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Coral, yr Bird Friend
@parodybit.bsky.social
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Friendly tech and bird nerd; also a librarian, engineer, & data munger, currently a web dev & systems admin for an academic library. Very caffeinated. 🌶️🧠, chronically ill, immunocompromised. #CovidIsntOver so #MaskUp
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Now we’re hanging out
Same bird, now preening his feathers on the shoulder of a grinning human. Two large bird cages are visible behind them.
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Pumpkin doesn’t hate the moving process
A lutino cockatiel on a pile of cardboard and packing paper. He looks quite pleased with his surroundings.
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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what movie villain is a horrible "person", but an absolute joy to watch on screen?
Loki from Marvel saying “Satisfaction is not in my nature.”
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Important Pittsburgh-area news!

(I bet they freeze pretty well, y'all.)
Looking to have a Gobb party? Save the day with a mini Gobblerito tray!
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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The squirrels at Ontario Beach Park will walk right up to you and shake you down for anything edible you might be carrying.
A squirrel perched on the back of a park bench, preparing to come closer and demand a snack. A very round squirrel sitting cutely on the ground, not plotting any food heists at all. Same squirrel holding something that looks suspiciously like a fry in its hands. A squirrel who appears to be a respectable distance away, nearly the full length of a park bench. It maybe has a little snack in its paws.
November 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Went out and saw a bit of Rochester today. Mostly only got photos of roses and squirrels, though 😂
A partially unfurled rose with a butter yellow center and bright pink edges on its outer petals. Another rose with a similar color scheme, but there is more pink, which turns darker at the very tips of the petals. Look, I have a type, y’all. Another in the same theme, but with an overall slightly more orange feel to it. It’s also a more petite bloom all around. This one is mostly a coralish pink, with a few yellow streaks. Like the first, it isn’t fully unfurled.
November 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Did women ruin the workplace?
Bronze statue of a naked Medusa with a sword, carrying the head of Perseus.
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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I propose the Stop Listening To Computer Guys Challenge. (Difficulty: apparently fucking infinite.)
"I don't think AI is going to put lawyers out of business, but I think lawyers who use AI will put those who don't use AI out of business. And I think you can say that about every profession,” Hany Farid, professor of computer science at UC Berkeley.
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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in awe of "WTF Just Happened Today"
A very long sentence describing the regime's behavior yesterday, ending with the following text, highlighted: "a Wyoming man who helped convince the world to invade Iraq on the false pretense that “there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction” (he didn’t), that Iraq had “reconstituted nuclear weapons” (it hadn’t), and that Americans would be “greeted as liberators” (they weren’t), died November 3, 2025, at 84 from pneumonia and heart complications."
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Apple's "MFA" always cracks me up
Website says "Two-Factor Authentication: enter the verification code sent to your Apple devices." A pop-up sits in front of the website, with the code that's needed. (It also says "Don't share it with anyone," but the thing is, I'm already authenticated, well before I send this screenshot to you.)
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Whoo, GCCs’ beaks are bigger and more powerful than cockatiels’, so we just had a scare, trying to find the amethyst that perfectly fit into a little beak (because it would be very bad for him to swallow it).

But all is well. (Except this ring, it’ll never be the same, lol)
A ring that’s meant to have three gemstones, but the center one, which is purple, has been popped out somewhat violently. It is in frame (and not in a bird’s digestive tract).
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Im also being super normal with my cousin (redacted name is of my abusive ex step father, not to be confused with my dad’s husband who was a delight)
Received text: Do you have any interest in old hard copy photos of yourself I salvaged from aunties? Sent text: Yes, please! And if you see any of my dad that are in OK enough shape to keep, I’d also love to have those. (Not [redacted], though. Burn any photos he was in, and throw salt on the fire’s ashes.)
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Happy Halloween!
A selfie of two people, one in an inflatable frog costume and the other in a cape with a hood pulled over a crocheted Medusa hat. They are chilling (literally, it’s cold and wet out) under the overhang of a hatchback.
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Offering him a bath (in a bowl where it would be comfortable) seems to have prompted him to take a bath (in his water bowl, which is a little too small for the purpose, but he made do)

I’d really like for him to stop over-preening; fingers crossed that this solves it
A wet cinnamon green-cheeked conure.
October 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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A baby is all packed up for his big vet checkup. I’m gonna owe him so much millet
A cinnamon green-cheeked conure in a bird carrier. A sparse sprig of millet is visible on the floor, but his attention is entirely on the human who won’t let him out, even though he wants out.
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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So far Tutu is a perfect little gentleman with a promising demeanor for an office bird
A cinnamon green-cheeked conure on a shoulder, looking a little like he’s smiling. He has some feather pins and looks a little thin maybe. Same guy, different pose, very cute.
October 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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The newest family member is very popular, Dale’s already in love too.

This is Tutu, renamed half a consonant off of the name my mother gave him (💩), so I can look a vet in the face while saying it.

He let me give him scritchies 🥹
A cinnamon green cheek conure looking winsomely out from a cage. Same bird, hanging on the inside of the cage, showing off his tummy. Still looking at the camera.
October 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004,following six young adults -- Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe -- living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
The cast of "Saved by the Bell."
October 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Open Budget Forum (the meeting I’m listening to and trying desperately to keep up with) Little Guy
A creature with squirrel and capybara vibes, made out of sparkly blue Play Doh.
October 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Workout downloading new pics, what is it like to date you?
Barbie Dream House up on wooden legs with a sign that says “beware the baba yaga!”
October 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Yesss the cozy times are coming
Every day in the weather forecast until Saturday night is partly cloudy or rainy, lows in the high 30s/low 40s and highs in the 50s.
October 22, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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I like how spooky these grasses sound when they rub together (not sure the video will capture it), and also when they just. stop.
October 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Correction: ALL software engineers are skeptical.

Some developers of low-to-middling talent are not.

(I can say that; I consider myself a developer of low-to-middling talent, which I make up for by being, also, an actual engineer and good at communication.)
Tech CEOs say the era of 'code by AI' is here. Some software engineers are skeptical. News : NPR. by Huo Jingnan.
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Trapped under a happy bird. (He’s grinding his beak and I think one foot may have disappeared into the void)
A poorly framed selfie showing a sleepy lutino cockatiel on a shoulder. The human’s face is barely in frame but the half-visible eye is crinkled in a smile. A couple of large bird cages are visible in the background, one with a grey cockatiel inside.
October 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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women don't like the vehicle
A red illustrated Richard Scarry car with a family of four pigs in it.
October 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM