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Ken Goering
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We live in a fifth-wheel trailer to see the sights and sites of the United States, and currently find ourselves in Las Vegas, Nevada. https://talesofthegoddard.com/
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · Sep 25
We spent some pleasant hours strolling about Back Basin in Yellowstone National Park’s Norris Geyser Basin earlier this month, and I had some recollections of the spectacular sights and sulfurous smells. #nationalparks #wyoming

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Back Basin at Yellowstone National Park
Norris Geyser BasinSeptember 12, 2025 Norris Geyser Basin, located in the northwest quadrant of Yellowstone National Park, is one of the most active hydrothermal regions in the park and contains ra…
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 1d
A Woodhouse's scrub-jay perches on a bare branch along the Kayenta Trail in Zion National Park last weekend. The steep walls of Zion Canyon would prevent the sun from reaching this tree for at least another hour. #birds #nationalparks #utah
A mostly blue bird, about the size of an American robin, with a gray chest and belly is perched on a bare tree branch. The bird is perched in side profile with its head turned slightly toward the camera.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 2d
This Anna's hummingbird had a steady perch just outside the dog park in our Las Vegas campground all winter last year. We arrived at the same campground for the winter yesterday, and I was really happy to see the little guy on the same treetop again this morning. #birds #lasvegas #nevada
A tiny bird, about the size of a ping-pong ball, with a very long and slender beak is perched at the top of a bare tree branch. The bird has iridescent green feathers on its wings, tail, and along its back. It is perched in side profile. The sky in the background is clear blue.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 8d
They’re still tied.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 8d
On a night of magnificent Bluesky content in re: this game, you continue to shine.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 8d
The game will be over mid-November; you didn’t miss much.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 8d
Tomorrow’s (today’s) newsletter still on time?
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 8d
Seriously speaking, Steven, I honestly didn’t know any of that happened to you until today (missed some s#it between Twitter and Bluesky). I admire your writing, and I don’t admire a lot; I’m glad you’re on this side of it.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 8d
Stay loose, just in case.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 8d
Southpaw?
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 8d
I mean, no one is pro-cancer; I don’t think we needed the Jonas Brothers to convince us otherwise during an MLB World Series game.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 8d
I just love major league baseball. Sometimes it makes absolutely no sense, and it’s all the more entertaining for it.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 8d
The ump’s strike zone is an ever-mutating amoeba-shaped ellipse. Fascinating, unless one has a rooting interest in this game.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 8d
That was just weird, right? That shouldn’t go unnoticed for programming decisions in future MLB series.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 8d
Deep cut, Patrick.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 8d
Thank you, Vinny. I’m lucky king forward to reading your gamer tomorrow morning.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 12d
A mountain bluebird monitors the goings-on at our campground's dog run in Parowan, Utah, last week. #birds #utah
A small pale-blue bird is perched on a wooden railing. It is perched with its body forward and is looking to its left. Its wings are folded inward.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 13d
A lovely mountain bluebird enjoys the last moments of the late-afternoon golden hour. Photo taken last week in Parowan, Utah. These birds added a lot of pretty color to our stay in Parowan. #birds #utah
A small bird is perched at the top of a brown metal structure. The bird is very pale blue and white, and the late-afternoon sun is darkening both colors. The bird is perched facing toward the camera and looking to its right.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 14d
When I saw this bird before photographing it, I thought it was a female house finch. However, it's a pine siskin, and it's a lifer! Photographed in Parowan, Utah, last week. #birds #utah
A small bird, mostly light brown and gray, is perched on the top of a bare tree limb. Its black beak is very sharply pointed. The bird is in side profile, and the Utah sky in the background is bright blue.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 25d
it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”
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AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 25d
A lesser goldfinch surveys the greater Fillmore, Utah, region earlier this week. Fillmore was intended to be the capital of the Utah Territory and construction started on a capitol building (still standing) in 1852. The legislature decided in 1856 to move the capital to Salt Lake City. #birds #utah
A small bright-yellow bird is perched on a bare tree branch against a brilliant blue Utah sky. The bird has some darker brown feathers on its head. It is in three-quarter profile. Fillmore's current population is about 2,600; the population of Salt Lake City is about 200,000 and 1.3 million people live in the SLC metropolitan area.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 26d
Nope — their numbers got really low in the early 20th century, but they’ve rebounded quite well (I read that current population nationwide is 7 million).
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 26d
A small flock of wild turkeys at our campground in central Utah earlier this week. They weren't particularly interested in having their pictures taken. These are large birds: adult toms weigh an average of 17 pounds (7.6 kg) and adult hens average 9.4 pounds (4.6 kg). #birds #utah
Several large birds are walking away from the camera. They have a wide variety of brown-colored feathers, with longer dark-brown tail feathers, and their heads are bare.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 27d
I was afraid things were going to get a little chippy between these ring-billed gulls and American white pelican, but they worked out a solution to whatever was going on. Photo taken late last month on the Snake River at Massacre Rocks State Park near American Falls, Idaho. #birds #stateparks #idaho
A large white bird with its huge beak open is floating on water, with a much smaller white and gray bird seemingly within its grasp (it's not). Another white and gray bird is flying over the large white bird.
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Ken Goering @kengoering.bsky.social · 27d
I completely agree with this, and I’ll add that it also became okay to be a jerk in public because the nation’s chief executive was doing it all the time. And is doing it again.
patrickwyman.bsky.social Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 27d
Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day
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