Featherstone

I published essays 25 years ago in McSweeney's about witnessing 9/11 from Jersey City. I went back recently to retrace my steps for this essay, illustrated with never before published photos I took on that awful day. Gift link below: www.syracuse.com/news/2026/09...

advice from a successful old swinger www.newyorkupstate.com/nys-fair/202...

caught my first Adirondack backcountry brook trout: www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...

NEW: At the time of Alice Sebold’s rape, the system was broken in Syracuse. Police brushed off rapes. Prosecutors bungled confessions. Judges overlooked irregularities. The university seemed more intent on suppressing news of a rape epidemic than solving it.

I love this little gem of an essay written by a guy I met more than a decade ago while on assignment for NYT Mag (which I botched) in Ukraine. It's about the unspoken communication between strangers during wartime. The haircut looks great, Peter. open.substack.com/pub/abdymok/...

Kirkville N.Y., 2 a.m., processing deer from city culling program.

It's the 15th anniversary of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11. I went to #Fukushima in 2013 with scientists studying the impact of radioactive fallout. Fukushima was virtually intact, as if people had left just left hours before I got there.

Syracuse killed the Easter bunny

Absolute centrism so pure it obliterates all conscious thought.

This lady got lucky with a meteor streaking through her 20 sec exposure of northern lights on a cloudy night in upstate NY near the St. Lawrence River

This is a picture of the northern lights in Central New York recently, taken from a suburb of Syracuse. Really crazy mix of light sources.

This is one of the best news stories you will read anywhere about ICE raids and how ordinary people helped one man barely escape a one way trip to some godawful detention center. www.syracuse.com/news/2025/11...

'Featherstone' is bourgeois folderol. It's spelled 'Fetherstonhaugh,' you ignorant peasant. featherstone.university

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

So this guy who's been fishing the Salmon River in upstate NY since there's been salmon in it catches a rare record-breaking pink salmon over Labor Day weekend, but DEC won't recognize it because they 'retired' the record last year. Wot?

Aug. 2001, WTC as seen from my fifth floor walkup on Erie St. in downtown Jersey City.

Big news www.newyorkupstate.com/nys-fair/202...

look at this insane native New York brookie... backcountry angling at its best www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...

27 mins of me talking about being an outdoors reporter in CNY www.wrvo.org/podcast/camp...

Over here stocking your timeline with trout www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...

oh yeah? you think your Valentine is hot? did they go out in blizzard to build you an igloo out of ice? www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...

Psst… wanna see some winter steelhead? www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...

welp, we did it folks, we crossed the 1.5 degrees C threshold for one calendar year for the first time. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

screen capped this from a crazy video of the Palisades fire

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

This is how my cat hunts

I will never forget the time someone bought the domain name of Guy Fieri’s failed restaurant and posted this fever dream of a menu.

My colleague Darien Stevenson broke this story today. www.syracuse.com/news/2024/12...

I wrote about the Onondaga Nation, one of the six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, getting back a sliver of their ancestral homelands.

It may come as a surprise to some that Devil’s Walking Stick tree branches do not make very good walking sticks unless you are, in fact, the devil

Fun to watch the fascist- curious 7% of Iowa’s voting population receive wall to wall coverage from national media acting like they’re covering a dog show

Big, old trees story, my fave www.newyorkupstate.com/outdoors/202...

My 3Q crypto and finance report - $23m in money funneled from Vanguard, Fidelity, other "donor advised funds" to hate & extremist groups, $76k in BTC from a megadonor to an unlikely Cville-era recipient, and a Nazi clown rakes it in while in federal custody. Enjoy! www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/20...

crucial insights on the A.I. debate ‘Eggbert’ the talking egg vs. ChatGPT: A NYS Fair face-off - newyorkupstate.com