Jean's Sands
@jeans-sands.bsky.social
- water, deserts, public lands, early New England - born in Boston, transported to dry eastern Washington when a preteen. Most likely to be found in the damp lands of western Washington -
If you sign up for @landdesk.bsky.social emails, you can read it your email, not on substack. more #BearsEars mining claims filed some history on the Lake Powell mining waste (more details than I knew) open.substack.com/pub/landdesk...
More mining claims staked at Bears Ears
Plus: The story of Lake Powell’s 26,000-ton pile of radioactive waste
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On Saturday at 11am AZ time (MST), you can join the livestream to watch the 2026 release of California Condors from Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona. It’s the 30th anniversary of the wildlife project that saved the species, known for the world’s largest wingspan, from total extinction.
Wonders around every corner
@canyonbirds.bsky.social · 6d agoVisitors to the region always want to go to The Wave and a few other Instagram spots. But there are millions of acres of public land here, so you don't need a permit, just a decent pair of trail runners and the ability to navigate. There are wonders around every corner. #scapes #hiking #ShotsInSlots
Dr. Earyn McGee@afroherper.bsky.social · 2d agoCan you #FindThatLizard?! 🦎 Lizards pant to cool themselves off when temperatures get too high! All animals need ways to cool down, lizards included, because they can overheat. Humans sweat, birds bathe or swim, and pigs roll in mud. So it makes sense that lizards would have a cooling strategy.
Every person running on the Dem side can say: 1. The GOP controls all branches of government. 2. Are you happy with how things are going? 3. Vote blue. 4. What do you have to lose? [use Trump's own words against him]. The end. lol.
Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 4d agoA post that’s so eye-opening because this is exactly what liberals will say is GOP distraction tactics, almost as a parody— and here it really is what Gaetz is saying unironically as his GOP message.
Is facebook charging everybody for using links, or is that only for pages?
I misread it as The Decorative Gourd Themes and was perplexed by the large cylindrical metallic object engraved with "It's decorative gourd season, motherfuckers" statuesquely standing in an autumnal park. Then I clicked the link and realized it is a Thermos www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...
I missed on the first read, this was a partnership with Ancestry. At least for now, those records on Ancestry are in front of the paywall. ScotlandsPeople and FindMyPast also have portals www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/...
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d agoNearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Caught a glimpse of Mount Rainier while driving up White Pass this morning. Always a shock this time of year to see so much more exposed rock and smaller and thinner glaciers than even 30 years ago. Mount Rainier National Park #nationalparks #climatechange #glaciers #mountains #MountRainier
It's ok to feel tired & overwhelmed It's good to take breaks Can't do all the things all the time, "some of the things some of the time" is fine! Collective action is a relay race What it is NOT is "get paralyzed & indulge in doomerism, surely that will convince someone else to fix it."
A thought exercise for transphobic Democrats: replace the "transgender" with "Jewish" in the ads and notice how uncomfortable you suddenly get. There is slightly more trans people in the U.S. (0.95%) than German Jews (0.75%) before the Holocaust. Can't you see how dangerous your slippery slope is?
Thomas [DARK MODE], DO@tom.medsky.social · last wk.Marcy Kaptur is the incumbent with a 5 point polling lead so I must assume she put out this ad because this is what she believes.
A very wet day indeed! Had to cancel some plans, but it's great to have everything thoroughly soaked before the next dry spell. Hopefully it keeps the wildfires damped-down until autumn rains put them out for good! #wawx
Hello good night Spouse dropped his phone It got run over by a pickup Tomorrow might be better?
“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.” ― Jo Walton #booksky #librarysky #books
#nightmusic Victor Démé, Burkina Faso🇧🇫, started as a club musician in Ivory Coast, returned to BF in his mid 20s & gained worldwide notoriety. He only lived to 53, dying of malaria, which is curable yet still kills over ½ M people each year. He left some quality music. Night. youtu.be/zlZ6T67tOus
Victor Démé - Yafaké (Clip Officiel)
YouTube video by Chapa Blues Records
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Good morning, woad!
Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · 2w agoThe #sciArtSeptember prompt is the colour woad, which is a soft indigo named for the natural plant dye made from Isatis tinctoris, called woad or dyer’s weed, a flowering plant in the Brassica family like mustard or cabbage. I remixed an illustration I made for “Meet the Pollinators” of
"The presence of armed officers could deter residents from casting votes or dropping off mail-in ballots and could fuel anxiety among election workers and volunteers, they said in the lawsuit."
BanmarNJ@banmarnj.bsky.social · 2w agoDenver Sues to Block Armed ICE Agents at Voting Sites The City of Denver and civil rights groups argued that sightings of ICE agents at polling places are having a chilling effect.
All it takes is one rat. Mount Baker-Snoqualmie NF usfs rangers acting as rats for ICE? Detaining happy campers? Making the outdoors dangerous for all? Making rangers hated and untrustworthy? Racial profiling!
Arlyssa D. Becenti ✍️🗞️@abecenti.bsky.social · 2w ago‘Labor Day weekend family camping trip ends in ICE raid’
Note that if you as a WA voter don't get your postal ballot you can go to the Secretary of State's office at votewa.gov and print out a ballot from the secure site.
VoteWA Voter Portal
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