once again America has put something interesting at a train station only after making it impossible to get to by train. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/atherton-train-station-museum-22474217.php

@quephird ever seen this? Apparently male red-winged blackbirds find ponytails on joggers quite concerning! 😂 https://youtu.be/BMB4r2a5D3g

Not sure what changed, but in the last few days I've been getting fairly regular #spam over #mastodon. It is a different, random account each time and includes a hella sketchy looking google share link and 30 or so random accounts tagged under it. Most have been from Mastodon.social, but I'm […]

Ok, this afternoon I’m going to finish my voting study.

Ad watcher plugin- instead of blocking ads they get redirected to gig workers. They will watch your ads for you, and you don’t get the annoying pop-up’s begging for you to uninstall the adblocker. #SurprisinglyEvilThoughts

#silentsunday

#Mosstodon

#SilentSunday #birds

Living my absolute best life last night under crystal clear skies: migrating geese loudly honking across the loch and owls hooting under the light of the Milky Way. A joy to share it all with lovely friends from @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social - and boy did they bring some impressive astro kit! 🤗🔭

Mike Christie@mikechristie.bsky.social · 2d ago

A group of us from @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social went to a dark sky location south of #Edinburgh tonight. @astroroyalscot.bsky.social views #Saturn through a #TeleVue NP101 refractor. Image of #Saturn taken with a #TeleVue NP101 and #TeleVue 2.5x Powermate, ZWO585MC camera. #astrophotography

If you're a bird and you fly too high, it's not getting sun burnt that you're most worried about. It's running out of oxygen. One of the birds that honks in the face of high altitudes is the bar-tailed goose, *Anser indicus*, which flies at between 4,000–6,000 metres elevation *over the […]

Our new library is absolutely beautiful. I've never really felt civic pride, in any of the many towns and cities I've lived in, but this is great. A big investment in things that matter.

#Photography Hiking in Bear Creek Park

#Photography Hiking at Bear Creek

For today’s #MentalHealthHike I returned to Montebello Open Space Preserve The dramatic open spaces covered in golden wild oats contrast with the deep olive of the wooded areas. Rather than climbing up the top of the hill, this time I descended to the valley […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

We have elderly neighbours across the road, and the old lady just died, one day shy of her 99th birthday! Her widow is also 99, and while he’s sharp as a tack mentally (amazing at 99) his eyes are mostly gone and he hobbles about with a walker. And yet he still was WORKING until recently […]

Weekend sourdough

Tired: “have you turned it off and on again?” Wired: “have you turned it on and off again?”

This new hot wheels track stunt seems like Musk and Hegseth got together to invent a new more entertaining way to execute people.

Mark Avery’s blog posts an important press release from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on the latest results of studies on longline fishery impacts on albatrosses in the Southern Hemisphere. It’s grim reading. > Dr Stephanie Borrelle, Pacific Marine Regional Coordinator at […]

For #FungiFriday I wanted to share some more pictures of the many #fungi I encountered on my recent trip to the #PacificNorthwest. These great little examples of #BracketFungus were growing out of the cut end of a log at Sue-Meg #StatePark near Trinidad […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

One of the ecology postgrads working with me at the moment, Dee Patel, has spent this year doing lots of data curation work, and now stats analysis, on my 23-years of ongoing high frequency bird counts between Ōtautahi-Christchurch city and Lincoln town in Canterbury, NZ. That's where I […]

And now for the height of pasta elegance… I give you - spaghetti and Marmite! https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/oct/15/marmite-spaghetti-recipe-rachel-roddy

Such a dear, sweet man! Toss him to the Sarlacc, hmmmm? https://lkml.org/lkml/2026/10/13/3242

The community-run ski lodges are a pretty awesome bit of infrastructure, and quite communal. Here is the Pinnacles Lodge as well as a NZAC hut. They are not quite ski-in ski-out, but close. #mountains

I'd not heard of Long-tailed Broadbills before. They're extraordinary-looking designer-level birds. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/8947-Psarisomus-dalhousiae #birds

It’s a little known fact (so little known that I may not deny having made it up) that the collective noun for Long-tailed Broadbills is a "Hooray". Yes, it's another quick drawing, now Day 15 of the Ink-Birdtober challenge. Today's prompts are the Long-tailed […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

A trio of birds in the Los Gatos bush at Bear Creek Redwoods Preserve The derpy call is the Spotted Towhee, one of my favourite birds around here. The high pitched cheep is a Chestnut-backed Chickadee and the harsher buzz is a Bewick’s Wren. Alas, also a […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

I wanted to play the Doodle Jump tie-in for Hop (2011), so I rebuilt the old App Store. Then I needed something to run it on, so I emulated an iPod. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_4zurb5Xgs Explore Legacy Store: https://legacystore.app Download Light Touch […]

I feel like Hegseth is going to announce free smokes for GIs. That smooth smooth Kentucky tobacco flavour

Hey, John, no matter how ‘happening’ the Nazi bar is, how much ‘action’ is at the Nazi bar, it’s still a Nazi bar and nobody reasonable should go there.