it's just so good

goddamn cats, i try to spend two hours at my uncle's place for christmas dinner and when i get home i'm wheezing and coughing the whole rest of the day

thinking tomorrow i might run out to newport to see if i can get the black headed gull that's been out there, and maybe take another try at the hooded oriole, if i get both, then that'll make 2025 my best year list yet

today is sextidi 6 Nivôse in the year of the republic CCXXXIV, celebrating lava

continuing the saga of the names of my nephew's toys, his bigfoot stuffed animal is called Mark Brown (he owns a Honda dealership)

today is quintidi 5 Nivôse in the year of the republic CCXXXIV, celebrating the dog

christmas eve vibe checks

hell yeah, cigarettes are back, we can look cool again!

every city is a walkable city if you walk enough

oh, you don't have a favorite inaturalist project page? weird. mine is the oregon state parks coastal species inventory

Banjo Yule, it's like Tuba Christmas but weirder and probably worse

today is quartidi 4 Nivôse in the year of the republic CCXXXIV, celebrating sulfur

presents are all wrapped, neighbor is supposed to be bringing me some money for shared fence repair, got cookies, and i saw a rough legged hawk today, good deal

make ronan farrow write 10k words about wrapping paper shrinkflation

multiverse of madness? more like multiverse of badness, am i right? they really have made too many marvel movies and they've lost whatever charm they once had! ha ha ha

YATTA!!! GOLD SHIP IS BEST HORSE!!! first URA win!

today is tridi 3 Nivôse in the year of the republic CCXXXIV, celebrating asphalt

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

getting there!

also these things fucking need it, the pfeffernusse have some of the toughest dough out of basically any cookie i make

making cookies at my folks' place so i can use mom's kitchenaid

today is duodi 2 Nivôse in the year of the republic CCXXXIV, celebrating coal

friendship really is the most important thing

i might have downloaded umamusume with a bit of irony because the concept was so absurd and now i've maybe become invested in the hopes and dreams of racing magical horsegirls

there are certain curious marks, curves, hollows, and ridges, whereby some whalemen calculate the creature’s age, as the age of an oak by its circular rings.

how the hell did i not know about manzanita sol until now? apple soda? that sounds incredible

Io Saturnalia!

Retweet if you want your Christmas presents NOW

HELL YEAH SANTA

today is primidi 1 Nivôse in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV, celebrating peat

these all look like indie album covers from 2002 i love it

on my way home from my own bird count sector, happened to run into a couple birdwatchers like a block from my house, asked them how it was going, they had just seen a barrow's goldeneye they wanted to get pics of to prove they saw it and had left all their camera stuff at home

got the blue one, not my first choice but not bad

weather seems a lot better than last year to start with

this country is too precious about eating horses

BIRD COUNT DAY!

hell yeah, I've got people texting me scouting reports from my christmas bird count territory

it sucks that there's probably kids who want to be podcasters when they grow up

you ever wanna see what the big pipe looks like inside?

HELL YEAH NO WORK UNTIL THE 29th!!!

BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

GET READY FOR THE FUCKING DIRT MONTH NIVÔSE SUCKS ALL MY HOMIES HATE NIVÔSE

today is decadi 30 Frimaire in the year of the republic CCXXXIV, celebrating the shovel

tag urself (Yule lads edition) i'm bjúgnakrækir

the weather is fucking insane, it's december 19th and i can hear people mowing their lawns

i just found out about blanket octopuses and they're so pretty!

GEORGE COSTANZA WAS 34!!!!

oof, 3 inches of rain in the last 24 hours