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Bronx/Queens/stuff in between/Summerville SC, former submariner, seasonal early voting official, Climate, Science, Nature! Blue 🏔️in a flat state. 💙

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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 6h
Me: What you got there? Him: Carrion my wayward son. Me: I’m not in Kansas anymore…. #BirdOfTheDay #Black&Red Summerville, South Carolina (last day)
Turkey Vulture standing over a dead carcass in a field of green grass. A large bird, all black with a red head. White beak and light colored feet. Its head is cocked to the left side and a black eye with a white rim is staring ahead.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 6h
Packing tape has defeated me…
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 20h
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/i-dont-gri...
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I Don't Grieve Trump’s Hatred. I Grieve The Hatred of The People Who Love Him.
I am grieving right now, and my family members, former friends, and neighbors who support him don’t understand why, though they think they do.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Two days left in South Carolina so here’s a duck…
Young Muscovy duck sitting on green grass. Mostly a mixture of gray and white feathers with a tuft of brown on its back and a slight bit of green on its wings. The chest and neck are white and gray on the head getting darker on top. Pink bill with a gray spot on top.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Parachutist being sucked into the mouth of a fire-breathing alien.
White and gray clouds behind green trees under a blue sky. A round portion of one of the clouds looks like it has a crooked mouth and an eye and a small bit of cloud resembles a parachute
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When you’re not a pet, there are no rules… #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth Summerville, South Carolina
Northern mockingbird standing on a green sign with a white border and the words “Pet Waste Station” in white caps on top, and the words “Pet waste spreads disease and pollutes waterways” below. The small bird is gray with small black and white dots on its back, a white belly, and a black and white striped pattern on its wing tips and tail. It’s facing to the right with its beak open.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Moonrise in the lowcountry and moon set in the Smokies. Or the story of my life in ten words…
Waxing gibbous moon (almost full) over branches of a tree in silhouette with a blue-gray sky in the background.Waning gibbous moon (recently full) over green trees on a hill sloping upwards to the right against a blue sky.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am a rock, I am an Island. #MallardMonday Maggie Valley, NC
Mallard (duck) floating in a stream partially covered by long grass next behind a large rock.  The duck has a gray and white herringbone pattern, darker on the wings than on the belly, orange feet and a dark gray bill with orange around the sides. The rock is a similar gray to the duck and both are oriented sideways across the photo parallel to each other.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“What’s up with the gnats ?” #BirdOfTheDay #AwkwardAvian Summerville, South Carolina
A White Ibis (bottom left) and a Snowy Egret (top right) standing on brown-green grass next to a shrub with brown leaves. Both birds are white, the Ibis with an orange bill and legs with black tips at its tail and the Egret with black bill and legs and yellow feet.both are in a bent over position with the Ibis’s back to the camera
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#tdih 1962, "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson published, exposed impact of pesticides on environment. Carson was vilified: called a Communist, disloyal, unscientific, and hysterical. Sound familiar? Attacks on truth tellers, with media complicity. See⬇️🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/si...
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Sept. 27, 1962: Silent Spring Published
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Duck at dusk. Maggie Valley, NC
Mallard (duck) in shallow moving water with green leaves in the foreground on the left. The duck has gray feathers of different shades on its wings , a white belly, a green head with a yellow bill, a brown chest and orange feet. Its head is tucked into its body. There is a bright blue stripe and black markings near its tail.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#Vote2026 If you are 18 years of age or older, a citizen of the U.S., and legally allowed to vote there is absolutely zero reason for not voting! Need voting tools? I've got ya covered- Register To Vote What's on Your Ballot? Locate Your Polling Place Track Your Ballot & more here: www.vote.org
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m getting these postcards in the mail almost every day now. Same old attack they’ve been using since I’ve been alive (FYI that’s a long time). I guess pet-eating, child-grooming, commie will start in October…
Postcard with a photo of Nancy LaCore looking stressed on the right side and the caption “Nancy LaCore to Hike Your Taxes” in large white letters on the left. Belting the left are the smaller bullet points, “Tax-hiking Politicians, Bankrolling Nancy LaCore, So You Pay More “ in yellow separated by arrows and a white cloud-like thing on the bottom.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #Green, Green in the backgrounds not on the birds. Great Blue Heron standing in the shallow edge of the Goose Creek Reservoir on the Hanahan side (no gators detected). Hanahan, South Carolina
Great Blue Heron standing in the shallow edge of the Goose Creek Reservoir on the Hanahan side. The water is full of green aquatic plants and grasses. The large bird is light blue with dark spots on its belly and shoulder with a long white neck and a long orange bill. Yellow eyes and darker blue on its head. It has long brown legs.
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jazzrat2000 AKA Bonsai anonymous @jazzrat2000.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love watching them! Here's a little sketch for you #birdart
 A sketch of an egret in the backyard
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This guy just dropped into my backyard. I see them all the time at the pond, but this is the first one to drop by the house. Great Egret, not a shadow of a doubt…
Great Egret walking on green grass in front of a brown wooden privacy fence in my backyard. The large slender bird is all white with a yellow bill and eyes. It has a long neck and bill and thin gray legs. Its shadow is cast on the fence slightly in front of it.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #Brown. A Chipping Sparrow hanging out in my backyard. Summerville, South Carolina
Chipping Sparrow standing in a mixture of brown and green grass with long brown fallen leaves scattered about. The small bird is facing left but looking back to the right. It has brown feathers on wings and back with a pattern of black vertical stripes and white horizontal stripes. It has a white belly, a brown patch on the top of its head, and a dark stripe across its face and black eye.
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The Glitter Shiter @the-glttr-shttr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stop fucking going to chick fillit. Just stop. There is no way in hell that the food is worth the karma. It is owned and operated by evil.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“And all we have to do is show the hell up: to stop our handwringing and our doom-prophesying, and get about the work of getting every single fed-up, pissed-off human being to the polls and to make sure they are counted” johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/republican...
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Republicans Are Trying To Disenfranchise Us, America. Let’s Not Help Them.
Republicans know they can’t win in November.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I just finished the Nation’s Bank 10k (part of the Charlotte Marathon weekend) and a photog from the #CharlotteObserver comes up and says I have cool steam coming off of my head, can he use my photo in the paper. I’m thinking 1997, probably my last race in my 30’s. #Running Packing for the move.
Black & white photo of me in the Charlotte Observer. I’m standing with my hands on my hips with my head looking down wearing a running singlet with the words Charleston Physical Therapy and the something else covered by my race number 18. There is steam rising from the top of my head.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“You using that crab?” #BirdOfTheDay alt. #BirdStare Kiawah Island, South Carolina
Ring-billed gull staring straight at the camera standing in shallow blue ocean water. The medium size bird is mostly white with light gray wings and black with white stripes on the tip of its tail. A small wave is breaking behind it
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Irene Quaile @iceblogger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The El Niño is also a “postcard from our future”, ...pushing up temperatures to the level the climate crisis is projected to deliver in 20 years from now.... We need to mobilise now to design, deploy and evaluate the tools that will save lives in the years ahead.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Huge El Niño projected to cause 450,000 deaths in next six months
New report predicts a heavy toll from Nigeria to the US – and comes on top of existing impacts of the climate crisis
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MRI to go… I can’t help thinking that years back when this building was built someone was thinking, “sure seems like we forgot something…” North Charleston, South Carolina
Large truck trailer in an asphalt parking lot with orange cones around it and a yellow fire hydrant in the far left. The trailer is blue with the words ”MUSC Health in motion “ in white letters and the words “Mobile Imaging” in blue in a white box on the left and the MUSC Health logo in white on the right. In the middle is a lift with a white bay door and a set of metal stairs leading to a blue door.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
3 month scans underway at the Medical University of South Carolina Specialty Care in North Charleston. CT done and waiting for MRI. Saving grace is that they actually used my port for the contrast dye instead of jabbing my arm. Small things…
Waiting room at MUSC Specialty Care Imaging in North Charleston. Brown check-in desk with blue seats in front of it and an MUSC poster on the right and art hanging behind it. Light brown wood-like flooring and white walls.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 23/09/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: “I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change ... no longer than a decade, at the most" www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna14834...
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Warming expert: Only decade left to act in time
A leading U.S. climate researcher said Wednesday the world has a 10-year window of opportunity to take decisive action on global warming and avert a catastrophe.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
John Lennon — New York (1972)
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On the eave of destruction. #BirdOfTheDay #Raptors Summerville, South Carolina
Red-shouldered Hawk in the eave of a black shingled roof of a White House. The large bird is looking off to the left. Its back feathers form a reddish brown herringbone pattern with white highlights. The small part of its exposed belly is white with brown flecks. Its head is brown with white around the yellowish eyes and a white curved beak.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Jaw-dropping" "Godzilla-level"! Sounds serious... #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Redheads. Vulture Club Hanahan, South Carolina
Two Turkey Vultures standing on green grass in front of light brown shrubbery one in front of the other. Both are large birds with dark brown feathers highlighted at the edges with lighter brown. The one in front is facing to the left rear and has a red heat, black eyes and a white beak. The rear bird is facing to the right front and has a gray head and beak.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
thepalmettovoice.substack.com/p/summervill...
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Summerville PD Have Become a National Example of Authoritarian Overreach
The Washington Post published a front-page article yesterday about the case of Dinah Chollet, who was arrested simply for being present in a group chat where some students from Summerville High School...
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LightAndShadow. When prey pray… Summerville, South Carolina
Red-shouldered Hawk perched on an electrical cable with a blue sky in the background. The large bird has a light brown and white pattern on its head and body. Its yellow eyes are staring straight down at the camera.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Evening walk around the neighborhood. Summerville, South Carolina
Setting sun shining bright yellow against a light orange sky with gray clouds over some trees, three white houses and a pond. The whole scene is reflected back upside down in the pond.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New South Carolina flag design in the age of artificial intelligence and climate change?
Waxing gibbous moon glowing brightly next to a cell tower against a darkening blue sky.
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Audrey @parickards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
She cheered a teen protest against ICE. Police charged her with a crime. In South Carolina, a woman supported students planning a walkout against Donald Trump’s immigration policies. A conservative blogger demanded law enforcement hold her accountable. wapo.st/3V4lD7B
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She cheered a teen protest against ICE. Police charged her with a crime.
A local political feud over a high school protest became a brief national fixation when police charged a woman with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
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South Carolina Democratic Party @scdemocrats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you are not registered, you CANNOT vote on November 3rd! Take 5 minutes right now and get it done! Got a new neighbor? Get them to register. South Carolina’s population growth is booming. Its voter rolls, not so much. Read more: tinyurl.com/3mkn3rph
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Never heard this before. Really hard to watch and impossible to stop watching.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“When you believe yourself safe from harm and immune from violence, the fence of neutrality feels like a righteous place to sit, even if that position is deadly to those not afforded such comfort.” johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/ed-sheeran...
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Ed Sheeran and The White Privilege of Neutrality
I know singer Ed Sheeran.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Checking out the parking lot for a newly washed car. #BirdOFTheDay alt. #Pigeons&Doves North Charleston, South Carolina
Pigeon gripping an electrical cable with a blue sky in the background. Medium sized mostly gray bird wit pink feet and red eyes.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ODG, any Owl, Duck or Goose. Chillin’ at the pond. Summerville, South Carolina
Mallard (duck) floating in blue water of a pond with small black and white ripples. The duck’s feathers are a mix of brown and white with a little black mixed in. The large bird has black eyes and a dark gray bill.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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The open houses at the edge of disaster
What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#NationalVoterRegistrationDay It's a great day to check your voter registration if you haven't recently! If you're not registered to vote yet, today's a great day to get that done! 🗳 You can find all your voting tools here: www.vote.org
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Evening walk in Maggie Valley, NC. Can’t seem to stay away.
Gray clouds turning orange as the sun sets over the upward slope of a mountain on the right and two tall tree on the left with a graying blue sky behind.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I got an early start on my walk this morning due to that whole hotel catching on fire thing, and then had to navigate ferocious beast from the woods…
White-tailed deer twisting its head back towards the camera with its body heading away from the camera standing on green grass next to a large-trunked tree with green forest behind it. A black and white cat facing the camera, sitting behind a small fallen tree surrounded by branches with grass below and forest behind. The cats face and neck are white with one eye, its ears and back black.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Interesting stuff in the comments also.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I guess I should have been more specific than “wake-up call”.. Still in Boone, NC
Red fire engine with red lights flashing under the entrance overhang of my motel. There are a few people by the front glass sliding doors waiting to get back in.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Came up to look at a rental on Sugar Mountain, NC after the place I was hoping to move to fell through (owner and property mgr had a blowout). As soon as I arrived, I didn’t want to be here at all. After a nice long walk this morning behind my hotel in Boone, I don’t want to be here a little…
A black country road heading into the distance with shadows of the green trees that line both sides. The morning sun is peeking through the branches of the trees on the left.A large deer looking startled straight at me with its body facing to the right with trees surrounding it and green grass in the foreground.Yellow and pink flowers mixed in with a variety of green leaves on the roadside of a busy street in Boone, NC.
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Skip hop jump Blue Dolphin🍀🐬🐚🐸🐾 @bluealways.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
An elegant fix for one of America’s deadliest road problems Highways weren’t built for animals. That’s starting to change.
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An elegant fix for one of America’s deadliest road problems
Highways weren’t built for animals. That’s starting to change.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I don’t see these Black-bellied Whistling Ducks often, so when they showed up in our pond I had to zoom in with my phone, causing a surreal almost painting-like effect. #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsinAbstract Summerville, South Carolina
Four Black-bellied Whistling Ducks in a pond of green water with white ripples facing to the right. The ducks have black bellies and light brown wing feathers separated by a white line, white heads and orange beaks.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Pam and Corey on the raised walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC.
My wife Pam and Nephew Corey standing on the walking path of the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City with the skyline of lower Manhattan in the background. Most notably in the background are the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center pre-9/11. Corey is about 9 years old and both he and Pam are wearing Blue NYPD t-shirts.
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howieschomer.bsky.social @howieschomer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Question number 4 The stork is: A. Eating a fish B. Picking up trash C. Delivering a newborn #BirdOfTheDay #Mouthful Summerville, South Carolina
Wood Stork standing on a thin fallen tree across a small drainage ditch. Behind it is brown grass with a few weeds and a discarded blue bottle. The large bird has white plumage, long gray legs with pink feet,a rough gray head and next, black eyes and a long grayish beak. It has something in its mouth.
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