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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Take off… to the Great White North. Take off, it’s a beauty way to go…

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Damn. Which reminds me: imgs.xkcd.com/comics/timeg...

Frame 1 of comic: ghost floats over couple, saying “Ooooo… Time is passiiiiiing” girl says: “ugh, timeghost.” Guy says: “Huh?” Girl says: “Here come the factoids.”
Frame 2 of comic: ghost says: “Forrest Gump came out closer to the Vietnam War than to the present daaay.” Girl shouts: “Go away!” ghost continues: “The average new grandparents are younger than Keanu Reeves” Guy says: “That can’t be right…”
Frame 3 of comic: ghost says: “Today’s new parents were ten when eminem got big… Daaaaaaad muuusic. They remember Simpson’s Season 5 or 6 at the earliest.” Girl says: “Argh!” Guy asks: How long has it been doing this?”
Frame 4 of comic: Ghost responds to the guy: “ The staaaart of my haunting is now further away than your deaaaths!” Girl says: “Will you sto— WHAT!?”

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Indeed. Far more sensible. If silly.

A satirical news reporter (played by Terry Jones of Monty Python) spins an arrow on a sign showing it could end up in favour of either the silly party, the sensible party, or nought.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Thank you. I just looked it up. California in 2018 was slightly better than Alberta. Not enough to be statistically significant for me. I think it’s her experience based on where she was, or what she did. I probably will see fewer smokers because I am not so social?

In 2018, 11,2% of adults in California smoked cigarettes.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Thanks! I have been to the Muttart before. I never know what will be in the fourth pyramid. I have been to Edmonton. Just haven’t stayed long. And not in the middle of winter.

Inside the tropical pyramid shaped greenhouse of Muttart Conservatory, Edmonton, Alberta.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

On the Trans-Canada Highway past the beautiful mountains of Banff, Alberta.

View of the towering mountains near Banff, Alberta from Trans-Canada Highway.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Western screech owl. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Tucson, AZ

Western screech owl perched on the gloved hand of a zoo handler at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Tucson, AZ

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Sleeping ruru (morepork owl) in Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand #SuperbOwl

Ruru, sleeping in Queenstown, South Island, New Zealand

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Happy Superb Owl Day! Here is an obligatory superb owl post, with the Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds open to identifying various owls in western North America. Note that a new edition of this guide was released Nov 2024. I have yet to look at it.

Laws Field Guide to Sierra Birds, section on owls.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Have a late Caterday submission: A mountain lion cleaning itself at Living Desert Zoo in Palm Desert, California.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Grackles carrying on in Coachella Valley. I love their calls.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My recent Coachella Valley experience… they do NOT go ‘Beep! Beep!’…

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Marine biology nerds - or friends of one - I have an identification challenge for you. Watched a Schmidt Ocean video on YouTube and this creature showed up. What on earth is it? Cnidaria… but what? Doesn’t neatly fit. I am stumped. It lives on a sea mount Salas y Gómez Ridge.

Sea creature with long curly tentacles and thick arms which look like anemone arms with eyes on the ends. Needs identification.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Went to the Sac Zoo today, and the river otters were unusually playful. Usually they are in the water or hiding in their indoor space. Love these lil guys!

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Once a week I meet up online with friends, and we sit together and draw or make other art while we talk. Today I made this:

Neurographic influenced black and white libe drawing of a tree with a raven sitting on a branch. Spheres intersect the branches, where nodes look neuron-like.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Hey, back after a social media break. In case you wondered, re earlier post on passionfruit ripening in a bag w a half eaten apple? Most did not fully ripen after 10 days or even 12. Sad state of affairs. They arrived too late in the season to ripen pre-frost.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

One of my post-election destress activities has been drawing neurographic abstracts. I trace India ink brush pens around jar or bottle lids for the circles, and coloured pencils as fill. It is relaxing and puts me in a near-flow state.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Today we went to a local farmers market, and my gf picked up frozen spinach & cheese varenyky from UkrFood NOW to try at home. Here is a photo taken of UkrFood at the same market, earlier in the season. I love the origin story :) #ukraine #ua

UkrFood NOW varenyky vendor at Northern California farmers market. You may be familiar with their Polish offspring, pierogies.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Okay, so I picked the vines clean, and trimmed back some excess vines so the plant will fit under the frost cover. Below is a photo of my current yield. One fruit is fully grown, and turning white. The rest are smaller and green. I am not sure how much of this will be edible.

The late season yield from my passionfruit vine. About 6 full size fruit, one turning white. 11 smaller underdeveloped fruit.

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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It’s chilly here, and I have green passionfruit on my vine. They haven’t ripened yet, but I am going to have to harvest them today as overnight we have our first frost of the season. I heard they can ripen in a closed paper bag, along with a bitten-into apple due to the ethylene? #gardening #9b

Green unripe passionfruit on my vine. First frost of the season is tonight, they must be picked.

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