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avid bird watcher @avidbirdwatch.bsky.social · Oct 20

leave no bird unwatched

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avid bird watcher @avidbirdwatch.bsky.social · 17h

@katie.bzky.team i had to put them an hour ahead but check these out

two clocks, with an arrow between them demonstrating the change in daylight savings

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avid bird watcher @avidbirdwatch.bsky.social · 17h

halloween is furry experimentalism for straggots

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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avid bird watcher @avidbirdwatch.bsky.social · 1d

i’m literally not named november but if i was i wouldn’t mind

may @maysuser.name · 1d

i know im literally named may but november is the best month and it doesn't even come close

avid bird watcher @avidbirdwatch.bsky.social · 1d

@titmou.se

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birdguy66.bsky.social @birdguy66.bsky.social · 1d

This #TuftedTitmouse paused its flitting for me.
#birds
#birding

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stuaa.bsky.social @stuaa.bsky.social · 5d

This is just to say

I have looked on
the works
that were in
the desert

and which
you were probably
thinking
would still stand

Forgive me
they were trunkless
so vast
and so old

Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 5d

Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 5d

There was an old man you could gaze
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says

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avid bird watcher @avidbirdwatch.bsky.social · 2d

dudeeee these worms are pissedddddd

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 2d

For anyone worried they might forget to add alt text, Bluesky has a setting that will remind you to add alt text before posting any images.

Go to "Settings," then "Accessibility." Select the checkbox for "Require alt text before posting."

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avid bird watcher @avidbirdwatch.bsky.social · 3d

i did not see a Single person in costume this year. not *too* unexpected to have few trick of treaters in my cardependent hellhole community, but still, none at all was a surprise

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 3d

Hearing even a *reference* to The Monster Mash ANY time of the year is infuriating. The song absolutely sucks and modern civilization shouldn’t even be aware of it. You should not and cannot and MUST NOT defend it. Let the worms of history finally have their feast.

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 3d

happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters

photo of six pumpkins carved into glowing jack-o'-lanterns, in front of a brick wall. a large pumpkin has the cow tools cow carved into it and another large pumpkin has the barn. in front of them are 4 small pumpkins, each carved with one of the cow tools on them. the lump pumpkin has no stem and the prongler pumpkin is laid sideways so that the stem lines up and forms the bottom half of the prongler, it's top half carved into the pumpkin.

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avid bird watcher @avidbirdwatch.bsky.social · 3d

if rowling wrote the royal family she would have named her Princess Diana Carcrash

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 4d

Halloween is the perfect example of how the time spent in or around cars are the most dangerous periods of any day for most Americans. And it is rarely acknowledged on a wide scale.

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians—great advice from @mcbazacophd.bsky.social

(It’s also our kid’s birthday)

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Joseph Galbo (turkeywolf) @josephgalbo.bsky.social · 3d

It's that time of year #Halloween

A kid in a mask with a big car behind them. The text reads: don't fkin drive. Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for young children. Drive slow. Don't drive on residential streets. Look for children crossing the street and between parked cars. Even better - don't drive on Halloween.

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avid bird watcher @avidbirdwatch.bsky.social · 3d

or maybe a leather couch

avid bird watcher @avidbirdwatch.bsky.social · 3d

is she trying to be sexy Charlie Kirk for halloween

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 5d

Erika Kirk with JD Vance tonight at Ole Miss

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Dr Aunt Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 5d

Not very hot take (?): "Speed traps" are tacit acknowledgement by law enforcement and the public that road design encourages higher speeds.

That's why these law enforcement actions are usually done at certain locations, not randomly.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5d

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold

WASHINGTON—Praising the process as yet another miracle of biology that modern medicine chooses to ignore, a gray-lipped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at a press conference Wednesday during which he tout...

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 6d

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

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liam @uyukat.bsky.social · 6d

sketches (ft. @probablygoat.bsky.social AGAIN!!)

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avid bird watcher @avidbirdwatch.bsky.social · 7d

It’s so funny watching my republican township leaders finally do stuff close to election season bc they know they need to look busy

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Daryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 10d

I am once again asking you to post raptors 🪶🌿

Pele, a peregrine falcon at Alaska Raptor Center in Sitka!

A closeup of a peregrine falcon’s face, photographed from the left side. A little glimmer can be seen in its eye.

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avid bird watcher @avidbirdwatch.bsky.social · 7d

invented a new card game tonight