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BigPurpleSentri

@bigpurplesentri.com

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Big purple bird! 💜 • Bird photography 📷🦅 • YouTube 📹 • Artist 🎨 • Software Engineer 💻 • From 🇫🇮 in 🇺🇸 • Suit by ThatsFurredUp • they/them

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BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 16h

Happy to find an entire endcap full of ducks in a bookstore in Helsinki! Complete with some @biryanifan.bsky.social's (translated) compilations!

I think I'll have to pay for overweight baggage on the way home 😅

BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 1d

Dang I wish I had that right now

BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 4d

It was definitely a fun one to get to see on TV after a day full of chores

BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 4d

Omg yeah?

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BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 4d

Let's Go Mariners!!!

MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 4d

The @Mariners get their first home #Postseason victory in 24 years! #ALDS

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BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 4d

Nah who would do that

BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 5d

Jerk stealing my figs!

Photo of a squirrel sitting in a branch stuffing a fig in its face

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BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 7d

Love getting one of these and the "payment" is just a free sample of the [PRODUCT] that I never actually wanted. Laughing at the arrogance!

BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 7d

I also need to go to a funeral in anothe country while still managing the house reno. Too many things.

BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 8d

Moving sucks so much. We are moving out this week. Not moving in yet though, since the house isn't ready. Hopefully that'll happen in two weeks time. Fun fun fun.

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BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 8d

I think the CEO has completely drank the AI kool-aid. He talks about it nonstop like it's an infallible god but when I try any of the stuff it's all useless and doesn't work. I don't know where the disconnect is. At some point it's going to pop

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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 8d

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

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BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 11d

Looking great! I love my plant shelf and I'm also glad I went with the white lights

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BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 11d

Sucks that I will no longer be able to see people's birdfeeder clips. I don't think there is any replacement for the platform either.

BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 13d

I saw several booths at our state fair that were juat 3D printed... dragons and stuff. I wish sellers made it clear what they actually did themselves. Like did you print them at home? Did you design the models? Or did you just buy these off of aliexpress... Impossible to know.

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Gwen!!! @poodlewool.bsky.social · 14d

hey guys does anyone want to see a small watercolor woodpecker right now

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 14d

It’s back to gracklepalooza! A lot of the grackles have left on their migration, but there are still quite a few hanging around.
With his feathers fresh from the summer moult, this male Common Grackle, was foraging in the trees and decided to fly down to the creek for a drink!
#Birds 🪶

A male common grackle flys down from a spruce tree with a dark black background. His colours are stunning with a vivid blue head, bronze body, a blue tail and violet blue patches on his wing!

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 18d

Laughing Falcon at @casabentbill.bsky.social

With its full crop, it was resting after eating a delicious snake.

#birds #nature #raptors #costarica

A light tan bird with a fluffy chest, dark eye mask, and hooked beak perched on a mossy branch.

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BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 18d

Evidence of birds.

Photo taken in a lush evergreen forest. A large tree trunk is prominently in the foreground surrounded by ferns. The bark of the tree is covered in holes, all the way down to the ground.

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BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 23d

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

BigPurpleSentri @bigpurplesentri.com · 24d

Every time I see someone mention that site with some random complaint I want to reply "why are you still using it?" but I am too tired to argue about it.

Like I truly don't understand. Hit the bricks!

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Jennifer Campbell-Smith, PhD 𓄿𓃥 @jcampbellsmith.bsky.social · 24d

This is RAD. Another result of changing climates is population overlap and hybridization. I’ve always wanted to see a Steller’s jay x blue jay hybrid. Now I need to add this to the birdy bucket list!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion

We document the first known hybridization event between the Green Jay (Cyanocorax yncas) and Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata), two distantly related species whose ranges now overlap in Texas due to cli...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25d

one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 25d

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Line chart showing that there's been a rapid escalation in how quickly the world installs a gigawatt of solar power capacity.

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Glen Grambo 🇨🇦 @glengrambo.bsky.social · 27d

It hasn’t yet developed the distinctive candy corn yellow beak, but its penchant for hiding in the reeds is well established!
This juvenile Sora was foraging, and finally popped out of the reeds for a short look around before zipping back in!
#Birds #photography #wildlife
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A juvenile Sora with its mottled brown and tan chunky body and short little tail, pauses in early morning light beside some green reeds in a prairie marsh. The calm water shows its reflection. The background is in shade and quite dark.

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Yard Gone Wild @yardgonewild.bsky.social · 27d

What’s happening in the yard?
You know, regular stuff…
Caterpillar’s taking selfies &
Squirrel’s sitting on the porch
gnawing a bone😄

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