Wind-Bird
@windthebirb.bsky.social
Bird dude • 31 • Linguistics researcher • Vegetable enthusiast • 🇫🇮🇸🇪🇬🇧 • pfp by BubiMilk • birb suit by Geckoworks Fursuits
Well this is pretty neat! A conference is being advertised in the Karelian language. This must be the first time I come across a real, organic text in Karelian, and not just random example phrases.
(dw, the message is public information, so I’m allowed to share. Not being unprofessional here!)
(dw, the message is public information, so I’m allowed to share. Not being unprofessional here!)
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Well this is pretty neat! A conference is being advertised in the Karelian language. This must be the first time I come across a real, organic text in Karelian, and not just random example phrases.
(dw, the message is public information, so I’m allowed to share. Not being unprofessional here!)
(dw, the message is public information, so I’m allowed to share. Not being unprofessional here!)
Winter running season officialy started today, which my frosty beard can attest for!
It’s kind fun to run in the winter/cold, because it gives it more of a resource management aspect. You can’t breathe too heavily in the cold, so you have to mange your pace more carefully
It’s kind fun to run in the winter/cold, because it gives it more of a resource management aspect. You can’t breathe too heavily in the cold, so you have to mange your pace more carefully
November 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Winter running season officialy started today, which my frosty beard can attest for!
It’s kind fun to run in the winter/cold, because it gives it more of a resource management aspect. You can’t breathe too heavily in the cold, so you have to mange your pace more carefully
It’s kind fun to run in the winter/cold, because it gives it more of a resource management aspect. You can’t breathe too heavily in the cold, so you have to mange your pace more carefully
Salted peanuts.
Ingredients: peanuts.
May contain: peanuts.
Ingredients: peanuts.
May contain: peanuts.
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Salted peanuts.
Ingredients: peanuts.
May contain: peanuts.
Ingredients: peanuts.
May contain: peanuts.
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Say hello to my boyfriend 🦌❄️
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Say hello to my boyfriend 🦌❄️
Today was the first time over a span of 11 years of reading academic texts I encounter the f-bomb being dropped in an academic, peer-reviewed paper, not as a quote or interview transcript, but as the authors’ actual words, at face value.
Well done Bucholtz, M. & Hall, K. (2004)!
Well done Bucholtz, M. & Hall, K. (2004)!
November 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Today was the first time over a span of 11 years of reading academic texts I encounter the f-bomb being dropped in an academic, peer-reviewed paper, not as a quote or interview transcript, but as the authors’ actual words, at face value.
Well done Bucholtz, M. & Hall, K. (2004)!
Well done Bucholtz, M. & Hall, K. (2004)!
Something really enshittified, predatory and dodgy about Apple is that every time you search the app store, the first result is an ad for something SIMILAR to what you searched for but IS NOT what you searched for.
Are you trying your best to facilitate scams and preying on vulnerable users, Apple?
Are you trying your best to facilitate scams and preying on vulnerable users, Apple?
November 12, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Something really enshittified, predatory and dodgy about Apple is that every time you search the app store, the first result is an ad for something SIMILAR to what you searched for but IS NOT what you searched for.
Are you trying your best to facilitate scams and preying on vulnerable users, Apple?
Are you trying your best to facilitate scams and preying on vulnerable users, Apple?
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Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵
One particular, classic instance of tetanus polygon 3D cutscene:
Death cutscene!
(feat. maximally goofy “OKAY” by the characters at the end)
Death cutscene!
(feat. maximally goofy “OKAY” by the characters at the end)
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
One particular, classic instance of tetanus polygon 3D cutscene:
Death cutscene!
(feat. maximally goofy “OKAY” by the characters at the end)
Death cutscene!
(feat. maximally goofy “OKAY” by the characters at the end)
There are only two genders (of late 90s video game cutscene):
- Endearingly clunky pre-rendered 3D with about seven polygons and animations that have tetanus
- Endearingly cheesy live action video with about five pixels on the screen and sound coming from a tin can
- Endearingly clunky pre-rendered 3D with about seven polygons and animations that have tetanus
- Endearingly cheesy live action video with about five pixels on the screen and sound coming from a tin can
November 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
There are only two genders (of late 90s video game cutscene):
- Endearingly clunky pre-rendered 3D with about seven polygons and animations that have tetanus
- Endearingly cheesy live action video with about five pixels on the screen and sound coming from a tin can
- Endearingly clunky pre-rendered 3D with about seven polygons and animations that have tetanus
- Endearingly cheesy live action video with about five pixels on the screen and sound coming from a tin can
Turning the plentiful and edible but forgotten and underutilised wild lake fish often considered ”trash fish” by hobby fishers into a convenient and accessible product?
This is the way to go!!
Stop buying imported farmed salmon every time, buy domestic fish instead! Our lakes are full of fish! 😤
This is the way to go!!
Stop buying imported farmed salmon every time, buy domestic fish instead! Our lakes are full of fish! 😤
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Turning the plentiful and edible but forgotten and underutilised wild lake fish often considered ”trash fish” by hobby fishers into a convenient and accessible product?
This is the way to go!!
Stop buying imported farmed salmon every time, buy domestic fish instead! Our lakes are full of fish! 😤
This is the way to go!!
Stop buying imported farmed salmon every time, buy domestic fish instead! Our lakes are full of fish! 😤
Waiting for the night train to take me home, feeling very Kaurismäki-esque… 🔊
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Waiting for the night train to take me home, feeling very Kaurismäki-esque… 🔊
Visiting Kokkola. Apparently Kokkola is night city (but a small town pohjanmaa-version).
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Visiting Kokkola. Apparently Kokkola is night city (but a small town pohjanmaa-version).
No, I don’t want to “save” as to some nebulous online location I have no idea if I can reach or not next time I open my laptop.
I want to SAVE the file. On my computer. And USB stick.
(I know “download” is right there, but I WILL bitch and moan when “save” doesn’t mean properly saving anymore 😤)
I want to SAVE the file. On my computer. And USB stick.
(I know “download” is right there, but I WILL bitch and moan when “save” doesn’t mean properly saving anymore 😤)
November 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
No, I don’t want to “save” as to some nebulous online location I have no idea if I can reach or not next time I open my laptop.
I want to SAVE the file. On my computer. And USB stick.
(I know “download” is right there, but I WILL bitch and moan when “save” doesn’t mean properly saving anymore 😤)
I want to SAVE the file. On my computer. And USB stick.
(I know “download” is right there, but I WILL bitch and moan when “save” doesn’t mean properly saving anymore 😤)
I’m in this picture and I like it
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I’m in this picture and I like it
*sigh*
Who put a fish as their lock screen image again?
Who put a fish as their lock screen image again?
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
*sigh*
Who put a fish as their lock screen image again?
Who put a fish as their lock screen image again?
Update: (because I forgot earlier) The egg did not stick! In fact, the force of a bubble erupting from underneath it had the entire egg hop up from the depression in the pan for a fraction of a second, so you can say it did the opposite of sticking. ✨👌
Finally got to restoring the old cast iron pancake pan that was a rusty mess after decades in a shed and a few months out under bare sky.
Testing if I got the surface done right. One singular egg. Will it stick?
Testing if I got the surface done right. One singular egg. Will it stick?
October 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Update: (because I forgot earlier) The egg did not stick! In fact, the force of a bubble erupting from underneath it had the entire egg hop up from the depression in the pan for a fraction of a second, so you can say it did the opposite of sticking. ✨👌
So I made a sort of placeholder AD account since I like having an acc for horny things, but twitter became basically unusable.
Don’t know yet what I’ll post, or when, but feel free to follow if you like!
@windafterdark.bsky.social
Don’t know yet what I’ll post, or when, but feel free to follow if you like!
@windafterdark.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
So I made a sort of placeholder AD account since I like having an acc for horny things, but twitter became basically unusable.
Don’t know yet what I’ll post, or when, but feel free to follow if you like!
@windafterdark.bsky.social
Don’t know yet what I’ll post, or when, but feel free to follow if you like!
@windafterdark.bsky.social
Finally got to restoring the old cast iron pancake pan that was a rusty mess after decades in a shed and a few months out under bare sky.
Testing if I got the surface done right. One singular egg. Will it stick?
Testing if I got the surface done right. One singular egg. Will it stick?
October 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Finally got to restoring the old cast iron pancake pan that was a rusty mess after decades in a shed and a few months out under bare sky.
Testing if I got the surface done right. One singular egg. Will it stick?
Testing if I got the surface done right. One singular egg. Will it stick?
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3 and a half years of isopod rolling down big hills!
Isopod is finally coming out tomorrow!
store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...
Isopod is finally coming out tomorrow!
store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...
October 20, 2025 at 5:48 AM
3 and a half years of isopod rolling down big hills!
Isopod is finally coming out tomorrow!
store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...
Isopod is finally coming out tomorrow!
store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...
Last night I dreamt I was playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3, but then the game turned into Age of Empires 2, and then it suddenly got some game mechanics from Age of Wonders, and then suddenly some from Empire Earth.
Obviously my subconscious thinks I should play ~25 year old strategy games. :D
Obviously my subconscious thinks I should play ~25 year old strategy games. :D
October 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Last night I dreamt I was playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3, but then the game turned into Age of Empires 2, and then it suddenly got some game mechanics from Age of Wonders, and then suddenly some from Empire Earth.
Obviously my subconscious thinks I should play ~25 year old strategy games. :D
Obviously my subconscious thinks I should play ~25 year old strategy games. :D
Okay well… there seems to be attempts!
October 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Okay well… there seems to be attempts!
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Lorne the Locust, Advocate of Rot
retouch/repost of an older drawing
retouch/repost of an older drawing
October 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Lorne the Locust, Advocate of Rot
retouch/repost of an older drawing
retouch/repost of an older drawing
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Computer!! It can make fish?? !? ?
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Computer!! It can make fish?? !? ?
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Years of scientific studies have shown that these are the different types of yeens there are. Both Triangle Ones and Raisins can be more wimpish or wompa.
A wimpy-wompa is a perfect in-between.
There might be ones that fall outside of this spectrum, expect more info from respected sources soon.
A wimpy-wompa is a perfect in-between.
There might be ones that fall outside of this spectrum, expect more info from respected sources soon.
October 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Years of scientific studies have shown that these are the different types of yeens there are. Both Triangle Ones and Raisins can be more wimpish or wompa.
A wimpy-wompa is a perfect in-between.
There might be ones that fall outside of this spectrum, expect more info from respected sources soon.
A wimpy-wompa is a perfect in-between.
There might be ones that fall outside of this spectrum, expect more info from respected sources soon.