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Meesh Birb
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Meesh. 29. White. Birbs, borderlands, battleborn, destiny, art & some other stuff. They/she. Icon & header by me
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tinylongwing.bsky.social
Day 4 of #ArtAdventCalendar, a 2023 Waymakers thank you bird, a Tūī! They have some crazy feather patterns!

🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
A Tūī, a dark bird from New Zealand with a white ball of feathers at its throat and a collar of lacy silver threadlike feathers around its neck, stands on a curved branch. Sunlight catches its iridescent feathers so that they shine in a rainbow of colors.
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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alextomlinson.com
Flat illustration featuring a Titmouse and Chickadee eating from a green feeder while a Mourning Dove eats seeds that have fallen on the snowy ground.
December 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
kasteron.bsky.social
Had a fun birthday trip to the zoo with friends yesterday!
Got some awesome up-close views of the red wolves & other animals out in the snow
A red-footed tortoise adorably looking directly at the camera with its shell balanced on the edge of a water basin An amur leopard atop a stone shelter inside an enclosure, rubbing its head on a rock to scent mark A red wolf sitting on leafy snow-covered ground. Fencing is visible behind it
December 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM
kasteron.bsky.social
Well, I'm officially no longer a "20-something"
November 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
I love the Dropkick Murphys because "Irish-American" + "gen X" + "punk rocker who's been at it for 30 years" should be the formula for the most racist guy alive but instead Ken Casey is constantly giving interviews where he's like "fascists are demons from hell and that's where they belong"
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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tinylongwing.bsky.social
Every Sharp-shinned Hawk I've ever seen looked like it was worried it left the stove on.

🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt
Rough digital drawing of a Sharp-shinned Hawk bust. The hawk is in profile. It is a complex mottled color of browns and grays, with a small hooked beak, round head, rufous tinting to the auriculars, and a huge bright yellow eye that makes it look worried. Its feathers are slicked back tight to the body indicating it is alert.
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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linnybobinny.bsky.social
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
kasteron.bsky.social
OK NYC I need you to keep this energy so we can primary Schumer in 2028
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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astrokatie.com
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
kasteron.bsky.social
I think if I ever find a gluten free cider donut that doesn't have corn, I'll actually start crying
October 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
kasteron.bsky.social
A reminder because way too many people are reliant on this shit:
AI summaries are NOT a source! They're an amalgamation of sources that may or may not be even remotely correct!
October 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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gettoknownature.bsky.social
A borb with fabulous eyebrows for #Wrensday

(Carolina Wren) #birds 🌿 #HeadInBirds
A very round brown bird looks towards the camera, its pert tail jutting out to the side. It has very notable white eyebrows.
October 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
kasteron.bsky.social
A lot of social media moderation systems are absolute shit nowadays, but it at least brings me some pleasure that the moderation on Nextdoor is actually responsive
October 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
kasteron.bsky.social
Yeah I'm going to be crying the rest of the day now

Jane Goodall was my childhood hero & a huge part of why I wanted to work in conservation. I had always hoped to get the chance to meet her or see her speak, but never got the chance.
October 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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luckytran.com
"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.
October 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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skwinnicki.bsky.social
Couldn’t recommend “nature therapy” type stuff enough in these trying times.

You don’t need any experience at all or even much nature (I’m in the middle of the biggest city in the state). Free apps like Merlin or Seek can help you learn more about the nature you’re seeing, but that’s not required.
skwinnicki.bsky.social SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · Sep 29
The more stressed I get about existential threats, the more I have to force myself to look for local calming good things to self-regulate and avoid spiraling.

Just over the moon that my backyard groundhog found a partner and they’re fattening up so well at my feeders to face the winter together.
Blurry photo through the dirty old glass on my back windows, showing two very round gray-brown ground squirrels known as groundhogs. They are stuffing their faces with corn and suet and sunflower seeds spread out of the ground below a shepherd’s hook with bird feeders, and there’s cover nearby like a big log to protect them a bit from predators. Their hole is about 20 feet behind this photo, at the roots of a large tree.
September 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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mistypup.vtubers.social
I realised the other day that not everybody knows this.

Scroll down through any game listing in the Steam store, and if they've disclosed the use of AI within their game, it'll be above the System Requirements section.

Now you can avoid supporting the use of AI in game development!
Screencap of the AI Generated Content Disclosure above System Requirements in the Steam store.
September 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
kasteron.bsky.social
At least I know he's getting his multivitamin because he wears it on his nose after feeding time
Apollo, a yellow and black spotted leopard gecko, looks head-on into the camera. Only the front half of his body is visible at this angle, and he is standing on a slanted piece of cork bark. Behind him is more cork bark and fake plants. There is an off-white vitamin powder all over the tip of his nose.
September 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
kasteron.bsky.social
Who needs enemies when you have friends who "accidentally" randomly kick you out of the friend group discord server in the middle of a call
September 13, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
doubt it convinces anyone but i like the pro-solar framing that it's better at converting energy than corn. fuck corn, we're kicking corn's ass now
We can and should produce a good deal of our energy from rooftop solar panels and solar canopies over parking lots—but there aren’t enough of them to produce everything we need, and it’s considerably cheaper to use cleared land. Like, for example, some of the fields where we currently grow corn, the most widespread crop in America. And here—as someone who lives in a corn-growing county—is where I want to make an argument that may seem at first blush unlikely: Converting some of these fields to solar panels makes enormous ecological sense. That’s because one way to look at a field of corn (or any other crop) is that it’s already an array of solar panels. A plant is a way to convert sunshine into energy through photosynthesis, which is an enormous miracle—the chlorophyll in the leaves absorbs energy from the red and blue parts of the spectrum, which energizes electrons, moving them to a higher energy state. A miracle—but not a very efficient one. Somewhere between 1 and 3 percent of the sunlight falling on a leaf actually becomes energy. The photovoltaic panel works considerably better: As we’ve seen, the average panel is about 20 percent efficient, and we’re on a course that might someday soon get us to 40 percent efficient. Which means that, say, if you want to use corn to power a car, it takes a lot of it. About 40 percent of America’s corn crop is turned to ethanol—in Iowa, on the richest topsoil in the world, that number is over 60 percent. If you spent a day driving past Midwestern corn fields, mostly you’d be seeing gasoline plants. But, again, inefficient ones: A few years ago, 200 scientists at 31 colleges and universities across Iowa signed a statement noting that a “one-acre solar farm produces as much energy as 100 acres of ethanol.” Or, to do the math in reverse, an acre of corn will produce enough ethanol every year to drive a Ford F-150 pickup about 25,000 miles. But cover that same acre in solar panels and you will produce enough juice to drive the electric version of the same truck—the F-150 Lightning—about 750,000 miles. Or to do the math one more way, you could supply all the energy the US currently uses by covering 30 One truth is, we actually don’t need very much land to provide the energy we need. At the moment, according to Stanford’s Mark Jacobson, fossil fuel infrastructure takes up about 1.3 percent of America’s land area—this includes active and abandoned oil and gas wells and coal mines (since, unlike the sun, these play out, you need new ones every year) and deforested strips for pipelines, power plants, and tank farms. By his calculation, converting entirely to clean energy would use less of the landscape. It depends on how you count it, of course—when Jacobson looks at the acreage of a wind farm, for instance, he includes just the pads for mounting the turbines and the paved roads between them, since everything else can still be farmed. His numbers, across 145 countries: “The total new land area for footprint required . . . is about 0.17 percent” of their territory. By contrast, at the moment the US devotes about 41 percent of its land—both pasture and cropland—to feeding cows. We devote two million acres to golf courses and three million to airports.
September 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
kasteron.bsky.social
A very itchy Apollo before he shed the other day

You can see the progression of the skin layer separating by the color change
Apollo, a male leopard gecko, lays on a grey flat rock surrounded by wood & cork bark pieces. He is preparing to shed, with a transparent whitish look to half his body. Part of his head, tail, and limbs are still their normal darker yellow and black color.
September 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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littlewarblergoods.bsky.social
Share if you love gay marriage or if you like birds 🏳️‍🌈🤝🦜

#birds #lgbt #gaymarriage
Image depicts a row of six colorful birds in rainbow order, featuring a Red-headed Woodpecker, a Varied Thrush, an Evening Grosbeak, a Black-throated Green Warbler, a Mountain Bluebird, and a Purple Martin. Behind the birds, there are white stars. Image depicts a row of six colorful birds in rainbow order, featuring a Red-headed Woodpecker, a Varied Thrush, an Evening Grosbeak, a Black-throated Green Warbler, a Mountain Bluebird, and a Purple Martin. Behind the birds, there are stars with trans flag colors - pink, blue, and white.
September 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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mariesposeets.bsky.social
Punk mergansers! Spread the word! #watercolor #gauche #birds #birdart #art #punk
punk mergansers. One merganser has a PBS Kids shirt.
August 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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xtop.bsky.social
i love birds. they're just weird little dudes who wander around, hang out, have loud conversations with their friends then hit the hay once it gets dark. it's what i imagine retirement being like.
August 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
kasteron.bsky.social
LRP:
throwback to the time when my university did a whole story for their alumni mag about how they had an "ethical ai art" thing (that was trained only on a specific artist's work, with their permission) while minimizing the envtl impacts of ai and lauding their new "center for the envt"
August 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM