Mx. Riley

Very round puffed-up American Goldfinch in winter drab coloring sitting on a bare branch.

This tennis ball, aka American Goldfinch, would like a word with the groundhog about that 6 more weeks of winter thing. #floof 🪶

caltrans told me highway 1 had to close because of rockslides barely a month after it reopened so i asked how many times they’ve closed it and they said at least 50 times so i said it sounds like they’re just feeding the highway to rockslides and then their civil engineers started crying

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A zoomed in look at 4 scientists working with the a lava fountain covering the entire background.

A very tall lava fountain with tiny dots (people) near the base. The image is a bit forced perspective and we are not as close as it looks

Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during Kīlauea’s episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like I’m fixing to push someone in…

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Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇

Housing advocates still waiting for state-ordered stair report

California’s fire safety regulators were asked to study whether mid-rise apartments can go with a single staircase. They’re more than a month late. bit.ly/4rvWBJR

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Your car is spying on you – and Israeli firms are leading the surveillance race From Hands-free Systems to Tire-pressure Data, a New Field Known as CARINT Turns Vehicles Into Powerful Intelligence Tools

investigation into three Israeli cyber companies that have created spyware for cars - they can now tap with zero action into your car's microphones and cameras etc www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

"It's hard to build things around standards," he stated on the World Wide Web.

"We just don't think we can put resources on it," he claimed, sitting next to an infinite money spigot.

oh my goodness yes please and thank you I would love that 🥰 I'll be Even Cuter then too

Little image I made of the Transit Adviser from SimCity 2000, but it says: "YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON SELF-CARE! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"

Turns out my Look is changing pretty rapidly these days and I don't have any headshots or selfies that feel current and high quality enough to use as a profile pic.

From the Birdsfacingforward community on Reddit: American Robin Explore this post and more from the Birdsfacingforward community

Shoutout to u/CartersXRd for allowing me to use their fabulous photo of an American robin from r/birdsfacingforward as my profile pic: www.reddit.com/r/Birdsfacin...

My great-grandmother, who I knew personally and was alive until I was 25, was born to a woman who was born enslaved. My mother grew up in the Jim Crow south, and personally experienced segregation. My dad as a young lawyer in NY would not be hired by a law firm. It was not that long ago.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious public record?

this is good to think about & i want to see candidates make these promises, but also we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves

there is something very important that will need to happen in between "win election" and "the regime leaves", i'd bet my bottom dollar. (and if we don't do it, they don't leave)

The leader of every country should have to participate in the Olympics and the people should get to decide what event they do

I have availability for advising/small contracts I’ve some unscheduled time that I’d like to dedicate to helping you be more successful.

I'm currently working on a new personal project, but I also happen to have some free cycles for smaller advisory, coaching, or consulting engagements.

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See, big companies willingly turning over your info to the government is why

even if most of you practice GOOD security, good cybersecurity

you are not safe from your GOVERNMENT.

Keeping that level of 'safe' requires either an incredible amount of additional work, effort and actual sacrifice...

I love the umbrella holder on the bars. That's an accessory you will never see in our racing/recreational-forward bike culture.

It also makes it clear that that bike is never supposed to go more than like 8 mph.

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This $30 train route along the California coast is having a comeback Young adults are choosing a 26-year-old train to travel across Southern California.

Young adults are choosing a 26-year-old train to travel across Southern California.

Not even a full week on antidepressants and it feels like being reunited with an old friend.

All my love and compassion to the Robin that trudged through these last few years, found herself, and had the wisdom to finally seek more help. It gets better.

Farm worker pruning apple trees in Washington State

Farm workers pruning apple trees in WA state tell us, "The fog makes everything wet. This makes the work more difficult and dangerous. It also means we can't meet our minimum quota. They pay 45 cents per tree." #WeFeedYou

Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don't come from judges.

I'd file this under "tech cos are not our friends, much less friends of democracy" but I'm afraid that folder is full now.

A yellow bird with a darker back is on a branch in falling snow, which is accumulating on its back. It is looking to its left and up, as if searching for something.

🪶 One of my favorite #WinterSurvivors is the pine warbler. This one seems to be looking hard for signs of spring. #BirdoftheDay #birds #photography

Colorado is considering SB26-097 in the legislature to decriminalize sex work. You can search online and find arguments in favor of that, particularly *from sex workers*, whose opinions matter on this.

In RI, done by mistake, it may have reduced rape and STIs.

newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/dec...

And, in Ojibway, we also don’t have a word for “goodbye”. Instead, we say Baamaapii (Bah-mah-pee). It means “until later,” or “I will see you again.” Our language carries the understanding that relationships are never truly ended —even after death, we will see each other in this life or the next.

Pass the Rice, and Please Explain Your Genocide At a thoughtfully organized dinner in Oakland, Palestinian culinary activists shared more than just food — they offered their stories, their resilience, and their patience

"It is an act of love for Palestinians to patiently counter myths while their loved ones are being killed."

@soleilho.com went to a dinner where Palestinian food and drink makers shared their history and their grief. Then came the Q&A.

these two young white guys on IG go to an NYC restaurant each week to try food from a different country. they posted a video bringing together the owners of their first 12 stops & it made me cry bc it was simple & beautiful. just people from all over the world hanging & being pals. how it should be.