Trees and leaves in green reflected in a pond in a park.

Reflections in the pond

#GreenSat #EastCoastKin #photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #trees #lake

#StreetArt By #SwedOner in #Paris #Photography #EastCoastKin Love this guy's work. Check him out at @swed_oner on Insta.

Close-up photograph of a sunflower by photographer Mark @astrangeday.bsky.social

📷: @astrangeday.bsky.social

#Painting by Hiroshi Senju (b. 1958) #art

Black and white photograph of a solitary bubble that dawdled lackadaisically along the day’s gentle breeze much longer than expected before pausing, pulsating ever so slightly, and gently imploding into a momentarily-visible fine mist. The bubble is pictured against a backdrop of the silhouette of a tall coniferous tree and a moody, cloudy PNW sky.

Dawdle

[PNW bubble, evergreen, & sky]

soft interlude.

“Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe,
with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working
with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.”

~ Vladimir Nabokov, ‘Glory’ (1932)

#Sculpture, Earl Eyman, ‘The Trapeze toy,’ 1925.

"Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man." -Heather Cox Richardson March 8, 2026

Photo taken in a state that Trump won in 2024, in a county he won with more than 80% of the vote: an outdoor red and black LYPC three-bin gumball dispenser with two partly crushed cans of Coors, months past their expiration date, inside an otherwise empty one, the lid slightly askew, and the other two bins empty.

Still Life in a Trump State.

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.

The air turned gold.

Priceless.

Very good work here, Tony.

"La nuit étoilée", célèbre tableau de Vincent Van Gogh, 1889, huile sur toile, 74 x 92 cm, MoMA, New York.

At this hour, yesterday morning, I captured comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS). I shot it yesterday morning with my Askar FRA500 telescope and ASI2600MC Duo astronomy camera.
High-resolution: app.astrobin.com/i/pznsnj

#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography

Art by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from the original 1943 edition of The Little Prince. The piece depicts a boy laying on his stomach on a hillside of small red flowers, one arm outstretched and his knees bent so as to allow his feet to dangle behind him, soles to the sky. The boy appears to be in deep, solemn thought. At the bottom of the portrait it states: "And he lay down on the grass and cried."

And he laid down on the grass and cried.

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[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (1943)]

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!

CERTIORARI -- SUMMARY DISPOSITION 24-1099 SMITH, KYLE, ET AL. V. SCOTT, ROCHELLE, ET AL. The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The judgment is vacated, and the case is remanded to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for further consideration in light of Zorn v. Linton, 607 U. S. ___ (2026) (per curiam). Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would deny the petition for a writ of certiorari.

By a 6–3 vote, and with no opinion, the Supreme Court throws out a lower court decision denying qualified immunity who killed an unarmed, mentally ill man by using "bodyweight force" to restrain him. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

“He is the 17th person to die in ICE custody since January 1, 2026, and the 47th person to die in federal immigration custody during the current Trump administration … Unless something changes dramatically, ICE is on predictable track to report 60 detention deaths by the end of the year.”

Photograph of a mature tree living in a plush nature reserve in Nisqually, WA. Two adjacent trees appear to have grown so close in proximity as to have allowed for the merging of the bases of the trees’ trunks… or this is one tree that split early in its growth cycle and allowed for two tree trunks, relatively equal in height and circumference, to emerge from a shared base.

I never saw a discontented tree.

They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

- John Muir

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[The Billy Frank, Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, on the Nisqually River Delta in southern Puget Sound]

👇🏽 MUST READ 👇🏽

In the Trump era, conservative justices have repeatedly empowered the president through shadow docket rulings. By contrast, a court wielding those same powers blocked Mr. Obama. Alito warned that if SCOTUS failed to stop Obama, its own “institutional legitimacy” would be threatened.

After he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957, Albert Camus wrote a letter of thanks to his favorite childhood teacher, whom he'd never forgotten. It's beautiful.

Edit: New leaves, April morning. #abstract #spring

Tofte Lake Aurora & Clouds

#camping
#minnesota
#nightscape
#photography
#northernlights
#auroraborealis

Illustration of a woodpecker clinging to a tree trunk close to a hole in the tree. The abstract tree is a photograph from a rusty sheet of metal with the rusty staining forming the tree, and the black-and-white woodpecker with small red patches on its head and under its tail is made from three other macro photographs of urban decay.

Woodpecker and Hole - created from macro photographs of weathered urban surfaces
#woodpecker #bird #birdart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #illustration #weatheredsurface #urbandecay

“Let’s break up from a toxic relationship with plastics.”

Viable alternative to plastics seen here.

Cartoon by @murphycartoons.bsky.social

The Pacific Ocean at sunset. A wave crashes upon the rocks and causes a large spray along the rocky shore in La Jolla, California. Rows of clouds are dispersed across the horizon, through which the setting sun shines brightly, abundantly yellow.

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Waves, rocks, & the sunset collide
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[La Jolla, CA]
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