Choosing to believe there is an S in today’s spelling bee because the NYT is celebrating something we do not yet know to be confirmed

b, watching the wonderfully weird world of gumball: i like mr. small bc he's a quaker like us. us: what?? there's a quaker character?? how do you know he's a quaker? b: he wears a rainbow shirt. duh.

Ten years of marriage with my beautiful wife!!! When I was buying these roses our 7yo asked “will you and Mama dance together since it’s your anniversary and you’re in love?”

If I post these now, maybe l remember to do a longer thread on disability and crafting next week 🪡🧵

This past week, still very imprecise & unscientific: 26 house finches 3 northern cardinals 1 blue gray gnatcatcher 3 goldfinches 15 brown headed nuthatches 11 white breasted nuthatches 1 Carolina wren 1 eastern towhee 8 chipping sparrows 1 song sparrow 1 great crested fly catcher 2 cowbirds

new @teenvogue.com in our Overlooked History series: in 1995 Rusty Mae Moore and Chelsea Goodwin bought a house together in Park Slope, inspired by the 1970s S.T.A.R. House. Transy House became a shelter for trans people for 13 years. Sylvia Rivera lived there at the time of her death in 2002.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

I told you guys

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

Pollinator is such a chill ass job. I hope I’m a pollinator in my next life

A little bird told me that @theflytrapmedia.com's pitching window for freelance writers might be opening soon for stories in Q4 2025 and Q1 2026. Start thinking about your stories now! And a reminder that we ONLY accept pitches through our pitching form, NOT through email.

The bird tracker on the window is less easy to see this week, sorry, I used blue permanent ink to make it a week long chart mostly because kiddo really wanted to participate. He’s now able to identify a house finch and a cardinal!

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@lutimestwo.bsky.social what are the odds of y'all releasing an album of every song alan has created for terrestrials? because sometimes i do just need to scream along to "we're just rats! we're just rats!"

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I'm a grad student working on my Master's in Library Sciences at LSU, focusing my research projects on the role public libraries play in the lives of queer youth. I pay the bills with virtual bra fittings online, mending/alterations in Atlanta, and am dipping my toes into freelance writing!

Four days of very unscientific bird tracking: 6/10 1 chipping sparrow 1 eastern bluebird 1 blue gray gnatcatcher 4 house finch 1 eastern towhee 2 Carolina wren 6/11 3 house finch 1 chipping sparrow 2 goldfinch 1 cardinal 1 blue gray gnatcatcher

This little guy started visiting yesterday and i had the hardest time id-ing him because of the beak and I realized this morning he’s a brown headed nuthatch (classic squeaky toy call) with a beak deformity. I love him

yesterday morning we heard our 7th yell "i did it!!! i've been trying to learn and i finally did it!" and my wife went to the living room and asked what he learned and he said "ARMPIT FARTS!" and farted his armpit at her

A USPS logo for every state bird!! 🐦✉️

A robin made a nest in one of my plant pots right outside my studio. The baby birds are hatching today.

Ok but if I said that Nicole Scherzinger’s performance of As If We Never Said Goodbye represents how nuance is getting lost in the theater as much as it is everywhere else

another thing about not having a phone is no ebird or merlin so today's birding list is all analog babyyy. i didn't even have my bird guide so these are just the ones that i could identify confidently #birdsky

My lovable cutie pie wife is getting surgery tomorrow & if you can help out by donating to our meal train that would be neat! mealtrain.com/134oq5

Reminder to contact your doctor and change your diagnosis from whatever variant of "trans" and put "unspecified hormone disorder" or something similar

This is a thread of cool mushrooms I’ve seen

I get so excited every time I get to use the word laity on a spelling bee. No reason it’s just a cool word

“When I’m a grown up I’m going to write a movie called Middle Finger: Attack of the Beast” absolutely out of nowhere

Thought that “every breath you take” by the police was by the actual police as in cops and that it was a warning not to do crimes

Me outside abc studios if they dont give evan buckley a husband and several children. I am no longer asking.

Look at who I added to my life list today!!

open.spotify.com/track/3c2kMi... in the song "groovin'" by the young rascals there's part towards the end where the song goes "life could be ecstasy, you and me endlessly" that i spent my life hearing as "you and me and leslie" and i never questioned it. i was like, cool song about a threesome

There is a rose breasted grosbeak by my apartment building and I can hear but cannot find it because my binocular skills are very bad

today i am mourning the hyperspecific extremely fun corner of one direction fandom in which i once participated because i'm never going to have a fandom experience like that again and that makes me kind of sad. wonderection forever

We stayed on Lake Ocoonee this past weekend and I added soooo many birds to my life list!!

good morning. @heatmap.news won a national magazine award last night for Decarbonize Your Life — a landmark explanatory journalism section that walks you through ways ordinary consumers can reduce their carbon footprints. now’s as good a time as any to reshare DYL!

I think I'd rather have a social network that's all about giving crows gifts and posting pics of the gifts they bring in return

Walter Groggins. I’m so in love with @vicmmic.bsky.social

This morning I was up at 3am wondering if things like autism and adhd are found elsewhere in the animal kingdom

Continuing to have a great time ignoring just about everything in the whole world other than like my wife and child and the firefighter show

i miss 8tracks

Zoonotic is a word, actually, @nytimes.com, or were you not there in 2020

I don’t want to work. I want to think about my little guy. My friend Buck

Something so special to me is that B is really really obsessed with this Radiolab for Kids/Terrestrials episode about lichen that ends with a song featuring Laura Jane Grace, the lyrics of which are “we grow together better than alone” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

i am in so deep with those goddamn firefighters. on the bright side, their whole thing is much lower stakes than my usual ship fare so instead of playlists where every song is about suffering, every love song makes me think of them