Birder K
@birderk.bsky.social
She/her Just another broke girl w/binoculars. Will answer bird feeder & bird ID questions!
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Birder K
@birderk.bsky.social
· Nov 19
I was reminded earlier today that I need to reconstruct my Twitter thread over here at some point on our backyard bird creek we made many years ago. Pinning this as point to start from whenever I can get to it. In the meantime, enjoy this fall Kinglet Pool Party. #birds
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Some governments raise taxes to fund public health and education. Not Luxon. He is literally raising taxes to subsidise fossil fuels. He is putting a levy on our electricity bills to pay for his LNG import terminal.
February 9, 2026 at 7:21 AM
Some governments raise taxes to fund public health and education. Not Luxon. He is literally raising taxes to subsidise fossil fuels. He is putting a levy on our electricity bills to pay for his LNG import terminal.
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"One person, as they appear to be placed in handcuffs, says: 'I was here delivering pizza for the protesters. I had no idea that this was happening. I moved to the side of the curb when they started rushing everyone and now they’re arresting me.'"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Minneapolis protesters arrested during one-month anniversary of Renee Good’s death
Several demonstrators taken into custody Saturday after marking killing of Minnesota woman by immigration officer
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:07 AM
"One person, as they appear to be placed in handcuffs, says: 'I was here delivering pizza for the protesters. I had no idea that this was happening. I moved to the side of the curb when they started rushing everyone and now they’re arresting me.'"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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kind of funny there are prob 1,000 major US musicians and every time conservatives need to put up a music artist to counter a mainstream narrative, they put up kid rock. "ok here's kid rock again" for the next 30 years, an octogenarian man in jean shorts rapping something from the 1990s
February 9, 2026 at 8:50 AM
kind of funny there are prob 1,000 major US musicians and every time conservatives need to put up a music artist to counter a mainstream narrative, they put up kid rock. "ok here's kid rock again" for the next 30 years, an octogenarian man in jean shorts rapping something from the 1990s
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Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has was sentenced to 20 years in jail on Monday following his conviction on foreign collusion and sedition charges. Full story: buff.ly/6MkP1zn
February 9, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai has was sentenced to 20 years in jail on Monday following his conviction on foreign collusion and sedition charges. Full story: buff.ly/6MkP1zn
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Rusty Bush Lark – a poorly-known bird from the Sahel region of Africa – has been seen definitively for the first time since 1931, with the first-ever photos of the species taken:
Rusty Bush Lark seen for first time in 94 years
Rusty Bush Lark – a poorly known bird from the Sahel region of Africa – has been seen definitively for the first time since 1931, with the first-ever photos of the species taken.
bit.ly
February 9, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Rusty Bush Lark – a poorly-known bird from the Sahel region of Africa – has been seen definitively for the first time since 1931, with the first-ever photos of the species taken:
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Looking for something a little smaller?
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Just added 4 new netted labradorite pendants - with a golden glow and a few blends available.
oishiny.etsy.com
Just added 4 new netted labradorite pendants - with a golden glow and a few blends available.
February 8, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Looking for something a little smaller?
oishiny.etsy.com
Just added 4 new netted labradorite pendants - with a golden glow and a few blends available.
oishiny.etsy.com
Just added 4 new netted labradorite pendants - with a golden glow and a few blends available.
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“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
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Bad Bunny at 31 vs Charlie Kirk at 31
February 9, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Bad Bunny at 31 vs Charlie Kirk at 31
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The thumbnail for my next blog... don't miss it!
Releasing this week with a special message to my email list about my time in Beaver so far. Sign up here: go.theauroraguy.com/email
Releasing this week with a special message to my email list about my time in Beaver so far. Sign up here: go.theauroraguy.com/email
February 9, 2026 at 7:34 AM
The thumbnail for my next blog... don't miss it!
Releasing this week with a special message to my email list about my time in Beaver so far. Sign up here: go.theauroraguy.com/email
Releasing this week with a special message to my email list about my time in Beaver so far. Sign up here: go.theauroraguy.com/email
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Yesterday we found juvenile female #kakapo Ongaonga on a nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. At just under 4 years old (her hatch day is 12th Feb), she's the youngest female ever recorded nesting. Today we also found Matilda nesting - she's just 2 days older. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds
February 9, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Yesterday we found juvenile female #kakapo Ongaonga on a nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. At just under 4 years old (her hatch day is 12th Feb), she's the youngest female ever recorded nesting. Today we also found Matilda nesting - she's just 2 days older. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds
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Lake Erie’s Ice sheet is near record ice cover due to extreme-prolonged cold, and as the wind increases behind a cold front the #ice cracks in half on satellite! #lakeerie #cleveland #buffalo #freeze
February 9, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Lake Erie’s Ice sheet is near record ice cover due to extreme-prolonged cold, and as the wind increases behind a cold front the #ice cracks in half on satellite! #lakeerie #cleveland #buffalo #freeze
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THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 5:44 AM
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR
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it’s true, even if this will make some people mad
Just want to point out a serious regionalism that still divides this country, which is that a lot of white people who grew up in the Eastern time zone have extra special fear and terror about Spanish. Alex, Megyn, and Matt are NJ, NY, and MD respectively.
This is the most entertaining game of the night
February 9, 2026 at 5:49 AM
it’s true, even if this will make some people mad
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100% wyth Elmo on thys
February 9, 2026 at 5:50 AM
100% wyth Elmo on thys
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Columbus introduced sugar cane to the Caribbean and his son opened the first plantation. They were the originators of this brutality.
So many Caribbean people died on these plantations that they eventually had to start bringing in slaves from Africa.
Average lifespan once there was only 7 years.
So many Caribbean people died on these plantations that they eventually had to start bringing in slaves from Africa.
Average lifespan once there was only 7 years.
Mortality rates were so high on sugar plantations during slavery that slaveholders used to coerce enslaved people working other crops like cotton with threats to sell them or their loved ones to sugar plantations.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
That’s where the term “sold down the river” came from.
February 9, 2026 at 5:11 AM
Columbus introduced sugar cane to the Caribbean and his son opened the first plantation. They were the originators of this brutality.
So many Caribbean people died on these plantations that they eventually had to start bringing in slaves from Africa.
Average lifespan once there was only 7 years.
So many Caribbean people died on these plantations that they eventually had to start bringing in slaves from Africa.
Average lifespan once there was only 7 years.
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Every Super Bowl ad was just “HEY REMEMBER THIS SHIT? HUH? YOU REMEMBER THE POP CULTURE YOU CONSUMED THAT ONE TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN NOT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING FUCKING SUCKED. REMEMBER THAT?? brought to you by a company causing your electric bill to increase 287%”
February 9, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Every Super Bowl ad was just “HEY REMEMBER THIS SHIT? HUH? YOU REMEMBER THE POP CULTURE YOU CONSUMED THAT ONE TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN NOT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING FUCKING SUCKED. REMEMBER THAT?? brought to you by a company causing your electric bill to increase 287%”
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football players are all like gimme that coconut it’s mine! and tennis players are all like fuck this lemon i hate it so much you take it.
February 9, 2026 at 12:06 AM
football players are all like gimme that coconut it’s mine! and tennis players are all like fuck this lemon i hate it so much you take it.
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
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WELP
Doocy: "The new face of RealFood .gov is Mike Tyson. How did you settle on someone who was most famous for eating Evander Holyfield's ear?"
RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."
RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."
February 9, 2026 at 4:42 AM
WELP
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My favorite Super Bowl memory is still when Elon Musk was at the 2023 game in Arizona and panicked about his Eagles tweet getting less engagement than Joe Biden's. He then flew immediately to Twitter's San Francisco office to start emergency meetings to fix the site's algorithm.
February 9, 2026 at 3:40 AM
My favorite Super Bowl memory is still when Elon Musk was at the 2023 game in Arizona and panicked about his Eagles tweet getting less engagement than Joe Biden's. He then flew immediately to Twitter's San Francisco office to start emergency meetings to fix the site's algorithm.
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Rip out your Ring doorbell RN, jfc
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
Rip out your Ring doorbell RN, jfc
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oh please please please please....
A candidate vaccine that fights a suite of coronaviruses including COVID-19 and related, deadly respiratory diseases is starting human clinical testing in Australia. The international Phase I/II trial, which began enrollment in January 2026, will evaluate safety and immunogenicity and safety.
February 9, 2026 at 4:44 AM
oh please please please please....
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Macbeth: So long as nobody was from their mother's womb untimely ripped we're good.
Narrator: 32% of all births in the United States are Caesarean.
Narrator: 32% of all births in the United States are Caesarean.
Macbeth: SHIT
the bushes were people 😂
February 9, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Macbeth: So long as nobody was from their mother's womb untimely ripped we're good.
Narrator: 32% of all births in the United States are Caesarean.
Narrator: 32% of all births in the United States are Caesarean.
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This is amazing but missing alt text, so I'll do a thread with detailed alt text for each of the three pictures.
At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city.
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026
February 7, 2026 at 7:10 PM
This is amazing but missing alt text, so I'll do a thread with detailed alt text for each of the three pictures.
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Several years ago, I managed to come up with this blue seeded variety of beans.
Since then, I've been trying to figure out how to make a blue bean with a paler color. Something like a sky-blue shade.
Since then, I've been trying to figure out how to make a blue bean with a paler color. Something like a sky-blue shade.
February 9, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Several years ago, I managed to come up with this blue seeded variety of beans.
Since then, I've been trying to figure out how to make a blue bean with a paler color. Something like a sky-blue shade.
Since then, I've been trying to figure out how to make a blue bean with a paler color. Something like a sky-blue shade.