Ray
@frigatebird.bsky.social
All-around Earth science enthusiast, transit fan, lapsed furry, amateur amateur
Not sure why a missing person alert went out to literally everyone in my state as a "severe alert." This person was abducted almost two hours away from my location.
AMBER alerts are already misused; if that overflows into the "severe" alert category, people are just going to turn those off too.
AMBER alerts are already misused; if that overflows into the "severe" alert category, people are just going to turn those off too.
January 4, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Not sure why a missing person alert went out to literally everyone in my state as a "severe alert." This person was abducted almost two hours away from my location.
AMBER alerts are already misused; if that overflows into the "severe" alert category, people are just going to turn those off too.
AMBER alerts are already misused; if that overflows into the "severe" alert category, people are just going to turn those off too.
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D1) again, this is difficult to pull off at longer lengths. But you don't get good at a thing by not doing it.
E) YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT done is better than perfect. Don't worry so much about "practicing right" just practice. You can adjust as you need as you go on.
E) YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT done is better than perfect. Don't worry so much about "practicing right" just practice. You can adjust as you need as you go on.
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
D1) again, this is difficult to pull off at longer lengths. But you don't get good at a thing by not doing it.
E) YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT done is better than perfect. Don't worry so much about "practicing right" just practice. You can adjust as you need as you go on.
E) YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT done is better than perfect. Don't worry so much about "practicing right" just practice. You can adjust as you need as you go on.
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(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
December 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne
I live in an area with a small transit system that recently switched the majority of its fleet to battery-electric. As a result of the bus manufacturer's incompetence, all of those vehicles have a recall on them, meaning the agency will be cutting service to accommodate. It sucks massively.
2025 was brutal for US transit. Agencies faced budget deficits, flat ridership, and open hostility from the White House.
I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.
Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.
Here are a few others 🧵
I wrote a series of stories outlining ways to help transit endure.
Lesson #1: Whatever you do, don’t cut service. Riders will leave – permanently.
Here are a few others 🧵
The Last Thing US Transit Agencies Should Do Now
Rising costs and widening deficits as pandemic aid runs out are challenging bus and train operators in many cities. But cutting service needs to be a last resort.
www.bloomberg.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I live in an area with a small transit system that recently switched the majority of its fleet to battery-electric. As a result of the bus manufacturer's incompetence, all of those vehicles have a recall on them, meaning the agency will be cutting service to accommodate. It sucks massively.
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Happy Horror Month to goth Daddy, bisexual icon Vincent Price.
October 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Happy Horror Month to goth Daddy, bisexual icon Vincent Price.
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Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖
October 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Here's a T. Rex bored to death trying to bite their own tail. My partner asked me to animate it in stop motion, after she watched a video about the very important topic of "could T. Rex chew its own tail like a dog". The puppet is still a work in progress 🦖
I am the very model of a modern aging lesbian
October 4, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I am the very model of a modern aging lesbian
Glad my Watergate Phase kind of naturally faded before we started getting a Watergate every day (without anybody who matters seeming to care)
October 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Glad my Watergate Phase kind of naturally faded before we started getting a Watergate every day (without anybody who matters seeming to care)
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I love unnecessarily sexy statues. My favorite being Thirst Trap Lincoln from the LA County Superior Courthouse.
September 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I love unnecessarily sexy statues. My favorite being Thirst Trap Lincoln from the LA County Superior Courthouse.
Need to start my collection of WaPo headlines that made me feel like I was hallucinating
September 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Need to start my collection of WaPo headlines that made me feel like I was hallucinating
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September 17, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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OH: if vaccines caused autism, we’d have way more trains in the United States
September 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
OH: if vaccines caused autism, we’d have way more trains in the United States
Oh damn, that sure is a Photo
August 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Oh damn, that sure is a Photo
Doing my best to overcome my fear of bees and wasps by being fascinated with them.
Current mission is to successfully photograph this Great Black Wasp that hangs out around our community garden plot.
She's the size of my whole thumb and flies away whenever I turn on my phone's camera
Current mission is to successfully photograph this Great Black Wasp that hangs out around our community garden plot.
She's the size of my whole thumb and flies away whenever I turn on my phone's camera
August 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Doing my best to overcome my fear of bees and wasps by being fascinated with them.
Current mission is to successfully photograph this Great Black Wasp that hangs out around our community garden plot.
She's the size of my whole thumb and flies away whenever I turn on my phone's camera
Current mission is to successfully photograph this Great Black Wasp that hangs out around our community garden plot.
She's the size of my whole thumb and flies away whenever I turn on my phone's camera
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We’re gonna start with the ladies (it’s the ladies everyday actually sorry)
September 28, 2023 at 6:27 PM
We’re gonna start with the ladies (it’s the ladies everyday actually sorry)
I drew a bird!
(I did my best with the default clip studio brushes and a very rusty skillset)
#DrawABird
(I did my best with the default clip studio brushes and a very rusty skillset)
#DrawABird
August 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I drew a bird!
(I did my best with the default clip studio brushes and a very rusty skillset)
#DrawABird
(I did my best with the default clip studio brushes and a very rusty skillset)
#DrawABird
Since a lot of people also seem to be getting the screaming marmot (?) as their first hit, I picked the first one that spoke to me
August 15, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Since a lot of people also seem to be getting the screaming marmot (?) as their first hit, I picked the first one that spoke to me
I volunteer with my local animal shelter's foster program, which is the number one reason I haven't quit FB.
(That said, the group we use for announcements, questions, and pet photos is getting pretty quiet these days, so maybe change is in the air.)
(That said, the group we use for announcements, questions, and pet photos is getting pretty quiet these days, so maybe change is in the air.)
In animal rescue, FB is the major connection method for everything from fundraising to communicating to volunteers.
It’s a critical part of local infrastructure.
It’s a critical part of local infrastructure.
Facebook is not good, but it has become *essential* for a lot of people, which is a huge issue. If you're in a small town, Facebook is often the only source of news about town government or local events. This makes it hard to ditch Facebook in the same way that people ditched Twitter.
August 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I volunteer with my local animal shelter's foster program, which is the number one reason I haven't quit FB.
(That said, the group we use for announcements, questions, and pet photos is getting pretty quiet these days, so maybe change is in the air.)
(That said, the group we use for announcements, questions, and pet photos is getting pretty quiet these days, so maybe change is in the air.)
Glad to hear buses being discussed seriously as a key part of the war on cars. I appreciate that this episode puts a lot of emphasis on free fares not being a black/white situation.
Also very much love that you thought about the bus operators too!
Also very much love that you thought about the bus operators too!
NEW EPISODE: "Should the Bus Be Free? With Yonah Freemark."
Zohran Mamdani has promised fast, free buses if he becomes mayor of NYC. It's a big idea, but is it a good one? @yonahfreemark.com walks us through the pros and cons, with examples from around the world.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Zohran Mamdani has promised fast, free buses if he becomes mayor of NYC. It's a big idea, but is it a good one? @yonahfreemark.com walks us through the pros and cons, with examples from around the world.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
August 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Glad to hear buses being discussed seriously as a key part of the war on cars. I appreciate that this episode puts a lot of emphasis on free fares not being a black/white situation.
Also very much love that you thought about the bus operators too!
Also very much love that you thought about the bus operators too!
I'm seeing more and more accounts popping up from people who were definitely big Wankers™ back in the day. I can't decide whether to block on sight or to rubberneck
August 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I'm seeing more and more accounts popping up from people who were definitely big Wankers™ back in the day. I can't decide whether to block on sight or to rubberneck
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If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:
Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”
Evidence is growing that some HIV-infected infants, if given antiretroviral drugs early in life, are able to suppress their viral loads to undetectable levels and then come off the medicine. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...
August 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:
Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.
I don't live anywhere near a big city. But every time I see anti-gentrification discourse, I'm reminded of how neatly it rhymes with the rampant nimbyism in my small Southern college town
the high point of my being denounced as a neoliberal shill on tiktok is when i insisted that gentrification is downstream of housing supply constraints, and isn’t a quality inherently possessed by people you don’t like
maybe I’ll get pilloried for like “not getting the joke” or whatever, but this is absolutely how, like, a comfortable percentage of Cool People think the dynamics of housing costs work and it fucking sucks
July 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I don't live anywhere near a big city. But every time I see anti-gentrification discourse, I'm reminded of how neatly it rhymes with the rampant nimbyism in my small Southern college town
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Am I a pretty kitty? 🐱
Handmade silicone mask
[ #sphynx #cat #sfx #creaturefx #noai #practicalfx #animatronics #creature #fx #furry #art #silicone #3dprinting ]
Handmade silicone mask
[ #sphynx #cat #sfx #creaturefx #noai #practicalfx #animatronics #creature #fx #furry #art #silicone #3dprinting ]
July 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Am I a pretty kitty? 🐱
Handmade silicone mask
[ #sphynx #cat #sfx #creaturefx #noai #practicalfx #animatronics #creature #fx #furry #art #silicone #3dprinting ]
Handmade silicone mask
[ #sphynx #cat #sfx #creaturefx #noai #practicalfx #animatronics #creature #fx #furry #art #silicone #3dprinting ]