Adam Winer
@awiner.bsky.social
Birder (and butterflies), music lover, (indoor) cat scritcher, Jewish dude, cryptic crossword solver, and assorted other interests. 🏳️🌈+🏳️⚧️ ally. he/him.
Today's theme for #birdoftheday is #staredown . No one stares down with more disdain than an owl - here with a twofer from Lanyu Island, Taiwan 🪶
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Today's theme for #birdoftheday is #staredown . No one stares down with more disdain than an owl - here with a twofer from Lanyu Island, Taiwan 🪶
Crabgrass Frontier (perhaps oddly, the most self-radicalizing book I've yet read), and Mason & Dixon (carefully delineating the bounds of my pretentiousness).
alright let’s get something more pleasant going. what two books would you leave out on your coffee table so a reporter can mention you have them. doesn’t matter if you’ve read them. for me it’s Pale Fire (which I did read) and Ulysses (got like 15% of the way in)
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Crabgrass Frontier (perhaps oddly, the most self-radicalizing book I've yet read), and Mason & Dixon (carefully delineating the bounds of my pretentiousness).
#BirdOfTheDay themes of #paddling and #yellow birds, here in one picture - Lesser Goldfinch male, bathing.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
#BirdOfTheDay themes of #paddling and #yellow birds, here in one picture - Lesser Goldfinch male, bathing.
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@alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LunchTime
Here's a Fairy Pitta bringing lunch back to its nest! 🪶 Taiwan, near Budai.
Here's a Fairy Pitta bringing lunch back to its nest! 🪶 Taiwan, near Budai.
November 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
@alan678.bsky.social 's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LunchTime
Here's a Fairy Pitta bringing lunch back to its nest! 🪶 Taiwan, near Budai.
Here's a Fairy Pitta bringing lunch back to its nest! 🪶 Taiwan, near Budai.
November 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Day is almost up, but I can still join the #BirdOfTheDay theme - #rock. So how about two Rock Partridges standing on rocks! 🪶 Gantrisch, Switzerland
November 5, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Day is almost up, but I can still join the #BirdOfTheDay theme - #rock. So how about two Rock Partridges standing on rocks! 🪶 Gantrisch, Switzerland
Post a bird announcing that Dick Cheney is dead. 🪶
November 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Post a bird announcing that Dick Cheney is dead. 🪶
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Hiding .
This Eurasian Bittern did a pretty good job of it - at Katzensee, Switzerland. 🪶
This Eurasian Bittern did a pretty good job of it - at Katzensee, Switzerland. 🪶
October 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Hiding .
This Eurasian Bittern did a pretty good job of it - at Katzensee, Switzerland. 🪶
This Eurasian Bittern did a pretty good job of it - at Katzensee, Switzerland. 🪶
Today's #Birdoftheday are birds at #OddAngles #birdphotography #birds
A Prothonotary Warbler whose world has turned upside-down (literally and metaphorically - it's in California, where it shouldn't be)
A Prothonotary Warbler whose world has turned upside-down (literally and metaphorically - it's in California, where it shouldn't be)
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Today's #Birdoftheday are birds at #OddAngles #birdphotography #birds
A Prothonotary Warbler whose world has turned upside-down (literally and metaphorically - it's in California, where it shouldn't be)
A Prothonotary Warbler whose world has turned upside-down (literally and metaphorically - it's in California, where it shouldn't be)
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AVCX, the world’s finest puzzles and games service, and an independent media venture, has done some really cool stuff this year! A thread to brag (and to hype our mini subscription drive) …
October 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
AVCX, the world’s finest puzzles and games service, and an independent media venture, has done some really cool stuff this year! A thread to brag (and to hype our mini subscription drive) …
Today's #BirdOfTheDay is "Pairs of the Same Birds", from @robcrank68.bsky.social . How about a pair of Eurasian Jackdaws in Bern, Switzerland? 🪶
October 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Today's #BirdOfTheDay is "Pairs of the Same Birds", from @robcrank68.bsky.social . How about a pair of Eurasian Jackdaws in Bern, Switzerland? 🪶
Sure thing @aba.org! Not a lifer lifer, but an ABA region lifer - Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary in Alameda, California. An Asian species, rare in CA. Found by Deborah Crooks two days ago, still here today! (ABA #691) 🪶
October 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Sure thing @aba.org! Not a lifer lifer, but an ABA region lifer - Sharp-tailed Sandpiper at Elsie Roemer Bird Sanctuary in Alameda, California. An Asian species, rare in CA. Found by Deborah Crooks two days ago, still here today! (ABA #691) 🪶
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Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest
Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)
Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion
Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)
Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion
October 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest
Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)
Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion
Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)
Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion
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We are spoiled here in California to share our space with these gorgeous creatures - Red-shouldered Hawk 🪶. The form in California is particularly elegant - so much so it's been considered a possible split as Elegant Hawk (Buteo elegans). This one was especially unconcerned with my presence.
September 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
We are spoiled here in California to share our space with these gorgeous creatures - Red-shouldered Hawk 🪶. The form in California is particularly elegant - so much so it's been considered a possible split as Elegant Hawk (Buteo elegans). This one was especially unconcerned with my presence.
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Zohran Mamdani's team is outstanding. What a brilliant idea.
"Until It’s Done" is new series about New Yorkers, past and present, who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible."
First one is on how Nellie Bly changed treatment of mentally ill people by exposing terrible practices.
"Until It’s Done" is new series about New Yorkers, past and present, who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible."
First one is on how Nellie Bly changed treatment of mentally ill people by exposing terrible practices.
UNTIL IT'S DONE: Nellie Bly
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
youtu.be
September 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Zohran Mamdani's team is outstanding. What a brilliant idea.
"Until It’s Done" is new series about New Yorkers, past and present, who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible."
First one is on how Nellie Bly changed treatment of mentally ill people by exposing terrible practices.
"Until It’s Done" is new series about New Yorkers, past and present, who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible."
First one is on how Nellie Bly changed treatment of mentally ill people by exposing terrible practices.
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We keep wanting things to be true that just aren't true.
We keep saying incorrect things, like, "People get more conservative as they get older!"🤡 When the truth is that US racism is so extreme that it kills off most of the Black Americans before they have a chance to get older.
We keep saying incorrect things, like, "People get more conservative as they get older!"🤡 When the truth is that US racism is so extreme that it kills off most of the Black Americans before they have a chance to get older.
mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)
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I'm going to keep sharing this info until it sinks in.
Young voters do not get significantly more or less politically activated. Voter suppression gets more or less effective. Bal...
hachyderm.io
September 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
We keep wanting things to be true that just aren't true.
We keep saying incorrect things, like, "People get more conservative as they get older!"🤡 When the truth is that US racism is so extreme that it kills off most of the Black Americans before they have a chance to get older.
We keep saying incorrect things, like, "People get more conservative as they get older!"🤡 When the truth is that US racism is so extreme that it kills off most of the Black Americans before they have a chance to get older.
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Sea stars—26 species—have been dying by the billions from Mexico to Alaska, their arms tearing off, their bodies dissolving, w/huge consequences for the sea.
Experts finally figured out why— and gave @biographic.bsky.social exclusive access.
Can we save them? www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
Experts finally figured out why— and gave @biographic.bsky.social exclusive access.
Can we save them? www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
Unmasking the Sea Star Killer
After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?
www.biographic.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Sea stars—26 species—have been dying by the billions from Mexico to Alaska, their arms tearing off, their bodies dissolving, w/huge consequences for the sea.
Experts finally figured out why— and gave @biographic.bsky.social exclusive access.
Can we save them? www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
Experts finally figured out why— and gave @biographic.bsky.social exclusive access.
Can we save them? www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
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Ada Loveland, Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton are the patron saints of programming for good reason.
Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering"; she got told off for it by (male) hardware engineers as they felt it was "inflating her work's importance".
Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering"; she got told off for it by (male) hardware engineers as they felt it was "inflating her work's importance".
Never forgive men for treating programming as a meaningless thing your secretary did while women were inventing and developing the field, then, once they realized it was going to be important, shoving women out of it and claiming only Male Logic Brains could perform it.
Gaslight of the century that we made programming totally inaccessible to huge portions of the population and now we're told that the reason is programming can only emerge from the innate genius of the brilliant few
July 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Ada Loveland, Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton are the patron saints of programming for good reason.
Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering"; she got told off for it by (male) hardware engineers as they felt it was "inflating her work's importance".
Hamilton also coined the term "software engineering"; she got told off for it by (male) hardware engineers as they felt it was "inflating her work's importance".
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Pete Hegseth back on his shit I see
a person is digging a hole in the ground to rescue a dog from a hole in the ground .
Alt: A sheep is rescued from a ditch and immediately jumps back into the ditch
media.tenor.com
April 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Pete Hegseth back on his shit I see
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It's OK if you used to love Harry Potter. There are serious problems with the series, AND there are genuinely meaningful and magical things in it that shaped a lot of us. It's OK to mourn it and not think it always sucked.
But not a dime to that woman EVER again. You HAVE to love trans people more.
But not a dime to that woman EVER again. You HAVE to love trans people more.
April 18, 2025 at 2:05 AM
It's OK if you used to love Harry Potter. There are serious problems with the series, AND there are genuinely meaningful and magical things in it that shaped a lot of us. It's OK to mourn it and not think it always sucked.
But not a dime to that woman EVER again. You HAVE to love trans people more.
But not a dime to that woman EVER again. You HAVE to love trans people more.
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"I took my girlfriend Betsy to Van Cortlandt Lake to see aquatic birds. She couldn’t stand the mallards. She said that a person ought not to look at things like that all day. I didn’t know she’d feel this way about wild ducks." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tax...
Taxi Driver If Travis Bickle Really Got into Birdwatching
I’m watching birds at all hours now. I can see thirty, fifty birds a week, sometimes even more if I don’t put it all in my journal. All the animals...
www.mcsweeneys.net
April 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"I took my girlfriend Betsy to Van Cortlandt Lake to see aquatic birds. She couldn’t stand the mallards. She said that a person ought not to look at things like that all day. I didn’t know she’d feel this way about wild ducks." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tax...
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RFK Jr. is speaking to a specific slice of parents (mostly) who believe their autistic child is not like the autistic people who, for example, post on this app. Those parents are committed to a diagnosis of "profound" autism. They are wrong. Please read this from me and @juststimming.bsky.social
Dividing Up the Autism Spectrum Will Not End the Way You Think
The Lancet’s proposal to create a new label of “profound autism” serves only to distract us from the work of ensuring that all autistic people have everything they need to thrive.
www.thenation.com
April 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
RFK Jr. is speaking to a specific slice of parents (mostly) who believe their autistic child is not like the autistic people who, for example, post on this app. Those parents are committed to a diagnosis of "profound" autism. They are wrong. Please read this from me and @juststimming.bsky.social
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