Ann Tiplady
@anntiplady.bsky.social
Was a wildlife biologist, then was a farmer, now a writer. All the issues I care about rest on a foundation of healthy democracy. That's the big enchilada, isn't it? Find me at https://anntiplady.com
Yeah! Our first towhee! This garden is really starting to work. The towhee was particularly going after the red flowering currant berries. Red flowering currants are native here, and support lots o' insects (caterpillars & pollinators) and chickadees, wrens, sparrows, juncos, hummers, and towhees!
October 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Yeah! Our first towhee! This garden is really starting to work. The towhee was particularly going after the red flowering currant berries. Red flowering currants are native here, and support lots o' insects (caterpillars & pollinators) and chickadees, wrens, sparrows, juncos, hummers, and towhees!
Plants feed insects feed birds: it’s about the right plants and the more of them the better. It doesn’t have to be random or messy looking. It can be a highly structured garden that pleases the person who likes straight lines. I am wowed again by the humming insect universe that arrives for yarrow.
August 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Plants feed insects feed birds: it’s about the right plants and the more of them the better. It doesn’t have to be random or messy looking. It can be a highly structured garden that pleases the person who likes straight lines. I am wowed again by the humming insect universe that arrives for yarrow.
Been reading "The New New Thing" by Michael Lewis. Of businessman Doerr he says "He'd once told me that he didn't understand why business journalists thought businessmen would tell them the truth... A good businessman was obliged to manipulate public opinion ..." Sound familiar?
August 1, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Been reading "The New New Thing" by Michael Lewis. Of businessman Doerr he says "He'd once told me that he didn't understand why business journalists thought businessmen would tell them the truth... A good businessman was obliged to manipulate public opinion ..." Sound familiar?
Like birds? Want functioning ecosystems around us? Gotta embrace natural systems, starting in our gardens. anntiplady.com/green-worms-...
Green Worms Are Bad This Year - Ann Tiplady
An early experience shows that caterpillars have natural insect predators, and birds need caterpillars to raise their young.
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July 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Like birds? Want functioning ecosystems around us? Gotta embrace natural systems, starting in our gardens. anntiplady.com/green-worms-...
Drinking begets international camaraderie? anntiplady.com/message-in-a...
Message in a Bottle: Peace! - Ann Tiplady
American and Soviet biologists research walruses in the North Pacific and mend international tensions by drinking vodka.
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July 27, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Drinking begets international camaraderie? anntiplady.com/message-in-a...
Brandon Taylor has a wonderful introduction to a new (Jane Austen) "Persuasion". His description of Sir Walter Elliot amuses " ... cranky, somewhat addled elderly relation whose ways cannot be reformed and must simply be humored until they are out of earshot ... " time.com/7302901/jane...
'Persuasion' by Jane Austen Can Teach You How to Grow Up
Author Brandon Taylor argues that Jane Austen's novel 'Persuasion' illustrates how funny—and sad—adulthood can be.
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July 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Brandon Taylor has a wonderful introduction to a new (Jane Austen) "Persuasion". His description of Sir Walter Elliot amuses " ... cranky, somewhat addled elderly relation whose ways cannot be reformed and must simply be humored until they are out of earshot ... " time.com/7302901/jane...
This from almost a year ago. I question the value of keeping honey bees in a city, and question where the keepers think the nectar and pollen the hives need is supposed to come from. I plant to feed native bees, not someone else's livestock. Hmmph.
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Bees: the Good, the Bad, and the Unsustainable? - Ann Tiplady
A visit to a formal garden prompts the question of whether honey bees are sustainable, and concludes they are harmful to native wild bees
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July 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This from almost a year ago. I question the value of keeping honey bees in a city, and question where the keepers think the nectar and pollen the hives need is supposed to come from. I plant to feed native bees, not someone else's livestock. Hmmph.
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A friend has a buddleia in his back garden. Someone asks what it is. He says it's a "butterfly bush, but I never see any butterflies on it."
I don't say, but it and others displace the native plants that would actually support the caterpillars that would actually become the missing butterflies.
I don't say, but it and others displace the native plants that would actually support the caterpillars that would actually become the missing butterflies.
July 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A friend has a buddleia in his back garden. Someone asks what it is. He says it's a "butterfly bush, but I never see any butterflies on it."
I don't say, but it and others displace the native plants that would actually support the caterpillars that would actually become the missing butterflies.
I don't say, but it and others displace the native plants that would actually support the caterpillars that would actually become the missing butterflies.
This story about a dear friend was published in print last fall, and now here it is online! I love the artwork. www.boulevardmagazines.com/lifestyle/na...
Narrative: Victoria
I slipped into the little powder room to hide, until I’d collected myself. This was the powder room that Victoria had created not many months before – before the cancer diagnosis.
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June 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This story about a dear friend was published in print last fall, and now here it is online! I love the artwork. www.boulevardmagazines.com/lifestyle/na...
A quick, fun introduction to the importance of reason. The "shadow puppets" are wonderful. Watch, learn, and enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk7g...
Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: The long reach of reason
YouTube video by TED
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May 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A quick, fun introduction to the importance of reason. The "shadow puppets" are wonderful. Watch, learn, and enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk7g...
Page 54: "...a [nation] lies dying at our door, and here we [are] drinking coffee ... while just down the road children starve, the sick die and crooked politicians bankrupt the nation that was tricked into electing them." Published 2001, today these words are jumping off the page at me.
May 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Page 54: "...a [nation] lies dying at our door, and here we [are] drinking coffee ... while just down the road children starve, the sick die and crooked politicians bankrupt the nation that was tricked into electing them." Published 2001, today these words are jumping off the page at me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Th... Being reminded of YouTube's start 20 years ago, I recall first seeing this in about 2008(?). I thought "what a force for good!" It's charming, it's catchy, it's funny - it makes you like humans more.
Sweet Georgia Brown med traktorkomp
YouTube video by janakeragnar
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April 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Th... Being reminded of YouTube's start 20 years ago, I recall first seeing this in about 2008(?). I thought "what a force for good!" It's charming, it's catchy, it's funny - it makes you like humans more.
Recently had to login to IRS Direct Pay to pay our still owed 2024 taxes, and WOW, what an excellent website! This is clearly the work of dedicated civil servants over years. Very easy to use. Thank you to all the beleagured IRS workers!
April 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Recently had to login to IRS Direct Pay to pay our still owed 2024 taxes, and WOW, what an excellent website! This is clearly the work of dedicated civil servants over years. Very easy to use. Thank you to all the beleagured IRS workers!
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
April 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
I met one of these "little" people just recently, who had lost his crypto "investment". I held out my hands, wiggling my fingers to show "nothing here" saying "but crypto literally is nothing". He said "but the hype!" Trump Is Planning the Biggest Heist in History open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Trump Is Planning the Biggest Heist in History
The “strategic crypto reserve” will be a giant rug pull scam
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March 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I met one of these "little" people just recently, who had lost his crypto "investment". I held out my hands, wiggling my fingers to show "nothing here" saying "but crypto literally is nothing". He said "but the hype!" Trump Is Planning the Biggest Heist in History open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Trump Hates Canada for its Decency open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... Because why?
Trump Hates Canada for its Decency
The president lacks basic decency, and loathes people who do
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March 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Trump Hates Canada for its Decency open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... Because why?
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... Employing Americans to feed starving people isn't wasteful. Killing the program is. Not just wasteful, it's cruel.
USAID And MAGAville Georgia
The MAGA world has largely cheered the Musk/Trump/DOGE gutting of USAID because, after all, it is all about foreign aid. The argument is that we should be spending it here first, on Americans. What th...
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February 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025... Employing Americans to feed starving people isn't wasteful. Killing the program is. Not just wasteful, it's cruel.
Powerful stuff! youtu.be/rKBM2kS6B8o?...
A Sad Moment in American History
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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February 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Powerful stuff! youtu.be/rKBM2kS6B8o?...
You go Bernie! youtu.be/cQXl5JZG-C8?...
Bernie Sanders takes down Elon Musk and Donald Trump's "oligarchy" in intense speech
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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February 22, 2025 at 1:52 AM
You go Bernie! youtu.be/cQXl5JZG-C8?...
youtu.be/CVgNJf6CsBA?... This is a long talk, but terrific. I'm encouraged. I love "we rattle every single doorknob to see which ones get us somewhere." And over and over "learn your rights, know your rights!"
What’s Happening & How You Can Take Action | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
YouTube video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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February 7, 2025 at 5:16 AM
youtu.be/CVgNJf6CsBA?... This is a long talk, but terrific. I'm encouraged. I love "we rattle every single doorknob to see which ones get us somewhere." And over and over "learn your rights, know your rights!"
My relation (by marriage), Kalliopi Monoyios, is doing amazing art raising awareness of plastics, plastics, everywhere. I'm in awe. hopeintheplasticene.substack.com?r=33tr5&utm_...
Hope in the Plasticene | Kalliopi Monoyios | Substack
Learn with me as I navigate our plastic-saturated world. Fire up your curiosity and set aside the guilt because we're all in this together! The only way is forward. Click to read Hope in the Plasticen...
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February 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
My relation (by marriage), Kalliopi Monoyios, is doing amazing art raising awareness of plastics, plastics, everywhere. I'm in awe. hopeintheplasticene.substack.com?r=33tr5&utm_...
We marched with 100,000 people 8 years ago. All agreed with this guy.
January 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We marched with 100,000 people 8 years ago. All agreed with this guy.
Eight years ago a river in pink flowed - that spirit continues today!
January 16, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Eight years ago a river in pink flowed - that spirit continues today!
Been reading Robert Gottlieb's "Avid Reader." He tells of his teenage self finding a moral compass: "My ... first reading of "Emma" . When Emma behaves so rudely to poor, harmless, talkative Miss Bates in the famous scene of the picnic, I was [mortified]" He was connecting reading with himself.
February 27, 2024 at 5:52 AM
Been reading Robert Gottlieb's "Avid Reader." He tells of his teenage self finding a moral compass: "My ... first reading of "Emma" . When Emma behaves so rudely to poor, harmless, talkative Miss Bates in the famous scene of the picnic, I was [mortified]" He was connecting reading with himself.