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Devin Pitts

@devinwxchase.bsky.social

South Dakota | Storm Chaser | Wildlife Photographer | Wind Turbine Technician | Navy Veteran https://devinpitts.myportfolio.com/

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a boy in a striped vest stands in a crowd ALT: a boy in a striped vest stands in a crowd
24.11.2025 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you want to see just how baddly the dials are cranked to the right on the twitter algorithm though, just make a fresh account. Nothing but right-wing blue check grifting.

23.11.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Forgot to log back into my twitter account after disabling before the permanent deletion kicked in after 30 days lol. Remade to hold onto the handle since NWS ABR actually takes my reports from Twitter and that's their preferred method of reporting.

23.11.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Durrr ChatGPT
YouTube video by Zane Little Durrr ChatGPT

This is unironically how I view chatgpt users(warning: loud lol)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNo5...

23.11.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Got out of the Navy and had no idea what I wanted to do, and a VA rep gave me a flyer for a tech school for Wind Turbine Technician certifications that would be paid for by a government grant, and here I am busting my knuckles 365ft off the ground for 13+ years.

23.11.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Twitter sucks but it is extremely funny right now so it's hard not to watch.

21.11.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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More owls for the timeline from my quick trip down to the lake this afternoon #birds #raptors

19.11.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Checked in on the Long-eared Owl pair I found last weekend, one was in a completely impossible to photograph spot but the other was sitting on a stick at ground level. These owls are fairly tolerant so it allowed me to get close enough into a position for a semi-clear shot of it! #birds #raptors

15.11.2025 00:49 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Huh, so that's why he called it the "Big Beautiful Bill".

14.11.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Truly a Big Beautiful Bill.

14.11.2025 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 199    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2

idk man I love me a good 30 second exposure of a vague red glow

14.11.2025 00:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dissapointed that there wasn't much structure to the aurora display tonight while I was out, but the actual brightness was at a level I don't think I've seen before. Comically bright, really. Hoping when the biggest of the 3 CME's hits tomorrow we get an even better show.

12.11.2025 04:27 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

About 10 miles north of Watertown

12.11.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We are cooking now

12.11.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Oh lawd she coming

12.11.2025 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Code Greenage

12.11.2025 00:04 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The best kind of snow

11.11.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Matt Yglesias is just 5 donors in a trenchcoat.

09.11.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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09.11.2025 04:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is just renting with extra steps.

09.11.2025 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Managed to find this pair of Long-eared Owls this morning down at the lake. I've known this pair has called the lake home for a while now, but they've been extremely ellusive until now! #birds #raptors

08.11.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Throwback to this Wilson's Phalarope shot I took back in June that I forgot about. #birds

08.11.2025 01:25 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tonight my little Eastern Screech Owl friend down at the lake was the most cooperative it's ever been for me! #birds #raptors

02.11.2025 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 69    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Eastern Screech Owl

Eastern Screech Owl

Short-eared Owl

Short-eared Owl

Great Gray Owl

Great Gray Owl

Long-eared Owl

Long-eared Owl

Some owls for Owl-oween πŸ¦‰πŸŽƒ #birds #raptors

31.10.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 79    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year.

One of my favorite Bad Religion albums and one of the best punk albums period.

30.10.2025 03:07 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Red-breasted Nuthatches are out in full force, seems to be an irruption year for them. I've never seen so many of them here in Eastern South Dakota. #birds

26.10.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk(just before rescuing it and taking it to the raptor rehabillitation at the local zoo)

25.10.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My view of the McCook, NE tornado. One of my favorite individual intercepts, but I missed the tornadoes afterwards because I stopped at the farm house that it hit to help with search and rescue.

24.10.2025 23:36 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd mostly be shooting with my longer/heavy lenses (300mm and 200-600mm) for deep sky astro, dunno if a MSM tracker would work for that.

24.10.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Getting a star tracker to get into deep sky astro has been on my radar for a while now, but I know the learning curve for stacking and editing is pretty rough and that's been quite the deterrent lol.

24.10.2025 05:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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