Ed B
@edbernste.bsky.social
Hawk kite a little more co-operative.
October 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Hawk kite a little more co-operative.
I wanted to get some of the lovely fall foliage into today's picture, but the wind wanted the take the kite high.
October 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I wanted to get some of the lovely fall foliage into today's picture, but the wind wanted the take the kite high.
Now that feels like October.
October 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Now that feels like October.
I'm gonna need a bigger kite.
September 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'm gonna need a bigger kite.
I was able to let out the string a little today.
September 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I was able to let out the string a little today.
Seems like summer out there.
August 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Seems like summer out there.
First day of the semester!
August 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
First day of the semester!
Kite over Lake Onondaga.
June 13, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kite over Lake Onondaga.
Another lovely day on campus.
May 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Another lovely day on campus.
Not much of a breeze, but it's not raining.
May 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Not much of a breeze, but it's not raining.
For those interested in this sort of thing—this is from XKites, and it’s a good kite for a mild breeze. It’s a cheap kite, and I don’t expect it to last very long, but until that vinyl-plastic stuff rips, I’m enjoying it a lot.
May 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
For those interested in this sort of thing—this is from XKites, and it’s a good kite for a mild breeze. It’s a cheap kite, and I don’t expect it to last very long, but until that vinyl-plastic stuff rips, I’m enjoying it a lot.
Beautiful May weather out there.
April 22, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Beautiful May weather out there.
My son was holding the string today.
April 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
My son was holding the string today.
New kite—I finally gave up on the University marketing people and bought myself a Hartford Hawk.
April 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
New kite—I finally gave up on the University marketing people and bought myself a Hartford Hawk.
In other news, it's cold and windy out there.
April 9, 2025 at 5:11 PM
In other news, it's cold and windy out there.
My co-writer Melissa and I have another story! This one is a short story of reasonable length, and it’s about… well, it’s called “Tkhine Imohos”.
Kneeling in her damp footprints, she pushed aside loose sticks and threads of roots until she had made a circle of clean dirt, and she began to dig.
Kneeling in her damp footprints, she pushed aside loose sticks and threads of roots until she had made a circle of clean dirt, and she began to dig.
Tkhine Imohos
The first time she had come, she had dumped the entire contents of the bucket at once, only to watch the water disappear into the hungry earth deeper than she could reach. What she scraped up from …
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April 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
My co-writer Melissa and I have another story! This one is a short story of reasonable length, and it’s about… well, it’s called “Tkhine Imohos”.
Kneeling in her damp footprints, she pushed aside loose sticks and threads of roots until she had made a circle of clean dirt, and she began to dig.
Kneeling in her damp footprints, she pushed aside loose sticks and threads of roots until she had made a circle of clean dirt, and she began to dig.
It’s National Library Week again—usually on National Library Week I post an obnoxious thing about how (a) you should not, in fact, read a book just because some nitwit in Chubbock got it banned from his local library; and ...
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Right to Read Day
The right to read is under attack. On Right to Read Day, April 7, 2025, take action to support your library and protect your freedom to read.
uniteagainstbookbans.org
April 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It’s National Library Week again—usually on National Library Week I post an obnoxious thing about how (a) you should not, in fact, read a book just because some nitwit in Chubbock got it banned from his local library; and ...
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The thing that I don’t get about the Protest Discourse is that even if it _were_ true that all that big rallies accomplish is to make millions of fearful people feel better about themselves and their neighbors for a while, that would still be an excellent thing, wouldn’t it?
April 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The thing that I don’t get about the Protest Discourse is that even if it _were_ true that all that big rallies accomplish is to make millions of fearful people feel better about themselves and their neighbors for a while, that would still be an excellent thing, wouldn’t it?
That was very nearly April weather.
April 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
That was very nearly April weather.
...and another lovely March day.
April 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
...and another lovely March day.
Another beautiful March day.
April 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Another beautiful March day.
March 31 is the Transgender Day of Visibility. It’s a day to re-commit myself to making the spaces I inhabit, real and virtual, as safe and welcoming for trans folk to be visible as they are for cis folk. Every day.
March 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
March 31 is the Transgender Day of Visibility. It’s a day to re-commit myself to making the spaces I inhabit, real and virtual, as safe and welcoming for trans folk to be visible as they are for cis folk. Every day.