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🕸️ Did you know? Spiders adapt to #NoisePollution by redesigning their webs! New research from @unlincoln.bsky.social finds that urban spiders build webs to "muffle" background noise! 🔗 Read more from @earthdotcom.bsky.social: ow.ly/w9Mv50W4kPj #QuietCommunities (🧵 1/2)

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A pair of towhees has returned to nest in the underbrush and for a moment all seems right.

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“If a homeowner is thinking about solar and can afford it, now would be the time.” House Republicans want to end federal tax credits that help make solar affordable. If that happens, it could upend the economic calculus of powering a home with sunlight.

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Lilac season!

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#11

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#10

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Watch this. And share this.

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Today I remember Neil Davison who died during a doomed WWII mission to bomb oil fields in Romania that fueled Axis assaults. My dad described his envy as a young boy watching Neil enlist at 19 and return home in uniform.

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Hannah Arendt published The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951. It is a great failure that we still wonder at the seemingly illogical functions of authoritarian rule when she laid out its structures and affects so clearly. Here she is on cynicism, lies and propaganda, a history of today.

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The Wood Thrush "This is the only bird whose note affects me like music. It lifts and exhilarates me. It is inspiring. It changes all hours to an eternal morning." - Thoreau #bird #nature #woodthrush #thoreau #canonEOSMark52

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Edward Hopper landscape gem at Munson in Utica, NY.

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Do this today, please!

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In a noisy world why not create more spaces where we can read, doodle, hear ourselves think.

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Central Park is a masterpiece.

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Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪

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Lines too long at The Frick. Bees can come and go as they wish.

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#7 challenging.

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Music of birds, bike bells, saxophone, children’s voices during a walk through Central Park clears the gourd.

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“Nikolai Petrovich hung his head and passed his hand over his face. ‘But rejecting poetry?’ he thought once more. ‘Feeling nothing for art or nature?’ And he looked about him, as if trying to understand how one could have no feeling for nature.” - from Fathers and Children by Ivan Turgenev

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Coincidence?

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Reading al fresco isn’t always idyllic—there are sun, bugs, and heat, Emma Sarappo writes. But with the right book it can be sublime:

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This Mother’s Day I cannot stop thinking of the mother kidnapped yesterday in Worcester as her beautiful daughter, with the fire of my own daughters, sought to defend her.

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With “Pavements,” the director Alex Ross Perry’s desire isn’t to investigate or to plumb hidden depths but to celebrate the band Pavement—“and to do so in a way that exalts its own self-deprecating mode of anti-stardom,” Richard Brody writes.

🕸️ Did you know? Spiders adapt to #NoisePollution by redesigning their webs! New research from @unlincoln.bsky.social finds that urban spiders build webs to "muffle" background noise! 🔗 Read more from @earthdotcom.bsky.social: ow.ly/w9Mv50W4kPj #QuietCommunities (🧵 1/2)

A pair of towhees has returned to nest in the underbrush and for a moment all seems right.

“If a homeowner is thinking about solar and can afford it, now would be the time.” House Republicans want to end federal tax credits that help make solar affordable. If that happens, it could upend the economic calculus of powering a home with sunlight.

Lilac season!

#11

#10

Watch this. And share this.

Today I remember Neil Davison who died during a doomed WWII mission to bomb oil fields in Romania that fueled Axis assaults. My dad described his envy as a young boy watching Neil enlist at 19 and return home in uniform.

Hannah Arendt published The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951. It is a great failure that we still wonder at the seemingly illogical functions of authoritarian rule when she laid out its structures and affects so clearly. Here she is on cynicism, lies and propaganda, a history of today.

The Wood Thrush "This is the only bird whose note affects me like music. It lifts and exhilarates me. It is inspiring. It changes all hours to an eternal morning." - Thoreau #bird #nature #woodthrush #thoreau #canonEOSMark52

Edward Hopper landscape gem at Munson in Utica, NY.

Do this today, please!

In a noisy world why not create more spaces where we can read, doodle, hear ourselves think.

Central Park is a masterpiece.

Lines too long at The Frick. Bees can come and go as they wish.

#7 challenging.

Music of birds, bike bells, saxophone, children’s voices during a walk through Central Park clears the gourd.

Coincidence?

Reading al fresco isn’t always idyllic—there are sun, bugs, and heat, Emma Sarappo writes. But with the right book it can be sublime:

This Mother’s Day I cannot stop thinking of the mother kidnapped yesterday in Worcester as her beautiful daughter, with the fire of my own daughters, sought to defend her.

With “Pavements,” the director Alex Ross Perry’s desire isn’t to investigate or to plumb hidden depths but to celebrate the band Pavement—“and to do so in a way that exalts its own self-deprecating mode of anti-stardom,” Richard Brody writes.

Rainy day music. music.apple.com/us/album/her...

Attempt #6