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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

once an old man said to me "youre so tall youre going to have to move to Utah!" and walked away. i thought about it for like 20 minutes and then realized he was just making a little joke, cause "Utah" sounds like "you tall"

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and theres a ton of writing on this. celebration of men and hatred of women is like a core fascist trait. it gets examined a lot!

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

thanks for all your great journalism in this city! Chicago's lucky to have you

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

then you'll be happy to know that the meaning refers to disaster that befalls someone who kills such a bird

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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fell down a Ron Francis rabbit hole after seeing this post earlier. Sublime

Painting by Ron Francis, ‘Russell Williams’ Tree’

Painting by Ron Francis, ‘Room With a View’

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Häri Ren @r3nio.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"The Veil"

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

the way it started with a joke about this, and then spun up into all this discourse. feels like we ought to be able to talk about this moment without it "sabotaging the movement" or whatever

tweet by Chi Ossé that says "Woke 1 was crazyyyy" with a pic of Nancy Pelosi kneeling while wearing a kente cloth

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 27/04/2026

Something to bear in mind as things get harder, from a 2009 Metafilter post from someone who lives through Sarajevo.

Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 1: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

Metafilter post from Dee Extrovert part 2: But here's the main point: "Preparing" for the disaster really didn't do anyone much good. Those who
"prepared" ate a little better for a while. They stayed warmer for a few extra days. They enjoyed the radio for a while longer (via batteries.) But in the end, they ended up hungry, cold and bored too, just like the rest of us. Guns and weapons helped no one directly and were even of little to no use in the defense of Sarajevo, since they were toys compared to the shells, bombs and high-powered armaments of the attacking forces.
The worst parts of war were psychological - the fear, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, paranoia, bad dreams.
Respite from those things came with sharing food with a neighbor, finding a piece of clothing that would fit someone you knew, commiserating with others in your position, figuring out how to make make-up from brick or french fries from wheat paste and spreading this newly-acquired war knowledge around the mahala.
We knew who had extra food and supplies. For the most part, they weren't attacked or hassled or bothered. Contrary to what these survivalists say, those in dire times generally hold on to their personal sense of pride even more than they do in normal times. I'd take a bite of a friend's salad without bothering to ask in normal times. I'd never have done that in wartime, no matter how hungry I was.

Metafilter post from Dee Xtrovert: Well, unlike the majority of you (l assume), 1 actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.
Of those who couldn't leave my city, Sarajevo:
Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the "long haul" - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.
Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of "preparation" to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don't know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity.
Today, that still feels like it's worth something.

Posted on Jan. 28th 2009. 1696 favorites

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Now, it appears as one has been "deFlocked."" Had to read that back a few times

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

i would say probably don't even need the word "writing" in there! having friends makes 99% of things easier

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Dickens hastily photoshopping a bigger rack onto Mary and posting it for his followers

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I'll take #2 but only on the condition of a neutral party flipper. I nominate Heather Flowers

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"many people still don't know about it" is so funny. must not be a big inconvenience then

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

agreed, but this is not wage theft, its tax fraud. no employee was defrauded, just the federal government. it is in the same vein as wage theft though, in that its an employer thinking payroll laws are all fun and games

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

this is why you're my favorite politician. one of the few people who seem to just really love Seattle and its weirdness

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

mine is Inglorious Bastards. i hear that its "good" now, but watching it in theaters after being told by marketing that it was an action movie was tortuous

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mismedleym (COMMS OPEN) @mismedleym.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

toward the sun, from the sun #art

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

wild that some people are treating this like a call to destroy all busses or something when the central point is basically "it sucks we're stuck with regressive taxes"

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

also theres plenty of CPAs in town who would happily review and interpret this info for journalists (myself included!).

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Walgreens had $147b in sales, but also $161b in expenses in 2024. theyre definitely not in the rosey financial position youre describing. shoplifting for sure didn't make up their net $14 billion loss, but "desperate, mismanaged company blames poor people for their fuckups" is a very different story

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

deezer. it was the only option I found that allows you to upload mp3s of music that isn't available

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

from what ive seen, mostly a couple chit chats and then 200 people sit silently for months

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Häri Ren @r3nio.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"One Last Call From Harrowden"

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Haon @haonfest.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

the long watch

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

one of the delightful parts of switching to deezer has been hearing from my friends about all the new shitty Spotify developments and thinking "wow, its no rose garden here, but at least I'm not there."

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Azam Raharjo @azamraharjo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Again and again to me

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koyorin @koyorin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

idk. hasturne miku // #VOCALOID

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

thank you for your compassion and grace in this difficult time 😔

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Dani Draws @danidrawsss.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

QRP with something watery

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

wonder what that data looks like per capita.

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

something I really appreciate about k6bd is that theres this parallel structure between the characters (Allison having an angel and devil on her shoulders) but the story of those two characters couldn't be more different.

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

if the whole structure was emitting a pollutant giving people cancer, I bet Historic Seattle wouldn't mind at all for the CoS to tear the whole thing down. but because the people who died were "trespassers" suddenly it becomes permissible to lose more lives for an aesthetic.

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

ahh, cause of the R&D tax credit. interesting in that I would bet most people are in favor of the tax incentives for research being in place, though it's annoying for our enemies to benefit from them

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I'm in multiple chess clubs. two are once/month, one's weekly. found out about one through meetup, one through Lex, and one through a flyer on a telephone pole. all in person

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

starting to think this comic is in the pocket of big worm

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bird engine @birdengine.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

honestly idk what I was expecting, she's a nonprofit ED through and through, so of course she's going to spend her time forming committees and investigating effects and then decide to do nothing anyway

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