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I get the sense that many leading Democrats, in New York and elsewhere, don't really register the extent to which their brand of non-committal, finger-to-the-wind politics has fallen out of favor with voters.

REMEMBER, if you are in line to vote in the New York City elections NO YOU ARE NOT you are On Line

My 11-year-old subscribes to Teen Vogue and reads the newsletters almost daily. It's been a reliable source of news for her, and fodder for thoughtful dinner table discussions. Now, it will serve a new role in our house--as an opportunity to learn about boycotting companies that let us down.

Male Snowcap #hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica this morning. #birds #nature

Misty sunset. Heading off for a road trip up the coast. You may or may not hear from me before the weekend. Take care. ✌🏻🧡

Having to use the Wayback Machine on CDC’s vaccine guidance pages burns like fire, and I hate it.

Do you think AI sucks? Congrats, you are correct! Proclaim it loudly with analog watercolor art www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...

Incredible thread. I haven't felt this much joy since I woke up this morning and learned Dick Cheney died.

A manatee gingerly plods against a strong incoming current over the spiky staghorn corals (which are not something a manatee is used to encountering in the Intercoastal Waterway!) #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #ploddingalong #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Because red...

If you’re reading this you outlived Dick Cheney! Congratulations!

A male Golden-olive Woodpecker at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica today #birds #nature #woodpeckers

Owlet trying to give herself a pedicure on a windy day.🪶

The shutdown is shuttering Head Start centers--including 24 that support the migrant farmworkers who form the backbone of our agricultural economy. Which means that, by refusing to fund healthcare, the GOP is not only hurting kids but also raising prices at the store. abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

Ya know normally when I show up to work the polls I look like shit and feel even worse but I woke up around 2am this morning ready for the day, so. Idk how I’m gonna feel 11 hours into this shift but right now I’ll take it lol

thank God this country's finally being run by Real Men

Shadow light interlay on the top of this big sandstone formation in the Bardenas desert… #photography #art #nature #landscape

While men are systematically shredding our safety net, women are scrambling to keep us from falling through the gaps.

I think it's incredibly important that the morally bankrupt ghouls who still walk among us see that their deaths, too, will be celebrated and then their memories forgotten.

Almost didn't go to the beach this morning; glad I did! Vestri-Fellsfjara, Jökulsárlón #Iceland

The "look at my tail" pose. Squirrel of the Day for November 4, 2025 #sqrlpix

Autumn gold

There is a line out the door at my polling place which is wild because we never have lines here. I’ve worked like…idk, 7 elections here? Never seen this. This is good, I hope.

He's blatantly defying court orders AND spreading blatantly false information about SNAP benefits. Yes, SNAP helps millions. But recipients have to jump through hoops to access assistance that often falls short of their needs. Like, by not covering diapers. Or leaving gaps at the end of the month.

There is a heart in this Forest...🍂 #Photography #Nature #GSMNP #FallVibes

An unforgettable sunset on South Africa's Table Mountain, as the cliffs of the 12 apostles mountain range, towering by as much as 1 km above the surrounding Atlantic ocean, stick out over an inversion layer. #bluesky #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #nature

Head Start closures will have far-reaching and long-lasting consequences. Because the million kids who rely on the program don't have other options. And so, we're likely to see: ⬇️maternal employment ⬆️child poverty, hunger, and homelessness ⬇️school readiness and achievement long-term

They’re back! The White-throated Sparrows will be busily bustling in the yard with a cheery song till spring. #birds 🌿

Every time we have to argue for WIC or SNAP I just lose my mind a little more. I just fundamentally don't agree that people should have to work to eat and it feels ridiculous to have to argue with people who think our labor matters more than our lives and wellness.

Every high school friend I buried was buried because of Dick Cheney.

honestly they all keep doing this. even if the article itself is good, the picture makes him look all hip when he’s not! he’s an irredeemable dork! take any random screenshot from his livestream, guaranteed he will look uncool as hell

How it started vs. how it’s going Today I passed the final step toward candidacy, my proposal defense, after completing my comps this past spring. It’s official! 🥹🧪 #PhDlife

Fall being fabulous. May there be some beauty and hope in your day! 🌿

Everyone is too focused on the very real, very negative consequences of the legalization of sports betting to see the benefits (Old guys at hotel bars are too busy betting on their phones to be creepy towards any solo woman)

Bluesky readers, I need books please. Here are authors I love. Can you recommend anyone similar? Fantasy: T Kingfisher, VE Schwab, Katherine Addison SciFi: Becky Chambers, Martha Wells, Ann Leckie Romance: KJ Charles, Cat Sebastian, Courtney Milan Here’s an enchanting scene to say thank you!

Harry Milner Whittington died in 2023 at the age of 95. He was famously the first person to be shot by a sitting vice president since Alexander Hamilton.

Fall in the Smokies...🍂 #Photography #NationalParks #GSMNP #Fall #Tennessee

“I could smell the onions and mustard”

Rejecting the premise here. "AI" is not coming for your job. Companies are dumping people because they are putting more money into AI investment, not because there is labor replacement via productivity. Even in the Amazon announcement, Jassy backed away from the framing that AI took those 14k jobs.

Lichen on granite, Heil Valley Ranch now 🌿

Love a good close-up of the surface of an iceberg. The patterns always mess with my eyes (the scallops are concave but look convex). Vestri-Fellsfjara, Jökulsárlón #Iceland

Little man with a big snack (Habronattus notialis 💚) #EmotionalSupportSpood

I don't want to watch your videos. I don't want to watch your videos! I will read so many of your shitty words instead of a video. I will look at photos! I will read words and look at photos side by side. But no video. To voice overs. No shitty zooms. No videos.

Really cool event happening in London

Another iceberg shot before I head out to the beach (a different one 😊). Vestri-Fellsfjara, Jökulsárlón #Iceland

Sharks can smell a drop of onions and mustard from a mile away

A chunk of sun dog just now as I was driving home 🌈🌞🐕

Seeing some wild replies on here lately. It’s almost like we’re going through nonstop horrors and it’s ripping us all apart and we’re coping by targeting each other rather than the people actually doing the harm that’s stressing us out. Anyway I love y’all, try to stay well despite it all

Finally watching the 2019 show Warrior and man it didn’t have to call us out like this

Dove Leaning in to curiosity...

Pleated Woodpecker Red is red...

The Grim Reaper demands that Dick Cheney apologize for getting in the way of his scythe

I was surprised to see a Sora still around. Most of these marsh birds have migrated, and I imagine this one will very soon with the temps going below freezing at night in the next few days.

You kids at home... Don't try to talk with your mouth full.

#neverforget that one of the last things I did on Twitter was make my dad go viral in such a way as to return periodically to me like a boomerang on different social media platforms.

The different colors of the cells indicate pollen from different species of plants, packed away to be used as food for hungry honey bee larvae.

Gentle fall fires...

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

One of these ran out in front of my car last night. Thankfully I was able to stop in time but now I need to go clean shards of glass out of the trunk from the glass water bottle that went flying. Look out, they’re on the move this time of year! (White-tailed Deer) #mammals 🌿

Drone panorama (might need a click!) of the mighty Vestrahorn mountain massif. The sunset was more spectacular on either side of the mountain, but that's just the way luck goes! #Iceland #DJIMavic3Pro #DronePhotography

Eastern Swallowtail Butterfly That moment of purity...

It has been a very quiet few years for Snowy Owls in my area. Really hoping they come back in numbers again this winter. #birds #owls

Voting day should be a national holiday so more people can vote, sure but mostly because I still have so much unprocessed trauma from some previous elections that my blood pressure is so high every election day, it's not like I can focus on my work anyway

LECTER: What became of your sandwich, Clarice? STARLING: It kind of exploded. LECTER: You still wake up sometimes, don't you? You wake up in the dark and smell the onions and the mustard. STARLING: [choking up] Yes.

Hookay well I fell asleep at like 2pm attempting to have a quick little nap, and just woke up and it's 1:30am... jet lag's a helluvah thing. I work the polls tomorrow and need to be there at 6am though so that'll force me back on East Coast time with a cruel 13 hour day. That's one way to acclimate.

A lovely Cydno Longwing (Heliconius cydno) #butterfly that I found yesterday at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #bugsky #butterflies #nature

Change usually takes time...

The administration is justifying its partial SNAP payments on the grounds that the emergency funds are needed for child nutrition programs like school lunch. But this is bullsh*t logic. Because SNAP *is* a child nutrition program. Half of SNAP households have kids. www.npr.org/2025/11/03/n...

As part of adulthood my husband and I set up a living trust, and our advisor also suggested doing a donor-advised fund thing bc we do a lot of charitable donations. My husband just apologized to me for testing the system with a donation to a local food bank and I love him so much??

Bonfire night tomorrow. On 5th November 2023 I was capturing the Andromeda Galaxy and a firework. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Isn't it extraordinary that the Yutu-2 rover is the only moving thing on the Moon's surface? Still going after seven years, on the far side. Would it make a psychological difference if we knew it was trundling along on the side facing us? #PlanetSci

The Inventor of the Frozen Burrito Has Died gizmodo.com/the-inventor...

A female Pileated Woodpecker working on a fallen log with a pop of Fall color in the background.

A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.028 (lookback time 397.0 million years) with coordinates (117.89845, 42.88010). 44 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon

“Alex, I’ll take ‘Supreme Court claims that have aged poorly’ for $200”

There's a deep irony to do the way we do welfare. Opponents hate that aid programs disincentivize paid work. So, they've fought to make keep aid programs meager and strictly means-tested. When the way to avoid disincentivizing paid work is to make aid more generous at the margins, not less.

if bluesky is such a leftist bubble why are people arguing in my mentions that people should be forced to work to eat *outraged voice* "do you think our income taxes should be used to make food free??" I mean sure if that's what it takes, but I do think we could do way better than that!

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’ [SATIRE but not really] theonion.com/mike-johnson...

Desert layer cake 🌿 #Fallback to May 4 this ain't your momma's red velvet cake 🍰

The {sf} package continues to blow my mind with how easy it is to make maps with #rstats and ggplot (code for that map here gist.github.com/andrewheiss/...)

Me working the polls jet lagged today

Taking kitty in for checkup and overgrooming issues. Please think good thoughts.

A spectacular sunset making gorgeous duck silhouettes for #TwosDay #birds 🌿 #Silhouettes

Good morning #bluesky.

Do the green leaves bring out the color in my eyes?

Starlings Nosey neighbors...

Onions and mustard Exploding upon my chest The scent of freedom #haiku

Iceland is so weird! Sandbanks in the lagoon beneath Vestrahorn. #Iceland #DJIMavic3Pro #DronePhotography

Good pumpkin

Oh look. The thing that everyone with a smidgen of the smarts and common sense said was going to 100% happen ….. is 100% happening. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Every image this account posts would have sold me a paperback book in the 1980s. I would have been unable to resist these covers.

Did you know that trans people are more than twice as likely to be unemployed as cis people? Twice as likely to be below the poverty line? That about 30% will be unhoused at some point in their lives? That LGBT people are more likely to use SNAP than cis and straight folks? This is personal for me

Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it. This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...

For when you need to breathe...

Cat’s Paw Nebula in progress 🐾

Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Houses Through Eight Short Documentaries www.openculture.com/2025/11/expl...

Penstemon utahensis, our Utah Beardtongue, blooming near Gateway #nativeplants #FallBackFlowers #FallBack to May 4 🌿

So last night I was strumming "Zombie" by The Cranberries and my son heard and came running in, "Is that Zombie by The Cranberries?" He knew what the song is about! Then I taught him the chords. Small parenting victories. Can learn the song watching O'Riordan in this www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Av...

New-to-me but very helpful visualizations how all the actions of the past ten months are affecting the CDC www.cdcdataproject.org