central flyway fanatic

20s, texan, pronouns are she/her/hers. queer, jewish, interests in 2000s-2010s cartoons, dragons, birds, and paleontology | feel free to send me stuff to ID its enrichment in my enclosure

[patricianicoloso]

Curicaca/Buff-necked Ibis

Theristicus caudatus

[creekfiend]

thing I am proud of: when the doctor started going on a weird rant about long covid not being real I paused and listened to his nonsense for a bit and then very calmly said, in a polite and curious tone, "you don't believe in post-viral illness?" and he like. stammered a bunch and was like OH WELL I'M NOT SAYING -- I DON'T...I just think ..! and backpedaled awkwardly while I just sat there like :3c interesting :3c thank you so much for clarifying your stance on this :3c

[creekfiend]

an important skill for chronically ill people to develop is the ability to treat the doctor as though they are simply a person you are interviewing to find out how much they know about your condition.

[nightmare-from-heaven]

Holy shit op this is LITERALLY in the book 'Never Split The Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depends On It'. Written by a guy who did hostage negotiation and then tried doing business negotiation, and mopped the floor with industry experts.

I'm fortunate enough to have a primary care doctor who knows about hEDS, but it's occurring to me that the skills in this book could be medically life changing for chronically ill folks of all kinds. Like. Literally a matter of life and death, especially for BIPOC and/or fat and/or young people who are having their issues dismissed.

[creekfiend]

HMMM interesting!! will have to check this out

[seedsofwinter]

PDF link here:

https://dn760107.eu.archive.org/0/items/never-split-the-difference-negotiating-as-if-your-life-depended-on-it_202101/Never_Split_the_Difference_Negotiating_As_If_Your_Life_Depended.pdf

[shithowdy]

from a certain standpoint birdwatching is a sort of gacha

[shithowdy]

-reliant on RNG random encounters

-instills a deep sense of fomo

-seasonally-cycled releases

-becomes increasingly financially prohibitive the more you want to expand your list and/or document your encounters

-achieved goals sound meaningless to those not in the hobby

[shithowdy]

never give up!

[yggidee]

6- you excitedly show off your latest find and they go "is that yet another generic anime boy little brown bird? You spent two hundred dollars drove for two hours to see this??"

And then while you explain the rarity and beauty of the Grasshopper Sparrow they've already left.

[shithowdy]

from a certain standpoint birdwatching is a sort of gacha

[shithowdy]

-reliant on RNG random encounters

-instills a deep sense of fomo

-seasonally-cycled releases

-becomes increasingly financially prohibitive the more you want to expand your list and/or document your encounters

-achieved goals sound meaningless to those not in the hobby

[shithowdy]

never give up!

[thelostcanyon]

Monsoon season 2026 is underway, J-Six Ranch, Cochise County, Arizona.

[decomposingfungi]

fandoms are obsessed with giving children to characters who would HATE being parents

[mandatoryshorts]

I wish this was meant in a way of fics with the premise of "It would be interesting to explore how this person/this couple would react to being thrust into a parenthood role that they would normally reject, but are trapped in circumstances beyond their control and must now navigate taking care of this child they never wanted" being really common. But I know what is normalized and it's uncomplicated nuclear family dynamics all around.

[ooksaidthelibrarian]

Faune de la Sénégambie, v.1 Atlas

[miggylol]

Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

Are you safe?

Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.

I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.

I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.

A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.

The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.

I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.

…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.

Remaining time: 2 days 10 hours

(I've run this poll twice before, expanding it significantly for the second run. With about a year passed since that second run, I thought it was time to add another couple hundred names to the list and have another go.)

[fromtheboundlesssea]

Since my other post is popping off, here is the rest of the Gaang. The biggest issues with the noses in the film designs are that they all suddenly have almost the exact same nose shape, there’s a lack of shadow which was indicative of the original art style, and their nostrils are dots which pretty much makes all their noses look so thin.

[notbecauseofvictories]

good morning exclusively to the atlantic’s science editor, or whoever it is that titles their animal biology articles

[notbecauseofvictories]

fellas, they’ve done it again

[notbecauseofvictories]

me, weeping openly: potato

[notbecauseofvictories]

DEFECTOR HAS TAKEN UP THE MANTLE

[thelostcanyon]

Scott’s Oriole (Icterus parisorum), Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona.

[architeuthisducks-blog]

Me Giving a Pressed Conference: our advocacy for the disabled must include the addict, the imperfect victim, those we despise; the right to autonomy and life cannot devolve into a popularity contest

Reporter I Hate (Not Sexual Tension): Does that include all the attendees of the Bored Ape NFT event who went blind

Me: *Blood streaming from my nostrils and eyes* david, it includes everyone

[mythid-cryptid]

can't keep that in the tags

[dentes-mentis]

[Image transcription:

Tags from @/horodragon reading: #this is actually an extremely important thing to keep in mind in regards to being anti-death penalty and pro-prison reform #just because i personally think youre the scum of the earth doesnt mean my political stances suddenly shouldnt apply to you

End image transcription.]

[herpsandbirds]

[omtai]

Man I miss free the nipple. Its getting warmer and we don’t even have free the nipple anymore

[gramarye]

feminism has backslid so hard in recent years people don't even know what free the nipple means anymore

[sodomit]

For those who genuinely don't know, "free the nipple" is about going topless. As in no clothes over the tits at all.

[chick-it-out]

Visit Original Link

see him sing

now see him thrushin

[chick-it-out]

u can hear the sparkles ✨️🐤

[thelostcanyon]

Bay-breasted Warbler (Setophaga castanea), High Island, Galveston County, Texas.

[aforest2006remaster]

yesterday i made a beetle out of soda tabs and wire. we took the bus home.