This is cool.

Literally God Help Me. As a committed atheist I am not in a position cheering on the Vicar of Christ but now quoting the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Talk about a shit show. US Evangelicals are a joke #pope #trump #evangelicals

A Robin, with a nice red belly and chest, looks out over the edge of a watery marsh. There are spears of green popping up here and there and a lot of brown vegetative material and soil. The bird looks very patient but also poised to launch after a meal.

And now for something completely different: a Robin hunting along the edge of a man-made marsh #AmericanRobin #TurdusMigratorius #Birds #BirdPhotography #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm #SOoC

Trump admin attempts to contain blowback from Forest Service 'reorganization' The U.S. Forest Service is in damage control. Almost two weeks ago, we published an article documenting the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in its 121-year history — the gutting of ...

“Because when you tell a scientist with twenty years of place-based research, a mortgage, a spouse with a career, and children in school to pack up and relocate to a consolidated office that has nothing to do with the ecosystem they’ve spent their career studying, they don’t move. They leave.”

My brain just dumped out the second dumbest joke its ever dumped out.

Why do dead musicians always have two burials?

You gotta rehearse!

Wife and her crew are doing the Trans-Catalina Trail this weekend. They just made their first camp and this island fox is already scoping their food. That’s why you have to lock food in Fox Boxes apparently.

Exactly. They cannot allow social media educate the young about their collective power…

An over wing view on an Alaskan Airlines (SkyWest) Embraer 175 upon landing at San Diego International Airport. The speed brakes are up and the winglet with blue to green swooshes is prominent. The tower is visible along with an assortment of jets, including FedEx. It’s a cloudy day with very thin stratus.

Yesterday: my wife’s view of San Diego International tower from an E-175 (I’m not traveling with her) #AvGeek #Aviation #E175

A Lufthansa A340-600

Lufthansa says ⛽️📈⏩✈️📉

Lufthansa CityLine: done

A340-600s: done at the end of the summer season

A pair of 747-400s: grounded at the end of the summer season

A bird sounds like a bowling pin on top of concrete with its back turn to me and it’s been tilted so I can see it and then I. It has a short neck with a white mask and a black top with a black peak and it’s body, a big black patch on the back with gray and white on the sides which are its wings.

A black-crowned night heron was just chilling alongside one of Stan State’s ponds this morning after class and allowed me to get nice little shot.

My unsurprising take is that the entire US gov is terminally understaffed with a public that cannot grasp the issue and instead frequently thinks we're bloated and redundant, but when given the chance, refuses to cut any actual bloat and instead cuts essentials, and then gets mad stuff doesn't work.

A view down the Yosemite Valley with Half Dome in the center. It’s a partly cloudy day and there’s a dusting of snow atop the mountain peaks. Patches of bare granodiorite contrast with the surrounding conifer forests.

My wife is near Yosemite for work. It’s a gorgeous day there. #Yosemite #Halfdome

Forest Service changes close two Montana research sites MONTANA — A U.S. Forest Service reorganization is set to close two research and development facilities in Montana, including sites in Bozeman and Hungry Horse.

“Maybe […] those forest service scientists, will be able to just work from another Forest Service office in their area, but […] if they need a laboratory space, a greenhouse space, you know, science doesn't happen at a desk, and if you lose those facilities, you can't do your research…”

#SaveUSFS

Forest Service reorganization would shutter 6 Mountain West research labs The plan would consolidate research leadership — currently dispersed across the country — in Fort Collins, Colo., while closing laboratories in Montana, Utah and Nevada.

Co-located site:

“…worked as a research ecologist at the Reno, Nevada, lab for eight years. The facility, on the University of Nevada, Reno campus, is the only Forest Service lab in the state. She regularly drove within a four-hour radius, working alongside land managers to study burned landscapes”

A clear seismograph of a earthquake east of Carson City, as detected by a RaspberryShake 274Km away, west of Chico

Decent M5.7 earthquake east of Carson City, Nevada. I personally didn’t feel it but my RaspberryShake did #Earthquake #RaspberryShake #CitizenScience

A big central spike of alternating flowers and buds. The flowers have yellow petals with a purple center. The leaves near the bottom of the spike are serrated. The background is blurred.

In 2025, a rogue mullein plant began growing in the front. It has flowered and it is a Wand Mullein or Twiggy Mullein. I’ve no idea where the seed originated. I’ve never seen it in the neighborhood. I like its flowers. I’ll harvest the seeds and sow them somewhere more reasonable #BloomScrolling

Large airplane taxiing on a taxiway at San Francisco Airport. Close up of the front 3/4 of the plane.

Air Premia Boeing 787 HL8388 Taxiing at San Francisco Airport, March 2026.

helpful thread for my CA homies who don’t know who to vote for now 👇

‘Illegal’ forest service overhaul risks causing ‘chaos’ across US public lands, union claims

The restructuring will close all regional offices, which manages 193m acres of land, roughly the size of Texas

The letter fragment I've seen from Swalwell's attorney threatening defamation bears several things that, in my experience in this area, makes me immediately suspicious of Swalwell and his attorney and reflect meritless thuggery.
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Overwing view of a Southwest 737 Max 8 with speed brakes fully deployed when landing at Ontario, California. The brakes are not quite vertical and the flaps are probably around 30 degrees. It's a smoggy day in Ontario, CA.

An over wing view of a Southwest B737-700 landing at Sacramento International on an overcast day. The speed brakes are about half deployed while the flaps are around 30 degrees. Arrows near the window point the way off the jet during an emergency.

Please enjoy these 737 speed brakes, courtesy of my wife. Landing at ONT and then SMF  #Aviation #AvGeek #B737

The Trump administration is gutting the U.S. Forest Service. Closing research stations and offices and relocating families to Utah with no plan.

And they're doing it heading into fire season after Trump's DOGE already fired workers.

You can count on me to fight this in D.C.

A gas pump panel with a sticker of Trump pointing at $5.99/gallon regular gasoline and saying “I did that”

So these stickers are real. Photo taken by my wife in Ontario, California #USPol

good reminder to change your signal notification settings

I did do a double take, expecting Half Dome to be much bigger!

A view out a left passenger windup with a view of a 737 Max wing with Southwest style winglets. It’s a mostly clear sky with Yosemite below where the Sierra Creat still has some snow and Half Dome rises prominently over the green & snowless U-shaped Yosemite Valley

My wife flew over Yosemite today on the way to SoCal. She snagged a nice photo of the Yosemite Valley & Half Dome (center) #Aviation #AvGeek #Yosemite

A view out a left passenger windup with a view of a 737 Max wing with Southwest style winglets. It’s a mostly clear sky with Yosemite below where the Sierra Creat still has some snow and Half Dome rises prominently over the green & snowless U-shaped Yosemite Valley

My wife flew over Yosemite today on the way to SoCal. She snagged a nice photo of the Yosemite Valley & Half Dome (center) #Aviation #AvGeek #Yosemite

Why are scientists, particularly geologists, so excited to get new images and human observations of the far side of the moon?

A planets geology is the ultimate “crime scene”. Let me explain….

#Artemis ⚒️🧪