Meg Williams

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

❤️

Friday night in Whakatu Nelson: pulled over to catch the nearly 9pm sunset over Hualashore Island. A cute family w 3 teen kids and then a handful of older, individual teen boys setting up to fish from the platform

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

NEW VIDEO: this appears to be the footage from the woman in the pink coat.

I wish Nelson weather looked like that today - rain warnings all about ;)

Excerpt reads: "Prioritize your neighborhood Neighborhoods drive our happiness (or unhappiness) more than we think. When Lina Martinez, director of POLIS, the Center for Wellbeing Studies at Universidad Icesi in Colombia, studied the happiness of households in the city of Cali, she couldn’t find much difference between poorer and richer areas. “Their happiness is pretty much the same,” she said. But that changed when she isolated neighborhood conditions, such as access to transit, health care and parks. “The conditions of the neighborhood affect happiness,” she said. “I can’t link that to the space where [people] live.” That aligns with findings from a 2023 study of the Vancouver metro area: Researchers found no significant differences in well-being between people living in single detached homes, duplexes, townhouses, laneway houses and apartment buildings (basement units smaller than 300 square feet were the only negative exception). What did people say they missed most in their neighborhood? Affordability, proximity to family and friends, and a sense of community. Home design was eighth on the list."

A Washington Post article suggests that, beyond a certain threshold, larger homes don't make people happier. Instead, well-being is correlated with affordable housing in walkable neighborhoods where they feel socially connected.

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Iberian Lynx Cat by #artist BORDALO II. Made of plastic waste in Lisbon, Portugal.

#sculptor #art

A hop, romp, happy flounce, bound for morning walks

Happy brown dog running in the water at beach. Tasman Bay in background, blue skies

Feeling seen 😂

The ‘Lemonade’ Lemon is a unique citrus variety producing sweet, refreshing fruit that can be eaten straight from the tree. Its flavour is reminiscent of lemonade without the added sugar, making it a healthy and delicious treat….

But ‘lemonade’ lemon! It’s so good

Hey, @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org, please immediately cancel your partnerships with "A.i." companies. You cannot morally and ethically justify pushing this kind of garbage on school kids.

excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend

Brown dog running in the sand at the beach

Brown dog running in the water at the beach

Today 6AM

The human child woke me up at 0430 on his way out the door for morning rowing practice. But that got the pup and me to the beach so all is forgiven.

What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management Grab your umbrella and your tights.

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

Heart for Thanks — not for the gas drilling ;)

Ooh wild, What induced the EQ?
With peat/clay is it a rolling feel eq?
*former californian currently about the nz alpine fault

Maniacal face of a (usually very handsome Rhodesian Ridgeback) dog eating clumps of mowed grass while zooming about a yard

Orangey-brown dog running on a freshly mowed, backyard slope

Plain for the weirdly comforting smell or honey nut for the leftover milk?

Right side but check out palette tools for color blind/print friendly options? (My quick go-to is color brewer :))

Maybe add response numbers atop bars?

colorbrewer2.org

A story from a few years back, when the team got caught in a whiteout blizzard. Hari is very old now, but he's still the sweetest gentleman I know.

Grocery store reference photo of ‘Possyum Supreme’ tube of dog food. Possums (not N. American opossums!) are invasive and prolifically destructive in Aotearoa New Zealand native forest ecosystems

Screenshot from Wild HQ pet food website. Wild HQ is one of the local pet food suppliers and available at farmers markets

Ah! the anti ungulate nightlife campaign isn’t goat specific — deer as well, liver treats too!

Tbf, I am really impressed with the local system for making use of introduced/invasive animals culled to protect native forest 🌳

www.wildhq.nz/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb

Fantastic article, thanks for posting!

I went to follow the author and she’s a summer reporting intern/Yale co-editor in chief of The New Journal — great hire @sacbee.com !

cake, obviously.

Sustainably sourced goat throats! Gross but yay for the well-fed dog ;)

Three open purple-pink poppy blossoms on long stems with four seedheads on stems behind on a cream background

'Wild Poppies' by Colleen Parker, contemporary artist and illustrator #womensart

Here's the end-of-workday update, on Day 1 of the United States of Science.

A whopping 57% of the map has been covered in the first 24 hours which is *amazing*. Thank you to everyone who filled bubbles!

The top 5 states are still open: CA, NY, PA, NJ, FL

Fill a few bubbles! givebutter.com/USS2025

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

They were planning on streaming from the NASA GISS building on the last day it was a NASA building. However, NASA officials are preventing speakers from entering the building.

Join the stream and show your support!