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So borb! And they sit on their little feet to keep them warm!

Me: Is there anything cuter than a chickadee?

Tufted titmouse: Hi!

Me: Fair point.

All the cutie pie birds are at the feeder today: chickadee, tufted titmouse, cardinal, and junco!

You know what would end their roving patrols and racial profiling? Abolishing ICE.

Icing on the cake: “The prosecutor's office also said it was leaving X and would communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram from now on.”

I feel like sometimes we say "everyone's different and that's ok" to kids who really need to hear something more like "you're worthy of respect even if people are being hateful to you".

a gray crip love letter to my cane Using a cane can be full of contradictions. Any medical device can be viewed as desexualizing and alienating. Suddenly, whoever is walking…

A quick note on some things I've been thinking about for a while 🦯👭
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A gloved had holding up a thin piece of ice with a variety of textures including dendrites and bubbles. In the background is a river with snowy banks and icy edges.

We went down to the Croton river to check out the ice today. As the water level changes the edges freeze at different heights, forming lots of layers of ice. The ice can have beautiful textures like bubbles and branches.

It got down to 2 F last night but it’s a balmy 20 F now.

Small dilute calico cat sitting on a windowsill looking out at a cardinal on a branch.

Luna is enjoying the show.

Woo-hoo! Saw a red bellied woodpecker this morning!
Also the usual assortment of sparrows, juncos, jays, cardinals and squirrels.

if you or someone you love is thinking of flying out to volunteer: please donate the costs of that trip to a rent fund

Power pole blocking the sun. 22 degree halo around the sun in hazy sky.

22 degree halo in Croton-on-Hudson.

We have some wacky deer tracks that I assume are from deer running sideways down the big rocks out front. Mostly they were after a decorative evergreen based on the convergence (and broken branches) there.
We get cardinals, but they hang out in the dogwood to fly to the feeder.

Looking down a set of outdoor stairs at compressed snow bird tracks left on steps after blowing the thin layer of snow off. The lower steps haven’t been cleared yet.

Bird tracks in a thin layer of snow on a sheltered porch.

I used the leaf blower to clear the thin layer of snow from our steps today. The bird feeder is hanging off the landing. The (mostly junco) feet compressed the snow, leaving a positive track!
For comparison, tracks in the snow on our protected porch where I put food out on the railing.
So cute!

We walked down to the Croton river this morning to check out the river’s frozen edge. Saw a couple of ducks, one with a cinnamon head. I’d guess green winged teal based on range. Lots of folks out walking today before the snow comes in.

@lookitup.baby is a good one. Although Chicago, @dansinker.com is on that wavelength.

CHI26 workshop “Crip HCI: Cyborg Perspectives on Disability Justice” invites self-identified fellow cyborgs to consider what the field of HCI might gain from a deeper engagement with cyborg perspectives on disability justice, “crip HCI”, and better AT. Submissions due Feb 12.
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Today I watched the birds all by myself as my cats had a busy napping schedule due to yesterday’s immunizations. They missed out on the tentative lady cardinal next to all the little song sparrows. She gets scared off easily but she’s so pretty.

Two cats on a small table, both looking out the window.

The cats have figured out there are robins out there.

There are robins in the privets, pecking about at the berries. Now I have to decide if that is a good enough reason to keep one of them. I really dislike privets but these are very excited birds.

Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.

Sundog Magic in a winter sky ☀️

#flwx #nature #photography #clouds

A junco and a male cardinal on a ledge with seeds and a female cardinal on a snowy branch behind them.

I did not see the lady cardinal until after I took the picture.

Today’s cat TV cast includes cardinals, blue jays, juncos, house sparrows, song sparrows, chickadees, tufted titmice and the ubiquitous fat squirrel.

I will never get tired of watching cardinals. I will especially never get tired of watching cardinals in the snow. They always brighten my day.

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Two cats looking out a window where a cardinal and a sparrow are seen in a small tree. A squirrel is there but not visible behind one of the cats.

Cat TV is hopping! Cardinal and sparrows and juncos and squirrel today.

Practical Ways to Support Minneapolis if you live Outside Minneapolis a hastily written announcement + a call to resist white saviorism narratives

An important read with some local support options from @thegenerouspine.blacksky.app: sorrelvirginiahester.substack.com/p/practical-...