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[usgsbiml]

Aptly named:  Lasioglossum coeruleum.  

Most of the many confusing members of these small sweat bees glimmer discretely in metallic integument, but our friend here takes it up a notch to and Osmia level.  

This makes them identifiable...except for the problem that some of them are not so bright...irritating if you have to identify them...but once you get the pattern you feel a small sense of superiority to those in power in the world who clearly would fail if you asked them to identify an "off" L. coeruleum specimen. So there.  Specimen collected by Michael Veit in transmission lines in CT...

[uucorvallis]

"Lost" by David Waggoner

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must not treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you.

[castrobiscuit]

Wiener 2014: Does Supervisor Wiener have a dirty money problem?

Does Wiener have a dirty money problem? Wiener 2014: 50% donations from real estate, tech, major eviction offenders

Scott Wiener 2014 Campaign Contributions (image: Anti-Eviction Mapping Project)

The investor activity tracking and eviction mapping organization, the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP), used Supervisor Scott Wiener’s campaign finance disclosure filings for 2013 to build an infographicof his campaign funding for re-election this November. The Infographic shows that real estate and tech interests…

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