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#neurodivergent
#naturalist
#naturist
#lonely
#Maui
#Ants
My boosts tend to involve a lot of insects, natural history, and things that give me hope.
🏳️🌈 He/Him
Today is Mother's Day in the U.S. It is my first Mother's Day without a mother, since my Mom passed in December at the age of 82.
I feel somber, but not quite sure if I'm feeling the right kind of sad. So I thought I'd share some photos to spark my memories of her.
Photos show my mom as a baby in her mother's arms (in 1944); her at 27 holding me as a baby (in 1970); my mom making a pie on her 80th birthday (2023); and a selfie of us a year ago today, on May 10, 2025.
168 ground-nesting seabirds were found dead this week at a nesting colony on Kauai, victims of feral cats -- victims of the misguided community members and weak politicians who prize invasive cats over native biodiversity.
#InvasiveSpecies
#FeralCats
#Hawaii
#Kauai
#ArdennaPacifica
#WedgeTailedShearwater
#Shearwater
https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/05/absolute-carnage-feral-cats-kill-168-native-seabirds-on-kauai/