because I need to heal, here's the very touching moment when ilia malinin congratulated mikhail shaidorov on winning gold seconds after his own dream was crushed #MilanoCortina2026 #figureskating

🪶 Good advice from an Anna's Hummingbird.

I very seldom see canvasbacks, and when I do, they’re typically far away. But this guy inexplicably decided to grant me a close look a few weeks back. #birds #🪶 #nature #ducks #birding #birdphotography #wildlifephotography

Seeing negativity about Lindsey Vonn that she shouldn’t have competed due to her age and it was hubris and she shouldn’t have been skiing on an injury, but: - that’s ableist and ageist - she was medically cleared - she hooked the gate, extremely common error and totally unrelated to her ACL or age

#BirdOfTheDay theme for today from @robcrank68.bsky.social is #StareDown, and the alt theme is #Gulls. Here's a disgruntled Grackle who was a clear winner in the stare down contest #Birds #Grackle #WetlandBirds

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

We have some great birds in #Shropshire at the moment: the Crudgington Moor floods host the largest group of Russian White-fronted Geese in the county in more than 40 years; on the "Leighton Loops" were five Barnacle Geese. Both species are county rarities. And it didn't rain! #ShropshireBirding

This gorgeous Lark Bunting flew all the way from, like, southern Texas to north-central Ohio because, idk, maybe she's had it up to here with other Lark Buntings? I assume it's the bird equivalent to when I say I'm moving to Mars to get away from people. #birds 🪶

Maybe a good time for this as well with norovirus making headlines. I made this for our bathroom and a few “lucky” friends also got one as a gift. As I’ve said before, it’s astonishing that I even have any friends at all.

Coo coo

I promised Graham @oldmanrambling.bsky.social I would post a Robin a day for a week in memory of his beloved wife, Janet. As she loved Roberto who is their little garden visitor. So for the third day #WinterRobin #ForJanet #birds #EastCoastKin

À propos of nothing in particular, one of the reasons that verbal and emotional bullying is difficult to stop in schools is that bullies are really good at twisting language, so that if the victim reports it to the teacher, it sounds like they are overreacting to something innocuous.

Greenland is Inuit Land. US & Europe playing tug of war with Kalaallit Nunaat, it will be Indigenous people who suffer most. Colonization is not a distant history. Under a colonial system built on white supremacy violence never disappears it only reiterates itself, sometimes dressed up differently.

“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”

Blue buttons jellies float at the oceans surface, like little animal flowers, living between sea and sky. There are millions of them out there right now, and most will live their whole lives without even being seen by a human. Despite the hard things, the world is still wondrous.

Family history of cancer linked to increased risk of long COVID Pre-existing conditions, genetic susceptibility, immune dysregulation, or environmental exposures may play a role. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

Welp, it's certainly morning. 🪶

In olden days people saw Heron as some of the saddest, wretched, depressed creatures. Perhaps they just saw themselves reflected? Today people who stop to watch describe us as meditating, thoughtful, wise, and seeing the world better than most. Again, reflections. 💙 (1804)

The only thing I will say about the slip-and-fall video is that expecting the dark pavement to be easier to walk on than the frosty-looking pavement is a rookie mistake.

This juxtaposition of scary news (flu, AI) with my pal @nickantonson.bsky.social’s woodpecker research is cracking me up It’s an excellent representation of how my brain is constantly balancing the horrors with awesome bird facts

I 💛 sandwich terns #birdoftheday #birds

Guess it feels counter-intuitive to some people to copy text of any text in an image into alt text but a blind person and those with poor vision actually need that information to appreciate fully what you are posting. Just putting "photo of a sign" is not doing what you think it's doing lolsob

Good morning! 🪶

On pavements and in parks, the feral pigeon (Columba livia domestica) reigns supreme, many of the birds having descended from the refugees from abandoned dovecotes of the past. 🤎 #BirdOfTheDay #Grounded #pigeons #photography #EastCoastKin

Good article by Julia, but I would add, don’t just let us be, HELP. Wear a mask in places where high risk people have to be, so you aren’t *contributing* to their risk. This is ground zero of a you’re either helping or hurting situation.

Green Thorntail has a very nice #birdbutt for today’s #BirdoftheDay theme. #Birding Costa Rica last month.

Is there somebody who can explain *when* the pressure is supposed to actually drop with a "bomb cyclone"? Relative to the wind warning. I feel like I should be able to look this up, but I'm trying to work out which type of migraine I'm currently having, and it doesn't help.

I have some trauma associated with today, December 27th, and driving. I traditionally celebrate today by staying home and doing nothing. Also there is a Bohemian Waxwing. ...Happy Traumiversary to me???

Stay safe out there y'all

Chat gpt is not a search engine. Chat gpt is not a confidant. Chat gpt is not your friend. Chat gpt is not a reliable source. Chat gpt is not real. Chat gpt is not real. Chat gpt is not real!

Reminders, as public health officials warn of a very bad flu season: 🧵 * Washing hands is not a strategy for a respiratory virus. N95s, ventilation, air filtration -- especially in hospitals. * We should have been cleaning indoor air with the same effort we put into cleaning drinking water. 1/

Scripps's murrelet. These little guys breed in the Channel Islands off of California. 🪶

It only took four of us making a two-minute public comment about the library at the city council meeting for the councilors to restore the funding the mayor’s office had cut.

My new hobby is playing the alto part in the hymn on the soprano recorder and pretending it's a descant. I think it often sounds really good! ...please send help. For the people whose apartments share a wall with mine. 🎶

This would work. A lot of us are in the right age range for this.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 6 is the Outside Agitator poster I made that's kept me aligned while wading through so much bullshit in 2025; sales from this have supported some critical mutual aid and helped get an old friend housed, so I'm extra grateful for it. Love finding ways to remix bird photos 😊🪶📸

Detox Doodles! This is one of a series of daily sketches that I've been doing to curb my mindless scrolling! This page is all about Kakapo, so adorable! #art #newzealand #kakapo #bird #sketch #DetoxDoodles #sciart #InkArt

Sandhill crane taking off for the #movement theme of #birdoftheday #birds #photography #birdphotography #nature #naturephotography

Good morning from my favorite bird with an overly-on-the-nose name!

Yellow Crowned Night Heron Deadly head: All beakspear All big eye All spring loaded muscle And yet atop it all An elegant plume. Lunch is 🦀 and 🦞

Update: attempts by local birders to see if the bird is still around today in the snow have been delayed by, well, snow. ❄️🌨️

Cutest fleet ever (Buffleheads) 🪶

Galatians 3:28: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." Transphobes: NOT LIKE THAT

I would like to take a second to address something that always comes up when COVID trauma is discussed. I will tell you that I am not a therapist or psychiatrist. I’m just someone with PTSD. Ready? You know there’s that famous book about bodies keeping the score written by a creep?

In today's edition of "Birds That Regret All Their Life Choices", I present this LIMPKIN, standing on the ICE, in OHIO, in DECEMBER. Also season, weather, and location no longer have any meaning in #birding. 🪶

Vultures! 😍😍😍

Very good advice on preparing for major holiday meals, which also works for major Church services, FYI to clergy who are panicking because how does Advent always manage to sneak up on you???

Here's a little more detail of the eye ring on the male Black-headed Trogon at Agami Island. The blue is skin; not feathers. One day, I hope to get a closer view of this species. #birds #nature #costarica