Lily-like plant with white flowers in a backyard garden
Second year blooming after 5 years of waiting on this death camas. Gardening with California native plants definitely gives me a new appreciation for the difference in time that goes into equally beautiful flowers. Perennials are playing long, long game, at least from my blinkered human perspective.
And since it's relevant to distributed iNat ideas and #atproto nerds, special shout out to observ.ing by @rwell.org , the beginning of an effort to make something like a distributed iNat.
I know I've been pretty quiet for the last month and I should probably post about what *I've* been working on, but first, check out these other cool projects I learned about recently! www.patreon.com/posts/other-...
Interesting stuff. In your example, the full location doesn't live on the author's PDS, though, does it? It seems like it lives at locations.dayton-pokemon.club, or at least that service is in control of the full location, wherever it's stored. Doesn't that break portability?
Lightning and thunder over Oakland *while I'm awake*?! Long have I waited...
Just updated to v1.18.7b of @zen-browser.app and my pinned tabs are gone and I can't pin new ones. Back to Firefox I guess.
COYOTE's featured alongside a handful of our fellow worker-owned outlets in @niemanlab.org today, talking about the reality of doing democratically managed journalism. Summary: It's a lot of fucking meetings! www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...
Of course, though I did not sample all of the estalishment's other drinks to verify his claim.
"The best drink they serve here," said a man named Walter Riley, "is the Walter Riley."
"What's in it?" I asked.
"You'll have to ask."
That man was Boots Riley's dad.
Note quite but trending in the right direction: electrifynews.com/news/auto/hy...
Agree that any part of Saguaro is great. Sabino Canyon is cool and close to town. For Sky Islands, the drive up to Mt. Lemmon is fantastic, East Butterfly Tr up there is great, and if you can get out of town the loops from Madera Canyon are wonderful.
Several weird flowers that look like saxophones from the Upside Down in Stranger Things
My California pipevine really snuck up on me this year.
I haven't noticed anything like that, but FWIW, I find bsky.app/profile/skyf... very useful. Supporting independent feed algorithms is one of my favorite things about Bluesky... even if this is the only one I use.
Hah, that would help, right? Fixed.
Not sure if you're referring to me or @crowtalk.bsky.social, but for me, sure.
Calflora is hiring is you're a Java person (or want to become one): www.calflora.org/newsletter/J...
Right back at you!
Depending on your definition of good, there's observation.org, and www.jungledragon.com. For more specific options there's artportalen.se, nabu-naturgucker.de, mushroomobserver.org, calflora.org. I'm sure there are more. But yeah, I don't know of one that's quite like a drop-in replacement.
@remy.gay you can see my work in progress at underfoot.rocks, but I've only prepped maps for a few places. Check out rockd.org for a more mature geology app!
Next time I'm in the northeast I need to stop by the @mapcenter.com! I keep meaning too but by gum I will try to do it this year. Hopefully in July.
I'm kind of hoping crowdfunding *is* my next move, but TBD. Those were good times with n4n!
Rockd is great and, aside from lack of time, was why I stopped tinkering with underfoot.rocks for a while. Their global map coverage is especially awesome. That said, I still want something that is more offline-focused, and I want something that incorporates water and soil.
Thanks for that. I don't feel like we're losing iNat, even if the organization has made some mistakes. No org is perfect or perfectly aligned with all of its stakeholders (even its co-founder). But the moment you worry about losing something is a good moment to think about alternatives.
And if you want more detail on why I left iNat, I wrote about that too: kueda.net/blog/2026/01...
I quit my job at #iNaturalist, the product I co-founded. If you'd like me to keep working on natural history software, support me on Patreon: patreon.com/kueda. FWIW, I'm building an iNat backup tool and an app for viewing geologic maps.
Or, if you think you'd like to hire me, get in touch!
The recent Bay Nature Magazine with my article on UV Fluorescence is out. It’s full of tips on what habitats and organisms to look at. Big thanks to Editor Kathleen Ok-Soo Richards for helping fine tune the piece since I’m definitely rusty at writing article #Fluorescence #SFBay #UVF
"Brian Damage" is my favorite band name of the last 48 hours. Music's pretty good too! permanentbriandamage.bandcamp.com
Sublime? Definitely not an ide, not exactly textedit though.
HOH (Holiday Overheard): the eating will continue until morale improves.
I tried 4 cassette players from the Museum of Mom & Dad and the only one that really works is a Sanyo MR-52, which is at least 40 years old, has a mic, a speaker, audio line in, playback speed control, and fits in a pocket. Amazing device.
