Brad
Brad
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Padres, Pearl Jam, Politics. Only two out of three are killing me. America’s Finest City.
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Another island extinction likely caused by invasive species.

Quote: "Perhaps somewhere, a small furtive family of shrews are hanging on, elusive survivors, secure in the knowledge of their own existence and waiting to prove the pessimists wrong."
news.mongabay.com/short-articl...
Christmas Island shrew officially declared extinct: IUCN
The Christmas Island shrew, a tiny mammal once found only on the Australian island of the same name, has been declared officially extinct. It’s at least the fourth small mammal species to be wiped out...
news.mongabay.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon become the third Indigenous government in North America to grant personhood rights to a river.

“The river is my grandfather.” @debkrol.bsky.social www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...
Colorado River Indian Tribes may grant personhood rights to 'living' river
The Colorado River Indian Tribes may soon give their eponymous river personhood status, following moves by other tribes and Indigenous peoples.
www.azcentral.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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On this day in 1964, a Humboldt National Forest Ranger gave a grad student permission to cut down an ancient bristlecone pine in Nevada, knowing that it was at least several thousand years old, but neither being aware that they were going to destroy the oldest known living thing on earth.
August 7, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Read John Hersey’s powerful, unforgettable August 1946 New Yorker article, “Hiroshima,” describing the horrific devastation of the city as recounted by six survivors: a clerk, a doctor, a tailor’s widow, a German priest, a surgeon, and a Methodist pastor—the first unvarnished account of the bombing.
Hiroshima
A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.
www.newyorker.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Sometimes one can find strange comfort in remembering that others have already seen our inexorable demise, and articulated even many decades ago what we're experiencing today. Take for example the poet Robinson Jeffers, writing in 1937 --
May 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM