Jen Walker
@jenthefar.bsky.social
head in the clouds, bare feet on the ground, dog(s) by my side
from the Finger Lakes, survived LES NYC in the 80s, and after far too many forwarding addresses, settled in Cascadia
from the Finger Lakes, survived LES NYC in the 80s, and after far too many forwarding addresses, settled in Cascadia
"According to the class action lawsuit, PetSafe failed to disclose that its electronic ‘shock’ collars were not “harmless” as advertised and could allegedly cause physical and psychological harm."
$1.9M PetSafe electronic collar class action settlement
PetSafe and parent company Radio Systems Corporation have agreed to a $1.9 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims it failed to disclose that its electronic collars were potentially ...
topclassactions.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"According to the class action lawsuit, PetSafe failed to disclose that its electronic ‘shock’ collars were not “harmless” as advertised and could allegedly cause physical and psychological harm."
"Today on The Score we will explore films that celebrate the cultures that preceded Western colonization..."
The Pride of Indigenous Peoples | The Score with Edmund Stone
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November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"Today on The Score we will explore films that celebrate the cultures that preceded Western colonization..."
November 9, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Reposted by Jen Walker
“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
Jack Kerouac on kindness, the self illusion, and the "Golden Eternity" – wonderful letter to his first wife turned lifelong friend www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/12/j...
Jack Kerouac on kindness, the self illusion, and the "Golden Eternity" – wonderful letter to his first wife turned lifelong friend www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/12/j...
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
Jack Kerouac on kindness, the self illusion, and the "Golden Eternity" – wonderful letter to his first wife turned lifelong friend www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/12/j...
Jack Kerouac on kindness, the self illusion, and the "Golden Eternity" – wonderful letter to his first wife turned lifelong friend www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/12/j...
Words that might help us live, not just survive.
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Words that might help us live, not just survive.
"Say over and over the names of things,
the clean nouns: weeping birch, bloodstone, tanager,
Banshee damask rose. Read field guides, atlases,
gravestones."
the clean nouns: weeping birch, bloodstone, tanager,
Banshee damask rose. Read field guides, atlases,
gravestones."
A Charm Against the Language of Politics by Veronica Patterson — THE MOVING PEN with Sharon Singer
I want to get up early one more morning, before sunrise. Before the birds, even. I want to throw cold water on my face and be at my work table when the sky lightens and smoke begins to rise ...
www.sharonsinger.ca
November 6, 2025 at 3:01 AM
"Say over and over the names of things,
the clean nouns: weeping birch, bloodstone, tanager,
Banshee damask rose. Read field guides, atlases,
gravestones."
the clean nouns: weeping birch, bloodstone, tanager,
Banshee damask rose. Read field guides, atlases,
gravestones."
Triumph of the trumpeter swans | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service share.google/Q8BiK7yfjEzC...
November 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Triumph of the trumpeter swans | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service share.google/Q8BiK7yfjEzC...
"Businesses stepping up to keep individual parks open during the shutdown represent one side of two dueling narratives swirling around national parks as the shutdown extends over a month."
In the Bay Area, donors are doing everything to keep iconic park open
Companies donated money to keep Muir Woods National Monument open.
www.sfgate.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"Businesses stepping up to keep individual parks open during the shutdown represent one side of two dueling narratives swirling around national parks as the shutdown extends over a month."
"Worlds end when dogs die; eras come to a close. We three are living at the very end of an age."
Loving an old dog
This isn't a sad pet story
mzharrison.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"Worlds end when dogs die; eras come to a close. We three are living at the very end of an age."
"Disobeying and dominating the laws, rhythms and shape of nature, as seen in the seasonal exploitation of human energy and labor via daylight saving time, perpetuates the unparalleled social and environmental decline uniquely characteristic to the current capitalist era."
An Indigenous approach shows how changing the clocks for daylight saving time runs counter to human nature – and nature itself
While the rest of nature rises and slumbers to lunar and solar cycles, humans work and sleep to the resetting of their artificial clocks.
theconversation.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
"Disobeying and dominating the laws, rhythms and shape of nature, as seen in the seasonal exploitation of human energy and labor via daylight saving time, perpetuates the unparalleled social and environmental decline uniquely characteristic to the current capitalist era."
"This twelve-year-old Aussie has taught me more about living life than I could ever read in a book. He lives in the moment and has no regrets, guilt, shame, or embarrassment over his “condition.”
TICK TICK BOOM!
A Moment of Connection and Gratitude
kimberlyhowatt.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"This twelve-year-old Aussie has taught me more about living life than I could ever read in a book. He lives in the moment and has no regrets, guilt, shame, or embarrassment over his “condition.”
"I cannot believe that in the United States I am writing about protecting pets from tear gas, pepper balls, smoke grenades, and similar crowd-control tools have continue to be deployed by ICE agents,"
Pets and ICE - this article covers more ground than just the headline.
Pets and ICE - this article covers more ground than just the headline.
Protecting Pets from ICE and Tear Gas
I cannot believe that in the United States I am writing about protecting pets from tear gas, pepper balls, smoke grenades, and similar crowd-control tools have continue to be deployed by ICE agents, e...
stevedalepetworld.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"I cannot believe that in the United States I am writing about protecting pets from tear gas, pepper balls, smoke grenades, and similar crowd-control tools have continue to be deployed by ICE agents,"
Pets and ICE - this article covers more ground than just the headline.
Pets and ICE - this article covers more ground than just the headline.
One Big Frog, or a multitude? The debate continues!
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
October 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
One Big Frog, or a multitude? The debate continues!
“It's not just butterflies. Every organism is linked to their habitat,” James said. “Without the habitat, they don't exist. There can be no endangered species protection without that, really.”
Habitat, butterflies, rewilding, and redemption...
Habitat, butterflies, rewilding, and redemption...
On a wing and a prairie: Puget Sound butterfly avoids extinction with human help
In a prairie full of wildflowers, Erica Henry got down on all fours, then ducked under a low mesh tent, one of 10 homemade enclosures dotting the open space of Scatter Creek Wildlife Area south of Oly...
www.kuow.org
October 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“It's not just butterflies. Every organism is linked to their habitat,” James said. “Without the habitat, they don't exist. There can be no endangered species protection without that, really.”
Habitat, butterflies, rewilding, and redemption...
Habitat, butterflies, rewilding, and redemption...
"The variety of plant types will provide habitat for insects, as well as other wildlife. Encouraging beneficial insects can improve pollination in the vegetable garden and home orchard, increasing food harvest."
Encouraging beneficial insects in the garden
Beneficial insects prey on garden pests, pollinate plants and provide a range of benefits to the gardener. Learn how to create a garden space that provides food, habitat and diverse plants that suppor...
extension.oregonstate.edu
October 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"The variety of plant types will provide habitat for insects, as well as other wildlife. Encouraging beneficial insects can improve pollination in the vegetable garden and home orchard, increasing food harvest."
"Descartes and the behaviorists willfully saw dogs as machines, without feeling. Is seeing plants as without feeling a similar arrogance? One way to stop seeing trees, or rivers, or hills, only as “natural resources,” is to class them as fellow beings — kinfolk."
A part of, not a part from...
A part of, not a part from...
Subjectifying the Universe: Ursula K. Le Guin on Science and Poetry as Complementary Modes of Comprehending and Tending to the Natural World
“Science describes accurately from outside, poetry describes accurately from inside. Science explicates, poetry implicates. Both celebrate what they describe.”
www.themarginalian.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
"Descartes and the behaviorists willfully saw dogs as machines, without feeling. Is seeing plants as without feeling a similar arrogance? One way to stop seeing trees, or rivers, or hills, only as “natural resources,” is to class them as fellow beings — kinfolk."
A part of, not a part from...
A part of, not a part from...
"How No Kings Embraced the Good Kind of Weird—and Won the Normies
In New Braunfels, Texas, a red county turned out against Trump, and made a joyous noise..."
"But around the country, we’re seeing a parallel evolution: whimsy as the logical response to MAGA’s nonsense."
In New Braunfels, Texas, a red county turned out against Trump, and made a joyous noise..."
"But around the country, we’re seeing a parallel evolution: whimsy as the logical response to MAGA’s nonsense."
How No Kings Embraced the Good Kind of Weird—and Won the Normies
In New Braunfels, Texas, a red county turned out against Trump, and made a joyous noise that was as American as apple pie ... or a fighting unicorn.
newrepublic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"How No Kings Embraced the Good Kind of Weird—and Won the Normies
In New Braunfels, Texas, a red county turned out against Trump, and made a joyous noise..."
"But around the country, we’re seeing a parallel evolution: whimsy as the logical response to MAGA’s nonsense."
In New Braunfels, Texas, a red county turned out against Trump, and made a joyous noise..."
"But around the country, we’re seeing a parallel evolution: whimsy as the logical response to MAGA’s nonsense."