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Reader, Birder, Herper, Guy
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Birder, music omnivore/record dork, photographer, backpacker, husband, father, non-scowling atheist, radical left maniac. Technologist to support the family and the filthy habits outlined above. Instablock: hot chicks w/no posts; crypto/LLM cheerleaders.
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Is he… coming onto Mark Kelly?
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Now playing: Mecht Mensch - Anthology LP (2025, No Coast). This service to society has been in the works for decades, and hey, here it is! Their “Acceptance” 7” EP is absolute peak HC with a fine level of Flipper damage. The LP adds comp tracks and their side of the split cassette with Tar Babies.
Record sleeve with a black background and crudely hand-lettered all caps band name in white, and the title in a little white box with black lettering. It’s pretty much identical to the cover of the Acceptance 7” EP.
November 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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My two cents’ worth on the Aurora Borealis. Eastern El Paso County, Colorado.
A night sky, brilliantly lit up in washes of red and green.
November 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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now playing: The Necks - Disquiet CD (2025, Northern Spy). Currently in the midst of the brain-breaking rhythmic fuckery of Disc 2. #nowplaying #theforbiddenformat #recordsthegoodkind
A slipcase CD cover. The cover art is a sepia-ish photo of plants in a greenhouse, with the band name and title in small, black sans serif font. A light from behind the photographer glares on part of the slightly glossy surface, and the CD cover leans against a preamplifier with a wood case and black face.
November 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Bananaquit (Coereba flaviola intermedia), Mirador Rio Blanco, Los Bancos, Pichincha, Ecuador. October 2025. 🌿🪶 #birds
#birding
#nature
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#photography
#birdsseenin2025
A very small bird perched amid some braches looks at the camera. It is bright lemon-yellow underneath, with black legs, curved bill, mask, and cap. It has a grey throat and a white "eyebrow" stripe, and its wings and tail and dark brown.
November 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza exsul) male, Mirador Rio Blanco, Los Bancos, Pichincha, Ecuador. October 2025.
#birds
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A thrush-sized bird with body and wings in a shimmering metallic light green, the wings a bit less metallic; a black hood, reddish eyes, and a yellow lower bill with black top.
October 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Plate-billed Mountain-Toucan (Andigena laminirostris), Guaycapi Lodge, Pichincha, Ecuador, October 2025. 🌿🪶

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#toucans
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A medium-sized bird with a brownish-green body; black tail; gray throat; black neck and cap; yellow and green kin on its face; large, dark-brown eye, and an enormous bill in brick red and black, with yellow, almost rectangular "plate" on the side squats down on a moss-covered branch.
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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The entire country’s gone woke!
A sign for a product called Wokies, behind a purple sign for Quito.
October 16, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus), El Paso County, Colorado, October 2025. Every spring and fall migration, we get one hanging around our yard for a few days. Not a perfect photo, but I think it's a very fun one. 🌿🪶

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A songbird in mid-bounce toward the camera, with pale green blurry leaves all around it. Its pink legs and claws hang below its white belly with lines of black speckles; its upper parts are grey-brown, with a paler grey ring around its eyes.
October 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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What exactly is up with the orange person’s legs in this illustration? Was this LLM-generated?
October 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Question: is it legal to wear you military uniform to perform “leadership consulting”?
A woman in a military flight suit stands in front of a whiteboard, gesturing toward an invisible audience.
October 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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This skidmark and broken bit of retaining wall in my neighborhood is about 5 feet off the ground. That must have been some ride.
September 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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‘Tis the time of year when old male Tarantulas’ thoughts turn to love. Aponopelma sp., Pueblo County, Colorado, USA, September 2025.
A spider the size of an adult’s hand walks toward the camera, crossing a paved road with the setting sun behind it. It is mostly dark brown, with reddish hairs on its abdomen.
September 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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@theatlantic.com This is your cover in the Fall of 2025? This is a deeply unserious idea, hardly worthy of a dorm-room convo after five rounds of bong hits.
September 18, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Now playing: Birchville Cat Motel - Vespertine CDR (2000, Last Visible Dog). This one has thus far escaped disc rot and three children going through the terrible twos. Four-track hovering mystery at its finest. #recordsthegoodkind #nowplaying
CD booklet art: a white field, mostly covered with small, evenly spaced and sized dots. The bottom 1/8th is just white, and says ‘vespertine’ in lowercase sans serif font to the upper right of the white space.
September 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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When I eat a bagel with capers, I cannot fail to think of the Birthday Party song, Rowland S. Howard’s voice intoning “caaay-puhs.”
A toasted bagel with a few bites taken out of it. A bit of cream cheese, some slices of red onion, and a few capers peek out of the hole at the center.
September 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Seems legit.
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September 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Cooper's Hawk (Astur* cooperii) juvenile, El Paso County, Colorado, September 2025. This was shortly after it caught and ate a Blue Jay out of our backyard.🌿🪶 *They just got a taxonomic update.

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A slender, medium sized hawk perched on a dark-grey branch in front of green foliage, looking slightly upward. It had mostly brown wings and head, with belly and thighs white with brown streaks. The legs and feet are yellow, as are its eyes and the cere (base of its bill); the rest of the bill is black.
September 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Now playing: Biota - Biota LP (1982, DYS). The most alien of soundtracks.
Record sleeve with a brown field and a pencil drawing of a head somewhat like the Eraserhead baby’s, tiny slits for eyes. No text.
September 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Duh, forgot the photo.
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Now playing: Au Pairs - Diet/It’s Obvious 7” (1980, 021/Human). #nowplaying #recordsthegoodkind #singlesparty
Record sleeve leaning against a turntable with a black plinth. The sleeve is a pale pastel blue with pinkish lettering and similarly pinkish images of roses at the mid-to-lower right corner.
September 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) juvenile with beetle prey. Pueblo County, Colorado, August 2025. There were at least a dozen shrikes in about a half-mile stretch of the road I was on when I snapped this one. 🌿🪶

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#woodpeckers
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A small, grey-and-white bird with a black "mask" and black witngs and tail, perched on a barbed-wire fence strand with a small black beetle in its bill.
September 1, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Zoë did not get into the Japanese food containers, and frankly is offended you even asked about the soy sauce stain on her right eyebrow.
A dog with mostyly white fur, with a reddish-brown stain in the fur above her right eye.
August 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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If you live in Colorado, know that Steve Schuck is a suppurating boil and a menace.
August 31, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Meet Will Chamberlain, the Human Doily.
August 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM