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A tiny saw-whet owl perched on a horizontal branch of a coniferous tree, with a larger branch just above its head, creating a frame. It is in profile view, but has its head turned and is looking directly at me with its yellow eyes

Whenever I'm lucky enough to find a Northern Saw-whet Owl, they are usually sound asleep. This one was awake and active, looking around, especially straight down - something on the ground had its interest. #birds #birding #HamOnt #owl

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today 10a-1p! come hang at the linocut printmaking station or make buttons while you pick up free seeds

worked all week w/my sister to fundraise & organize court support for a habeas motion + oral arguments at bond hearing for a family friend who was illegally detained by ICE at her routine check-in after years of compliance & judge decided to be a fucking dick + deny it, just brutal all the way down💔

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

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I'm giving out 2026's community grow out seed! we invite local growers to grow a specific crop, save 1/2 for seed harvesting & donate to a seed bank to distro next year, more food systems resilience work. S/o to @yungquiabo.bsky.social for introing me to this year's
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This image is a flyer, announcing a SEED SHARE event on March 7 2026 from 10am-1pm in Hampden Baltimore, location St Luke's Church in the Avenue. It is hosted by Baltimore Seed Commons and Baltimore Free Farm.

bc the local resilience work carries on regardless:

The annual SEED SHARE event the Baltimore Seed Commons collective I'm part of is tomorrow, Sat 3/7: come through! Our mission is to distribute free seeds to anyone, lotsa variety, many locally grown+harvested for climate adaptation. All welcome 🫶

this is also a thing Nazi U Boats were known for doing, guess Hegseth really is taking inspiration from his heroes

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

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I double checked. This is not being reported at WaPo.

www.ft.com/content/09fa...

Google data center water estimates go public, residents in Roanoke and Botetourt react A proposed Google data center campus in Botetourt County could use between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day, according to an executed agreement between the developer and the W...

one google data center in virginia

two million gallons of water per day

information only released under court order & risk of contempt

MARYLAND: the period to file public comments on ICE's massive warehouse detention camp in Hagerstown is today

Link/info @projectsaltbox.bsky.social:
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whew. the American South layers here hit different indeed

very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation

haha oh man welcome to balti

If anyone has a platform, and wants to have a Lebanese speaker to talk about the current situation, reach out. Im availble, but also connected to a lot of different ppl on the ground. We need to get the word out. This is ethnic cleansing!

people are so extraordinary in what they can do

What is there more to say beyond rage.

They want to "evacuate" one of the densest suburbs of Beirut and have a quarter of a million+ people just move elsewhere and accept the fate of the destruction of their homes or worse the loss of their life.

Fucking nightmare.

what's getting me through this awful surreality here at the gangster imperial center is daily commitment to focus on being present and remaining in my capacity for practice. as always, super grateful for thich nhat hanh

This is what Melinda Cooper calls revolutionary conservatism: a project that blends nostalgia for a mythical past with a cult of the visionary entrepreneur, in pursuit of the final liquidation of democracy.

Too bad there aren't any rich people who could run ads with this information on every social media and regular media channel.

Too bad there's no opposition party that could run a 48 hour Youtube telethon program with 48 elected officials each programming one hour to point out the awfulness of the war on Iran. That would definitely not get any media or other attention.

I'm already hitting my AWP saturation point and it hasn't even started yet. Also I'm not even going to the conference.

NEW YouGov poll: Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States 50% support 39% oppose Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE Moderates +6 23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE

NEW YouGov poll:
Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States

50% support
39% oppose

Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE
Moderates +6

23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE

The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

A photo of a blue Global X plane seen from a distance with a bus and five white vans in front of it.

FORTY-SEVEN NEIGHBORS shackled and loaded onto this Global X ICE flight today at Baltimore’s BWI.

There are four ICE flights a week now taking our Maryland neighbors to detention centers down South.

doesn't seem to be much media coverage or social awareness of ongoing ICE crackdown in Baltimore?

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.