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DawnSong
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Birding, photography, ethology, ecology, evolution, & ornithology enthusiast. Hiking, Nordic walking, ERG rowing, pool running. + stocks/Economy
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Got a smidge closer to one of my favorite nemesis birds (narrator: all birds are her nemesis birds).

Sadly my low clearance urban car is limiting my birding this season since it’s incompatible with muddy dirt roads.

Hope Santa brings everyone joy tonight.

🪶 📷 #Wildlife #nature
Sandhill Crane walking in a field of green.
December 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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5 weeks after the last rain and the road is still not passable in my little urban car. Guess i need to buy a truck to go #birding
Dirt road with deep ruts from big trucks and still has water in the ruts.
December 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Gold & silver —> parabolic

How much longer can this go on?
Silver futures chart Gold futures chart
December 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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That time when…

I saw my first Turnstone but was still bird challenged and didn’t know it 🪶 📷 #wildlife #nature
December 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Still feels like a 200dma kiss coming but it may take awhile given the MU guide
Nasdaq chart
December 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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That time when…

We found more beetles enjoying a dung meal maybe somewhere in socal 🪲📷 #wildlife #nature
December 17, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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That time when…

We found a beetle rolling dung across the California desert. 📷 #Wildlife #nature
December 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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A female (Anna’s I think) is back. When will nest building start? Am I anxious or what lol
🪶 📷 #Wildlife #nature #iphone
Female Anna’s hummingbird visiting the feeder. Taken with iPhone through a dirty window.
December 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Omg oil 😱
Oil futures shitting the bed. Some oil companies not gonna be happy. #bankruptHamm
December 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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🎶 Your nonsense makes sense
You're speaking my language
When life gets hectic
You're all that I need
On late nights, in hard times
I love that your weirdness matches mine
I always find
You just make sense to me🎶
🪶 📷 #Wildlife #nature
Cormorant showing off his blue gular
December 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Sinking in the sink.
Tire tracks through the sink with Fonts point way in distance Big ruts in road from jeeps driving through the mud The sink is salty 🙂
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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🎶Morning has broken, like the first mornin🎶
Sunrise behind Tamarisks
December 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Silver and gold, silver and gold,oh
Silver futures booming Gold futures booming
December 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Oh boy
Nasdaq futures down -$327.25
December 11, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Iphone pic of the cold moon
Cold moon rising over desert mountains with some plants and trees in foreground. Sky is pinkish orange fading to blue
December 5, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Was a nice moon. Tried to take with an iphone but 🤷🏻‍♀️
Cold moon rising over desert mountains
December 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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🍿🍿🍿
BURRY WARNS AI BUBBLE MAY UNRAVEL SOON Michael Burry says the Al boom could burst within two years, echoing the dot-com era when stocks peaked long before tech spending did. On Michael Lewis's podcast, he argued that many hyped Al companies — including Palantir — are mostly doing "consulting," making their valuations hard to justify. Burry expects a broad, drawn-out market decline because passive index funds are heavily concentrated in Al names. He advises selling overheated stocks and prefers health-care shares, which he says are "out of favor." He also criticized Bitcoin as worthless and tied to criminal activity, calling it "the tulip bulb of our time."
December 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The tariffs required to raise $2.5 trillion per year would be substantial, likely resulting in a very high average tariff rate on U.S. imports. Here is a breakdown based on analysis of current and proposed tariff policies: 1. The Estimated Tariff Rate To estimate the required rate, you can look at the total value of U.S. imports. * Total U.S. Imports (2024): The total value of U.S. imports of goods and services in 2024 was about $4.14 trillion, with imports of goods around $3.3 trillion to $3.4 trillion. Tariffs are typically applied to goods, not services. * Simple Calculation (Goods Imports): If you apply a single, universal tariff rate (\tau) on the \approx\$3.3 trillion in goods imports (I), the total revenue (R) would be R = \tau \times I. * To find the rate (\tau): \tau = \frac{R}{I} * * Result: This simplified calculation suggests a universal tariff rate of approximately 76% on all U.S. goods imports would be needed to raise $2.5 trillion per year.
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Time for 60k hats
Dow back to boom mode
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Anna’s hummingbird watching me work. 🪶 📷 #Wildlife #nature
#iphone through a dirty window
Anna’s hummingbird sitting on a feeder watching me work. Taken with iPhone through a dirty window
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Or the opposite will happen. But I would shed no tears for the three evil companies, ORCL,PLTR,TSLA, to reprice
November 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Did he say that before or after futures started bouncing? At some point in the next year, I’d expect it to fall back in the channel.
November 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Engulfing 😱😱😱
November 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Color me skeptical they won’t need lots of water for cooling
Data server farm proposed near California’s Salton Sea The first major development in Imperial County’s vaunted but stalled Lithium Valley may have nothing to do with lithium. Instead, a massive data server farm could replace hay fields on a 315-acre patch along Highway 111 at West Sinclair Road, the “gateway” to the proposed industrial zone in the Southern California desert. CalETHOS president and chief operating officer Joel Stone told The Desert Sun that the publicly traded start-up aims to break ground on a 200,000-square-foot data center by 2026. … Data centers, the physical backbone of the Internet, are notorious for using huge amounts of water and often polluting electricity. That concerns some in a county dependent on the dwindling Colorado River for all its water. … But Stone said they want to build a cutting-edge campus that uses the geothermal reserve for clean power and will require little water.
November 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM