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You did good!

macro photo of a black bumblebee queen with a single yellow band near the end of her abdomen. You can see her from just below the her head down as she's tucked way into a bright yellow daffodil flower.

🚨🚨Bumblebee Butt Season has officially arrived‼️🚨🚨

(Just took this at 5:30 p.m., she is asleep 😂 those little back toes tho!)

#inverts #pollinators #becurious

BUMBLEBUTT 😍😍😍

No, I want to sleep 😆 but maybe if he is awake he should go out and look!

Can’t argue with a blissed-out cat as a sign of a job well done. Cats may love us but we all know they wouldn’t lie to save our feelings ;)

A male Red-winged Blackbird patrolling the marsh.

Donate to Please Stand With A Trans Kansan In Her Time Of Need, organized by Christi Rat Thank you in advance for your time and interest. I am a trans Kans… Christi Rat needs your support for Please Stand With A Trans Kansan In Her Time Of Need

this is my good friend’s fundraiser, we’ve been friends for over a decade and I am doing everything I can to help her get out of Kansas and to a better situation.

I am able to provide safe housing and locally coordinated supports and anything you can do, just sharing even, helps tremendously

Sent some money via PayPal. Thank you for doing what you’re doing!

I know you're all giving what you can.

If you can help my actual in-person buddy Caz's immediate neighbors, fantastic.

If you can't donate, any signal boost is appreciated.

Also, Caz will post pics of Kenny the Lizard.

the HPV vaccine is fucking incredible, period end of that's it

I was briefly excited about the lunar eclipse but the peak is at 3:30 my time -_-

#LunarEclipse FAQ:

Q: Is it safe to look at?
A: Absolutely! Unlike a solar eclipse, there's no UNsafe time to look at a lunar eclipse.

Q: Do I need a telescope?
A: Nope! Best view is with naked eye. Just look up!

Q: Does the eclipse portend terror & doom?
A: Not at all! The news has that covered.

Submit a comment. You can do it right now: Online: ePlanning project page — click “Participate Now” Email: BLM_OR_Revision_Scoping@blm.gov Mail: Bureau of Land Management Oregon/Washington State Office, 1220 SW 3rd Avenue, Portland, OR 97204, Attn: Elizabeth Burghard, RMP Revision

What to say. You don’t need to be an expert. You don’t need to write a legal brief. A few sentences in your own words carry weight. But if you want to make your comment as effective as possible, here are the points that matter most: Demand additional alternatives. The BLM has only proposed two: do nothing or maximize logging. Insist they analyze alternatives that increase harvest modestly while maintaining meaningful protections for old-growth, listed species, water quality, and recreation. Challenge the fire argument. The BLM claims increased logging will reduce wildfire risk. The science says the opposite for industrial clearcutting and plantation management. Say so. Raise the streamside buffers. Twenty-five-foot buffers are a joke for protecting endangered salmon and steelhead. The agency knows this. Call it out.

Defend the ACECs. The BLM is required to reevaluate all existing Areas of Critical Environmental Concern in the planning area. That’s over 100 designated areas. If you’ve visited any of them, say so. If they matter to you, say so. Name the places you care about. Valley of the Giants. Mary’s Peak. Alsea Falls. The Sandy River. The North Fork Clackamas. The Upper Molalla. Personal connections to specific places carry real weight in NEPA proceedings. Demand public meetings. The BLM has said it doesn’t intend to hold any. That’s unacceptable for a decision of this magnitude. Tell them.

Here's the info on how to comment in case you don't click on Substack links. The eplanning page link in the first bullet is eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...

if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.

こもれびの森(2024.3)

montmorency cherries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912

montmorency cherries, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1912

Photo of a lush clump of calla lilies. The deep green leaves support four fully open white blooms surrounding one partially-opened bloom. The leaves are dotted with rain water.

These calla lilies came with the house and they only grow more glorious every year.

Photo of a single calla lily seen from the side, framed with the intention of highlighting the single drop of water hanging off the edge of the lily.

It rained a bit last night.

Opinion | The Glorious Birds We Saved

Finally wrote about the miracle of the whooping cranes. I cling to every miracle these days. Holding close every wondrous scrap of unexpected glory is the only way I get through a day in this country anymore. Gift link via @nytopinion: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...

People refuse to acknowledge how an LLM actually works, and insist on assigning meaning and understanding to its output. There is no meaning, and the system understands neither the user’s question nor its own “response.”

"I definitely left the oven on, have to go home to check."

I know all the terrible things that have been happening and are still happening. I'm going to keep posting my videos etc in the hopes this is a place to come for a few moments of quiet and calm for everyone.

Thank you for your videos and photos - one needs a break from the horrors sometimes 😵‍💫

this just isn't sustainable, to lurch from crisis to crisis like this for the next three years

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off.
Leave your comment here:

eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-...

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

the kind of wisdom one would hope to find in anxient tomes 🩸

She's beauty and she's grace
she's got a dish-shaped, feathered face

Today is Disability Day of Mourning.

People with disabilities are far more likely to be trapped in abusive relationships.

To be killed.

To be assaulted.

We’re forced into legislated poverty & made to be dependent on people who don’t always have our best interests at heart.

The female of the local Red-tailed Hawk couple. She is taking a break after an unsuccessful hunt; she dove into the marsh but came up empty.

This is one of the reasons I’m always yelling about our local carpenter bees and native bumblebutts :) native pollinators need love!

Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees?

Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey.

The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.