Here are two boobies I painted a few years ago for my @birdwearingshoes IG, ©Lisa Zucker #BirdArt #SciArt

I drew a seriously round bird wearing Japanese sandals, from my @birdswearingshoes IG account (see ALT text for my inspiration)

I will never stop trying to get @nytimes.com Spelling Bee to accept the c-word

follow same instructions for ANY Kirkland "wine"

Rivian's new tagline: "a truck that WON'T burn you alive and melt your skeleton"

My governor!

I finally am getting back to drawing on my IG, @birdswearingshoes. This is a Shima Enaga, or snow fairy bird, wearing zori and looking quite cute if I do say so myself.

you are right! They are more like the Stasi but more violent

Breaking: Chicago being eaten by alligator

this is what numerous pedestrian crossing signs in Chicago's 43rd ward look like, flattened by cars and left to molder for weeks before anyone in the 43rd ward does anything about them

saved you a click—don't wear polo shirts www.wsj.com/buyside/styl...

beautiful and heartbreaking account of a family caught n the Texas flood

I repeat: I do NOT care when the label was created! Let me know when the stupid thing is on my front doorstep because you never ring my bell. That’s the information I want

The GOP doesn't care about you. It never has.

It’s going to be a golden era for procurement scams get in on the ground floor now and sell the government a metal rod that can detect illegal thoughts and anti-fentanyl amulets

I guess the media needs it to be spelled out but the core principle of RFKj wellness fascism is that if you get sick it’s your fault, you could have avoided it by using the right “supplements” and working out, so you might as well die because you’re of no use

only good news of the day, personal or world-wide: on my early-morning bike ride along the Lakefront Trail I saw a guy in an empty parking lot playing a full set of drums and I don't really like drums but this was wonderful

Not scrolling today or yesterday so I’ve had time to arrange and rearrange my @alextomlinson.bsky.social @pigeonpost.cafe grackle which gives me actual joy

thinking about my birds wearing shoes early days, got to get back to drawing these creatures!

Happy Lottery Day to those who celebrate (and, no choice, to those who don't)

I got my beautiful tiny wood grackle today from @alextomlinson.bsky.social and @pigeonpost.cafe and we are both very happy

just give me the iCloud back and I will shut up

dear Apple, STOP autocorrecting "the weekend" to "The Weeknd!" I firmly believe more people want to refer to a part of the calendar and not a musician

I like to imagine that Apple employees really do spend their time just moving little glass pucks around a table all day. Like "Sorry honey, looks like I won't be home for dinner again tonight, I've just got such a backlog of pushing glass lozenges around, I can't afford to get any further behind."

Here’s how great @nytimes.com is these days: no mention of the no-kings protests on their home page except a link to photos and video

great utility pole sticker in the style of a rat alert seen in Ukrainian Village:

these kids are RIGHT! Yes, the Dickens Greenway is nearby, but Armitage is a DANGEROUS street for cyclists and pedestrians and there should be at least minimal protection!

ok could debate how minor this guy was, but when I worked at Apple I helped Lovie Smith (former Bears coach) set up his grandson's iPad and I had NO idea who he was until he showed me his credit card and I still didn't even know if he was a current or former coach

take a break from all of *this* with Sly and the Family Stone, any album, any song

I loved Sly and the Family Stone and I was at the Chicago Grant Park concert in 1970 where he never showed up and learned first-hand what it was like to be trapped by an angry crowd. Shout-out to the guy who helped me get over a fence and escape!

here's what Google Ai says when I ask "have Sunny and Gizmo let the nest": Yes, Sunny and Gizmo have left the nest. They are known to have taken their first flights in the near future. Good god AI is better than I could have imagined. they are STILL in the nest: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L...

Not only cats kill birds—so do buildings. great read on one solution: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/c...

enough about the pope already!

We can take the quotation marks off now, to be honest. This is the most accurate and honest way to describe the situation

You cannot diet your way out of cancer. Out of covid. You have no idea how badly I wish you could. And I wish these con men would serve time for lying to people about it.

A fun thing i learned at my annual neighborhood meeting is that our intelligent, thoughtful, articulate congressman @quigley.house.gov’s dogs watch Bluey!

381 days is how long the Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted. And as J Perk says? People don’t understand the commitment to this. Most Black folks didn’t even own vehicles, they needed the bus, but folks were dead tired of the nonsense and abuse that came from riding a bus in Montgomery a 🧵

in case you thought things couldn't get any worse

you know, I think that's most of us. I'm aiming to be the better person regardless

so easy to do! one small thing, every day, we just have to do one thing every day

same

From a junk email address everyone (thousands of people) should send the answer to “what did you do last week?” to Elon at [email protected] let’s fuck up that email inbox

will there be inspections at the door?

it truly is

remember that time in the 80s when I drew a picture of a Mokele Mbembe for People Magazine because a University of Chicago professor said it still might exist? ©Lisa Zucker

here is MY eastern meadowlark from my Periodic Table of the Birds poster! ©Lisa Zucker

reminder: I still have that brick from the wall of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and no one can take that away from me

hmmm I knew Republicans hated Black people and women and I guess they equally hate every minority but they absolutely want nothing the fuck to do with science