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In the summer that space will be restaurant patios. The sidewalks on Broadway are already congested with privatized public property for restaurateurs and now they want to take even more public space for parking and operating 20 2ft square lurching burrito taxi robots. Yet we can't have food trucks!

Historian here history first time as tragedy the second time as farce.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #MixedPairs: photos with pairs of different bird species.

A heron under attack from a Lapwing as it gets too close to the
nest...

It's pretty shocking what has become of the UK Labor party. An incredible and successful entryist coup that is has taken away real democratic choice for the kingdom.

Wild-born birds recruited to teach critically endangered regent honeyeaters their lost songs Researchers hope restoring the original song will improve breeding prospects for birds released into the wild

Birdsong tutors! Amazing.
#BirdLinks
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fifth/Third Bank's Amazon grocery store at Halsted and Belmont never even opened. It just sits there still empty along with all its ground floor vacancies 3+ years later. Inviting Amazon in is a sucker move because when their algo changes you're shafted in 1-2 days or on Amazon delivery day.

Corruption of society spreading like an aggressive slime mold.

The Pro-Human AI Declaration The Pro-Human AI Declaration

Hey all, sorry to say this, as I think I have well-intentioned friends who signed, but this "declaration" means nothing. Because Steve Bannon signed it, and he wants my family dead. So if you can sign along side him? At best, you got played. He's the "humanity in control". humanstatement.org

outsourcing to private sector contractors which adds a profit layer expense and increases ongoing maintenance and management costs. Meanwhile the city keeps hundreds of already existing conventional public toilets closed either part of the year or permanently because they don't want to do upkeep.

The ridiculousness of this is that it is all about avoiding paying labor so the toilet is completely hosed down between each use increasing the water consumption and cleaning agent contamination of said water. To achieve the automation there is big upfront capital costs and

As you know you go to war with the casually illiterate government that you have, not the one you might want or wish to have at a later time.

A close-up of a dark seabird with a long hooked bill, dark blue eye, and a bright turquoise throat patch. Photographed in La Jolla, California.

A Brandt’s Cormorant rocking that electric blue!

#birds #nature #wildlife #photography

Want!

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Specieswatch: is the world’s wildlife entering its ‘samey’ era? Scientists are calling loss of biodiversity the ‘homogenocene’, where niche species are pushed out by generalists like pigeons and rats

The Homogenocene.
#BirdLinks
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘A real dark situation to be in’: thousands of starving seabirds stranded in biggest ‘wreck’ in a decade Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and terns are washing up on shores across Europe, after a string of storms affected their ability to find food

Tough times for Atlantic seabirds on the European coast.
#BirdLinks
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Photo a Day 2026 - Day 63: I was so lucky today to catch this shot of a Barred Owl landing in a tree with a fish in his beak!
#photoaday #birds #nature #photography

I heard a Pileated Woodpecker hammering away but wasn't able to locate him at first. I spotted him when he leaned to the side; he was directly on the other side of the tree.

A large, black, red-crested woodpecker is viewed from behind as it clings to a white-barked tree.

I love this view – this woodpecker reminds me of Dracula. #birds

I love a quarter pounder. I might even love two quarter pounders. However, I would hate a half pounder.

The ratios matter.

That's a rift?

bucket crabs

A gloomy foggy and overcast view looking south from 15 floors up in East Lakeview.

Good morning Chicago!
Looking grim. Pathetic Fallacy in action.

Submitting invoices to Trump should go well.

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requiem for vanished birdsong

It would be pretty hilarious if Trump's Middle East war took down Facebook somehow.

Male Red-breasted Merganser in the surf of Lake Michigan powering through a cresting wave.

Everybody's surfing now.
Lake Michigan, Chicago
3.1.2026
#Birds

Red-winged Blackbird doing a big territory dominance display. Wings out and big red epaulets flared.

Come at me bro
Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary Chicago.
3/3/2026
#Birds

The kids don't know about the Amanda Bynes poster hastily airbrushed to avoid implying she endorsed peace