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TexEnt
@treedweller.bsky.social
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Investing in trees pays huge dividends. @inaturalist.org is real life pokemon. Texas is home and MAGA can’t have it. LMK if you see the Entwives.
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A classical painting with a man in prayer being attacked by four demons. He is labeled “Trees” and the demons labeled “Cut em nice and flush,” “Thin em for airflow,” “Top em so they don’t get too tall,” “Raise em up high so they get tall faster.”
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Dead oak tree (drought)
12.5” diameter at stump.

Saw bar 12”.

Landed exactly where I planned.

I still got it.
The surface of a stump showing a broken hinge 20% the width of the tree. The front face slopes down 10° and the back cut is almost perfectly parallel, except for the end where the tip of the saw didn’t quite reach across the stump. It is an unusually thick hinge because the wood is very dry and brittle. Saw was stowed and tree pushed down.
November 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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“Try me, I will fuck you up.”

Share an angry bird and the curse you think it embodies.
A cardinal mid-molt stands on the edge of a large saucer of water looking belligerent.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Ducklings!
A pair of black-bellied whistling ducks swims at either end of a cluster of a dozen or so ducklings. The adults are mostly a smooth caramel color with bright, pink bills. The babies have a black and yellow pattern with nondescript gray bills.
October 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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More #Spider mama
October 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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A proud new #spider mama
October 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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They move, too
October 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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A family of black-bellied whistling ducks was raised here this year. The adults look almost identical but the babies are colored completely different.
Two adult ducks swimming about ten feet apart with over a dozen ducklings clustered between them.
October 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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An Eyebeam comic by Sam Hurt showing a man painting a wall with a roller while a robot paints a still life on an artist’s canvas.
July 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT Facing a rising tide of last-minute immigration petitions resulting from the Executive's recent efforts to promptly execute removals on timelines that leave little room for orderly proceedings, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland borrowed a page from the Fourth Circuit and issued a standing order to ensure that the district and its judges would have a brief interval to docket and resolve habeas petitions seeking immediate relief in the immigration context before the requested relief was overtaken by events. Far from marking any extraordinary departure from historical tradition or judicial norms, that eminently reasonable and responsible step followed a path charted by courts of appeals across the country for years, with the principal difference being that the district court accustomed to emergency actions gave itself two days, rather than two weeks. Yet the Executive now asks this Court to hold that the Executive's prerogative over immigration enforcement is so absolute that allowing the courts even a few days to assess whether there is a basis for further judicial relief amounts to an assault on the separation of powers. With respect, the only assault on the separation of powers here is the Executive's unprecedented lawsuit, naming an entire judicial district as a defendant, severely disrupting the normal operations of the district, and attempting to deprive the Judiciary of a modest interval to discharge their core constitutional responsibility.
July 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Movie I saw way too young:

Tommy.

In the theater when I was 7. I barely understand it today, but then it was just a series of confusing and sometimes disturbing images.
A scene from Tommy with Roger Daltrey inside a robotic looking shell that appears ready to squeeze his head flat from either side.
July 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Sam Hurt’s Eyebeam @samhurt.bsky.social
A cartoon image of a man painting a wall with a roller while a robot paints a still life on an artist’s canvas.
July 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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A pie chart called “What appears when I type ‘To the’” showing 3% To the, 8% Tothe, 9% Tot he, and 80% Tot he.
June 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Today Poppy was menaced by a scary deer.
June 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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20 years behind
A faux Prada store in Marta, TX, that was installed in 2005.
May 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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I wonder, is this also a commentary on mediocre art? Or was it drawn by AI?
A snip from the final panel of the comic that approximates a hand flipping the bird but has five fingers plus a thumb that looks like the handle of an ornate teapot. The word END is underneath the drawing.
May 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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All Our Kin by Carol Stack
May 4, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Take your pick
Album cover for Los Lobos’ The Ride. Album cover for Los Lobos’ album Colossal Head. Album cover for Paul Simon’s Graceland. Album cover for Paul Simon’s Rhythm of the Saints.
May 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Party in the prickly pear!
A large, yellow flower with a deep, red center filled with metallic beetles, flower scarabs, and tiny, black moths, all dusted liberally with pale yellow pollen.
April 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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A splash screen from a phone game that looks like deep space with the text, “Planing is essential for victory.” The game does not include any kind of planes, whether flying vehicles or woodworking tools.
April 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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This was part of a sycamore I had to remove once. I call it Trophy Mount.
A section of a tree trunk that formed irregular blobs where old branch cuts sealed over. It resembles a bear head mounted to a wooden plaque reminiscent of a hunter’s taxidermy.
April 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Here’s a few insects I logged on @inaturalist.bsky.social as part of the #CityNatureChallenge
#invertifest
A cluster of thin, lavender petals forms a Texas thistle flower. Two orange blister beetles are resting on the flower. They are roughly rectangular with rounded ends. One has two parallel black stripes along either side of its back. An orange beetle with long, curving antennae sits on a milkweed seed pod. It has sparse black dots on its back. A cactus coreid beetle resting on a prickly pear pad. It has a roundish black body with a pointed tail. The antennae are black with three segments shaped like rice grains and tipped with thin red segments, one on each side.
April 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Really enjoyed the Easter service this year.
A disgruntled looking cat with a yellow croc on its head.
April 20, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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They’re ok, though a little mealy.

These are better:
Package of Morningstar Farms original sausage patties, 100% plant protein.
April 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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A jumbled pile of pushpin-style thumb tacks in red, yellow, green, white and blue.
April 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM