Driveby Muses

Orange red sunset light on high clouds above Haleakala, there's a rocky ridge in the foreground and the ocean and low clouds below

Looking SE towards the Big Island, there are arcing bands of cloud lit up by the sunset and you can see Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea in the lower left

The atmosphere is a tad unsettled tonight ahead of some approaching low pressure. Here's a look at the #Haleakala #sunset, and an image looking southeast towards the Big Island....

Yesssss!!! Our lab has a new paper out, and it comes with an awesome story:

JUST listened to The Garden, and twice!

Same. But it was a miracle!

Cryptic, but not terribly quiet!

😍😍😍

Geese also graze on new grass growth.

Behold the shoreline nearest my dwelling. About four miles away and downhill.

For those who know Hawai'i Island, this was the shoreline below Hukulia.

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

It was an overdue destination!

Love love love that book and its sequel. Google Arkady Martine to understand her brilliant take on language.

Hello again, all you wonderful people! If you need a good dose of peacefulness—who doesn't these days?—here is my starter pack of nature appreciators.
go.bsky.app/BGhJymM

He protecc
He attacc
Your ass ain't goin' nowhere, Jack.

Wait whut.

Vier stilisierte blaue Reiher mit langen Hälsen und gelben Augen blicken nach rechts; rechts chinesische Kalligrafie und rote Siegel.

🎨 Huang Yongyu (1992)

🌊 Victory for seabirds! Johnston Atoll — home to 1.5M+ seabirds & nearly half the world’s Red-tailed Tropicbirds — will stay protected.
🚀 A rocket pad plan was suspended thanks to ABC & partners.
🌴 This Pacific jewel remains for the birds!

Read more on the blog:
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Review: 'Lilith Fair' and 'Into the Void' provide enlightening perspectives on contrasting music genres A documentary about Sarah McLachlan's ’90s all-woman music festival and a docuseries about individual cases from across the heavy metal spectrum arrive back to back on Hulu.

'Lilith Fair' and 'Into the Void' provide enlightening perspectives on contrasting music genres

Thank you!

Home of my heart forevermore. 🩵

My last story for Maui No Ka Oi mag, one that was very important to me for the shout-out it allowed me to give the heroes/sheroes) of conservation who fenced the entire summit of Haleakalā Volcano/Haleakala NP, is being reposted on the mag social accounts.

Link: www.mauimagazine.net/haleakala-fe...

Forever reminded of how we all gasped when Decker called Rachel from a video bar "pay phone" in Blade Runner, & how blown away we were at the possibility of future tech. Now here we are, w/ very few places left on the globe where you canʻt grab your pocket computer & open a live window to your life.

A large orange octopus with white spots and a long thin body wrapped in a semicircle around a large algae covered boulder

How about a more unusual octopus this morning? This is the Hawaii-endemic O. ornatus, the Ornate or Night octopus. Long, slinky, move more like eels than cephalopods sometimes, just a beautiful animal, only to be seen on night dives. 🦑📷🌿🐙

A goal critter for me.

Behold.

A crocheted Patti smith

Patti smith from Horses

I crocheted Patti Smith’s Horses cover

Behold.

I am bereft.

Hats off and hands up 🙌 to @EpicLava for this astonishing capture of the Hawaiian nēnē on the wing...past the lava fountains of Eruption 32 of Kīlauea Volcano at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park!

Mahalo for the permission to repost, Epic Lava!

#nēnē #kilaueavolcano #hvnp #epiclava #wowjustwow