@jdees.bsky.social
Science enthusiast, nature lover, political activist, lifelong learner. San Francisco.
Merlin bird IDs from song: Fox sparrow, Anna’s hummingbird, Golden-crowned sparrow, song sparrow, pine Siskin
Fall migration serenade for my evening walk. (Merlin app song IDs.)
We have Anna’s hummingbirds in our yard all year long with no feeders. Except the natural kind… there is always something in bloom in our garden.
Left one because he has such an attitude. Obviously interrupted in the midst of something important!
12.10.2025 02:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Booming investor appetite for military startups has helped make [Trae] Stephens the latest entrant to a group of billionaires who have built fortunes selling weapons systems to the government.” — Such a good Christian!
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“Religious” — sure they are. “Acts17” — 2 rich women started… one of them married to a close associate of Thiel: “Stephens’ husband, Trae, was an early employee at Thiel’s software company Palantir and is currently a partner at his venture capital fund”
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/08/mich...
It’s a disgrace these “lectures” were allowed to happen in the heart of San Francisco. I resigned my Commonwealth Club membership over it. 👎
10.10.2025 00:59 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Screenshot: Email from Amazon with Prime logo and text “Your Prime benefits will end on October 11, 2025 Hello Jennifer Dees, We’re confirming that you’ve opted to end your Prime membership. You’ll continue to have access to your benefits until your membership period ends on October 11, 2025”
Deeply satisfying to cancel my Amazon Prime membership today, and I wanted you to be the first to know. I have already been boycotting them, but this removes me from their captive audience. I won’t be needing any more notices about Prime Day, thanks. Still have my Wired subscription for now.
08.10.2025 16:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Reported the post as misleading and urge others to do the same.
07.10.2025 14:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Reported this post as misleading. It is irresponsible and unacceptable to use a 30+ year-old photo from a different city and you know it.
07.10.2025 14:17 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Big stream of puffy fog rolling into a valley toward the east (right to left, looking south) from the Pacific Ocean contrasts with sunlit neighborhoods below it and a sunlit mountaintop behind it.
Fog rolls into the sunny valley between San Francisco and San Bruno Mountain.
06.10.2025 00:47 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0I really loathe the one who comes to our neighborhood!
05.10.2025 18:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump’s regime is deploying unaccountable masked men into the hearts of our communities to spread fear.
We must stand together against fascist ICE raids. Join an event near you for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
Appalling and unacceptable.
05.10.2025 06:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes my scientist friends have lost grants and are all generally in upheaval. It’s insane.
05.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This is so good!
From astrophysicist @adamfrank4.bsky.social here. Thank you, Dr. Frank. The best explanation I’ve seen yet for something that is hard to understand. And he tells us how to fix it: Scientists are hardworking heroes!
Gift link
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Beach scene with white sand, green and turquoise water, and blue sky with dramatic clouds
Pensacola Beach sky
04.10.2025 20:05 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are not alone. We know it is not right when masked men drag working people away from their work, throwing people to the ground like jackbooted thugs. Join us on October 18 to peacefully protest and loudly say: “No Kings.” This country belongs to us, We The People.
www.nokings.org
Lovely bougainvilleas of two different colors, reddish and purplish, climbing up and meeting over a gated driveway between two small apartment buildings in the Haight, San Francisco
Do not block driveway. 🌺
01.10.2025 20:00 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Love this so much! Thank you.
01.10.2025 17:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.” - Wired
30.09.2025 17:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And yet he continues to deliver these Nazi AntiChrist lectures at the @cwclub.bsky.social Commonwealth Club in San Francisco! Why is he being allowed to proselytize his Nazi views? He needs to be shut down!
30.09.2025 17:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Amazing. Love your painterly photographs.
30.09.2025 15:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Batalá SF at Maker Faire Bay Area this past weekend (sound up!). Brazil style drumming. With photo bomb from a little train going by. https://batalasanfrancisco.com #Batala #SanFrancisco #MakerFaire #MareIsland
30.09.2025 03:58 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Increases immune response 4x! My husband came home from a week’s trip. 1.5 days later he had a cough & tested positive for Covid. We then isolated him from me. I’d had the booster 5 days before he returned. I did not get it. I believe the vax is the reason. 😷💉
29.09.2025 13:56 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0Thank you for your important work.
29.09.2025 03:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A silent, inter-faith march near the ICE detention center in Portland, Oregon.
The marchers held flowers. 💐
Sunlight above the fog line, itself above the building skyline of downtown San Francisco. Yesterday evening on the Bay Bridge.
28.09.2025 23:28 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Large 3-masted square rigged ship at dock
The Balclutha, a sailing ship built in 1886, part of the National Maritime Museum. Currently at Mare Island while the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco is being renovated.
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Sorry, Ken Martin, we don’t answer to you. Elected Democrats have overall done a terrible job in standing up for us. We know the difference, with heroes like Sen Chris Murphy, AOC, Jasmine Crockett. The leadership of Jeffries & Schumer is severely lacking and we demand better. Mamdani gives us hope.
27.09.2025 17:14 — 👍 40 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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