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Bronx/Queens/stuff in between/Summerville SC, former submariner, seasonal early voting official, Climate, Science, Nature! Blue 🏔️in a flat state. 💙
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RedOrDead, any bird with red in the capture but not on the bird or a photo of a bird on bare winter branches. Double-crested Cormorant doing a double take. Summerville, South Carolina
On this day in 1944, the Gestapo found Anne Frank and her family in their Secret Annex. Her diary stands as a warning against hatred and persecution. Eighty years later, we should recognize the warning signs before it’s too late.🙂↕️
I find Bradbury's short story There Will Come Soft Rains, which takes place today (Aug 4 2026), morbidly optimistic for two reasons: 1. People die instantly instead of dying to climate change and/or infighting and/or resource wars. 2. Smart homes work! short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
short-stories.co
Seen in Maggie Valley, NC. The once thought extinct Equus Explodus (commonly named after a small bean) in its original color of Jaundice Yellow™️. Though touted as an economy car it showed a surprising lack of Ford ability, but it did boast a robust 32 miles per car. Really cool! #Cars
After A Long, Hot Summer, "Climate-Hushing" Is Missing The Moment #ClimateChange cleantechnica.com/2026/08/02/c...
Climate Action, Not Climate-Hushing
Surveys show that "climate change" is not among the top issues for voters; nevertheless, climate voters are more motivated to vote.
cleantechnica.com
"The #climate we live in today is the least extreme climate you will experience in your lifetimes because of ongoing fossil fuel emissions."
Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 5d agoThe missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...
Ugh... failed open (old submarine term) at 4:45 this morning on the rare day when I'm going to be particularly busy. At least it won't be 100 degrees during my morning walk I guess... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eNJ...
The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night) - 1967
YouTube video by Polydor 1000
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My almost former state bird singing some Elton John: “Wren are you gonna come down?, Wren are you going to land?” GBYBR #BirdOfTheDay #OverTheRainbow (any bird looking up)
I already posted a heron photo for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #EgretsAndHerons so I figured I’d look for an Egret photo. I couldn’t find one, but I ran across another heron way over there on the far shore…
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EgretsandHerons. A Great Blue Heron not feeling very blue. Summerville, South Carolina
Why aren't Democrats (in their campaigns) talking about climate change? esp. now that it's getting worse. I was surprised to see this in The Hill. They're usually a bit conservative, not so much anymore. thehill.com/opinion/ener...
The climate crisis is here, it’s accelerating, and it demands action
A California resident and an Illinois congressman are calling for urgent federal action, including a Climate Bill of Rights for Homebuyers and increased financial oversight, to protect Americans fr…
thehill.com
This morning’s Jurassic jaunt past a raptor adapter and goose caboose. Summerville, South Carolina #BirdOfTheDay #YourChoice
We must remember that we share the planet, and must care for it rather than exploit it. All hands on deck. For the #birdoftheday theme of #yourchoice #birds #heron #protectnature #EastCoastKin #greatblueheron #nodatacenters #protectpubliclands
Morning wander to the pond down yonder. Summerville, South Carolina
It’s a Fair Question….. “Why is it that it takes 900 years and 5000 impact studies to build high speed rail but a 5 minute city council meeting is all it takes to approve a massive data center?”
The political right, in most of the developed world, is entirely captive to a fossil fuel lobby that understands awareness of, and action against, climate change, to be an existential threat Money today, or a habitable planet tomorrow? They choose the money. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As wildfires rage, the world is backsliding on climate action. This can’t go on | Bill McGuire
Five years ago, I wrote an open letter asking climate scientists to speak out. Now governments are in retreat, it is surely time to act, says climate professor Bill McGuire
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #DucksOutOfWater. Ding Dong - Avian calling… Summerville, South Carolina
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EmeraldBackdrop. Young Cardinal (I think) surprised to wake up in my backyard with a human thumb under its wing. I guess I better look around back there…
An old thread from the bad place about something toxic you may never have heard of: nurdles. I reproduce it here because it's emblematic of some important dynamics. Read on.
When you really want to continue the conversation but…
Niño malo "What makes this event so striking is how neatly it follows the super‑charged El Niño patterns that climate models have long projected for a warmer world." This El Niño is projected to be the largest in at least 150 years open.substack.com/pub/theclima...
This El Niño is projected to be the largest in at least 150 years
El Niño has always returned. What has changed is the world it now returns to.
open.substack.com
"But, I'm sure there's something in a shade of #grey or something in between" - Anna Begins, Counting Crows Oh, wrong bird.. Mocker can't mock with his mouth full... #BirdOfTheDay Summerville, South Carolina
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This President Exposed My White Christian Friends, and I'm Grateful
This President has been many things since descending an escalator a decade ago: a national embarrassment, a global punchline, an environmental disaster, a divider of people, a prolific murderer of the...
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I just found out today is the last day of #NationalMothWeek. The lambs were being pretty quiet about this. A few visitors to my front door. Feeble attempts at identification in the alt text.
