actually no, we're not "dating". we're bound together for infinity. like the stars. so, fuck you, actually.

The four stages of becoming a birder:

🪹Nestling Phase: You start with a casual interest, peeking out of your cozy comfort zone to notice the birds around you.

🐤Fledgling Feats: You spread your wings, equipped with binoculars and guidebooks, ready to explore new habitats and spot diverse species.

🐦‍⬛Perching Proficiency: Your skills sharpen as you learn to identify birds by their calls, habits, and plumage, and feel a sense of accomplishment with each new sighting.

🦅Masterful Migration: Finally, you soar confidently, traversing landscapes near and far, sharing your passion with others. In the end, the true joy of birding lies in the journey itself—every chirp, flutter, and waddle along the way.

Happy National Go Birding Day!

🎶 So baby, one more kiss, baby, one more kiss

We never have to say goodbye

Oh, one more kiss, baby, one more kiss

It brings a little luck to the night 🎶

A pre-suicide-mission make-out session in the vista suite at Jackie’z 💕

(Redraw of this piece that I drew after the s2 trailer 💕 Lyrics are One More Kiss by Meat Loaf because I love subjecting you to my playlists 😆 )

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

Had a rough day today, so to get away from thoughts I drew my beloved retired captains 💜 Love them and all of you and your kind words, that keeps me going!

😴😴😴

Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

Don't usually share work stuff but I do work in climate policy and nearly every memo I write includes some variation of "government funding for this obscure but necessary area of climate mitigation research has been multiplied (sometimes by like, 1000x) under the Biden Administration" and while I know the oil permitting stuff is much splashier news there's a whole world of work that needs to be done under the surface that Biden is doing. And if he doesn't win in 2024 all that progress goes away and the climate is absolutely fucked

Brückenwurzel | bridge root by Michael Lumme

gray heron playing in the snow (18.04.2024)

@todaysbird

who me? just thinking about the cunty purple crown royal shovel cover from ofmd, what are you up to?

Little red octopus 🐙❤️

These little red octopus are sea-ternly the masters of disguise, thanks to their ability to change color and texture to blend seamlessly with their surroundings. Check out those inkredible hiding skills!

I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone.