Sunset Bird
@rbstewart.bsky.social
Retired architect, writing, feeding birds, messing about with plants.
If you’re only selling something, are right-winger and looking for argument, or look like some Russian mail-order bride type, don’t bother following me. Will block.
If you’re only selling something, are right-winger and looking for argument, or look like some Russian mail-order bride type, don’t bother following me. Will block.
Fog in the valley last night was glowing with the light of blanketed buildings.
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Fog in the valley last night was glowing with the light of blanketed buildings.
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It’s official. @dougjones.bsky.social will run against Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/life/2025/11...
Doug Jones will enter 2026 Alabama governor’s race
Campaign paperwork is to be filed this week.
www.al.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It’s official. @dougjones.bsky.social will run against Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/life/2025/11...
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If you're interested in fiction, particularly short stories, and very particularly comical ones in the first person.. here's an interview thing with me in it. Make of it what you will.
theshortstory.co.uk/the-short-st...
theshortstory.co.uk/the-short-st...
The Short Story Interview: Susie Maguire - TSS Publishing
Interview by Rupert Dastur Hi Susie, it’s great to speak to you about your short story collection The Short Hello and short stories in general. First off, perhaps you could tell us why you started wri...
theshortstory.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If you're interested in fiction, particularly short stories, and very particularly comical ones in the first person.. here's an interview thing with me in it. Make of it what you will.
theshortstory.co.uk/the-short-st...
theshortstory.co.uk/the-short-st...
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A craftsperson loves craft. Writing is craft. The people who practice it are into the process. People using AI don't have the SOUL of a craftsperson. They want an end result to stick their name on, that's it.
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A craftsperson loves craft. Writing is craft. The people who practice it are into the process. People using AI don't have the SOUL of a craftsperson. They want an end result to stick their name on, that's it.
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Now we see what the gig is: Will DOJ release the files or will they claim their lopsided investigation into only Democrats (despite Bondi’s July statement that the evidence didn’t support any additional prosecutions) means they won’t release anything.
You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Now we see what the gig is: Will DOJ release the files or will they claim their lopsided investigation into only Democrats (despite Bondi’s July statement that the evidence didn’t support any additional prosecutions) means they won’t release anything.
Sounds like Saudi Arabia is leaving almost everything to the US in their Will… and plans to outlive the US.
If I told you the entire Saudi GDP this year would be ~$1.25 trillion it may surprise you to learn they're dumping $1.1 trillion into the US
in other news I am so fucking tired of this made up bullshit
in other news I am so fucking tired of this made up bullshit
November 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Sounds like Saudi Arabia is leaving almost everything to the US in their Will… and plans to outlive the US.
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Goodnight.
Bert Hardy
Pandographer, 1939
Bert Hardy
Pandographer, 1939
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Goodnight.
Bert Hardy
Pandographer, 1939
Bert Hardy
Pandographer, 1939
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Not that I feel tough, but the list largely reflects my childhood.
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Not that I feel tough, but the list largely reflects my childhood.
This will mutate into Godzilla.
This Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl By Drinking Radiation. The fungi contain melanin, which “absorbs radiation, which is then converted into usable energy, allowing it to grow in areas with intense radioactive exposure.” [forbes.com]
This Black Fungus Might Be Healing Chernobyl By Drinking Radiation—A Biologist Explains
Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and which scientists are studying to unlock applications in a wide range of fields.
www.forbes.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This will mutate into Godzilla.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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"This was the bedroom. If we had been sleeping here, we would have been crushed."
Russian drone strike hit the top floor of the building in one of Kyiv's residential complexes, destroying an apartment.
📹: Radio Liberty
Russian drone strike hit the top floor of the building in one of Kyiv's residential complexes, destroying an apartment.
📹: Radio Liberty
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"This was the bedroom. If we had been sleeping here, we would have been crushed."
Russian drone strike hit the top floor of the building in one of Kyiv's residential complexes, destroying an apartment.
📹: Radio Liberty
Russian drone strike hit the top floor of the building in one of Kyiv's residential complexes, destroying an apartment.
📹: Radio Liberty
Life is better when we have good humans as leaders. We could have had that this time but some people don’t want life to be better, if it means better for all.
A real president does this.
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Life is better when we have good humans as leaders. We could have had that this time but some people don’t want life to be better, if it means better for all.
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Sim left Alabama to protect his family. He has since written a book “And the Dragons Do Come: Raising a Transgender Kid in Rural America.” Give it a read.
thenewpress.org/books/and-th...
thenewpress.org/books/and-th...
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Sim left Alabama to protect his family. He has since written a book “And the Dragons Do Come: Raising a Transgender Kid in Rural America.” Give it a read.
thenewpress.org/books/and-th...
thenewpress.org/books/and-th...
When you don’t do proper research before a big commitment, this is what you get.
The two Texas families that relocated to Russia to escape LGBTQ indoctrination are finding it hard to adjust to life there. Shocking! www.chron.com/culture/arti...
They left Texas for Russia to escape 'LGBT indoctrination.' Turns out, it sucks.
Their Texas towns had too much "DEI" and "LGBT indoctrination." So they moved to Russia and became influencers.
www.chron.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
When you don’t do proper research before a big commitment, this is what you get.
Our “Founding Fathers” should have included as the opening and closing of the Constitution, that this is a work in progress and not something to treat like a Ming vase. Not holy. We are NOT honorable gents who are safe around loopholes and sloppy language, so spare the lofty words and get specific!
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Our “Founding Fathers” should have included as the opening and closing of the Constitution, that this is a work in progress and not something to treat like a Ming vase. Not holy. We are NOT honorable gents who are safe around loopholes and sloppy language, so spare the lofty words and get specific!
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An important lesson in under 3 minutes.
Silence legitimizes injustice.
And one day, no one will be left to speak out for you.
Silence legitimizes injustice.
And one day, no one will be left to speak out for you.
They stayed silent because it wasn’t their problem. That’s how injustice wins, not by force, but by the quiet approval of those who look away.
The system doesn’t need to break you. It just needs you to do nothing while it breaks others. And when it’s your turn, no one will be left to fight for you.
The system doesn’t need to break you. It just needs you to do nothing while it breaks others. And when it’s your turn, no one will be left to fight for you.
November 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
An important lesson in under 3 minutes.
Silence legitimizes injustice.
And one day, no one will be left to speak out for you.
Silence legitimizes injustice.
And one day, no one will be left to speak out for you.
Once again hating leaf blowers this morning. After a life spent working hard and doing good, leaves deserve a peaceful preliminary after-life (prior to composting) and shouldn’t be loudly chased out of their neighborhood. This craving for constant yard tidiness needs to end. Thank you.
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Once again hating leaf blowers this morning. After a life spent working hard and doing good, leaves deserve a peaceful preliminary after-life (prior to composting) and shouldn’t be loudly chased out of their neighborhood. This craving for constant yard tidiness needs to end. Thank you.
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
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Honestly, this was my favorite news of the night.
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate.
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
buff.ly/nTvLlFI
Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections.
buff.ly/nTvLlFI
Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Honestly, this was my favorite news of the night.
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"For nourishment, the Frenchman survived on a string of onions he happened to be wearing at the time"
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
"For nourishment, the Frenchman survived on a string of onions he happened to be wearing at the time"
Covid vaccine boosted, 2nd day of availability here. The university hospital vaccine clinic was doing a brisk business delivering flu vaccines to university employees, but we may have been the only ones for covid. So we continue to mask.
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Covid vaccine boosted, 2nd day of availability here. The university hospital vaccine clinic was doing a brisk business delivering flu vaccines to university employees, but we may have been the only ones for covid. So we continue to mask.