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uneasywriter.bsky.social
Just realized, no wonder this British history guy I watch on Youtube has no worries plunging into a bunch of scrubby woodlands to track down a Roman road or whatever. No poison ivy worries!
January 18, 2026 at 11:17 PM
mcdptx.bsky.social
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This a local Greater Woodlands Indivisible event! Protest a year of increasing authoritarianism capped by the outrageous killing of Renee Good by ICE. Walk out of your work, school or business and j...
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January 18, 2026 at 11:02 PM
railmag.bsky.social
…are you displacing a key population of people? Or are you disrupting a cemetery, in addition to the concerns about the spotted salmon or watersheds. Things like flood & rainwater mitigation and impact on our travel models are considered. So, not just air quality or protected woodlands.
January 18, 2026 at 6:14 PM
darkwaterphotos.bsky.social
This hawk has a talon for finding good real estate in the black oak savannah, High Park - Toronto. 🌿🪶🦉🦅🐦🍁 #Birds

#Art #Wildlife #Photography #YellowEyes #Redhead #RedTail #OhMyDouglas #VoleControl #BlackOakSavannahAndChill
#HawkwardMoments #TalonsOutForVoles #TOBirdParty #TheVoleTruth #AvianAgenda
Redtailed Hawk, close up. This large, stocky bird of prey is one of the most widespread and commonly observed hawks in North America. Adults are known for their distinctive brownish-red tail, while juveniles have a pale tail with fine dark barring. They are highly adaptable hunters and can be found in various habitats, including open woodlands, shrubby fields, and even urban areas. Red-tailed hawks primarily hunt small mammals like mice and voles but will also eat small birds and reptiles.
January 18, 2026 at 4:55 PM
barbaraexonwriter.bsky.social
How 'bout this sublime hair ice fungus, Scottish winter woodlands?!
January 18, 2026 at 4:37 PM
adapalmer.bsky.social
After a century’s absence, pine martens are returning to England as part of a broader recovery across the British Isles. The species’ comeback is restoring balance to woodlands, curbing grey squirrels, and marking a milestone in UK nature recovery. buff.ly/Qw6k8w8
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First pine martens released in Exmoor National Park in landmark nature recovery project | The Wildlife Trusts
A pioneering nature recovery project has reintroduced 19 pine martens to Exmoor National Park — marking the official return of a native species lost for over a century.
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January 18, 2026 at 2:50 PM
jacobian.bsky.social
It's one of those albums I can't defend or condemn to people who don't have that deep personal connection. I'm not even from there, but so many of my dearest friends are from the woodlands, and I've spent time there, so I feel it in my bones as Of That Place.
January 18, 2026 at 7:57 AM
harig.bsky.social
This part protects Citizens United.
INTRODUCTION Founding-era letters, pamphlets, charters, and even draft Constitutions reflect the religious and philosophical pluralism of the Colonies and their people: one-part Natural Law, one-part Enlightenment, one-part Religion. See Jud Campbell, Natural Rights and the First Amendment, 127 YALE L.J. 246, 284 (2017). In aggregate, these documents reflect a shared First Amendment vision: Free Speech, Press, Petition, and Assembly rights combine to protect and elevate the public discourse necessary to self-government-not self-expression in all forms, and certainly not the libertine "expressive conduct" absolutism envisioned by Plaintiff Spectrum WT. See id. at 256, 287.' And not a sexualized striptease in the presence of minors. See Woodlands Pride, Inc. v. Paxton, 157 F.4th 775, 786 n.9 (5th Cir. 2025).2 The part “combine to protect and elevate the public discourse to self government” is highlighted
January 18, 2026 at 4:53 AM
worldwildlife.bsky.social
Giraffe. "A giraffe's tongue is a remarkable tool, long (18-20 inches), dark (bluish-purple), prehensile (grasping), and tough, allowing it to navigate thorny acacia." Great fact and photo taken by Ann Warner at Mukuvisi Woodlands in Zimbabwe. #giraffe #wildlife #zimbabwe #nature🦒
January 18, 2026 at 4:28 AM
djbyrnes1.bsky.social
Kacsmaryk really likes the word "striptease."
Image text: Spectrum’s repeated failure to present a forum-appropriate drag show is inevitable because their proposal is a category error: 1. Spectrum will perform a “provocative,” “transgressive,” “gender-bending” performance that “shatters” sex, sexuality, and gender norms through exaggerated caricatures of the female sex, sexuality, and sex roles, with invited performers who routinely simulate masturbation, simulate sex acts, and “frottage” audience members. See 2d Exp. Tr. 58:16–18, 63:16.3 2. But the performance will be entirely appropriate for a limited public forum with minors in the audience because Spectrum aspires to (but cannot enforce) something like a “PG-13” show. See Exp. Tr. 12:23:19–27. The raison d’être of Spectrum’s drag show is sexual provocation—but they promise it won’t be too sexualized, too provocative. Not surprisingly, Spectrum failed to enforce its intended “PG-13” format during a drag show held off campus, as professional and student performers tasked with “breaking” and “destabilizing” sexual norms engaged in sexualized conduct more akin to a striptease than the University Sing and Jingle Mingle comparators argued by counsel. See Exp. Tr. at 12:35:03–43. Spectrum promised Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street but some performers digressed into something like the 1996 movie Striptease. Last year, Spectrum failed to enforce the advertised “R” rating at a Valentine’s Day lip-synching event that descended into “BDSM” simulated sex acts. See Fanelli Dep. at 55:6–58:11. Spectrum failed to prove that its nascent 2026 program deserves the requested injunctive relief. First, the proposed 2026 performance is not “expressive conduct” warranting First Amendment protection. Second, even if the 2026 program is “expressive conduct," Image text: same day—one week before the March 2023 show was to take place—the Plaintiffs also moved for a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) and preliminary injunction. Then on March 29, 2023, Plaintiffs withdrew their request for a TRO and held the March 2023 show at Sam Houston Park in Amarillo, Texas. The off-campus show raised nearly $9,000 via GoFundMe and $941 in cash at the performance. The event far exceeded all prior estimates for an on-campus show’s attendance and revenue. Spectrum donated $7,000 to the Trevor Project after paying roughly $2,300 to the City of Amarillo for use of the park stage and security provided by off-duty police officers. Children were among the attendees. While some adults placed their dollar bills directly into the performers’ underwear, at least one child acted as a courier, bringing donations from the audience to the performers on the stage. Spectrum intended for the off-campus show to remain PG-13—just as it advertised for the event in Legacy Hall. Spectrum instructed performers to avoid “lewd” conduct at the March 2023 show. Despite this admonition, the show included at least one performance with provocative dancing and a sexualized striptease. For the sake of the minors present in the public park, the performer announced she would be removing clothing, but that she would not “be showing any more than you would be seeing at a swimming pool.” The performance included the performer removing her undergarments and top. At least some of her body may have been covered by a nude suit. See Def.’s Ex. 375. Spectrum applied again in 2024 to hold a similar drag show in Legacy Hall. President Wendler canceled that show as well. Image text: It is likely that the 2026 show would be sexually graphic in the way described by the Fifth Circuit. Though the current Spectrum President expressed a desire for the 2026 show to be “appropriate,” past shows Spectrum planned and held are strong evidence to thecontrary. For its planned on-campus shows in 2023 and 2024, Spectrum invited Myss Myka to emcee and perform at the show. As shown in the screenshots from Defendant’s Exhibit 363 above, Myss Myka regularly performs sexually explicit shows, replete with “pulsing prosthetic breasts” and “putting prosthetic breasts in people’s faces.” Cf. Woodlands Pride, 157 F.4th at 786 n.9. Spectrum avers that Myss Myka’s past performances are not indicative of future excess. But why does Spectrum repeatedly invite, advertise, and display Myss Myka and similarly sexualized content? Assuming Spectrum intends “appropriate” content, past sexualized shows demonstrate an inability (or unwillingness) to restrain the stripteases, bouncing prosthetics, and frottage. At the off-campus Sam Houston Park show in 2023, with minors present, a performer expressly stated her striptease was inappropriate for minors— then proceeded to striptease. Spectrum admits it was unaware the stripper would striptease. And in a 2025 on-campus lip-synching event Spectrum helped plan, a performer took the stage to simulate BDSM acts. Again, Spectrum admits it was unaware of the performer’s gameplan. Drag, by its “provocative,” “transgressive” nature, veers into sexualized content, and Spectrum’s proven inability to control the content elides any argument that the planned 2026 show will be “appropriate.” Image text: It is also likely that minors will be present at the proposed 2026 show. Spectrum expressly invited minors to the planned 2023 and 2024 shows. And minors attended the off- campus 2023 show. While Spectrum’s current President stated that minors are not invited to the 2026 show, it is not clear how Spectrum would accomplish this in practice. Minor high school students attend classes at West Texas A&M through the Pre-University Program (“PUP”). There is no differentiation between PUP and regular West Texas A&M students— in fact, professors do not know which classroom students are PUP students. Minors can even join Spectrum. Consequently, PUP students might conceivably perform at the show. Considering these facts, the Court finds it likely that minors will attend the 2026 drag show. State restrictions on minors’ access to sexual content do not trigger heightened constitutional scrutiny. Free Speech Coal., Inc. v. Paxton, 606 U.S. 461, 474 (2025). In particular, the government “may prevent minors from accessing works that (a) taken as a whole, and under contemporary community standards, appeal to the prurient interest of minors; (b) depict or describe specifically defined sexual conduct in a way that is patently offensive for minors; and (c) taken as a whole, lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.” Id. Performances with stripteases, prosthetic breasts, and sexualized erotic dancing appeal to the prurient interests of minors, are patently offensive for minors, and lack serious value for minors. If restrictions on such performances burden adults’ rights to access such speech, such restrictions are arguably subject to intermediate scrutiny. Id. at 478. And it may be impractical to restrict minors’ access to shows on campus, given the presence of minors undifferentiated from adults through the PUP program. The planned 2026 show may lack constitutional protection for that reason alone.
January 18, 2026 at 4:03 AM
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Judge Kacsmaryk writes to say that the First Amendment only protects "public discourse necessary to self-government," as he slurs drag and holds it not protected.
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW INTRODUCTION Founding-era letters, pamphlets, charters, and even draft Constitutions reflect the religious and philosophical pluralism of the Colonies and their people: one-part Natural Law, one-part Enlightenment, one-part Religion. See Jud Campbell, Natural Rights and the First Amendment, 127 YALE L.J. 246, 284 (2017). In aggregate, these documents reflect a shared First Amendment vision: Free Speech, Press, Petition, and Assembly rights combine to protect and elevate the public discourse necessary to self-government—not self-expression in all forms, and certainly not the libertine “expressive conduct” absolutism envisioned by Plaintiff Spectrum WT. See id. at 256, 287.1 And not a sexualized striptease in the presence of minors. See Woodlands Pride, Inc. v. Paxton, 157 F.4th 775, 786 n.9 (5th Cir. 2025).2
January 18, 2026 at 3:09 AM
feathersmcgraw.bsky.social
“For in this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; & only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare & other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth,–even though it be covertly, & by snatches." 
Melville
‘Hawthorne & His Mosses’
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January 18, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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January 17, 2026 at 11:45 PM
feliciamperez.bsky.social
Breezy 51° today, dropping to 26° tonight. 🥶
It was 70° yesterday.
#forest #trees #woodlands #woods #nature
January 17, 2026 at 10:14 PM
nickbaumgardner.bsky.social
Oregon's "woodlands" basketball court design is a debacle.
January 17, 2026 at 9:43 PM
meredithnudo.blacksky.app
I cried when I first heard the album. And THEN I found out it was about The Woodlands. It all clicked. I was at their Pavilion show after the Grammy, too. So cathartic.

Also yeah I was so upset when Win Butler was outed as a creepazoid. Had to acknowledge it, because I'm not here for apologetics.
January 17, 2026 at 8:31 PM
diminutivefox.bsky.social
Heading into the Sunset.

Up late and family responsibilities, so not the biggest ride. Not been these ways for a while. These woodlands are where I started out; I imagine I might not have become who I am without them…
January 17, 2026 at 8:21 PM
meredithnudo.blacksky.app
A faith leader in The Woodlands apparently told my mom that he read this article and considered it an incredibly accurate indictment of growing up there.

That gives me so much hope, to know there is pushback against the poisonous culture.

Let's fucking go.
meredithnudo.blacksky.app Meredith Nudo 🤌🏻 @meredithnudo.blacksky.app · 6d
An abbreviated version of this appeared in Houstonia's winter issue. Here's the full piece: a breakdown of some Arcade Fire lyrics from The Suburbs (which is LITERALLY about The Woodlands) and how they accurately capture the experience of growing up there.

www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-cul...
When The Woodlands Inspired a Grammy-Winning Album
Arcade Fire's Butler brothers grew up in the Houston suburb. So did I.
www.houstoniamag.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:30 PM
morebooks.bsky.social
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Walkout America in The Woodlands TX” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
Walkout America in The Woodlands TX · Mobilize
This a local Greater Woodlands Indivisible event! Protest a year of increasing authoritarianism capped by the outrageous killing of Renee Good by ICE. Walk out of your work, school or business and j...
www.mobilize.us
January 17, 2026 at 6:17 PM
sfaccountant.bsky.social
Synthetic woodlands caretaker
Element of Kindness (Model VI)
January 17, 2026 at 4:06 PM
dogofthedesert.bsky.social
I do see mountain bluebirds, when they drop out of the high mountains for the winter. Usually in the juniper woodlands, about 5000-7000 feet elevation. Then when it warms up in the mountains again, they're gone.
January 17, 2026 at 3:36 PM
capitalcitycrafts.bsky.social
Small Woodlands Twig Cuff Bracelet Rustic Nature inspired Unisex Jewelry Gift https://tuppu.net/e920b3a5 ##CapitalCityCrafts##handmadeinUSA##jewelry_gifts##artisan_jewelry##NatureJewelry
January 17, 2026 at 2:56 PM
extension.illinois.edu
Doing some bird watching this weekend? A winter visitor to Illinois, the dark-eyed junco spends its time in woodlands, fields, and at birdfeeders.  
The funky, fidgety wild bird of Illinois winters: Dark-eyed junco
Every year sightings of the first American Robin (Turdus migratorius) are hailed as the spring weather harbinger, but did you know we have a winter weather welcoming
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January 17, 2026 at 2:29 PM
northbnd.bsky.social
Misty morning #trailrunning in the woods. Post injury and illness I went super slow, loved being out again 🏃‍♂️
Strava running stats against a photo of a dark lake with misty woodlands on the opposite shore.
January 17, 2026 at 1:08 PM
dailymail.co.uk
Goodbye fresh country air: Britain's woodlands are ridden with airborne microplastics, experts warn - as they find nearly DOUBLE the amount compared to city centres trib.al/EVwJ6xm
Britain's woodlands are ridden with microplastics, experts say
Britain's woodlands are under threat from air-polluting microplastics, experts have warned.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 17, 2026 at 11:42 AM