Reanna Karousis

Extremely pregnant, extremely exasperated horse is covered in cowbirds. Credit: Merlin app.

And closes out strong with this unsettling shot of a mob of cowbirds who have decided to hold a meeting atop this extremely pregnant horse. HER BACK HURTS. GET OFF HER.

Cowbirds staring directly at the sun? Credit: Merlin app

A glimpse into cowbird culture/religion - are they at worship? Did someone spot a hot air balloon? What are we all looking at?

Juvenile (delinquent) cowbird returning friendly chipping sparrow greeting with absolutely-uncalled-for shrieking outrage (credit Merlin app)

Quickly pivots to juvenile (delinquent) screaming in a chipping sparrow's face for no apparent reason.

Normal cowbird photo, he's perched on a stick glaring over his shoulder. (credit: Merlin app screenshot).

Starts off pretty normal. Yep, that's a cowbird.

Check out this bird - Brown-headed Cowbird Merlin Bird ID is a free app that helps you find more birds.

I need to know, right now, who curated the photos for the brown-headed cowbird in Merlin. You're a genius, a legend, a true scholar. @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social merlinbirds.org/species/bnhcow

We can’t look away from this, y’all. If you’re not aware of how awful this particular prison is, here’s a quick read.

Interviewed in the article: a lawyer for a gay man who fled homophobic violence in Venezuela just to be sent to one of worst places on the planet.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

NIH has paused patenting of discoveries, slowing their use in developing treatments Freeze on communications and contracts blocks NIH from sharing research materials with collaborators and patenting discoveries.

Donald Trump is blocking the development of life-saving medicine.

How does that help you?

In addition to calling your reps, organizing locally, and screaming into the void, might I recommend treating hr@opm.gov like an unsolicited, one-way pen pal and sharing the pointless minutiae of your life? Describe the weird dream you had last night. Tell them about your cat. It's very cathartic.

Macklemore 👏👏👏🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

My antidepressant is the memory of last year when a handful of buffleheads made a pit stop in our pond for a few minutes.

Step 1, for me at least: Google "hegemony."

It would be so embarrassing for Elon to realize this is all a ploy to distract from the fact that he's too scared to get in his rocket and fly to Mars.

BREAKING: The US State Department flag has been spotted flying upside down—a universal signal of distress.

Real men stop whatever they're doing and just go to Mars already.

Only losers are too scared to get in their little rockets and go to Mars.

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth

Also, I'm committed to resilience out of spite to fight through this shock doctrine deluge of nightmares, but the teenage stress acne I'm experiencing right now is its own level of shocking.

Anyone else clock out of consciousness only to dream scream all night about the private prison slave labor behind "Made in the USA" labels and immigration detention centers to blank-faced acquaintances at a picnic table in a hot parking lot over the roar of unregulated freight trains?

Indie Bookstores Will Soon Be Able to Sell E-Books Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too.

This is such great news. For so long Amazon has had a chokehold on ebooks. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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Starbucks workers AND Amazon workers are on nationwide strikes during one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. I truly hope their bosses are sweating bullets :)

this was great & very I’m Mad As Hell I’m Not Going To Take It Anymore coded, which you know what, a lot of things feel like that right now

🧵 #Ohio senators just released a bill that would let the state close your local public schools

It's 100+ pages long, and they're trying to pass it into law THIS WEEK‼️

Read SB 295 (The most dangerous pieces seem to be on pages 53 - 58): bit.ly/3B8Fxov

This weekend we cancelled $90/month+ of subscription streaming services, loaded Kanopy + Hoopla onto our Roku and maxed out the family library cards on free media. I highly recommend.

One thing about me is I will go to my grave never having seen Love Actually.

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It's been so long since I've done anything but lurk on social media. I've lost the muscle memory and courage to articulate a single thought, even though I'm really happy to be here and bask in the old-Twitter-esque vibes. 👋👋👋