Catesby's trillium

back in the Smokys

kidding. I know exactly what part

I'm confused about what part of my anatomy I'm supposed to lose to fit back into a 42R jacket that I was wearing last year

so I'm bringing a poem to read at the ceremony (Oliver's In Blackwater Woods) and fishing gear

heading down to a family funeral - in Jackson County NC right at the start of trout season!

tweet from @CMGaldre –  Wild be: just getting snack Me: no prob bee Mason bee: just make house Me: build a way b Honey bee:jus sampling the lavenders Me: you know I got an assortment Bumble bee: hey *bonk* I jus *bonk* I h Me: *holds flower still* Wasp: I'LL SEE U IN HELL Me: U TELL THEM WHO SENT U

you have conjured one of my favorite tweets

bluebird perched on a bare branch looking very interested in what's happening

definitely need that bluebird energy

A male eastern bluebird perched on a budding twig and staring straight at the camera ©️DTL 2026

Bluebird posting will continue until morale improves

everywhere I look people will tell me that columbine is deer-resistant but I wish these people would explain it to my local deer

A four-panel comic. In panel 1, two people are standing in the forest, wearing backpacks. The red-haired person says "I've never hiked with a naturalist before! I'm excited. I hope I brought enough water." The brown-haired person says "I'm sure you did. Let's go!" In panel 2, the brown-haired person points at various nature features. "Look, a red eft! It's the teenaged form of the Eastern Newt. Ooh, wintergreen! Wanna smell it? I hear a Chestnut-sided Warbler. Glacial till. Rubble of the last ice age!" In panel 3, the naturalist points to more nature items. "This forest seems early successional. Aw, a leafcutter bee with a piece of leaf! Wow, deer poor! Wow, fungi growing out of the deer poop!!" The red-haired person says "Okay, but..." In panel 4, the red-haired person continues, "It's been an hour and we've walked three feet." The brown-haired person exclaims, looking excited, "Three amazing feet!"

Sometimes you make a new comic, and sometimes you redraw an old one because you lost the original high res file 😅

dark-eyed junco perched on a lilac branch

here's a respectful junco pic

my god is that lovely

Swallow YouTube video by Spell Songs - Topic

Swallow, swallow, each time that you leave comes the cold and the sorrow.
Oh, for sorrow, swallow, fly back to me and the summer shall follow.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B2p...

tree swallow taking a break on top of a bluebird box

they're back!

should open a pool on Kalshi on whether Dreher will head to El Salvador or Argentina next

do you like apples?

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

I'm up for seizing smaller parcels, too, but I think 1,000 acres should be uncontroversial

with allowances for solar and wind power, of course

any private parcel of land 1,000 acres or over should be seized and turned into a park/preserve

A wide banner image for an In These Times article titled “Fortress Yellowstone.” At center is a ranch gate topped with a mounted longhorn skull, silhouetted against a bright sunrise. Beyond the gate, rolling hills, pine-covered ridges and misty mountain ranges stretch into the distance in golden early morning light. Overlaid text labels the piece as a feature on climate and rural America and includes the subhead: “The ultra-rich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological sacrifice zones around the world.” The byline is Joseph Bullington, dated April 6, 2026.

The landscape of the Yellowstone ecosystem is increasingly dominated by out-of-state wealth, often hidden behind LLCs.

inthesetimes.com/article/yell...

oh no 😮 where will Rod Dreher go now?

This is what you all sound like when you use words other than "said" in writing by the way. Retorted, scoffed, laughed, huffed, whatever the fuck it is. Just say "he said." Sound like a 10th grader.

I'm teaching technical and research writing, not dialogue, but same. it's surprisingly hard to a) get students to use tags like "he said, she wrote, they argued" and b) convince them that it's just fine to use the same damn tag all the time, and there's no need to get any fancier

bsky.app/profile/luke...

didn't the dude rob two universities blind? at least his dying will be comfortable

College Students Losing Ability to Participate in Class Discussions Since They Offloaded Their Thinking to AI "Everyone now kind of sounds the same."

This isn’t a lamentable side effect of these products. It’s the actual reason they exist.

I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone | Defector There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...