Some Mary Oliver for #EarthDay 🌏🌻

here come old laptop
he come
bootin up slowly
he got
broken touchpad
he need
one more update
he got
no space
on this pc

one thing i can tell you
its got no warranty

I don’t believe that popular art = bad art but holy cats, it is too much to ask that Surrealist collections NOT be 80% Dali?

Study of the Heads of Two Old Men, by Philippe de Champaigne, 17th c, 📸 by @adampantozzi

Did you know BART has been installing bioretention areas, often called “rain gardens,” at stations across the system?

These landscaped areas are designed to slow, capture, and naturally filter stormwater, removing pollutants like harmful hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and debris.

#EarthDay

you love to see it

If you're wondering about California's water supply this very strange precipitation year, it's comforting to know that the state's largest reservoirs are all currently at above-average levels for the date. And the snowpack has improved recently, although it's still far below historic averages. #CAwx

Qué maravilla los nuevos carteles del colectivo @justseeds.bsky.social

Aquí tenéis el último descargable: justseeds.org/graphic/us-o...

This rant is GLORIOUS

White House staffer Margo Martin tweets "Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis" with a photo of Trump and a bunch of dudes and some female heads way in the back

i had to triple check that this wasn't from a parody account

Companies building data centers are "targeting" Indigenous communities where there is often less legal infrastructure to hold them accountable, says Krystal Two Bulls from @honortheearth.bsky.social.

"Right now, we're looking at about 103 to 160 proposed hyperscale data centers on Native lands."

Here is the Valkyries national TV schedule, with the games airing locally on KPIX coming out soon.

valkyries.wnba.com/news/golden-...

Why a group of writers and artists is boycotting the 92nd Street Y. Today, an organized group of artists and writers announced the launch of 92NO, a collective protest directed at the New York cultural institution 92NY (formally known the 92nd Street Y). The group …

Here is info about a newly-formalized boycott of 92NY

Covering the counterculture - East Bay Yesterday During the 1960s, America’s Cold War era monoculture was shattered by the arrival of birth control pills, civil rights protests, anti-war riots, LSD, rock & roll, and an unprecedented upsurge in youth...

My new episode is all about the rise and fall of the counterculture - and the media that covered it... eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/cov...

On this one occasion we advise that you do not submit to the orb

a black and white typography edit that reads "my life is better with dykes in it." in all caps. above and below the text are swords. the image is textured to look photocopied.

another one for lesbian visibility week!

If you're in the SF Bay Area tune in KALW 91.7FW for hella nature sounds for Earth Day!

👋 We've been quiet on here.

But we've been making a lot of noise about what we stand for, on-air and online on other platforms.

Like this post if you'd like to see more from KALW on Bluesky.

Second observed tornado of the day in Fresno County

City planners know perfectly well that physical infrastructure can change behavior...they're just reluctant to apply that approach to cars. Ever seen the big rocks they put in places they don't want people to camp? Turns out the same thing works with drivers!

this thread is timely. I was just walking by this one and 2 cars went through, in different directions even!

A "Little Free Library" filled with only Merriam-Webster Dictionaries

Happy National Library Week to whoever did this.

A poster showing a library worker shelving books, underneath the words "National Library Workers Day."

Today is #NationalLibraryWorkersDay! Part of #NationalLibraryWeek, this is a day to recognize and celebrate the hard work of library support staff and librarians. Are there library workers and librarians that have helped you, over the course of your reading life? www.librarything.com/tag/librarians

The Repression Grows with Journalist Will Potter Journalist Will Potter returns to Green and Red, in part one of two episodes, to discuss the current state of state repression under the Trump administration. Listen in: bio// Will Potter (@will_po…

💥NEW EPISODE 💥

The Repression Grows

We discuss growing state repression from the Green Scare through today with ICE violence in Minneapolis and the Prairieland “North Texas Antifa Cell” case.

ft. @willpotter.bsky.social

🎙️: bit.ly/4mE0E5n

We need a labeler here that lets everyone know.

ACTUALLY WENT TO THE 2026 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER

just an fyi, three days after two anarchists died in rome trying to build an explosive device, some anonymous people sabotaged this electrical pylon in udine (northern italy), cutting power to oil pipeline pumps. the italian state tried to hush up this sabotage, as did the pipeline owner.

"FAIRHOPE, Ala. (CN) — One could call it a, ahem, hard case. But ultimately, an Alabama judge found, not hard enough.

Fairhope Municipal Judge Haymes Snedeker acquitted Renea Gamble Wednesday of all remaining misdemeanor charges..."

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

There was a goose on the field at Wrigley, they played on