Adam Old
@adamold.bsky.social
Cities, Transit, Housing, Ecology, Art, Neurobiology, Clouds, Rivers
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Our dystopian future is looking light, bright, and just a touch whimsical.
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Our dystopian future is looking light, bright, and just a touch whimsical.
Old article but still good. rethinkingchildhood.com/2017/04/27/t...
A rare glimpse into a messy oasis of adventure play
A compelling and moving illustration of the power of adventurous free play, now available online.
rethinkingchildhood.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Old article but still good. rethinkingchildhood.com/2017/04/27/t...
I'm proud to have been involved with this project from the beginning. Miami Homes For All's 3C Program aims to unlock access to existing Affordable Housing funding for small neighborhood property owners like Dr. Bestman.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHq2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHq2...
Inside Miami Homes For All’s Affordable Housing Initiative: Dr. Evalina Bestman’s Legacy in Action
YouTube video by Miami Homes For All
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I'm proud to have been involved with this project from the beginning. Miami Homes For All's 3C Program aims to unlock access to existing Affordable Housing funding for small neighborhood property owners like Dr. Bestman.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHq2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHq2...
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My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
Salmon clear last Klamath dams, reaching Williamson and Sprague rivers
Just a year after four dams were removed, a group of fall Chinook have migrated nearly 300 miles into the Upper Klamath Basin.
www.opb.org
October 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎
www.opb.org/article/2025...
www.opb.org/article/2025...
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It’s time for one of the easiest things you can do for wildlife: just #LeaveTheLeaves! Leaves are vital homes & winter shelter! 🐝
🍂 Follow our easy tips & meet the animals you’ll be saving ➡️ xerces.org/blog/leave-t...
🪧 Get your own yard sign, now available in English & Spanish ➡️ xerces.org/gifts
🍂 Follow our easy tips & meet the animals you’ll be saving ➡️ xerces.org/blog/leave-t...
🪧 Get your own yard sign, now available in English & Spanish ➡️ xerces.org/gifts
Leave the Leaves!
One of the most valuable ways to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter. Thankfully, all you need to do is do less yard work.
xerces.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It’s time for one of the easiest things you can do for wildlife: just #LeaveTheLeaves! Leaves are vital homes & winter shelter! 🐝
🍂 Follow our easy tips & meet the animals you’ll be saving ➡️ xerces.org/blog/leave-t...
🪧 Get your own yard sign, now available in English & Spanish ➡️ xerces.org/gifts
🍂 Follow our easy tips & meet the animals you’ll be saving ➡️ xerces.org/blog/leave-t...
🪧 Get your own yard sign, now available in English & Spanish ➡️ xerces.org/gifts
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If you are in Miami or nearby, take the PLEDGE to leave your car parked for one day during @transitmia.bsky.social Week Without Driving, Sept 29–Oct 5th. form.jotform.com/252584483392...
Week Without Driving 2025 - Pledge
Please click the link to complete this form.
form.jotform.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If you are in Miami or nearby, take the PLEDGE to leave your car parked for one day during @transitmia.bsky.social Week Without Driving, Sept 29–Oct 5th. form.jotform.com/252584483392...
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Despite everything I still have fundamental faith in the American people turning this around and making things better.
[reads any New York Times focus group]
Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]
[reads any New York Times focus group]
Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]
September 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Despite everything I still have fundamental faith in the American people turning this around and making things better.
[reads any New York Times focus group]
Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]
[reads any New York Times focus group]
Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]
Vertical schools and housing is a valuable idea for expensive neighborhoods in Miami. wsvn.com/news/local/m...
M-DCPS unveils first of its kind campus in Brickell - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale
MIAMI (WSVN) - Miami-Dade County Public Schools unveiled its new unique campus in the heart of Miami where teachers can live and work while their<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/new...
wsvn.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Vertical schools and housing is a valuable idea for expensive neighborhoods in Miami. wsvn.com/news/local/m...
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...
September 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...
If you are in Miami or nearby, take the PLEDGE to leave your car parked for one day during @transitmia.bsky.social Week Without Driving, Sept 29–Oct 5th. form.jotform.com/252584483392...
Week Without Driving 2025 - Pledge
Please click the link to complete this form.
form.jotform.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If you are in Miami or nearby, take the PLEDGE to leave your car parked for one day during @transitmia.bsky.social Week Without Driving, Sept 29–Oct 5th. form.jotform.com/252584483392...
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Something beautiful for the weekend!
An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!
The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.
West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University
#Archaeology
An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!
The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.
West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University
#Archaeology
September 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Something beautiful for the weekend!
An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!
The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.
West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University
#Archaeology
An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago!
The shell’s central display has been described as an example of aesthetic intention by the toolmaker.
West Tofts, Norfolk. 📷 MAA Cambridge University
#Archaeology
Using HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries to explain fission reactors to my kids. Very informative!
September 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Using HBO’s Chernobyl miniseries to explain fission reactors to my kids. Very informative!
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I love summer, and I hate the change of seasons. But eels change in excellent ways, so let's talk about that, instead!
That's right, friends...it's Big Eel Life Cycle Thread time!
Before we start, let's remember that I'm a historian, not a scientist. But I'll do my best. 1/11
🗃️🧪
That's right, friends...it's Big Eel Life Cycle Thread time!
Before we start, let's remember that I'm a historian, not a scientist. But I'll do my best. 1/11
🗃️🧪
September 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I love summer, and I hate the change of seasons. But eels change in excellent ways, so let's talk about that, instead!
That's right, friends...it's Big Eel Life Cycle Thread time!
Before we start, let's remember that I'm a historian, not a scientist. But I'll do my best. 1/11
🗃️🧪
That's right, friends...it's Big Eel Life Cycle Thread time!
Before we start, let's remember that I'm a historian, not a scientist. But I'll do my best. 1/11
🗃️🧪
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i've been thinking about donald appleyard's research on social interaction diagram a lot in relation to some of the topics in my book and some recent podcast discussions
specifically the social isolation crisis, and how we plan and build multifamily housing in the US today
specifically the social isolation crisis, and how we plan and build multifamily housing in the US today
August 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
i've been thinking about donald appleyard's research on social interaction diagram a lot in relation to some of the topics in my book and some recent podcast discussions
specifically the social isolation crisis, and how we plan and build multifamily housing in the US today
specifically the social isolation crisis, and how we plan and build multifamily housing in the US today
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In the heat, carrying an umbrella -- your own shade -- clearly makes an enormous difference.
Also, cities should keep planting more trees!
Also, cities should keep planting more trees!
August 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
In the heat, carrying an umbrella -- your own shade -- clearly makes an enormous difference.
Also, cities should keep planting more trees!
Also, cities should keep planting more trees!
Birds aren't real. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
www.youtube.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Birds aren't real. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
Free parking is never free. youtu.be/BujZfaz6wBo
Parking Is Never Free.
YouTube video by Urban3
youtu.be
July 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Free parking is never free. youtu.be/BujZfaz6wBo
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Verily, it is one of the universe’s great mysteries as to why the American public is no longer obsessed with Suffering From Inflation™️ & is now just “learning to live” with it
July 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Verily, it is one of the universe’s great mysteries as to why the American public is no longer obsessed with Suffering From Inflation™️ & is now just “learning to live” with it
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The Turkeyfeather Fire in the Gila Wilderness, NM has burned as a low-severity fire over about 24,000 acres (so far). This is a continuation of a fire regime that existed for millennia before the 20th century. This 🧵reviews the fire history of the Gila, as my colleagues and I have studied it. 1/18
July 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The Turkeyfeather Fire in the Gila Wilderness, NM has burned as a low-severity fire over about 24,000 acres (so far). This is a continuation of a fire regime that existed for millennia before the 20th century. This 🧵reviews the fire history of the Gila, as my colleagues and I have studied it. 1/18
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Rip current eddy, Miami Beach. @everglades_mike
April 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Rip current eddy, Miami Beach. @everglades_mike
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July 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM