Plover Pastor
@revbirder.bsky.social
Birds and theology, sometimes at the same time. Sometimes I pretend to be a Piping Plover.
Yeah that's a goldfinch. They are so confusing in their winter plumage! Siskins are more streaky.
February 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Yeah that's a goldfinch. They are so confusing in their winter plumage! Siskins are more streaky.
...yeah that's definitely a Muppet. 🤣😍
February 8, 2026 at 11:05 PM
...yeah that's definitely a Muppet. 🤣😍
...can you prove that's not a Muppet???
February 8, 2026 at 10:38 PM
...can you prove that's not a Muppet???
My favorite was the woman who skated to the Jaws theme. Sharks are cool! Figure skating is cool! More sharks in figure skating!
February 8, 2026 at 10:18 PM
My favorite was the woman who skated to the Jaws theme. Sharks are cool! Figure skating is cool! More sharks in figure skating!
This is amazing! Your friends are lucky, not in quotes!
February 8, 2026 at 10:07 PM
This is amazing! Your friends are lucky, not in quotes!
And there's a lot of space between questioning that culture and assuming that you know better about what an elite athlete with that much experience is capable of doing.
There's only one person who's qualified to decide if competing was worth the risk, and I expect she has other things on her mind.
There's only one person who's qualified to decide if competing was worth the risk, and I expect she has other things on her mind.
February 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
And there's a lot of space between questioning that culture and assuming that you know better about what an elite athlete with that much experience is capable of doing.
There's only one person who's qualified to decide if competing was worth the risk, and I expect she has other things on her mind.
There's only one person who's qualified to decide if competing was worth the risk, and I expect she has other things on her mind.
Springfield is a cross between a college town and a reviving industrial city, in a gerrymandered state.
...however, yes, that's a hell of a turnout.
...however, yes, that's a hell of a turnout.
February 7, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Springfield is a cross between a college town and a reviving industrial city, in a gerrymandered state.
...however, yes, that's a hell of a turnout.
...however, yes, that's a hell of a turnout.
I found it! Apparently they used a caveman mask for the villain, and the control mask was Dick Cheney. (That would have been available as a Halloween costume at the time of the original study.)
yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/01/21/c...
yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/01/21/c...
Crows Remember a Face…for a Long Time! - Yale University Press
John M. Marzluff— Ornithologists often undertake long-term observations of favorite birds to understand their behavior and ecology fully. In this way we have learned why young Florida scrub-jays help ...
yalebooks.yale.edu
January 31, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I found it! Apparently they used a caveman mask for the villain, and the control mask was Dick Cheney. (That would have been available as a Halloween costume at the time of the original study.)
yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/01/21/c...
yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/01/21/c...
Wasn't there that one study where they did this with masks? So it didn't have to actually be the same person.
January 30, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Wasn't there that one study where they did this with masks? So it didn't have to actually be the same person.
One of the problems with fundamentalism is that if you train people to expect certainty on everything, then you have to keep adding more and more fundamentals, until nobody is able to recognize that you've descended into absurdity.
January 25, 2026 at 9:04 PM
One of the problems with fundamentalism is that if you train people to expect certainty on everything, then you have to keep adding more and more fundamentals, until nobody is able to recognize that you've descended into absurdity.
... which, given the broad scope of Christian history, does still make them relatively new, but, like, new as in a couple of centuries old, not new as in a couple of decades old.
January 25, 2026 at 8:51 PM
... which, given the broad scope of Christian history, does still make them relatively new, but, like, new as in a couple of centuries old, not new as in a couple of decades old.
For extra fun, many of them aren't actually newer, they've just rebranded because they know their old brand was sunk. They're fundamentalists.
January 25, 2026 at 8:49 PM
For extra fun, many of them aren't actually newer, they've just rebranded because they know their old brand was sunk. They're fundamentalists.
To be fair, a lot of the non-evangelical Christians who are pretty chill about Christian nationalists also haven't noticed this.
January 25, 2026 at 8:47 PM
To be fair, a lot of the non-evangelical Christians who are pretty chill about Christian nationalists also haven't noticed this.
It's going to fluff up its feathers and look hilariously disgruntled. That's it, that's the whole plan.
...and it will probably work.
...and it will probably work.
January 22, 2026 at 1:22 PM
It's going to fluff up its feathers and look hilariously disgruntled. That's it, that's the whole plan.
...and it will probably work.
...and it will probably work.