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@pixel39.bsky.social
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Medievalist, painter, sewist, cook, occasional musician, nerd. Inveterate crafter. Genderqueer/genderfluid. Not quite a crazy cat person, but not for lack of trying. They/them.

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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 4h
We're too far south for the juncos, we get them in the winter. I'll have to investigate the info for Minneapolis.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 4h
Once upon a time when I was still in NY, there was a cafe in the plaza that sometimes did bbq pork melt sandwiches with provolone. They were transcendent.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 6h
Seattle has that plague of starlings, if I'm remembering correctly.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 6h
I completely agree! Mine are indoor-only.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 23h
I am secure in the knowledge that I am feeding wildlife on multiple levels. :-)
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🪶 White-crowned sparrow! Doin' the sparrow shuffle!
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I'm planning on putting more in!
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
IDK, the house sparrow I feed today feeds the merlins and sharp-shinned hawks tomorrow, and the pigeons feed the cooper's hawks.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Whe Tho
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Did they then run to the other end of the line to get more pets? Because I totally would have done that!
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am a huge fan of the outside staying outside where it belongs, as well!
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's all canned training, alas. Annoying canned training, at that. With Conan O'Brien, reliably mispronounced by the AI narrator as coNAN.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That makes sense.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Where do they tend to hang out? We're usually around the lake with the night herons and don't often go up by 62.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If I weren't working I would rush a camera to you!
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
AUGH!!! I have never seen one (there) and I was entirely skeptical about their existence!
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am taking our yearly cyber security training. My brain is leaking out my ears.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Grocery store sushi has quality standards...
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Serious Eats has multiple articles on poaching eggs, including microwave and sous vide. I will need to experiment myself.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I have a fairly accurate memory of mine - oddly enough, they used the same stuff for my endoscopies and I have no memory of either of those. Just of the nurse cracking up in response to "oooh, something just hit! Whee!"
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Look up Bela Fleck's Perpetual Motion, it's excellent!
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A good loaf cake is a delight!
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
{{{hugs}}}
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Note: I had the classic center part with soft waves style, because I was not into hairspray. But it was still so very very 80s.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I probably shouldn't be as amused as I am at the youngun's reaction to my high school yearbook -- but it was 1988 and you can practically smell the Aquanet.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I mean the British slang meaning of pants. Not smallclothes. 😅
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bodies are pants. Pants without pockets.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have one you could have, if you were local to me. What metro?
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I currently have a jar with red wine vinegar, but maybe I should try the cheap balsamic.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am in the adjoining state for a couple of days because my BIL and I have a meeting with a probate attorney, and I am told that the tortie has Big Feelings about my absence. Because tortie. And fuzzy toddler.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also those are CLEARLY just Itty bitty babbies, no threat to anyone!
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They didn't seem to appreciate the tempranillo. I wonder if I need to use something more robust or aggressively fruity.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ew.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What do you use for your fruit flies?
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He's just a poser.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. (I am at my BIL's watching movies)
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An acquaintance of mine couldn't make a gambeson without having to make an extra sleeve. Every time. Once she managed to sew one sleeve in between the gambeson layers. Once, she made two left sleeves first. Etc.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So, 14th century loose boxers style. There's a nice video here: youtu.be/ydegzmlZqbg?... They're basically just boxers with a drawstring instead of waist elastic.
youtu.be
Becoming a Knight Part One: Braies and Hose
YouTube video by Hugo Banneret
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Do you want the 13th century "are you sure you have enough fabric?" super baggy kind, or the 14th/15th century "behold, my sexy ass!" more closely tailored kind? Or Joan d'Arc's bikini panties?
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yup. That's what it sounds like all summer long here. I live in the twin cities, close to the airport (where there is a lot of marsh and cattails) so I get a lot of blackbirds. #2, a mile or so farther west, gets hardly any.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They are, aren't they! I love finches.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And this year, post-landscaping. It didn't slow them down any.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A couple of summers ago but fairly representative.
A horde of red winged blackbirds and probably common grackles on the ground by feeder poles in a suburban yard.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🪶 Siskins! I've never seen them in my yard before!
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was going through multiple blocks of suet **daily** during the height of the "feed the hatchlings" times. They were even eating all the safflower.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I buy the cheapest swill out there in the summer because of the blackbirds. I feel for you.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My mother's cat used to sleep on her back under the space heater (the kind that looks like a radiator).
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Kugelprinzessin is chonky and very plush, but Amir has very thin fur so he might get a sweater.
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've never heard of a monitor not having a brightness setting. Maybe it's in software? It would be stupid, but...
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Pixel 🏳️‍⚧️ @pixel39.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The monitor doesn't have a brightness setting? Weird!
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