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JohnDM
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Ancient, in Chiang Mai 25+ years: bugs; traditional music of ethnic groups in Thailand, Laos, Burma; dogs; birdsong, sounds of nature. 20th century lived in UK, France, Algeria, Colombia, Malaysia. Hope one day to understand something
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JohnDM @jdmyeepa.bsky.social · Mar 21
Things I post
Field recordings: #birdsong, #wildlife; hill tribe music in SE Asia
Photos: #moths and other #insects, other creatures, #nature, scenery around Chiang Mai, other travels
Life with #dogs
Reposts about current geopolitical turmoil
#DogsOfBluesky 🦉
#ethnomusicology
Left to right, top row: CD cover labeled Beautiful Bird songs from around the world, British Library (includes several of my recordings), image of a light brown bird sitting on a branch surrounded by pinkish red flowers and a golden light; White butterfly with half folded wings upper wing White with black edged bright orange tip. Underwing mottled brown. Resting on pink-orange hibiscus flowers; side view of a medium sized brown mixed breed dog seen from slightly below; a white raptor with black shoulder standing on top of a leafy tree against a plain blue background. Bottom row: 6 CD labels showing musicians from SE Asian ethnic groups; Large yellow moth with brown and orange markings and very long thin tails. Wings spread against a dark background . Main color yellow, darkish purple brown patches on wing edges and near the body. Body and surrounding areas orange; Two dogs standing on a rock against a background of trees. On the left a small black and white stray gazing up at the dog on the right, Ragu, medium sized fox-like.
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Visitor to the house last night. Daphnis hypothous, Jade hawkmoth (I think, I can never tell it from D. nerii.)
It spent the night in the kitchen but I persuaded it to leave in the morning.
The third image is Daphnis nerii, I think #moths
Dark brown hawkmoth with lighter markings resting on a white curtain Dark olive green hawkmoth with grey and pale blue markings resting on some rough wood Dark green hawkmoth with pink and white markings resting on a light grey surface
July 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Fun. And excellent research.
rspb.bsky.social RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · Apr 1
WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.

The results tell us a lot!

Extracts below... 🧵
The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”
April 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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“I know not how it falls on me,
This summer evening, hushed and lone;
Yet the faint wind comes soothingly
With something of an olden tone”
Emily Brontë
Three shots from an evening walk in the woods
📷 mine
#nature #photography
a single stalk, dark trees, a pale orange sky with a golden sun to the right. some dry stalk on the left, bamboo leaves on the right all silhouetted against a golden sky. The sun is seen behind the leaves. stalks with a cluster of seeds with fluffy ends silhouetted against a golden sky
April 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Absorbed the other morning looking at these nondescript stalks. The more I gazed at them, the more they looked like a group of elderly folk such as you would see in a village square dans le Midi. Things got a bit heated- see the text in the images. Conclusion in comment #photography #nature
4 dried plant stalks with secondary stalks sticking out at angles from the main stalk silhouetted against a blue, grey sky with scattered white clouds. Text reads: discussions get heated two dried plant stalks with secondary stalks sticking out at angles from the main stalk silhouetted against a grey white cloudy sky, the stalks interlocking at the top. Text: two start to quarrel several thin dried plant stalks with secondary stalks sticking out at angles from the main stalk, some stalks touching each other silhouetted blueish white sky. Text reads: scuffles break out two interlocking dried plant stalks with a smaller one to the left. Text: old scores are settled
March 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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OO7 at his finest
photo of Sir Roger Moore. Text reads "Sport" hunting is a sickness, a perversion and a danger and should be recognised as such. People who get their 'amusement' from hunting and killing defenceless animals can only be suffering from a mental disorder. In a world with boundless opportunities for amusement, it's detestable that anyone would choose to get thrills from killing others who ask for nothing from life but the chance to remain alive. -Sir Roger Moore (seven time James Bond) STOP.THE.CULL
March 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Идиот Updated substack.com/@johnormadev...
Crude so-called satire. Not OK to make fun of POTUS. Writer a sleazebag. Not worth the paper it's written on. Don't read it.
Идиот Updated
Uncle Vlad has a present for you
substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Justin Welby: I failed to act on abuse scandal as scale was 'overwhelming.' Not a great defence....
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Justin Welby tells BBC abuse in Church was 'overwhelming'
In his first interview since resigning, the former Archbishop of Canterbury tells Laura Kuenssberg about his failures on the John Smyth case.
www.bbc.com
March 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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This Garden (Olive-backed) sunbird came to see what was going on in the kitchen. Not a songster, more a chatterer when not uttering monosyllabic chirps, as you can hear in the audio.
🦉 #birds

📷 mine 🎤 mine
March 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Terrible news from #Myanmar and #Bangkok about the #earthquake. Some making a drama out of nothing much here. At first I didn’t think I had noticed it, then I realised I was driving and thought I was having a dizzy spell as the car veered across the road. Friends said houses rocked.
March 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Heartbroken that no one loves #cicadas. 1- came in the house this am, noisy. 2- older pic, pretty. 3- a very special cicada- kindly named after me by my friend Michel Boulard. Immortality of sorts. See alt text for details #bugs #insects #entomology
cicada, black body, orange spots on a leaf. Probably Cryptotympana aquila small cicada with red body and black markings on a leaf. Mogannia saucia Body of a brown cicada with transparent wings open. Purana jdmoorei. Photo M. Boulard
March 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Colour matching: Combretum indicum (Rangoon creeper) out in my garden now. Pretty but stinky. 3 Arctiinae moths: Cyana bellissima (female), Cyana coccinea (male) and unid. Pretty, and inoffensive in every way. See them in the rainy season. #flowers #moths #nature
Clusters of drooping star-shaped pink and red flowers and some white buds with bright green leaves surrounded by dark green leaves. Top: A white moth settled horizontally on a black background. The wing tips are edged with yellowy orange and there are 5 red bars across the wings, nos 3 and 4 connected by 2 horizontal bars. There is a black spot in the middle of each wing. Middle: A pinkish red moth resting on dark green moss. Two irregularly shaped white bars across the wings edged in black. A white circle on each wing containing three black dots. The outstretched legs have bars of yellow and white. Bottom: A white moth resting on a white cloth. The wings have pink bars and irregular shapes running across them.
March 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Tiger and me in the morning sun.
Image 1 “Both light and shadow are the dance of Love.” Rumi.
Image 2 “The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.” Socrates. The smallest things can cast huge shadows. Don’t be fooled. Tiger doesn’t disagree #dogs #DogsOfBluesky
Elongated shadows of a man and a dog on a sandy path, The path leads up past bushes to the top where there is a tall tree against a deep blue sky. Does Tiger need an “explicit” warning? Elongated shadows of a man and a dog on a sandy path
March 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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substack.com/@larryoconno... Lovely visuals but WHY pollute it with slushy music when there are true sounds of nature pleading to be heard? #nature #wildlife #audio
Larry O'Connor on Substack
Take a moment and enjoy this peaceful encounter with an otter. Wouldn't you love to be in this person’s place? 🦦🥰
substack.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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The Signal Betrayal: A National Security Breach That Demands Accountability open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
people have spent serious time in jail for less
The Signal Betrayal: A National Security Breach That Demands Accountability
My comments on Laura Coats Live
open.substack.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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The Spot-throated babbler, nothing to look at but a mighty songster. I recorded one singing nonstop at breathtaking speed for 1 hour +. The free-flowing song has a remarkable range of timbres, tunes, rhythms.
You can here more here: whyp.it/tracks/90727...
🦉 #birds #birdsong
📷 see alt text 🎤 mine
March 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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substack.com/@jojofromjer...
JoJoFromJerz on Substack
According to MAGA, if you hit a car with a baseball bat because you don’t like the company’s owner you’re a “terrorist”, but if you hit a Capitol police officer with a baseball bat because you don’t l...
substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Ragu trying to play with some buffaloes. They don't seem interested. The other dogs pretty much ignore them, though Hella keeps a watchful eye on Ragu. I rescued Ragu from this area so she is well used to the buffaloes.
#dogs #DogsOfBluesky
March 24, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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"What seems to be a loss may be a gain,
What seems to be darkness may be light." Rumi.

I don't take pictures of flowers, especially this sort, but occasionally one will pester me till I reluctantly give in.
Taken on my walks in the woods, some escapees.
#flowers #photography #macrophotography
Red Passion Flower (Passiflora miniata) Closeup of a flower pointing upwards against a dark out of focus background. The flower has 5 reflexed sepals and 5 “valentine-red” drooping petals. The corona has 3 whorls of filaments. Those in the outer whorl are purple and curved outwards slightly. The 2 inner whorls are erect, white and shorter. At the top is the yellowish ovary with 3 red styles that have large yellow stigmas. Just below the ovary are the 5 stamens with spotted red filaments and yellow anthers. The ant is on the petal bottom second left and is barely visible the image shows two orchids on a pale green stalk pointing diagonally upwards against a white background. There are some pale olive green out of focus leaves on the left. The lower petals droop and are a pale yellow; the upper petals are erect and white at the base and then pinkish mauve Globba schomburgkii, also known as the dancing ladies ginger or forest dancer. Golden-orange flower against a deep black background. The flower has an elongated central structure extending upwards, culminating in a star-like formation at its tip. The petals radiate symmetrically from the center and have a delicate, almost translucent texture, with fine details visible along their edges. The flower appears to emerge from a cluster of green buds, some of which are beginning to open. possibly Hibiscus rosa sinensis. The image shows two flowers on a stalk horizontal, sloping slightly downwards against a white background with trees with pale green leaves out of focus in the lower part of the image. The flower on the left is large with drooping pink petals; the flower on the right has smaller paler pink fluffy petals and a pistil with three of the four stigmas visible, also pink
March 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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substack.com/@johnormadev...
DO NOT READ THIS.
Unless you are not offended by Biblical parodies or unflattering words about the Orange Menace or the paint has already dried.
John Moore on Substack
A previously undiscovered verse from the Gospel of Matthew. Then spake Jesus to the multitude Saying, Behold the righteous man Abel for he is a man of peace, a trustworthy man Mark this blameless m...
substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Suvorov: Inside Soviet Military Intelligence: KGB/ GRU “call them (agents of influence) 'shit-eaters'” (говноед). “The contempt felt for them does not prevent the GRU and KGB from using them.” Putin openly mocks Trump. I imagine that is how he refers to him. I might borrow it. #espionage
March 24, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Recording of Presentation open.substack.com/pub/bandyxle...
Wow. "Only our ability to master our own minds will save humankind from mutual assured destruction."
Recording of Presentation
Live Series with Dr. Lee on Fridays at 12 noon EDT/9 a.m. PDT
open.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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silentartist66.bsky.social
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end; embrace the change, for it is the canvas on which your future is painted.
#photography #birds #nature #writing
March 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Eastern Bluebird nest building. Western PA, USA 3-22-25
#birds #bluebirds #photography #wildlife #nature
March 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
jdmyeepa.bsky.social
Things I post
Field recordings: #birdsong, #wildlife; hill tribe music in SE Asia
Photos: #moths and other #insects, other creatures, #nature, scenery around Chiang Mai, other travels
Life with #dogs
Reposts about current geopolitical turmoil
#DogsOfBluesky 🦉
#ethnomusicology
Left to right, top row: CD cover labeled Beautiful Bird songs from around the world, British Library (includes several of my recordings), image of a light brown bird sitting on a branch surrounded by pinkish red flowers and a golden light; White butterfly with half folded wings upper wing White with black edged bright orange tip. Underwing mottled brown. Resting on pink-orange hibiscus flowers; side view of a medium sized brown mixed breed dog seen from slightly below; a white raptor with black shoulder standing on top of a leafy tree against a plain blue background. Bottom row: 6 CD labels showing musicians from SE Asian ethnic groups; Large yellow moth with brown and orange markings and very long thin tails. Wings spread against a dark background . Main color yellow, darkish purple brown patches on wing edges and near the body. Body and surrounding areas orange; Two dogs standing on a rock against a background of trees. On the left a small black and white stray gazing up at the dog on the right, Ragu, medium sized fox-like.
March 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM