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Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win' Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

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Hand covered in açaí puree, which looks a bit like blood

Open a packet of açaí puree without looking like Lady Macbeth, difficulty level impossible.

CC: DC friends and folks in and around transportation.

This is easily one of the most fun (un)conferences I’ve ever attended. I’m looking forward to the NYC edition later this month!

3. I have an Apple Watch and I’ve been trying to make a habit of using it for as much as possible in lieu of the phone, especially responding to texts and controlling music/podcasts, which I’ve realized make of a huge share of my phone pick-ups.

I’ve tried a lot of different blocking options but I’ve gotten better results lately with the combo of:

1. Keeping my phone in a dedicated place in the house (set up a drop point by the door with a charger)

2. Making myself redownload and then delete Insta and Bsky every time I check them.

The Hudson River in late afternoon sun, as seen from Long Dock Park in Beacon, NY

The Hudson's majestic in every month, but October might be my favorite.

Oooh this is good to know, part of my family's from Superior and I've thought about combining it with a Boundary Waters trip.

Cozymaxxing begins now.

A roast chicken resting.

Also roasted a whole chicken for the first time in forever and they went SO WELL together.

A ratatouille with tomato, eggplant, onion, and zucchini in a pot.

The early October urge to raid the grocery store for every remaining summer vegetable and make ratatouille.

To be clear, I’m totally in favor of a pay-as-you-go discount; pre-paid ticket packs can be prohibitively expensive. But the pay-as-you-go requires travel in a 14-day window; the current 10-packs are valid for 6 months!

If, like me, you use Metro-North or LIRR semi-frequently, but not enough to qualify for the new pay-as-you-go discount, you might want to consider getting a 10-trip pack before they’re eliminated. By my math, the fare for my regular Poughkeepsie-NYC trip goes up **23.5%** without the 10-trip option.

Selfie in a blue shirt in the gardens in front of the Smithsonian Castle

Having the best day wandering the Smithsonian museums. Public funding for scientific and cultural institutions is good, actually!!!

This is the way.

Poached, ideally in red wine!!

Wheaton!

There is an elevator too, but there was definitely one time it was broken and I decided I wanted the exercise and walked it. Much regret.

Jones Pond.

230 ft!!!!

Selfie at the top of an extremely long escalator on the DC Metro

Longest single-span escalator in the Western Hemisphere appreciation post.

Selfie of Jon and David at Licht with tasteful suggestive artwork in the background

Another great BSky to IRL meetup! (This time w @dayvyd.bsky.social )

This is from Breads in NYC!

A loaf of babka, a sweet braided bread laced with an enormous amount of chocolate

Deeply regretting not getting a second, personal loaf of babka for the train.

Hundreds plunge in Chicago River for first official swim in nearly 100 years Group participates in previously unthinkable mile-long swim after US made key progress to clean polluted rivers

Good morning exclusively to the Clean Water Act.

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Oooh what’s on it?

A small dry gorge in the woods

Also hiked through Sloan Gorge Preserve nearby, which had such an excellent self-guided tour highlighting the Catskills’ geological history. This little canyon was carved by glacier-fed whitewater rapids at the end of the last Ice Age.

A walkway at Opus 40 flanked by high bluestone walls

Selfie at Opus 40 with stone walls and a tree

Monolith at Opus 40 with woods and the Catskills in the background

Stone causeways snaking around an algae-covered pond at Opus 40.

Spontaneous adventure Saturday. First time visiting Opus 40, a massive sculpture hewn out of an abandoned bluestone quarry in Saugerties, NY. Photos don’t really convey the experience of walking through it. A monumental, profound piece of art.

I just finished this a few days ago. It was beautiful, wonder-inspiring, and the kind of book I needed right now—about adaptability, resilience, looking closely, and being in community.

Shirtless selfie

The rare and perplexing felt crummy all day/nevertheless had a really good lift combo.

Oh NO the way I was just transported to the horror and occult corner of my elementary school library.