And they love the power, the cruelty, & feeling superior to others.

The alt #BirdOfTheDay theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social was #Gulls, hard to ignore when the picture is in my BlueSky bio header for ages. Audouin's gull is a beautiful species with just about 10k breeding pairs in the mediterranean 🪶

My thoughts exactly.

If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻‍🍳 💋

@robcrank68.bsky.social chose #LongBeaks for #BirdOfTheDay - a great opportunity to show our biggest wader, the Curlew 🪶

It was such a pleasure to give and receive music as a gift. I hate streaming, it's just not the same experience as listening to a physical album. It's a big loss.

@alan678.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay today is #Solitude Coughs are usually not solitary, they nearly always come in pairs or groups. This one was alone, but very interested in that photograph sitting on the mountain (= me). 🪶

So Jonathan Ross pulled his weapon while the car was still in reverse… He planned to use it. youtu.be/E3Icl0PsY30?...

@robcrank68.bsky.social chose #BirdInFlight for today's #BirdOfTheDay, which gave me plenty to choose from. 🪶

Scary. I‘d like to learn about its weak points.

Putin ran the most successful intelligence operation in history. It must be ended.

@alan678.bsky.social choose #natural for #BirdOfTheDay today, and that's harder than expected, as many habitats are influenced by humans. Which leaves mostly the mountains and the sea, and I go for mountain today with this landing griffon vulture. 🪶

@robcrank68.bsky.social chose a great theme for todays #BirdOfTheDay: #MoodyFaces It had to be ducks 🥰🪶

Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.

@alan678.bsky.social's #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Feathers&Form I like the subtle way the crest of the Crested Tit is build.

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

So, if he was not an untrained idiot in over his head, that even more makes it a murder.

@robcrank68.bsky.social choice for today's #BirdOfTheDay was #ShortBeaks, so I immediately knew which species to look for. The long-tailed bushtit is the species with the shortest beak I know🪶

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@alan678.bsky.social chose #FoodFinds for today's #BirdOfTheDay 🪶 This Oystercatcher was pretty good at finding worms, with a success rate of about 80%

@robcrank68.bsky.social set the theme for #BirdOfTheDay to #BlackAndWhite, a great opportunity to throw in my favorite duck, the Goldeneye 🪶 Formerly just a winter guest, they have started breeding in recent years in Munich.

Anyone still questioning the relevance of the #TrumpEpsteinFiles should try to answer this: Would the 🍊💩🤡 have dared to bomb Venezuela and kidnap Marduro if they had the full files? These files would be more powerful as a deterrent than a set a nukes.

Some dorkwad told me I was jealous of Elon Musk because he is the “most successful person on the planet”. I responded that I have one very important thing that Elon Musk will never have: Enough.

@alan678.bsky.social theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #speckles&spots with the alt #most I'm going for a double submission with this young Gannet 🪶

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@alan678.bsky.social set today's topic to #snowy, and I tried to use the little snow we have to capture to topic. This little Wren was the surprise of the day. 🪶

Honest to god.

Of course, the rules for foreign presidents doesn’t apply to the handlers of Trump, like Putin, Netanyahu, MBS, etc.

@alan678.bsky.social's theme for today's #BirdOfTheDay is #CaughtInMotion 🪶 A Tufty at start makes pretty huge leaps.

Great analysis of the WH photography in Vanity Fair: youtu.be/uz0oUJZ5t30?...

@robcrank68.bsky.social set today's #BirdOfTheDay theme to #GoodLight with the alt #Gulls, and I'm throwing in a lesser black-backed gull on a slightly hazy day light to cover both. 🪶

@alan678.bsky.social chose #B&W as #BirdOfTheDay topic for Jan 1st. Great opportunity to throw in a Razorbill, which actually flys pretty good with its little wings 🪶

@robcrank68.bsky.social's topic for #BirdOfTheDay for Dec 31st was #Reflections Love how the reflections of the ducklings are highlighting their contrasting colors.🪶

@alan678.bsky.social topic for Dec 30th of #BirdOfTheDay was #Branchingout 🪶

Time to deal with my #BirdOfTheDay debts after 🍾 @robcrank68.bsky.social has set the topic for Dec 29th to #BirdButts 🪶 I have a few duck butts to present, and challenge everybody to identify the species before looking into the alt text 🤣

New Year‘s recommended reading:

Trumpsters claiming they voted for his economic policies remind me of when men would claim they read Playboy for the articles.

Most people who passively absorb dangerous norms: • never kill, • never participate in pogroms, • never act violently. But every pogrom requires those dangerous norms first.

50-70 children and close to nobody sitting in jail and only a few even named 🤮

Short answer: Dumb money. Russia was short of money, so they had to look for efficient investment. Building kompromat and intelligence on your enemy turned out to be the better strategy.

@alan678.bsky.social picked #serenity for #BirdOfTheDay 🪶 This Little Egret flies over former salines in Menorca

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

@robcrank68.bsky.social chose #Outstretched for the #BirdOfTheDay theme, and I throw in a little altercation between two Gadwalls. 🪶

@alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay #MostRecent 🪶 2 young hawks about 500m away. Sometimes it‘s not about image quality.

Fusion would be the death of big oil.

@robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay is combined with #HolidayRobin for today.