🔭 Lost, and also Found!
The Search for Lost Birds has released its 2026 Lost Birds List update.
5 species rediscovered in 2025 & 6 species added for 2026.
Read more:
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Illustration from © Cornell Lab
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In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel
If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.
Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
‘The normal should be darkness’
"An increasing amount of research has shown that illuminating night skies is bad for a wide range of species, including insects, birds and amphibians–disrupting their feeding, reproduction and navigation"
It's bad for humans, too.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
via wiktionary
“Trump’s march towards authoritarianism is so steady that it’s easy to become inured to it: you can’t be in a state of shock permanently. And besides, sober-minded people are wary of sounding hyperbolic or hysterical: their instinct is to play down rather than scream at the top of their voice.”
Narcomilitares: el caso cero ☝️
This is amazing!
Many others are posting abt this too but this graphic viscerally shows how dire the presidential budget is for NASA 🔭🧪and worldwide astronomy. I can’t express how sad this makes me, as an American scientist. And it’s mostly already paid for projects, so also no logic in terms of saving money.
"It really does disappoint me that so many brilliant colleagues—whose genuine breakthroughs I’ve profited from for years—would be so quick to condemn this newer, stupider way that I and others like me can make money off your life’s work, through stealing." Spot-on, as usual, from @mcsweeneys.net.
new pope!
*crowd goes wild*
American pope!
*crowd boos*
woke for an American!
*crowd goes wild*
bad on protecting abusive priests!
*crowd boos*
hates JD Vance!
*crowd goes wild*
Glad to know this photo I took of a Chilean Swallow can be said to be exceptional 😅
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
25 years ago, the UK government allowed Chile’s former dictator to evade extradition to Spain. Available in EN, ES, DE, AR, FR, IT and PT-BR.
an executive order is not a law
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Screenshot of the app Merlin Id showing that my bird of the day is a Rock Pidgeon
Merlin has low expectations for me today 😂
#merlin
French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated.
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Please read this article on how going to Mars is a ridiculous idea. It is absolutely brilliant:
defector.com/neither-elon...
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You should DEFINITELY NOT go to this site & mess with this DOGE survey by the Heritage Foundation.
Definitely do NOT put fake information where they ask for your personal details.
That would fuck up all their shit, man.
These people are doing SERIOUS WORK.
secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...
I will keep repeating it. Elon Musk is the most dangerous man in the United States. He is a clear and present danger to every American citizen. What he's doing will make you sicker, more exposed to extreme weather, and more likely to die.
He is a dire threat to your life.
Imposter syndrome
Despite being a keen birder for more than a decade, Lucy McRobert has found it hard to feel like she belongs in the hobby:
What we need is a tax system that severely punishes companies for being anything more than modestly profitable
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.
Finally found an owl!
This marks my first owl lifer:
A Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl in La Sabana parc.
Sorry for the back of the camera shot, I'll post the actual image later. #birds
BREAKING: Rep. Mark Pocan has introduced the ELON MUSK act which would ban "special" government employees like Musk from having federal contracts.
The full title of the bill is the Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy Act.
Can these representatives please actually stop Elon fucking Musk who NOBODY FUCKING VOTED FOR from doing illegal shit in our government I feel like I’m losing my god damned mind.
Amazing!!
Thanks!
Do any birders have good manuals/materials/references for gull identification?
I'm having trouble with gulls from the north of france/south of the uk.
#birds #ukbirding
