American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

The pure, unadulterated joy I feel watching him go from a bloodied, ripped up wing to being able to do THIS...There's nothing like it. And some area crows are starting to watch us daily & get closer. I'm so excited to see him interact with them & learn crow secrets that I can't impart. #birds

One day in the lab, we accidentally discovered that the spines of a cactus 🌵 straighten when exposed to fog. I was intrigued and so were my collaborators. How does this work and what can be gained from it? Here are some of the answers in our new preprint:
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The tank's role is to draw aggro

He is up in a very tall cedar tree rn. Fuck yes it's so delightful to watch him get good at flying.

Here's a pretty good one I got when he was doing his weird neck-sunning thing.

He simply cannot resist the siren's call of Cat Tail. The cat has been so graciously tolerant. #birds CC @banditelli.org

Tough time for mental health for people who aren’t horrible monsters so I took some pictures of things in my garden that made me happy yesterday. Pomegranate, passionfruit blossom, banana. 🌱 #gardening

Should elected officials be imprisoned for speaking out against an invasion of their cities? Hard to say. Very technical question. Really one for the lawyers to sort out.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

I think he found the one piece of plastic someone dropped in my yard. Buried under leaves, given how dirty it is. He wasn't a fan when I took it from him. #birds

I love the stupid noises he makes so much. #birds

He's doing it again, the little freak. #birds

A little round ball of fluff, this bushtit stares at me from the branches. #birdoftheday #birds #nature #photography

In recent days, he has become absolutely obsessed with pulling the cat's tail. Apparently this behavior is ingrained in crows. If they see a tail, they gotta pull it. arstechnica.com/science/2016...

Good morning. We're outside on the favored bench doing relentless cat harassment again. #birds

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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You know what would be a good use of some political C(3) "public education" money? A tariff calculator that allows you to look through a massive catalog of normal consumer goods and show how much tariffs are increasing the price of each.