Mary M

A Red-winged Blackbird stands on a feeder with a seed in his mouth.

They’re back. Spring has sprung.
The Juncos will be leaving any minute.
#RedWingedBlackbird
#birds

Northern Cardinal on feeder at sunset

He’s handsome and he knows it
#Norm
#NorthernCardinal
#birds

Screenshot from AI response to Google search. It reads, “Teams meeting audio cutting out specifically on women’s voices is often caused by aggressive AI noise suppression misinterpreting higher-pitched, softer, or specific frequency ranges as background noise.”

Just tried to join a meeting with the Teams app but found that the audio cut out every time a woman was speaking. Googled to find out that their AI often interprets female voices as background noise. Adjusted all settings. Nothing worked.
@microsoft.com

Gen X: “All I got was a rock.”

It was, like, 3 months in late 1991, after Nevermind came out.

Two Eastern Bluebirds stand on feeder and have a chat

Twosday Bluesday
#EasternBluebird
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StoryGraph collage of covers of Burn by Peter Heller; Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests by KJ Whittle; Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton; A New New Me by Helen Oyemi; and The Ghost Fields by Elly Griffiths.

My February reads
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Basically my dream job

This is my calling.

They’re going to DisneyWorld!

“Would you believe…?”

If we ever needed Saturday morning cartoons, we need them today.

It’s good for ratings.

As an alternate to the State of the Union, I offer you the state of my yard, a.k.a., Bunnies Eating Hay.

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Three Evening Grosbeaks—two female and one male, who always seem to be together, gather on a feeder.

I’m naming these three Janet, Jack, and Chrissie.
#EveningGrosbeak
#ThreesCompany
#birds

The squirrels will be delighted.

I find it quite interesting: A noun’s a person, place, or thing.

My son, who is autistic and has other disabilities, is exactly the same way.

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The Gen X urge to put on your red shoes and dance the blues

5 authors I’ve read at least 5 books by:
Louise Penny
Ruth Ware
Elly Griffiths
Agatha Christie
Liane Moriarty

@louisepennyauthor.bsky.social
@ruthwarewriter.bsky.social
@ellygriffiths.bsky.social
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Family dinner
#EasternBluebird
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I bet I was one of the kids watching at home when this aired.

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Three Evening Grosbeaks gather together on a backyard feeder.

There was an Evening Grosbeak convention at the feeder today!
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The best campaign message out there.

Oh! Good to know. Thanks, JT. Is there a setting that says “if I ever click ‘go live,’ ignore it because I did it by mistake”?

Screen shot of my BlueSky profile with a blue dot over the ellipsis in the upper right corner

What does this blue dot mean?