RE: https://mastodon.social/@potterybyosa/116420910568634628 <3

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/116420964349627179 Truth

RE: https://sfba.social/@jeridansky/116418904520954499 Yup that is what the week was like. Wish we could filter it all out in real life.

Great blue heron making like a tall weed at Pt. Reyes https://www.flickr.com/photos/armadillosoft/5627703370/in/album-72157626516366362/ #otd 4/16/11 #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #abirdaday (or more)

RE: https://sfba.social/@NorcalGma2/116412122626507951 <3

RE: https://mastodon.social/@joewo/116410985559172777 GOP: Deportation for thee, hegemony for me.

RE: https://mas.to/@Jgbird/116411623513255542 #birdsofmastodon

So Christ-like. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

BERNIE: “The time is long overdue for members of Congress to listen to the American people and end US military aid to the extremist Netanyahu government.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sharp-shinned hawk, I think, over the prairie https://www.flickr.com/photos/armadillosoft/51123515626/in/album-72157718970010847/ #otd 4/15/21 #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #abirdaday (or more)

Senate GOP Blocks War Powers Bill For Fourth Time - Joe.My.God. https://www.joemygod.com/2026/04/senate-gop-blocks-war-powers-bill-for-fourth-time/

RE: https://aus.social/@mojo/116407507469867036 Not going to happen but would be nice

Buffleheads flying over Mavericks https://www.flickr.com/photos/armadillosoft/48118774322/in/album-72157709227713212/ #otd 4/14/19 #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #actionshot (fuzzy) #abirdaday (or more)

RE: https://sfba.social/@NorcalGma2/116405050007975779 <3

To nobody's surprise, they will burn all their satellites up in the atmosphere, because that's what all the cool kids do. They don't actually say their operating lifetimes anywhere. But if they're 5 years like Starlink, then that's a bit more than one […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Trying to edit a stupid FCC comment on Yet Another Fucking Stupid Orbital Data Center (fuck you, Blue Origin) and I need to go outside and rage-scream for a while. And I have an easily accessible hayfield to rage-scream in!! (Also maybe baby goats, I'll check for those too #babygoatcountdown)

Here is Patti Smith performing Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain Gonna Fail" at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in Stockholm. Despite (or perhaps because) Smith stumbled on the words occasionally - she said she was very nervous - It was an incredibly moving performance. In the video, you see at least […]

RE: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-ea53c609-0c84f80fb87efa10 Must read

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/116403496936316605 We should all take this approach.

Meanwhile, in Houston, gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa is talking about Greg Abbott trafficking people into Texas’s private prisons and detention centers so that his donors will profit, and I really appreciate her for it.

So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East. Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at […]

Climate scientist Kate Marvel became one of more than 10,000 professionals with doctoral degrees in the sciences to leave the federal workforce when she resigned from her position at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies last month. “I’m leaving because I want to tell the truth,” her […]

Accidents will happen By Australian cartoonist Mark David from Independent Australia https://volewica.blogspot.com/2026/04/accidents-will-happen.html

If you're in the Sacramento area you could be in Ang Lee's next #movie #filmsky

Incredibly cool cabinet doors. (Perhaps a little dangerous, but so is all great art.) https://www.core77.com/posts/139182/Simon-Lindbergs-Insane-Kinetic-Cabinet-Doors RT @martinus https://mastodon.art/@martinus/116385857807077368

Black-bellied plover at Mavericks https://www.flickr.com/photos/armadillosoft/8648479397/in/album-72157633241119509/ #otd 4/13/13 #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #abirdaday (or more)

Across the Caribbean and Latin America, something extraordinary and shameful is unfolding. On Friday the Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez accused the US of “extorting” countries by forcing them to cancel decades-old deals with Havana for the supply of doctors Cuban doctors, emissaries of […]

What you may not know is that this was drawn 6 years go today by Marc Murphy. It was rejected and called unfair and alarmist.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/116396818411325783 <3

Goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis, 🇩🇪 Stieglitz/Distelfink, 🇵🇱 szczygieł). #birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki

RE: https://mastodon.social/@NEBylines/116398619029763333 Good news. #birdsofmastodon

2 Thess 2:3b-4 (3b) "...the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, (4) who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.

Baptized and confirmed as an Episcopalian, raised as an atheist, identify as a pagan—and ready to follow Pope Leo into battle…

Blue-winged teal couple at Baylands https://www.flickr.com/photos/armadillosoft/48099222986/in/album-72157709178303721 #OTD 4/12/19 #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #abirdaday#otd(or more)

And now 1 week into birding, I have found 40 total species, and just got my first ever bird in flight shot! And got a pileated woodpecker as well as a red-headed woodpecker on my latest excursion! Taken on a A7C + 200-600mm

Long-Tailed Tit on a Branch with Lichen I've been spending some time in random London local nature reserves. Sitting and listening, and in fifteen minutes you spot countless species. This one was in Ham Lands Local Nature Reserve near Teddington. #london […] [Original post on phpc.social]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@davew/116364412797818090 {{{ hugs }}}

Windy days are bad crest days but are good days to be the king of the tree top. #stormhour #birds #birding #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #photography #alttext

Went birding today #silentsunday #naturephotography #birding

RE: https://toot.wales/@Greenseer/116370198839988620 <3

RE: https://toot.wales/@Greenseer/116384981406155162 Awwwwww

RE: https://mas.to/@canyakker/116391855054020832 #birdsofmastodon

RE: https://ohai.social/@JimsPhotos/116392529125433644 Look at that sleek claw scything across the branch. So cute.

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@dedicto/116393622210461682 Hope you are right

My backyard might not be in great shape, but at least I have a bunch of nice, neighborly ground bees. #macro #bee #bees #Mosstodon #silentsunday #newjersey #spring

RE: https://h4.io/@brettezeleliquide/116390112177143186 <3

Still on pace: one death roughly every six days in ICE custody. Reminder: gov't thugs are plucking innocent migrants -- often legal ones! -- off the street, kidnapping them, putting them in concentration camps, & allowing many of them to die. On our watch, in our names, with our money.

RE: https://ieji.de/@OlgaPatlyuk/116392639204567168 <3 #birdsofmastodon

Quail at the Santa Cruz Arboretum https://www.flickr.com/photos/armadillosoft/51117986693/in/album-72157718947824531 #otd 4/11/21 #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #abirdaday (or more)