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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · 20h

Definitely also stop using biometrics for your devices. CBP aside, courts are divided on whether or not 5A applies, even if you're stopped by a regular cop (such as at a protest, etc.).

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · 5d

Day 2: my pick for "2020s release"

I think I got more out of this than Mike, though he did enjoy it. Manages to physicalize anxiety and also still be pretty fun/like a more sophisticated Basket Case.

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Appendage (2023)

After hitting a breaking point, Hannah's inner thoughts physicalize into a monstrous creature that threatens to upend her life.

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · 5d

31 Days of October: day 1 (Mike's pick for "original of a classic remake")

Culty, occulty, and fun!

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Satan's Slave (1980)

A wealthy family stop practicing their Muslim faith and are tormented by the undead after their mother dies.

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Aug 12

I was sort of afraid just riding in an uber in Boston! Those people do not play.

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Aug 10

I've seen this firsthand with reintroduced elk populations. They're protected in several counties here, and you can get quite close to them (even a group of humans) and they won't startle. The bands that migrate to other nearby counties where they aren't protected learn quickly that humans == threat

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Jun 26

I literally opened this app the SECOND I saw that op ed because it is straight-up Hobbes Bait.

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Jun 22

Iran has been like 2 weeks away from a nuke since I was about 15 years old so I'm just wondering when we can expect that bc at this point I would welcome MAD

birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Jun 22

And once you're there, just start including every damn thing you want, just because you want it. Fuck it. Be the "Smile" you want to see in the world.

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · Jun 20

I’m here you fuckass bitch

Cavernous room with concrete pillars and a strange undulating floor. The Zone from Tarkovsky’s Stalker

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Jun 20

Sure is!

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Jun 20

Part 2 of a 3-part series. Featuring 200-year-old rituals, zombies, and bombs disguised as babies!

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Jun 5

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Apr 18

"Everything is a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works" part 8 billion from this administration.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Apr 18

I’m kind of fascinated by how even the sweatiest lab leak conspiracists can only link the virus to Fauci by saying he … asked someone to publish a paper.

birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Apr 18

If you're not listening to Jesus Christ Superstar this week I don't know you.

birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Apr 16

Mourning Dove on a day of mourning.

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Apr 6

THERE IS ONLY ONE #GR8

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Mr. Tyler Crook @mrtylercrook.bsky.social · Mar 30

I’m so jealous of Tim Walz right now. I can’t imagine how good it must feel to have Elon Musk go on TV and say that you - specifically - hurt his feelings so bad.

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Mar 19

There are entire activist/protest groups that are both a) against the genocide in Gaza, and b) made up of Jewish people. Have several fucking seats.

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Mar 13

That was kind of rambling, but my whole point is that we aren't actually making up new names for moons.

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Mar 13

The term "worm moon" for the March moon is very old. There are names like this for every full moon, usually based on another natural event that would happen around the same time. In this case, the emergence of earthworms (due to the warmer weather).

Next month will be the pink moon (phlox is pink).

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 10

Anyone find it funny how when the UK releases the Cass review to ban trans care, we get everything ranging from New York Times push notifs to op-eds in every major US paper...

But when Germany, Switzerland, and Austria release pro-trans youth care guidelines, not a single article anywhere but mine?

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 9

1. Major news in transgender care.

Germany, Switzerland, and Austria have just released their trans youth care guidelines.

They strongly recommend trans youth care and slam the
Cass Review in England.

Europe is not "pulling back" on trans care.

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New German, Swiss, And Austrian Guidelines Recommend Trans Youth Care, Slam Cass Review

The recommendations, released by the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany, come at a time when US politicians erroneously claim that Europe is "pulling back" on transgender care.

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Mar 6

Aren't you a woman, though? Come on in; door's wide open. 🩵🩷

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Feb 22

This irritates the hell out of me. A college friend's sister actually works in a prison as a choir director. Like she started a women's prison choir, and it's a fantastic program that a lot of people get a lot of good out of. Claiming the J6 ppl are a "choir" at all is insulting to her work imo.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · Feb 16

i know i'm just a dumb nobody who knows nothing but it just seems a little gauche that i keep seeing posts scolding the mean leftists for not being conciliatory enough to disillusioned trump voters especially because 1) none of them are even apologetic and 2) i do not trust those people

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birdsong4j @birdsong4j.bsky.social · Feb 16

I was on a search committee for an IT support position and this is precisely how we prioritized skills. You can teach people the technical stuff they're less familiar with, but you can't teach them how to talk to users.