A juvenile Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo bathes in the Umpqua River on a hot summer day in SW Oregon. Bathing helps raptors remove dirt and parasites while keeping their feathers in prime condition for flight #birds #photography Represented by ZUMAPress.com

Although I appreciate what the Onion has done with the site, the InfoWars branding is too tainted for me to normally consider merch, but I might be persuaded for this gay frog and his sticker sheet. Look at this ad! It's amazing!

InfoWars@realinfowars.bsky.social · 2d ago

They turned the friggin' frogs gay. Buy one now at store.theonion.com.

It's such a bummer to see conservation orgs using AI art. I have many objections to genAI, but I don't expect those to be universal. However, I DO expect groups whose mission is protecting the environment to avoid something so environmentally destructive, esp for frivolous shit like social media.

I'm already getting emails about registering for the High Holidays 😓 I usually try to go for at least Kol Nidre but I missed last year entirely. Do I try to go to a regular shul for the first time in a zilliion years arggghhhhh

a story in two parts i did not take much convincing

I could feel this article so hard in my bones that it made me cry. SO THAT'S HOW THINGS ARE GOING.

NPR@npr.org · 4d ago

For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood.

Went on a bat walk last night. Saw a few bats (one really good close fly-by) and heard a more, but it was relatively quiet before the park kicked us out. The host was disappointed in the small amount of bats, but it was still cool. She lent me her bat detector to try myself for a bit. 💜BATS!

Someone used my email for their Walmart account and I am constantly barraged with emails. You can't even unsubscribe; it wants you to log in to disable messages, which I can't do because she uses 2fa. Recently I spent over an hour on the phone with their CS "fixing" it, but I AM STILL GETTING THEM.

Woke up to the noises of the Cooper🪶 here being mobbed right outside my window. I briefly felt bad for her, thinking about how much it would suck to be attacked and yelled at everywhere you went because no one liked you.... but then I remembered she could just eat her bullies.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #OverTheRainbow of a bird looking skyward, so I had to share my fav pic of this goofy lady who refuses to be normal. She is a Red-Tailed Hawk🪶 who lives in captivity as an educational ambassador after an injury left her nonreleaseable / unable to survive in the wild.

Stormageddon stole a tiny (TINY - like <1cm) piece of Flamin Hot Funyun that I dropped on my desk. I thought the reward would also be the punishment but, no, he's begging for more. I guess the boy likes spicy.

Well, I looked up mine and I fucking hate this. Excuse me, while my desiccated husk disintegrates into dust.

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 6d ago

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

This thread is amazing.

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · last wk.

Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵

Enjoying his new trashcave.

90% of my books are non-fic, so loosely by topic, with exceptions for oversized. Topic location of shelf in order of frequency of access. No alphabetisation; too much effort for both initial access and reshelving. My fiction books are just group by author on their respective shelf. 💜books

Immigrant Punk@porcupunk.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough of the horrors and doom scrolling. Let's talk about something fun. How do you arrange your books?

Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

I impulse bought a centrifuge which I will now donate to the treatment room at Raptor Place™

Protected Status for Haitian refugees ends tomorrow. The gov't has already explicitly said hat ICE will be aggressively targeting them for removal the second TPS expires. If you have local individuals or communities in your area this affects, they are going to need support (and observers) ASAP.

Their fav toy continues to be LITERAL TRASH. I set out a box filled with bits of cardboard packing materials for Storm and Sammy to play with before it went into the recycle bin, and they spent all morning making crazy noises while playing, chewing, and scattering bits of it all over the house.

War Criminal is the diplomatic thing to call Netanyahu.

This explains so much about my life and the (feline) company that I keep.

Maladroithe@maladroithe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Feral cats are on the cutting edge of Crime Technology

I'm generally opposed to carceral punishment but there's some situations in which I can't seem to manage to be upset about it.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w ago

I hope someone puts this to music, but right now I can’t stop laughing.

Braved the outdoors to refill all my birdbaths because it's going to be approximately a billion degrees today and I heard the iconic Red-Tailed hawk scream. Look up, and right above me one of my local hawks is being bullied aggressively by a dozen Very Mad™ finches. [finches won - the hawk left]

Decided to clean my absolute hellscape of a side-desk. Did the part where I took everything off it and wiped off all the built up dust and cat hair, and now I'm at the part where I need to put everything away properly, and I just want to go to bed.

jokes on you i'm neither

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 2w ago

You would be shocked at the number of people who would rather Be funny than smart

Argentina needs to buy their goalie a beer tonight, since he's the only one working today.

Flawless hiding spot, basically invisible.

I will never be as rad as this woman but maybe if I work really hard, I can get a tenth of the way there.

Infynyty@infynyty.bsky.social · 3w ago

Lots of talk about Lindsey Graham this week but here’s an obit worthy of our attention. A life of service vs Lindsey’s life of self serving. chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2...

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Opposition to Big Pharma would have been such an easy win with the people if you decided to fight the battle over egregious drug prices or exploitative patents. But, no, eugenics and preventing access to critical care and meds was the route chosen. Now we get woo with a side of food poisoning.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2y ago

welcome to the Age of Diarrhea