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masked-ermine.bsky.social
@masked-ermine.bsky.social
I'm an chronic wildlife field technician. I enjoy wildlife photography and watching. I have interests in avian ecology, wildlife biology, evolution and wildlife conservation, as well as paleontology, and other general sciences.
A Paleontological double feature Chimerasuchus put out a new video on a Gorgonopsid.

youtu.be/pYgw3lxAty0?...
Rubidgea: The Most Powerful Gorgonopsian
YouTube video by CHimerasuchus
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
@ydawtheshow.bsky.social put out a wonderful vid on a very interesting under known dinosaur Deinocheirus.

youtu.be/Kye28-iEHpo?...
Deinocheirus - The Hunchbacked Mega Goose
YouTube video by Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Townsend's Solitaire! #birdwatching #birds #CBC
December 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Got a county record for Eurasian Tree Sparrow today!
December 6, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I see we're in Dromaeosaurid with broken wrists part of the country.

#theropod #dinosaurs #raptors

@ydawtheshow.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
He's making his list, checking it twice
Doesn't care if you attacked Rana 3,
or were in some other part of the territory
Santa Douwd is coming to town!

He knows if you're on homeworld
or on a starship far away.
He knows if your Huznok or not
So better not be for survival's sake!

#StarTrek #TNG
November 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Don't kink shame #hornbills...

#Crush #birds
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I have many regrets, more than I should in fact, this is not one if them... #barredowl #owl #LukeCallen last one was probably a stretch... #PopeLeo.
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
NBC News: how did this pig end up running free on the highway?

Me: Well, you start giving them badges and they think they can do anything...
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Can I reiterate that Hallmarks pandering view of rural life, particularly farming and ranching is really grossly wrong, patronizing and annoying....
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Every time we have to argue for WIC or SNAP I just lose my mind a little more. I just fundamentally don't agree that people should have to work to eat and it feels ridiculous to have to argue with people who think our labor matters more than our lives and wellness.
November 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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"Those words - I want you to be famous for those words. I want people to call you 'Officer Smell the Onions and the Mustard.' I want children laughing outside your door because they've found the house of 'Officer Smell the Onions and the Mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Means testing inevitably costs more money than it saves eliminating "fraud", and denies people who should be eligible due to bureaucratic issues, misfiled forms, errors, etc.

Same goes for drug testing, where 9 times out of 10, a spouse/relative has a stake in the no-bid contracted testing company.
Anyway, SNAP should be universal. Just like school lunches in NYC. Not everyone needs it to survive but everybody gets it, no means testing.

There should also be a lot fewer regulations on what you can buy with SNAP and discounts, not bans, on hot prepared foods.
November 3, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I think what a lot of people chaffe against when it comes to a universal safety net (whether that's health, education, income, food, housing) is....who do you punish and castigate as lay abouts when everyone is afforded comfortable living standards as a right.
October 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A family group of Sandhill Cranes were downed by a rainfall event found this morning....
October 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
There aren't reindeer in Vermont, Hallmark....ugh I hate your movies...
October 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I love that Bluesky's algorithm cant tell the difference between #astronomy and astrology so I keep getting crazy star sign bullsit in my feed.
August 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This isn't a mugshot of me...but this meme was just me about 50 minutes ago.

#wildlife #gay #biologist #glasses #bears
August 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Never understood the 'I don't want #hawks attacking my #backyard feeders' crowd. YOU CREATED THIS SITUATION! THIS IS WHAT YOU ULTIMATELY ASKED FOR AND CONSENTED TO WHEN YOU PUT UP FEEDERS AND DECIDED TO INCREASE THE DENSITY OF THE PREY SPECIES POPULATION IN YOUR BACKYARD!! #birds #birdwatching
August 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Nakt'♤♡Uylvch the Headless Unliving Immortal Paradox and Horror of the Near End Times of this Fleeting Existence?
August 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
In response to @hankgreen.bsky.social 's video about how the same Devonian trees have nearly killed the Earth potentially twice.....
July 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
After three nights of this fucker not, you know, overflowing with effluvium...the wound tonight decided to just pump out shit...prompting me to now be awake at 5AM, changing my bedding and re-gauzing my wound... I hate this....I hate this...
July 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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People love to tout "you need therapy" and "you need medication" as if any of that shit is cheap and easy to obtain.
July 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The most frustrating thing about my whole experience with this abscess and my gp... Is that if the ARPN had just said, I'm referring you to the wound clinic...this could've been done either on Day 1 or at least a week ago...instead she made it seem like the abscess wasn't ready....
July 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM