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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!

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Like...

...I WANT people to see the art that goes into sports and action photography. But I think that the client base I'm working with is not going to see it that way.

Because anyone can take a picture of a kid playing baseball.

...but do they know how to make it look like there's no fence?

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is there any way to read your finished dissertation? I regularly use the excerpts you posted to talk about symbiotic ecological relationships. the comic format is so accessible and so pleasant. it pulls people in. I work in urban ag in the midwest and i just can’t describe how useful the full resource would be.

I will pay for it.

YES! I finally have copies on hand!

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Height gap romance except the shorter one is frequently depicted in situations where they are contextually taller. The taller one sitting while the shorter one looms over them. Both of them lying in bed with the taller one’s head pressed to the shorter one’s chest. The shorter one straddling the taller one’s lap and leaning down for a kiss. The taller one on their knees as the shorter one tilts their head up. Please, it makes me go feral

#real life

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Claudia Kishi is from The Babysitters Club by Ann M Martin

Alanna of Trebond is from the Song of the Lioness Series by Tamora Pierce

Nita Callahan is from the Young Wizards series by Tumblr's own Diane Duane

Anne Shirley is from Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

Arrietty Clock is from the Borrowers by Mary Norton.

I second the message above about these books being written in another time and showing it.

#i wanted to be Menolly and Nita #and as i have previously said to marry Cimorene #now that I'm an adult i want to be Morwen

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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.

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Camera.

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Actual roman epitaph for a dog

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Murderbot I love u

Original post by @lavenderlemniscate

#murderbot

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I thought people were calling the new Taylor Swift album that to be mean, but I guess that's the real title

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#i know a probably now adult named zaphod

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"He wished that he could break out his knitting, but for some reason, people didn’t take you seriously as a warrior when you were knitting. He’d never figured out why. Making socks required four or five double-ended bone needles, and while they weren’t very large, you could probably jam one into someone’s eye if you really wanted to. Not that he would. He’d have to pull the needle out of the sock to do it, and then he’d be left with the grimly fiddly work of rethreading the stitches. Also, washing blood out of wool was possible, but a pain."

"Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel Book 1)" by T. Kingfisher

#romance novel rec

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me, listening to murderbot the way murderbot watches rise and fall of sanctuary moon: it's what martha would want.

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#hard choice between menolly and Nita #i wanted to marry cimorene lol

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lmaooo

#apqp