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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting... Matthew 15:22a, NRSVue This time I suddenly had the thought: Wait, was she REALLY shouting? Like, shouting shouting? Or it did just *feel* like she was shouting because nobody expected her to be, like, moderately assertive?

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I GOT TO HANG OUT WITH PIPING PLOVERS TONIGHT!!!

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We certainly should be. People keep reporting this stuff as if it has meaning beyond “Sam Altman would like some money”

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Excuse me... a tiny Lapwing has toddled into your feed. 🥹

A fluffy Lapwing chick stands on a path with oversized legs and tiny feet, looking as though it's setting off on an important little adventure. Its soft cream, brown and black down contrasts with the beautifully blurred green background.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I couldn't care less about TB's share price, my guy. What I DO care about is a serious problem in public health. Nobody wants to cooperate with authorities to find where outbreaks came from! Because the person/company/country that's the most helpful & finds the problem? ALWAYS GETS BLAMED FOR IT.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Taco Bell was one of the first companies to sign the "Yes, we WILL only buy tomatoes from farms that stop doing slavery" pledge with Coalition of Immokalee Workers. @immokaleeworkers.bsky.social

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Carol Creech @ccreechstudio.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Very excited to have my Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) illustration accepted into the GNSI 2026 Annual Juried Members Exhibit! First time I have made it in. 🎨🐡 See all of the amazing artwork here (and soon to be posted on the GNSI page): www.artworkarchive.com/profile/guil...

Ink and colored pencil illustration of a cardinal flower with lance-shaped green leaves on tall stem with deep red flower head.

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It’s so important to remind people that we can do good smart things that help and don’t hurt.

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Brian Peterson @drbrianpet.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This is an easy one The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Birds&Flowers Here is a a Black-throated Gray Warbler and ocotillo flowers

The bird is white and black and gray and little; a bundle of red flower at the end of an ocotillo branch

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

One time when I was at this convention center, eating a boxed lunch outdoors, I saw falcons flying around. Needless to say, I now carry all my meals outdoors. (No, it's not always a boxed lunch. You pick up your plate and you walk out with it. People are confused, but they don't stop you.)

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Lauren @tinylongwing.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Today's #BirdoftheDay is all about #texture - something I really enjoy capturing in my art, such as with this quick painting of a White-breasted Nuthatch creeping down a fuzzy lichen-covered branch. 🪶 #BirdArt #SciArt

Illustration of a White-breasted Nuthatch creeping downward along a lichen-covered branch. This small bird has a pointy little upturned bill, white face and breast that fades to chestnut on the flanks, a charcoal gray cap and blue-gray back. Dappled sunlight illuminates its back half. For Yardwatcher (ko-fi/reddit).

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Carol Pope Gordon @carolpopegordon.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Back from the beach near Fort Morgan, AL. It's hard to beat the colors of a Ruddy Turnstone in breeding plumage. 🪶

Shore bird walking on the sand. It has orange legs, black and orange on the wings, a white belly and a black and white head.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I always think that if I get up before dawn to go birding then I'll have a wonderful experience and I'll think to myself, "why don't I do this more often?" I always end up drinking coffee in my car, vaguely fantasizing about more sensible hobbies that don't start until at least noon.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We need to stop assuming that airborne transmission is rare/unlikely, and start teaching what airborne transmission actually looks like, so that people can take the kinds of precautions that are actually helpful, rather than wasting time on hygiene theater.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Finally, at least SOME consideration of the actual logistics of birding at a landfill. As far as I can tell, the entire justifications for the landfill theory is "going to a landfill is weird and gross". You don't actually go inside the landfill! www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

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Birders push back on hantavirus fears tied to Argentine city

Some guides and locals have expressed doubt that birding tourism in Ushuaia played a role in the outbreak that killed three passengers on a South Atlantic cruise ship.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Last year, while looking for something else, completely by accident, I stumbled across a population of small white lady's-slipper, Cypripedium candidum. 🌿🌱

Small white lady's-slipper orchid, with a white pouch surrounded by three twisted yellow sepals

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I'm not leading walks today because my mom and siblings come up for Mother's Day every year so my mother would like you all to know that see spotted the first Harris's Sparrow ever reported at this festival, asked me what it is and I immediately lost it haha

Two photos of a Harris's Sparrow, a large brown and gray Sparrow with a black face and a pink beak. Here it's on the ground

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False Knees @falseknees.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Seed Song

A chipping sparrow is humming to itself while hopping around a forest floor in early spring. New plants are sprouting through fallen years from the year before. Zoom in on the bird in the second panel as it sings "I never had a seed that I didn't like / dry ones hard ones sharp ones even taste alright / if you don't eat them fast, they turn into a grass! / if you let them be, they become a tree!" It stops to munch on some morsels of sparrow food, whatever that is, at the base of a plant that towers over its head. It looks up and up. The final frame is zoomed out to see the top of the plant, which is a trillium. The sparrow cheerily says "Good morning!". And that's how you make a comic!

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

My car is taking its first ferry ride. I am nervous.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

After this I looked, and there was a great multitude that no one could count... Yellow-rumped Warbler, aka butterbutt, Myrtle subspecies, northern Ohio, April 2026 #birds #birding 🪶

A Yellow-rumped Warbler, a small gray and white bird with a dark partial face mask, and bright yellow on the rump and under the wings, perched on a thin branch surrounded by small green leaves

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I'm now hearing Eastern Warbling Vireos, Northern House Wrens, and Northern Yellow Warblers, and they are lovely, but I feel like we need a new rule for naming birds. The new name can be long, or it can be boring. It cannot be both. 😜 #birds #birding

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Being 1000% clear, your immunocompromised friends (you have them, right? Well, you do now) weren’t happy with lockdown because we hate people and didn’t want to hang out. We miss lockdown because that’s when abled people acted like they cared if we died.

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Today's Ginger, plus a bonus friend Ginger and Pie, her mate, have been visiting almost as long as Coopuccino. I think they live and nest on this building somewhere, they never seem to be far #pigeonSky 🪶

A photo of an ash-red check feral pigeon with heavily feathered legs, stood outside on a window sill. Behind her a blue check perches awkwardly on the corner, wings lifted

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna) looks pretty, but it's the only flower I can see in any direction! In less infested areas of the same park, there are 6-8 species of native wildflowers visible, and that's just the ones that are already blooming. 🌿 🌱

Lesser Celandine, a yellow flower with 8 rays, rising above glossy green heart-shaped leaves.

A view into open woods, with trees still bare trunks and branches, and a solid carpet of grewn and yellow Lesser Celandine.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Judgy Tufted Titmouse says “what the hell are you humans even doing?” #birds #TitmouseTuesday 🌿

A small gray crested bird with a fluffy white chest looks straight at the camera looking extremely fierce.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

So much policy is aimed at "addressing AI fears" rather than mitigating its harms because painting the aversion to those harms as irrational is far cheaper that doing anything

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I have now gotten my family in on this year's watching of Jesus Christ Superstar, which of course means we are starting over.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 26/03/2026

Three important bits of context: 1. White mainliners are generally considered more conservative than their clergy, which is why Trump has often won them by small-ish margins. 2. Per PRRI, white mainliners/non-evangelicals are just as large as white evangelicals at 13% — so softening here matters…

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Not an OG Just a G @wilgafney.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I still want to know who is going to tell the Blessed Virgin she is unqualified to offer the body and blood of Christ she offered to the world.

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DTL @dtl.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Male evening grosbeak on the hop 🪶

A large finch with yellow belly, back, and brow; black and white wing; black tail and grey head. Large light-yellow beak. Hopping along a diagonal branch
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 26/03/2026

The universe is a glorious, stunningly beautiful place, and it’s offensive & gross when people produce or share fake space imagery. There’s a video floating around on here pretending to be the night sky viewed from Mars. It’s extremely fake, has been polluting the internet for years. Don’t share it

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No, This Isn't What the Night Sky Looks Like on Mars

Fake news.

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Carol Pope Gordon @carolpopegordon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Montezuma Oropendulas are another amazing bird species we saw in Costa Rica. The male makes a unique gurgling sound and dips down and back up while holding onto the branch, which I did not manage to capture, much to my chagrin. 🪶

Two large birds perched on a dead branch. They are reddish brown with yellow tail feathers, a black beak with an orange tip, light cheek patches and a fleshy pink area below the cheek patch.

Large bird looking down poised on a branch. It has yellow tail feathers, a black beak with an orange tip, whitish cheek patch with a fleshy pink area below. The head and chest are almost black and the back and wings are reddish-brown.

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

For all half-dozen of you following along at home, I am working my way through the 2018 live Jesus Christ Superstar in preparation for Holy Week and Easter. I am now prepared to face Simon Zelotes, who takes some explaining. "Zelotes" is just a transliteration of the Greek, which means "zealot".

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 23/03/2026

And the more recent “smarter” models are getting worse at telling the truth, because the testing systems rate getting a question completely wrong the same as saying “don’t know” (i.e. zero). On average, the Ai model gets better scores by guessing, and it’s trained to optimise its scores.

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Evening Coopuccino, keeping an eye on the current shit-starting pigeon #pigeonSky

A photo of a pied blue spread feral pigeon, stood outside on a window sill, his head tilted slightly

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Plover Pastor @revbirder.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Hey, #Lutherans, it's almost Holy Week, WHAT HAPPENED TO LENT?!?! ANYWAY, this means it's time for me to listen to my Lent and Holy Week playlist, which consists entirely of the 2018 live version of Jesus Christ Superstar, the one with John Legend.

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Best of John Legend as ‘Jesus Christ’ | Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert!

YouTube video by The Shows Must Go On!

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ChrQue @chrisqhq.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Hooded Crow / Nebelkrähe (Villasimius, Sardinia) #birdoftheday #grounded #corvids #crows #birds #vögel #krähen

A grey crow with black wings, tail, throat and head standing on a sandy surface. Some sand is sticking to the tip of the beak.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 20/03/2026

"I haven't used GenAI for writing but it is so embedded in my workflow that, unless I am writing it by hand, I can't promise it hasn't influenced my words." Imagine typing that sentence and then *not* deleting Chat GPT immediately and forever.

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Ouaquaga on Chenango @jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

You have two choices when marginalized groups inform you of harmful language. You can listen, learn, and adjust yourself to be less harmful. Or, You can say "nuh-uh" and keep harming people. Which one you choose reflects what type of person you are.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The claim that AI software is inevitable so we may as well embrace it seems to be at odds with the fact that I keep getting ads frantically telling me how good it is and I really need to buy it, NOW, approximately every 45 seconds.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Why are we still illustrating dinosaurs without their feathers? The scientist that led the discovery literally called this thing a Hell Heron.

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

CIDRAP Op-Ed: The FDA refused to review a flu vaccine, contrary to evidence. Now the agency reversed itself @jakescottMD The latest reversal is welcome, but the episode of first denying Moderna review of its mRNA flu vaccine deserves close examination Photo: Gary Lee/Flickr cc

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debmaluk.bsky.social @debmaluk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Jay of the day #birds

A Blue Jay on a branch looking at the camera. The bird has a gray and white chest and a pointy blue head crest. There is a black circle around the face and black H over the beak. There are out of focus snow covered branches and red berries in the background.

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YHR @yahiro-photograph.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

A fluffy Long-tailed Tit brightening up a chilly winter morning. #birds

A Long-tailed Tit perched on a branch in winter, its fluffy white and black feathers softly puffed up against the cold.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Hey fam, it’s us! “…Defend Public Health filed an amicus brief, arguing that the changes to the vaccine schedule…did not follow best practices for vaccine policy and that HHS’s statements that the changes would increase trust in vaccines and its comparisons to peer nations were faulty”.

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In court, AAP argues Kennedy’s HHS made unlawful changes to vaccine policies

After a day of oral arguments in a packed courtroom, a Boston federal judge did not rule from the bench on a lawsuit from AAP against HHS focused on vaccines.

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

!FRACAS! I don't know what was going on here but they really were at it hammer and tongs! Even the chick joined in! Talk about #fail to get along with the neighbours Rockhopper #Penguin being #DramaQueens #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #FalklandIslands #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #FebruArty2026

Photo shows a group of Rockhopper penguins with the black and white adults on each side facing each other and a brown chick in the middle with his back to the camera. The two middle adults are in an aggressive stance facing up to each other red beaks open the right one leaning in with his flippers flung back. The adults on either side of which only heads and a small amount of bodies showing appear to be joining in 2 with their beaks o0pen as well as if shouting The chick is looking at the two aggressors and is standing on one leg with its fluffy down covered flippers outstretched at each side
Canon R5363mm f/8 1:1600s ISO400

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Heartless Birch @heartlessbirch.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

More like “forced” into, when AI is added to our existing software, email, spell check, web browsers and operating systems. It is extremely difficult to disable. It’s also who we are forced to talk to when reaching out to customer service or, increasingly, even our own local government.

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