Jim Stanger

Game on for DarkSky Olympic Peninsula! First community meeting is Dec 3 in Sequim. Peninsula residents, RSVP and learn about improving the quality of life in your neighborhood. #ProtectTheNight

I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.

Prices are going up everywhere, I know. 45 is still a good price to pay to keep these areas maintained and available.

I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Poking the Discourse Bear Re: “Classic” Science Fiction Over on Bluesky I got a lot of guff about the above post, but you know what? I 100% stand by it. I’m 56 now, and if you’re recommending the same science fiction books to a ten-year-old …

I have gone ahead and written up a more organized piece about why I think recommending decades-old genre "classics" to young people new to the space is not, shall we say, a great thing to do

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/08/11/p...

Sailboat passing Ft Flagler, with Mt Baker in the background.

Summer has set in for real on the Olympic Peninsula. I need to learn to sail.

The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop over reacting

There is no such thing as an overreaction with what has now happened. This is the line in the sand.

Every red hat who supports killing Americans is a traitor.

a humpback whale surfaces in the distance beyond a fisher person in a small skiff.

💜 Tue, Jun 11
Two beloved & most resident transient orca families have been inland, at least one stayed overnight again. And, beautiful humpback CRC22469 has been swimming about inland Puget Sound.

📸 Sharing waterways: humpback CRC22469 in South Puget Sound. By Jennifer Swenson 6/10.

#psws

Oh boy. Northern light alert!

An unexpected Strong (G3) geomagnetic storm in progress thanks to the high speed solar wind stream flowing past Earth.

Robert Macfarlane on Books That Hold Water The best-selling author and professor discusses four books through which rivers flow.

From “A River Runs Through It,” by Norman Maclean, to “All of Us,” by Raymond Carver, the best-selling author and professor Robert Macfarlane recommends four books about rivers.

Lots of sky drama over the Olympic Mountains a few evenings ago.

#ReclaimTheWild!

Cooper Hawk visited the pond today.

#Birds

101k people on this stream alone watching this legend hold the floor for sanity. 23+ hours. Thank you @booker.senate.gov!

graphic of branching lifelines, with the path taken traced through it. past paths no longer in play are greyed out, possible future paths spread out like a network of roots in front

The future is a web of branching paths, and each choice opens up new possibilities as it closes others. This is as true for a civilization as it is for an individual. The more our collective intelligence can inform each choice, the better our chances of finding paths through to a beautiful future.

Looking southwest from Discovery Bay. Some blue sky is poking out.

#OlympicPeninsula #DiscoveryBay #Washington #OlympicNationalForest #nature

Repeating from another reply. 1:40 of Shorts are even worth a pause let alone the click. The rest are just the worst clickbait crap. Sounds like Google gets that. Do they adjust? No, just game the reporting.

1:40 are even worth the click. Maybe. The rest are just the worst. Sounds like Google gets that, so game the reporting.

Sounds like he doesn't want to be the guy that burns an intelligence officer. The deliberations of an honorable person. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Calm and cool as the waters of Oak Bay move into Kilisut Harbor.

#washington #olympicpeninsula #pugetsound #marrowstone #tide

Just published a new #SalishSea climate impacts paper by Aquila Flower and @wwu.edu colleagues cedar.wwu.edu/salish_pubs/...

Tesla is recalling most Cybertrucks due to exterior panel issue | CNN Business Tesla is recalling nearly all Cybertrucks in the United States to fix an exterior panel that could detach during driving, the latest in a series of call-backs for the pickup truck.

No one has done more harm to Tesla than Tesla itself and its CEO.

Awesome. It's often disappointing when an article highlighting these not normal times doesn't get the traction is deserves 'cause folks hit the paywall. As much as I'd love to, I can't subscribe to digital media for one story.

Public lands bill would open 25,000 acres to development in Las Vegas area A public lands bill reintroduced by Democratic U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto on Wednesday would authorize the sale of up to 25,000 acres in Clark County, possibly opening new areas for housing a…

SNEDCA 3.0 has landed. Another round of considering sprawl development in water conscious Southern Nevada. I fought hard to get the Sloan boundary expansion in there to help mitigate the worst impacts of urban development bear hugging an NCA. Other great land protections in there, too. #Vegas #NV

Update from Lisa Friedman

Like there's a shortage of land available for energy production. Trump isn't thinking of the future, it's only what he can take now. | Trump has rescinded the proclamation Biden signed that established the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla National Monument

Internet says this is a black-tailed bumble bee. Taken today near the bridge to Marrowstone Island. Spring is struggling to emerge around here, and I'm ready for it.

WTF do you think is happening now?! These are not normal times. You all need to step up and use the power you have to at least delay this nonsense! But you're not, are you @fetterman.senate.gov? Hide under your blanket of decorum, sit back, and watch our boat go over the waterfall.

@cantwell.senate.gov ?