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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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sarahgailey.bsky.social
Today's Love Letter is a stunning meditation on birdwatching and the loss of a friendship, from the one and only @amalelmohtar.com

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Why I Need the Birds
A Love Letters Feature by Amal El-Mohtar - November 2025
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November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay: let's go with #Sparrows

There's the relatively shy Savannah Sparrow, the extremely shy Lincoln's Sparrow (inexplicably showing up in downtown Vancouver) and, quite rare on the West Coast, an American Tree Sparrow

#photography #birds
A Savannah Sparrow seen at about eye level, perky and facing camera right A Lincoln's Sparrow up in a tree, in the shade An American Tree Sparrow on the gravelly ground
November 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends

Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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scalzi.com
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
Not really my heart
Just somebody's heart
This year
If the cops should appear
Please tell them that you don't know me
December 4, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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rosemarymosco.com
As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
A six-panel comic. In the first panel, a yellow warbler says "Hey so I'm going to go out on a limb here." In panels two through five, the warbler hops along a long branch against a blue sky with clouds. In panel 6, it stops at the end of the branch and sings.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
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November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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#BirdOfTheDay: #warblers

Here's a Blackpoll Warbler, immature or nonbreeding female. And far out of its normal range: it should have benn on its way to the Caribbean but somehow found itself in the trees right outside my window!

-- Vancouver, BC. November 2024

#photography #birds
A Blackpoll Warbler -- a small bird with mostly olive colouring, a more yellow chest, partial white eyerings and darker grey wings with sharp white wing bars -- is up in a tree looking down A Blackpoll Warbler -- a small bird with mostly olive colouring, a more yellow chest, partial white eyerings and darker grey wings with sharp white wing bars -- is up in a tree looking out A Blackpoll Warbler -- a small bird with mostly olive colouring, a more yellow chest, partial white eyerings and darker grey wings with sharp white wing bars -- is up in a tree spreading one wing wide A Blackpoll Warbler -- a small bird with mostly olive colouring, a more yellow chest, partial white eyerings and darker grey wings with sharp white wing bars -- is up in a tree with wings partly extended and head twisted around
November 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Hi folks - we’re still behind on rent, and we need to get a partial payment to our landlord today to keep him from taking action. Any help is massively appreciated. Thank you all for the help you’ve given so far. ❤️

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November 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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FOLKS: I'M INSANELY FAR BEHIND ON THE NOVEMBER FUNDRAISER AND TIME IS RUNNING OUT RAPIDLY, SO IF YOU *CAN* MISS ANY AMOUNT: PAYPAL IN BIO. HELP.
standplaatskrk.pl Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 22d
I am acutely aware of the effects of the GOP starvation campaign and I want to make it crystal clear that if you are in any financial dire straits I want you to always prioritize yourself, your loved ones and your community!

Only give if you can miss it without any worries!
Carcassonne bathed in rainbow light.
November 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Todd Stashwick (Captain Liam Shaw) thanked Chicagoans for their work defending their neighbors on stage at the Chicago Star Trek convention. He was interviewed by Chicago podcaster Nick Sarantos (host of Dibs), who wore one of @reforest-kelley.bsky.social's Trekkies Against Fascism shirts on stage.
November 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay: #Mr&Mrs

Here are Hooded Mergansers swimming together, Wood Ducks preening together, and House Finches cheeping together

#photography #birds
A Hooded Merganser couple swimming along. Browning vegetation in the background is reflected in the water A Wood Duck couple on a branch, with only water in the background. They are both vigorously preening themselves A male and female House Finch up in a tree, surrounded by greenery. They are looking in the same direction, about camera right
November 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
us.theconversation.com The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 5d
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay: #GroundedGulls

A very unimpressed and wind-ruffled Ring-billed Gull

-- Iona Beach Regional Park, August 2023

#photography #birds
A Ring-billed Gull stalking a muddy beach, with a lot of ruffly feathers
November 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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snarkysteff.bsky.social
Hilarious. This town in northern BC, about 650 KM/400 miles north of Vancouver, has launched this hysterical advertising campaign to get new residents and attract new talent —

"Kitimat — it's not for everyone."
Kitimat, BC: It’s Not For Everyone...
YouTube video by Kitimat Bound
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November 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay: a smorgasbord of local #Thrushes:

A Varied Thrush, an American Robin, a Hermit Thrush, and a Swainson's Thrush

#photography #birds
A Varied Thrush on a rock with water in the background. It is backlit by the sunset, looking very gold An American Robin on a wooden post, it back to me but head turned to look to the left A Hermit Thrush on a twig surrounded by reddening fall foliage. Its back is to me, showing off its reddish tail and rump, and its head is turned to the right A Swainson's Thrush hiding in a green bush
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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November
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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I’m howling.
Recently, Clifford "Buzz" Grambo decided to upgrade his electric scooter. The old one he had purchased online only reached 16 mph and wasn't cutting it anymore. He needed to go faster to keep up with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement cars he chases around Baltimore. So, Grambo bought a Segway MAX G3, which features a 2,000-watt motor and can get up to 28 mph. "The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was," he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. "They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!"
November 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Present tense: Seahorse Past tense: Sawhorse
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay: #Round birds.

A Golden-crowned Sparrow gazing at the sunset, full of herbs and veggies -- ƛ̓éxətəm (Tlahutum) community gardens, November 2022

A Dark-eyed Junco taking a break from demolishing some seed pods -- Reifel Bird Sanctuary, January 2025

#photography #birds
A Golden-crowned Sparrow on a wooden fence. The light is a bit dim and golden from sunset A very fluffy Dark-eyed Junco sitting on some bare branches, surrounded by seed clusters of some kind, which is has clearly been eating
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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#StareDown is the theme for #BirdOfTheDay today, so I could not resist sharing this pic again. A Bohemian Waxwing at Brandon Marsh near Coventry in February 2024, who seemed to be giving me a hard stare that Paddington would be proud of.

#Birds #BirdPhotography #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin 🌿
A Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus) perched on a twig, looking directly at the photographer (me!) with what seems to be a very stern look on his or her face. The bird has a pinkish-coloured chest, a whitish belly, black wings with white markings, black legs and feet, a tail which is red below a yellow tip, a tuft of pinkish-coloured feathers on the head which are a richer reddish-brown colour at the base (just above the eyes), black eye-stripes, and a large black throat patch.
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay theme: #StareDown

Here is a female Wood Duck trying to hypnotise me

-- Reifel Bird Sanctuary, June 2023

#photography #birds
A closeup of a female Wood Duck looking at me dead on. Background is greyish
November 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay theme: #ShadesOfGrey

- an Eastern Kingbird at ƛ̓éxətəm (Tlahutum) Regional Park (Aug. 2023)
- a Hooded Crow in Vienna (May 2023)
- a White-breasted Nuthatch in Ottawa (January 2025)

#photography #birds
An Eastern Kingbird, a small bird with white chest and throat, and dark grey wings and head, is sitting atop a bush, with muddled bokeh green in the background A Hooded Crow -- a regular-looking crow with light grey back and belly is standing on the grass, its back to me but turning its head to the right A White-breasted Nuthatch (white face, dark slightly upturned bill, patterned grey wings) is clinging to a bare tree with its tail up
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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kaylmao on tumblr: "the public transportation pervert gets off at every stop"
November 16, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay #CootsAndMoorhens

Various views of American Coots, including their sexy coot feet and one instance of Coot Drama(tm) where they're chasing each other just because. Plus one Eurasian Moorhen in Prague

#photography #birds
Close up of an American Coot head and bill Closeup of an American Coot's sexy feet An American Coot flap-running over shallow water An Eurasian Moorhen calmly swimming surrounded by debris
November 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Thank you James!

555/3000
A foggy mountain landscape in hard strokes.
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM