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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My lifer Piping Plover from last month in Ocean City, NJ for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Waders. #birds

A tiny grey, white, and brown shorebird stands behind sea foam bubbles on a sandy beach.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ossoff is definitely not listening to Yglesias/Klein/PodSave reactionary centrist crowd, he does not think his marginal voter is a white-supremacist, and that is what makes him such an attractive candidate to the vast majority of US who are not white-supremacists.

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Please have this Cape Robin-Chat perched against the Atlantic Ocean as a backdrop in Hermanus, ZA for #BlueWater #BirdOfTheDay. This was a fun day, with migrating whales breaching behind the bird. #birds

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For the alt #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BadWeather (any bird in inclement conditions), I have a Puerto Rican Mango toughing out an afternoon rainstorm that thoroughly soaked me. #birds

A hummingbird hovers among red flowers, surrounded and pelted by raindrops.

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #BlueSkies- a Black-winged Kite against a blue sky in Bontebok National Park, ZA. When the bird took off, it had a rodent clutched in its talons. #birds

A bird of prey with blood red eyes looks over its shoulder at the viewer.

A bird of prey takes off from a branch with a rodent in claws.

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A secondary contribution for #WingsOpenNotFlying #BirdOfTheDay: this Great blue heron wants to sell you some dodgy watches it's got stashed under its trench coat.

A grey heron faces the photographer with its wings folded open to its sides, showing a shaggy looking midriff.

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme today of #WingsOpenNotFlying, a classic crucifix pose Anhinga drying its wings.

A black diving bird with a bill like a dagger strapped to its face, perched on a log with its wings stretched out.

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A Scarlet-Bellied Mountain Tanager from Wayqecha, Peru for today's #blackandred theme for #birdoftheday. Please excuse the flashes of bright blue tucked away.

A bird with black and red (and some blue tucked away) plumage perched on a branch and looking over its shoulder.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/09/2026

Ron Cobb’s original signage designs for Alien, made with felt tip pen and graph paper. humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/8286472...

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Tom VanAntwerp 🧙‍♂️ @tomvanantwerp.com · 18/09/2026

The first thing people say to me when I tell them about the existence of Flock is, "But don't we want to catch people speeding?" Then I have to explain that these aren't traffic cameras and they aren't used to catch speeders. This is a better explanation of the difference than I've ever managed.

These things are automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, a technology that works quite differently from traffic cameras (which only take photos of vehicles that commit moving violations) or CCTV security cameras (which don’t generate searchable data)—ALPRs indiscriminately record every vehicle that passes them and use AI to create a database of their movements over time. In other words, if traffic camera data tells us “a Honda ran this red light,” an ALPR says “oh, that Honda? I know her. She lives in Carlyle but her boyfriend lives in Van Dorn, she stays at his place every Friday. Also he’s cheating on her.”

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 18/09/2026

And also: the fact that you can use a statistical lookup table to predict what words someone is going to say doesn't mean you *understand* them, a fact that you will learn the minute that person says something *surprising*, like "I want a divorce."

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Even from a purely national pride perspective, this requires you to think that the 100 year period from 1926 was a failure for the United States, instead of the zenith of its power, prosperity, and influence

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A proposed narrative: from 1789-1946, Congresses of the US understood the fundamental importance of their relationship w/all people whose " interests and aspirations [] make up the agenda for potential action by gov't". They guarded this relationship with processes to enforce the Petition Clause. 9/

Lobbying and the Petition Clause
68 STAN L. REV. 1131 (2016)

Highlights in **'s

to the Sherman Act in order to shield it from allegations of anticompetitive
conduct, citing Petition Clause concerns in part.11 As later cases have
highlighted, however, it is unclear whether the Court rested the Noerr-
Pennington lobbying exception on the Petition Clause or on simple statutory
interpretation and the legislative history of the Act.12 The majority of case law
interpreting the Petition Clause focuses not on lobbying or even legislative
petitioning but on access to courts and formal agency proceedings.13 Belying
the nearly ubiquitous consensus that any and all forms of lobbying activity are
coextensive to petitioning and, therefore, are protected under the Petition
Clause, the constitutional protections for our current lobbying system remain
a very open question.
Looking to the historical record to clarify the reach and meaning of the
Petition Clause reveals that our lobbying system and the system protected by
the petition right are wholly distinct. **At the Founding, and for much of this
Nation’s history, the right protected a form of access to Congress that more
closely resembled the formal process afforded in courts than the informal tool
of mass politics that lobbying and petitioning have become today.**14 Individuals
submitted over six hundred petitions to the first Congress—each a formal
document that included a statement of grievance and a signatory list—which
members of Congress read aloud on the floor, referred to a committee or
another branch for consideration, and afforded a formal response.15 Women,
African Americans, and Native Americans had all engaged with colonial and

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Sure, but data centers first. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/v...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This feels grimly accurate. I think for most people, engagement with the party feels like getting on Temu’s mailing list: Just a neverending stream of spam asking for cash and no other meaningful call to be part of anything that might generate any sense of identity or community.

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Our new commentary rdcu.be/ftx6h in @natecoevo.nature.com written with folks from @inaturalist.bsky.social and @cornellbirds.bsky.social shows that use of AI to manipulate existing or create new wildlife images undermines the huge value of vast citizen science databases. 🌍🪰🪶 #Ornithology 🧵 1/10

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Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

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ceej @ceej.online · 16/07/2026

gonna start talking like this to my boss

screenshot where claude is saying "Good catch -- I fabricated that figure."

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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The most elegant tense in English, the Law Enforcement Exonerative

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president, Spreadsheet Persons Local 153 @werrrp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

we effectively cured AIDS and have a pancreatic cancer vaccine that just passed phase 1 trials

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The third act of A Christmas Carol, one of the most famous examples of "don't die a dickhead, " was the ghost showing Scrooge how happy everyone was that he died and it was a big motivator for him to stop being a piece of shit and still we got a bunch of dickhead Dems talking up Lindsey Graham

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Hunkering down in the aircon waiting out the heat wave, finally having the chance to process my photos from this spring in Arizona. Marana's Burrowing Owls did not disappoint. #birds

A brown and white spotted burrowing owl perched on a dirt mound makes crazy eyes at the camera.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 26/06/2026

This is basically a Democratic campaign ad. Air it as is with no changes.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/06/2026

ok this one got me

reflecting pool full of green slime and barrels and you're carrying a crowbar in the style of Half Life

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Chef's kiss, salute, tears, all of it

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Made these in celebration of all the dedicated dads of the animal world, and in memory of my stepdad.

Painted clay figurines of a gharial (long snouted green crocodilian) and a cassowary (colourful crested ostrich-like bird) with their respective young.

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

No, it was an infographic about a power outage with a nonsensical map of the region- inaccurate AI slop masquerading as news.

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It never occurred to me I might end up blocking the Zebra on bsky for AI slop...

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

As we write in the book, we need less focus on adults who scream "I've lived in the city for the last 50 years and don't need bike lanes" and more focus on kids who say "I am going to live in the city for the *next* 50 years and want to be able to get around safely."

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A catapult will get a baby out of there real fast.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The 'eyelashes' on a southern ground hornbill would make a model envious, but here's a neat trick: Those AREN'T eyelash hairs. They're modified FEATHERS. Let's take a look at these specialized structures & why the southern ground hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri) needs these long velvet veils.

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #ManMadePerch A Wood Duck in eclipse plumage perches on a bucket, paused between bites. The bucket reads: "Keep Out Do NOT Feed". The duck cannot read, or chooses not to. #birds

A Wood Duck in eclipse plumage perches on a bucket, paused between bites. The bucket reads: "Keep Out Do NOT Feed". The duck cannot read, or chooses not to.

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/03/2026

Trump Adds Name To Kennedy Center Again

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Re-reading, I wish "invasive" weren't so culturally loaded, especially in the context of foods. Presumably the Snail Kite loves the island apple snail as much as I love a bao or empanada.

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Years from now we'll have a specialized Sausage-roll Kite, with a finely tuned beak to extract sausage rolls from their packaging. When the native sausage roll population is impacted by climate change, the Kite will be saved by changing its diet to invasive bao and empanada. #birds

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

White-Crowned Pigeon outside our hotel in Manatí, Puerto Rico. Why is the best birding often in parking lots? #birds

A black pigeon with a white crown perched in a tree, seen from below

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David Flores @deflo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This opening paragraph 👀 😂

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Hummingbirds are sick of everyone's shit. They're either eating or they're angry, but don't underestimate them- they can definitely do both at once.

A hummingbird is perched on a flower stem, filled with seething rage that she's too small to impose the dominance she knows she deserves.

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

One of the Sharp-Shinned Hawk vs. Cooper's Hawk ID rules of thumb is that coops tend to look angry, but sharpies always look surprised.

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I feel like my eBird upload are filled with these, but it's disproportionately raptors and hummingbirds

A burrowing owl, standing on one leg, but definitely unamused.

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Nick Leiby @nleiby.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Please share broadly if you find alternative ways to receive support. I also avoid Substack, but would love to contribute.

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