Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦
@srboisvert.bsky.social
Pedestrian birder in Chicago. Click on #birds tag to see just my bird photos without the whinging. I'm also sharing bird links using the #BirdLinks tag. I'm embarrassed by my typos but usually not enough to delete them. Gear: OM1 & OM 150-400 & 100-400
I am very curious if manufacturers have a formal term they use to describe their increased tolerance for errors in their process. Like instead of six sigma they are calling it 3 sigma, no sigma or something like that? Surely there must be some corporate speak for it.
I have now found at least one airpod from every model Apple has ever released under the Apple brand. I have assembled a complete set of airpod 3s and a charger from three separate finds.
I support this attempt to get the super wealthy to voluntarily go to the Hague. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/w...
How Being Cool Is Making The Hague a Vacation Hot Spot
Looking for respite from European heat waves, summer tourists are flocking to the diplomatic hub. But city leaders are wary of overcrowding.
nytimes.com
So Taco Bell is now functionally the Center for Disease Control in the United States.
its very telling that the mainstream media narrative is that dsa has wacky and unreasonable positions when the republican party position is that abortion should be banned, latino families should be put in concentration camps, black people should be shot by cops and transgender people shouldnt exist
Meet the man vying to be the first cyclist across the Gordie Howe International Bridge
Meet the man vying to be the first cyclist across the Gordie Howe International Bridge | CBC News
The multi-use path on the Gordie Howe International Bridge doesn’t open until 8 a.m. on Wednesday but one man has been waiting at the gate since early Tuesday morning.
cbc.ca
#BirdLinks Good on Aus for seriously looking at Bird Flu and spelling it out. I've seen it in real life on the Chicago Lakefront and it's grim witnessing mass mortality in waterfowl every winter. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
'List of doom' outlines birds facing extinction if deadly flu spreads
A list of thousands of Australian species have been ranked by threat level as the deadly H5 bird flu spreads.
abc.net.au
Apparently we're paying $25K bribes to AUSAs to convince the to risk their law license working for a shitshow DOJ. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
I finally did it. On the train I said out loud "damn, someone's headphones aren't connected" and they stopped playing their music out loud.
Aldermen, and CDOT, are still comfortable designing bike lanes that literally kill city employees
C Tomaszkiewicz @ctomaszkiewicz.bsky.social · 22h agoAnyway to design this so the bike lane doesn't zig-zag into the door zone between intersections?
@helenbennett.bsky.social’s #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #Speckled, so here is a pair of limpkins showing their speckles off in style. #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin #ECK #EricOlsonPhotography
Apps that I have used for years for interoperability have suddenly started failing erratically (Google Chat and MS Phone Link). Is this the AI vibe coding revolution or just general enshitification or a combination of both?
#BirdLinks I love when solutions are found. Progress. www.ecoportal.net/en/painting-...
Painting 1 of 3 rotor blades black on 4 Norwegian turbines cut bird collisions by nearly 72 percent, and the white tailed eagles under them stopped hitting the rotors altogether
Smøla is a low treeless island off the northwest coast of Norway, and 68 wind turbines stand on it.
ecoportal.net
#Connect2Nature #Birds #BirdoftheDay These Long-Tailed Ducks motoring across a winter Creek in Golden Hour in 2013 were among my #Firsts bird photos after a long hiatus and since acquiring a 300mm lens. #Nature #Photography
Bob Inglis saw what was animating GOP elites & voters over a decade and a half ago, as he lost his primary by over 30 points to Trey Gowdy www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
zoot car@bookhouse.bsky.social · 3w agoThe fossil fuel industry's successful 2010 primary of pro-climate Republican Bob Inglis scared the shit out of the rest of the caucus
i have done threads about this idea when everything's broken and covered in shit, of course people flee to the thing that is clean and helpful
Amy Hoy@amyhoy.bsky.social · last yr.i keep thinking that the rise of LLMs is societal punishment for the crime of all our software systems being complicated and awful, and written content absent or unreadable by normal people.
I'm not sure why I have to keep telling people this but if you see a mug shot of an attractive woman and some bizarre story attached to it, it's AI generated and a fake story from a Facebook content mill. Stop sharing it!
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 3d agowhy are you showing me this now after I have been married for almost a decade
Trib Ed board deciding how to react to young people downtown
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 4d agoFrom the Editorial Board: Sparkly, semiattired Lolla kids are this weekend swarming around such oft-deserted environs as Van Buren Street, Jackson Boulevard and State Street. Welcome. Your presence and youthful energy could not be more timely.
People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
“Sandwich guy case” “Harvard clawed frog embryo smuggling case” “Olympic canoeist reflecting pool vandalism case” “James Comey seashells Instagram post case” New rule: If the case sounds like a Mad Libs story, it’s probably about to implode.
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
