alex, chicago edition

birdwatching! not biased

Blue jay with crest up, screaming.

Let’s go, #BlueJays! 👏🏻-👏🏻-👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Congrats Jesse Love, fuck the playoffs

That ramp would’ve saved me so much time and pain on grocery runs though

Don’t live there as of this summer but there was usually a lot of debris built up in the lanes, and some of the drainage grates were kinda evil. Better than nothing though!

me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it

the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

lanyardigan @lanyardigan.bsky.social GALADRIEL: (glowing green) In place of a hard roll, I would have whole wheat— beautiful and terrible to behold! DELI GUY: #3 on wheat. G: (coyly) You offer it to me freely. DG: No, Galadriel. You have to pay. Every day with this October 15, 2023 at 1:56 PM

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

A Palestinian flag with 3 for Dale. Via https://www.instagram.com/comrade_dale_earnhardt_/?hl=en

The most expensive jump *so far*

Austin Hill doing a Polish victory lap is cultural appropriation

Edited screenshots from No Country for Old Men. Anton Chigurh (with cow horns and cow ears) sits in a hotel chair and asks someone across from him, "If the tool you followed brought you to this, of what use was the tool?" In a zoomed out view, Anton sits silently behind a table with the 4 cow tools look8ng at his victim as if studying him.

No Country for Old Cows (2007)

Initial conditions:
m1=29.9 m2=3.4 m3=15.7 (solar masses)
v1x=-4.292 v1y=-2.816 v2x=1.861 v2y=2.299 v3x=5.073 v3y=4.874 (km/s)
x1=26.0 y1=-11.0 x2=12.0 y2=35.0 x3=6.0 y3=0.0 (AU from center)
Music: First Step (Interstellar) – Zimmer

A black bike with purple bar tape and large panniers leaning against an ARMCO barrier. Behind it is a large slough, with some land off in the distance. A rainbow curves down to the right.

The same bike rested against a small, strangely shaped building next to a paved path overlooking a field of tall grass and reeds. The building is sort of shaped like a trapezoid on its side. It has four segments, each made of overlapping panels of gray metal with a couple cyan and red highlights.

A close-up photo of a grasshopper clinging to the front brake line of my bike.

Digiscope shot of a pair of Bald Eagles roosting in a bare tree.

Meant to do daily posts in that thread but I forgor 💀

Really fun trip, the Mississippi-Missouri confluence is just a gorgeous area. So much history and natural beauty.

Wayfinding in post-apocalyptic video games

Not far out of the city the natural areas are incredible. There’s the red rock scenic drive, and nice hiking in the Mt Charleston area. You’d be surprised at how cool it gets once you’re at altitude. Bring plenty of water if you go!

there are nuances to be had in their use and equitable implementation but "turn off all the speeding cameras" is instantly identifiable as a chud opinion

I have smashed
The plum
Flavored lacroixs
That were in
The cooler
Hell yeah brother
The dudes
They do rock

Mother duck nesting in a nest built inside a skeletal rib cage, surrounded by purple sage blossoms.

In Defiance of Death

S/O to this downy woodpecker hard at work pecking wood.

excellent bird

Looking up at Willis/Sears tower at sunrise from ground level. It towers over the alleyway

The Melvin Price Lock and Dam, a massive concrete structure rising over the Mississippi. There’s a few Army Corps of Engineers logos in the side.

Third St, Alton, Illinois. In the background an abandoned factory towers over the town. At the end of the street there’s a row of building, including a defunct Masonic Temple. A big sign beckons to enter a bar.

A view across the Mississippi from atop the bluffs at the Olin Nature Preserve.

St Louis trip day 1/3 complete! Amtrak to Alton, visited the Melvin Price Lock and Dam, then rode to the Olin Nature Preserve. Never heard so many red-headed woodpeckers in my life.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Sabiá-do-campo/Chalk-browed Mockingbird
Mimus saturninus
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no thanks!

This isn't how birding is supposed to work!

horribly bald carolina wren (who I think is very cute) singing away

#birds 🪶

pointing at the hamburger menu icon in the top left hand corner of a mobile bluesky app screen

settings menu option circled

content and media menu option circled

autoplay videos and gifs toggled off

to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app

select the icon in the top left corner

go to settings

go to content and media

make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off

A protest form from the Sports Car Club of America national autocross championships, alleging that a trans woman is not eligible to compete in ladies classes for [reasons]. Ruling of protest committee is that the protest has no basis and protesting party is an asshole.

Competitors (the not-asshole kind) in the SSC Ladies class at the SCCA Solo Nationals show support for their colleague who was protested for competing in a class she was not eligible for (spoiler alert: she totally was eligible).

Sometimes, motorsports gets it.
SCCA Solo Nats competitor is protested on Day 1 in a ladies class for being trans. Protest committee rules aggrieved party should get fucked into the sun. Day 2 the rest of class shows support for the protested party on way to her first run. She would go on to win.