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L(ou|ydia). Chicago, bikes, birds. they/them/comrade.
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not thrilled about being back to work but at least my favorite coworker is here
a brown tabby tortoiseshell cat in loaf mode sitting on a blanket in a white cat bed on a desk in front of a computer screen. her eyes are closed. you can't tell from the picture but she's purring
January 12, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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doing pretty good on my list. gonna sit and enjoy my coffee for a moment.
todo list with checkboxes. two unchecked items: "finish the dishes" and "go home for Christmas!!!". 60 checked items are not shown
December 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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winner winner chicken dinner!
same view as parent post with the chimney and porch roof but the starling, a small blackbird, is sitting upright instead of pointing its tuckus in the air as before
December 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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guess that bird
a light brick chimney and wall with patio roof in front of it and leafless trees behind, blue sky and wispy clouds above. on the roof next to the chimney is a bird tail pointed up to the sky
December 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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gonna fix her shit (literal)
a brown tortoiseshell tabby cat peers out of a white and black cat carrier with the front door removed. she's in a little room at the vet and she is not excited about it in the least
December 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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this year, I kept a "Read" pile to go with my "To Read" piles, and I highly recommend doing this, it was very motivating
a stack of the following books, most of which are red, white, or black in color: 1. Absolution, Jeff Mandermeer 2. Birding for a Better World, The Feminist Bird Club 3. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind; Suzuki Shunryu 4. The Circle of the Way: A Concise History of Zen, Barbara O'Brien 5. Who's Afraid of Gender?, Judith Butler 6. Advocate, Eddie Ahn 7. Elite Capture, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 8. A Meditator's Guide to Buddhism, Cortland Dahl 9. On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder 10. Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou 11. Hair Shirt, Adrian Sobol 12. Turning Suffering Inside Out, Darlene Cohen 13. The Serviceberry, Robin Wall Kimmerer 14. Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies, edited by Scott Branson, Bry Reed, and Raven Hudson; foreword by Mimi Thi Nguyen 15. Mujina Into the Deep, vol. 1; Inio Asano 16. The Book of Love, Kelly Link 17. Dorohedoro, vol 09; Q Hayashida 18. Dorohedoro, vol 10; Q Hayashida 19. Dorohedoro, vol 11; Q Hayashida 20. Simplicity, Mattie Lubchansky 21. Mujina Into the Deep, vol. 2; Inio Asano 22. Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook, Sonya Huber 23. Ducks, Kate Beaton (leaning beside the stack of books) also, a handwritten list of eBooks read or audiobooks listened to on the Libby app 1. The Butcher of the Forest, Premee Mohamed 2. Piranesi, Sussana Clarke 3. Babel, RF Kuang 4. A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers 5. Moon of the Crusted Snow, Waubgeshig Rice 6. The Naming Song, Jedediah Berry 7. The Bright Sword, Lev Grossman 8. The City in Glass, Nghi Vo 9. The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa 10. The Light-Eaters, Zoë Schlanger 11. The Lonely City, Olivia Laing Not pictured: a list of books borrowed or loaned out: 1. The Heart Sutra, translated by Red Pine 2. Saturn Apartments, vol 1, Hisae Iwaoka 3. Saturn Apartments, vol 2, Hisae Iwaoka 4. Theory of Water, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Also on the shelf is a framed print of a pixelated kiwi bird
December 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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haha okay got my ass
my "YouTube wrapped" or whatever showing that my top viewed channel in 2025 was the Mystery Science Theater 3000 channel where I was in the Top 7% of viewers and I "watched 70 of their videos this year - that's dedication" which to be clear many of their videos contain multiple episodes/movies
December 21, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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time for my annual viewing of the best Christmas movie
tumblr post by user vigilantsycamore on Dec 25, 2020: Ebenezer Scrooge: Goes outside 500 Muppets: There goes Mr Asshole! There goes Mr Bitch!
December 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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someone heard you were talking shit
a brown tabby tortoiseshell cat sits on a side table in a living room. she's standing up on her hind legs, front legs to her sides. she's staring right into the camera with a grave expression. treats are serious business and she takes them very seriously. framed pictures on the wall, a bookcase with stuff, a pile of laundry, and the edge of a TV are in the background
December 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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we did ittt
aranet4 air quality sensor displaying 70°F, 24% humidity, 658 CO2 ppm
December 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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taking bets on whether my office room cracks 70°F. started off at 57°F at 8:30am.
photo of an aranet 4 air quality monitor. the display reads 63°F, 30% humidity, 696 CO2 ppm
December 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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a nice sunset happening out there probably
looking west over apartment buildings, a tree in silhouette with bare craggy branches all mostly blocking what is probably a very beautiful sunset. pinks and oranges just above the line of rooftops, dusky blue sky overhead
December 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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finishing my mom's Christmas present on time is looking exceedingly unlikely
teal knitted cloth on a bamboo knitting needle, sitting in my lap on a cream-colored blanket with a light blue stripe. the knitting has three columns in a nice cabled pattern with thin cabled columns between. eventually it'll be a scarf but it's just a square right now.
December 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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just wondering
screenshot of DuckDuckGo's quick unit converter showing that 11.42857 degrees Fahrenheit equals -11.42857 degrees Celsius. things one wonders about when it's hella cold out.
December 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Mentally, I am here.
a paved bike path with a yellow painted media curves through a grassy green prairie towards a distant line of green trees, blue sky and sparse little fluffy clouds overhead. a single bicyclist is on the path in the distance.
December 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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chicken butt
screenshot of top header of the Bluesky app on Android. list of lists across the top reads "Following", "Mutuals", "Weather", and "Great Lakes B". underneath is a text input prompt with my profile picture to the left and camera and gallery buttons to the right. The placeholder text in the input reads "What's up?"
December 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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my first attempt at a repair like this. pretty rough, but the mitten is usable again and I learned a lot. pretty satisfying overall.
a gray left-hand knitted mitten laying palm-up on a wooden surface. it has an inch-long hole worn in the knitting a couple inches down from the top close up of the damage. the mitten's white fleece lining is visible through the frayed yarn. the same mitten with a yellow knitted patch over the hole and extending almost to either side. the knitting is a bit wonky and messy but it mostly matches the surrounding stitches a closeup of the patch. it's a bit pilled out because I got confused a lot and had to undo stitches quite often
December 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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suddenly I want koulourakia
a pile traditional Greek Easter cookies, golden and shaped like twists, vaguely in the shape of the curvy "cool S" from the quoted post. image from the recipe thereof on Brown Eyed Baker browneyedbaker.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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noticed this in my phone app last night and had such a viscerally negative reaction that I was searching for new phone service providers after
screenshot of text reading "23 minutes, 37 seconds / Mom / AI-enhanced by Google Fi"
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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bad news, downtown's gone
a snowy view from a tall building looking east towards the Chicago Loop downtown, but where there should be a skyline there's only uniform pale fog/snow/clouds
December 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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this set on @chirpradio.org just now was so good. Armenian, Welsh, Vietnamese, and English language songs, folk and gospel, one after the other, sounding amazing together.
A list of songs in a table, with the time played, artist, track title, and album title with label as columns 8:49pm - The Ward Singers - Anywhere in Glory - Get Your Soul Right: The Gospel Quartets and the Roots of Soul Music (Fantastic Voyage) 8:45pm - Phong Nguyen - Nan-Thidn-Tuong-Ngo Lop Dung - Traditional Music of Vietnam (Lyrichord) 8:42pm - Endaf Emlyn - Laura - Salem (Sain) 8:38pm - Sharakan Early Music Ensemble - Sail Ain Ijaner... - The Music Of Armenia: Volume Two: Medieval Music (Celestial Harmonies)
November 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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softly purring
a tabby tortoiseshell curled up in a white cat bed with her face smashed against the side, eyes closed, content. the sun illuminates the orange tones in her fur.
November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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dear Chicago Alleys, never change
a note written in black marker on lined notebook paper reading "Is it weird to take a Squatty Potty you found in an alley home with you? I dunno. Probably. But I did clean it with bleach. Enjoy." the note is affixed to the aforementioned Squatty Potty and is sitting on alley pavement in front of a brick wall
November 23, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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bonus cardinal and kestrel! #birds
a male northern cardinal sits perched among the branches and twigs of trees that have largely lost their leaves. the cardinal is a classic bright red with a black mask, bright orange bill, and grayish-red wings. it is very fluffed up and orbular. an American Kestrel perches on the very top branch of a tree, fluffed up and round. I think it is a female from the streaky buffy breast. she also has the striking falcon-like black marking below her eye, a petite hooked bill, and dark head and wings with a long tail. the kestrel in full flight from her perch, wings spread and tailed fanned, back tilted towards the camera so you can see the full stripey brown brilliance of her wing and tail plumage. it isn't the sharpest shot, but I'm stoked to have captured it.
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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a few of my favorite snowy owl shots from yesterday in Chicago #birds 🪶
two snowy owls sit together on a concrete pier with blue-green water behind them and the shoreline in the far blurry distance. the owls are facing and looking to the left with their yellow eyes just barely open the same owls sit in the same position facing to the left, but the one on the left is looking backwards, making it appear it's gazing into the eyes of the owl on the right. the lefthand owl has more and darker black markings than the owl on the right. same owls facing left. the lefthand owl is looking towards the left again, but the righthand owl is crouched down a little and looking towards the camera same owls, both with their eyes shut tightly. the owl on the left looks absolutely content, and the one on the right almost looks like it's smiling
November 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM