This is a good article about data sovereignty, AI grift, the marginalization of Indigenous languages, and how these and many other things converge to wreak superfluous harm on Indigenous communities.

No thanks, no giving! Anybody else headed to the National Day of Mourning in Plymouth? If you can’t make it in person, the event will be live streamed on YouTube

"the fossil fuel industry has been lobbying the climate negotiations for 30 years now" ~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at: youtube.com/shorts/RAJRO...

This was Alessandra Korap Munduruku this morning. She lives in the Brazilian state where COP is taking place this year! She was not given a pass into the Blue Zone. These are the voices you should be listening to, boosting, and celebrating. Not the politicians who are attending #COP30!

“Growing a forest can take generations. But the Auburn study is finding that it takes about eight years to convert degraded landscapes into grasslands that can absorb about as much carbon as the remnant prairies.”

Have you seen winter bird yet? They eat seeds from the “dead” native plants. When you deadhead the flowers, you remove critical food sources for the birds. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼. I painted American Tree Sparrow with Stiff Goldenrod and Cup Plant. Aren’t they cute? #botanicalart #SciArt #birdsinart #naturalhistory

Interesting! Burns worked with Cherokee Nation and our film studio to ensure accurate Indigenous inclusion in his latest on the American Revolution. One of my favorite Cherokees, Tsiyu Gansini, ᏥᏳ ᎦᏅᏏᏂ, Dragging Canoe, will be represented.

Another species of clearwing #butterfly, the Rusted Clearwing-Satyr (Cithaerias pireta) at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #butterflies #nature #bugsky

Where the Dead Sit Talking by Hobson, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Baptist, And Still the Waters Run by Debo, Maddaddam Trilogy by Atwood, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Zuboff, Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed by Cronin

One of my favorite artists recommending more Indigenous artists. Some really cool works and creators noted here.

Spent the day at one of my favorite contemporary museums, MassMOCA. We had cups of Golden Root Tea at the cultural apothecary counter while we contemplated our buried dreams. Interactive exhibit by Alison Pebworth.

Photos by Shinnecock Nation artist Jeremy Dennis, 2010s-20s, whose practice explores Indigenous identity, culture, and assimilation.

First summer male red-winged blackbird ᏦᏩᏍᎦ tsowasga looking for breakfast in our cutleaf coneflower ᏐᏣᎾ sochana stems. #nativeplants #leavetheleaves #savethestems

Tribal members, Cherokee Nation citizens, reach out to your at-large group leadership if you’re impacted by the SNAP emergency. They can help.

Frost covered seed heads are beautiful and provide food for our birds! #nativeplants

Cherokee Nation Chief Hoskin declares state of emergency over SNAP shutdown, sends additional funds to food banks. Tribal members of at-large organizations, please check with your leadership. They can help. anadisgoi.com/index.php/go...

Admiring the perfection of this tiny goldfinch nest found in our yard. If you plant native you will also find such delights in your yard, satisfaction guaranteed. Add native plants wherever you can to help our bugs and birds survive these trying times.

Has anyone successfully started American bugbane, actaea podocarpa, from seed? I received some seeds yesterday as a gift from a native plant nursery and was told they require double dormancy. Any tips would be appreciated. #nativeplants

Language is what roots us to our ancestors and land. Language is political.

New fiction from my favorite Cherokee author, Brandon Hobson, titled Devil is a Southpaw. I’ll be reading this all weekend. #booksky

rising from the ground spirits of soybeans past haunt monocrop harvests #HaikuSaturday #spookyseason

So many visitors today. White-breasted nuthatch, red-winged blackbird, downy woodpecker, white-throated sparrow, song sparrow, tufted titmouse, a pair of cardinals, blue jays, common grackle, house finches, and a new lifer moving through, a ruby-crowned kinglet. Native plants bring the birds. 🐦‍⬛🖤

Just spotted a ruby-crowned kinglet in the ᏐᏣᎾ sochana cut leaf coneflower stems! Plant natives and they will come!

This is so cool, and necessary: “Under local law, meliponines now have legal rights to exist, regenerate and maintain healthy populations within their natural environment, free of harm from invasive species or human activity.” #bees

Indigenous literature, a thread 🧵

The deadly amanita mushroom cap is fully open. #mushroom #fungifriends

I'm a native plant purist and pollinator protector in the US. I believe everyone needs to know that 1) Honeybees are livestock. 2) Honeybees actually decrease biological diversity within flowers due to their foraging methods. 3) Plant native gardens to attract native bees & native pollinators.

Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful

Mooshroom update: the cap is almost fully open! A type of amanita mushroom, I think. #mushrooms #fungifriends #fungifriday

Excellent line up of Native-written fiction here! I highly recommend Bad Cree by Jessica Johns and Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden.

The mushroom is some sort of amanita and it’s slowly opening. The cap is wider at the base than it was yesterday. #fungifriends #mushrooms

Not a native plant but a very cool mushroom! #fungifriends #mushroom

The Morphos are common here at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica, as I see them flitting through the garden every day. But they rarely cooperate for photos. So this was a rare treat this morning as this beauty spent a few minutes soaking up the early sun. #Butterflies #lepidoptera #nature

Gen X #audiobook recommendation for anyone who loves jazz, punk, new wave, and explorations of identity in the art world. I’m currently listening to Neneh Cherry’s memoir, read by her, and it’s so freaking good! #booksky www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Thou...

There needs to be more coverage of this in the news. I have read so many stories bout this on Facebook, first hand stories of the terror of that storm, and very little coverage n media. www.facebook.com/100000960660...

ᎣᏏᏲ ᏂᎦᏛ. ᎴᎳ ᏓᏆᏙᎠ ᏥᏣᎳᎩ ᎢᎵᏃᏱ ᏗᎨᎬ. ᎧᎾᎧᎩ ᎢᎵᏃᏱ ᎠᏩᏕᎾ ᎠᎴ ᎧᎾᎧᎩ ᎠᏩᏛᏒ. ᎺᏌᏧᏎᏗ ᏥᏁᎳ.

Currently reading Wandering Stars. His debut novel, There There, is a masterful exploration of Native identity. Congratulations Tommy Orange!

Just saw my first dark-eyed junco, ᏚᏘ tuti in ᏣᎳᎩ tsalagi Cherokee, of the season!

If you wanted to script a scenario to perfectly vindicate the work of Jean Baudrillard, it would be Trump II. A simulacra of a president running a simulation of a presidency, based on simulacra of news broadcast by simulations of news media. Baudrillard is to Trump II what Foucault was to GWB.

I’d watch the hell out of this show. I’d even audition to be on it. Battling invasives is my jam.

I am pleased to report that we now have 4 types of asters volunteering in our yard! New England, frost, blue wood, and this calico aster I discovered in the back yesterday. It’s a late season pollinator paradise out there. #nativeplants

Fruit set on the Red chokeberries (Aronia arbutifolia) was excellent this year, leaving lots of these glossy red berries. #NativePlants 🌱

Leaf blower induced Saturday morning rage is a known condition. I fully support this war and do not find it bizarre. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

And today I learned about pfas gas adding to the environmental degradation and toxicity of data centers.

spotted bee balm / bee update 🐝 #insects 🌱 #nativeplants 🌻 #flowerreport

The first English language account of traditional Native stories written by a Native author, by David Cusick, a Tuscarora.

Volunteer blue wood aster in the center of my volunteer heath aster. #nativeplants #gardensky

that's cool man but this is walmart

Conoclinium coelestinum/blue mistflower #nativeplants #bloomscroling

The leaves on Virginia creeper turn the most vivid and gorgeous red at this time of year. #nativeplants