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@feathertrail.net

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nature/nonsense Building Feather Trail, an open-world birdwatching adventure game. 🎮 Wishlist on Steam! bit.ly/FeatherTrail 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/XKt776sR2P Also check out @biodiversitybot.bsky.social

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psychodroma @feathertrail.net · Jul 17

I wanted a birding adventure game & there weren't any.
Nearly 4 years into building this now. FT job, a toddler & a baby make it a marathon. But day by day we're getting closer...

Feather Trail is on Steam & you can wishlist it: store.steampowered.com/app/2857180/...

#GodotEngine #gamedev

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 1h

lil buddy

jumping spider

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 5h

LECORNU L'ENCORE HON HON

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 12h

i took this system to its maximum potential

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Colorado History Photos 🏔️ 📸 @coloradophotos.bsky.social · 16h

Central City | circa 1900 | A boy and toddler ride a burro down Eureka Street while a man watches from sidewalk. Signs visible include "The Golden Rule" and "First National Bank."

Central City | circa 1900 | A boy and toddler ride a burro down Eureka Street while a man watches from sidewalk. Signs visible include "The Golden Rule" and "First National Bank."

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 22h

A steady arpeggiated bass thuds forward. Triumphant saw lead chords erupt over it like the sunrise. Jeff Bridges voice “THE GRID.” I flip down the visor on my biker helmet. Your move, user.

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psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 1d

I would never condone a spooktacular of any variety. Only morally upstanding spectacle, on asphalt in full sun

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 1d

running from block to block of our mundane suburban grid after midnight, dressed like van helsing, felling plastic home depot skeletons in god’s name

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psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 1d

Blessed by dad gods to not make the cut into the magic show lugging 40lbs of parent gear so I get to heroically guard it and drink a beer staring directly into a fake cave wall instead 👌

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 1d

pilgrimage to a Mecca of mid 2000s edgelords

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 1d

Wishlist Feather Trail on Steam

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Jasper Nathaniel @infinitejaz.bsky.social · 1d

For @parisreview.bsky.social, I wrote about three days in DC, embedded with the families of Americans killed and abducted by Israeli settlers and soldiers as they walked the halls of power, demanding justice from a gov’t that hardly registered their existence. www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...

A Hill to Die On by Jasper Nathaniel

October 8, 2025 – “I was in the nation’s capital along with a small delegation of American families who were grieving loved ones killed or abducted by Israeli settlers and soldiers.”

www.theparisreview.org

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 2d

[standing and thumping chest] *I* am the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 2d

I have patiently reaped what I’ve sown and waited for my chickens to come home to roost. And I’ve finally saved up enough for a down payment on a brand new petard. Gonna hoist my ass up onto the barn roof and finally fix that leak

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 2d

cemetery chippers. including a funky leucistic one with a white head

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 2d

senior portrait, Pine Squirrel
Spruce-Fir High School Class of 2026

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 2d

black-billed magpie perched on a headstone

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chipping sparrow scrutinizes some grass seeds 🪶

small sparrow with rusty cap, dark eye line, and sandy-gray plumage stares at seed heads(?) growing out from from lawn grass
small sparrow with rusty cap, dark eye line, and sandy-gray plumage stares at seed heads(?) growing out from from lawn grass

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 3d

big wave of sandhill cranes reported across the whole metro tonight. had a couple groups bugling overhead myself

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 3d

red-breasted nuthatch, upside down on a pine branch

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 3d

Calvino-style novel when

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 4d

blue jay on the shingled roof of my garage. siberian elm leaves out of focus in foreground

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Mike Gaston @impatientbirder.bsky.social · 4d

We were back in Kent for the weekend, and it was good to walk round Elmley and Stodmarsh again. Elmley is very dry at the moment but Stodmarsh seems have 'weathered' the dry weather well. Beardie from Stodmarsh this morning. #StodmarshNR

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 4d

this can be super useful in the east, you can download a PDF with that and other views here dl.allaboutbirds.org/download_the...

psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 4d

I think I lean pine warbler for this— dunno where you are but these pics are tough lol
- general impression: big for warbler
- no streaking, yellow breast to white undertail
- white on outer 4 tail feathers (all pics) black rest of tail (pic 2)
face contrast is stark but maybe just blame the phone?