Rick Derevan

For #internationalsheltieday2026 I'm posting photos of the seven shelties who have graced my life, joining the family in one single and three pairs. Names and dates in alt text. 🐕 #sheltie #ShetlandSheepdog

🧵🧵🧵 10 ways the planet’s richest person, Elon Musk, has been busy making the world worse. A thread. 1. Buying crooked politicians like Ken Paxton.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Black&White; any bird with Black & White plumage. A Black-billed Magpie plays with a leaf. 🪶

The greatest challenge of our time isn’t to figure out how to get to Mars or become interstellar, but to figure out how to live sustainably on Earth.

Today’s Alt. #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Dusk; any bird captured at sunset. Great Egret, Merced National Wildlife Refuge. 🪶

Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #Coots&Moorhens. A little spat with an onlooker. 🪶

How is this not something that requires a bunch of permits and votes and environmental impact assessments and generally a very long moment of considering what the hell are we even doing here

For Alan's #BirdOfTheDay, the main theme is #JKLM bird species starting with these letters. The Alt Theme is #Grey, birds with Grey in its Plumage. Hers a little of both. American Kestrel. 🪶

@susanorlean.bsky.social Perhaps it read The Library Book and now is hoping to find Joyride on the shelves.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ShoreBirds with the alternative theme #UrbanBirds. This is a Snowy Plover, considered endangered, on the central coast of California. 🪶

Something caught the attention of these two Acorn Woodpeckers. Today’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #LookingUp; any bird looking up/head raised. 🪶

#TheBirdOfTheDay theme is #Ducks&GeeseInFlight, any Ducks or Geese in flight. Wood Ducks. 🪶

Chillin'. #sheltie #shetlandsheepdog

Alan's @alan678.bsky.social theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay is #BlueWater, birds surrounded by blue water. A cattle egret flies in front of a breaking wave, Maui, Hawaii. 🪶

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #BirdSupermodel Any bird captured looking like it's posing for a magazine cover shoot... bold eye contact, dramatic lighting, uncluttered backdrops...! 🪶 Black-crowned Night Heron with a coquettish foot raise.

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BlueSkies; any bird against a blue sky. How about two birds against a blue sky? An American Crow chases a Red-tailed Hawk. 🪶

The rise in dengue in the US was predicted a quarter century ago by #climate scientists in the first US National Climate Assessment. This article doesn't mention climate change. thehill.com/policy/healt...

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying, birds with their wings open when not flying. Here a young Least Tern tries to get its parents' attention—preferably bringing food. 🪶

Today's #BirdOfTheDay, is #Black&Red, any bird with Black & Red in its plumage. 🪶 Acorn Woodpecker, male.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay is #BestBeaks Celebrating any bird with a beak or bill that has striking colours, bold profiles, or an interesting shape. This is a Red-tailed Tropicbird in Kauai. 🪶

Pretty clear Hegseth’s primary mission is to transform the military ideologically by overtly indoctrinating troops with Christian nationalism and apocalyptic holy war messaging while rooting out those who don’t want to participate and just want to serve their country admirably.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth. These two Western Bluebirds showed up at my birdbath. 🪶

#EFG is the #BirdOfTheDay theme; birds beginning with any of those letters. Does Bald Eagle count as "E"? 🤔🪶

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BokehBirds - any bird captured with a soft, muted or blurry background. Here's a Bullock's Oriole in a pine tree. 🪶

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Seabirds— any bird found at sea or the coast. A Northern Fulmar glides low over the Pacific. 🪶

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Pairs, photos with pairs of the same species in them. A WoodDuck pair enjoys resting on a log next to a lake. 🪶

Per Alan @alan678.bsky.social, today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ODG, any Owl, Duck or Goose. This is a Great Horned Owl at Point Reyes National Seashore, California. 🪶

The insect apocalypse is real and it's already happening. Nearly 10% of the global insect population has disappeared every decade since the start of the 21st century. The implications for everything else living on this planet are serious… #InsectApocalypse #SacOpenStudios #NativePollinators

US data centers will be use more natural gas than any country except China, Russia, Iran and the United States. It's like we're inventing a huge new nation, just when the climate needs it least billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-two-ho...

so we are screwed is what you are saying www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #AngryBirds. Two Cedar Waxwings square off, while a third grabs a bite of persimmon. 🪶

If Dems don't do this, they will have failed us entirely.

If you want to know why America is where it is, it’s pretty simple: Republicans don’t care for justice, education, water, air, pollution, science, truth, peace, humanity Republicans love money

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #InFlight, any bird in flight. 🪶 Here's a banking Bald Eagle.

Building his ballroom is an illegal act. Building his golden arch is an illegal act. He has the legal authority to do neither. Allowing both these monstrosities to stand is to accept & embrace his lawlessness. They both must come down. Today’s show.👇 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

We’re back in DC after five weeks away—and what are Republicans focused on? Gutting environmental protections for one of the most endangered species on Earth: right whales.   There are only 380 of these whales left on planet earth. Disgraceful. I’m a HELL NO!

Today’s alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdsOfAFeather Any capture of a flock of birds. These are Elegant Terns on Morro Strand, Morro Bay, California.

You can’t say you weren’t warned

These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

You have to give Trump credit for creativity. Every day he is able to find something worse to do, proving there is no bottom to his despicable, corrupt administration.

Debbie wins the Internet today, full stop.

The alt #BirdoftheDay theme is #Reflections&Shadows. I hope that means there doesn't have to be an actual bird in the photo. 😁🤔🪶 Steller's Jay.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ThinPerches. A Rufous Hummingbird on just that. 🪶

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #Simple (any bird against a simple background) here's a Western Bluebird hanging on. 🪶

This is your periodic reminder that it would only take a handful of elected Republicans to end Trump's destruction.

The main #BirdOfTheDay is #ColourfulCharacters, any bird with colourful plumage. A pair of Wood Ducks should suffice. 🪶

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme chosen by @alan678.bsky.social is: #RainyDayBirds, any bird captured in the rain or that has wet plumage. Rainy day Raven. 🪶

​The Trump administration has proposed a rollback of the Roadless Rule, which has kept our wildest forests intact for 25 years, a move that could pave the way for a major increase in industrial logging. ​ Now, the public has a chance to weigh in before the rollback is finalized.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #AwesomeOwls 😊🦉 Any owl from the two owl families. Great horned owl taking off. 🪶