Coral, yr Bird Friend
@parodybit.bsky.social
Friendly tech and bird nerd; also a librarian, engineer, & data munger, currently a web dev & systems admin for an academic library. Very caffeinated. 🌶️🧠, chronically ill, immunocompromised. #CovidIsntOver so #MaskUp (banner by beesyjimwax on Tumblr)
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“Employees Rally Around [the University of Pennsylvania’s] Refusal to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names *** The Trump administration asked the university to hand over personal information for the members of Jewish clubs & organizations as well as the Jewish Studies department.” 11/25/25 … 1/
Penn Refuses to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names
The Trump administration asked the university to hand over personal information for the members of Jewish clubs and organizations as well as the Jewish Studies department.
www.insidehighered.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“Employees Rally Around [the University of Pennsylvania’s] Refusal to Disclose Jewish Faculty, Student Names *** The Trump administration asked the university to hand over personal information for the members of Jewish clubs & organizations as well as the Jewish Studies department.” 11/25/25 … 1/
Happy Frog and Cranberries Day to all who celebrate! #ItMustBeFall
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Happy Frog and Cranberries Day to all who celebrate! #ItMustBeFall
Downloading QGIS to pull the data out of a Google Map in an editable format.
As one does during their vacation.
(I'm listening to Murderbot at the same time, so I'm pretty sure this is relaxing. 🦋)
As one does during their vacation.
(I'm listening to Murderbot at the same time, so I'm pretty sure this is relaxing. 🦋)
November 26, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Downloading QGIS to pull the data out of a Google Map in an editable format.
As one does during their vacation.
(I'm listening to Murderbot at the same time, so I'm pretty sure this is relaxing. 🦋)
As one does during their vacation.
(I'm listening to Murderbot at the same time, so I'm pretty sure this is relaxing. 🦋)
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Shiny things, get your shiny things in time for Christmas!
If you're in the US, please get your orders in ASAP - official cut off is the 12th but I don't want to leave it up to chance.
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopIndie #DisabledArtist
If you're in the US, please get your orders in ASAP - official cut off is the 12th but I don't want to leave it up to chance.
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopIndie #DisabledArtist
November 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Shiny things, get your shiny things in time for Christmas!
If you're in the US, please get your orders in ASAP - official cut off is the 12th but I don't want to leave it up to chance.
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopIndie #DisabledArtist
If you're in the US, please get your orders in ASAP - official cut off is the 12th but I don't want to leave it up to chance.
oishiny.etsy.com
#Handmade #ShopIndie #DisabledArtist
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no YOUR body is a temple
mine is a Waffle House directly across the road from another Waffle House
mine is a Waffle House directly across the road from another Waffle House
March 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
no YOUR body is a temple
mine is a Waffle House directly across the road from another Waffle House
mine is a Waffle House directly across the road from another Waffle House
We’re watching the Elliot Spencer episode of Supernatural 😁
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
We’re watching the Elliot Spencer episode of Supernatural 😁
No scurvy in this household! (I maybe misjudged sizes in my curbside order (really, in the allowed substitutions, since that was meant to be a little bag of mandarins))
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
No scurvy in this household! (I maybe misjudged sizes in my curbside order (really, in the allowed substitutions, since that was meant to be a little bag of mandarins))
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Do you want something like this in your pipes because that’s how your plumbers get the really fancy golf clubs or exotic imported cheese.
Do not pour grease down the sink!!!
Do not pour grease down the sink!!!
what we don’t have in turkey fryer explosion videos, we make up for with 10-pound grease ball pics.
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Do you want something like this in your pipes because that’s how your plumbers get the really fancy golf clubs or exotic imported cheese.
Do not pour grease down the sink!!!
Do not pour grease down the sink!!!
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Listening to my very normal young person playlist and reflecting that, while I can understand the artistic choice not to do so, I will forever remain a little sad that Evanescence’s “Bring Me to Life” didn’t feature in del Toro’s Frankenstein.
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Listening to my very normal young person playlist and reflecting that, while I can understand the artistic choice not to do so, I will forever remain a little sad that Evanescence’s “Bring Me to Life” didn’t feature in del Toro’s Frankenstein.
He’s in his travel cage in the kitchen (on a surface where there is no food prep happening, and we don’t use nonstick), and apparently that means bath time!
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
He’s in his travel cage in the kitchen (on a surface where there is no food prep happening, and we don’t use nonstick), and apparently that means bath time!
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Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
November 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hello network. This is real shit. I’m looking for transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming front and back end web designers for a project to help trans people get housing in NJ. This is a paid opportunity.
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
Please share this if you see it, and my DMs are open for more information. Tysm 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵
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Can't build a brand with you talking in the background.
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Can't build a brand with you talking in the background.
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The Chotiner
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The Chotiner
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
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Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean
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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
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with alt text
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
with alt text
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My “we are not Enron” Nvidia company tshirt is raising a lot of questions we thought the shirt addressed.
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
My “we are not Enron” Nvidia company tshirt is raising a lot of questions we thought the shirt addressed.
Share a smile
November 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Share a smile
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
(I’ll be fine. Unless I only get Jaskier or something.)
(I’ll be fine. Unless I only get Jaskier or something.)
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?
(I’ll be fine. Unless I only get Jaskier or something.)
(I’ll be fine. Unless I only get Jaskier or something.)
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I didn't realize until much later that the Wachowskis directed this which makes so much sense in retrospect
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I didn't realize until much later that the Wachowskis directed this which makes so much sense in retrospect
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they hate Drag Queen Storytime, but they don’t even know what librarians keep in their desk drawers
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
they hate Drag Queen Storytime, but they don’t even know what librarians keep in their desk drawers
Holy shit, these are not organizations that, uh, usually all align on policy
WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...
Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Statement on CDC's Vaccines and Autism Page
As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of autistic individuals and partners across the disability and public health sectors, we are deeply disappointed by the latest update to...
autisticadvocacy.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Holy shit, these are not organizations that, uh, usually all align on policy