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🇨🇦🇺🇸 Cascadian Halfling Druid and IR nerd (Russia, its neighbors🇬🇪🇺🇦, civil society). Democracy is a delicate thing. Mostly (re-)posts of neat things that help me feel tethered to the ground. Enjoyer of plants, invertebrates, mushrooms, birbs, etc. 8b.
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The brilliant male Lazuli Bunting #birds

U.S. Sen. Mike Lee says he's pulled his controversial proposal to sell federal public lands to state and private buyers from congressional Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill.”

My bird for today is a very very young Sand Martin who just happened to be outside my house as I got back home yesterday. He was trying to figure out the best way to make use of his flappy things. 😁 #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

We’re lighting the I-35W bridge green tonight and tomorrow in honor of Melissa Hortman, who found joy and peace in trees and gardens 🌳

Over the last free months Canada has upped its border security, agreed to participate in the Golden Dome, and spend 5% of GDP on defence and it basically all means nothing. No agreement will be stable or secure, even if we can eventually reach one. The new normal in Canada-US relations.

A beautiful Swallow guarding it's nest and chicks on Lindisfarne Island. 🪶🦉 #birds #nature #wildlife #lindisfarne #photography #sonya6700

okay what’s everyone’s most delusionally aspirational karaoke selection like if you knew you could not fail, what’s the biggest / weirdest swing you would take mine might be Nick Cave’s “Red Right Hand”

Amazing texture on this Sea Star, seemingly a mix of purple and orange. Ochre Sea Star Strawberry Hill Wayside near Florence, OR. #macro 📷⭐🌊

they're making a grok for bluesky but it just injects itself into conversations reminding people to refill their pill calendars

It's rare that I'm able to capture a photo of a Great Blue Heron arriving in the pond directly from the salon, but last night was my lucky night! #wildlife #birds

Bob’s Picture of the Day #Photography, #Egret, #Bird, #Park

Lunch on the run. #nature #wildlife #fox #naturephotography #Canada

Phew, is it hot! May I offer you a winter Tufted Titmouse in the snow, in case you are also somewhere very hot? Or if you just need a cute birdie. #birds 🌿

Lotta leftists going “stupid liberals, let’s see if you vote blue no matter who now that Zohran is the nominee, hur hur” They…all will? “Blue no matter who” is our actual sincere position. We’re not the ones who keep threatening to let republicans win if our demands aren’t met. That’s you.

Good morning. My bird today I saw yesterday during a break in the rain. It’s a Sedge Warbler( Acrocephalus schoenobaenus), in September it will make its long migration back to Africa, crossing the Sahara Desert, to winter there. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

you can't draw a lot of conclusions from a single race. there are external factors, flawed candidates, the right political climate. but one conclusion you can absolutely draw is that all of the people who tell you that there's only one way things can be are fucking wrong

Nooooo my cynicism ahhhh

Reading the article, looks like they're still going to try to make the language work juuust right in order to fit a land sell off proposal into the budget bill, but it is deeply unpopular on both sides of the aisle. Call your reps, this isn't over, but they're hearing about it loudly. Keep calling.

I hate how archaeologists and gravediggers have tricked us into thinking that digging has to have some sort of end game. Just dig, folks.

I spent most of today seeking to meet with one of the many victims of ICE raids currently jailed in Downtown LA. While @chrclla.bsky.social focuses its efforts on impact litigation, my team boosts efforts on the ground whenever possible. What I saw speaks to the crisis in LA & beyond.

Honestly one of the best reasons I can give you to plant native plants right now is that everything fucking sucks & a lot of it feels (or is) totally out of our control (depending on who you are). One thing most people can do is plant a plant and then look at bees happily sipping on it.

Just doing my job out here

New - gray whales migrating north showing signs of stress from climate change. From @noaa.gov www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...

I HAVE NOW RESTORED THE ROMAN EMPIRE. THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL CEASEFIRE IN ITALY THERE IS NO WAR WITH THE GOTHS AND THERE IS UNIVERSAL PROSPERITY, ANYBODY SPREADING RUMOURS ABOUT A plague IS WRONG, THER IS ALSO NO HERESY ANYMORE ALL IS ORTHODOX THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, YOUR EMPEROR

(in a bar fight) Okay, so I’m going to punch you one more time, and then you get to punch me three more times, and then we’ll forget this whole thing ever happened

Agami Heron, rear view. At Agami Island #CostaRica #birds #nature

The understated Black-crested Coquette at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #hummingbirds #nature

Long-billed Curlew eating a sand crab in the surf. 🌎 Monterey Bay, CA #birds #photography #birdphotography #birding #nature #naturephotography #wildlife #beach

Dipper dance! A fledgling American Dipper practices its new moves. #birds #bird #nature #wildlife

appreciating and enjoying the sun and the bees and you and me

LIFER!! Scoping out puffin cliffs in Iceland, I quickly realized they share the vertical territory with other alcids, gulls and these northern fulmars. It was much fun sitting atop a cliff and watching them all surf the winds gusting up and down the rock face. #birds #LiferPie

everyone in the natsec and FP community increasingly just losing their minds as the topical questions in US FP and natsec these days increasingly devolve to the level of "should we lick this toaster while it is on? some experts weigh in"

Fuck ICE Fuck Trump Fuck war Fuck everything about that. All power to nature and the working class. Since we exist in a lawless world, I'm breaking a personal rule and posting a snowy plover chick within 6 months of capturing. Exclusively on bluesky. 🪶 🐣

A Bronze Age alignment of standing stones at Ardamore, in the Lispole Valley of the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry. #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

The rapid dismantling of USAID remains one of the most consequential outcomes of President Trump’s efforts to overhaul the federal government. Here is how the global aid agency’s demise unfolded.

Spring vs. midsummer sunset position over the vines. #solstice 🌱

Well this was a new one for me. I had never previously seen a female Red-Winged Blackbird doing a courtship display. Needless to say, it definitely attracted the attention she was looking for! #wildlife #birds

Here are some nice mushrooms

I see many folks making many uncaveated claims about what happens next. I also see the best and most seasoned experts admitting that they don’t know what’s coming—and advising us not to buy what such fully confident pundits are selling. Trust the latter view. We’re in largely uncharted territory.

Small Opossum just looked out the door and decided to go back to bed