Coral, yr Bird Friend
LightNews LightNews
banner
parodybit.bsky.social
Coral, yr Bird Friend
@parodybit.bsky.social
1.3K followers 590 following 1.7K posts
Friendly tech and bird nerd; also a librarian, engineer, & data munger, currently a web dev & systems admin for an academic library. Very caffeinated. 🌶️🧠, chronically ill, immunocompromised. #CovidIsntOver so #MaskUp (banner by beesyjimwax on Tumblr)
Posts Replies Media Videos
parodybit.bsky.social
I’m really pleased with this, my first lattice crust pie. (I’d be more pleased if it were homemade pie crust but my rolling pin is in parts unknown.)
An apple pie with a clearly hand-done lattice pattern. There’s also a little vine with five leaves (made from spare dough) as decoration on top.
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
Happy Frog and Cranberries Day to all who celebrate! #ItMustBeFall
Extension Master Gardener posted some cranberry information on Facebook on November 25, 2014, including a photo by Carl Jacobs, of a frog surfacing among some floating cranberries on a bog. Peterson Field Guides reposted on the 26th with the words "Frog and cranberries it must be fall."
November 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
parodybit.bsky.social
No scurvy in this household! (I maybe misjudged sizes in my curbside order (really, in the allowed substitutions, since that was meant to be a little bag of mandarins))
A huge bag of oranges and two bags of apples. One orange is over beside an open basket with a couple of apples in it, because I want to see if it will get any more ripe that way.
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
He’s in his travel cage in the kitchen (on a surface where there is no food prep happening, and we don’t use nonstick), and apparently that means bath time!
An absolutely muppet-looking green cheek conure, with a very wet head. The lighting is kind enough to mostly shade his naked belly from view.
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
It’s good we’ve already had The Skeleton Talk with our landlord
A very normal-looking storage shelf with a reasonable number of pieces of a 12 foot skeleton sticking out at various angles. Above it are two pieces of luggage, one of which visibly has green moving stickers from two different moving companies. (Yes, the second one WAS annoyed.)
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
Does anyone want to identify this cool mushroom I found in the woods in western NY?
The mushroom is grey-brown and … I’m bad at estimating sizes, maybe 8 times the size of a thumb nail? No thumb in this photo, but one can see the cool frills on the white stem of the mushroom. Just another view of the same shroom, it’s at a jaunty angle.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 AM
parodybit.bsky.social
Thinking of one particular woman in Ohio. (Iykyk)
Image of a big cat, presumably a mountain lion, with text above it: "If I'm ever mauled by a mountain lion, please know that my last words were 'here kitty kitty kitty.'"
November 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
I accomplished at least one thing this week! #BoycottTMobile #StopTheMoneyPipeline
I hung up on T-Mobile and canceled my contract!
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
parodybit.bsky.social
Great news: faux pecan pie with pretzels is nearly indistinguishable from the original!
Something that looks a lot like a pecan pie, except that an observant person might note that the shapes are slightly wrong, they’re actually crunched up pretzels.
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 AM
parodybit.bsky.social
These squirrels
A very round squirrel, posed cutely in hopes of being fed.
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
Now we’re hanging out
Same bird, now preening his feathers on the shoulder of a grinning human. Two large bird cages are visible behind them.
November 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
parodybit.bsky.social
Pumpkin doesn’t hate the moving process
A lutino cockatiel on a pile of cardboard and packing paper. He looks quite pleased with his surroundings.
November 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
parodybit.bsky.social
what movie villain is a horrible "person", but an absolute joy to watch on screen?
Loki from Marvel saying “Satisfaction is not in my nature.”
November 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
Important Pittsburgh-area news!

(I bet they freeze pretty well, y'all.)
Looking to have a Gobb party? Save the day with a mini Gobblerito tray!
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 AM
parodybit.bsky.social
The squirrels at Ontario Beach Park will walk right up to you and shake you down for anything edible you might be carrying.
A squirrel perched on the back of a park bench, preparing to come closer and demand a snack. A very round squirrel sitting cutely on the ground, not plotting any food heists at all. Same squirrel holding something that looks suspiciously like a fry in its hands. A squirrel who appears to be a respectable distance away, nearly the full length of a park bench. It maybe has a little snack in its paws.
November 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
Went out and saw a bit of Rochester today. Mostly only got photos of roses and squirrels, though 😂
A partially unfurled rose with a butter yellow center and bright pink edges on its outer petals. Another rose with a similar color scheme, but there is more pink, which turns darker at the very tips of the petals. Look, I have a type, y’all. Another in the same theme, but with an overall slightly more orange feel to it. It’s also a more petite bloom all around. This one is mostly a coralish pink, with a few yellow streaks. Like the first, it isn’t fully unfurled.
November 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
Did women ruin the workplace?
Bronze statue of a naked Medusa with a sword, carrying the head of Perseus.
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
I propose the Stop Listening To Computer Guys Challenge. (Difficulty: apparently fucking infinite.)
"I don't think AI is going to put lawyers out of business, but I think lawyers who use AI will put those who don't use AI out of business. And I think you can say that about every profession,” Hany Farid, professor of computer science at UC Berkeley.
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
in awe of "WTF Just Happened Today"
A very long sentence describing the regime's behavior yesterday, ending with the following text, highlighted: "a Wyoming man who helped convince the world to invade Iraq on the false pretense that “there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction” (he didn’t), that Iraq had “reconstituted nuclear weapons” (it hadn’t), and that Americans would be “greeted as liberators” (they weren’t), died November 3, 2025, at 84 from pneumonia and heart complications."
November 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
Apple's "MFA" always cracks me up
Website says "Two-Factor Authentication: enter the verification code sent to your Apple devices." A pop-up sits in front of the website, with the code that's needed. (It also says "Don't share it with anyone," but the thing is, I'm already authenticated, well before I send this screenshot to you.)
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
Whoo, GCCs’ beaks are bigger and more powerful than cockatiels’, so we just had a scare, trying to find the amethyst that perfectly fit into a little beak (because it would be very bad for him to swallow it).

But all is well. (Except this ring, it’ll never be the same, lol)
A ring that’s meant to have three gemstones, but the center one, which is purple, has been popped out somewhat violently. It is in frame (and not in a bird’s digestive tract).
November 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
Im also being super normal with my cousin (redacted name is of my abusive ex step father, not to be confused with my dad’s husband who was a delight)
Received text: Do you have any interest in old hard copy photos of yourself I salvaged from aunties? Sent text: Yes, please! And if you see any of my dad that are in OK enough shape to keep, I’d also love to have those. (Not [redacted], though. Burn any photos he was in, and throw salt on the fire’s ashes.)
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
Happy Halloween!
A selfie of two people, one in an inflatable frog costume and the other in a cape with a hood pulled over a crocheted Medusa hat. They are chilling (literally, it’s cold and wet out) under the overhang of a hatchback.
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
Offering him a bath (in a bowl where it would be comfortable) seems to have prompted him to take a bath (in his water bowl, which is a little too small for the purpose, but he made do)

I’d really like for him to stop over-preening; fingers crossed that this solves it
A wet cinnamon green-cheeked conure.
October 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
parodybit.bsky.social
A baby is all packed up for his big vet checkup. I’m gonna owe him so much millet
A cinnamon green-cheeked conure in a bird carrier. A sparse sprig of millet is visible on the floor, but his attention is entirely on the human who won’t let him out, even though he wants out.
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM