And the kinetic sculpture race! Aghhh

It’s very irritating that the 5 Boro Bike Tour is the same weekend as the MD Sheep and Wool Fest 😡

The people that think there is not enough parking in NYC are insane. Literally crazy people.

Jacob’s ladder blooming low to the ground with small purple blossoms

A paper wasp getting some viburnum pollen

Stuff is blooming so much earlier than usual. Just cute climate change things

Senate Republicans send Trump resolution to lift mining ban near Boundary Waters Canoe Area Congressional Republicans are sending President Donald Trump a resolution for his signature that would lift a federal ban on mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

Congressional Republicans have sent Trump a resolution that would lift a federal ban on mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, hoping to clear the way for a S. Am. company to extract precious metals from the region’s pristine forests, lakes and bogs
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Every day before work I like to have a mini panic attack. I want to quit and hike the Appalachian trail 😭

This creepy hot wind has got me in a bad mental state……

A huge loss, a bad sign. Plus the elimination of Hampshire College means an end to one of the best things about Hampshire: getting to take classes there on UMass tuition. (I did, all the sweeter for having been accepted to but not being able to afford Hampshire.) RIP “the Five Colleges.”

I wonder if I can call in. They seem to just be reading news wires verbatim generally. I’m sure it would be a lot to ask them to summarize or comment on the news themselves every day. But yeah, would be amazing if they had a teacher who could get them thinking and using their voices like that

The kids on WKHS 90.5FM (student public radio on Maryland’s eastern shore) were fighting for their lives reading the news today. It honestly is absurd to make the kids talk about the NASDAQ. They should get to talk about the war in a context that is relevant to them.

A picture of a raccoon holding a cell phone.

Hampton Roads/Peninsula friends, Eastern Virginia Wildlife Rescue is looking for volunteer transporters. Baby season is in full force, sometimes getting 40-50 calls a day. We use WhatsApp to send text alerts and you “claim” the transport to a rehab or vet if you can. If interested, shoot me a note!

"Ffunny Ffrends" - Hayley Williams & Jeff Tweedy (LIVE on The Late Show) YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Haley Williams theremin solo 😱🫡✌️🩷

Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

As we write in the book, a traffic report that says there’s been a crash on the highway that will make you late to work probably means someone has been seriously injured or killed. Most people just don’t want to reckon with that reality.

2:20ish!

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Aww foxy. I bet it was pretty. At the risk of being pedantic as fuck, I have to mention that gardening for wildlife means planting native plants to support native invertebrates, on which the entire food web depends

Yes I love the harbor wetlands!! Totally different “gardening” ethic represented there

Hannibal Buress saying “why are you booing me, I’m right”

Noah and I went to see the Sherwood Gardens tulips and in true hater fashion, I really didn’t care for them. That type of gardening seems so outmoded. I’d rather see a functioning ecosystem, or at least an attempt

"That's not the fight right now": Democrats shut down talk of impeaching Trump this year "People are pissed and know we have to fight," one senior House Democrat told Axios.

They do not get to decide what the fight is.

the leader of SECDEF Pete Hegseth's church held a conference announcing their vision (read: plan) of an america that bans non-"christian" religions, allows slavery, banning 'public' expression of LGBT identity, arguing for a "sexual gestapo" (their words), broadly banning women's vote, etc...

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

Yep. Car-centric infrastructure hurts everyone.

Yay! Vision zero here we come (all the bikers, pedestrians, wheelchair users, children on scooters, and all other annoying non-car road users are dead)

58 non-motorists (or as I like to call them, people) hit by cars in one county in one month would be remarkable in a society that valued life

It's been nearly five hours since the president of the United States posted a graphic snuff video of a man beating a woman to death with a hammer and there's no mention of it on the New York Times, Washington Post or CNN websites.

Maryland film festival really snuck up on me

holy shit i speculated it was nathan hansen but did not think it would actually be nathan hansen. jesus christ.