Featherstone
@featherstone.bsky.social
Writer/photographer: Harper’s, NYT Mag, New Republic, etc. Currently outdoors reporter for Syracuse.com
This lady got lucky with a meteor streaking through her 20 sec exposure of northern lights on a cloudy night in upstate NY near the St. Lawrence River
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 AM
This lady got lucky with a meteor streaking through her 20 sec exposure of northern lights on a cloudy night in upstate NY near the St. Lawrence River
This is a picture of the northern lights in Central New York recently, taken from a suburb of Syracuse. Really crazy mix of light sources.
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
This is a picture of the northern lights in Central New York recently, taken from a suburb of Syracuse. Really crazy mix of light sources.
This is one of the best news stories you will read anywhere about ICE raids and how ordinary people helped one man barely escape a one way trip to some godawful detention center.
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...
When ICE came for Jeremy, Syracuse’s underground railroad helped him escape the country
Friends and family helped a well-known Syracuse man elude detention and flee to France
www.syracuse.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is one of the best news stories you will read anywhere about ICE raids and how ordinary people helped one man barely escape a one way trip to some godawful detention center.
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...
'Featherstone' is bourgeois folderol.
It's spelled 'Fetherstonhaugh,' you ignorant peasant.
featherstone.university
It's spelled 'Fetherstonhaugh,' you ignorant peasant.
featherstone.university
Featherstone University
featherstone.university
October 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
'Featherstone' is bourgeois folderol.
It's spelled 'Fetherstonhaugh,' you ignorant peasant.
featherstone.university
It's spelled 'Fetherstonhaugh,' you ignorant peasant.
featherstone.university
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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 🧵)
So this guy who's been fishing the Salmon River in upstate NY since there's been salmon in it catches a rare record-breaking pink salmon over Labor Day weekend, but DEC won't recognize it because they 'retired' the record last year.
Wot?
Wot?
This super-sized salmon just obliterated the New York State record—so why isn’t a state record?
DEC rules six-pound pink salmon ineligible for state record it "retired" the category
www.newyorkupstate.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
So this guy who's been fishing the Salmon River in upstate NY since there's been salmon in it catches a rare record-breaking pink salmon over Labor Day weekend, but DEC won't recognize it because they 'retired' the record last year.
Wot?
Wot?
Aug. 2001, WTC as seen from my fifth floor walkup on Erie St. in downtown Jersey City.
September 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Aug. 2001, WTC as seen from my fifth floor walkup on Erie St. in downtown Jersey City.
look at this insane native New York brookie... backcountry angling at its best
www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
Adirondack angler’s behemoth brook trout breaks NY state record
NY state record brook trout
www.newyorkupstate.com
July 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
look at this insane native New York brookie... backcountry angling at its best
www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
oh yeah? you think your Valentine is hot? did they go out in blizzard to build you an igloo out of ice?
www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
Central NY couple builds 8,000-pound igloo on Oneida Lake to fulfill childhood dream (video)
Noel McCarthy and Kimberly Bement teamed up to build a massive ice-block igloo on Oneida Lake.
www.newyorkupstate.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
oh yeah? you think your Valentine is hot? did they go out in blizzard to build you an igloo out of ice?
www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...
welp, we did it folks, we crossed the 1.5 degrees C threshold for one calendar year for the first time.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
2024 saw 1.5°C warming threshold breached | Semafor
The international 1.5°C target has not yet been missed, as this refers to a decades-long average, but last year’s record brings the world closer to doing so.
www.semafor.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
welp, we did it folks, we crossed the 1.5 degrees C threshold for one calendar year for the first time.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
screen capped this from a crazy video of the Palisades fire
January 10, 2025 at 12:54 AM
screen capped this from a crazy video of the Palisades fire
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The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky
If you could, please help us regain our following
Follow
Retweet and
Repeat ;-)
Together we can change the world.
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky
If you could, please help us regain our following
Follow
Retweet and
Repeat ;-)
Together we can change the world.
January 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ?
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky
If you could, please help us regain our following
Follow
Retweet and
Repeat ;-)
Together we can change the world.
So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky
If you could, please help us regain our following
Follow
Retweet and
Repeat ;-)
Together we can change the world.
This is how my cat hunts
December 10, 2024 at 2:45 PM
This is how my cat hunts
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I kind of hate this widely-shared chart. While our life expectancy is too low and our health expenditure is too high, they are actually not particularly connected to each other. Most of the excess mortality is caused by cars, guns, and drugs - things that health expenditure has little to do with.
December 9, 2024 at 4:13 PM
I kind of hate this widely-shared chart. While our life expectancy is too low and our health expenditure is too high, they are actually not particularly connected to each other. Most of the excess mortality is caused by cars, guns, and drugs - things that health expenditure has little to do with.
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I will never forget the time someone bought the domain name of Guy Fieri’s failed restaurant and posted this fever dream of a menu.
December 7, 2024 at 4:27 AM
I will never forget the time someone bought the domain name of Guy Fieri’s failed restaurant and posted this fever dream of a menu.
This place is getting serious. Been here since beta and my tiny follower count hasn't budged. Fine with me. More of a reader than a poster. But lately I've been getting tons of followers, so I changed my profile pic to the real me, replacing the pic of my spirit animal: 1980's-era Bryan Ferry.
December 4, 2024 at 5:55 PM
This place is getting serious. Been here since beta and my tiny follower count hasn't budged. Fine with me. More of a reader than a poster. But lately I've been getting tons of followers, so I changed my profile pic to the real me, replacing the pic of my spirit animal: 1980's-era Bryan Ferry.
I wrote about the Onondaga Nation, one of the six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, getting back a sliver of their ancestral homelands.
Onondaga Nation plans a wild future for 1,000 acres of reclaimed land
Honeywell turns over land in Tully Valley to Onondaga Nation in the one of the largest land transfers ever to an Indigenous nation.
www.newyorkupstate.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:04 PM
I wrote about the Onondaga Nation, one of the six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, getting back a sliver of their ancestral homelands.
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The moon overhead is not the moon
March 3, 2024 at 3:02 AM
The moon overhead is not the moon