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npitchford.bsky.social
Immigrant. Winner of the inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize (2022). She/her. In Northern California on unceded Coast Miwok land.
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Turn it off. Stop using it. Turn it off. Stop. Stop. Stop. If every time I was wrong about something, a gallon of precious water was boiled into the sky, my neighbourhood got polluted and someone lost their job, people would stop asking me things.

submitted 19 hours ago • 34 comments

Fussily, I hope never to spend another summer east of the Rockies.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

My chance for ordination has finally arrived. 🧀

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Timeline cleanse (while I finishing balling up my snotty hanky): smol bunny contemplating stick on the trail cam at dawn.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

From a Newsweek story today about detentions during routine ICE check-ins, a detail that made me (with my personal history) just weep: “children detained with fathers may face family separation, as there are no facilities equipped to house fathers with children.” (1/ )

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

In sweeter news, tiny-plum season has begun.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

So in one hour today, the head of the largest labour union in CA (with 750,000 members) was assaulted & detained by ICE—& news reports emerged that Trump aims to cut all grant $ to the UC & CSU systems, which together employ 330,000 people & educate another 750,000. That's 1.8M very angry folks.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

By the way, Trump’s budget proposal would cut 90% of federal funding for Native American tribal colleges, forcing most to close. So when we talk about attacks on US higher ed, I think it’s pretty important that this — not Harvard — be front & centre.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Ever wanted to know the amount of profanity flowing through Bluesky at any one moment? Me neither, but I still ended up making this: SwearSky, a flow of foul language uttered by Bluesky users. ⚠️ NSFW ⚠️ as it literally yells swear words at you.

submitted 199 days ago • 97 comments

Up on the big hill, the seasonal creek is quite dry now. But the fresh wild mint is growing happily there — just the thing for trail runner’s mouth.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Reflecting on how much of my low mood this week has simply been about June beginning with every morning shut down by low cloud/fog. The sun comes out once I’m shut up in an office. Such a simple, biologically determined critter I am! But trying to glow even in the grey & rocky places.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

So my chickens are probably better at recognising humans than I am. Back to feeling inadequate…!

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Been feeling really inadequate & low this week & someone has just done the most amazingly kind & meaningful, unexpected thing for me. I think I need to curl up quietly for a bit & just cuddle my wonder & gratitude.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments