"Woke" up happy
@krohnam.bsky.social
Former Landscape Architect, bicycle commuter and native plant nerd.
Amen! I would add drivers. Children, pedestrians, bicyclists, roller bladers, skateboarders and all other vulnerable (soft shell) users have a right to safety.
Street safety is *not* a shared responsibility.
Rather, it's a responsibility borne by those who have the greatest power to make streets safer: Car companies, policymakers, and road designers.
Stop shifting blame on those walking, biking, and driving.
www.kqed.org/news/1206717...
Rather, it's a responsibility borne by those who have the greatest power to make streets safer: Car companies, policymakers, and road designers.
Stop shifting blame on those walking, biking, and driving.
www.kqed.org/news/1206717...
December 16, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Amen! I would add drivers. Children, pedestrians, bicyclists, roller bladers, skateboarders and all other vulnerable (soft shell) users have a right to safety.
Fall colors in southern Illinois: Wildcat Ridge
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Fall colors in southern Illinois: Wildcat Ridge
Cleaning up the garden and found a preying mantis patrolling the beans.
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Cleaning up the garden and found a preying mantis patrolling the beans.
Pretty good crowd at the Nebraska capitol
October 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Pretty good crowd at the Nebraska capitol
No Kings Lincoln NE
October 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
No Kings Lincoln NE
Thank you Dr. Jen
Dear Ezra Klein, bodily autonomy is not a bargaining chip. What rights are you willing to give up? Let’s see you walk the talk. The burger is on me. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...
Dear Ezra Klein, Bodily Autonomy Isn’t a Bargaining Chip
Let's see if you're willing to walk the talk
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Thank you Dr. Jen
This is great:
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The $7,500 EV tax credit is gone, but each gas car still gets $20k+ in subsidies
Fossil fuels benefit from $760 billion in direct and indirect subsidies in the US per year. How is that a "free market"?
electrek.co
October 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is great:
electrek.co/2025/10/01/t...
electrek.co/2025/10/01/t...
No, the military takes an oath to uphold the Constitution. This is an outright lie or plain stupidity. Which one is worse?
Hegseth to the military: "We all serve at the pleasure of the president, every single day."
September 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
No, the military takes an oath to uphold the Constitution. This is an outright lie or plain stupidity. Which one is worse?
Clean energy = cheap energy
Trump has problems with reality, clean energy is cheap energy. That means addressing global warming also reduces costs, as in increases affordability cepr.net/publications...
Slowing Global Warming Does Address Affordability
Solar, wind, and batteries are now the cheapest energy, but Trump’s fossil fuel agenda could raise US power costs.
cepr.net
September 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Clean energy = cheap energy
I think I captured & released a southern plains bumblebee during today's survey! #bumblebee
September 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I think I captured & released a southern plains bumblebee during today's survey! #bumblebee
September 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Clean energy isn’t “woke.” It’s an essential part of our energy future and saves us all on power bills.
This administration’s war on offshore wind and solar is just going to raise Americans’ utilities.
This administration’s war on offshore wind and solar is just going to raise Americans’ utilities.
August 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Clean energy isn’t “woke.” It’s an essential part of our energy future and saves us all on power bills.
This administration’s war on offshore wind and solar is just going to raise Americans’ utilities.
This administration’s war on offshore wind and solar is just going to raise Americans’ utilities.
I present to you my pitiful corn plot. We have one ear 🌽 #gardening
August 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I present to you my pitiful corn plot. We have one ear 🌽 #gardening
Nebraska needs this! The article links to an online poll and lists the town hall dates and locations. Get involved! People can safely stare at their phones on the train.
ALL ABOARD? A Nebraska state senator is traveling the state soon to seek public input on the possibility of the Legislature proposing to improve passenger rail service.
From Cindy Gonzalez:
From Cindy Gonzalez:
Lawmaker seeks statewide input on Nebraska passenger rail possibilities • Nebraska Examiner
A Nebraska lawmaker is hosting town halls across state to seek public opinion on improving passenger rail service options.
buff.ly
August 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Nebraska needs this! The article links to an online poll and lists the town hall dates and locations. Get involved! People can safely stare at their phones on the train.
Great year for plains sunflower. #prairie #sandhills
August 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Great year for plains sunflower. #prairie #sandhills
The unhinging of USA thanks to online lies
The Emory shooter was a regular visitor to right-wing social media accounts which persuaded him that the Covid-19 vaccine was to blame for all his personal medical problems. So he took his gun to shoot up the CDC, killing a policeman in the process.
Suspect and Officer Are Dead After Shooting Outside C.D.C. in Atlanta
www.nytimes.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The unhinging of USA thanks to online lies
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Tal as-Sultan is where, on May 26, 2024, Israel fired upon a tent camp of displaced Palestinians, killing at least 45-50, many of whom were burned alive, and injuring hundreds.
July 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Tal as-Sultan is where, on May 26, 2024, Israel fired upon a tent camp of displaced Palestinians, killing at least 45-50, many of whom were burned alive, and injuring hundreds.
Absolutely the worst, weak
“American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices & disgraceful decisions. But Chief Justice Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion.” @atrupar.com
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
The worst chief justice of all time
Move over, Roger Taney and Melville Fuller.
open.substack.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Absolutely the worst, weak
Love Rebecca Solnit
Wrote a thing: ...at the heart of it is another Trumpian Big Lie, that immigrants are a burden and menace. We need to fight the false story with a true one: this country needs its immigrants and they are a blessing and an enrichment of what this country is and in many ways its heart and soul.
Immigrants: A Love Letter
It has never been easy to be an immigrant to the United States – for most economic, linguistic, and cultural barriers make life here a struggle, even if they were escaping a worse life elsewhere. The ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Love Rebecca Solnit
Idiots
Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind.
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why.
Please share! This is really important!!!
@heatmap.news
How the Senate GOP’s New Tax on Renewables Could ‘Kill’ the Industry
As bad as previous drafts of the reconciliation bill have been, this one is worse.
heatmap.news
June 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Idiots
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June 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Truth!
"To our untrained eye, a corn field looks more 'natural' than an array of solar panels. But a corn field is a biological desert ... Put up some solar panels, and add some plants that only need to be mowed once a year or so (sometimes with sheep) and you see an explosion of life."
Buzzzzzzzzz
Something to actually do about insect decline
substack.com
June 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Truth!
I wore out this LP. Still have it. Might need to spin it again for old time's sake.
46 years ago today
Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by English post punk band Joy Division, released on this day in 1979 by Factory Records.
#punk #punkrock #postpunk #unknownpleasures #joydivision #history #postpunkhistory #otd
Unknown Pleasures is the debut studio album by English post punk band Joy Division, released on this day in 1979 by Factory Records.
#punk #punkrock #postpunk #unknownpleasures #joydivision #history #postpunkhistory #otd
June 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I wore out this LP. Still have it. Might need to spin it again for old time's sake.
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I would like my state, every state, to mandate badges, name plates, no masks, for all law enforcement in the state. And if federal agents try to break the mandate, arrest them, then let the courts sort it out.
June 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I would like my state, every state, to mandate badges, name plates, no masks, for all law enforcement in the state. And if federal agents try to break the mandate, arrest them, then let the courts sort it out.