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Close-up of a dead tree next to the yellow trail at the Lilly Preserve in Roxbury, Connecticut. It's covered with what I think is a white shelf fungus, but I'm not sure. That sounds yucky but it's really quite lovely. This was a nice hike until we got back to the car and realized we were covered in ticks. That sounds yucky because it is.

🟨 trail, Lilly Preserve, Roxbury

ATTN Family: This would be a good place to start the next time you ask, for the 28th year in a row, "What is it you do again?" 😊

An image showing a picture of myself with a 7th place ranking on the leaderboard for the 2025 Charleston Conference

Getting excited about this year's @chashub.bsky.social !

Ben Cosgrove performing at Hunt Hill Farm

@bencosgrove.bsky.social playing the machine in the garden 🍂

@trustforpublicland.bsky.social

Cool how the president finally told the truth about something when he posted an AI vid of himself shitting all over the country

Goodbye My Dictator, by Michelle Gurevich - EU Store track by Michelle Gurevich - EU Store

You’ve had more than your share of pie

PETITION: Protect the Center for Disease Control Library Staff at the CDC Library were laid off on October 10th and have not been brought back. Sign the petition to call for their return.

The CDC Library plays an important role in providing our public health professionals with access to the best information.

Without them, CDC employees will lose access to information and resources in an outbreak.

bit.ly/4qaDIMi via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Why is it I can imagine an exact pea right up until I am instructed to use a pea-sized amount of something and then suddenly I have zero idea how much that is

A picture of fascist propaganda. Fuck Trump.

This is a real screenshot I just took from www.fs.usda.gov

Picture of a musician named MJ Bones performing at Space Ballroom in Hamden, Connecticut

Picture of a musician named Kimya Dawson performing at Space Ballroom in Hamden, Connecticut

MJ Bones and Grandpa Kimya ♥️

Fadeaway Gus, by Max García Conover feat. Ben Cosgrove from the album Volume One

maybe this is nothingness ~ maybe this is what there is 🎶

A picture of vibrant green trillium surrounded by crisp fallen leaves

Trillium, found hiding beneath the jewelweed in my front yard, where things are wilder than they should be (perhaps as wild as they ought to be)

A picture of two people in a giant Adirondack chair with a bat painted on it and a message that says BATS COUNT

🦇 hanging out with @leahpeapie.bsky.social 🦇

View of the Housatonic River through a window in the side of the covered Bulls Bridge in Kent, Connecticut

The Housatonic River from Bulls Bridge in Kent

Daily NYT games-playing ritual feels like the modern equivalent of my grandmother watching her stories. Not now dear I'm doing my puzzles.

It all started at Stanford (Go Cardinal!)

NO KINGS Day Croton on Harmon, New York, Croto Point Park · Vote Save America PAC ### Walkabout Clearwater Chorus, which was founded by Pete Seeger, is taking No Kings Day to the River Festival - For Pete's Sake. Look for us at the bus lines, Circle of Song and other places during...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Day Croton on Harmon, New York, Croto Point Park” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/crooked/even...

♥️

William D. Barnard (1942–2024) – AHA On December 13, 2024, William Dean Barnard died in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Dad

snowglobe, by Faith Eliott from the album dryas

faitheliott.bandcamp.com/track/snowgl...

Picture of a verdant path through the woods

Cobble Mountain Trail, Macedonia Brook State Park

@megwaites.bsky.social & @tonyhopedale.com attended the STM US Conference & summarized their lessons in a 2-part blog series.

In this part, they cover important topics from accessibility to AI to trust. Discover key trends every STM publisher should know.
www.highwirepress.com/blog/stm-202...

At #STMUS2025, industry leaders explored how publishers can stay credible in a fast-evolving world of AI, misinformation, & content saturation.

Meg & Tony captured the key insights & questions shaping the future of scholarly publishing in our latest blog post.
www.highwirepress.com/blog/stm-us-...

❤️ the way the @yale.edu orchestra broke out into #Fame when Debbie Allen got her honorary degree 💃🏻

❤️❤️❤️

Storefront sign that says Tom & Debbie's Used Furniture. Debbie's name is crossed out.

This picture just wrote a Raymond Carver short story

Faded artwork on the side of a painted-white brick building that shows the outline in black of a hand with the palm facing out and orange rays around it. It is accompanied by text that says Unlimited (in cursive) and High Fives (in shadowed all caps).

unlimited

YouTube video by Jill Sobule Resistance Song (bouncing ball lyric video) - Jill Sobule

on every playlist ❤️

For those of us who never played the game and had no idea what was coming last week: I mean, good on you for sticking to the story, and also fuck you very much whyyyyyyyyyyyyy
#tlou