Geoff Wisner
@geoffwisner.bsky.social
Author of A Basket of Leaves (2007). Editor of African Lives (2013), Thoreau's Wildflowers (2016), Thoreau's Animals (2017), A Year of Birds (2024), and George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries (January 2026!).
The visuals in this lengthy article (I didn't have the patience to read the whole thing) underline the insanity of this enormous vanity project by Mohammed Bone Saw of Saudi Arabia. But aside from two sentences, it barely hints at the human rights catastrophe.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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November 10, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The visuals in this lengthy article (I didn't have the patience to read the whole thing) underline the insanity of this enormous vanity project by Mohammed Bone Saw of Saudi Arabia. But aside from two sentences, it barely hints at the human rights catastrophe.
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Thoreau, Nov. 10, 1858. Some very handsome Solidago nemoralis [gray goldenrod] in bloom on Fair Haven Hill. (Look for these late flowers November flowers on hills, above frost.) [Photo UP Native Plants]
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thoreau, Nov. 10, 1858. Some very handsome Solidago nemoralis [gray goldenrod] in bloom on Fair Haven Hill. (Look for these late flowers November flowers on hills, above frost.) [Photo UP Native Plants]
Yesterday in Van Cortlandt Park.
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Yesterday in Van Cortlandt Park.
Thoreau, Sept. 30, 1854. The clear bright-scarlet leaves of the smooth sumach in many places are curled and drooping, hanging straight down, so as to make a funereal impression, reminding me [of] a red sash and a soldier's funeral.
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thoreau, Sept. 30, 1854. The clear bright-scarlet leaves of the smooth sumach in many places are curled and drooping, hanging straight down, so as to make a funereal impression, reminding me [of] a red sash and a soldier's funeral.
Kingfisher in Inwood Hill Park.
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Kingfisher in Inwood Hill Park.
Thoreau, Nov. 9, 1850. The pitcher-plant, though a little frost-bitten and often cut off by the mower, now stands full of water in the meadows. I never found one that had not an insect in it. [Photo Caleb Catto]
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Thoreau, Nov. 9, 1850. The pitcher-plant, though a little frost-bitten and often cut off by the mower, now stands full of water in the meadows. I never found one that had not an insect in it. [Photo Caleb Catto]
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I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
So the oldest person ever to become president keeps falling asleep in his office during public events and there’s no big public discussion on how this is a coverup or how republicans are lying to us about how this government is running?
November 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I am once again saying that we saw what wall to wall, panic coverage of a crisis looked like after the Biden debate and there’s no reason Trump isn’t getting that kind of coverage except for class solidarity.
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Folks this is not a candid shot of the man at 11PM on a weekend, this is what he was doing while sitting in the middle of an internationally broadcast major press conference in the Oval Office
He is cooked, get him out of there ASAP—before we find ourselves in the midst of a second Great Depression
He is cooked, get him out of there ASAP—before we find ourselves in the midst of a second Great Depression
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Folks this is not a candid shot of the man at 11PM on a weekend, this is what he was doing while sitting in the middle of an internationally broadcast major press conference in the Oval Office
He is cooked, get him out of there ASAP—before we find ourselves in the midst of a second Great Depression
He is cooked, get him out of there ASAP—before we find ourselves in the midst of a second Great Depression
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I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide.
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft.
What does OpenAI offer the world?
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damn that’s french as hell
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
damn that’s french as hell
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No one could accuse Donald of being woke.
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
No one could accuse Donald of being woke.
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Wowza! I spotted a Red-tailed Hawk hunting on the Harlem Meer's Duck Island, and when it took off, I was able to capture it at eye level! Yes, it's still peak foliage here! 😍😍😍 #Hawks #CentralPark #birding
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Wowza! I spotted a Red-tailed Hawk hunting on the Harlem Meer's Duck Island, and when it took off, I was able to capture it at eye level! Yes, it's still peak foliage here! 😍😍😍 #Hawks #CentralPark #birding
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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has responded to Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon after he called her a “witch”, saying, “If I had the power to make spells... I would use it to stop your crimes once and for all.”
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ihrv92
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November 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has responded to Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon after he called her a “witch”, saying, “If I had the power to make spells... I would use it to stop your crimes once and for all.”
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ihrv92
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ihrv92
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I remember reading a bunch of corporate media stories about Biden after he got new shoes with better support. Which, by the way, he did after he fractured his foot. bsky.app/profile/atru...
photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I remember reading a bunch of corporate media stories about Biden after he got new shoes with better support. Which, by the way, he did after he fractured his foot. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Thoreau, Nov. 8, 1850. When I lived in the woods the wasps came by thousands to my lodge in November, as to winter quarters, and settled on my windows and on the walls over my head, sometimes deterring visitors from entering. [Photo Fivespot Green Living]
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Thoreau, Nov. 8, 1850. When I lived in the woods the wasps came by thousands to my lodge in November, as to winter quarters, and settled on my windows and on the walls over my head, sometimes deterring visitors from entering. [Photo Fivespot Green Living]
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Israeli army carries out more demolitions of residential buildings east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli air attacks, demolitions rock Gaza despite ceasefire with Hamas
Israeli army carries out more demolitions of residential buildings east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Israeli army carries out more demolitions of residential buildings east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
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I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
November 8, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.
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Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.
So Academia turned my anthology of African memoirs into an AI comic. What's the worst that could happen?
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
So Academia turned my anthology of African memoirs into an AI comic. What's the worst that could happen?
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This has me thinking about a mahogany box lined in ruffled cream satin.
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This has me thinking about a mahogany box lined in ruffled cream satin.