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Nicolas Demers
@figureoutthesea.ca
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Web developer, gay, atheist, humanist, feminist, geek. Love volleyball, sci-fi, photography, birbs. He/him.

Vancouver, BC

"Either we'll figure out the sea, or we'll keep finding beautiful places."

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Nicolas Demers @figureoutthesea.ca · May 10
I've got a photography store where I post mostly photos of birds, but also some landscapes and cityscapes and whatnot.

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A male Tree Swallow is resting on a wooden post, his blues all shiny and iridescent A male House Finch is up in a tree surrounded by pink cherry blossoms and blue sky. He is holding a blossom in his beak A male Wood Duck is vocalising, and his shiny mullet is moving View of Vancouver West End towers from Burrard Bridge. The sun is going down, and clouds are a bit orangeish
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#BirdOfTheDay

Of all the #BirdButts in all the world, none brings me more joy than Yellow-rumped Warblers' bright sunny behinds. These birbs don't stick around, generally just passing through for a few weeks during migration season

-- Vancouver, March 2025

#photography #birds
A male Yellow-rumped Warbler is on a branch with its back to me but looking camera left, allowing me to see both its yellow rump and yellow throat. There are very new reddish flower buds around, and a solid blue sky
February 15, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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wilwheaton.net
When curling isn't on tv, everyone should be asking, "where's curling?"
February 14, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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elfsternberg.bsky.social
This is the kind of shit that upsets me because those seniors are letting skills die, juniors aren't learning skills at all, and eventually we'll get to the point where we're deploying code nobody understands and nobody has vetted: techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/s...
Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI | TechCrunch
Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.
techcrunch.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan

Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🔵

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The "pale blue dot" photo. It shows three or four colored beams of light – optical artifacts – passing from the left side of the image to the right. The background is dark, empty space. In the topmost light beam is a single pale blue pixel. That's Earth. Sagan's quote is printed on the image. It reads ""We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history..."
February 14, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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javajanegallery.co.uk
#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Portrait
Here’s a Chilean Blue Eagle portrait
#raptor
#Birds🪶🦉
#NaturePhotography #birdphotography
#EastCoastKin
@alan678.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay

#Portrait of two very different birds:

- A handsome crow that didn't mind me getting close to drink in every little ruffle and detail

- A Green-winged Teal drake, his cinnamon-and-green head lightly kissed by the afternoon light

#photography #birds
Closeup of a crow's head and upper chest in profile, showing every little ruffle and detail. Background is bluish-grey Closeup of a Green-winged Teal male head and upper chest, in profile, in afternoon light
February 14, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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tkingfisher.com
I regret to inform you that I have gone further down the terrible rabbit hole that is Elsie the Cow.

If you squint at enough eBay listings trying to read the words, you find a saga of a marriage gone mad.
tkingfisher.com Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 2d
This morning, I got distracted while eating cheese because I remembered that the laughing cow is named Elsie and is married to Elmer the cow on the glue labels. To doublecheck that I hadn’t hallucinated that, I looked it up and fell down a dark internet rabbit hole.
February 14, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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banditelli.org
I saw a live birthed harbor seal pup for the first time in my life today. I thought it would be horrifying because I have a weak stomach, but it turned to UNGODLY CUTE very fast!

Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑
February 13, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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roabrams.bsky.social
Osprey with a fish it caught after #DivingforFood #BirdoftheDay #EastCoastKin #photography
An osprey on a tree branch with a fish it caught between its feet
February 13, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay #DivingForFood

An assortment of ducky diving predators:

- Barrow's Goldeneye ♂️
- Common Goldeneye ♂️
- A Bufflehead ♂️ in golden light
- A Hooded Merganser mister and missus

#photography #birds
A male Barrow's Goldeneye swimming in bright sunlight on blue water. The head is a bit iridescent in green and purple A male Common Goldeneye in low morning light. The water looks greyish A Bufflehead male swimming in golden afternoon light. The head is nicely iridescing A male Hooded Merganser sitting on a big log surrounded by water. A female is further in the back.
February 13, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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smolrobots.bsky.social
Side note, but Trek's longeivity as a franchise makes it a great example of the Douglas Adams maxim about tech: anything invented before you were born is just part of how the world works, anything invented when you're young is novel and exciting, and anything invented when you're over 30 is heresy.
annabookwriter.bsky.social Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 3d
With alt text.

“Captain Mumbles” is a hell of a thing to call Holly Hunter, whose distinctive speech pattern is due to mumps taking her hearing on one side. The disrespect from someone who cares more about “decorum” than decency.
February 13, 2026 at 3:35 PM
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rawfishandbeer.bsky.social
It's Mandatory Monday and AI is clearly the future.
mandatoryrollercoaster.com/post/8081046...
three panel webcomic 1st panel: one man says to another "we invented a robot that answers questions" 2nd panel: he continues "we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day" 3rd panel: the other man asks "but it answers the questions correctly?" and the first man replies "oh my goodness, no. no no no no no."
February 9, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay #Birds&Bugs

Dragonflies are very fast and agile indeed, but far from invincible. Case in point: these two male blue-eyed darners were likely distracted by a territorial fight when the heron decided to pick the winner

-- Lost Lagoon, Vancouver. September 2024

#photography #birds
A Great Blue Heron in a pond has grabbed a large blue and black dragonfly in its beak. A similar dragonfly is flying very close to the victim A Great Blue Heron standing in a pond is holding a large blue and black dragonfly in its beak A Great Blue Heron standing in a pond is trying to flick a large blue and black dragonfly deeper in its beak A Great Blue Heron is standing in a pond and chomping down on a large blue and black dragonfly
February 12, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay

You want #Blue birds we got blue birds!

A Tree Swallow, a Steller's Jay, and a Belted KIngfisher

#photography #birds
A male Tree Swallow on a wooden post A Steller's Jay on a branch looking alert, with a green background A male Belted Kingfisher sitting on a bird box
February 11, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay #Urban

Aphrodite being birthed from the sea foam. Or a Canada Goose jumping out of a fountain, take your pick

-- Vancouver, August 2024

#photography #birds
A Canada Goose jumping out of a fountain on its edge, wings partly spread and dripping
February 10, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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margaretsiegien.bsky.social
Stunning male Northern Cardinal, vibrant red plumage popping against the green foliage. That spiky crest and the tiny water drop on his beak add perfect detail. ❤️📷
#birdphotography
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 AM
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crawlieswithcri.bsky.social
For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #StareDown I had to go with a Sharp-shinned Hawk because *DERP*

(I could've gone with a Steller's...to be clear 😂)

#birds #becurious 🪶
close up photo looking up at a juvie sharp shinned hawk in a tree with blue sky behind. they are looking directly at the camera and have a derpy expression.
February 10, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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alan678.bsky.social
So it’s not my day to host but I’m going through some captures now to help my pal Rob out. Hope you all are having a great day so far. Saw this guy today. Have no idea why he decided to land on this particular tree stump near me. 🤷‍♂️🤥 #BirdOfTheDay #StareDown
Close-up of a Eurasian jay standing on a dark mossy tree stump, facing the camera with an alert, direct gaze. Its warm brown body contrasts with the distinctive blue-and-black barred patch on its wing. Several peanuts and small seeds lie on the ground in front of its pale pink feet, while the background fades into a deep, blurred green.
February 9, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay #StareDown

Well, I just happened to shoot this adorably pear-shaped Song Sparrow today! A perfect frontal shot showing off its intricately patterned outfit and fierce attitude

-- Lost Lagoon, Vancouver. February 2026

#photography #birds
A Song Sparrow sitting on a bare branch facing me, with a tangle of brown branches in the background. It is fluffy and pear-shaped
February 9, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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nick-pettigrew.bsky.social
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
dancow.bsky.social Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social · 7d
VC, founder, dumbass
@Nick_Davidov Asked Claude Cowork organize my wife's desktop, it stated doing it, asked for a permission to delete temp office files, I granted it, and then it goes "ooops" Turns out it tried renaming and accidentally deleted a folder with all of the photos my wife made on her camera for the last 15 years. All photos of kids, their illustrations, friends' weddings, travel, everything. It's not in trash, it was done via terminal It's not in iCloud, it already synced the new file structure. She didn't have Time Machine. Disc recovery tools can't see anything. I called Apple and they pointed me to a feature in iCloud allowing to retrieve files that were saved before but are no longer on iCloud Drive (they keep them for 30 days). I'm now watching it load tens of thousands of files. I nearly had a heart attack. Nick Davidov • @Nick_Davidov VC, founder, DVC.ai - backing repeat founders with a community of 200 engineers. e/acc/OSS. Perplexity, Higgsfield, Animation, Etched. Husband to @msdavidova
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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ravenseyechris.bsky.social
Early morning on Froggatt Edge #landscape #photography 📷
February 4, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay

#posted: Here is a Dark-eyed Junco, very matchy-matchy with the dull winter background (Richmond Nature House, Jan. 2026)

#red: It doesn't get any redder than Northern Cardinals! Sad that we don't get them on the West Coast, where I live (Ottawa, Jan. 2025)

#photography #birds
A Dark-eyed Junco on a wooden post, with muddled greys and browns in the background A female Northern Cardinal in a tree, looking fabulously in my general direction. In the background are snowy evergreens A male Northern Cardinal on a branch, surrounded by bare branches and grey snow
February 8, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay #Serenity

A Golden-crowned Sparrow in golden evening light, taking a short break from scarfing down herbs in the community gardens

-- ƛ̓éxətəm (Tlahutum) Regional Park, November 2023

#photography #birds
A very round Golden-crowned Sparrow is sitting on a wooden fence. The light is a bit golden
February 7, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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For Jane’s @javajanegallery.co.uk #SmallBirdSaturday, it doesn't get much smaller than Golden-crowned Kinglets. Here is one foraging on the downtown seawall during an unusual cold snap, looking for water or bugs in crevices and such

-- Vancouver, British Columbia. February 2025

#photography #birds
A Golden-crowned Kinglet -- a tiny bird with greyish chest, olive back, sharp little wing bars of yellow and black, and head stripes of yellow and black -- is on a concrete trail next to a concrete wall, and a little clump of snow A Golden-crowned Kinglet -- a tiny bird with greyish chest, olive back, sharp little wing bars of yellow and black, and head stripes of yellow and black -- is up on a concrete wall A Golden-crowned Kinglet -- a tiny bird with greyish chest, olive back, sharp little wing bars of yellow and black, and head stripes of yellow and black -- is on a concrete trail next to a concrete wall
February 7, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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astrokatie.com
GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM