Socar Myles
@packbawky.bsky.social
Kind of a hoser. Likes birds.
Today, I saw a Redditor claim seabird populations are down 90% from the 1970s. This is not true, as far as I know. According to the NIH, monitored seabird populations declined about 69.7% between 1950 and 2010.
Still, that's a huge decline, and it got me thinking about my first ghostwriting job.
Still, that's a huge decline, and it got me thinking about my first ghostwriting job.
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Today, I saw a Redditor claim seabird populations are down 90% from the 1970s. This is not true, as far as I know. According to the NIH, monitored seabird populations declined about 69.7% between 1950 and 2010.
Still, that's a huge decline, and it got me thinking about my first ghostwriting job.
Still, that's a huge decline, and it got me thinking about my first ghostwriting job.
Some days, you're a paragon of professional competence.
Other days, you're a sore-eyed, dry-nosed little animal, in need of your creature comforts.
Other days, you're a sore-eyed, dry-nosed little animal, in need of your creature comforts.
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Some days, you're a paragon of professional competence.
Other days, you're a sore-eyed, dry-nosed little animal, in need of your creature comforts.
Other days, you're a sore-eyed, dry-nosed little animal, in need of your creature comforts.
Reposted by Socar Myles
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Is it just me, or does social media feel a bit like "the old thing?"
For a few years now, I've been getting this feeling, like when forums started to decline, and newsgroups before them, where "the next thing" wasn't out yet, but you could feel the dwindling.
For a few years now, I've been getting this feeling, like when forums started to decline, and newsgroups before them, where "the next thing" wasn't out yet, but you could feel the dwindling.
November 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Is it just me, or does social media feel a bit like "the old thing?"
For a few years now, I've been getting this feeling, like when forums started to decline, and newsgroups before them, where "the next thing" wasn't out yet, but you could feel the dwindling.
For a few years now, I've been getting this feeling, like when forums started to decline, and newsgroups before them, where "the next thing" wasn't out yet, but you could feel the dwindling.
I was thinking I might try doing some pixel art.
You do it a lot bigger, right, than how it's shown onscreen? Feels like good art for a blind-adjacent person to do.
You do it a lot bigger, right, than how it's shown onscreen? Feels like good art for a blind-adjacent person to do.
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I was thinking I might try doing some pixel art.
You do it a lot bigger, right, than how it's shown onscreen? Feels like good art for a blind-adjacent person to do.
You do it a lot bigger, right, than how it's shown onscreen? Feels like good art for a blind-adjacent person to do.
Turned on my screentime tracker for my iPhone: three minutes last week!
(I felt briefly smug, then immediately realised I'd just spent eight hours staring at my laptop. Because, y'know, work. I use screens for work. I rack up a LOT, like a LOT of screen time, only not much of it's on my phone.)
(I felt briefly smug, then immediately realised I'd just spent eight hours staring at my laptop. Because, y'know, work. I use screens for work. I rack up a LOT, like a LOT of screen time, only not much of it's on my phone.)
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Turned on my screentime tracker for my iPhone: three minutes last week!
(I felt briefly smug, then immediately realised I'd just spent eight hours staring at my laptop. Because, y'know, work. I use screens for work. I rack up a LOT, like a LOT of screen time, only not much of it's on my phone.)
(I felt briefly smug, then immediately realised I'd just spent eight hours staring at my laptop. Because, y'know, work. I use screens for work. I rack up a LOT, like a LOT of screen time, only not much of it's on my phone.)
Speaking of birds, with human beings having the lips to whistle, was it just a roll of the dice we evolved spoken language as we know it, rather than more of a birdsong style of communication?
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Speaking of birds, with human beings having the lips to whistle, was it just a roll of the dice we evolved spoken language as we know it, rather than more of a birdsong style of communication?
Has anyone tried setting a bird up with its own recording studio? Like, giving it a simplified, bird-friendly version of GarageBand, or something, showing it how to record a clip, and letting it loose?
I'd be interested in what a bird would deem worthy of recording. Or...meme-worthy.
I'd be interested in what a bird would deem worthy of recording. Or...meme-worthy.
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Has anyone tried setting a bird up with its own recording studio? Like, giving it a simplified, bird-friendly version of GarageBand, or something, showing it how to record a clip, and letting it loose?
I'd be interested in what a bird would deem worthy of recording. Or...meme-worthy.
I'd be interested in what a bird would deem worthy of recording. Or...meme-worthy.
Next time someone tells me not to Google something...I'm not going to Google it.
On a tangentially related note, when I was a kid, we used to look up people with funny surnames in the phone book, then phone them and:
* burp at Belcher
* slurp at Felcher
* sing "O Canada" at Kaneda.
On a tangentially related note, when I was a kid, we used to look up people with funny surnames in the phone book, then phone them and:
* burp at Belcher
* slurp at Felcher
* sing "O Canada" at Kaneda.
November 22, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Next time someone tells me not to Google something...I'm not going to Google it.
On a tangentially related note, when I was a kid, we used to look up people with funny surnames in the phone book, then phone them and:
* burp at Belcher
* slurp at Felcher
* sing "O Canada" at Kaneda.
On a tangentially related note, when I was a kid, we used to look up people with funny surnames in the phone book, then phone them and:
* burp at Belcher
* slurp at Felcher
* sing "O Canada" at Kaneda.
I was babysitting for about an hour this morning, and between 9:12AM (when I started counting) and 9:56AM, the kid said "kissy kitty" twenty-eight times.
I now understand why my mother banned the phrases "pathogenic bacteria" and "sticky residue" from our home.
I now understand why my mother banned the phrases "pathogenic bacteria" and "sticky residue" from our home.
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I was babysitting for about an hour this morning, and between 9:12AM (when I started counting) and 9:56AM, the kid said "kissy kitty" twenty-eight times.
I now understand why my mother banned the phrases "pathogenic bacteria" and "sticky residue" from our home.
I now understand why my mother banned the phrases "pathogenic bacteria" and "sticky residue" from our home.
Reskeet with a time you looked cool
In my twenties, I could more or less effortlessly hang in a doorframe. I don't know how cool I looked, but this is how I did it.
In my twenties, I could more or less effortlessly hang in a doorframe. I don't know how cool I looked, but this is how I did it.
November 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Reskeet with a time you looked cool
In my twenties, I could more or less effortlessly hang in a doorframe. I don't know how cool I looked, but this is how I did it.
In my twenties, I could more or less effortlessly hang in a doorframe. I don't know how cool I looked, but this is how I did it.
Damn it--I've done it AGAIN (commented on someone's post who had been a mutual, only to realise they had unfollowed me).
Such an uncomfortable feeling, chatting happily at someone who's struck you off.
It's like being at a party and the person you're talking to starts turning away...
Such an uncomfortable feeling, chatting happily at someone who's struck you off.
It's like being at a party and the person you're talking to starts turning away...
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Damn it--I've done it AGAIN (commented on someone's post who had been a mutual, only to realise they had unfollowed me).
Such an uncomfortable feeling, chatting happily at someone who's struck you off.
It's like being at a party and the person you're talking to starts turning away...
Such an uncomfortable feeling, chatting happily at someone who's struck you off.
It's like being at a party and the person you're talking to starts turning away...
I've been watching this drama unfold, involving an artist who may have used AI. He's now posted a series of "process images," which don't look like the steps most artists would take to get the images he ended up with.
I was embarrassed at first, then I got MORE embarrassed, because...
I was embarrassed at first, then I got MORE embarrassed, because...
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 AM
I've been watching this drama unfold, involving an artist who may have used AI. He's now posted a series of "process images," which don't look like the steps most artists would take to get the images he ended up with.
I was embarrassed at first, then I got MORE embarrassed, because...
I was embarrassed at first, then I got MORE embarrassed, because...
Reposted by Socar Myles
One year ago, this little book hit the shelves in the UK. It didn't have much in the way of fanfare, no one will nominate it for awards, but despite everything, it's sold so much better than I expected and has made some solid fans, which, at the end of the day, is what matters.
November 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
One year ago, this little book hit the shelves in the UK. It didn't have much in the way of fanfare, no one will nominate it for awards, but despite everything, it's sold so much better than I expected and has made some solid fans, which, at the end of the day, is what matters.
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
(I have not actually watched this, but I've listened to it, beginning to end, several times while awake, and I listen to it most nights to put myself to sleep.)
(I have not actually watched this, but I've listened to it, beginning to end, several times while awake, and I listen to it most nights to put myself to sleep.)
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.
(I have not actually watched this, but I've listened to it, beginning to end, several times while awake, and I listen to it most nights to put myself to sleep.)
(I have not actually watched this, but I've listened to it, beginning to end, several times while awake, and I listen to it most nights to put myself to sleep.)
I just had a weird thing happen: I bought one of those pre-made, vacuum-sealed sandwiches, and one of the breads was an end piece.
I've NEVER had one of those breads be an end piece.
(The sandwich was from the farmers' market, not, like, a petrol station. But it still weirded me out.)
I've NEVER had one of those breads be an end piece.
(The sandwich was from the farmers' market, not, like, a petrol station. But it still weirded me out.)
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I just had a weird thing happen: I bought one of those pre-made, vacuum-sealed sandwiches, and one of the breads was an end piece.
I've NEVER had one of those breads be an end piece.
(The sandwich was from the farmers' market, not, like, a petrol station. But it still weirded me out.)
I've NEVER had one of those breads be an end piece.
(The sandwich was from the farmers' market, not, like, a petrol station. But it still weirded me out.)
So much THIS.
I LIKE getting copies of Analog (and Asimov's! and F&SF!) in the mail with my stuff in them. I LIKE having them on the brag shelf.
I don't like it enough to throw the people coming up behind me under the bus. I don't like it enough to give the message that rights grabs are okay.
I don't like it enough to throw the people coming up behind me under the bus. I don't like it enough to give the message that rights grabs are okay.
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
So much THIS.
Every time I see the Oval Office, I swear it has new layers of cheesy gold tat.
(Sadly, that tends to be the LEAST offensive facet of any broadcast from that location.)
(Sadly, that tends to be the LEAST offensive facet of any broadcast from that location.)
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Every time I see the Oval Office, I swear it has new layers of cheesy gold tat.
(Sadly, that tends to be the LEAST offensive facet of any broadcast from that location.)
(Sadly, that tends to be the LEAST offensive facet of any broadcast from that location.)
The song in my head today is the Moon Patrol theme song.
Sometimes I miss C-64 gaming.
Other times, I have THIS damn song stuck in my head.
Sometimes I miss C-64 gaming.
Other times, I have THIS damn song stuck in my head.
November 17, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The song in my head today is the Moon Patrol theme song.
Sometimes I miss C-64 gaming.
Other times, I have THIS damn song stuck in my head.
Sometimes I miss C-64 gaming.
Other times, I have THIS damn song stuck in my head.
Oh, it's "at this point!"
Not "adenosine triphosphate."
(Momentarily confused by "ATP" used as a text acronym.)
Not "adenosine triphosphate."
(Momentarily confused by "ATP" used as a text acronym.)
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Oh, it's "at this point!"
Not "adenosine triphosphate."
(Momentarily confused by "ATP" used as a text acronym.)
Not "adenosine triphosphate."
(Momentarily confused by "ATP" used as a text acronym.)
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the ULP strike. #Birds
November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Post a bird to support @sbworkersunited.org and warn your followers not to buy Starbucks for the duration of the ULP strike. #Birds
The song in my head today is this scene from "Die Fledermaus," responsible for making the Venn diagram of opera fans and people who'd spend an embarrassing amount of money on a repeater watch into a circle.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehxk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehxk...
Die Uhr Duett(Die Fledermaus-J.Strauss) - Hakan Hagegard & Karita Mattila
YouTube video by B.C Kim
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November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The song in my head today is this scene from "Die Fledermaus," responsible for making the Venn diagram of opera fans and people who'd spend an embarrassing amount of money on a repeater watch into a circle.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehxk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehxk...
The song in my head today is "Maybe" by the Ink Spots.
Some time in the '90s, I bought a game called "Fallout" because I heard it had Ink Spots songs. It became one of my favourite games. (But it only had one Ink Spots song, and that was "Maybe.")
Some time in the '90s, I bought a game called "Fallout" because I heard it had Ink Spots songs. It became one of my favourite games. (But it only had one Ink Spots song, and that was "Maybe.")
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The song in my head today is "Maybe" by the Ink Spots.
Some time in the '90s, I bought a game called "Fallout" because I heard it had Ink Spots songs. It became one of my favourite games. (But it only had one Ink Spots song, and that was "Maybe.")
Some time in the '90s, I bought a game called "Fallout" because I heard it had Ink Spots songs. It became one of my favourite games. (But it only had one Ink Spots song, and that was "Maybe.")
Remember in 2018, when Scottish Twitter christened Trump "President Bawbag?"
All I can think now is "President Stoat-the-Baw... bag."
All I can think now is "President Stoat-the-Baw... bag."
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Remember in 2018, when Scottish Twitter christened Trump "President Bawbag?"
All I can think now is "President Stoat-the-Baw... bag."
All I can think now is "President Stoat-the-Baw... bag."
Age yourself with gaming!
(Had to link to a Reddit thread, because I couldn't find a screenshot of the 1984 CGA version, which is what I played. I did play Atari games before this, but this is the first game I won by myself.)
www.reddit.com/r/Sierra/com...
(Had to link to a Reddit thread, because I couldn't find a screenshot of the 1984 CGA version, which is what I played. I did play Atari games before this, but this is the first game I won by myself.)
www.reddit.com/r/Sierra/com...
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Age yourself with gaming!
(Had to link to a Reddit thread, because I couldn't find a screenshot of the 1984 CGA version, which is what I played. I did play Atari games before this, but this is the first game I won by myself.)
www.reddit.com/r/Sierra/com...
(Had to link to a Reddit thread, because I couldn't find a screenshot of the 1984 CGA version, which is what I played. I did play Atari games before this, but this is the first game I won by myself.)
www.reddit.com/r/Sierra/com...