"HUMPH!" humphed the voice of Baron Humphrey von Humff da Voiss.

Perhaps today will be the day a pigeon finally learns object permanence.

Nothing quite like being awoken by a sudden calf cramp. Whooee.

Today's small friend is an eastern wood-peewee! Spotted at Frick Park, and by "spotted", I mean it sang nonstop for two minutes and then flew down onto a bare branch directly in my line of sight, where it continued singing. #pittsbirds #birds #birdsofmastodon

A Japanese knotweed leaf, photographed with the newly-risen sun behind it. 💚

Good morning! Have you heard the good news about #pittsburgh?

Ronny Chieng absolutely nailing it on AI. Hell yeah. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/harvard-graduation-ronny-chieng-ai-tirade

Imagine living in a part of the world that doesn't have hummingbirds. Tragic.

Today's small friend is this baby robin, seen here waiting for its parent to return with more food. #pittsbirds #birds #birdsofmastoon

Thinking back to long-ago summers when the days were measured in sticks of gum and CD playthroughs.

Experimenting with the new Halide features.

If all you do at work is copy questions people send you, paste them into an LLM chat box, and then copy the answers and paste them back to the question askers, you are providing negative value to your company, your coworkers, and society as a whole, and you can and should be fired. Into the sun.

Anyone who uses the phrase "legacy media" can and should be ignored out of hand.

"The problem with democracy is, it doesn't keep you very safe." "It has other virtues." I'd forgotten that Justice League the animated series was produced in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. This exchange between two versions of Batman was a clear reminder.

"This program was made possible by a grant from the Ultra-Humanite, and viewers like you."

Decided to sit out back tonight around sunset. Immediately rewarded by catching a hummingbird—who I've been pretty sure has been around, but hadn't spotted in weeks—not once but twice: thirty seconds at the honeysuckle fifteen minutes before sunset, and then almost two full minutes drinking from […]

"Hooray for the technicians. Modern science was fixing it so that anybody can do anything but nobody can know what the hell is going on." —The Doorbell Rang, by Rex Stout

I just called a business on the spur of the moment to see if they'll be open tomorrow. I am prepared to surrender my millennial card.

Two simultaneous mockingbirds in the yard today for the first time. One of them is having real trouble with the suet feeder and isn't getting chased by the other, so it's either a young one or the other is VERY tolerant of others in its territory.

You can lead a newly fledged house finch to a bird feeder, but you can't make them eat.

Just looked out my back window to see what was causing a starling to scream its head off, and apparently the answer was a rain-soaked bunny. There's a "Follow the wet rabbit" joke in there somewhere. 🤔

LinkedIn, if you can do better than Monday, I will be very impressed.

was react native released on April 1 asking for a really annoyed friend

Can someone bring me an approximately gallon-sized lavender latte? thx

If you're a contra or English dancer along the east coast, catch me calling in one of these places this Spring/Summer! https://chromamine.com/dance/ #contradance #englishcountrydance #socialdance

You could not pay me to use Google's crapified search replacement. Yuck. https://archive.ph/44uob

RIP techcrunch, I guess

"synthetic quotes" goes on the list just under "alternative facts". https://archive.ph/5AZFs

It's really fascinating to watch an organization try to dismantle itself. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/19/meta-jobs-ai-transfers

I just received a lab bill for two dollars and twenty-one cents from my last doctor visit. This isn't a hardship, obviously, it just feels tremendously stupid on several levels. 🤦‍♂️

"I don't need to wear a hat. I won't be out in the sun *that* long." One spring I will learn this lesson. In the meantime, ow ow ow. 🤦‍♂️

To the groundhog who overturned a container of soil while investigating it: that's kind of on the nose, isn't it? Given your name and all? Also: get the fuck out.

Earlier this week someone mentioned Lullaby of Broadway, and I've had the entire book of 42nd Street stuck in my head since. Just now, someone mentioned mercurochrome, and now Today 4 U from RENT is firmly lodged. Dear brain: I really need you to be less suggestible about musicals.

Can I offer yinz an adorable chipmunk in these trying times?

Fascinating conversation fragment overheard at the park from cyclists passing by: "Yeah, they had some k-pop-looking dudes with them, and…"

“Good Morning!” said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat. “What do you mean?” he said. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good […]

What a time of year. #pittsbirds

RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/116586846917385038 I need more exploration of the fedi/bluegrass intersection. 🎵 ♥️

lmao @ the grackle and two blue jays all jockeying for position and yelling very loudly… but nevertheless ultimately waiting for the squirrel to finish up on the feeder 😂

Today's small friend is from up the hill rather than my back yard, a seasonal visitor to this town: a gray catbird. #pittsbirds #birds #birdsofmastodon

PSA: If you're in Pittsburgh and you think you hear a sea gull, no you don't. Thinking of referring to our local mockingbirds as Steel City sea gulls from now on, though.

First juvenile starling of the year may mean it's time to pull the suet down for the season. Other birds like the mockers and robins will miss it, but it's already generating too much starling rowdiness. Maybe I'll put up a fruit feeder again and see if they swarm that, too.

I may not get exciting neotropical migrants in my yard, but it's neat that I can walk out to feed the birds and come back in with ten species under my belt for the day, seven of them properly native. Having the red-bellied woodpecker hang out in the tree and watch while I'm refilling the feeder […]

The last episode of #goodomens didn't make me tear up, it wrenched wretched sobs out of me. I think Mister Pratchett would have approved.

"Someone might want to buy a book."

yo we've been @-ing you about this for weeks now glad you finally started paying attention, though https://1password.social/@1password/116580079390039351

"US teens getting less sleep than ever, new report finds" no goddamn way

When user-friendly software is outlawed, only outlaws will have user-friendly software.

The Flying None Pizza with Left Beef #breakfasttvshows #hashtaggames

"Jeeves and Worcestershire" probably only counts for #breakfasttvshows if you're a cannibal.