Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson coming back to Atlanta for ‘Lizard Music’ film Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will be back in Atlanta this summer to film the movie "Lizard Music", which will be written and directed by Benny Safdie.

9-year-old me is excited that Lizard Music is going to be a movie.

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'Buyer’s remorse': This Trump stronghold TURNS on massive ICE facility YouTube video by MS NOW

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Yeah, I notice more cutouts on redbud than anything else. I imagine someone has studied preferences…

“Never before has so little effort been made to hide so much corruption.”

If I were the type to light candles, I would light a candle for them to ward off 3 weeks of itching.

Woodland scene with poison ivy vines in the forefront, tree trunks that are clear and ivy-free, and big patches of bare ground or brown leaves left behind after English ivy removal.

Kudos to the squad of volunteers with @treesatlanta.bsky.social that braved a sea of poison ivy and removed English ivy from a huge area of Haddock Woods (path behind Agnes Scott) yesterday. In the picture, all the brown areas were English ivy, what’s left is mostly (native!) poison ivy.

You’ve got today. And you’ve got tomorrow. Register to vote in the May 19 primary before it’s too late.

(Think you’re registered? Check your registration!)

Cash for Fireflies When Kids Became a Chemical Company's Summer Supply Chain

I remember doing this as a kid, but I had no idea what it was about. My first essay of the year is about how a chemical company convinced Midwestern churches, Boy Scouts, and parents to turn kids into a chemical supply chain.

Heart-shaped leaf with two neat oval incisions cut away on one side.

What’s even better than an Eastern Redbud volunteer growing in your native plant garden? Evidence that leafcutter bees are gathering material from it for nesting! I’d better plan a stakeout to catch them in the act! (Haven’t seen any in the yard so far this year.)

#bees #nativeplants

2026 City Nature Challenge: BIOBLITZ! Join a fun, beginner-friendly Bioblitz using iNaturalist, Merlin & eBird to document local wildlife and support community science.

Next week is the City Nature Challenge! (Associated with, but not sponsored by, #iNaturalist). If you are in Atlanta and want to learn about tools for observing, documenting, and identifying wildlife then this should be a cool (& family-friendly event):
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Jen Jordan for Georgia Supreme Court Jen Jordan has spent the last 25 years as an attorney, and then as a state senator, fighting for everyday Georgians. Jen knows that now, more than ever, we need a Supreme Court that will take a stand ...

May 19th Georgia election: not just a primary 2 state Supreme Court seats contested. Challengers are endorsed by Reproductive Freedom for All, Georgia Conservation Voters, and SEIU. GOTV!

Miracle Rankin
www.miracleforgeorgia.com

Jen Jordan
www.jen4georgia.com

Fantastic book but not a good source of information regarding cork trees, as I realized later in life.

Black bee with white spots on the sides of it abdominal segments, sparse short white hair on thorax, with its head buried in a white multiflora rose blossom.

Not a bee I see often: a “dark bee”, genus Stelis, brood parasite of its cousins in the Megachilidae leafcutter bee family. This I *think* is a male, on Rosa multiflora, likely S lateralis, from last week.

#bees #insects #bugsky

Georgia Supreme Court challengers vow to take on corporate power Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin say the state’s highest court doesn’t serve the people’s interest

Flipping these two State Supreme Court seats in Georgia next month will be a crucial first step towards flipping the entire court and putting the state on the right path.

Georgia, please vote for both @jenjordanga.bsky.social and Miracle Rankin on May 19th.

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How can you be making jokes when there’s a got-darned orange cheetoe IN THE WHITE HOUSE????

I’ll have to think about that.

When we moved into our house the detached garage was very neglected and smelled awful. Turns out there was an entire dead possum in a trash can.

(He is a representative from GA who is a running for GOP nomination for Ossoff’s senate seat.)

Buddy Carter all-in on ICE. I’d like to think this is a massive miscalculation on his part, for the general if not for the primary.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Blue metallic bee upside down on a pale purple flower, with tongue sticking down into the base of a petal, while her belly (lightly coated with white pollen) brushes against stamens.

Mason bee (prob Osmia georgica) on Phacelia bipinnatifida at Wylde Center this weekend. Cool to see how flower and bee anatomy align, so that her abdominal scopal hairs get dusted with pollen as she sips from the nectary at the base of each petal.

#bees #bugsky #insects #nativeplants #pollination

Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees under a New York State cemetery This whopping bee aggregation is one of the largest and oldest ever recorded, according to a new study

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Third specialist attracted to mock orange in the yard - looks like a caterpillar munching on the leaves but it’s the larva of Haymatus blassus, a sawfly I saw in adult form 3 weeks ago. #bugsky #nativeplants

More Gen X I would say. Reruns through 1970’s into the ‘80’s. Personally thought they were creepy and never watched.

In my area I appreciate bike lanes wherever I can find them because they mean I don’t have to wait behind a long line of cars waiting for a light to turn green. I still have to be quite vigilant even on the bike lanes as cars will pull in and out of driveways without paying attention.

DHS Paying Local Police Millions in Quieter Approach to Immigration Enforcement Facing public backlash, the Trump administration is outsourcing more immigration enforcement to local agencies and politically connected contractors.

Markwayne Mullin appears to be scaling back the visibility of ICE agents in enforcement, saying he’d “love to see” ICE spend more time doing “transport” and less on the “front line.”

One way to do that is by paying local police to take on more of the investigations and arrests of immigrants.

Boop!

Equally tiny and (to me) more surprising bee on the same flower - smallest Andrena miner #bee I’ve ever seen, thought it was a small sweat bee until I looked at the photos. (On Sisyrinchium angustifolium, blue-eyed grass.)

#bugsky #macrophotography #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

Hey #Atlanta and #Georgia. I keep a list of Atlanta and Georgia people posting on Bluesky. Please suggest more. bsky.app/profile/did:...