The deciding goal being an own goal shows us the truth that Argentina could not defeat Cabo Verde -- only Cabo Verde could defeat Cabo Verde.

do I need the cat tree that looks like a bunch of cheese?

Gonna start stenciling this on the prudes.

Important updates from the couch (per my spouse).

This is such an important point. Not only do you not need to stare into the Sun of Bad News, you do not need to pay attention to trans people who make money off of your misery. It took a long time for me to learn that particular lesson and I am much better off emotionally for it.

I resent having to go to work today. I just want to sit at home and look at my idiot sons.

OK *this* is the first year in multiple decades that I did not do a single "official" queer event during Pride month. I am bummed but also giving myself a "tbf you got cancer" pass because it's not like I'm somehow less trans now than on June 1.

Legacy media outlets doing tweet roundups is like gazing at an infected navel

SciAm and PopSci were two of the longest-running magazines in the United States (not just science magazines, but of all magazines!), and now both of them have been mulched for capital. Enraging.

lobbing low-effort hot takes in work chat about bird plumage is the only thing I want to do all summer.

2/ When people view deserts—or any wild land—as empty, nothing, a blank canvas, pure potential, that’s the coloniser mind at work. It’s how we end up with nuclear test sites, weapons ranges, secret military bases, massive strip mines. Internment camps. The desert is neither absence nor permission.

Love it when the birds give us a bit of the ol' razzle dazzle

Just heard an American Kestrel -- a new species for my apartment species list!

about halfway through @hughryan.bsky.social 's new book www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hugh-... and I swear Hugh was looking to harvest my head specifically with some of those passages. (He was not, but it appears we both did a lot of the same things while flailing through university and beyond.)

I have introduced yet another person to the glory of the Oregon Exploding Whale video. My work here is done and I am going home.

Just saw someone rocking a LATRELL SPREWELL jersey.

Oh no Jane Yolen! It's not exactly a surprise but still!

The receptionist at the vet just said “Snack Falcon. Snack Falcon! I love that name! It makes me laugh every time I see it. Can I meet him?” Thanks to @bombsfall.bsky.social for creating such a memorable setting that, years later, we named our food-motivated cats after the bodega and supermarket.

So we all know that Fox Sports in the U.S. is atrocious. What are we using to avoid Fox for WC purposes? Telemundo? I see BBC/ITV is the UK broadcaster. Anything, really, would be infinitely preferable than ever having to look at or hear Alexi Lalas again in my entire precious life.

I cannot believe that the World Cup starts tomorrow and all I feel is hostility.

oh my god FUCK the passive media voice. That's not a "protest" you pathetic jokers. It's a racist pogrom.

Literally this. If the largest, queerest, and most diverse city's socialist muslim immigrant mayor won't fight for trans kids , who will??

Even the most dire baseball is improved by John Kruk Thoughts.

I was eating coleslaw out of the bowls that we usually use for ice cream and CRISIS! There's a cat sulking next to me who has never been more betrayed in his whole life.

A+ ad game on the subway

It's 13 years that I've been shouty about queer folks in STEM. It's amazing how much we've achieved, and how much we've lost (especially in recent years). If you're after some Pride Month reading, here's a compilation from the archive labandfield.wordpress.com/queer-in-stem/

Outside of here, I haven't talked at all about having cancer on any public-facing social media. Which means I have no idea how to answer questions like "how have you been?" when I meet up with friends with whom I do not regularly chat. "Uh...ups and downs, I guess?"

I love that a joke started in work slack with @nicosgonzalez.bsky.social has entered the lexicon

I'm in a grassland. A small bird lands on a nearby thistle and I can see that it's a Grasshopper Sparrow -- just a perfect specimen of one, no ambiguity. We lock eyes, and then it opens its chonk-ass beak and sings a stone-cold classic Grasshopper Sparrow song. Merlin, confidently: Song Sparrow

Would you like to see some dogshit?

Love that the entire long weekend was rained out and chilly, and now that I have to go back to work it's back to sweaty dog balls out there.

Imagine saying this without a single shred of irony. I wish nothing but misery on each and every person who worked toward this result.

Greg made some fantastically corny and fabulous intro bumpers, so even if you don't want to get better at bird ID or listen to Nick, Nate, and me bring that heat, you should join for those.

I see that Pennsylvania is cursed all around for City Connect designs. Unlike the Phillies, whose City Connect gear is stupid beyond belief, the Pittsburgh option is both stupid and boring.

I would like to travel back in time and prevent ESRI Storymaps from ever being created.

Working in the office for the first time since my cancer diagnosis in early February and boy do I have a lot of complicated ✨ feelings✨

Just read the shittiest food writing/personal essay I've run across in literal years, and if this is what's being lauded as "excellent" in that field then we might as well chuck the whole thing in the household food waste compost bin.

Another day, another opportunity to be stuck in a doctor's waiting room for 30 minutes.

I've been diligent at doing exercises at home to regain range of motion and all of that frustration and depression actually paid off. I was able to bird for three hours on Saturday and even saw some canopy species like Blackburnian Warbler. Most of my canopy IDs were audio, tho, and that's still OK.

This A train is aggressively heterosexual. Send help

You know it!

every time I see this again, I vow to become a little more annoying >:)

Just discovered I'm on a blocklist that specifies "birders," and I am thrilled. What an incredible concept. "These people out there *observing birds.* Preposterous! I cannot support it."

Our last pontiff had bars but this guy is gonna OPEN UP THIS PIT.

I thought my marriage was solid but the spouse just switched the TV to the Spurs match and who would do that to someone you claim to love?

Still cannot get over how ugly the Phillies CityConnect uniforms are. Pure abomination.

I feel terrible for ignoring things happening in the wider world -- even just the unhinged racists losing their shit about the very existence of Mamdani -- but I have absolutely no reserves right now. I can't even get through basic PT without dissolving into a depressive crying sesh.

Jobs were a mistake. I need to become moss.

Prepping for my first day back at work after surgery and I am not sure how ready I am for this.