[gross bugs] Welp. I definitely have a cockroach allergy. Whenever I have a GIANT sneeze, there's a "water bug" nearby. The previous time it jumped out of a sink drain at me. This time I hear it scratching nearby bur can't find it to kill it. ☹️

Lunch break!

Tried to photograph a crow in the garden using the zoom on my new phone and got a rather exciting action shot

Thanks for all the fish, Douglas.

This is why I lose it for geese on streets. you dont get the full foot shot on grass. big shot potential.

And at the time, most white people called them terrorists and demanded that they be executed or imprisoned forever. Just something to remember.

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Emu surprise

Here is a nice floor.

lake forever problems for now

Nothing but blue skies

look how they zoom around!!! 🥺🥺🥺

My favorite mother’s day cartoon from the stupendous @rosemarymosco.com

Crows going nuts, dive-bombing the top of a pine. First 6 then 12 then 24. A gigantic red-tailed hawk emerged, crows swarming, pulling wing feathers and tail. Hawk dropped a large rabbit with a loud thud on the neighbors roof. Now the crows are celebrating like they just won the World Series.

Happy Mother's Day to people who never had a mom, had an abusive mom, lost their mom, had to cut their mom out of their life, or their mom left. And especially to people who had to be their own mom. The world will forget you exist today but I truly never do.💕

Baby dinosaur duet. 🪶 🐣

If I have learnt anything over the past six years it is to never underestimate the number of people that would hide a zombie bite

"that's not your coworker. That's an autistic person." This makes it sound like your coworker was kidnapped and replaced by a pod person; and this whole post is a PSA on how to identify & defend yourself against autistic people. And I kinda love that.

"Rude" questions I have asked at work: - Where did this idea come from? - Why does it have [x problem]? - Couldn't we do X instead? like in hindsight I get it, but these were all genuine questions 😭

Further to this- in cases of actually having to tell someone they're wrong, asking them questions to try to figure out how they got there so you can correct what went wrong in their process ("Can you tell me how you got there?", "How did you make that decision?) are read as additional scolding

"Why are you doing that?" or "Why are you doing it like that?" Neurotypicals often think they mean "What you are doing is wrong." or "The way you are doing it is wrong." rather than just "I want to understand your actions." It's also why they think you answering those questions is "talking back".

that's not your coworker. That's an autistic person. Not sure? Try asking her a question and see if she answers it literally. Still unsure? Try answering one of her "rudest" questions as though she means it literally. If she gets really happy and then goes straight back to work, she's autistic.

If your coworker is: - really confident about her work but otherwise consumed with self doubt - always trying to dig into and rebuild work processes even though her job has nothing to do with processes - always ducking out of social events after exactly one hour...

new friend 2: electric boogooseloo

new friend 🥰

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

OMG THE GOSLING SESSION OF MY LIFE! Over 50 of them!! I got so much footage and I'm totally exhausted. I'm gonna call it, double check for some ducks, then head home to rest up for an afternoon common gallinule sesh. Here's my final little guy. More posts later. 🪶 🐣

May 9 is World Migratory Bird Day, honoring the feathered warriors who travel thousands of miles from wintering grounds in the south to their breeding grounds in the north. The longest migration? The Arctic Tern's flight from Antarctica to the Arctic breeding grounds is ~22,000-30,000 miles.

Being socially awkward and/or anxious is great because you can be comfortably articulate with a perfectly passable vocabulary online or in writing - verbose, even! - and the second you're physically in front of another human it becomes "I good! How you? Hurm brrrrrpbrraarrghh"

Cis people: normalize introducing yourself with your pronouns. If only trans and gnc people do it, we're outing ourselves. If we don't, we accept getting misgendered. And when cis people do it, it acclimates other cis people to the practice and makes it safer for trans and gnc people.

Incredible turnout at the Black Zine Fair in Brooklyn. Still two more hours! blackzinefair.org

Hello everybody, I want to believe just as much as anybody else does but I really need to tell you that in my 10+ years of experience as a disinformation expert, the only reason UFO shit gets put out by the government is to distract you from other really bad things

Interesting sounds coming from Lincoln Park Zoo

Researchers Find Crows Smart Enough Not To Let On How Smart They Really Are https://theonion.com/researchers-find-crows-smart-enough-not-to-let-on-how-s-1844081510/

Hot off the press. A well referenced high quality statement from the International Hantavirus Society. High level: - Andes strain is different - some spread will occur - pandemic potential is tremendously low - lots to learn - what happens next is up to us zenodo.org/records/2007...

Wet. Fluffy. Gosling. 🪶 🐣

Rich is not a protected class. It is not immutable. Don't want to be treated like a parasite on the civic body? Don't act like one.

This week has been hell. Between the needle poking (iron infusion), two nights of horrible insomnia and sleep dep (side effect) water bug jump scare in my kitchen drain (gah!!!), and nonstop relentless urgent work, I am at a level of tired and crabby that I rarely experience.

Oh, one more common denominator? Yes, they were all white and cis. They also all ran their legal questions by AI first.

Hell, someone told me today I should call the media because they legitimately thought they were the first people in US history to have their constitutional rights violated. I swear to G-d they thought it had never happened before. And I really think this is a big factor in why we're here.

If we're to have any shot of getting out of this, I really need my fellow white people to get past our apparently hardwired belief that something being illegal means it's impossible. Because I keep having the same conversation over and over again.

we don’t talk enough about how Chicago is the most gorgeous city in the country

Ravi!! Hi buddy, I know that look. The bowl is empty. I was waiting for yo to show up, honest! 🪶

Sometimes the most fun bird you see on a given day is just a chicken on the loose. :) #birds

Or explaining things and being told you're just make excuses.

Being autistic is asking a clarifying question and being told you’re just looking for an argument.

It reminds me of this photo from Baton Rouge. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taking_...

People are comparing this photo to the 60s when most of you were actually alive in the 2020s when young Black people have essentially had to confront white cops in this same way.