holy cow

everything is terrible but here are some geese! people love geese, right?

a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually

California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...

Stolen from an Animorphs Facebook group.

this is the goal. the kids and disabled people they're going to kill are as much a happy accident for them as anything else; the goal is government capture and really nothing deeper or more ideological

it's harder to shit during the night because you are fighting against the moons gravitational pull carrying the shit up towards your head

The amazing Karen Gallardo-Cruz is looking for a field technician to study Barn Owl responses to tractor noise! The position will be in Lodi, CA this spring/summer (mid-March to late-June). $20-23/hr and housing provided. Check out the job ad here: karp.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/u...

sunset picnic at local wedge-tailed shearwater colony. i uhhhhh may have done with with multiple different dates but it’s always a hit?

I brought this up to an absolute A-team of EJ scholars and we wrote an essay about it, which was just published in Biological Conservation. (2/3) authors.elsevier.com/a/1lh%7ER1R%...

The British Raj in India depended on the cooperation of Indian civil servants, bureaucrats, and soldiers who massively outnumbered British officials. This is partly why the Independence Movement, led by Gandhi, called for *noncooperation.* This is what’s we’re seeing and what we need more of.

what the fuck

On the same day the FDA restricted access to COVID vaccines, the CDC director was sacked and top CDC scientists are resigning. And it’s barely been two weeks since an antivax conspiracy theorist fired 180 bullets at CDC headquarters. None of this is making America healthier. What a disaster.

The "European" Roller is a migratory bird. One can find it for exampe in Syria or Afghanistan. Only humans build borders. No human is illegal. #illustration 🪶 #KleineKunstKlasse ko-fi.com/s/cb0105297f

“it’s a cultural thing” no, putting a 紅包 in a chip bag is not normal, you don’t usually double bag the cash

i am reading this in justin mcelroy’s voice

Friday #SketchvsFinal! Here's one of the very earliest stages of this nosa' luta (Rota White-eye) illustration vs the final, including two reference/inspo images, both by Trenton Voytko. Until recently, there were very few clear photos of this species! 🎨🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

#avianaugust week 1 compilation

I have a serious illness called “can’t stop taking photos of the moon and saying ‘wow look at the moon’”

"The entire phylum of viruses" is a phrase that in a just world would get you immediately smited for hubris by Apollo or whoever.

crumb!!! #pigeon #illustration #birdart #procreate

i am so fucking excited to think about birds in a non-work capacity hell yeah what’s gonna be my 500th ABA species

lol. lmao, even

“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us remembers seeing our colleagues die of starvation.” The AFP news release has been released in French. Below is an English translation via Google translate.

ua‘u kani are sitting tight on their eggs right now! 🍳

koa‘e kea are SO FUCKIJG COOL

today I learned that Sooty Terns very rarely touch the water when they are out at sea foraging, but they will sometimes perch on the back of surfacing sea turtles

I love watching our young Red-Tailed Hawks discovering their world. This one is fascinated by a bumblebee that's crawling along the pavement. The hawk followed it for several minutes, studying the tiny creature, before the bee flew off. 🪶 #Raptors

i’m too afraid to ask why everyone is talking about gavin newsome again

beef jeremy

on the 7th rewatch, and why is season 4 will bailey kinda sexy ??

Saturday evening Coop 🪶☀️🌵

brookie and LOTR weekend

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

ok I’ll bite. does anyone on here want to argue about what the best shorebird is

my child

Again, the administration’s basic strategy is to use SCOTUS to bail it out of inconvenient district court injunctions against doing probably-to-almost-certainly illegal things. Then it does the things. Then later by the time the merits are considered, the damage has been done. Repeat.

More from Waikamoi....when a bird is backlit against bright clouds, things are difficult...but this is a BABY 'APAPANE (H. sanguinea), how could I resist? In a short time this little one will gain the vibrant deep red of an adult, but for the moment just hanging on a snag waiting for mom. :) 📷🌿🦉

the president just opened a concentration camp

*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

afraid of the headlines i will wake up to tomorrow 🥸

Today's newsletter is about how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social shows that you can run on "kitchen table issues" without throwing vulnerable people to the wolves — and win! www.readtpa.com/p/want-to-kn...

he's right and he's right to say it