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❗️RETWEET if you stand with President 🇺🇦Zelensky!
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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From my morning walk, some Thursday purple bloomscrolling and thick trunk Thursday in one photo!
Close up of a tibouchina princess flower bud just beginning to open.below are the bright red brown of newly fallen redwood fronds. Background are redwood trees and a burnt out redwood stump as well as fern. I guess it's hard to see how big the tree trunks are.
November 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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#fungifriends #morningwalk
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More morning walk mushrooms. Can you find the fakes?
A group of large amanita mushrooms surrounded by mianthemum. The mushrooms are red in their centers and orange at the edges. A large bolete mushroom on the left surrounded by fern and salal. On the right are homemade cement mushrooms. They were meant to be comically oversized but they are just the same size as the natural bolete. Behind them is a large redwood tree.
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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#fungifriends
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Yet more shrooms! It's been raining mushrooms here.
A large tan bolete with it's cap at a jaunty tilt rising out of freshly fallen redwood fronds. Background of fern and salal. I call these scraggley white skinny mushrooms "beansprouts". They are about 4" tall against a dark forest path beside small fern.
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
humdog.bsky.social
Yet more shrooms! It's been raining mushrooms here.
A large tan bolete with it's cap at a jaunty tilt rising out of freshly fallen redwood fronds. Background of fern and salal. I call these scraggley white skinny mushrooms "beansprouts". They are about 4" tall against a dark forest path beside small fern.
November 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
humdog.bsky.social
More morning walk mushrooms. Can you find the fakes?
A group of large amanita mushrooms surrounded by mianthemum. The mushrooms are red in their centers and orange at the edges. A large bolete mushroom on the left surrounded by fern and salal. On the right are homemade cement mushrooms. They were meant to be comically oversized but they are just the same size as the natural bolete. Behind them is a large redwood tree.
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
humdog.bsky.social
Some mushrooms from my morning walk.
#fungifriends
Two large amanita mushrooms under rhododendron foliage. The larger shroom has two giant bites out of it. Truly, the only creature possible would be deer and even then they're too big. A group of pale orange mushrooms. Three are intact and holding water in their "cups". Three have fallen over revealing their pale streaks. I call them golden chalice but they could be chanterelle.
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Please wish this girl a happy 10th birthday! Time has flown by since her gotcha day just over 8 years ago. We got a soggy windy walk in this morning and now it's snuggle time!
#dogsofbluesky #morningwalk
White dog with black spots and speckles pauses from a zoom in the forest to look at the camera for a second. She is wagging in her blue harness and collar and looks like she doesn't really need a birthday cake (but will have some anyway!) Soggy ferns and pathway behind her and a glimpse of the now full stream to the left.
November 5, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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As the white majority in the US gets slimmer, hardcore racists are exploiting the downward mobility of politically influential middle-class whites by blaming encroaching pluralism rather than exhausted capitalism. This lets them obscure the exploitation of nonwhite people and impede solidarity.
October 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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and if you aren’t able to give, please share! here’s the direct link from @mjamurphy.bsky.social:
October 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I love using the real-time analytics in my shop, but it can be a little depressing... like now! 😔😅 ⬇️
Please do me a favour & go and browse my shop... you might even see a Christmas gift for a bird lover! 🙏🎁😀
Here's the link to my shop;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦❤️
Real time analytics on my website showing no visitors to my shop and no orders today
October 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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I’m so sick of the economic issues are more important than social issues people. 44% of the US is non-white, 30% are white women. We’re all included in “DEI,” a group they’re trying to kick out of the job market. It’s hilarious that anyone thinks they can have an economy without us.
October 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Some cool mushrooms from today's morning walk. This time of year you don't get blossoms blooming but you do get a wide variety of mushrooms.
Close up of three small clusters of ivory colored mushrooms that look like coral. Each are less than an inch tall and are partly covered in forest duff.
October 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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From my morning walk, crossing the giant mossy log bridge. I've been afraid to cross it but have been tempted to. Thought I should do it before the moss gets all soggy again this winter.
View of a fallen tree trunk completely covered in moss between two mossy boulders over a stream onto a rocky dry stream bed. The boulders have fern and oxalis on them. View from the stream bed up to the root area of the fallen tree. The tree trunk is about 4 feet across. To the right is a tangle of fallen branches and trunks that blocked lots of rock behind them during last year's rainy season beginning to create a new waterfall. Background is dense forest of mainly redwoods with some mossy alders and tons of sword ferns.
October 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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From a morning walk this week, threading a needle in nature.
A stream bed dry at the moment with river rocks in grays and browns. Atop the rock is a strange tree part propped upright. Kinda looks like a wishbone but the thick part forms a loop of twisted wood. Inside the loop is a long branch, perfectly threading the hole. Background is ferns, salal and redwoods.
October 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Oddity on morning walk. You've heard of forest bathing but what about forest boating?
Very green forest scene of thimbleberries, alder, salal and redwood behind an 8 foot wire fence. Beyond the bushes there is the top half of a boat, probably a fishing vessel. We are 2 miles from the Pacific Ocean so I bet they're not catching fish. Maybe banana slugs?
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Hearing a call for dog photos. This one here has taken to stopping where the path is narrow, looking back over her shoulder with a grin and lots of wags and blocking me in until I give her buns or forehead scritches! After I obey she zooms off racing to the next narrow path. #dogsofbluesky
Shiny black McNab mix dog with white front boots, white tip of tail and a white fur "collar" standing between salal and fern looking back as described above. She had a bath Sunday because she rolled in something very stinky so now she is shiny and smells good. Until she finds something else to roll in.
October 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Mushrooms on my morning walk. Boletes this time.
#mushrooms #morningwalk
5 medium sized bolete mushrooms. One is alone and free of brush covering in front of four others very close together, tops squishing into each other. The shrooms are surrounded by fresh redwood fronds, wild blackberry and salal.
October 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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From my morning walk. Mushrooms!
An orange mushroom next to a redwood stick atop redwood fronds and moss. I call it an orange chalice but it could be a chanterelle.
October 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Today is the last day of our online auction to raise money to keep Western Hills Garden chugging along. Some amazing opportunities to stay here and wake up to the beauty of this place. Great hiking/biking/winetasting—15 minutes from the Russian River and 15 minutes from the ocean/Bodega beaches.
Online Auction 2025 by Western Hills Garden
Help Western Hills Garden meet their fundraising goal by sharing this campaign.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Memphis writer Dan Conaway, who helped found the @dailymemphian.bsky.social & comes from a century of local journalism, has just been censored by his own publication.

Here’s the column they wouldn't run.

Please consider writing:
barnes@dailymemphian.com
mcashiola@dailymemphian.com

Stand with Dan.
"Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city – then your state, then your region, then your country." My father was explaining to me when I was 11 or 12 why he went to war when he didn't have to. He was driving me to Boy Scout camp, and we had some time to talk. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, he was an engineer, and his company had government contracts that could keep him here. At almost 33, he was also getting long in the tooth for war. My mother would also have me tell you he also had two small children, my brothers, one eight months, and the other five. He joined the Navy a week after Pearl Harbor. "Those are the priorities in the order of priority," he continued. "But if your country is threatened, really threatened, everything flips. If your country, this country, falls, everything in that lineup falls, everything in that lineup is at mortal risk." "So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered. Last week, I shared the mayor's plan for peacefully enduring, if not gaining, from the National Guard presence in our city. That was last week. This week changed everything. This week, the president called an extraordinary meeting. He and the secretary of defense addressed a room of some 800 generals and admirals called from their command posts around the world to hear the president's words in Virginia. He told our country's top brass their attention would soon be turned inward. That they would be commanding military operations in our cities against the "enemy within." Further, he said that they should hold military training exercises in our cities. Never mind what Secretary Hegseth told them. His message was as empty as his suit. He basically told them they had to shave and lose weight. The Commander in Chief told them their enemies are Americans, and that their field of battle would be Democratic cities. The great power and might of America's military would be turned toward its own. Toward here, people. Not here in general terms, here in very specific terms. Memphis is an official battlefield. "Family and friends," he said, "then home – where you live, your neighborhood, your town, your city ..." As the rest of the world rages, the president told his top military leaders that we will disengage from the protection of our interests and those of our allies and attack the political enemies of our president, root out the "radical left," crush "the woke," seal our borders against mighty Venezuela, and reduce blue cities and states to whimpering vassals of the federal government. The president who would be king. Before this week, he commanded the justice department to intimidate and threaten, even indite, his political enemies including a former director of the FBI, and DA's in Georgia and New York. A president can't do that. Not just because it's blatantly personal and political. Not just because it's abuse of power, petty, and childish. Because most if not all of what he's doing is straight-up, in-your-face, unconstitutional. It is, in fact, just the latest additions to the long list of unconstitutional that defines the dangerous actions of this man. You know this is wrong. No what-about this or that. You know this is wrong. No bemoaning the awful state of something or somewhere. You know this is wrong. Nothing excuses this. Nothing. Now, he has openly told the military that anyone in America that challenges him is the enemy, and where they live the new front. The National Guard deployed here will be unarmed and have no power to arrest. They are a camo-covered smokescreen, eye candy for the cameras disguising what will really be going on, click bait for the internet. We now know that Trump and his minions are sending hundreds of ICE agents and FBI agents to Memphis, not to mention a small army of Justice Department prosecutors and investigators. The mission is to arrest, prosecute, incarcerate/deport as many people as possible. Pam Bondi, U.S. Attorney General, was here this week to tell us that, along with Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, and Stephen Miller, Trump's Deputy Chief of Staff. Not to mention, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, looking very much like he was waiting to be told wat to do, bless his heart. Here, ready to rumble. Who wasn't here or invited was Steve Cohen, the duly elected Democratic representative in Congress of all the people who will be in that rumble. Republicans should be every bit as alarmed as Democrats – every American should – because every time Trump stomps on the Constitution, he leaves that boot print on every one of us. Or, as the very first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, famously put it, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Due process and habeas corpus are becoming quaint reminders of a once proud nation of constitutional laws and justice. What happened in that room in Virginia this week, and what happened out at Shelby Farms give us more than a hint of what could follow the National Guard to Memphis. "So, I'll know when it's country first?" "You'll know," he answered. One man has put 340 million people at risk of losing this democracy. Just as surely as he's made the Oval Office look like a bad imitation of royal chambers at Versailles, just as surely as he's made the majority of both house of Congress look like lackeys waiting to empty the king's chamber pot, just as surely as he's turning the Constitution into a Mara-a-Lago doormat, just as surely, he's coming for us. You're right, Dad. I know. I'm a Memphian, soon under siege. (Lt. Frank E. Conaway Sr., 1943)
October 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
August 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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@pbump.com ???
johnpfaff.bsky.social John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · Sep 3
I was just looking at the FBI's always-terrible Crime Data Explorer page, and honestly?

What on EARTH is this graph? Literally incomprehensible.
y1-axis is total arrests, y2-axis is unrelated percent coverage, x-axis is undefined bc I set it to just one year of data.
September 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM