Nice article in Wash. Post. At first blush it may seem like a random love story, with too many photos of a happy couple who met while moth-ing, but really it’s a lovely article about the ways iNat helps connect people with nature and with each other, online and in person. I hope this gift link work…

Thanks for sharing, but no thanks to the WAPO. To save others from clicking: [image]

but that requires you to make an account. doesn’t the link just open to the article?

It opens to the article but is blocked by the popup you see above and you cannot scroll.

ah ha! I did not know that. Oh well. I don’t think NYTimes does that. Apologies for starting this thread…

Nothing to apologize for! FWIW, in Brave browser I can read the entire article without signing in.

Nothing like the glow of a black light on a moth sheet to spark romance, I suppose. My wife and I met over live mammal traps. To each their own.

[image] cthawley: blocked by the popup Fortunately, I can get into any Wapo article even though I haven’t paid for a subscription by just repeatedly clicking on the link. It rejects me two or three times, and then it accepts my user name from the old pre-paywall days and it lets me in. It …

Well, there’s no free lunch in life … someone has to pay for the content Sometimes you can work around the paywall by google-searching the article title if it’s been online for awhile. But doesn’t always work.

[image] jnstuart: someone has to pay for the content Somehow, I don’t think that my sneaking in the unlocked back door is going to seriously hurt Jeff Bezos.

It’s a fun article, but I don’t think it’s lightweight at all. These days when people really need an anchor, connecting with nature and naturalists has strong societal value. I bet it recruits a lot of people.

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