Sim Wood
@simtmesiswood.bsky.social
Former blog writer for Bird Buddy, current writer for Owen Deutsch Photography, myself. Bird-obsessed planet lover. Will do eerily accurate Tawny Owl impressions for beer.
Now on Patreon with my own stuff - it's time to thrive
patreon.com/chickennostril
Now on Patreon with my own stuff - it's time to thrive
patreon.com/chickennostril
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Sim Wood
@simtmesiswood.bsky.social
· Jan 6
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Menopausal Missives from a Brit in Slovenia
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2025, year of the Wood Snake: transformation through resourcefulness, folks. I've hidden my writing from myself & the world in folders on hard drives since 1990; it's time. My new page is up. If you like what you see, your support (paid or not) would mean so much.
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New post up on Patreon, in which I whine about getting fit.
As always, everything I post is available to both free and paying subscribers alike. I really appreciate the funds but I confess I get a better buzz of just knowing people are reading my catharsis.
www.patreon.com/posts/124210...
As always, everything I post is available to both free and paying subscribers alike. I really appreciate the funds but I confess I get a better buzz of just knowing people are reading my catharsis.
www.patreon.com/posts/124210...
Replacing the parts we do not need. | Tales From the Chicken's Nostril
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March 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
New post up on Patreon, in which I whine about getting fit.
As always, everything I post is available to both free and paying subscribers alike. I really appreciate the funds but I confess I get a better buzz of just knowing people are reading my catharsis.
www.patreon.com/posts/124210...
As always, everything I post is available to both free and paying subscribers alike. I really appreciate the funds but I confess I get a better buzz of just knowing people are reading my catharsis.
www.patreon.com/posts/124210...
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Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.
February 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.
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Kelly Grenquist, a recently fired Forest Service wildlife technician on Idaho's Payette NF, is set to lose her employee housing. This is what she told me her plan is: "Just start driving until you can be homeless and not freeze to death, and then stop there and see where I can find a job."
February 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Kelly Grenquist, a recently fired Forest Service wildlife technician on Idaho's Payette NF, is set to lose her employee housing. This is what she told me her plan is: "Just start driving until you can be homeless and not freeze to death, and then stop there and see where I can find a job."
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Hello Bluesky! We've just joined and are looking forward to meeting likeminded societies and people!
The LNHS is a local natural history society concerned with recording the wildlife of London, covering a 20-mile radius from St. Paul's Cathedral. #UKWildlife #LondonWildlife
The LNHS is a local natural history society concerned with recording the wildlife of London, covering a 20-mile radius from St. Paul's Cathedral. #UKWildlife #LondonWildlife
February 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hello Bluesky! We've just joined and are looking forward to meeting likeminded societies and people!
The LNHS is a local natural history society concerned with recording the wildlife of London, covering a 20-mile radius from St. Paul's Cathedral. #UKWildlife #LondonWildlife
The LNHS is a local natural history society concerned with recording the wildlife of London, covering a 20-mile radius from St. Paul's Cathedral. #UKWildlife #LondonWildlife
Just confirmed on their Facebook page that Wisdom returned from sea an hour ago to see her chick for the first time, and has been feeding and preening it ever since 😍
Wisdom (Laysan albatross) had another chick on Midway and is at sea reenergizing. Fully hatched 1/30/25; mate caring for chick since. Wisdom returns to Midway to rear chicks for over 74 years. Visit: friendsofmidway.org/.../lay.../w...
#addBirder #seabirds #PapahanaumokuakeaMarineNationalMonument
#addBirder #seabirds #PapahanaumokuakeaMarineNationalMonument
friendsofmidway.org
February 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Just confirmed on their Facebook page that Wisdom returned from sea an hour ago to see her chick for the first time, and has been feeding and preening it ever since 😍
I recently discovered the existence of a bird called Bokmakierie and saying the word makes my heart flush, it's like speaking magic. I don't have a photo of one so instead here's a hoopoe on my neighbour's roof; a similarly lovely word.
#addBirder
#SloveniaBirds
#birds
#addBirder
#SloveniaBirds
#birds
February 5, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I recently discovered the existence of a bird called Bokmakierie and saying the word makes my heart flush, it's like speaking magic. I don't have a photo of one so instead here's a hoopoe on my neighbour's roof; a similarly lovely word.
#addBirder
#SloveniaBirds
#birds
#addBirder
#SloveniaBirds
#birds
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Short story about how fear drives and shame trips up.
Once I was at a gas station, filling my tank and checking my phone for a text from work, and a man at the next pump barked at me to get off my phone before I exploded the whole gas station.
I ignored him, as non-threateningly as I could.
1/?
Once I was at a gas station, filling my tank and checking my phone for a text from work, and a man at the next pump barked at me to get off my phone before I exploded the whole gas station.
I ignored him, as non-threateningly as I could.
1/?
February 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Short story about how fear drives and shame trips up.
Once I was at a gas station, filling my tank and checking my phone for a text from work, and a man at the next pump barked at me to get off my phone before I exploded the whole gas station.
I ignored him, as non-threateningly as I could.
1/?
Once I was at a gas station, filling my tank and checking my phone for a text from work, and a man at the next pump barked at me to get off my phone before I exploded the whole gas station.
I ignored him, as non-threateningly as I could.
1/?
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Excellent thread.
Short story about how fear drives and shame trips up.
Once I was at a gas station, filling my tank and checking my phone for a text from work, and a man at the next pump barked at me to get off my phone before I exploded the whole gas station.
I ignored him, as non-threateningly as I could.
1/?
Once I was at a gas station, filling my tank and checking my phone for a text from work, and a man at the next pump barked at me to get off my phone before I exploded the whole gas station.
I ignored him, as non-threateningly as I could.
1/?
February 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Excellent thread.
A government of billionaires, funded by billionaires, for the further enrichment of those same billionaires. Evil brings men together.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Deaths predicted amid the chaos of Elon Musk’s shutdown of USAid
The impact of the billionaire’s declaration has been swift and brutal, with food and crucial drugs abandoned in warehouses, vital programmes closed and workers laid off
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A government of billionaires, funded by billionaires, for the further enrichment of those same billionaires. Evil brings men together.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼
February 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼
February 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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ATTN: If you work for the FAA and you’ve been asked to halt external engagement with the industry, please contact me. My secure contact info is in my bio.
February 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
ATTN: If you work for the FAA and you’ve been asked to halt external engagement with the industry, please contact me. My secure contact info is in my bio.
New post is up on Patreon. Just a teeny tiny reminder that you can join as a free member to read on, or better yet you can throw your money at me and become a paid member with the assurance that I will only ever spend your monthly £3 / €3 on fallalery and gimcrack.
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Today's post summary: be nice to bar staff | Tales From the Chicken's Nostril
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January 29, 2025 at 5:44 AM
New post is up on Patreon. Just a teeny tiny reminder that you can join as a free member to read on, or better yet you can throw your money at me and become a paid member with the assurance that I will only ever spend your monthly £3 / €3 on fallalery and gimcrack.
www.patreon.com/posts/120952...
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It's either A) not a Nazi salute which was not meant to be a Nazi salute but looks a lot like a Nazi salute, B) a badly done Nazi salute or C) a thing that was supposed to get as close to a Nazi salute as possible but with plausible deniability.
January 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It's either A) not a Nazi salute which was not meant to be a Nazi salute but looks a lot like a Nazi salute, B) a badly done Nazi salute or C) a thing that was supposed to get as close to a Nazi salute as possible but with plausible deniability.
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Geez, there is a whole lot going on in the world right now. Hang in there, people. Please take good care of yourselves and go look at the sky or a bird or the falling snow when you need a moment to breathe.
#birds 🌿
#birds 🌿
January 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Geez, there is a whole lot going on in the world right now. Hang in there, people. Please take good care of yourselves and go look at the sky or a bird or the falling snow when you need a moment to breathe.
#birds 🌿
#birds 🌿
New post on Patreon - it's a smidge sentimental.
I've added a new tier, just a couple more groats a month will get you the unique opportunity to use me as your writing whore. See membership options for details. As ever, even joining as a free member warms my cockles
www.patreon.com/posts/real-w...
I've added a new tier, just a couple more groats a month will get you the unique opportunity to use me as your writing whore. See membership options for details. As ever, even joining as a free member warms my cockles
www.patreon.com/posts/real-w...
The Real World - a death in the family. | Tales From the Chicken's Nostril
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January 13, 2025 at 10:13 AM
New post on Patreon - it's a smidge sentimental.
I've added a new tier, just a couple more groats a month will get you the unique opportunity to use me as your writing whore. See membership options for details. As ever, even joining as a free member warms my cockles
www.patreon.com/posts/real-w...
I've added a new tier, just a couple more groats a month will get you the unique opportunity to use me as your writing whore. See membership options for details. As ever, even joining as a free member warms my cockles
www.patreon.com/posts/real-w...
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2025, year of the Wood Snake: transformation through resourcefulness, folks. I've hidden my writing from myself & the world in folders on hard drives since 1990; it's time. My new page is up. If you like what you see, your support (paid or not) would mean so much.
www.patreon.com/chickennostr...
www.patreon.com/chickennostr...
Get more from Tales From the Chicken's Nostril on Patreon
Menopausal Missives from a Brit in Slovenia
www.patreon.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
2025, year of the Wood Snake: transformation through resourcefulness, folks. I've hidden my writing from myself & the world in folders on hard drives since 1990; it's time. My new page is up. If you like what you see, your support (paid or not) would mean so much.
www.patreon.com/chickennostr...
www.patreon.com/chickennostr...
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My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.
January 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
My own opinion is that it's good to signal (through words and/or actions) the virtues that you value; that's one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy community.
2025, year of the Wood Snake: transformation through resourcefulness, folks. I've hidden my writing from myself & the world in folders on hard drives since 1990; it's time. My new page is up. If you like what you see, your support (paid or not) would mean so much.
www.patreon.com/chickennostr...
www.patreon.com/chickennostr...
Get more from Tales From the Chicken's Nostril on Patreon
Menopausal Missives from a Brit in Slovenia
www.patreon.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
2025, year of the Wood Snake: transformation through resourcefulness, folks. I've hidden my writing from myself & the world in folders on hard drives since 1990; it's time. My new page is up. If you like what you see, your support (paid or not) would mean so much.
www.patreon.com/chickennostr...
www.patreon.com/chickennostr...
I recently met with the lovely Freya McGregor from Access Birding, & we chatted about improving access for all who love birds and why Australians can say the word "wanker" better than anyone else. Unfortunately that last bit didn't make the final piece. Oh well.
blog.mybirdbuddy.com/post/intervi...
blog.mybirdbuddy.com/post/intervi...
September 14, 2023 at 5:12 PM
I recently met with the lovely Freya McGregor from Access Birding, & we chatted about improving access for all who love birds and why Australians can say the word "wanker" better than anyone else. Unfortunately that last bit didn't make the final piece. Oh well.
blog.mybirdbuddy.com/post/intervi...
blog.mybirdbuddy.com/post/intervi...
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RT only if you are NOT becoming more conservative as you grow older.
July 11, 2023 at 12:00 AM
RT only if you are NOT becoming more conservative as you grow older.