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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Slightly diminish a band: Mumbling Heads

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A strain of Rome Beauty from our orchard called a Law Rome. The red skin stains the flesh when the nights get cold.

A red apple with a slice of it. The white flesh has red veining in it.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Just finished watching a birdwatching documentary called LISTERS. It’s a 10/10, 5-star, two claws up experience. And free, with no commercials at the moment, on YouTube. youtu.be/zl-wAqplQAo?...

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LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Harvested and dried our Ashmead’s Kernel apples. A ripe Ashmead’s is an in-your-face apple: high acid, high sugar. An apple that solo drives a red convertible with the top down in the carpool lane during rush hour.

A close-up image of apples, mostly russet brown but with red cheeks over a green ground.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book The Divine Stand-up Comedy by Dante Alighieri

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book The Three-Buddy Problem

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book Charles Atlas Shrugged

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book James and the Giant Aprium

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book The Rise and Fall of the Third Retch

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book: The Kitchen God’s Prom Date

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book: I, Roomba

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book The Art of the War Department

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book The Peckish Games

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book: The Junior Vice President of the Rings

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Just a quick phone pic, but I couldn’t resist. California skippers had all but disappeared from our garden a few years ago, but seem to be on the rebound. I’ll be zinnia soon, l’il buddy!

Closeup of California skipper butterfly on a peach-colored zinnia.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Slightly diminish a band: Aboveaveragetramp

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Slightly diminish a band: Jog-DMC

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

This Gravenstein apple tree across the road from my farm is about 90 years old and hasn’t been tended to in about 40 years, maybe more.

Apple tree bearing clusters of green apples surrounded by small oak trees and broom. Clearly not being taken care of.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Pink Pearl apples. Still on the tart side, but ready to pick. Their interior color is the best I’ve seen thanks to a cooler-than-typical summer so far.

A cluster of yellowish apples hanging on a tree, with a red cheek. They are pink inside but you have to take my word for it.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Sebastopol Gravenstein apples—I only manage to eat several a day when they’re in season.

An apple, along with a couple of other partially-seen apples, on a countertop. It is lopsided, yellowish-green, with random red stripes and stipples.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country’s billionaires’ tax cut. — Nathan Hale, 2025

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The Yellow Bellflower apple was supposedly George Washington’s favorite apple, and I have a tree that bears generous amounts of fruit. The apples are awful. Easily my least favorite variety. Maybe it’s a tree that doesn’t like the West Coast. I wish o could figure it out.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

An old walnut tree, a remnant of a long-gone orchard, just starting to leaf out. Seen on my walk this evening.

Gnarled old walnut, showing graft line at the bottom of the trunk, surrounded by tall grass.

The lower limbs show rings of holes where generations of woodpeckers and flickers have rummaged for insects.

A few leaves showing at the tips of the branches. This tree barely has enough energy to leaf out.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Only the biggest, best countries. This country came up to me, a real massive one, and he had tears in his eyes, and he said to me sir, thank you for these tariffs, it means a lot to my family — we’re gonna, we’re gonna, and it’s just an absolute disgrace and shouldn’t be happening.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Spotted my first Hooded Orioles of the season today in the garden. The Violet-Green Swallows and Barn Swallows showed up over the past few days too. Went to plant another garden bed this evening and saw a Grey Fox near the owl box. I listened to hummingbirds whir as I put my hands in the dirt.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Living Dangerously Then: Let’s go to clubs and stay out all night in a foreign city, take an illegal cab home, get in an accident, then run the rest of the way! Now: Let’s have extra croutons!

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

First Gravenstein blossom cluster of the season, right on schedule. They are usually on full bloom on April 1 around here.

Apple blossom cluster showing popcorn stage of flowers — not open yet. Dormant trees in the background.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Yesterday I learned that the last original apple tree planted by Henderson Luelling at his Fruit Vale farm sometime between 1854 and 1859 survived until 2020. The remnant of the tree is still standing, and I happened to be driving past the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland today.

Photo of a leaning tree trunk in a front yard of a stucco bungalow. The tree is clearly dead. There is fungus growing on it.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The adult elephant seals are leaving the beaches at Pt. Reyes National Seashore for their annual migration. Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Photo of the shoreline, beach on foreground. The tracks of an elephant seal are visible leading into the water.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I’ll take “What did you think was going to happen?” for $100

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

After that $1.5 billion Coinbase hack and theft was reported I’ve decided to shift my crypto holdings into my other portfolios: Beanie Babies and rare tulip bulbs.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

“We have a country to save, but ultimately, to make greater aim than ever before!” He’s talking about Russia.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The normalizing language in this Washington Post article from this morning is a joke. Whittling is something done with a penknife, not grenades.

“The dismissals come as Trump’s campaign to whittle down the federal workforce…”

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

DOGE isn’t sending their best people.

NBC News headline: Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Not art, not writing, but this little gray fox has been coming around every night to cadge some bird food peanuts before I take away the tray, and she’s a cutie.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

BREAKING: Department of Transportation introduces rules to make stopping at red lights optional under new “Drive Free in America” plan.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Flats of farm-grown lettuce starts from our nursery on their way to their forever home. Like in Toy Story, but with more salads.

Flats of nursery starts—all lettuces—in rectangular flats sitting on a gravel driveway. Each pack of lettuces has a nursery tag in it.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Snuck a pic of an evening visitor — a gray fox — who came to snack on birdseed before I took away the tray for the night.

Gray Fox looking to the left on a wooden deck. In front of the Fox is a metal tray with bird seed on it.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

BREAKING: The Trump Administration has issued an executive order stating that all Canadian bacon sold in the US will henceforth be called 51st State bacon. In addition, Canada Dry Ginger Ale will now be known as 51st State Precious Mineral Drink.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

The nod to Rocky Horror, the creative use of black plastic trash bags as cave walls and the bygone fashions make this music video a must-watch.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Baby tomatoes (Sungolds in the foreground) getting ready for spring. #gardening #farmlife

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

If only Elon Musk had been accepted into art school.

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Dan Lehrer @stilldanlehrer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

“The federal government absolutely needs reform, but what we’re seeing isn’t reform — it’s vandalism dressed up as innovation.”

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