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kirsten4813.bsky.social
@kirsten4813.bsky.social
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Wanted to be an evolutionary biologist focusing on bird flight, but life took a turn. Now, I satisfy my curiosity here, learning about science, arts, philosophy and history. She/her
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kirsten4813.bsky.social
Taking a break from the wind at the no kings protest in Denver. Nice fall day of libations and liberation
A glass of Chardonnay wine on a table next to a silver gray cap with sequins. The hat has a button pinned on front that says NOPE in white letters on a black background. And the side is another button that is too blurry to read, but it says "I read banned books." In the background is an out of focus gray patio couch and some orange, pink, & yellow flowers. Red brick building form the back drop.
October 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
kirsten4813.bsky.social
Denver is really chilly with the wind today. Dress warm & come join us 🚫👑✊🐸

#NoKings
The gold dome of the CO State Capitol is shining in the sun against a mostly blue sky. The American & CO flags are on a pole at the top the building are waving in the wind. A crowd of patriots are in the foreground all the way up the steps of the Capitol smiling and waving signs. Unseen are the protesters behind me and folks are still coming
October 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
kirsten4813.bsky.social
That would be awesome!! I'm American and I'm much happier when we have our fox around than when we don't. Are there rabbits on the rooftop over there? Birds, likely.
A gangly red fox stands on a trampoline in our backyard. I'm at my back door and zoomed in so that the fox is centered in the photo. This fox was 1 of 2 kits. The other was just chilling in the grass. Let me know if you want a picture of that one too. Judging by the angle of the shadows across the trampoline, I'd say that this was taken in the morning. The fox is backlit so it's glowing a little, particularly it's not yet poofy tail. The fox is almost entirely red except for it still has some of it's black "baby" fur and a little white under it's chin. In The bottom right corner is a bluish gray cushioned lawn chair that we use to take off our shoes before jumping. The background is mostly greenery with a little of the backlit trampoline net showing. The fox is framed in the zippered door. It was probably up their smelling my pup. Let me know if you want to see pictures of her too insert cheesy smiley face emoji here
June 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
kirsten4813.bsky.social
Someone was handing out these posters at the Capitol today
A poster with a bright yellow background with the words, "No ice in CO" spelled out in big red capital letters. In the center is a drawing of Blucifer shooting lasers out of his blood red eyes towards a block of melting ice with fire on top. For those of you who are unaware, Blucifer is a giant blue stallion statue with red eyes that used to be at DIA and is now down in Colorado Springs (I believe.)
June 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
kirsten4813.bsky.social
Liberty and Justice for ALL!!! All means all. This was my favorite picture from the #NoKingsRally in Denver.

#Resist #50501Movement #NoKings
A picture of the Colorado Court of Appeals building built with gray stone. A balcony juts out over the front door with gold letters on the side that says, "LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL." There's 4 large columns holding up the balcony that are prominently shown in the lower half of the picture. An American flag is flying in the wind is in the lower left corner of the picture. That was held up by a protester, not a flag pole but you can't see the person. All of that is in front of a brilliant blue sky.
June 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
kirsten4813.bsky.social
My husband wanted to spray the ants in the backyard and I completely wigged out! I will not be actively poisoning my flickers.
A Northern Flicker perched on the edge of a Birdfy feeder. This is a large woodpecker with grayish buff breast with black spots. They have a black necklace or collar or whatever birders call it and a red spot on their cheek. The flicker's long bill has a little bit of seed hulls on the end of it from digging around in the feeder looking for the good stuff. While they occasionally visit a sturdy feeder, they are most commonly seen in my backyard digging for ants & other bugs.
April 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
kirsten4813.bsky.social
Denver, CO @maddow.msnbc.com
A picture of the protest in front of the Denver Capitol building taken as we were leaving the steps of the Capitol to go March. In the forefront is a variety of people carrying spicy signs and US flags because they are the real patriots. Most people are wearing jackets because in Colorado, a little chilly weather doesn't keep us from showing up. Up the hill, there is a stately evergreen, just to the left of the gold dome of historic Capitol in the background. The sky above is mostly cloudy in this picture, but we got some sunshine throughout the day.
April 20, 2025 at 3:50 AM
kirsten4813.bsky.social
Denver, CO
Hands Off protest in Denver on the steps of the Capitol. The foreground shows many people with signs in front of the Capitol building with it's gold dome against a grey sky
April 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
kirsten4813.bsky.social
No cheating, post the last picture of your pets.
A blonde fluffy poodle Chihuahua mix named Roxie sitting inside the house with the screen door in front of her. Her eyes are squinty, but not from the sun. She really wants to be outside at all times and is probably wondering why we were so unbelievably mean to not let her out with us. For the record, the back gate was open. She had to wait 10 minutes 🙄
March 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
kirsten4813.bsky.social
Lol, well a significant chunk of my gallery happens to be low quality wild bird pictures. I got a birdfy feeder for xmas and now I'll have to figure out storage for a gazillion more low quality vids.
March 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
kirsten4813.bsky.social
My neighbor across the street fosters dogs. That's where we got this little love muffin
A blonde bombshell Poodle Chihuahua mix named Roxie, casually laying on a light turquoise shag pillow on a light gray couch under dappled light. She looks more like her poodle side, but more fuzzy than curly. She is, in fact, adorable.
March 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
kirsten4813.bsky.social
Aww...so cool of them to do that. Here's my local flicker
A front view of a flicker perched on the edge of a birdfy bird feeder
February 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
kirsten4813.bsky.social
That's awesome! I had an elderly neighbor behind us who had gigantic, out of control junipers that a fox lived in. Looks like his kids just cut the whole thing down and I haven't seen our fox since. This is my fave pic of it
A fox sitting in snow by a fence near a small leafless ginkgo tree.
December 27, 2024 at 1:44 AM
kirsten4813.bsky.social
My son took this one by just putting the glasses over his cell phone camera
October 14, 2023 at 5:08 PM