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Heather Naomi @mysticalmarigold.bsky.social · 1h

Carpenter Bee Bud hanging on a Goldenrod in the sunset 💛🌱 #nativeplants #pollinatorgarden #longgoodnight #bloomscrolling

Yellow blooming goldenrod hangs in front of an orange and pink sunset. Upside down in the center is a carpenter bee

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 5h

The rest of the bed is planted! 🥳 🌱 #nativeplants

A large mulched garden bed with a very informal holly bark border on one edge. The plants in it are all pretty small, for now.

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 9h

Or how about this goldenrod? Isn't it enticing? Come taste it. Come right on down. #bugsky #invertebrates

An ambush bug lurking next to some bright yellow goldenrod flowers. The bug is rather more orange than the flowers so, to a human eye, not doing a great job with camouflage.

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 9h

This is a late boneset plant blooming. Doesn't it look delicious? Wouldn't you little bees and flower flies like to take a sip? 🤪 #bugsky #invertebrates

An ambush bug doing a creditable late boneset impression, ready for breakfast.

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 11h

Another one of these. I gave myself the easiest task first: check the solitary pepper plant that fruited as I totally neglected my veg garden through summer. I think this is one of the "tastes like habanero but is not very hot" guys but who knows. 🌱🌶️

Three peppers in the poster's hand. The ripe ones are a rich true red, and they look kinda like habaneros, kinda like shishitos.

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E G @edgy.bsky.social · 21h

Most subversive currency or coinlike object one could insert into penny loafers

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tree creak @moistwelldrained.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Exploding jewelweed seed pods are so much fun. Great hands-on native plant activity for kids. #nativeplants

Light green jewelweed seed along with expended seed pod

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Rhythm 🎶 🌱 @rhythmicwolf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

two american ladies visited my butterfly garden yesterday 🥰 there was a pearl crescent flying around my leaf litter too but i could NOT get a good pic. nice to see the butterfly garden is working 💖 #nativeplants

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LEE (they/he) @mycomagus.bsky.social · 23h

Not if you append "-ai" it doesn't ?

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Plants I learned about in the western Adirondacks this weekend, part 1 🌿 #nativeplants 🌎 #ecoregion58aa #ADK ^ that's the acid-sensitive Adirondacks!

Broad-leaved hellborine, a temperate climate terrestrial orchid, growing among fallen leaves next to a small wooden footbridge.

Dewdrop leaves, looking an awful lot like violets but actually a bramble.

Mountain woodsorrel and firmoss. You should look up mountain woodsorrel flowers. You'll be glad you did.

Threeleaf goldthread, looking like a shiny strawberry plant amidst fallen leaves.

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am going to Rochester and did not pack sensible layers whoops

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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 02/10/2026

/ UP IN2 THE LO 80S ON UR FRIDAY / OH WOWOW THATS 15 DEGREES ABOVE AVG / "NICE" WEATHER / "NICE" ENOUGH 4 U 2 REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS?

A SCREENSHOT FROM WEATHERISHAPPENING.COM

ZERODAY 4CAST
36% CHANCE RAINBLOBS

HI: 81.7 +15 ABOVE AVG
LO: 64.9
TEMPS UNTIL MIDNITE

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

adding this for context's sake: "We demonstrate that reallocating subsidy savings through existing national social assistance programs can effectively resolve the tension between fossil fuel subsidy reform and social equity." bsky.app/profile/rons...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But fossil capital's ability to slow energy transition and maintain a measure of political control is a problem with a rising body count, and the sooner we usher them out of relevance the better

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

According to the International Energy Agency, total global investment in solar energy (including both rooftop solar and utility-scale projects) was less than half of this figure, despite our dire ecological situation

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Plant native plants. It's like furnishing a guest room for a really pleasant tiny friend coming to visit 🌱🦋 #insects #bugsky #bloomscrolling

A perfectly lovely red hairstreak butterfly on a white wild aster's bright yellow disk. The butterfly is tiny and mostly gray, but has a bright orange-red streak lined with white.

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Still have many to go and definitely overestimated how many I could easily fit in this area but hey, I can always add some to other beds too. 🌱 #nativeplants

A backyard garden with lots of young plants and rectangular concrete paver stepping stones.

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Betony is in the Underdark and Shar keeps appearing to her. Her party members are not a fan of Shar or deities in general. For Bets, the gods of a place are like the acidic soil at the roots of azaleas, or the bog that fosters pitcher plants. They are terrain. It is important to know them.

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

About 40 seconds of big bees buzzing around on bee balm with soft background traffic sounds 🐝🌱

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Baltimoreans: The nation's hottest measles hotspot is just north of us in Pennsylvania. A rival is not far south in South Carolina. Below are screenshots from JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health's Measles tracker. Click on the link to find numbers across the US publichealth.jhu.edu/ivac/resourc...

The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health's Measles Tracker map shows hot spots in western portions of the Mid Atlantic (especially Pennsylvania and South Carolina) along with outbreaks in the intermountain west (New Mexico, Arizona and Utah)Texas and Florida. Follow the link in the main posting to be taken to the live map to check measles cases in your part of the US

Cases this fortnight are concentrated in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and New York

Since 2017, reported measles cases in Maryland were in the low single digits until the Trump administration's policies, led by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. escalated them seventeen-fold in one year. In 2025, Maryland had 3 confirmed cases of measles; in 2026, the number rose to 51 in the first 9 months.

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I had been thinking about today as a life admin day but I am feeling a little annoyed and self-indulgent so I am, you guessed it, putting plants in the ground

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KJ Misme @kjmisme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

May I humbly suggest raking the leaves into your garden beds instead of putting them out for collection? Leaves are a necessary part of the habitat/ecosystem- they are a nice little winter bed for the babies of many pollinators, fireflies, and little creatures that help birds not starve.

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New York Communities for Change @nychange.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Mr. Mayor we’re on the steps of city hall to ask you to lower our bills 💰, cut pollution 🎉 and create good jobs 💪 Help our communities on climate policy like you said you would!

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Begging anyone who opposes hyperscale data centers to refrain from elective genAI use. Like. I get that it's embedded in a lot of things. But don't go actively using the thing you want to curtail the growth of!!

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A friend of mine is about to face a custody battle and needs a good lawyer in New York (city) — any recommendations? DM me if it’s easier to do that

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Sylvia Chi 齊思涵 @sylviachi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The reality is that there are no silly culture wars happening in America. There are equality wars and justice wars and fairness wars. Democrats should try to win those wars—and the elections that involve them." 💯

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maaaaybe the caterpillar life stage of these moths? 🤔 🌿🐛 #inverts #bugsky

A caterpillar with an orange-brown head and streaky dark body seeming to nibble on a spotted bee balm flower. A pinkish white hand with long unpolished nails is holding the stem of the bee balm

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The problem with AI art is that it's human only in the sense that Soylent Green is people.

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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾 @chaseprairie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

man i have no idea if this is working, but also i dont know how to do it better? Who has ideas?

a section of a guide for asters with guides to bracteoles, distal leaves, proximal leaves, and basal leaves

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Eastern Carpenter Bees stealing nectar from the Azure Sage. Their passionflowers aren't blooming a lot now that the weather is changing, so they have to make do. #bees #nativeplants #BlueTuesday 🌱 #gardening

The same bee, seen from behind grasping another salvia flower and drinking from the top of it. Her wings are a little frayed on the edges.

An extreme closeup of another carpenter bee drinking from a sage flower. The holes they make are usually hidden under the edge of the calyx.

A closeup of a Salvia azurea flower with some visible holes in it from carpenter bee feeding. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Aimee Witteman @aimeewitteman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A footnote to my Lyme story: my husband hunts deer because we have WAY too many in the DMV. I call venison hyper-local, climate-friendly protein with ecological benefits (a take that is not wildly popular in Takoma Park). But after my diagnosis, I have a new slogan: eat the deer, reduce the ticks.

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They only took me up on ~70 plants but they are all collected in one place, ready for pickup 🫡 had to raid my downy skullcap volunteers, but that's ok. There will be more. 🌱 #nativeplants

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Institute for Market Transformation @imtspeaks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

IMT is hiring a Senior Specialist, Building Science & Analysis to lead technical research on building performance, retrofit strategies, and energy code work. Full-time, remote. $100K-$115K. Details: imt.org/about/jobs/ #Hiring #Policy #Buildings #Jobs

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Food & Water Watch @foodandwater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📣 WE’RE HIRING 📣 As we push Congress to pass a nationwide data center moratorium, we also need to stop these extractive facilities at the local level. That’s why we’re hiring canvassers and ramping up our efforts to talk to people across the U.S. about the importance of standing up to Big Tech!

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Constantly giving myself jump scares realizing I am looking at one of these enormous grasshoppers because they are so still that my eye initially does not recognize them as a living thing. 🦗🌿 #bugsky #invertebrates

A very big, mostly brown grasshopper on a spotted bee balm stem.

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you have a big enough bumblebee population you will eventually see European hornets hunting them 😢 🌿🐝 #bugsky #invertebrates

A patch of spotted bee balm. Hanging off the bracts of one plant, in shadow, is a large hornet curled around a bumblebee, dismantling its body.

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Filling a standard 275-gallon oil tank in Maine costs ~$740 more than last year, after the statewide average hit a record $6.02 per gallon. ~50% of Maine households used heating oil in 2024, down from 62% in 2018. Maine is a leader in heat pumps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/09/28/b... #energysky

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Maine posts record-breaking heating oil prices amid Iran War

Heating oil reached a record high of $6.02 a gallon in Maine due to global conflicts and refining shortages, state officials said.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason)

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Erin 🌱 @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think you have too many plants (shut up!) I think you have too many plants (shut up!) I think you have too many plants (shut up!) I think you have too many plants (shut up!)

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