i’m an avid birder. i’m out in the field frequently and follow the science on birds rather than the personal anecdotes of internet strangers. habitat destruction and fragmentation, climate change, and the built environment (night time lighting, skyscrapers/windows) are all major factors affecting bird populations. i wish what you’re reporting were reflected in the science, but i don’t see it.

u.s. bird populations continue alarming decline, new report finds

data from birders reveal declines in north america’s birds

state of the birds 2025

i got on board as an osm volunteer because I figure more people are probably looking to switch away from google and I could help. initially when google first came out I thought the idea of “google guides” was kinda neat, at least in theory. i think adding to the osm project is a good way of achieving a similar goal. also, i have been using organic maps on graphene for years and it’s done well enough by me. ymmv

I’d love to read something positive. is there an article you can share?

“decade of the family” as long as they look the way I think they should.

i liked how, in the novelization, mccoy had tampered with the ship’s computer while spock was researching camping and had him expecting that they would be toasting marsh melons.

what’s inconceivable is how adorable she is. too cute!

this one hits hard

#FuckNestle this is one of my favorite pins I got from a flint water activist after sharing our mutual hate for those fucking parasites.

alt text: round white pin reads “nestlē fuck off” in black text. edit: fixed alt text

my first day of eighth grade (read: long ago) i was walking to my bus stop when i was struck by an automobile. it was a cool morning and the high schooler who was driving was running late (speeding, didn’t defrost his windshield, probably distracted). i went flying into a puddle at the end of a neighbor’s driveway. he kept driving, claimed he thought he hit a mailbox. probably the most fucked up part was the cop on the scene blaming me for walking on the right-hand side of the road. apparently I was supposed to know better. so, yeah, acab and fuck cars.

formuls works if you have reliable access to clean water. many women were told to raise their children on it rather than breastfeed. once they were no longer lactating they were beholden to the whims of a company that would one day say the idea that water is a public right “extreme”. controversies of nestlē

birds have been on the decline for decades.

sisko isn’t even listening. too bust stewing.

so to sum up, populations of insects that feed on/harm trees are growing and more able to complete their life cycles given the warmer winters. i don’t really subscribe to the philosophy of hobbes, but this makes me think of the road and how there were just no more trees. would be a brutish existence indeed never to hear a bird sing again nor find shade beneath the branches of a towering oak.

looks like a sword, but I think they’re just swinging from some steel cables so your point stands.

thank you. christ!

now i’m imaging a version of sub rosa in which dr. crusher has to compete with miss piggy for ronin’s affection.

is this part of the famous miaoux tapestry?

… and still, they come!

that’s all very shocking and bad but senior citizen? wtf?!

solidarity is so fucking beautiful.