Sarah Grey

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1. Green Heron on the Allegheny River (lifer!)
2. Discovering the Osprey nest on the railroad bridge is NOT abandoned
3. Two Downy Woodpeckers at the dog park
4. Red-Tailed Hawk hunting in the park
5. Five young Double-Crested Cormorants swimming with their mother near the dam
#top5birds

There is only one good surveillance app and it’s the Merlin bird app.

A red-winged blackbird attacking a red-tailed hawk perched on a telephone pole, eating

A red-winged blackbird attacking a red-tailed hawk perched on a telephone pole, eating

A red-winged blackbird attacking a red-tailed hawk perched on a telephone pole, eating

Red-tailed hawk in profile, looking down from a building on Brilliant Ave after finishing its meal and fleeing an angry mob of birds in the park

I saw this Red-Tailed hawk twice yesterday. The Red-Winged Blackbirds were dive-bombing him relentlessly #birds #pittsburgh #aspinwall

I’ve been off social media lately for the sake of my mental health, but I finally saw (not just heard) a rose-breasted grosbeak and a wood thrush in the same trip to the dog park, and I needed to let you all know. It was cool. #TouchingGrass #birds

Sunset view of the Allegheny River and Highland Park Bridge

Sunset view of the Allegheny River and Brilliant Railroad Bridge

Sunset view of the river and Brilliant bridge from the Allegheny Rivertrail pier

It’s a gorgeous warm May evening at the height of migration season in our corner of Appalachia, and all sorts of #birds are passing through #AlleghenyRiver #FlightWeek

As Pittsburgh area recovers from storm, may take 5-7 days to restore power to all customers A severe thunderstorm rolled through Western Pennsylvania early Tuesday evening, leaving downed power lines, damaged roofs and felled trees across the region.

A severe thunderstorm blasted through WPA Tuesday, leaving damaged buildings, felled trees and powerlines, and causing the deaths of at least 2 individuals.

While it took just minutes for the storm to rage here, it may take up to a week for utility service to be fully restored for many residents.

Great blue herons! #birds #birbs

September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives

Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play...
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.

poets.org/poem/septemb...

Been getting into #birds as a way of coping with (gestures broadly) all this and wow, do binoculars ever make a difference. Life list is up to 71 species! New this week: 3 kinds of sparrows and a wild turkey. Dog loves the extra walks. He’ll be smelling some scent trail while I look up.

Sorry, forgot alt text. First image is a glass suncatcher made with clear glass diamond and triangle shapes and round green cabochons. Second image is me holding it up: white woman in a purple top and magenta sweater, brown hair and glasses, in a sunlit brick studio

Tonight I made a stained-glass suncatcher at @pghglasscenter.bsky.social! Bought the class way back on Black Friday as a present for Future Sarah. It was great—hoping to take the 8wk course someday. They do great work over there and are so welcoming. #GlassArt #Pittsburgh #Joymaxing

I had a joke about Theseus, but that ship has sailed

A tricolor beagle looking attentively at the camera, with his front paws on the couch

Sweet babies!

Here is Detective Inspector Roland H. Wilson

Just finished it last night—so smart and funny!

Hundreds of Students at Military Base Schools Walk Out to Protest Trump Administration’s Anti-Diversity Policies The walkouts, which included about a dozen schools on U.S. military bases in Europe, Asia and at least one stateside, represent the biggest collective action military children have taken since the sta...

"Hundreds of military children who are students at Defense Department schools across the globe walked out of class to protest book bans, curriculum changes and restrictions on extracurricular activities that have resulted from Trump's crackdown on diversity." www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Tweet from 'Michael O'Neill Burns', "Dedicating my life to fascism because I tied for 5th at a swim meet."

You know who we’re talking about here.

UPMC curbs on gender-affirming care for patients under 19 faulted Facing Trump order, Pittsburgh's health care system has said that it is monitoring federal directives on care while empathizing with affected patients and families.

Withholding gender-affirming care is illegal in Pittsburgh, if we're still doing that whole rule-of-law thing #ProtectTransKids

About that #fencing transphobe…

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

What a summary of the anti-trans movement:

March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th

March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000

The 2025 Terzani Prize was awarded in memory of the 210 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza. The award declaration:

“Never in history has the toll paid by journalism been so heavy, in flagrant violation of humanitarian law and freedom of the press”. 🇮🇹🇵🇸

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 96: Nothing you write is ever wasted. It’s all part of your training. That’s why you should never feel bad about the work you cut, or the hours you spend on work that stays unpublished. Every part of the process makes you a stronger writer.

Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

"why is any of this happening" is a question largely answered by my book btw!!!! in case you were wondering!!!
bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

I know high profile political targets On Here aren't beating down my door for advice necessarily, but if you are for any reason potentially on the radar of the MAGA or other far right as a dissident, consider a Eufy door camera and door chain, if you can afford it.

More like Steve Truthman

New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 🇫🇷

Margaret talks with Allison Raskin about the antifascist asylum in France that armed partisans and reinvented psychiatry.

@margaret.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:

I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604 U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See, e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With more and more of our most significant rulings taking place in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it.

An extraordinary separate dissent from Justice Jackson accuses the majority of trying to pass off its dirty work under the cover of the shadow docket and explicitly invokes Korematsu, the Japanese internment case. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Trump, Fascism and the authoritarian turn rs21 - revolutionary socialism in the 21st century

How can we describe the politics of the Trump regime? What does Trump’s track record tell us about how his administration might develop? Drawing on the far-right histories of Mussolini and Hitler in the 1920s and 30s, @davidkr.bsky.social provides an in-depth analysis. revsoc21.uk/2025/04/07/t...