Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The surest sign of fall is when the Cedar Waxwings return. 010
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Re: the Tommy Tubesocks comments- Anyone who knows anything knows that the furries in their organization are going to consistently be some of their best, most creative assets. These are people who invent entire species in an hour while bored at work, you should be harvesting that potential. 020
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I try not to get melancholy on here, but today of all days, I'll say it is very frustrating to spend your entire adult life watching your country financially tear itself apart like a man destroying his own house while trying to smash a spider with a sledgehammer. 130
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We've made it now: "Fursonas" was an answer to a clue in the nyt crossword 020
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Summer is ending, which seems as good a time as any to invent a new cocktail! I give you: The Trillium Lake All the best parts of a PNW mountain summer in one glass. (Recipe below) 150
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Pretty (grueling) hike up Mt Hood yesterday! Closest I've been to the summit yet. Pretty sobering to see how far the glaciers have retreated, hopefully we get good snow this year to replenish them. 020
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I was at the FWA hotel last night and there was a Home Depot con going on. Thousands of people in orange HD aprons. Whats your Home Depot sona? I'm Bob, who has been here 30 years and still doesn't remember what aisle Plumbing is on (Bob sometimes forgets he's divorced too) 150
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people that Orlando is a place worth spending their life savings to go see. 110
Reposted by Navyraptor♡ | ethie ; COMMS OPEN @ethirine.bsky.social · 02/08/2026headshot commission for wilderhoney on dc! i had a lot of fun doing this character and i think i've improved a lot when it comes to lighting and feather texturing if you'd like something similar, my commissions are currently still open! #commission #art #digitalart #paleoart #utahraptor #procreate 317160
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Worst part of gallbladder surgery recovery is currently tied between -Inability to use my core to do literally anything for a whole week -How bad the incision sites itch as they heal 010
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Surgery was a success, although I definitely feel like someone went rooting around my abdominal cavity. I hate the way Oxycodon makes me feel, but tonight we will begrudgingly accept the dreamless half-death of opioid slumber. 040
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Farewell to my gallbladder, which just had its final meal of barbacoa tacos and ice cream and tomorrow will be forcibly removed. It had a good 42 year run before it filled itself up with gravel. 730
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I've had many jobs in life that have taken me all over the world, and I can say with certainty that "Picking a blackberry and putting it directly in your mouth" is the meaning of life. Things like "yachts" and "investment strategies" are just worse versions of this same simple dopamine hit. 150
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Nothing says "God Bless America" like spending two hours comparing health insurance plans. 100
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Congrats to our Flickers, who had ~3~ successful babies this year. The local clown bird posse has essentially tripled in size. 020
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Had a great work trip scheduled that would have me landing in Boston on the 4th of July, and then my gallbladder decided to throw a stone. Surgery next week and a few weeks off work to recover, instead! I roll enough 20s in life, I was due for a 1. 500
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Been feeling particularly disconnected from friends lately. I really should make an ATTEMPT to keep posting here. 050
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I really need to meet some cool people in Boston, I spend enough time there 000
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 01/02/2026So far the Epstein files have been a better takedown of Great Man Theory than almost any actual academic criticism. Who needs analysis when you have concrete primary sources proving a wide swath of upper echelon individuals are actually straight up morons? 040
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Late stage Prop 65 is when shipping labels themselves require self-referential warning labels about how dangerous they might be. 220
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Pterosaurs were the ecological equivalent of your friend's mall sword collection. 041
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Had an hour before work to stare at ducks on the Columbia. Big wigeon hours. (Also Goldeneyes, Scaups, Ring Necks, Mergansers, and Buffleheads) 020
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 18/01/2026The carcinization of Elf on a Shelf is proceeding ahead of schedule. #antiquestorefinds 110
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 17/01/2026There's an almost religious conviction among antique dealers, that someday someone will pay $5 for a tin of spices Grandma bought at Safeway in 1976. 100
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 07/01/2026I'd like to know which hominid ancestor decided to evolve a patch of hair on its head that never stops growing. 100
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Today's life list additions from Punta Cana, Dominican Republic: -Smooth-billed Ani -Hispaniolan Lizard Cuckoo -Broad-billed Tody -Hispaniolan Mango -Vervain Hummingbird -Black-crowned Palm Tanager -Greater Antillean Bullfinch -Hispaniolan Woodpecker -Ridgeway's Hawk 120
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 04/01/2026"So what did you do at your beach resort overnight?" Stupid question. I went out into the mosquito-infested jungle to look at birds, of course. 030
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Merry Christmas to you all! Though we may not all keep in touch as much as I'd like, know that I have thought about each and every one of you over the holidays. You're all equally missed, whether it's been a day or a year. Cheers, friends, to when we next may meet! 170
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 07/07/2025There are only two seasons: -The 3 weeks where I can traipse through the garden eating fresh berries straight from the bush -Everything else 140
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 23/04/2025This mud and weed-infested plot is going to transform into a veritable garden of eden over the next few months 170
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 12/03/2025It's never easy to say goodbye. Stevie stuck with us for nearly 19 years, through many moves and deployments. She was never one for cuddling, but was always there to greet me when I got home. She liked having her ears squeezed and playing with toys under rugs. I'll miss you. 490
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 13/02/2025It turns out that you ~can~ be the most senior military representative in a foreign nation, and this confers upon you the ability to do things such as "call the ambassador" and "hold a press conference" (All for positive reasons!) 370
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 11/02/2025I just really wonder, FAA, given everything that has happened in the last month, if playing silly word games is the best use of departmental resources. 320
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 08/02/2025OK hotel. I like the dodo theme. But "Dodo contemplating its imminent murder at the hands of European sailors" is not exactly a restful bedroom scene. 3100
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 08/02/2025PINK PIGEON CONFIRMED There's only around 500 of these birds in the entire world. (small caveat: found out if you want to see one, just go to the mountain where they release the captive bred ones. The whole flock pretty much hangs out around there. Lazy birds.) 270
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 06/02/2025I am en route to the former home of the Dodo, and if I have any free time at all outside of work I WILL find myself a Mauritius Pink Pigeon this time. The final bird on the life list for this tiny island. 260
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 01/02/2025I make light of the situation because it's the only way to avoid falling into a pit of seething rage over the idea that a draft dodger would have the audacity to call the service of my fellow soldiers and sailors "dishonorable". 071
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Can confirm that the government did send out an all-hands email telling people that emails from the new, totally real OPM email address are actually legit and not a scam. Which is exactly what a scammer would say. Checkmate, pseudo-OPM, your anti-DEI spam can go straight to trash now. 130
Reposted by NavyraptorFlightless Bird @rileypilot.bsky.social · 31/01/2025In aviation we are all a family bonded by our mutual love of flying, and by our pride in getting others home to their families. Yesterday was a hard day for our family and, though we hadn't met, I knew them, and I know they did their best, no matter what the DEI hire in chief claims. Godspeed. 23110
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Amidst everything, disheartening news from the FAA this morning: guidance on obtaining pilot medical clearance for folks with gender dysphoria or taking HRT was quietly removed from the Aeromedical Examiner's guide. The ability of trans pilots to obtain/retain medical clearance is now in doubt. 130
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Nice hiking on the Columbia River Gorge yesterday. I'm sure causing consternation by posting a golden eagle spotting on eBird in a spot where they are rarely seen. 090
Navyraptor @navyraptor.bsky.social · 04/01/2025*husband walks in* "Don't ask." *husband walks away* 180
