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📷🦉 I Go Pogo
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Photographer of plants and birds and rocks and things, sand and hills and trees ... some systems ecology, some philosophy, some sci-fi-ery, and lots of internal bird-thought monologs
PDX-based Ph.D. Ecologist
Pinned
[updated repost--SRRR Workshop Nov. 29, 2023]

Short talk I gave last November ... I'm first speaker after the introduction, then in the Q&A section at:
~1:55:00 - 2:02:00, and
~2:06:00 - 2:14:00 🖖

#resilience
#society
#energydemand
#collapse
#ComplexSystems

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAFx...
SRRR Workshop Nov. 29, 2023
www.youtube.com
Circa 1995 ... so much has changed in three decades 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

www.gocomics.com/calvinandhob...
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 26, 2025 | GoComics
Read Calvin and Hobbes—a comic strip by creator Bill Watterson—for today, November 26, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!
www.gocomics.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Reposted by 📷🦉 I Go Pogo
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103.

12 days of work in 103 days.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
November 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The lighthouse at Jupiter Inlet sometime in 2017 ... below, behind, from the top ...

Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area managed by the Bureau of Land Management, Jupiter FL

www.blm.gov/programs/nat...
October 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
No, not 'thrush' ... I am a thrasher, I am off to THRASH!
[and, dude, clean your gutters ... geez😮]

📷 Brown Thrasher giving attitude on a roof in VA sometime in 2025
October 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Graham Platner '26 - candidate for ME Senate
Worth the 6mins ... skip to Graham taking a question from the audience and how he answered it ... this is what we need in the Senate, not 'concerned' Collins 🧙‍♂️🖖

#platner #maine #senate #waukeagneckoyster

www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
More Maine Democrats step up to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins
WBUR's Anthony Brooks introduces us to a Democratic hopeful who wants to win working-class voters with a populist economic message.
www.wbur.org
October 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Reposted by 📷🦉 I Go Pogo
wizard frog is insane
October 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Where is The Onion when we needed them? Writing for Politico it seems ...

Strange bedfellows ...

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
‘Blatantly unconstitutional’: Second Amendment groups slam floated gun ban for transgender Americans
Reports of the DOJ weighing restricting transgender Americans’ access to guns drew strong pushback from GOP-aligned gun advocates.
www.politico.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
As in Peter Pan and Battlestar Galactica ... "All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again"

Know history, and in this case, repeat it 🤯🖖

www.politico.com/news/magazin...
ICE Risks Overplaying Its Hand. We’ve Seen It Happen Before.
Militarized federal encroachments on public life provoke strong, even violent responses — even among those who agree with their aims.
www.politico.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Leaving no stone unturned ...

📷Ruddy Turnstone moving into winter plumage on the beach at Cape Henlopen State Park (MD) some few weeks ago

🦉 #bird #shorebird #turnstone #maryland #beach
September 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Sanderling solitude - "...just waitin' for my wave ..."

📷🦉 Sanderling at Cape Henlopen State Park (Lewes DE), just recently arrived from the Arctic Circle, August 2025

#bird #shorebird #sanderling #calidris #beach #ocean
August 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Spread the word to your friends in Maine, Graham is young, smart, honest, and won't tolerate this ongoing bullshit ... Collins had to go, Graham can get that done👍🖖

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Control of the Senate could be decided in Maine. This oyster farmer is vying to unseat Susan Collins.
Marine and Army veteran Graham Platner dives into one of the most closely watched races of 2026.
www.motherjones.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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NEW – Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @leohickman.carbonbrief.org @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/AvcB7Aw
August 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
My friend Wilson, right, left and center ...

📷 of Wilson's Phalarope in the Arapaho NWR Wildlife Auto Tour somewhat near Walden CO in 2025

Thus bagging of all three NA phalaropes, Red and Red-necked in Alaska, Wilson's in CO 🎉
No, I don't keep a list, just vague recall in my head😎
#birds #NWR 🦉
August 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Good, clear summary of the data thus far ... just the facts Ma'am!

theconversation.com/where-americ...
Where America’s CO emissions come from – what you need to know, in charts
Carbon dioxide emissions trap heat in the atmosphere, warming the planet. Too much CO2 can disrupt the climate and oceans.
theconversation.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
A better version of Swamp hibiscus ...

Along the Audubon Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary boardwalk 2025

#fujixt3 #flower #red #florida #corkscrewswamp #audubon
July 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Swamp hibiscus
Pond apple
Swamp lily

Audubon Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary 2025
Pixel 7 #pixel7
July 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him!"

📷 of a Broad-tailed Hummingbird watching over his territory ... left, right, center ... for his neighbor ...

[I didn't realize they watched STWOK]
July 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Dude, if you shoot thru the windshield with that lens, it won't work ...
OK, that's cheating putting the passenger window down ...
Go away, I'm trying to eat lunch here ... in peace ...

📷 Pronghorn in the Arapaho #NWR Wildlife Auto Tour along Colorado 125, Walden CO

#USFWS #colorado #arapahoNWR
July 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
So, just finished "Redshirts" by @scalzi.com ...
Yes, about a decade late on that one, so sue me ...
But, as Andy was making the delivery, I kept yelling "tell her" ...
Until ... Coda 3 ...
[chef's kiss]

Glad I got to the end before saying anything 😘
July 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Squalls surrounding all day, only saw a few drops make it to the ground ...

Landscape 📷 near the Arapaho #NWR Wildlife Auto Tour along Colorado 125, Walden CO

#USFWS #colorado #arapahoNWR #clouds #rainfall
July 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM