Notice I'm getting some new follows from what appear to be middle aged men with way more following than followers and few posts. Clicked on who they're following, and it's a sea of middle aged white women like me. Is it the profile pics, or other piece of data? Are they bots, or real life scammers?

Ms Cardinal would like a word. Mr Cardinal looks like he's auditioning for the cover of @amalelmohtar.com and @maxgladstone.bsky.social 's sapphic time-traveling assassin banger, This is How You Lose the Time War, and a squirrel. Being evil. #Birds 🪶

Yesterday: no interesting #birds. Accidentally splurged on black oil sunflower seeds because my spouse did bad math and today, things got fun at the feeder! Cheap seed was a merry go round of sparrow, cardinal, squirrel. Today I spotted finches, juncos, chickadees, and jays back in rotation.

Squirrels being terrifying monsters.

Who says the females are less pretty? #Birds

Black capped chickadee, being adorable #Birds

Four views of a cardinal #Birds

Jay vs Jay #Birds

Hey! Calling all Wonder Women! We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit. 50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.

What are you reading? The sharks and I are reading Bleak House w #APSTogether, just finished Absolute Wonder Woman, which I LOVED, with its big mythic witchy Circe vibes, and just started Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum by Sarah Hendrickx #FridayReads

My #lastfourwatched was a real rollercoaster: House, Strange Days, Last Starfighter, and Escape to Witch Mountain. Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Loved House; it's bonkers in the best ways.

The cardinal would like to have a word, the chickadee is pondering the seed choice, the lumpy cardinal is pondering immensities, and the squirrel is there to steal everyone else's food. #Birds 🪶

Sharing this here now because I promised I would and I shared it earlier this week in my newsletter and we're half full already.

My prayer is that our city will again find our true north that protects and restores a democracy that affirms dignity, safety, and opportunity for everyone who calls Minneapolis home.

Hey. Batgirl says, what's your plan to vote? Print out a sample ballot, visit @naomikritzer.bsky.social 's blog naomikritzer.com/2025/10/31/e... and go vote if you haven't! I ranked Dewayne, Omar, and Jazz for MPls mayor and am so hopeful for new leadership!

Spiky cardinal, silhouetted sparrow, and sneaky squirrel today at the feeder. #Birds

Lumpy male cardinal in Hannah mode, hunkered down in the feeder. #Birds

Down, up, left, right. #Birds

Reading Undead and Unwed by @samtschida.bsky.social on a cold rainy All Saints Day, wearing a shark suit, hanging out with some Blahaj friends and other sharks

She and he, posing prettily #Birds 🪶

Bird tails. Can you tell the male from the female cardinal? Reveal in the alt text. #Birds 🪶

#Birds being little weirdos

Preening sparrow and the backend of a mystery visitor (that's a blue jay, right?) #Birds

Some dark-eyed junco action at the feeder, plus a squirrel taunting me. #Birds

The shiver is very excited about Undead and Unwed by @samtschida.bsky.social --perhaps they smell blood? A nice balance to Bleak House by Dickens with #APSTogether, sadly over on Nazi Substack and not Bluesky. It's a fun #FridayReads What are you reading and enjoying?

Happy #LetterboxdFriday and here are my #LastFourWatched Kind of a tone switch in there.

Cute sparrow and presumptuous squirrel #Birds

Cardinal, preening #Birds

you can't stop us mom WE'RE IN LOVE

A cardinal and some squirrel nonsense. #Birds

Hey, some different visitors today! A dark-eyed junco and a black capped chickadee (the latter three, I think. The feeder cam couldn't identify them)

A borb and the squirrels are taunting me. #Birds

Happy Saint Crispin's Day to all who celebrate. Branagh's Henry V was my gateway for the film and Shakespeare nerd I am today. That speech, that music? They'll never not move me.

Chonky boi #Birds

Too many have died. Let us keep fighting so more may live.

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao and Bleak House by Dickens #FridayReads what are you reading this week?

Whoops, it's almost the end of #LetterboxdFriday and here were #lastfourwatched Some real ringers this week; the last three were all first watches!

Everything's fine, very chill then OMG! #Birds

My first blue jay! Sparrow, female cardinal, and squirrel monster. #Birds

I think these are all the same round boi #birds

I don't get a lot a lot of variety, but at least it's not squirrels. #Birds

Behold, a male cardinal on four separate visits, who my Bird Buddy can't identify, but I can. He likes to sit lumpishly in the feeder, street watching. Should I call him Jabba, or Lumpy? #Birds 🪶

After every slow start or setback, the question always is: am I gonna quit? The answer is always: nope.

Watching Bakeoff meringue week and am low key trauma watching. I have sensory issues w meringue and egg whites, and rhubarb. Like a horror show. #gbbo

Sparrow posing prettily, squirrel in monster chaos mode. #Birds 🪶

Sometimes having a Bird Buddy means pretty shots of pensive #Birds Look at that 🪶 pattern! Often, it's squirrels being terrifying monsters.

I have to go to work, but be safe out there today.

Hey #LetterboxdFriday is almost over and these were my #LastFourWatched Not a lot of happy marriages in this bunch