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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“Make it all look pretty and wonderful, and then let them have it.” Yes, this. This is why I love the latest Final Destination so much. It's shiny and happy and bouncy and funny and then... bam! Over and over again

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Our little ones got names and jewelry today!

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Did you see the plovers? Look for monitors in orange tshirts, or just look for a gaggle of birders 😄

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

If you want to see some endangered birds (and a hundred other species) come up to Montrose Beach to see the piping plovers! If someone hasn't told you about the Montrose Bird Sanctuary you should check it out. Plovers and other shorebirds are on the dunes/beach area next to it.

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Now the REALLY hard part of monitoring begins. If you see people in orange t-shirts muttering "1, 2, 3.... 4!" you know they're a monitor ;)

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Chicago Piping Plovers @chicagopiping.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

🐣🐣🐣🐣 The day we have waited for, worked for has come! All 4 chicks have hatched. Our work carries on as we continue to support Sea Rocket and Imani and their chicks. Thank you, as always, for your support. 📸: Chicago Piping Plovers (June 15, 2026, eggshell flown from nest)

Eggshell flown from nest by a parent plover to keep predators away

Text providing facts about piping plover chicks

Text providing guidance on supporting piping plover chicks as an ally

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Remembering Monty Plover on his hatch day. RIP sweet prince. The impact of your life will be felt for generations (of plovers and humans) 🧡 💚 💜

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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Just because no one bought even one from the last batch doesn't mean I stopped making art cards. Same deal: $40, 4x6 matted, US shipping included. Prices will not stay this cheap so act now. Operators are standing by in my DMs.

A 2.5"x3.5" drawing of a Piping Plover on a beach with water and sky in the distance. An orange and yellow banner curling along the bird's back reads 'PLOVING'. Done in acrylic markers and shown in a black mat.

A 2.5"x3.5" drawing of a cute brown bunny with tan paws standing on green hills under blue skies and also the bunny has knives for ears. Done in acrylic markers and shown in a black mat.

A 2.5"x3.5" drawing of a nice slice of blueberry pie that has one blue eye in the top crust. The word PYE is rendered in some fancy lettering at the top. Done in acrylic markers and shown in a black mat.

A 2.5"x3.5" drawing of a... um... ok, it's like an inflatable or water-filled thing? The part you can see (head?) is sort of tubular with a big set of horns and a little set of horns, and a three-fingered hand poking up from the bottom of the frame. Floating inside this shape is a human skull and three unconnected vertebrae. And there's a yellow halo floating over its head. I don't know either, ok? Done in acrylic markers and shown in a black mat.

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hey people who have seen #pipingplover eggs up close: which photo below is closest to the actual color? Warm or cool?

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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Celebrate the opening of Heron Season ⬛👑 👕: octophant.threadless.com/designs/blac... 🖼️: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin... 🟦 👕: octophant.threadless.com/designs/grea... 🖼️: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

A black-crowned night heron (a medium-sized bird with a whitish chest/belly, dark blue-black wing tops and crown, a black spearlike bill, red eyes, and proportionally long yellow legs with long toes, slightly webbed) standing on a stylized rock, with a green rushing river and blue sky behind. An actual bejeweled black crown is suspended over the bird's head and a golden beam of light is coming from within it down onto the regal heron. All this is within an elaborate frame rendered to look like patinated wrought iron. As part of the frame, arcing over the bird's head on either side of the crown it reads BLACK CROWNED, and below the birds feet are the words NIGHT HERON.

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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

it is Earth Day and also Plover Fever is heating up in Chicago so here are some Piping Plover things I have made

Oil painting of a male piping plover on a beach. A small, round bird with light brownish/grayish on top, a black brow line and neck ring, an orange beak with a black tip, and white undersides. It’s Monty, the legendary patriarch of Montrose Beach.

Photo of an oil painting in progress of two piping plovers on the beach. Monty on the right is walking left, and Rose and a plover chick are hunkered down in the sand. Beach grass and lake and waves are in the background.

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The boys are back and rarin’ to go! Chicago piping plover season has begun! 🧡🐦🐦🧡

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

This Victorian Christmas greeting card showing children staring at the dead body of a robin—typically a symbol of hope and good cheer—captures the 2025 holiday vibe:

Vintage holiday card with the caption “Loving Christmas Greetings” and showing a boy dressed in green and a girl dressed in red standing together in the snow holding an umbrella looking down at a dead red-bellied robin on the ground.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

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Happy Hanukkah

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

If woodcocks have giant eyes on top of their heads because it increases their odds against predators... why don't more birds have the same eye evolution, since most ground-dwelling birds have the same predators?

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 08/11/2025

As the Handmaid’s, and other protesters here, continue to stand in silence, sheriff’s deputies just advanced toward the “free speech” zone.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

My latest is a love letter to Chicago. "I see you stumbling through the stubborn, awkward rhythm of showing up, again and again. I see you fighting alongside people who sometimes frustrate and confuse you, and defending neighbors you may have never met, because you know they’re all your people."

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In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together

"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The theme for tonight’s Halloween party is “Nerd out!” so, well, yeah. 🧡🐦🧡🐦🧡🐦🧡

Orange tshirt with MONITOR Endangered Piping Plovers on the front. There are binoculars hanging in front and a hat with NJ PIPING PLOVER PROJECT embroidered on it.

Tan field vest with various piping plover pins and patches

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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

No Kings

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 18/10/2025

A Chicago-style No Kings Day. #NoKings

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Nicknamed “Honeybadger” for good reasons @httorg.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Way to go, Chicago!!

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Chicago Piping Plovers @chicagopiping.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

We are loving this year's theme for Plover Appreciation Day, #ploverart. Your Chicago Piping Plover Monitor 🧡 Brenda Janish made these sweet treats for the monitor season-end bash. She had the mold made and decorated the cookies - perfection! 🤍

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18/08/2025

Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

The last piping plover monitoring sesh of 2025 is in the books. We spent a quiet morning with El at 63rd street beach and pier where she took a nice bath and ate her weight in bugs on the pier. Good luck, little one. Hope to see you next year! 🧡

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

following in dad's footsteps... he (and his sibling) buddied up with a sanderling at the end of his fledgling summer, right before he left Chicago

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

update: it has been sold. Prints available here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

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Monty, an art print by Phineas Jones

Gallery Quality Prints

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This painting by @phineas.bsky.social is still available! The grandplover of Montrose Beach, Monty. 6"x6" oil on panel. octophant.us/paintings/mo...

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Monty — Phineas X. Jones

6” x 6” Oil on Panel Price includes domestic US shipping.

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

I added a simpler design for the new shirts, for those not into emo latin sayings 😉 teamplover.threadless.com

T-shirt with text "Piping Plovers, Est. 2019, Montrose Beach"

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The sad reality of monitoring… we observe but there’s not a lot we can do to protect. RIP little one, it was a delight knowing you. 💙

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

The beach seemed very quiet this morning without him 🥲

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

New t-shirt dropped today! teamplover.threadless.com

young piping plover standing on a Chicago beach wearing a college-style t-shirt that says "Piping Plovers, Est. 2019, Montrose Beach"

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I'm the human guardian in the photo 😎 I was primarily watching for gulls and other threats, there are no people on the protected beach (thankfully)

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Our beautiful little charges have shiny new jewelry! Superstars, all 💙❤️💚

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This is the actual artist: bsky.app/profile/phin...

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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

It's time to get a resupply on the cat's diabeetus medication (don't tell him). This stuff is $150 a month, but I like having my cat around. Exchanges of currency for imagery are welcome and encouraged.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

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bjanish.bsky.social @bjanish.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Freshman year of college, first week, my suitemate introduced me to her friend from home (Dekalb, IL) who was also a freshman. She was a pretty, tall, nice enough girl. Introduced to me as Cindy and then they stared expectantly at me. It took me more than a year to realize "Cindy" was Cindy Crawford

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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Chicago is ready for large-scale protests on Saturday against President Trump and his efforts to carry out mass deportations of undocumented people, Mayor Johnson said Wednesday. “I am counting on all of Chicago to resist in this moment." to.wttw.com/3ZuWcvo

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Chicago Is Ready for Large Anti-ICE Protests, Johnson Says, Blasting Trump as a ‘Tyrant’

“I am counting on all of Chicago to resist in this moment,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said. “Whatever particular vulnerable group is being targeted today, another group will be next.”

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