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Daniel Martin

@fizbin.bsky.social

One of many, many people with this particular "real name". You might know me from... IDK. College? Did we work together once? Prodigy's old math forum? debian-devel? A certain social MUSH? xoogler slack? "Making Light" comments? (he/him)

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Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 14h ago

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RedOrDead "any bird with red in the capture but not on the bird or a photo of a bird on bare winter branches" Rather specific description to aim for, but this photo of two+ Starlings fit the spec. #birds #photography

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 23h ago

I'd like to propose a role of airport signage: any instruction that needs to be repeated more often than once every ten minutes should be on a sign easily visible to the people being given the instruction.

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · yesterday

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme chosen by @helenbennett.bsky.social is #FabulousWaders: "Any wading bird that you love". Here's a Grey Heron from yesterday in St. James's Park, in London. #birds #photography

A Grey Heron stands in water half-way up its legs. The water has various islands of green algae growing in it. If you zoom in on the bird's face, you'll see that its head is wet because it caught and ate a small fish right before this picture was taken.

📍St James's Park, London, England, UK
📷 f/8.0; 1/1000 s; 100mm; ISO 640

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 3d ago

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today (from brand new BOTD co-host @atlanticbirding.bsky.social) is #Firsts, "some of your earliest bird captures" This is one of the test photos I took getting to know my new camera (first camera bought post-smartphone-era) #birds #photography

A Gray Catbird on my in-laws's garage roof. The bird's body is angled away with its tail cocked slightly upward, but its head is turned back over its shoulder to look toward the camera. Out-of-focus green evergreen needles fill the background.

📍 Haverford, PA, USA
📷 f/5.6; 1/320 s; 150mm; ISO 800

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OverTheRainbow, "any bird looking skyward". I'm still in the UK, but here's something from home, a Common Grackle looking at the sky. #birds #photography

A Grackle clinging to a mostly vertical bare branch, looking upwards. The background is a clear, blue sky.

📍 Palmyra Cove Nature Preserve, Palmyra, NJ, USA
📷 f/5.6; 1/1300 s; 300mm; ISO 200

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 6d ago

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #EgretsAndHerons, and I got out early this morning in Cambridge and took this. Gray Heron considering things on the bank of the Rush. #birds #photography

A Grey Heron standing tall amidst dense, vibrant green vegetation. The heron's body is angled slightly forward, while its head is turned to the right. It features a long, pointed yellow-orange bill, a white neck marked with heavy vertical black streaks, and soft grey plumage on its back and folded wings. The surrounding habitat consists of varied green foliage, including tall grasses, thick leafy bushes behind the bird, and weeping leaves draped on the left edge of the frame.

📍The Rush Nature Preserve, Cambridge, England, UK
📷 f/5.6; 1/20 s; 300mm; ISO 500

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · last wk.

I suppose there is also this, but it doesn't really count as a bird picture.

The head of the Silver Swan at the Voters museum, an 18th century clockwork automaton. The museum interior behind it is in soft focus.

📍 Bowes Museum, Bowes Castle, England, UK
📷 ƒ/2.8; 1/60 s; 35 mm; ISO 2000

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · last wk.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Grey. I haven't gotten many bird shots on this UK trip (though I have seen three new-to-me species), but this one-legged pigeon (who has clearly Seen Things) in Manchester does fit the theme. #birds #photography

A close-up photograph of a Rock Pigeon perched on one pinkish-red foot atop a dark gray surface. The pigeon's head is turned slightly to the right, showing a striking bright orange eye, a grayish beak with a white cere, and subtle iridescent green and purple sheen around its neck. Its upper chest is a rich reddish-mauve fading into lighter gray plumage on its belly and mottled gray wings. The background is a soft, warm green and muted yellow bokeh with a shallow depth of field.

📍St. John's Gardens, Manchester, England, UK
📷 ƒ/7.1; 1/320 s; 400 mm; ISO 1600

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme: #CHE, "Cormorants, Herons and Egrets" Great Blue Heron standing on one leg at a distance. I remember that it was unseasonably chilly in late March when I took this, just a few degrees above freezing. #birds #photography

A heron stands on one leg on a thick broken tree branch that's hanging over a creek right where it empties into a larger river. The bird has its neck extended upwards and head facing left. The background is brown water and bare tree branches.

📍 Delaware Canal State Park, Bristol, PA, USA
📷 ƒ/6.3; 1/1300 s; 400 mm; ISO 640

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is ten birds: #OneTwoThreeFour, "4 photos with 1, 2, 3, 4 birds, with each photo being the same bird/s". Fish Crow, House Sparrows, Rock Pigeons, Double-crested Cormorants. #birds #photography

A Fish Crow at the top of a tree against a clear blue sky. The bird's mouth is open, cawing.

📍 Riverfront Promenade, Burlington, NJ, USA
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Two House Sparrows, male and female, at the edge of a roof checking out housing sites.

📍 Burlington, NJ, USA
📷 f/6.3; 400 mm; 1/640 s; ISO 160

Three pigeons on a wire against a gray sky. A second write runs parallel to the wire the pigeons are perching on. The middle bird has its wings open and spread in a clumsy pose, settling in.

📍 Manhattan, New York City, NY, USA
📷 f/7.1; 218 mm; 1/1000 s; ISO 200

Four cormorants standing on a submerged logs in the middle of a river. Three of the birds have their heads down grooming themselves; the fourth is looking off into the distance to the right.

📍 Delaware River, Burlington, NJ, USA
📷 f/8.0; 400mm; 1/1000 s; ISO 250

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #TantalisingTextures, "Smooth soft feathers of any bird contrasted with rough hard surfaces", with an alt of #ArtOfMotion, "birds moving but not in flight". Chipping Sparrow hopping around hunting for food on a sandy gravel path. #birds #photography #ECK

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social is #Triplets, "3 of the same birds" Here are three Great Cormorants busy preening themselves while perching in a tree. (Which is not something I knew cormorants did until the trip I took this) #birds #photography #microfourthirds #ukbirding

Three cormorants perched on a thick, lichen-covered tree branch against a soft, out-of-focus background of green leafy foliage. On the left side of the horizontal branch, two entirely dark cormorants sit near one another. On the far right side of the branch, a third cormorant with a prominent white chest and belly sits apart. All three birds have their heads tucked down into their bodies as they actively preen their feathers.

📍 Reading Green Park Business Park, Reading, England, UK
📷 ƒ/5.4; 1/640 s; 250 mm; ISO 2500

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's really amazing how even at this point in 2026, Google's AI search overview is still so unbelievably terrible at basic arithmetic and yet keeps attempting it.

$A partial screenshot of Google search results on mobile for "90831 factoring" with the "All" mode selected and the initial part of the AI Overview visible. The AI overview says: ---------- In a mathematical context, factoring the integer $90381$ yields the prime factorization of $3 \times 3 \times 11 \times 11 \times 83$, which can be written in exponent form as $3^2 \times 11^2 \times 83$.In a medical context, 90381 refers to the CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) code for Nirsevimab (brand name Beyfortus). It ... ---------- (The rest is hidden behind a "See More" button)$

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 3w ago

The #BirdofTheDay theme today is #ScreenFiller, a capture where the bird takes up a large part of the image. With cropping, this is almost any photo so I limited myself to uncropped photos. This is a twofer with #Migratory; we only see Ring-billed Gulls here in the winter. #birds #photography

A rather close, zoomed in shot of a Ring-billed Gull. The picture frame cuts off the gull's feet and the back bit of its tail. The background is a uniform light blue. The bird has a white breast, gray back, and speckled gray head. Its pale yellow beak is marked with black near the tip.

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Michael Bay's Ring Cycle. He could sign on for a four picture deal, yes?

edith@edithcharles.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chris Nolan has just made The Odyssey, but what other classical works should be made into films, and who should direct them? Greta Gerwig’s Antigone The Coen Brothers’ Metamorphoses Alfonso Cuarón’s Iliad

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Forgot to tag this: #birds #icterids 🪶

Daniel Martin@fizbin.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Icterids" will almost certainly never be a BOTD theme, since the people choosing the daily theme are in Europe and Icterids are purely a new-world thing. They sure can be pretty though.

Baltimore Oriole hiding behind some leaves, but the bright orange and black is still visible.

📍 Northfield, MN, USA

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm going with the Alt theme for the #BirdOfTheDsy today: #BlueSky, any bird with a Blue Sky in the background. Note that this is not a two-fer because as much as they might look like it, grackles like this Common Grackle are not corvids but rather icterids. #birds #photography #icterid #shiny

A Common Grackle with dark, glossy feathers and a striking pale yellow eye is perched on a bare tree branch. The bird is looking to the right against a clear, solid blue sky.

📍Boundary Creek Natural Resource Area, Moorestown, NJ, USA
📷 ƒ/8.0; 1/1000 s; 400 mm; ISO 500

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Professional ethics, specifically characters routinely crossing big red ethical lines like they aren't there, but it's okay because they're doing it to help the good guys. (E.g. end of "Devil's Advocate", or S2 Ted Lasso when the reporter unprompted burns an anonymous source)

⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️🎮@purestinnosense.blacksky.app · 3w ago

Can you think of a movie/ tv trope that is a wildly inaccurate representation of what they’re trying to depict? For me, it’s science stuff . They’ll show a scientist and say something like “ he has a ph. D in molecular biology “ and then have him solving physics or organic chemistry problems

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Putting this up for today's alternate #BirdOfTheDay theme, #RSVP (any bird with a name beginning with R, S, V, or P) This Red-winged Blackbird looking at the camera from a distance. 🪶 #birds #photography

A zoomed in distance shot of a Red-winged Blackbird standing on some sort of long grass. The bird's mostly black feathers and break loose its face in shadows. The prominent red shoulder epaulets are visible; on one side you can also see the bright yellow that appears below the red.

📍 Boundary Creek Natural Resource Area, Moorestown, NJ, USA
📷 ƒ/8.0; 1/1000 s; 400 mm; ISO 500

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 3w ago

They may not be the bright yellow of young ducklings anymore, but they're still some of this year's #NewLife. For today's alternate #BirdOfTheDay theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social #birds #photography 🪶

A female Mallard duck and her five large ducklings in rippling water near a muddy, rocky shoreline. The mother duck is swimming with her head raised, looking forward. Four of the ducklings are clustered near the rocks on the left side of the frame, foraging with their bills in the shallow water. A fifth duckling swims independently on the right side. The scene is brightly lit by daylight.

📍 Delaware River, Burlington, NJ, USA
📷 ƒ/8.0; 1/400 s; 150 mm; ISO 400

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Volunteers for government-backed study self-report benefits of proposed government policy"

Reuters@reuters.com · 3w ago

UK teens report sleep, wellbeing gains under social media restrictions, study shows reut.rs/4f2ht7T

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 3w ago

🪶 Alan has chosen #PerfectPoise as today’s #BirdOfTheDay prompt. This Northern Mockingbird exhibiting perfect poise as it practices its blue jay and herring gull imitations. #birds #photography

A Northern Mockingbird perches on the "W" direction marker of a weather vane, mouth wide open in song. The background is a clear, light blue sky. The bird is mainly white with black along the wings anda bit at the tail feathers.

📍 Burlington, NJ, USA
📷 ƒ/8.0; 1/400 s; 400 mm; ISO 100

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 4w ago

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #UpAndDown: "birds looking up or down". Most people posting seem to be using birds looking up, so here's a Red-winged Blackbird from yesterday, looking down. #Birds #photography

A male Red-winged Blackbird perched among bare, lichen-covered branches against a clear blue sky. The bird is facing right with its head angled downward. Its black plumage contrasts with the striking bright red and pale yellow epaulet visible on its upper wing. Several out-of-focus branches cross the foreground of the image.

📍 Boundary Creek Natural Resource Area, Moorestown, NJ, USA
📷 ƒ/8.0; 1/1000 s; 400 mm; ISO 640

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 4w ago

You'll know stuff's about to go down when this account says that mad cow disease was detected in Japan. (Or that the Taliban have killed the leader of the northern alliance, but that's a bit direct) Sheesh. You know what I remember most? It was a Tuesday. Just a normal Tuesday at my first job.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 4w ago

There's this Twitter account that just live tweets the events of 25 years ago. I've been following it for like three years because oh boy is it going to take a turn in a couple months here...

The United States imposes more economic sanctions on Afghanistan due to their "harboring of the terrorist Osama bin Laden."

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 4w ago

A few weeks ago I saw this juvenile Common Grackle out with an adult apparently being taught how to find food, though the juvenile didn't get it and kept wandering around with its mouth open hoping to be fed. (For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Rocky, birds perched on rocks) #birds #photography

A small, solid brown bird stands on a riverbank of muddy rocks. The bird is facing left with its beak wide open, clearly showing the bright pink interior of its mouth. A thin, mud-covered branch rests on the ground to the left of the bird, and a single bright green plant sprout emerges near the water's edge to the right. Bright sunlight illuminates the scene, casting a sharp, dark shadow of the bird onto the rocks in front of it.

📍 Delaware River, Burlington, NJ, USA
📷 ƒ/8.0; 1/400 s; 400 mm; ISO 400

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Today's discovery for "stuff that inexplicably just doesn't work on Windows-on-ARM": Microsoft's own Media Creation Tool for building bootable installation media. No, seriously. The official recommendation is that you just download the .iso file and use Rufus.

Daniel Martin@fizbin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Things I expected to not work on Windows ARM: high-end games. Things I was surprised by, but have workarounds for: haskell (workaround: WSL) Things I have just had to buy new stuff for: drawing tablet, and now maybe I'll keep the old x86 laptop alive for photo printing?

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Now that Platner is definitely out, I do hope that some of the bsky political types can help explain what was good about him and why he had enthusiastic volunteers and enough support to win the primary. I get that while he was still in it, you didn't want to seem to be boosting him. Fair.

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Oh dear, it's one of those days when the day's #BirdOfTheDay theme tag is one that's also used for loads of nsfw content here on BlueSky. Anyway, here's a Carrion Crow enjoying #BathTime from my trip to Reading (UK) last April. #birds #ECK #microfourthirds #ukbirding

A crow splashing in the shallow water at the edge of a river. The crow's one visible eye is a light gray instead of its usual black because the crow has closed its nictating membrane as a natural form of bath goggles. Some of the water is frozen in the air, caught where the crow splashed it.

📍 Reading Green Park Business Park, Reading, England, UK
📷 ƒ/6.3; 1/1300 s; 350 mm; ISO 3200

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 4w ago

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Lifer: "Capture/ captures of the last new-to-you bird you’ve seen." The Merlin app tells me that my most recent lifer is an Eastern Kingbird, first seen by me in late May. Here's a shot of one of the local ones from early June. #birds #photography

A small black and white bird perches on the white wire of a twisted white and black pair of wires running horizontally. The background is a clear blue sky. The bird has white feathers on its chest and front of neck, black feathers on its wings, tail, and the top half of its head.

📍 Riverfront Promenade, Burlington, NJ, USA
📷 ƒ/8.0; 1/1000 s; 400 mm; ISO 400

Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social is #Orange, "any bird with any shade of orange on it". Here's one of the few local birds with orange-ish plumage, a Barn Swallow. #birds #photography #microfourthirds

A Barn Swallow perched on a thick horizontal wire against a clear, solid blue sky. The small bird has a dark blue-black head and back, a distinct rusty-orange face and throat, and a pale orange-buff belly. It is looking back over its left shoulder, and the soft feathers on its chest appear slightly ruffled by a breeze.

📍 Riverfront Promenade, Burlington, NJ, USA
📷 ƒ/8.0; 1/1000 s; 400 mm; ISO 250