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Andy McGlashen
@amcglashen.bsky.social
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Senior Editor at Audubon magazine. Michigander in Chicago. He/him.
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Goll dangit, @hels.bsky.social made me lol in public (a tavern).
We are a small, slightly unhinged fraternity, we devotees of the turkey’s glorious second life as soup. I count among my brothers Michael Dukakis, the former Massachusetts governor and onetime Presidential candidate, whose zeal was so great that he would solicit the bones from the Thanksgiving tables of family and friends, and eventually from the public at large. “Michael Dukakis would very much like your turkey carcass,” the Boston Globe wrote in 2015. (Five years later, after an overwhelming response, the city’s public-radio station provided an update: “Mike Dukakis is no longer accepting turkey carcasses.”)
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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So I walk up on high
And I step to the edge
To see my world below
And I laugh at myself
While the tears roll down
'Cause it's the world I have known
Oh, it's the world I have known
Da Pope looks like he’s singing into a microphone
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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What a time to be alive www.thebulwark.com/p/let-them-e...
Manger Les Riches by William Kristol
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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At first I thought you were quoting this recent Joy Williams essay about Gene Hackman’s death. harpers.org/archive/2025...
What is the period called when death has occurred but no one living has witnessed it, has been informed? What is the word, the phrase, the name for those minutes, hours, days? Maybe there isn’t one. There should be. For this is sacred time, time out of time, without ballast or anchor, without leash or link. Incommensurable time.
October 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Yeah it was huge (and peaceful and joyous)
October 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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A steady flood of people (and unicorns) flowing toward #NoKings in Chicago. This thing is going to be huge.
October 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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I’m sorry, does this look like an it to you?
A gorgeous lil Shih Tzu
October 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: “No one has died” because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: “No children are dying on my watch.” That, Taher says, “is a lie.” “I lost my son because of the funding cuts,” he says. “And it is not only me — many more children in other camps have also died helplessly from hunger, malnutrition and no medical treatment.”
October 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Dudes cracked me up
Quentin: I don’t think either one of us have made an eBird checklist since last year ended. I felt like if I don’t make the checklists and I’m just paying attention to birds, just watching them, that’ll be good for me. Early on in the year, there were points where I wanted to make a checklist. I was like, oh man, I should really make that checklist. I just saw, you know, 12 Montezuma Quails. Maybe nobody else knows they’re out here. Maybe I should write that down. I do think about the science perspective of it. I’m not a scientist. I know it’s for citizen science— Owen: You don’t have to tell this guy you’re not a scientist. Quentin: I’m barely a citizen.
September 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Watermelons
A large box full of pumpkins and gourds. The box says “Watermelons.”
September 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Found a prickly pear cactus right here in the windy dang city.
A small cactus surrounded by vegetation
September 17, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Using one photo already on your phone, what is the announcement tomorrow at 2?
A simple sign that says “If you clog our toilet please let us know”
September 2, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Jimmie Dale Gilmore in The Big Lebowski
August 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Just one among countless scenes of unspeakable depravity playing out tonight on the hellscape streets of Chicago.
August 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Is it bad when the folks at the vet see your dogs and say, “Hey, it’s the diarrhea twins!” ???
A pair of Shih Tzus
August 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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The cruelty in some of these replies and QTs is pretty disgusting. I hope some commenters will read @rachelnuwer.bsky.social's excellent story about the central role that trophy hunting, despite the obvious concerns it raises, plays in conserving African wildlife. www.biographic.com/africas-cons...
The problem, however, is that simplistic memes and incendiary headlines that condemn the practice obscure a more nuanced truth: Conservation is not free, and trophy hunting revenue preserves more wild land in Africa—and thus, more animals—than do areas with stricter protections, like national parks. “Work in conservation areas requires money,” says Victor Muposhi, a conservation biologist at the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources. “Trophy hunting has been a critical source of funding for that, and if it’s taken off the table, then the whole of Africa is going to suffer.”
August 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Someone buy me this oak-themed, SG-style Guild.
An electric guitar with oak leaves and acorns carved in it
August 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Nice tile work at a school down the street
A tile with a piping plover image that says Piping Plover Endangered
July 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Spent the afternoon checking out astonishing art, ran into Stephen Malkmus doing the same, then walked outside to this. Almost two months after moving here, I’m prepared to say: Greatest city in the world, baby.
Wild bergamot (I think) with fog-shrouded skyscrapers in the background. Some manner of pretty flowers with Chicago skyscrapers. People gathered around a fountain that shoots water from the mouth in a large image of a person’s face.
July 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Extreme heat, maximum refreshment
July 24, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Needless to say the boys in the group chat are clamoring for more pictures of this egg
An egg with what looks like a nipple on it Another shot of nipple egg
July 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Purple Martins At Montrose Harbor.
July 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The bearded captain from the Voyage of the Mimi
July 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Somehow @kmaiolatesi.bsky.social and I are celebrating 17 years (wtf) of marital bliss today. Here’s a daguerreotype of us made right after we said our vows. (Actually a painting from the Intuit Art Museum. I forgot to jot down the artist’s name, so please sound off if you know.)
A painting of two hippies
July 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Taken seconds before a Red-winged Blackbird tried to pluck out my eyes.
Yellow flowers and lush green vegetation
July 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM