JillPDXBirder
jillpiperpunches.bsky.social
JillPDXBirder
@jillpiperpunches.bsky.social
I am a birder and live in Portland, Oregon. I like to travel and learn new things. I support diversity of all sorts. And I am studying 8 languages on Duolingo.
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do you enjoy knowing that when you deposit money in a US bank, you won't lose that money? nice, right?

it's because bank deposits are insured by FDIC.

i don't know what FDIC ever did to these people, but apparently it too is now on their blow-it-up list:

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Banking regulator rescinds more than 200 job offers for examiners it needs
A government-wide hiring freeze is adding to a staffing shortage at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., complicating the agency’s efforts to oversee thousands of banks across the country.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
January 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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This aged well.
Once you realize that Trump isn’t nominating cabinet members to RUN agencies but DESTROY them, it makes more sense.
January 28, 2025 at 4:42 AM
The book I’m reading.
January 25, 2025 at 5:41 AM
I am heartened to read about an insect, the Stick Insect, that was considered extinct was found alive and will be returned to Howe Island where it used to thrive before the introduction of rats.

www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...
Driven To ‘Extinction’ By A Shipwreck, A 2001 Discovery Brought The ‘World’s Rarest Insect’ Back To Life
Considered extinct for over 80 years, a chance find on a sea stack where little survives has sparked hope for the future of the Lord Howe Island stick insect.
www.forbes.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM