scottmaximus

Rip Shakespeare, you would have loved 8 Mile

Wow!

A mourning dove fledgling looks back at me through my window. His tiny feathers are still growing in

On the left-a mourning dove fledgling perched on my window box looking derpy while an adult mourning dove sits in the crack between the window and window box, looking skeptically at the baby

On the left- a mourning dove fledgling attempts to scare off an adult mourning dove in an attempt to get all the seed

First fledgling of the season that I’ve seen master the window box feeder my husband got me 2 Christmases ago. Not a very clear picture but were very proud

We’ve been feeding the neighborhood doves for a couple years now. So happy it’s fledgling season again so I can watch these derpy guys grow! #addBirder

I'll never stop listening to ALAB, who knows when they'll be sued again.

CTA drivers deserve our respect and loyalty.

It's mortifying to put a book on your Amazon list because someone in /r/Seinfeld recommended it

Alive again, had to get some recreational medical bills.

Benson & Rixon Building, Chicago 1937

Love to go on Twitter to see if there's a note about a fire in my community and be greeted with a wall of slurs.

Caleb is good, that's all that matters. Jettison Eberflus into the lake and the Bears can start cooking.

a huuuuge question in all of this is about the water and power needed to run this place.

lake michigan is at its lowest level in a decade. cities in our own backyard have run out of water & are planning to draw many millions of gallons a day.

My dad wanted to name me Cormac after Cormac McCarthy lol.

May need to deactivate soon. But if I post Douglas MacArthur it means I will return.

Matt Stairs

A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.

May as well dive right in.

Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?

According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”

Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

Lost In The Future Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay I haven't wanted to write much in the last week. Seemingly every single person on Earth with a blog has tried to drill down into what happened on November ...

Newsletter: Blame the tech industry for the rise of authoritarianism. Blame a news media handicapped by a deference to power and a fear of bias. Blame the fact that our digital lives are unchecked ecological disasters.
Something must change.
www.wheresyoured.at/lost-in-the-future/

Never been more back

A hardcover copy of Geoff White's book Rinsed, subtitle: from cartels to crypto: how the tech industry washes money for the world's deadliest Crooks

New book goofing

I was definitely here the whole time, I definitely didn't not open this app for like 8 months.

A mourning dove side eyes me while staying warm in my window feeder that I lined with an old pillow case and some hay bedding

Two mourning doves fluff up their bodies to stay warm while watching someone shovel their parkway

5 mourning doves eating their weight in nutritious seed in order to survive these low temps

One mourning dove in the window box, one dove trying to get in. They’re not great at sharing lol

We’re all trying to stay warm here in these negative temps! 🪶#birds #mourningdoves

we ſhould go back to uſing the "long s" in 2024

A mourning dove tentatively looks inside my new window box feeder that extends into my house!

A mourning dove cautiously eating some seeds at the edge of the new feeder!

Happy eating seeds!

Checking out the new window feeder! 🪶#birds #mourningdoves

"Did you hear about what's going on at Harvard?" No I'm not a member of The Simpsons writers' room in 1992

Female Hooded Merganser in profile, floating in lagoon

Female Hooded Merganser in 3/4 angle, floating in lagoon

Lifer #211! Hooded Merganser @ Humboldt Park 🪶

You expect me to eat that? Nuttall's Woodpeckers. #birds 🪶

A very round morning dove (right) looks directly into my bird camera, almost pressed up against my window. Another round birb (left) shelters in my flower box to stay warm.

A mourning dove (right) looks right into the bird cam, his face shows the reflection of the camera through the glass window. His friend (middle) remains in a ball to keep himself warm. A derpy little sparrow (left) hangs out on the edge of the flower box hoping to sneak some seed.

You up? Let me in! 🪶 #birds #mourningdoves

LLM now stands for Lettuce Learning Model

I know top 100 lists are ragebait but Always Sunny being blanked by variety is a travesty.