I take it as a metaphor. Rivers are vital and deserve to be protected, not tamed for human use. Beautiful map.
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I take it as a metaphor. Rivers are vital and deserve to be protected, not tamed for human use. Beautiful map.
He is going to lose. I’ll be very surprised if he doesn’t.
Last week: what forests reveal.
This week: what institutions quietly train us not to see.
open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...
“God doesn’t care about you at all.”
— Aristotle (paraphrased)
It’s a good question. I don’t think there is a good answer.
Confirming Pearce would put many of our favorite campsites, streams, and hiking trails across the West directly in the crosshairs 🎯🎯
Save our #PublicLands! Urge your Senators to VOTE NO on Steve Pearce for BLM Director by calling them at 202-224-3121 and by clicking this link ➡️ biodiv.us/pearce
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Many Christians define ‘God’ as an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent being/person who somehow manages to just exist without preexisting structure or context. They then accuse atheists like me of “hating God.” No, I’m just convinced that no such thing exists.
83° F, and it’s still February. We haven’t really had a winter this year in the Southwest.
I have no problem following or conversing with people with whom I disagree, provided that they can discuss those disagreements (or ignore them) civilly. I don’t think that is too much to expect.
A lie is a false claim, known to be false by the one making it, with the intent that the reader/listener actually believe what is written/said. This isn’t a difficult concept. Early Christian writings abound with lies. The New Testament does as well.
A side-view closeup photo of a grasshopper on a brown, thorny twig against a mostly-blue sky. The grasshopper has a boldly-barred, black-and-yellow abdomen, green and pink wings, legs, and thorax, and black eyes with yellow polka dots.
Grasshoppers are not just plain green or brown; many are among the most colorful of insects. Check out this glamhopper from 2018 in Madagascar: #bugsky 🌿🐙
Early Christian writers lied all the time, actually. If you think that the writers who got into the New Testament are an exception, you need to broaden your reading. I’d suggest starting here.
“The most striking finding of the Cass review, a 2024 British inquiry that found ‘remarkably weak’ evidence to back up the practice of youth gender medicine, was the shoddy quality of the professional guidelines for this treatment.”
Bluesky users are objectively in favor of violent threats deployed against the 'right' targets. When Bluesky does the right thing and bans or suspends one of its many users who engage in violent threats, the only possible explanation is a conspiracy theory.
“American doctors are no longer united on the wisdom of medicalizing gender dysphoria in minors.”
They never were. Many were just intimidated into silence.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Information that, I understand, is not welcome here.
www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-trans-...
This bill is absolutely horrifying.
Senator Mike Lee is one of the worst scumbags in this country. 🤬
#publiclands
Dusk in the Borderlands #SonoranDesert
I’m saddened to share that my friend and collaborator Evan Frost has died.
Evan spent decades defending forests and in recent years found a public voice here. His work gave context to what we’ve lost, and clarity to what remains at risk.
He will be deeply missed.
Found a really pretty waterfall today!
Video: youtube.com/shorts/DN3r2...
“What political positions does atheism necessarily entail?”
It entails none.
You, too, Carol!
Trump needs to be impeached. Now.
Trump demanding control of Greenland—which the US already has access to—is based on multi-layered lies. Threatening NATO allies to get it undermines the Western alliance.
I did a point-by-point breakdown of Trump's aggressive letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Støre about the Nobel and Greenland.
I stand with Greenland, Denmark, and our NATO obligations, which are U.S. law. Trump is betraying his oath of office; he is betraying allies; he is betraying the Constitution.
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Most extinctions today are ‘dark extinctions’….species that vanish before they’re described, monitored, or counted.
No database can record what was never discovered.
Biology is not accounting, and absence of paperwork is not absence of extinction.
news.arizona.edu/news/extinct...
If Brazil thinks this is a win for loggers and not protecting forests they will collapse. Look at Nauru and Indonesia. The president said Palm oil trees are trees too. Sumatra gone now. One by one countries will collapse for corporations
“The Sierra Club Embraced
Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.”
Yup. The Sierra Club officially sucks now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Apparently, this is enough for hundreds of millions of Christians. Because this is all we have. Moreover, the anonymously written stories (the gospels) are not independent, though they do contradict one another, and come long after Paul’s letters.