skye

The most effective editing move is still the one I stole from George Saunders: read your draft over and over and over again, out loud, until you have to fix the bad parts because you will literally die if you have to read them more time

A black-billed magpie flys in front of frost covered spruce trees. In addition to its black head and white and black body, its wings show a vivid blue and green iridescence.

#ArtAdventCalendar 2024
Day 18
Black-billed Magpies stay with us year round and seem to thrive in the winter! They often appear black and white, but a frosty winter day was perfect for it to show off its beautiful iridescence!
#Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

All pleasures are guilty pleasures if you have high enough anxiety

macOS folk: This is your periodic reminder 🎗️ to:

```bash
$ brew update && brew upgrade && brew cleanup
```

I just got back 10.7 GB & patched a slew of CVEs.

Writing is a lot like weight training. You won't be able to lift a lot at first. You start small. Short session, light weights. Day by day though you get just a *little* stronger. Eventually your sessions get longer, the bars get heavier, and everyone says "I could never do that." Just like you did.

Great Blue Heron - New Jersey #birds 🪶

Vaccines don't cause autism.

Autism is genetic. Autistics are wired differently and have been around for over 200k years. You need us. All efforts to eradicate us are genocidal impulses.

So let your kids get vaccines and not die of smallpox or polio or whatever.

An artwork of a pond filled with water lilies with the night sky reflected on the water. Glowing bunnies are leaping across the pond, racing with shooting stars.

shooting stars 💫

Tufted titmouse

Tufted titmouse, Richmond, VA. #birds #discover #wildlide

Great blue heron fishing. #birds #herons #wildlife

Jeff the Jay. #ukwildlife #birds #wildlife @rspb.bsky.social

Being disabled is walking the tightrope of proving you're competent enough to matter and disabled enough to require support

Wife: So you went to the party all by yourself?
Me: Yes
Wife: And you stayed three whole hours?
Me: Yes
Wife: Even though I wasn’t there to make you stay?
Me: Yes
Wife: And now you don’t want to talk to other people until?
Me: March-ish

A photo of a great blue heron flying low over water on a misty morning. The bird's large blue wings are reflected in the silver water.

Another misty morning, another great blue heron.

#birds 📷 🪶

Bringing it to 🦋 by request:

People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there's no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art.

A blue and white blue jay sits on a snow-covered branch facing the camera. You can see the black bars that separate the floofy belly from the blue head and back. All around the bird are thin, snow-covered branches.

A blue and white blue jay sits on a snow-covered branch facing to the left. You can see the black bars that separate the floofy belly from the blue head and back. All around the bird are thin, snow-covered branches.

Rhapsody in Blue.

I see them every day, but I try not to take for granted how beautiful blue jays are, especially in winter. 🌿🪶

A little late but it's still #ThursJay time, so here's the colourful #Corvid showing off in the snow, captured at Clough Head on the 19/11/24.

#birds #birder @rspbengland.bsky.social #ukbirds #photography #nature #ukwildlife

Just manage TODAY.

Don't get ahead of yourself.

Don't get sucked into trying to handle tomorrow's choices or re-litigate yesterday's decisions.

Your trauma recovery happens in the decisions you make TODAY.

Your "parts" need your patience, compassion, & presence TODAY.

Head and shoulders profile of a blue and white bird with a pointy crest. Background is green bokeh. This is a blue jay that I call Mary.

Mary is radiant (2020)

A portrait of a bluejay I have gotten to know over the years that she has visited my garden. I like how she glows in this photo.
#ArtAdventCalendar #photography #birds

Small black and white and gray bird is perched on a diagonal branch.

Black-capped Chickadee.
#ArtAdventCalendar #photograph
#birds

Large blue and white bird with yellow eyes is resting on a log in a marsh.

Great Blue Heron resting peacefully.
#ArtAdventCalendar #photograph
#GreatBlueHeron #Herons #ArdeaHerodias
#birds

I have a fair bit of ruby crowned kinglet shots in my days, but this morning was my first seeing the crown. It's kinglet sex season baby! 🎶 🪶

An African Grey Hornbill during its territorial call, given with the bill raised skywards and the wings flicked with each note, is a long series of plaintive piping “piu-piu-piu” notes that concludes with some rolling whistles.

An African Grey Hornbill during its territorial display in the late afternoon sun…

📍Akagera National Park, Rwanda.

#birds 🪶 #wildlife #nature

The Downy Woodpecker adds a delightful pop of color to a dreary winter day.

Photographed with a Canon 5D Mark IV & 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L lens +1.4x III extender.

#birdwatching #birdphotography #birds #photography #wildlife #nature #teamcanon #canonusa

An adorable little bird with black, white, and tan plumage is looking shyly down and to the left while perching on a tree branch covered in bushy yellowish-green lichen.

An abundance of bearded lichen on this tree makes for a cozy perch for a Black-capped Chickadee.

Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
December 2024

📸 #birds #lichen #chickadee #BCCH #nature #wildlife #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

An adult male Allen’s hummingbird is perched on a small branch of an olive tree. The bird has an iridescent green back and an iridescent reddish brown throat patch of feathers.

I think this counts as a technicolor coat 🤩

Mr Allen’s hummingbird is hanging out in a nearby olive tree in between trips to the sugar bar.
#birds #backyardbirds

Blue Jays having an intense discussion

Autistic people making jokes about THEIR OWN autism/autistic experiences isn't making light of or making fun of autism

It's often done to help spread awareness. It can also be a coping mechanism. It can also be so other autistics who relate can have a laugh and feel less alone

Blue Jay 🐦💙📷
Florida 📍
#birdphotography #photographer #bird #canon