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🔵 book lover & hand bookbinder 📖 plant lover🌵keeper of cats🐈‍⬛ feeder of hummingbirds, caretaker, and beaniac 🫘.
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bookbind @bookbind.bsky.social · Nov 19
My husband was a professional photographer, but isn't well enough to take shots of his beloved hummingbirds anymore. So I'll be sharing my favorites!
#hummingbird
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Belle likes to sit on the pull-out board and supervise the selection of the can 🤷🏼‍♂️ I told her that today she had to eat her Fancy Feast beef gravy dinner because in *this* house we eat beef. She said oh no you don't and gave me this look, because of course we don't eat beef.
August 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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I was going outside to put the umbrellas down but saw this little guy cooling his jets in the fountain. So I waited. And I waited. Hummingbirds buzzed all around him but he didn't move. I got a bit worried and went down to check and he told me he's just fine and to clear off!

#birds
#hummingbirds
July 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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We just got a new bird feeder and look who showed up!
A male Pin-Tailed Whydah.
Next to Griffith Park.

#birds
May 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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This is different, you can see his beak and tongue! You need to open the full picture.
#birds
#hummingbirds
April 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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I came across this composite of photos of our tortie Rini. It's from a few years ago but honestly, nothing's changed 🤣
#cats
April 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Just now at dusk.
February 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Sheesh. I currently fill 12 8-port 32-ounce feeders almost daily now! I can't believe that I'll have to hang more feeders.

#birds
#hummingbirds
5 hummingbirds on feeders
February 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.
February 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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He's making sure that last feather is perfectly in place before checking out the girls at the feeders. We're now up to 12 8-port 32-oz feeders and I'm refilling them every other day.

#birds
#hummingbirds
A hummingbird preens his wing feathers
February 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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I love this shot, after the rain moved on a few years ago. The hummingbirds were hungry!

#birds
#hummingbirds
January 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Anna's are bigger than Allen's..

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#hummingbirds
January 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Being beautiful takes a lot of work!

#birds
#hummingbirds
A hummingbird is perched on the edge of a fountain scattering water drops as they bathe.
January 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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I guess we're now in for more of this.
January 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Wow, this is wonderful. The first California Condor release at Vermilion Cliffs National Monument was on December 12,
1996.
banditelli.org Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · Jan 24
At a time where it feels like we're losing, we need to remember our victories that not only have happened in the past, but continue to exist today.

Thus I give you, California Condor 926 of the SoCal flock.

Great grandchild of Condor # 1.

We as humanity can still do good things.

#birds
January 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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banditelli.org
At a time where it feels like we're losing, we need to remember our victories that not only have happened in the past, but continue to exist today.

Thus I give you, California Condor 926 of the SoCal flock.

Great grandchild of Condor # 1.

We as humanity can still do good things.

#birds
January 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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brandonfriedman.bsky.social
Four examples of Democratic messaging since yesterday. I know which one I'm supporting. And voting for.
January 24, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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bookclubfriends.com Book Club Friends @bookclubfriends.com · Jan 20
Drink your coffee. Read your books. It's chaos out there.

#Booksky
Drink your coffee. Read your books. It's chaos out there.
January 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Jan 20
We had to get in on the video action too — Bluesky now has custom feeds for video!

Like any other feed, you can choose to pin these or not. Bluesky is yours to customize.
January 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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<< I am also commuting the life sentence imposed on Leonard Peltier so that he serves the remainder of his sentence in home confinement.>>
sahilkapur.bsky.social Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Jan 20
In his final moments as president, Joe Biden pardons his family members: "That is why I am exercising my power under the Constitution to pardon James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden."
January 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Love this.
January 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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We put dry cat food out in the morning. Truthfully it's for the ground birds because they really like it. The Towhee hops in and roots around, kicking almost all of the food out of the bowl. Then the little Wren comes in for the smaller bits. The skunks and the possum come much later and do cleanup.
A bird sits in the middle of a bowl of dry cat food A bird sits in the middle of a bowl of dry cat food A bird sits in the middle of a bowl of dry cat food A bird sits in the middle of a bowl of dry cat food
January 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Revealing exchange between Douthat and Marc Andressen. Douthat says that DOGE won't save money b/c most programs are popular and you need people to run them. Reasonable!

Andressen: the existence of the program reflects contempt for the taxpayer. Social media will allow us to weaken public support.
Douthat: I can imagine a remarkable new plan for making the federal government in various ways much more efficient. I can totally imagine that. I am skeptical that such a plan would, in the end make a big dent in the federal government’s costs. Let’s say you have tons of dead wood in a particular federal agency. Well, you’re going to get rid of that dead wood. But in fact, you’re going to need to hire better people to replace those people. And you’re going to need to pay those people appropriately and so on. And all of this is in the shadow of Social Security, Medicare and a range of federal commitments. There is no magical argument on social media that will suddenly make cutting those commitments popular. But this is, of course, the traditional, institutional, cynical Washington view. Andreessen: I was going to say, but this is the traditional, institutional, cynical Washington view. And the way that reads to a normal person is absolute contempt for the taxpayer. Absolute contempt for the taxpayer by saying, “We can sit here in Washington, and we can ladle out $50 billion here and $100 billion there, and when we’re challenged on it, the answer is, ‘Eh, it’s a rounding error.’” Right? Douthat: No, no. The answer when we’re challenged on it is: The actual spending that the federal government does is either big-ticket things that the average taxpayer supports or smaller things like funding for students with disabilities across public school districts or something that if the average taxpayer doesn’t support it, at least a very vocal and influential constituency supports it. Those are the two groups. It’s not dripping with contempt for the taxpayer. It’s the taxpayer that because of their desire for large amounts of federal spending tends to support. Andreessen: I will just tell you that what you just said comes across as total contempt for the taxpayer. Just absolute contempt. This will be part of the — Douthat: But who is the taxpayer? I wrote many, many columns in support of various versions of Paul Ryan’s plan to cut Medicare or reform Medicare and reform Social Security. And the reason those plans went down to defeat was not that federal bureaucrats had contempt for the American taxpayer. It was that the American taxpayer, in election after election, likes and supports and votes in favor of Medicare and Social Security. Andreessen: They’re not exposed to it. This is a big part of the bet. And look, maybe it’ll work, and maybe it won’t. But this is a big part of the bet, which is that the American taxpayer doesn’t experience it that way because they don’t actually have the insight into it. Take what you would think would be a bulletproof program, like child disability in schools. It’s far from clear to me that the median taxpayer would support that if they really knew what that was. As you and I both know, what that has become is basically a medicalized mental illness. To the point where students in schools now are basically using fake diagnoses of mental illness in order to get drugs and in order to get extra time on tests. That whole program has run completely out of control, and everybody with kids knows that, but it’s not a discrete thing that people can wrap their heads around and understand. And it’s not a thing that gets exposed in the bright light of day.
January 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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An oldie but goodie: Sharp-Shinned Hawk outside the kitchen window, no hummingbirds were harmed!

#birds
A hawk is perched in a tree, looking around A hawk is perched in a tree, looking around
January 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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This is one of my favorites of Harry's photos!
A lovely male Allen's.

#hummingbirds
#birds
An male Allen's hummingbird perched on a rod
January 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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🧵 I'm seeing Octavia Butler's name brought up a lot recently re the LA fires and, well, 😳 Here's a good article that explains it, and it makes me want to read her books!

apnews.com/article/octa...
Octavia Butler imagined LA ravaged by fires. Her Altadena cemetery survived
Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world wracked by climate change, racism and ec...
apnews.com
January 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM