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Whoabegoon

@wonderingallowed.bsky.social

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Just a regular schmuck. Sometimes irreverent, never cruel. Following experts, thinkers and funny sumbitches because their humanity helps fix my heart. Sharing mostly bird stuff because birds are amazing.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 13h

My best backyard bird portraits from the past few months. 1/2

puffy headed lesser goldfinch on garden shed roof.

scrub jay with blue and white, with a nut in mouth, on the roof.

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Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 12h

What beauties... I believe I would slice everything up and just eat it all with a little salt and cracked pepper.

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Midge @midge.bsky.social · 23h

People over 40 watching birds at the bird feeder

Picture of a crowd going wild with enthusiasm

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Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 1d

They really do... he still wears them occasionally, and they're in great shape. We hadn't considered them in any $ way valuable, though.

Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Photograph of the character Mary Hatch, girlfriend (later, wife) of George Bailey in the movie, "It's A Wonderful Life". It shows a still shot from a famous scene in the film: she is on the phone and George is listening in on the same phone beside her, and this is the moment where he realizes that he is deeply in love with her.

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Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting. My husband has several pairs of fluevogs he bought in the '90s and early 2000s.

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Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 2d

Entirely rational... I'm still processing residual childhood trauma from when my grandmother's blew up in the kitchen.

Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 2d

I saw them in a little bar... lead singer and a couple of guys lugged in his beat to hell road piano, and they tore the roof off that place.

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Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 2d

Been really feeling specific songs lately. Let's see...Midlake's "Roscoe", "Seventeen Going Under" by Sam Fender.

I love love Coyle Girelli's solo stuff... recommend turning out the lights & dancing in your living room to "Do You Want to Dance" just to push away the horrors for a time.

Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 2d

I like the cut of your jib

Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 2d

*grumbles agreement in civil engineering*

Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 3d

Miracle Whip dressing on a folded piece of processed white bread and a heated up can of Franco-American spaghetti. Just a weird habit I developed as a broke college student, but It's still manna to me when I'm stressed out.

Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 3d

Introduction to the article... would that our own US Supreme Court had not gone so cynically astray:

'CBA president Bianca Kratt says the [Canadian Supreme] court is a testament to the stability a country can enjoy when its legal institutions remain respected, independent, and grounded in the rule of law.'

Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 3d

Aww, how did the Stay Puft marshmallow guy get in there?

Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 4d

No. Citizens can legally change the number of their dependents on their W-4's for tax withholding purposes... up to 12 dependents (confirm max amount with your accountant). They just have to be able/willing to pay any taxes due resulting from increasing their dependents when tax season rolls around.

Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 4d

🎶 "...Work your fingers to the bone, and what do you get? bone-y fingers... bone-y fingers..."

(Great old song-- thanks for sharing it).

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Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 4d

Love his art work...what a bright little mind he has! Thank you for sharing this, Graham, and for giving hope to people not just in Maine, but all around the country.

Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 5d

Man, you and your team are an island of sanity in all of this. I'm so grateful.

Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 6d

this is so confusing...

Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 7d

For their loyalty, Trump unleashed Farmageddon on them.

Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 7d

I think of him now, when betting is available 24/7 on our phones & we are being bombarded with ads.

Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 7d

Shared this once before, but years ago worked with a guy who had a gambling addiction & blew his family's life savings. Rather than admit it, he told his wife he spent it on a love child from an affair. She discovered there was no affair/child. He had apparently bankrupted them in past by gambling.

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Whoabegoon @wonderingallowed.bsky.social · 7d

Your oven... looks homemade

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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 8d

Barred Antshrike.

The barred antshrike is a passerine bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae. It is found in the Neotropics in Mexico, every country in Central America, Trinidad and Tobago, and every mainland South American country except Chile and Uruguay.

📸: @sergiogregoriophoto

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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 8d

Pale-crested Woodpecker (Celeus lugubris) in Brazil 📷 Renato Sproesser.

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