Rich Boone
@rdboone.bsky.social
Ecologist, former professor, progressive, ESL tutor, and runner who loves art. Proponent of social justice and critical thinking. Learning Spanish.
Smoky sky from forest fires in Fairbanks, Alaska.
June 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Smoky sky from forest fires in Fairbanks, Alaska.
I was recently in Europe. Headlines from a French business magazine and the UK’s The Economist.
May 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I was recently in Europe. Headlines from a French business magazine and the UK’s The Economist.
Inside headline in The Weekend Australian. Trump is good at destroying things. Raises the question, has he ever created something with enduring value? I can’t think of anything. Most of his creations have been abject failures.
March 23, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Inside headline in The Weekend Australian. Trump is good at destroying things. Raises the question, has he ever created something with enduring value? I can’t think of anything. Most of his creations have been abject failures.
For several hours this afternoon I visited the exhibit “Spinifex People: Art and stories from Pila Nguru” at the Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip in Perth, Australia. It gave me a break from the outside world. The exhibit is phenomenal. Below is the Kulyuru (2022) by Lennard Walker.
February 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
For several hours this afternoon I visited the exhibit “Spinifex People: Art and stories from Pila Nguru” at the Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip in Perth, Australia. It gave me a break from the outside world. The exhibit is phenomenal. Below is the Kulyuru (2022) by Lennard Walker.
At first I thought this was a joke. It’s a full page ad in today’s The Weekend Australian for a new political party called the Trumpet of Patriots, patterned after Trump. Really. And the chairman is the Queensland businessman Clive Palmer. Just weird.
February 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
At first I thought this was a joke. It’s a full page ad in today’s The Weekend Australian for a new political party called the Trumpet of Patriots, patterned after Trump. Really. And the chairman is the Queensland businessman Clive Palmer. Just weird.
I stand with Ukraine
February 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I stand with Ukraine
As Paul Krugman points out, the “federal work force that has been more or less flat for many decades, and has declined drastically relative to the size of the population it serves”
Source: Federal Reserve Economic Data
Source: Federal Reserve Economic Data
February 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
As Paul Krugman points out, the “federal work force that has been more or less flat for many decades, and has declined drastically relative to the size of the population it serves”
Source: Federal Reserve Economic Data
Source: Federal Reserve Economic Data
This morning I went on a long run on this trail, the Wadandi Track, from Margaret River to Cowaramup, Western Australia. It was a relief to take a break (mostly) from thinking about the chaos, cruelty, and dysfunction underway in the U.S. The trail is so beautiful and a balm for the soul.
February 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This morning I went on a long run on this trail, the Wadandi Track, from Margaret River to Cowaramup, Western Australia. It was a relief to take a break (mostly) from thinking about the chaos, cruelty, and dysfunction underway in the U.S. The trail is so beautiful and a balm for the soul.
Can’t the U.S. Capitol have restrooms like this? It’s not that hard to do! The sign is outside restrooms at the Seattle (US) airport.
January 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Can’t the U.S. Capitol have restrooms like this? It’s not that hard to do! The sign is outside restrooms at the Seattle (US) airport.
Will this apply to Hegseth, given his right wing nationalist tattoos? Article is in today’s local newspaper (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner) in Fairbanks, Alaska. Dan Sullivan, one of Alaska’s Senators, voted for Hegseth’s confirmation.
January 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Will this apply to Hegseth, given his right wing nationalist tattoos? Article is in today’s local newspaper (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner) in Fairbanks, Alaska. Dan Sullivan, one of Alaska’s Senators, voted for Hegseth’s confirmation.
Current temperature (F) & conditions in Fairbanks, Alaska. This is not normal, at least not till recently. January is the coldest month high with average daytime high of ~3F (-16C). Dangerous wet ice now on many roads. I saw a man with an umbrella while he carefully tried to cross an intersection.
January 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Current temperature (F) & conditions in Fairbanks, Alaska. This is not normal, at least not till recently. January is the coldest month high with average daytime high of ~3F (-16C). Dangerous wet ice now on many roads. I saw a man with an umbrella while he carefully tried to cross an intersection.