MTH
@megt.bsky.social
SFF author. PhD in mass comm, anthro/archaeo, folklore, environment. Freelance writer/editor. Grantmaking and public policy. Operator at defunct farm. Cheesehead 🧀 Badger alum. Reposts not necessarily an endorsement.
web: https://oaklandhillsfarm.com
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@megt.bsky.social
· Aug 17
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November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🔐 Account Security Thread 🔐
We're seeing an increased number of phishing and social engineering attempts targeting Bluesky users. While we're working hard to protect you, here are essential steps YOU can take to secure your account and stay safe. 1/10
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We're seeing an increased number of phishing and social engineering attempts targeting Bluesky users. While we're working hard to protect you, here are essential steps YOU can take to secure your account and stay safe. 1/10
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A monstrous, illegal waste of taxpayer dollars.
Donald Trump must confirm if this estimate is true and disclose the full total he's burned through with his unlawful military deployment into our cities.
The American people deserve to know.
Donald Trump must confirm if this estimate is true and disclose the full total he's burned through with his unlawful military deployment into our cities.
The American people deserve to know.
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A monstrous, illegal waste of taxpayer dollars.
Donald Trump must confirm if this estimate is true and disclose the full total he's burned through with his unlawful military deployment into our cities.
The American people deserve to know.
Donald Trump must confirm if this estimate is true and disclose the full total he's burned through with his unlawful military deployment into our cities.
The American people deserve to know.
Still getting tomatoes from my garden mid-November in Wisconsin!
Okay, granted, they were bag-ripened, but still they taste better than that mealy crap in the store ... 🌱
Okay, granted, they were bag-ripened, but still they taste better than that mealy crap in the store ... 🌱
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Still getting tomatoes from my garden mid-November in Wisconsin!
Okay, granted, they were bag-ripened, but still they taste better than that mealy crap in the store ... 🌱
Okay, granted, they were bag-ripened, but still they taste better than that mealy crap in the store ... 🌱
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Kurtz, R-Wonewoc...
Oh fuck off, Wonewoc, your nearest state land is fucking Buckhorn Lake. And you're damn well not *northern* Wisconsin, you useless suburb of Mauston!
Out of state trophy hunt concerns are buying up the Driftless and he's fucking around with *this*?
Oh fuck off, Wonewoc, your nearest state land is fucking Buckhorn Lake. And you're damn well not *northern* Wisconsin, you useless suburb of Mauston!
Out of state trophy hunt concerns are buying up the Driftless and he's fucking around with *this*?
November 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Kurtz, R-Wonewoc...
Oh fuck off, Wonewoc, your nearest state land is fucking Buckhorn Lake. And you're damn well not *northern* Wisconsin, you useless suburb of Mauston!
Out of state trophy hunt concerns are buying up the Driftless and he's fucking around with *this*?
Oh fuck off, Wonewoc, your nearest state land is fucking Buckhorn Lake. And you're damn well not *northern* Wisconsin, you useless suburb of Mauston!
Out of state trophy hunt concerns are buying up the Driftless and he's fucking around with *this*?
This is critical funding for natural resource programs in Wisconsin, funding everything from park maintenance activities to restoration and land acquisition of sensitive areas. 🌿
A Wisconsin Assembly committee deadlocked 6-6 Wednesday on a Republican-authored bill to prevent the broadly popular Knowles-Nelson Stewardship program from lapsing next year. @henry-redman.bsky.social reports on what's next wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/11/13/a...
Assembly committee deadlocks on bill to save stewardship program • Wisconsin Examiner
A Wisconsin Assembly committee deadlocked on a vote to recommend the passage of a Republican bill to save the state's stewardship program.
wisconsinexaminer.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This is critical funding for natural resource programs in Wisconsin, funding everything from park maintenance activities to restoration and land acquisition of sensitive areas. 🌿
This is not a chicken.
Filed under things that do not belong in my chicken house. 🐓
Filed under things that do not belong in my chicken house. 🐓
November 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is not a chicken.
Filed under things that do not belong in my chicken house. 🐓
Filed under things that do not belong in my chicken house. 🐓
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We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We have upgraded our geomagnetic forecast today (12 November 2025) to the highest intensity level amid an ongoing solar storm.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
Current predictions suggest that the activity will result in potentially the largest solar storm to hit our planet in over two decades.
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"We put someone with no experience in broadcast journalism in charge of a network news operation and you'll never believe what happened next" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"We put someone with no experience in broadcast journalism in charge of a network news operation and you'll never believe what happened next" www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Love this
At risk of flogging a dead horse: this whole letter is a reminder that the creative process is an end in and of itself, and vital to self-actualisation. You can’t experience BECOMING, as he puts it, by outsourcing it to ChatGPT.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond.
His reply was a doozy.
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Love this
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Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
Funding goal met! Onward to stretch goals, which include stories and ebooks.
The audacity! #Writers surviving cancer and still writing? After everything they've endured ... and they keep writing? Kickstarter for sff anthology of cancer survivors. Funding goal almost met.
🪐📚 #booksky
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sch...
🪐📚 #booksky
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sch...
ADVERSITY AND AUDACITY
Tales by Cancer Survivors
www.kickstarter.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Funding goal met! Onward to stretch goals, which include stories and ebooks.
The audacity! #Writers surviving cancer and still writing? After everything they've endured ... and they keep writing? Kickstarter for sff anthology of cancer survivors. Funding goal almost met.
🪐📚 #booksky
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sch...
🪐📚 #booksky
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sch...
ADVERSITY AND AUDACITY
Tales by Cancer Survivors
www.kickstarter.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The audacity! #Writers surviving cancer and still writing? After everything they've endured ... and they keep writing? Kickstarter for sff anthology of cancer survivors. Funding goal almost met.
🪐📚 #booksky
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sch...
🪐📚 #booksky
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sch...
Love that my local clinic's new parking facility is taking full advantage of a sunny day in November in the north wish all new construction (and updates) would do this 🌎
November 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Love that my local clinic's new parking facility is taking full advantage of a sunny day in November in the north wish all new construction (and updates) would do this 🌎
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The Union of Concerned Scientists (@ucs.org) is leading the charge to "Call out the Harm! Sound The Alarm!" regarding the Trump administration's relentless and harmful attack on scientific research & knowledge.
Here is a starter pack of scientists sounding that alarm.
go.bsky.app/RMo1iWM
Here is a starter pack of scientists sounding that alarm.
go.bsky.app/RMo1iWM
October 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The Union of Concerned Scientists (@ucs.org) is leading the charge to "Call out the Harm! Sound The Alarm!" regarding the Trump administration's relentless and harmful attack on scientific research & knowledge.
Here is a starter pack of scientists sounding that alarm.
go.bsky.app/RMo1iWM
Here is a starter pack of scientists sounding that alarm.
go.bsky.app/RMo1iWM
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Whenever I see an aerial/satellite view of LA I think that this should be done at Disneyland or Dodgers Stadium...the parking lots there could have >50MW of solar.
South Korea (hey how about it PM #MarkCarney?) #Solar #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...
New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms
Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports.
electrek.co
November 4, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Whenever I see an aerial/satellite view of LA I think that this should be done at Disneyland or Dodgers Stadium...the parking lots there could have >50MW of solar.
This morning's peaceful and bracing moment... 📷🌿
November 1, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This morning's peaceful and bracing moment... 📷🌿
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Looking like someone clawing their way up from the grave is the reason that this fungus🍄, Xylaria polymorpha, is sometimes called "Dead Men's Fingers".
Let's talk about how they might help remediate micropollution, with an ALMOST ZERO chance of turning people into zombies.
Let's talk about how they might help remediate micropollution, with an ALMOST ZERO chance of turning people into zombies.
January 8, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Looking like someone clawing their way up from the grave is the reason that this fungus🍄, Xylaria polymorpha, is sometimes called "Dead Men's Fingers".
Let's talk about how they might help remediate micropollution, with an ALMOST ZERO chance of turning people into zombies.
Let's talk about how they might help remediate micropollution, with an ALMOST ZERO chance of turning people into zombies.
I am a leaf
Golden and orange, a hint of green in my veins.
I cling to a twig,
Vibrant, even joyful, though I know my fall approaches
And soon I will be
So much brown litter
Gone to dust.
🍁🍂
Golden and orange, a hint of green in my veins.
I cling to a twig,
Vibrant, even joyful, though I know my fall approaches
And soon I will be
So much brown litter
Gone to dust.
🍁🍂
October 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I am a leaf
Golden and orange, a hint of green in my veins.
I cling to a twig,
Vibrant, even joyful, though I know my fall approaches
And soon I will be
So much brown litter
Gone to dust.
🍁🍂
Golden and orange, a hint of green in my veins.
I cling to a twig,
Vibrant, even joyful, though I know my fall approaches
And soon I will be
So much brown litter
Gone to dust.
🍁🍂
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Human footprints at White Sands have been dated to 23,000 to 20,000 years ago, really fascinating evidence of even earlier human arrival in the Americas www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 28, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Still relevant from June: Among all injustices, people often #protest most to losing their voice. We've lost our voices in Congress, in process, and in the rule of law. When⬆️in health & food costs meets heat bills & no action? Things get real. #polisky
oaklandhillsfarm.com/screw-us-and...
oaklandhillsfarm.com/screw-us-and...
Screw Us And We Multiply - M. Turville Heitz
What triggers people to get off the couch and take to the streets to protest? Here’s a hint: it’s about public participation.
oaklandhillsfarm.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Still relevant from June: Among all injustices, people often #protest most to losing their voice. We've lost our voices in Congress, in process, and in the rule of law. When⬆️in health & food costs meets heat bills & no action? Things get real. #polisky
oaklandhillsfarm.com/screw-us-and...
oaklandhillsfarm.com/screw-us-and...
TIL while stink bugs don't bite, they will give you a nickle-to-quarter-sized chemical burn if you roll over on them in the night. And the stench has a way of burrowing into your sinuses. The worst is I have to mostly "sit" on the burn. 🙄 🐛🌿(photo via Wikipedia)
October 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
TIL while stink bugs don't bite, they will give you a nickle-to-quarter-sized chemical burn if you roll over on them in the night. And the stench has a way of burrowing into your sinuses. The worst is I have to mostly "sit" on the burn. 🙄 🐛🌿(photo via Wikipedia)
