Christina

Remember being a kid carving a pumpkin and you’d leave a big bowl of pumpkin guts on the kitchen counter that would magically turn into roasted pumpkin seeds?

Why doesn’t that magic work anymore?

A goofy Dracula mug with a tea tag hanging from it that says: It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring -Marilyn Monroe

Yep.

A dead leaf with a small town in autumn drawn on it, a laptop with the town on the screen in the background.

Taking a minute to revel in autumn.

These men look exactly how I would have imagined.

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Laugh at them. | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Mannnnnnn I just clicked on a compilation video here on blue sky and was like several clips in before I saw the sora logo and now I'm pissed. Fuck social media. It's not worth it anymore.

Just realized Finn Wittrock and Adam LaVorgna are two different actors. (and tbh I'm not fully convinced. I might need to see birth certificates)

October Big Day Final Count Canada Goose - 75 Eurasian Collared dove - 2 American white pelican - 5 Anna’s hummingbird - 4 Great Egret - 1 Turkey Vulture - 29 Red tailed hawk - 1 Red shoulder hawk - 1 Acorn woodpecker - 4 Northern flicker - 1 California scrub Jay - 17 Common Raven - 1 European starling - 1 Northern mockingbird - 2 Western bluebird - 6 Phainopepla - 4 House sparrow - 9 House finch - 20 Lesser goldfinch - 1 White crowned sparrow - 29 Golden crowned sparrow - 7 Song sparrow - 2 Spotted towhee - 2

My final count for October Big Day here in Northern California. The birds put on a great show. 🦢

The athleticism. The grace. The fuzzy tummy.

Portland is a “war-ravaged” city that is “on fire,” President Trump warns. But I braved the artillery fire and militia checkpoints to bring you this video report from the front lines.

PSA:

If reading wasn’t political, they wouldn’t be banning books.

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Man I've missed The Format.

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If you repeat a lie often enough, some people will start to believe it.

Three knit beanies, a pink piglet, a brown monkey, and a yellow M&M, along with packing slips, tags, and envelopes.

Packing up some Halloween joy to ship out tomorrow morning. If you’re looking to get some costume fun in your mailbox, hit me up on Etsy: archaeopterknits.Etsy.com

Text card: Listen for dangerous words. Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary. #OnTyranny

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

A close up of a leaf with several drops of water on it.

I have a real concern about being rained on inside the house the morning after I’ve watered my monstera.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

a man with green paint on his face is sitting in a chair with his mouth open and a hose around his neck . ALT: a man with green paint on his face is sitting in a chair with his mouth open and a hose around his neck .

Middleberg is a middle sized town in the middle of the country. But sometimes… in my dreams… if felt like someplace else.

-Don’t Look Under the Bed

Shit got too real, too fast. Pull back! Pull back!

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A tight knit community: Crafting at the movies

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Murphy Brown 💙

'Live your life in such a way that if the escalator stops, you don't assume it's because people hate you.

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Woodland wool mill is one of the last standing in California.

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Absolutely. I do it with toast too, gotta save the best part for the last bite.

Back in the day there was an account on Twitter that would ask what the first bird you saw was every day. It was kind of fun.

So my first bird today was an Anna’s hummingbird.

A sticker of a black bird with a red eye and a head crest, a phainopepla, that says "I'm just a fluffy baby dinosaur"

Just out here dinosaur watching. 🐦

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The first day of Autumn and I have to work? Yuck!

I'm totally kidding. I'm ecstatic to have an order to fill. Business is hurting y'all. Thanks Trump.

Summer is over and it’s time to dust off your cauldron and break out your coziest soup recipe. (Just don’t look at the weather first if you’re in California) 🎃

So today I wake up: Wood Duck. JFC is this because I looked them up yesterday? Ok, probably won't find one this time of year on the lake I live on but oh well.
Anyway, I just walked past a window and there was a fucking Say's Phoebe just hanging out on my fence. 🤦‍♀️

Does anyone do Merlins bird of the day?
My sister and I text each other our birds every morning. Yesterday mine was Say's Phoebe and hers was Wood Duck. I basically carried my binoculars all day yesterday trying to find a Say's Phoebe. I looked everywhere. Black Phoebes sure but no Say's.