Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Veni, Sancte Spiritus, said or sung on Pentecost. 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Sunrise this morning. Caught it just before it disappeared behind a quick-moving overcast. 010
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Leaves are changing up here in the mountains, becoming more vivid each day. 010
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 22/09/2025@tampabaytimes.bsky.social iOS story of a bicyclist killed by a DUI driver included this incomprehensibly inappropriate ad in the body of the story. 010
Reposted by Richard BirdsallKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Highly highly recommend this book. One of the most compelling books I've read, and I can scarcely imagine how goddamn difficult it was to research and write. 211625
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Setting sun reflected off of cloud to the northeast. Quite a sight. 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Happened upon a bunch canna lillies on my walk this morning. 010
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 24/08/20253 inches of rain between 6 pm and 9 pm last night. At the heaviest point of the deluge, rain was falling at a rate of 6.76 inches/hour in the backyard. 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 20/08/2025Morning walks down here rarely yield anything interesting. But when they do, it is usually something in the sky. 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Occurring under the radar of most of us unless you happened to be cued into this movement distributed throughout the country. Their goals are so outrageous they should be wrapped in a conspiracy theory. Instead, it is all too real. 010
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 17/08/2025An individual and loving commitment to each of us who always can use one more prayer. 021
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Low clouds today envelops the mountain top. Stll lots of moisture but most of the rain is east of us. 010
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 04/08/2025I was suspicious of anything that only cost 9 cents per quart.... 010
Reposted by Richard BirdsallDawn Eden Goldstein, JCL, STD @dawnofmercy.bsky.social · 03/08/2025matterstwomey.substack.com/p/big-life-n...matterstwomey.substack.comBig life news, a new ETA for my Twomey bio, and moreGreetings, dear Matters Twomey readers, and thanks for continuing to subscribe even as I’ve been AWOL for the past few months. 353
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Looking forward to its publication. Congrats on your new position. Really something, I have to say. 110
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Sunset with the sun filtered through several layers of clouds. Sky is slowly clearing up after frontal passage yesterday. Relieved temps have dropped with the front coming through. Both lovely and refreshingly cool. 021
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Happened across this planter box of black-eyed susans in town today. It is in between several paved areas, in another town it may have remained untended and bare. But here it is an occasion to plant flowers. What makes this place special. 031
Reposted by Richard BirdsallRichard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 03/08/2025On August 3, 1981, two-thirds of all air traffic controllers walked off their jobs. More than 11,000 lost their jobs. It was a day than changed my worklife and that of every other controller regardless of their support or opposition to the strike. 021
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 03/08/2025I almost took a job as the chief of the ATC tower at the Aspen airport until I learned I'd after to commute 40 miles each way to Glenwood Springs every day. Cheapest thing in Aspen now is a 317 SF studio for $1.1M. 110
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 03/08/2025On August 3, 1981, two-thirds of all air traffic controllers walked off their jobs. More than 11,000 lost their jobs. It was a day than changed my worklife and that of every other controller regardless of their support or opposition to the strike. 021
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Aleutian Island Police Blotter just updated for a weekend full of bad weather, stuck cars, helpless inebriates and ex-husbands outstaying their welcome. www.facebook.com/profile.php?... 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 15/07/2025My walk down from the top includes an abandoned road leading toward town where I finish with a post-walk Diet Coke. When the light is just right, I amble into a scene most prosaic. 010
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Near the top of the mountain is a grove of Sycamores. Shaped and twisted over time by wind, rain, cold, snow and, most recently, Tropical Storm Helene, they prevail. Inspiring. 020
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 15/07/2025High tension wires notwithstanding, my walk up in the mountain this morning included greeting the sun rising above adjoining mountain ridgeline. 110
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Even the public toilet up here in the mountains is decked out for the July 4th holiday. 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 04/07/2025A lovely walk up the mountain early this morning. July 4th so all sorts of weekenders up here for the holiday. But early on it was peaceful with just a breeze for company. 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Unalaska, in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska, is a transit point for all kinds of people just passing through. It makes for an interesting police blotter reflecting a part of daily life. A new day's worth of entries just posted. www.facebook.com/profile.php?... 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 02/07/2025The Aleutian Island Police Blotter has been updated. Even in the middle of the work week inebriates are quelled. The police officer's style in her rendition of the blotter is evolving, including a sentence-long attempt at alliteration. www.facebook.com/profile.php?... 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 01/07/2025The nonsensical but politically useful Medicaid work requirement illustrated in a single chart. 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 22/06/2025A remarkably moving and personal story on the ethics of immigration by Mark Woods this morning. You'll finish the story a bit different than what you were when you started it. www.jacksonville.com/story/news/c...jacksonville.comThe sanctuary where the movement started | OpinionWe hear the words “sanctuary city” so much that it barely registers that the first word goes back to churches — and, in particular, this one. 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 20/06/2025This morning it was clear and calm after the front came through. But yesterday morning at the top it was fog, rain and lots of wind. 010
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 20/06/2025I would have been laughed out of the building if I had tried that kind of obsequious fawning with my old boss. Astonishing that anyone with a shred of self-respect would act this way. 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 20/06/2025A rose breasted grosbeak stopped by for a visit (and lunch) today. 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Life unrolls in the daily police blog of Dutch Harbor Alaska. While often undistinguishable from any city, few have an blotter entry noting a car blocking an intersection with "a muddy man underneath." www.facebook.com/profile.php?... 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Looking north just past sunrise towards the Virginia state line. Fog beginning to lift on this side of the mountain. Damp but temps in the high 50s-low 60s. Lovely. 010
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Foggy but less windy this morning on my walk up the mountain. This is on the way back down along an abandoned road that leads into town. Last year a bear and I encountered each other. Upon noticing each other, he continued on his way and I continued on mine. 020
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 17/06/2025"In the face of tragedy, Senator Lee chose cruelty," Sen. Schumer said after reading Lee's crude remarks about the MN assassinations. But, cruelty, I've always assumed, is the point. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...nytimes.comMike Lee Draws Outrage for Posts Blaming Assassination on the Far Left 021
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Brightly lit moon still visible a few minutes after sunrise along a lake I sometimes pass by on my daily walk up the mountain. 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Aleutian Island police blotter updated, revealing a slice of life reflected in a remote Aleutian Island settlement. www.facebook.com/profile.php?... 000
Richard Birdsall @rbirds.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Latest update of the Aleutian Island police blotter charting the daily life of a remote Alaskan island that rises to the attention of the local police. www.facebook.com/profile.php?... 000