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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

She’ll be off to university soon enough. No time for her grandad and his wilted vegetables anymore

A mother brush-tailed possum with a baby on her back, sitting in a birdfeeder

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Confirmed. It is a bub in this possum’s pouch. I’m a grandad.

A brush tailed possum sitting in a bird feeder looking for the half carrot she is sitting on.
A joey is visible in her pouch

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Can’t actually tell from this angle if she’s just very pregnant or has a kid in her pouch, but it’s definitely one or the other.

A brushtailed possum is munching on half a carrot and eyeing up the photographer while sitting in a birdfeeder on a suburban verandah.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hard to imagine how they managed to resist the seductive powers of the Alpha Quadrant's sirens...

Neelix the Talaxian, soaping himself up in a bath aboard the Voyager and luxuriating, sexily, in the moist abundance of the Federation.
He looks like a goblin with mange having a daily medicated shampoo treatment.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I loved the ears because they clearly based Krypto off Billy after making the minimum 15% differences needed to avoid paying him for likeness rights

The clear and obvious inspiration for Krypto, Billy the Wonder Dog, who is a short ginger and white Maltese-Shitzu cross, infused by the rays of our yellow sun with the power to break hearts and steal food

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Doomed trip to a swampy dog park - a tragicomedy. Didn’t realise it would be this much of a quagmire. Now Billy’s recovering from his second bath in a week and is wrapped in a blanket broadcasting maximum Guilt Waves for this wintery injustice #DogsOfBluesky

Billy, a ginger and white Maltese-Shitzu is galloping happily ahead of a large playful Dalmatian in a muddy park

Billy the ginger and white terrier bolting under a bench from the exuberant Dalmatian, both preparing to slather me in fresh mud

Billy and the spotty giant frolicking on a damp hill

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This absolute monster stole two biscuits off a small child at the park this morning. Two separate incidents over about five minutes. He is utterly remorseless, verging on downright prideful. #DogsOfBluesky

A ginger and white terrier wearing a cool as hell winter coat with skulls on it, states remorselessly into the camera, vowing to sin again

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I’m not saying I’m better than you… This impartial owl is.

It’s a 1600-day streak token from Duolingo, featuring a flaming cartoon owl wearing sunglasses that conveys linguistic prowess, somehow.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

RIP David Malouf, a friend of my dad's since school, and his colleague at UQ. When I was 9, we visited his Italian home and instead of asking about his books, plays, poems and libretti, I quizzed him about wild boar due to my Asterix fixation. A real Brisbane icon. Glad I caught up w him last year.

Black and white photograph of author, playwright and poet David Malouf, probably taken on the grounds of the University of Queensland in the 1970s or 80s.
David is looking out of frame with a slight smile, wearing black-rimmed glasses, a striped collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

NASA's bouncy castle has deployed. Repeat, bouncy castle is in play. As the #Artemis II mission finishes after bringing the world together in a way not seen in decades, can I just say, there's only one way to top it all off. DO A FLIP!

Navy personnel outside the Integrity capsule stand on the orange inflatable platform called 'the front porch', attached to the stability platform around the circumference of the capsule.
The hatch is open but the crew are not yet visible.
The capsule looks like a giant cupcake with its red bouyancy balloons mimicking strawberries, no doubt to appeal to the elderly Millennial demographic

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

If Tim Chalamet can’t appreciate this as an art form, maybe he really is entering his villain era

A young brush-tailed possum hangs upside down from chains that suspend a birdfeeder.
She is magnificent and balletic

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I knew he couldn’t keep up the sulking long

The same ginger and white terrier, Billy, now beaming as he stands on a rock by a picnic table, artfully dappled by different sunlight about 1 kilometre away from the last picture. His coat has dried and he’s sparkling

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

´Why, father?’ Billy is trying to parlay the emotional aftermath of his bath into a walk. Which he was going to get anyway, but you don’t stay at the top of the global guilt leagues without dedication and constant honing of your skills

A small, scruffy white and ginger terrier with spikily fluffed out hair is staring reproachfully back at the photographer from a wooden deck, dappled by sunlight

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

They’re either going to solemnly herald me on my way to Sto-vo-kor or dismember me and send me there against my will. It’s like they don’t even care about my physio appointment this afternoon

Several cockatoos lining the railing of a suburban deck with one extremely dinosaur-looking scrub turkey moving within pecking distance of an outstretched toe.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I’m sure this mum has been visiting me since she was riding on her mother’s back but it’s probably been several more generations than that. Bloody loud barreling across the roof all night but still appreciate them. When they’re not stripping my plants down to the stalk

A young brush tailed possum and her kid still mostly riding on her back, eating scraps from a birdfeeder on my balcony.
The mother looks mildly stunned by the light but the kid is full on eyeballing me

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

On Rod Taylor's birthday, it's time to unveil the truth that at some point he hops on his famous Time Machine and becomes #KumailNanjiani. I don't know if the chronometric rays partially bake him, or the Morlocks leech the melanin from him, but they are the same person, possible Gallifreyan.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy. While important, I’m not sure this captures the full nuance of my position…

A white weasel in dapper 19th century attire is holding up a lantern and carrying a banner over his shoulder that reads ‘Unclench Your Jaw’.
Unfortunately I don’t know the artist

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

To be fair, he did basically promise he was going to end me a few minutes earlier when he was in the bath.

Billy, a ginger and white Maltese-Shitzu Augment Nightmare is calmly swearing to have his vengeance on me, the one who bathed him moments earlier.
He is damp and bedraggled and utterly free from compassion.
He has no time for arguments about the blistering 37°C heat I’m saving him from, nor place for mercy in his fiery heart.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Heading to a high of 37°Celsius (98°F). Took preventative action for Billy’s sake. Was not thanked. #DogsOfBluesky #Dogs

Billy, a ginger and white terrier is looking wet and bedraggled in a laundry tub, mid bath.
He’s staring off to the left, calculating escape routes and later, vengeance

The same ginger and white terrier, sporting a slapdash haircut and still damp from the tub, is lying on a cushion, on a couch, sticking his tongue out at me for the indignity of it all

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender.

Alternate universe T'Pol from Star Trek: Lower Decks, turning from her console to say "And 'big Starfleet nerd' is an accurate description."

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

The it’ll just be me and Billy adjusting to being a one-dog household. Billy’s got separation anxiety but I work from home mostly, so we’ll see. Gotta go grab some last pats now. Treasure your pets - however long you get is not enough. Lucky’s almost 20 and I’ve had her since she was 7

Billy, a ginger and white Maltese-Shitzu cross is playing to the camera in the foreground while Lucky, a 19 year old Kelpie-Blue Heeler cross is panting happily on a couch behind him

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Then she roused and we took a long slow walk around the block, sniffing whatever she wanted and taking our time. She’s still panting happily on a blanket and I’ll keep peppering her with snacks until we take our last trip. I’ve budgeted some time for a sniff along the vet’s street.

Lucky, a 19 year old black and tan kelpie-Blue Heeler cross with an almost entirely white face is happily sniffing a tree that has a lower branch snapped off. She’s grinning like she tore it off herself

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Waiting for Lucky’s final trip to the vet after 3pm. Taking the day with her is harder than I imagined. At first I thought she was going to sleep through the day and it might be better to let her - her legs were twitching and she was clearly running somewhere.

A 19 year old black and tan Kelpie-Blue Heeler cross, Lucky, is panting on a blanket with her tongue lolling out.
Her face is almost completely white now and her legs are splayed wide

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

22 years ago, I was secretary of the QLD Peace Network that ran the Feb 16th peace rally here, one of the largest worldwide protests, against the imminent invasion of Iraq. One of the biggest protests since Vietnam, it saw about 5% of the country on the streets. The press downplayed it, the govt…

An impressionist painting of the Brisbane rally against the war in Iraq on February 16th, 2003.
A sea of colourful people are gathered beneath banners at the start of the rally at Emma Miller Place by Roma Street Station.
From a painting by Leisa Millar

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

My extremely controversial take about this week's Strange New Worlds has been brewing for a while. I think if you placed your hands on either side of Lt Ortegas' head, with your thumbs at her hairline and pushed up very lightly, her hair would pop off like a Lego minifig. I said what I said.

The hair from a Lego minifig.
It doesn't quite match Lt Ortegas' Space Age Rockabilly cut but there's a limit to how much time I was willing to waste on this stupidity

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I think 1/2 of the world praying for one particular man to die has splashed over onto other, innocent, Donalds, including yours truly. Otherwise it would seem like I fell off the roof myself via Poor Decisions, and that can’t be true. Someone get eyes on Glover and Johnson.

The bay opposite me in the Emergency Department. The bed’s been moved so the occupant could have her wound treated

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Genocide is not self-defence. War crimes are war crimes. I look forward to the Murdoch press conceding that upwards of dozens marched for Palestine in Brisbane today despite the council denying the initial March route #FreeGaza #FreePalestine

George Street, Brisbane filled with protesters carrying flags and banners

More protesters filling George Street near Queens Park

Protesters outside the old Treasury building in Brisbane rallying in support of Palestine

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The bribes have not assuaged their killing tendencies. #Birds

Five sulphur-crested cockatoos line a roof peering down at some thumb-wielding lackey who better make with the seed, real quick.
It’s now late afternoon and they are still entitled little jerks

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Another not-so-timely reminder to knock it off with the sunflower suit first thing on a Saturday morning. Or maybe not to longer in bed until *almost* 7am when the flashy dinosaurs expect service. Apologies to Buffalo Tom #Birds

About fourteen sulphur-crested cockatoos jostling onto various surfaces on my verandah and deck as the sun rises behind them.
They are raucous and unruly, and definitely motivated by love and respect for me, not the various quantities of seed that coincidentally line many of those surfaces.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I'm not messed up. Marvel's messed up.

Professor Charles 'Definitely On A Number Of Watchlists And Not Just Because Of The Mutant Thing' Xavier is thinking
'"Don't worry." As if i could help worrying about the one I love. But I can never tell her. I have no right...'
The next panel is his face with the repeated thought 'The one I love. The one I love. The one I love.'
And the final panel is Jean Grey's eye, wide with shock as she realises from reading his mind, that he means her. The big ol' creep.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

John’s dead uncle bought our whole continent back in the 50s and retrofitted it for… niceness.

A corpse-pale hand clutching John Scalzi’s Starter Villain as cockatoos look on disapprovingly

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Shift change and the galahs have clocked in. Would prefer they were the early ones with their soft peeps rather than the horrendous screeching of the cockatoos but I’m not speaking to the HR folk about switching. Linda’s a nightmare #Birds #BirdsOfBluesky

Three pink and grey galahs are perched on a hanging bird-feeder, one still with wings spread.
Two more are perched on the verandah railing below and a cockatoo watches on from nearby

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Yes, I have a lunchtime deadline but as Don of this Sulphur-Crested Mafia, I still have responsibilities #Birds #BirdsOfBluesky

A flock of sulphur-crested cockatoos eating seed from several bird feeders off a suburban verandah, backlit by a rising sun

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

All my library books came at once. Almost halfway through Scalzi’s Starter Villain but still wish he’d asked me for advice on the title because Charlie and the Killbot Factory was just sitting there

A non-villainous hand holds out a copy of John Scalzi’s Starter Villain while non-brainwashed cockatoos look on serenely with no thoughts of world domination or skeletonising world leaders. At all.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Superman was great. Cast, script, tone - spot on. I get the lure of grit: too little and your characters can’t move forward, which is great for Saturday cartoons. Too much and you come out of Superman movie feeling like you’ve been exfoliated halfway to the bone. Instead I felt uplifted and hopeful.

Billy, a ginger and white terrier-thing is yawning mightily while wrapped in a blue blanket.
He looks at least 7% more like Krypto than the nepo puppy they cast instead

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

16,000 titles banned since 2021! There are links in the video to actions you can take as well as smuggling books out of the country via loudmouthed birds. George is in a fictionalised version (w/ supernatural elements) in S2 of The Terror that has a 1 min sequence that is literally breathtaking

A cockatoo is peering curiously at a copy of George Takei’s book They Called Us Enemy which I’m not going to let it get closer to because they are little razor-billed, dino-clawed vandals, while perched on a birdfeeder on my verandah

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Maybe the AI subtitles on The Sea Wolf were shit at translating speech to text, but maybe they’re just getting scarily good at translating subtext to text? Imagine needing them to follow the plot. ‘Lock the captain in his cabin. And the mate with him.’ #AIsucks

Still from the Jack London miniseries ’The Sea Wolf’ where the AI subtitles have mistranslated the end of a scruffy mutineer’s line ‘Lock the captain in his cabin, and the mate with him’ to ‘And I mate with him’

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Not exactly a meme but worth keeping on hand for emergencies

Spock from Star Trek: The Animated Series saying ‘That is an outstandingly stupid idea’

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

If you see this, quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky.

Four pictures of a tabby cat in a cardboard box.
In the first he's sitting on the right side, oblivious.
In the second, he seems to notice writing along the back of the box
In the third, he's sitting in front of the writing which reads
'Reserved Seating
Assholes Only'
In the fourth, the camera has zoomed in and it seems as if he's reconciled himself with the description.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Does this mean Buck Bokai is a rookie somewhere out there? Is he in London already? The famously baseball-obsessed London?

A baseball card for Buck 'Buckaroo' Bokai, Shortstop for the London Kings according to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Bokai is a round-faced Asian man in a blue uniform with 'Kings' across the front and a little red crown over the heart.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy (please use alt text).

A long-haired Asian man with a dusting of facial hair and a sweet staff is looking contentedly at the world with the caption ‘Yes I finally killed my ego now I’m better than everyone else’

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Just got out of Sinners. Reckon I can just about make it home before things turn ugly.

The sun setting behind a suburban building

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

To be clear, I do *not* bless the rains down at Enoggera prepoll #Auspol

Prepolling station at Enoggera for the 2025 Australian Federal election.
There are signs for various parties and in the foreground ones for sitting member, Stephen Bates MP for Brisbane and Queensland Greens Senator Larissa Waters face the road.
The skies are grey and it’s raining.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

@unamccormack.bsky.social I didn’t realise that what I thought was just a hideous cacophony blighting my mornings and afternoons and sometimes evenings, was actually the finest local example of Romulan indeterminate polyphony #Picard #StarTrek

A rugged, dynamically muscular thumb sneaking into frame holding up the hardcover book Una McCormack’s Picard: The Last Best Hope on a deck with battling sulphur-crested cockatoos fighting over seed in the background.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Walked the editor-in-chief to the markets and dropped a bit of breakfast wrap. Suddenly, the second act is no longer ‘baggy’ and ‘uninspired’. Huh.

Billy, a ginger and white terrier mix is being walked on a leash and beaming at the chance to piss on things other than my writing for a change

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

My editor is high-handed and aloof. Not sure why he decided the table was better than my lap but it has worked out quite well when I write on the deck. Although his feedback can be pretty brutal. (Fill in your own Dad joke, I almost ruptured myself keeping mine in containment)

Billy, a white and ginger terrier - allegedly shitzu-Maltese, sitting on a faded wooden side table next to my chair on the deck.
He is looking at me with a mixture of disappointment over my current work

Billy, the ginger and white terrier, perched on his editor’s table by my chair, trying to think of a three hundredth way to say ‘maybe try this part again. But good.’

Billy, breaking out the serious expletives to let me know that this story needs to find some resolution for the A plot pretty soon.
He remains a white and ginger terrier, looming over me on the side table next to my chair on the verandah.

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Sometimes all the different species of cockatoos start wooing at the same time and it’s deeply erotic. No wait, I mean ear-splittingly cacophonous. If it was just the little dances it would be fine although the ongoing tongue-wrestling thing is also a bit disturbing #Birds

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Now, it could just be another part of the ongoing scuffle between the cockatoos and the rainbow lorikeets but this feels like a hate crime #Birds

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

A surprising amount of cockatoo courting is just standing right next to your prospective partner and shrieking that their opinions about pop culture are wrong. A crow even flew in to tell him to shut up at one point. The droning screech goes on for hours. #Birds

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