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Incapable of shutting up about owls. Queer neurodivergent leftist millennial. I make art sometimes (not as often as I want to). Expect cat photos (her name is June). Wildlife rehabilitator & educator. Unreasonably goofy.
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Not to be all “omg millennials look soooo young teehee” or anything but I did just get asked, a month before my 39th birthday, what I am majoring in. Dude should definitely get his eyes checked but I’ll take it anyway 😂
November 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Not to be all “omg millennials look soooo young teehee” or anything but I did just get asked, a month before my 39th birthday, what I am majoring in. Dude should definitely get his eyes checked but I’ll take it anyway 😂
Also this morning on the way to work I watched a Bald Eagle snatch a dead squirrel off the road and carry it off while being chased by several crows. Quicker than waiting in line at Dunkin I guess 🤷🏻♀️😂
October 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Also this morning on the way to work I watched a Bald Eagle snatch a dead squirrel off the road and carry it off while being chased by several crows. Quicker than waiting in line at Dunkin I guess 🤷🏻♀️😂
I wasn’t kidding about this btw. That one job didn’t pan out but I’m now working at UMaine in Orono, just moved here last week, drove from Santa Fe by myself (with my cat), currently living with aforementioned bff. Hell yeah.
Visited (or drove/flew through, mostly) 14 states in the past week. Best trip ever except for the part where I had to leave my best friend’s new house in Maine and fly back to New Mexico. Already have one job app submitted in Bangor, will do everything to get back there asap 🥲
October 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I wasn’t kidding about this btw. That one job didn’t pan out but I’m now working at UMaine in Orono, just moved here last week, drove from Santa Fe by myself (with my cat), currently living with aforementioned bff. Hell yeah.
Started a new job recently, and I’m now realizing that I’m gonna have to get used to being expected to awwww over photos of people’s dogs and kids instead of cats and wildlife. I’m not a hater I’m just not actually interested in dogs or children and I’ve never had to fake it before 🫤
October 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Started a new job recently, and I’m now realizing that I’m gonna have to get used to being expected to awwww over photos of people’s dogs and kids instead of cats and wildlife. I’m not a hater I’m just not actually interested in dogs or children and I’ve never had to fake it before 🫤
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Don't you dare put that baby in pelican mouth.
September 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Don't you dare put that baby in pelican mouth.
Keeping my mouth shut about this on other platforms bc I wanna Let People Enjoy Things but this feels more like shouting into a void so: OH MY GOD SHUT UP ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT WHO FUCKING CARES HOLY SHIT SHE SUCKS SO SO SO HARD
She’s not deep or special she’s just another boring-ass rich white lady
She’s not deep or special she’s just another boring-ass rich white lady
October 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Keeping my mouth shut about this on other platforms bc I wanna Let People Enjoy Things but this feels more like shouting into a void so: OH MY GOD SHUT UP ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT WHO FUCKING CARES HOLY SHIT SHE SUCKS SO SO SO HARD
She’s not deep or special she’s just another boring-ass rich white lady
She’s not deep or special she’s just another boring-ass rich white lady
In case anyone needs an 18-second distraction and/or mental health boost, here’s June getting lost in the sauce (the sauce being Churu)
September 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
In case anyone needs an 18-second distraction and/or mental health boost, here’s June getting lost in the sauce (the sauce being Churu)
Last night I found a paper I wrote in grad school, about 15 yrs ago, about ways to assess and improve students’ access to sex education materials in Indiana secondary school libraries.
That paper would look awfully different if I wrote it now, and not in ways I might have thought. 🫠
That paper would look awfully different if I wrote it now, and not in ways I might have thought. 🫠
August 4, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Last night I found a paper I wrote in grad school, about 15 yrs ago, about ways to assess and improve students’ access to sex education materials in Indiana secondary school libraries.
That paper would look awfully different if I wrote it now, and not in ways I might have thought. 🫠
That paper would look awfully different if I wrote it now, and not in ways I might have thought. 🫠
💯💯💯💯💯!!! It takes so much more than love and passion to care for animals. It even takes more than money (often in short supply). You HAVE TO have proper training, skills, depth and breadth of knowledge, ethics, oversight, support, infrastructure, certifications/licenses, etc, etc, etc
Loving animals does not necessarily mean you are qualified to care for said animals, in the case of many a viral exotic animal “rescue.” The average social media viewer does not understand that what they’re seeing is animal abuse because they don’t know how to identify it
June 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
💯💯💯💯💯!!! It takes so much more than love and passion to care for animals. It even takes more than money (often in short supply). You HAVE TO have proper training, skills, depth and breadth of knowledge, ethics, oversight, support, infrastructure, certifications/licenses, etc, etc, etc
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all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard
June 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard
Hey if you must bring your loud anxious dog into a public place (and here’s an idea: don’t), perhaps don’t bring them into a tiny waiting room and just stay there while they bark and growl anytime something happens. You can, and should, fuckin Leave
June 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Hey if you must bring your loud anxious dog into a public place (and here’s an idea: don’t), perhaps don’t bring them into a tiny waiting room and just stay there while they bark and growl anytime something happens. You can, and should, fuckin Leave
June 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
It was kind of a ripoff of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with an unreasonable number of Monty Python references and a very “awkward teenager” title (“Sanity is Never a Good Thing”). Writing it was a blast though and I still quote parts of it to myself occasionally haha
so, to the writers... what was the terrible novel you wrote at 14? Mine was about a redhaired freedom fighter called Eleanor Sunstripe
June 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
It was kind of a ripoff of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with an unreasonable number of Monty Python references and a very “awkward teenager” title (“Sanity is Never a Good Thing”). Writing it was a blast though and I still quote parts of it to myself occasionally haha
I’m sitting here eating a Klondike bar and, apparently, about to find out what my cat would do for one
June 10, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I’m sitting here eating a Klondike bar and, apparently, about to find out what my cat would do for one
Big long birding day today. 40 species! I don’t have a real camera so these photos I took with my phone through binoculars will have to do. Very cooperative Green Heron model, plus a bunch of nesting Double-crested Cormorants! Northern New Mexico, USA
May 31, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Big long birding day today. 40 species! I don’t have a real camera so these photos I took with my phone through binoculars will have to do. Very cooperative Green Heron model, plus a bunch of nesting Double-crested Cormorants! Northern New Mexico, USA
Finally saw some Horned Larks today!! Plus Common Nighthawks, Black-crowned Night Herons, a Lark Sparrow, various other neat birds, and a bat (not sure what species though, maybe big brown?) 😍 Video is shit quality but features a lark yelling a lot
May 29, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Finally saw some Horned Larks today!! Plus Common Nighthawks, Black-crowned Night Herons, a Lark Sparrow, various other neat birds, and a bat (not sure what species though, maybe big brown?) 😍 Video is shit quality but features a lark yelling a lot
Opened facebook after being out birding and thought someone was reporting some kind of weird coot or cormorant
May 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Opened facebook after being out birding and thought someone was reporting some kind of weird coot or cormorant
My cat, who once grabbed a fly out of the air to eat it and once nearly started a fight with an enormous centipede on the bookshelf, is staring at the floor slow-blinking at a bug
May 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
My cat, who once grabbed a fly out of the air to eat it and once nearly started a fight with an enormous centipede on the bookshelf, is staring at the floor slow-blinking at a bug
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Maybe it will help a _little_ if I and others like me start saying publicly for the record that we just don’t use ChatGPT.
Writing can be really hard — organizing a piece of writing can be especially hard — but I don’t use ChatGPT.
If you read my stuff you’re reading something an LLM can’t do.
Writing can be really hard — organizing a piece of writing can be especially hard — but I don’t use ChatGPT.
If you read my stuff you’re reading something an LLM can’t do.
May 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Maybe it will help a _little_ if I and others like me start saying publicly for the record that we just don’t use ChatGPT.
Writing can be really hard — organizing a piece of writing can be especially hard — but I don’t use ChatGPT.
If you read my stuff you’re reading something an LLM can’t do.
Writing can be really hard — organizing a piece of writing can be especially hard — but I don’t use ChatGPT.
If you read my stuff you’re reading something an LLM can’t do.
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“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing
May 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing
Comms professional here, and YES. Also, lots of people - many of them intelligent and competent in other ways - are not skilled in writing, so LLM text output may sound downright eloquent compared to what some professional adults can come up with, even if it’s actually incorrect or meaningless.
As a comms expert and socialist, my grand theory of LLMs/Copilot/etc is that the reason people look at the garbage these machines produce and go "this looks plausible and coherent" is because a huge amount of the text humans produce in their actual jobs is *also* insubstantial waffle 🧵
April 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Comms professional here, and YES. Also, lots of people - many of them intelligent and competent in other ways - are not skilled in writing, so LLM text output may sound downright eloquent compared to what some professional adults can come up with, even if it’s actually incorrect or meaningless.
Would really appreciate it if news outlets would stop including “photo of screaming child receiving a vaccine” in articles about the current measles outbreak in my state (and others). It’s dangerous visual messaging and perpetuates fear of lifesaving medical care.
April 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Would really appreciate it if news outlets would stop including “photo of screaming child receiving a vaccine” in articles about the current measles outbreak in my state (and others). It’s dangerous visual messaging and perpetuates fear of lifesaving medical care.
Went out birding with my mom while my parents were in town last weekend, and she let me try out her camera (my first time with a real - not cell phone - camera). I’m nitpicking this shot now of course but I’m also proud of it as a first attempt! Canyon Towhee with nesting material, Santa Fe NM
April 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Went out birding with my mom while my parents were in town last weekend, and she let me try out her camera (my first time with a real - not cell phone - camera). I’m nitpicking this shot now of course but I’m also proud of it as a first attempt! Canyon Towhee with nesting material, Santa Fe NM
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i applied for another job i would be perfect for that 10,000 other people are also applying to please clap
April 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
i applied for another job i would be perfect for that 10,000 other people are also applying to please clap
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Polymorphism: my latest Birdword comic for Cornell Lab.
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March 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Polymorphism: my latest Birdword comic for Cornell Lab.
www.allaboutbirds.org/news/birdwor...
www.allaboutbirds.org/news/birdwor...