I hate to keep being so annoying about this but the IRS sent me an official notice of Levy i NEED to make this amount bare minimum to keep them off my back. Please please help. i am working non stop and just paid rent donations are all i have #HelpSky #MutualAid

🗡️Wretched Creature🏹@laura.karnste.in · 4w ago

Alright everyone, encouraged to try by several people and with no other option but to take this chance, my gofundme is live to try and clear the debilitating debt thats suffocating us. I want to thank you all so much for the support #MutualAid #HelpSky www.gofundme.com/f/help-laura...

Have any of my Bird Nerd friends tried an external mic for their phones for the Merlin sound ID? Too often I can hear a bird but my phone doesn't pick it it up.

Despite popular belief from people outside of Texas, this state LOVES government regulations and the control that state agencies have over their little realms. And a general distrust of feds. CBP might have a fight on their hands.

James Stout@jamesstout.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is the first state level pushback on Big Bend construciton that I am aware of. www.glo.texas.gov/about-glo/pr...

The 1986 Edition my parents bought when I was little stayed in my bedroom until I graduated high school. After I'd read it countless times, and every Reader's Digest in the house, I started on mom's Stephen King collection when I was like 9. Hyperlexia is a hell of a drug.

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

Not my best bird photo, but the first time I took a pic of a Bluebird.

Posting Cardinal pics again, but just found this recent pic of a House Finch enjoying some corn from the feeder. So a different red bird for anyone that cares about my bird pics.

I take pics of every bird I can get a camera trained in on. But it always seems like the Cardinals let me get the pics I'm willing to share online without disclaimers of "too far away, need better lens" These dudes just pose for me.

I hate the idea of even having a death penalty in this society. But if there's ever a use case to push back against my views on capital punishment as a sentence, it's right here.

The Dallas Morning News@dallasnews.com · last wk.

A 2-year-old child died Sunday in Midland after being left in a car for several hours, marking the state’s first pediatric hot car death of the year. bit.ly/4hAQgKW

Gordon Lightfoot wrote the greatest. But my friend Brian Burns covered it many years ago on an album. It's a great cover but eclipses the original when Brian decided to name every member of the crew as "the old church bell chimed 29 times". www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LRB...

Brian Burns - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.wmv

YouTube video by meoldfartus

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · last wk.

What's a great song ever written about a real-life event?

Any self respecting bird photographer should focus on taking a good picture that doesn't need heavy editing. Sure we all edit our better photos, but anyone using AI to "enhance" is no longer a photographer in my opinion. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk

Experts warn increase in enhanced photos on birding platforms creating fake sightings, threatening credibility of tool used by scientists

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Posting Meatball the Cat daily until I can find a loving home for this sweet kitty cat. I will drive him up to three hours from Detroit for the right owner. He's got a long life ahead of him and he needs you!

Brian in Detroit@kanoki.net · 3w ago

Meatball needs a loving, caring home. He is a sweet, gentle boy who needs to be a permanent indoor cat, as he has FiV, which is a very manageable and uncomplicated chronic illness. He can even live with non-FIV cats! I will deliver him personally within a 3 hour drive of Detroit. Please! I love him

I raised two girls and if either had pulled this, I honestly don't know how I would have handled it. Like, please ask. But beaming with pride if they stole from me to take care of their community. Raising kids is a trip.

Sonya Bonczek@sonyabonczek.bsky.social · 2w ago

My 7yo swiped $20 from my purse this morning and used it to buy fruit roll ups for like 50 kids at camp

Read for free; no subscription needed. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/o...

Opinion | I’m Native American. Land Acknowledgments Are Infuriating. (Gift Article)

Conservatives who critique land acknowledgments aren’t acting in good faith, but they do have a point.

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Is going with Herman Melville cheating? Feels like that would be cheating.

i'm just patrick, deep down@ouisequitur.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ruin a book by adding a word: White Pride and Prejudice

A Painted Bunting bird has been singing songs around my house for months. I have been trying to find him for a picture. He didn't let me get close, but GOT HIS ASS today! Hoped for better pics closer up, but as elusive as he's been I'll take what I can get.

Please don't traumatize yourself with the goal of "staying informed" or "bearing witness" to atrocities. You can know they are real without watching someone's life leave their body or their bloody remains. If you feel you have to see the blood and death to believe it, get a therapist.

Rural Anarchy @ruralanarchy.bsky.social · 2w ago

We don't have to see every mangled corpse of a toddler in Gaza, watch a young man bleed out on the streets in Madison, or video of some woman being murdered to understand what happened. It leads to mental anguish, or even worse... to desensitizing that robs us and victims of our humanity.

Sturg gets it. Every time you watch a human being die violently (or even in a hospital bed as they quit breathing) it exacts a toll. Sometimes it's small and you don't realize it. But it's cumulative. You don't have to "bear witness" to death to know what happened.

Sturg48@dirigojoe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Even though Charlie Kirk was a loathsome person, I think watching his graphic murder took something away from me that I can’t get back. I’m trying to avoid seeing this newest murder on the part of fascists. I believe everyone who says it’s horrible.

I was an extremism researcher for years, and set a rule years ago to not watch videos of people being killed. I violated that today and already regret it. You don't have to watch to know what happened. Watching is traumatic, even if you don't realize it. You don't want more mental trauma.

Tyler, from the Internet@tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2w ago

maybe turn off autoplay or mute some key words on this one. it is unequivocally an execution. i've spent a lot of time in Wisconsin, I love it a lot there. stay safe everybody, I'm so sorry.

It is 105F. Why is my girlfriend's cat laying on a glass screen door on the ground in the sunlight?? Sir, come in where there is AC!

Digging through photos of birds, and forgot about this one. He was too far away and beyond the limits of my lens, but a couple of pics came out ok. A Painted Bunting perched in Bullrush at the waters edge.

It's so easy to point out that he's wearing clothes from the little boys section of Kohls. Or that his pants crawl up his ass or his too-small shirt shows off his budding love handles. You don't have to insinuate that he's gay to use as an insult. That's pretty homophobic.

Gabino Iglesias@gabino.bsky.social · 2w ago

Seeing some “Tate dresses like a gay man” comments and wanted to say two things: 1. Nothing wrong with being a gay man/fuck homophobia. 2. Y’all need some gay friends because I have many and not one of them would dress like that even for Halloween.

For 15 years of service at the factory I got to pick a gift from a website. Mostly stuff I wouldn't use. But there was a grill/griddle/paining press. Already made perfect fried eggs and grill ribs. Tonight is the first attempt at making paninis with the girlfriend.

My kid is 23 now, but I'm going to buy this and read it to her before bed anyway.

Scott Kelley Ernest - CEPI x HEIR | #mtpol 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️@mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 3w ago

Would really like to know what I’m doing wrong that I can’t even get any shares to my posts… Is anyone out there that can help me? I don’t want to go hungry again… Please?

Street Rat gNat🧸@wtfbear.bsky.social · 4w ago

Weekend mini goal: 125$ Can y’all boost & help me get groceries/kitty litter? TYSM! 💕💸🏳️‍⚧️ #HelpFolksLive2026 #TransCrowdfund #TransMutualAid #DisabledMutualAid #DisabilityCrowdfund #MutualAidBoost #MABoost #MADBoost #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #KeepFolksAlive #HelpFolksLive #HelpingHand #SignalBoost

I blame @neolithicsheep.bsky.social for this. I was already day drinking rather early, but mention of The Highwaymen sent me down a musical wormhole for being drunk on Sunday morning. Now it's all Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson being played too loud. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8A9...

Willie Nelson - Seven Spanish Angels (Official Video)

YouTube video by WillieNelsonVEVO

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Rough week for Grahams regarding the US Senate.

No fucking homophobia (About Lindsay Graham)

John Denver... Annie's Schlong

Juno 🏳️‍⚧ |🫀🟰🦌|🧠🟰🐶@junowillbark.for-a.click · 4w ago

Name a S(chl)ong Schlongs in the key of life

🐦 Pileated Woodpecker 🗺️ Jonathan Dickinson SP, Jupiter FL 📷 Sony a6700 w/ Sony E 70-350mm lens #birds #birdphotography Also got another new lifer on my trip, I had never seen a Pileated Woodpecker before. They're huge & the sound they make when they hit wood is crazy loud

🐦 Florida Scrub-Jay 🗺️ Jonathan Dickinson SP, Jupiter FL 📷 Sony a6700 w/ Sony E 70-350mm lens #birds #birdphotography Right at the park entrance we found these two curious & friendly birds, circling around us on the ground. It was a bit of a drive to get here so it was a relief to see them fast 1/x