Starting a garden!
I know it’s a bit overcrowded, I figured the deer would thin it out a bit and didn’t want to go out for more plants too soon.

Destroying DEI is vital to mediocre men. Reduces competition.

Today is the 2 year anniversary of when I met the Ravens. They just checked me out from a distance then! Here is some of my fav footage: them courting, feeding each other, barrel rolling and some of their vocalisations. They are the most amazing birds and I am so lucky to have them!

We are living in a timeline so dumb it's exhausting.

It’s scary to oligarchs and their toadies when someone starts trying to make government work the way it’s supposed to. How will they steal obscene amounts of money when it’s being spent on potholes?

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

NEW: The Pope is doubling down.

In Cameroon today:

“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, or political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.”

💥

(🎥 Vatican News)

Ankylosaurus does also have a respectable thagomizer

Another day, another round of "Am I filled with incandescent rage because of perimenopause or because of the increasing inequity and inhumanity of society"

Threats to Library Funding End With Settlement by Trump Administration

They've unfortunately zeroed out funding AGAIN in this fiscal year budget so folks are going to need to continue to fight. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/a...

With any luck someone will do a similar survey for Cambrian creatures. The best of this would be anomalocaris of course.

Understandable that the world recognizes that China is currently more rational and prudent than the US. And they're quickly moving past us in everything from renewable energy technology to international operations to promote good will. It's going to take decades to rebuild what we've lost.

The best dinosaur is stegosaurus, actually

I get one two or three times a year mainly for dreaming about how much I could do with it

So glad to see someone so beautifully articulate what I think about almost every day….

We’ve finally bumped off the Hadron Collider weasel timeline.

Weathered branch of driftwood sticking out of flat damp sand

I’ve heard people talk about the 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, 1970s, and 1980s as times in US history where everything was hunky-dory economically compared to today, and as best as I can tell they’re just referencing the cozy vibe of period-piece movies and TV they’ve seen

Parrot goes on underwater adventure in his custom-built submarine “He enjoyed it,” said the owner of Bebe the parrot, who has also come along for skydiving, skiing and 500-mile bike rides.

we all live in a parrot submarine

Starfish with slightly uneven arms against a background of tan colored sand, with water ripples over it all

Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC.

"All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources."

blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

@ItsBCJim The bad part of getting older is that you become an NPC, the good part is that being an NPC rocks. Nothing like walking down the street with a thought bubble that's just a sandwich you're looking forward to. Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane

The Mother of Spiders, Horseshoe Crabs, and Things That Go Snap — Riley Black Paleontologists have uncovered the oldest known relative of spiders and horseshoe crabs, Megachelicerax, rewriting the story of how claws came out of the water.

Last week's new article is up on my blog, all about the amazing Megachelicerax!

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Black snake facing the left side of the frame, scenting with its tongue out, on pinestraw with a few leaves scattered across it

Met a nice snake today, very pretty

From a Million Miles Away, NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth - NASA A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth

One of the problems with people not sharing things with attribution, AI etc is that we (rightly) don’t trust things that are real. This picture is making the rounds today and I’ve seen multiple ppl say it is fake. It isn’t!!!!

www.nasa.gov/solar-system...

A tall photo showing fern fiddleheads in front of a massive bald cypress trunk. Behind the cypress is a twisted Japanese maple with red leaves. The background is a Japanese-style garden reflected in a dark pond.

Latest blog post: a quick road trip to north Georgia. 🌱

sweetgumandpines.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/n...

Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed The vast majority of data centers scheduled for completion over the next few years have yet to even break ground.

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

I think a lot of Bluesky users are in the demographic of “people who simply will stop using social media entirely if all the text-based social platforms that aren’t run by unrepentant Nazis (like this one) go away,” myself very much included

Nancy Mace @NancyMace • 22h ... As Governor, I would sign legislation into law, like Florida and Tennessee, to ban chemtrails. Supporting legislation to protect the air we breathe is just common sense. South Carolina STRONG: nancymace.org/nancy-mace-bac... An embedded poster reads “BAN CHEMTRAILS” and has photoshopped water vapor trails across an ominous sky

My hot take is that you shouldn’t be allowed to hold public office if you are so stupid that you’re scared of atmospheric condensation