I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

tornado siren in detroit!

from year to year i have only ever seen drab yellow bay-breasted warbler female / juveniles.. today a full-color male set up in my neighbor's oak tree and i spent all day trying to get this one decent shot, finally he provided #birds 🪶

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

busy day in the graveyard! #birds 🪶

a donkey is inside another donkey

honk if literally any context is precious

i heard the nashville warbler singing from the tree out front, didnt expect to find the black-throated green hanging out with him #birds 🪶

It’s David Attenborough’s 100th birthday today! One of my few genuine heroes. [reuters.com]

suddenly catbirds everywhere #birds 🪶

chipping sparrow FoY #birds 🪶

white-crowned sparrows visiting the yard today

The double rainbow over Hamtramck, MI right now. The sunset angle is making it extra intense

"The crash occurs when we find out how much consumers value AI when they have to pay the full sticker price for the unsubsidized products." Bingo @davekarpf.bsky.social

junk shop / coffee shop, i already have the name: One Man's Trash

just got around to confirming - red-tailed hawks nesting in the next alley over for the fifth consecutive year (since i got here) #birds 🪶

Alan Moore on now.

The Southfield pizzeria is offering free slices on Friday.

if you want someone to run some aspect of your affairs you go out and hire a guy and hope that they're honest and competent. tomorrow you can spend that money or more on an "agent" and hope that, putting aside its total functional amorality, that it isn't being paid to intentionally scam you

idk who made this but i love it (seen on fb bird misidentification group)

the boys are back in town #birds 🪶

in hindsight (ahem) this series had a run of tom-of-finland-quality cover art, 100% nude men wrestling

there was a drive-by shooting outside taqueria cancun just as i was picking up my burrito, whole restaurant hit the floor and i ducked down behind the jukebox for a minute, cooks completely unfazed and kept working, and then i sat down and ate my burrito

www.axios.com/2026/04/26/a... this is one reason I am skeptical that the goal is efficiency/cost savings when "not having to deal with pesky workers who want stuff" and "keeping capital circulating among companies rather than ordinary people" are right there

but if you're in narok, eat at joek's

obviously not a great pic, but.. fish crows at st clair metropark! #detroit #birds 🪶

a swan guards its precious treasure #birds 🪶

Listen, they are building concentration camps and threatening genocide against a country of 90 million people. There is not a single remotely legal tactic that is impermissible when it comes to stopping them.

Instead of sparkling water, he now spouts red blood.

See these people sitting on either side of Slusser's photograph? They were in it. Adhikari found them - and now they got to see their protective goddess come home.

"Workers of the world, unite"

Bow to the machine that, if it works as directed, will destroy your way of life; and whether it does or does not work as directed, your boss will use it to try to destroy your way of life.

RETVRN www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Anb...

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate. Taxing billionaires is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

Repeating "Oh no. Toilet" to myself all day.

I put on the mask so everyone else can take theirs off

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

ICE has come for Hamtramck. Be on the look out.

Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests—attended by 300k despite being banned—was a turning point in his authoritarian grip of the country. Queer people are always leading the fight against authoritarianism, as we are often its first targets. Never cower to fear.

if you see this post, post an image you saved because it made you laugh

pacific loon in milliken harbor! #detroit #birds 🪶

eastern towhees on belle isle are a real once-a-year type of guy for me, and i guess today is the day #detroit #birds 🪶

Gut Shabbos and Shabbat Shalom to everyone but especially to them.

Off the Exchange with Sir J. Cutler and Mr. Grant to the Royall Oak Tavern, in Lumbard Street, and here drank a sort of French wine, called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.

lots of hermit thrushes today! still no warblers yet tho

i just opened merlin app and saw that today's bird of the day is yellow-bellied sapsucker and thought 'there is no way i will see one today', and literally as i had that thought, dude landed right in front of me #birds 🪶

When I worked in restaurants if you wanted to become the general manager you had to do shifts in every job in the place, from dishwasher to prep cook to bar back to ensure that you understood how the entire business functioned. Zohran is like this, but for NYC!

eastern phoebe on the riverwalk #springtime #detroit #birds 🪶