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Birder K
@birderk.bsky.social
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She/her Just another broke girl w/binoculars. Will answer bird feeder & bird ID questions!
PayPal @birderk, CashApp $KBirder
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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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pulltheplug-ai.bsky.social
On Wednesdays we take down Big Tech 💋

🤖 March Against The Machines
🗓️Saturday 28th February
⏰12–4pm
📍London, Outside the OpenAI office (York House, Fora, 221 Pentonville Rd, London N1 9UZ)

💅 Sign up at link in bio!

#pulltheplug #stoptheslop #ai #marchagainstthemachines #bigtech
February 11, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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oishinythings.bsky.social
Disabled artist trying to pull in rent last minute - I'm down to the wire and anything helps.

I have over 150 wallpapers for $2 each, or grab a bundle and get a big discount.

Here's one of my favourites, from Winnall Moors Nature Reserve:
ko-fi.com/s/e215269b08

#Helpsky #💕💸 #Photography
Small green stone turtle climbing the mossy trunk of a very angled tree, surounded by other tilted trees and marshy ground.
February 15, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
It’s unreasonably important to me that people know JewBelong isn’t some big org, it’s just Archie Gottesman, a hugely shitty racist rich white woman who used to make billboards for her daddy’s company and pivoted to vomiting her bullshit racist crybullying onto them in the name of “antisemitism”
erinbiba.bsky.social Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d
This is the pet project of one rich AF Jewish nepo baby white lady who lives on the upper east side and claims to speak for all Jews and throws her money around to control the messaging and it is a fucking nightmare
February 13, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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banditelli.org
Lol what losers.
The freedom Foundation promoting a meme from some the new Frontline I don't know podcast host saying this is coordinated Union messaging meant to blow the lines between labor advocacy and social agitation and if we cannot figure out the difference between the two then you only just have us right where they want us
February 15, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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baddestmamajama.bsky.social
I’m sure this dude is fine. He does have a Nazi tattoo. And says women whine about sexual assault in the military. And that black people are stupid. But gosh darn it he says he’s a progressive, and since he’s white and male, who can really say what’s in a person’s heart.
nberlat.bsky.social Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 6h
Platner's dismissive comments about sexual assault in the military were so disgusting that a candidate who had experienced assault in the service dropped out to endorse Mills rather than risk Platner getting into the senate. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...
Progressive Candidate Has Dropped Out Of ME Senate Race
Not Platner. Daira Smith-Rodriguez
www.everythingishorrible.net
February 15, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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nberlat.bsky.social
Platner was making homophobic comments online as recently as 2021.
February 15, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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nberlat.bsky.social
Platner's dismissive comments about sexual assault in the military were so disgusting that a candidate who had experienced assault in the service dropped out to endorse Mills rather than risk Platner getting into the senate. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...
Progressive Candidate Has Dropped Out Of ME Senate Race
Not Platner. Daira Smith-Rodriguez
www.everythingishorrible.net
February 15, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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gretchenmcculloch.com
Roses are red
I bet you'll agree
Which one is bouba
And which is kiki
A spiky shape in green on a black background A blobby shape in green on a black background
February 14, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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peculiarityshop.bsky.social
Rings are organized.

Before I put the sterling all away for the weekend, any night owls on the prowl that missed my stream earlier looking for something?
February 15, 2026 at 6:11 AM
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petersuber.bsky.social
A review of the proceedings from four major computer-science conferences showed that none from 2021, and all from 2025, had fake citations.
arxiv.org/abs/2602.058...

#AI #LLMs #Hallucinations #Misconduct #ScholComm
The Case of the Mysterious Citations
Mysterious citations are routinely appearing in peer-reviewed publications throughout the scientific community. In this paper, we developed an automated pipeline and examine the proceedings of four ma...
arxiv.org
February 11, 2026 at 2:22 PM
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pippiewup.bsky.social
Research shows that artificial light at night disrupts circadian rhythms, impairs some species ability to find their way around, and is a cause of declining populations of #insects, #bats, and other nocturnal #fauna #wildlife
#lightpollution

theconversation.com/why-walking-...
Why walking in a national park in the dark prompts people to turn off lights at home
The starry skies we can see from the UK are being limited all the time by the glare of light pollution.
theconversation.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Yes. Ask LA all about that shit. People have not wrapped their mind around the idea that the Federal Government is Trumps bank account he goes to the mattresses in court to try and stop paying out what is owed to taxpayers. SNAP for God's sake!
February 15, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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lil-bird-hugger.bsky.social
Insects in the #Amazon are finally getting recognized 🙌 👏 #bees #Insects

www.ecoticias.com/en/for-the-f...
For the first time in global legal history, a country has recognized the legal rights of insects, and it is the stingless bees of the Peruvian Amazon that are taking the first step toward a new model ...
Peru just made history: stingless bees in the Amazon now have legal rights, letting communities sue to defend hives and habitat.
www.ecoticias.com
February 15, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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tinadesireeberg.com
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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dansinker.com
Hey a very great maker of plastic for 3d printers has set up a thing where you pay $20 and they ship a spool of filament to members of our printing crew. One spool makes 500 whistles or more. Help out!

proto-pasta.com/products/the...
"We Keep Us Safe" by The Whistle Crew
The Protopasta Fil-anthropy Fund is proud to partner with the Whistle Crew, "a loose federation united by our love for 3D printing and community safety." Across the nation, our communities' lives are ...
proto-pasta.com
February 14, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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moxiest.art
✨ Shameless Self Promotion Saturday ✨

✨ re-reject edition ✨

we spent the last three weeks avoiding promoting the angry stuff, and keeping it hidden on the shop, because we did not want to be remotely seen as capitalizing on people's deaths.

thank you for respecting the break

artbymox.shop/reject
a selection of designs from our reject collection. shirts, stickers, hoodies, with various antifascist or queer slogans.
February 14, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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korybing.bsky.social
RIP to a real Oregon hero. He went to Disneyland in the 60s, said “I bet I could do this” and you know what he sure could and did.
oregonian.com The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d
Enchanted Forest founder Roger Tofte, 96, died Friday of natural causes, some 54½ years after he opened the iconic roadside amusement park.

https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2026/02/founder-of-iconic-oregon-roadside-amusement-park-dies-at-96.html 
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February 15, 2026 at 1:50 AM
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secondnaturemb.bsky.social
Amazing find for this year's Great Backyard Bird Count in my backyard! I've tried for years to get a clear photo of a boreal chickadee. They're forever mocking me from high in the spruce trees with their nasal 'chicka-day-days', but today, I finally managed to snap a photo of one! #GBBC #birds 🌿
An adorable boreal chickadee perched high in a snow-covered white spruce bough. It has a chestnut cap and brown sides, black chin and grey nape. A dapper cousin of the black-capped chickadee.
February 14, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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banditelli.org
Ya meeting Orange County celebrity birds is cool, but have you met OC celebrity labor mascots?

I think not.
Me with a Starbucks worker and her little bear Elenor who has roses and a small sign that says 100 days on strike
February 15, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
The "AI revolution" in science is going so smoothly that my instititutional library is having to deploy multiple technical protection measures against "poorly behaved Gen AI crawling" just to maintain its timely service library.ed.ac.uk/research-sup...
Screenshot of text from University of Edinburgh library services: Like many academic libraries, we have been experiencing slowness and outages on some of our open access platforms over the last few months. We have identified that this is the result of poorly behaved Gen AI crawling activity. As such we have had to try to disable the ability for AI -harvesters to access content from our repositories, via IP range blocking, geographical blacklisting, implementing limits to throttle bots and using robots.txt files to limit access. We acknowledge that this approach is not consistent with our open access policy which should require us to permit machine access to our content. Our limiting activity is not 100% fool-proof, and is a temporary measure to give services breathing space to perform while a longer termn solution is worked out by software providers and the community. This approach also has the added benefit of helping to assuage authors fear of losing control of their works.
February 14, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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kbspangler.com
Roses are red
Plants love the rain
We're a blood clot away
From popping champagne.

(Now I'm done again)
February 14, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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weatherprof.bsky.social
This is the worst #drought in 25 years in much of #Florida. We are a foot behind since Sept 1. It’s the driest such period on record! The good news: we may add an inch Sunday night. We’ll take it… But clearly it’s nowhere near what’s needed. Gonna be a tough spring as we head towards fire season.
February 14, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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mongabay.com
Cambodia is set to build the $1.2B Funan Techo Canal linking the Mekong to the sea.

Residents along the route say they’ve received little information and fear land loss and disruption to floodplain farms and fisheries.
Farmers fear displacement, drought, flooding tied to Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal
This is the second of two stories about the potential impact of Cambodia’s planned Funan Techo Canal. Read part one, about consequences for coastal communities and wildlife, here. TAKEO, Cambodia…
news.mongabay.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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forbesmm.bsky.social
idk where to even start with this, how about here

DoD: our new laser weapon is totally safe we promise

FAA: show your work pls

DoD: no :)

DoD: also we’re gonna let border patrol use it lol
For much of that same time frame, the F.A.A. and the Pentagon were also engaged in discussions over the military's plan to begin testing counter-drone lasers against cross-border threats from drug cartels. The Pentagon had insisted to the F.A.A. that the lasers would not pose a risk to civilian aircraft, but the FA.A., unconvinced, had asked for the military's data and an opportunity to conduct its own tests, according to three people with knowledge of those discussions. The requests were not satisfied. In late January, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved a request from the Department of Homeland Security to allow border protection agents to use the Pentagon's new anti-drone laser technology.
February 14, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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oishinythings.bsky.social
Every pendant comes in a gift box with free international shipping (and US tariffs taken care of).

#TreatYourself #Handmade
Large dark blue oval pendant with green glowing sections, wrapped in criss cross wire and sitting in black and white gift box. Small green labradorite drop pendant netted in silver wire, sitting in black and white gift box.
February 14, 2026 at 11:24 PM