon, was palpable at the The Rivers of Change Symposium in Moab last week. I felt like I was going to the Church of the River. substack.com/@wildwords/n...

It’s so funny to spend a lifetime thinking about satire being too unsubtle and then see the president get sponsored by McDonald’s

"Housty said the Heiltsuk Nation has had to adjust its strategy to continue to try and catch the invasive crabs and keep the bait away from the wolves. “It’s almost like a daily chess game with our crew and the wolves out there and how we are going to get around them today,” he said."

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

BOURDAIN: so ive had joints of mutton everywhere. exeter, wroexeter, berwick. Ive never seen a joint of mutton prepared like this MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere BOURDAIN: *chuckling* wow

what i really want to know is whenaburger