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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It was such a brilliant red where I was, I wish my phone camera could've captured it bc trust me it was deep and BRIGHT

Sunset with a band of red just about to sink below the horizon. It's a lot more pink in this phone pic than it was thru the naked eye

birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ppl on twitter love to reveal their skill issue re: finding cool ppl to follow on here. ofc its a load-bearing skill issue (bc then they'd have to not be negatively polarized against bluesky for stupid reasons)

someone named lindsay ballant saying "wonder how Bluesky is holding up with their bestie Newsom". i cut off the rest of the post bc that part just makes it inherently silly from the onset

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

they're calling it the least surprising result ever

the results from the mydialect.us US dialect quiz. it shows a map of the US with a gradient from deep blue (representing the dialects least like mine) to yellow to orange to bright red (representing the dialects most similar to mine). The bright red zone is New England; the deep blue zones are the Dakotas and the deep south. The main result says I talk the most like someone from Rhode Island, which does not surprise me because I grew up there and lived there for ~27 years (im 33) lol. what got me most was probably that i call a water fountain u drink from, a "bubbler"

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Aaaand have to have a completely separate post for butterflies bc there was a TON

A yellow type of swallowtail butterfly sitting on a bunch of little pink flowers

Two bright yellow butterflies among yellow flowers that may or may not be fucking

A moth or butterfly with a large body and brown wings with lighter brown and white markings

A HUGE butterfly that's mostly black/dark gray with a beautiful blue iridescence in the lower half of its wings

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Not just flora at duke gardens, also fauna!

An unfortunately slightly blurry picture of a brown lizard, maybe an anole, partially obscured by a black pepper plant

A female deer among low lying plants and some trees. There's a tag in one of its ears from some kind of wildlife tracking initiative

Two ducks, female on left and male on right, skimming for food on a pond. The female is a light brown color. The male is light brown with a bright yellow bill and a teal head. He also has feathers sticking out from his wings that I'm not sure are just how that species male looks or if he's weird for some reason

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Went back to North carolina this year and also got to visit duke gardens in late summer instead of late spring like last time! So some different things were in bloom.

A rose mallow hibiscus. HUGE light pink flowers with dark pink inside the petals, on a small low to the ground stem with wine colored leaves

Two large vibrant purple pond flowers (lotus?) surrounded by lily pad-like leaves on a pond

A mid sized type of lily with orange petals with lots of red spots

A huge vibrant red flower of some kind in wetland terrain

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

smoky would get cuddles even if it wasn't international cat day

a fluffy black cat curled up on my lap (which has a blanket with a lime green/forest green/white... sorta... paisley-ish repeated pattern on it). her green eyes are half closed and she looks happy and relaxed. im scratching her chest

closer up photo; this time her eyes are fully closed and i'm scratching her shoulder.

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Cutting my own hair once it gets this long on top is hard mode but I also wasn't feeling a buzzcut. Tbh I rarely do these days, my hairline is starting to recede I wanna milk the remaining years of having hair for what I got

Selfie of a thin white guy with a lil beard and mustache and rounded wayfarer glasses staring at his phone camera neutrally. His bangs are swept to the side, the sides of his hair are buzzed. He's wearing a light lavender colored linen shirt

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

iron clad ascension 9 win with a deck that didn't really lean towards a particular archetype, it just had all the right stuff. some card draw, some energy generation, some status affliction, some damage increasers, and also Unmovable (double defense of 1st defense card played per turn)

Some good relics helped too: strike dummy was actually SUPER good here, the pearl that gives u a retained card that gives u +2 energy, the one that doubles the damage of 3 of your attack cards. yay. it was against aeonglass too which is the new boss! more of a 'fuck you' to the silent than to ironclad lol (gives u status cards that damage u for each 6 cards you play; silent is all about playing a bunch of cards per turn).

anyway!
deck: 2x strike, 2x defend, 2x defend+, bash (enchanted x2 damage), twin strike (enchanted x2 damage), pommel strike, pillage, breakthrough, finesse+ (LOVE this card), bloodletting, setup strike, shrug it off, shrug it off+, fiend fire+, uppercut, stone armor+, inflame, armaments+, ultimate strike, dominate+, unmovable+, mad science (attack: basically uppercut but better), taunt, sword boomerang+

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

omggGGG ascension 9 is so hard lol i keep getting owned. finally won as the silent (still took a long time but she's my fave character to play so even losing a bunch is fun) and the deck wasn't perfect at all. relics carried me a little lol but shout-out to 2x afterimage (+1 defense per card played)

I had a ton of defense and debuffs (weakness, aka making enemy attack weaker)! And not a lot else lmfao. Even my card-draw had something to be desired, and I had barely any draw-discard synergy. Very lucky it was the queen as final boss and not aeonglass or test subject too, lmfao. Cloak clasp and sturdy clamp especially carried me here for relics. Didn't have the poison synergy for funnel :( If I did, I think i would've been even better off damage-wise

ANYWAY!
Deck: 3x strike, 5x defend, neutralize+, survivor, footwork, flick-flack, well-laid plans, poisoned stab, backflip, expose, afterimage, afterimage+, sucker punch+, 2x calculated gamble+, finesse+, dash, escape plan+, adrenaline+, deflect+, dodge and roll+, leg sweep+, mad science+ (defense skill; 2+ energy), backstab

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

[slay the spire] yayyy finally got success on ascension 8 with defect with an ice/orb/status deck. shout out flak cannon coming in ridiculously clutch at the end. had a ton of card draw but could've used more energy gen. still made it~

successful ascension 8 run with the defect. my HP got nerfed to 69... nice... by some lil scroll things that bite into your max hp bc my draw order was unlucky. i wasn't sure if this was going to be The Run because i had a TON of card draw already by act 1 but damage wasn't scaling at all. i got an early rocket punch tho which gave me ideas... >:]

deck: strike, 4x defend, zap+, dualcast+, rocket punch+, overclock+, omnislice, coolheaded+, compile driver (only useful bc i kept zap honestly lol), gunk up, chill+, ice lance, reboot+, charge battery+, go for the eyes, capacitor, defragment, glacier+, 2x smokestack+, boost away, FTL, flak cannon, hailstorm+

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Plants on my walk: clematis, raspberry, lilies-i-think, hydrangea, and some kind of spiny spiky monstrosity

Trellis with purple clematis flowers climbing up it to the left. A raspberry bush with a single cluster of growing berries is poking out to the bottom right

What I think are not fully opened light orange lilies

Beautiful bunch of hydrangea flowers. Some are fully bright saturated pink, others have a gentle blue in the center

A mass of green leaves covered in sharp looking thin spines.

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

[slay the spire 2] aaaah i was hitting such a wall with necrobinder on ascension 8 and then i literally won with the power of friendship :V (the card, that is). nerdy details in alt text

not nearly as powerful antics as double reanimate+ this time lol-- an osty-centric (lil summoned skelly hand friend) deck with some status effect strats as an accompaniment. 'friendship' as a card makes you lose some attack strength in order to play extra cards, so i was hesitant to take it at first. but ppl were calling it a really good card so i played around with it a few times and it finally clicked this run B)

deck: 2xstrike (enchanted, +attack, play for free), strike+ (enchanted, same), 3x defend+, defend, bodyguard, unleash, reave, debilitate, flatten+, defy, defy+, sow, sentry mode, fetch, friendship+, drain power, calcify, enfeebling touch, capture spirit, countdown+, fear+, negative pulse+

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The cool dangly clip on earrings that came in the mail one day too late for pride 😅😓

Selfie of a thin white guy with short brown hair and rounded clubmaster frames wearing a clip on earring with dangling thin gold chains on his right ear.

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

lmfao at first i was like "oh damn wait imbued+axe is anti-synergy" and then i was like

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

[sts2] this necrobinder run was hilariously fun. imbued reanimate+ with (i think its called) war-axe so it played TWICE for free at the start of every combat so i had an osty w a ton of HP right away. AND THEN i got Unmovable [+block] from an event. i only lost HP at the final boss from that point

Necrcobinder successful ascension 7 run. I also got lucky with relics-- two HP-increasing ones, ornamental fan, happy flower, anchor, etc. OH yeah forgot to mention-- enfeebling touch is fucking broken lol i love it

the deck: 2x strike, 3x defend, defend+, bodyguard+, unleash, equilibrium, enfeebling touch+, defile, wisp, wisp+, reap+, sleight of flesh+, 2x misery, dramatic entrance, grave warden+, grave warden, lethality, reanimate+, negative pulse+, fear+, metamorphosis, unmovable+, infernal blade+, countdown+, fetch

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

lmao yeah ive been utterly owned (the only thing i know about kaworu is Gay but i know misato and shinji are total messes)

nge personality test results. im 85% shinji 70% kaworu 60% misato

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

ok i just had to complain (killed by the mega-boss but completed a main run so i say it counts lol). i think i had one too many stance-changing cards and not enough card draw. still had plenty of block generation for the main game

my watcher deck. didn't quite get the 'infinite' loop between 'wrath' (double damage given+taken) and 'calm' (gain energy when you get out of it) that the good twitch streamers can get but i was still able to loop in and out of them enough to generate block and damage for the most part.
cards:
ragnarok+ (a random transform from a strike that i was mad about lol but it saved my ass on the penultimate boss so hey), cut through fate+, defend+, vault+, empty body, eruption+, empty mind, empty fist+, strike+, fear no evil+, flurry of blows+, vigilance+, inner peace, halt+, master of strategy, mental fortress+

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

some pipe broke and now we're not gonna have water for a day+ and i know other ppl have it way worse than that and that's fucking awful, everyone should have water for drinking and plumbing but it still sucks so im still going to post wrinkled squidward about it

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

[slay the spire 2 talk] yesssss lmaoooooo i got a defect claw build to work (not even the best it could be but 3 claw+ and feral+ with orb stuff backing it up)

$a successful ascension 6 run with the defect. i defeated the waterfall guy, the asshole time wizard guy, and goatse door. my deck: 4x defend, zap+, dualcast, ascender's bane (curse), 3x claw+, glacier, feral+, charge battery, cold snap, spinner, leap, refract, focused strike, TURBO, ultimate strike, footwork, bullet time, darkness+, boot sequence, lightning rod+$

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

tfw the random card rewards aren't hitting Hashtag SlayTheSpireMemes

shrugging emoji that says "oh well -- play the cards that i'm given" in impact font

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

And the view I saw once I got home from my walk ☺️

Two fluffy black cats relaxing next to each other in the sun in front of a glass sliding door

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Cool flowers I saw on my walk

HUGE red flowers that look kinda like trumpet bells on the end of long stalks. There are three flowers per stalk

Another angle alongside what looks like leeks or some other kind of onion/allium. Also a smaller set of huge red flowers but they might be the same type just not as tall

A large bush like spray of small purple flowers on long stems. The flowers start pretty soon along each stem and go up in a quasi cone shape

Some kind of allium, long stalk with big purple circle of little blooms

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Jumpscare seeing these two books next to each other at the library :S

Like I get that serano and shrier are very close to each other alphabetically but whipping girl and irreversible damage are obviously like completely opposed to the other and the latter is transphobic slop

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

this 3rd ascension run with the necrobinder was sooooo fun lol, i got neurosurge* as a random rare card right away and i was like 'oooh risky how tf am i going to work this' but i got like every good doom card after that besides countdown so the answer was: 'EASILY'

i also got pretty lucky with my relics; got lantern REALLY early, mummified hand (huge for necrobinder, lots of helpful powers), bronze scales for extra damage, a couple +HP ones.

Also got some good Osty cards; i was barely taking damage and winning fights fairly fast. all that good stuff

The deck: strike+, 4x Defend, Bodyguard+, Unleash, Neurosurge+, 2x Grave Warden, Negative Pulse+, Reanimate, Poke+, Sow, Reap+, Scourge+, Misery, Wisp, Deathbringer, Sentry Mode, Flatten, Blight Strike, Defy, Death's Door

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Today on the walking trail: More turtles!!! And a kind of trillium I think?

Big white flowers with three petals and big broad green leaves

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

how it feels when i finally make an important phone call and it turns out ok

elden ring 'noun verbed' generator with 'APPOINTMENT MADE' as the text

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

realizing the weed was helping me dissociate from the dysphoria and now im just rawdogging that shit 👍

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

[slay the spire talk] i still suck so bad at regent lmfao but finally beat the 2nd ascension with him. bombardment is so fun lmfao has me cackling like mr sheev palpatine

my character stats for each character (minus defect bc they don't fit). ironclad has 3 wins and 9 losses; silent has 3 wins and 13 losses; necrobinder has 2 wins 13 losses; regent has 2 wins and.... 49 losses....

the deck i beat ascension 2 with the regent with: strike, patter+, wrought in war, parry+, 3x defend, photon cut+, big bang, astral pulse+, defend+, kingly punch+, manifest authority, flash of steel+, falling star+, gather light, bulwark, clumsy (a curse), venerate, furnace, and bombardment. a very aggressive deck this time around with sovereign blade/bombardment/kingly punch as the heavy hitters

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

don't have much extra spending money this month (smh doctors appointments) BUT i did pick up these two for this may day bandcamp friday. first one is nice drum and bass, second one is nice post-punk

album covers for blumenfantasie by xylitol and station model violence's self-titled

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birdcommunist @birdcom.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

finallyyyyy got a good ascension 1 run last night with regent. got lucky/made a good move with barely any HP left at the end with duplicator potion, vulnerable potion, conqueror (and there i was thinking that card was a lil too niche to ever come in clutch LOL), and a 93 damage sovereign blade