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Rafe
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🐧🦆🦃birds pls🕊️🐓🦅

I don't compromise with the right-wing.

He/Him and Very Gay

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Those who can read Hanzi, do you have any idea what this says? It's an inscription on my Xiao. I've had it for years but have never been able to find out.
Close-up photo of Hanzi/Chinese writing on a bamboo flute, called a Xiao. The translation is currently unknown.
July 19, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Photograph of a ring-necked pheasant hen in flight, moving left of viewer. Photograph of a ring-necked pheasant hen standing on one leg in the snow. Her tail is pointed upwards, her posture suggests alertness.
June 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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TSUKI GAYTIME
Cover art of a box of the Australian ice cream lolly "Golden Gaytime" by Streets. The title is in the centre with a yellow and brown spiral sunburst pattern pinpointed on it. There is a green hill beneath it. The image appears as if the title is a rising sun overlooking greener pastures. The lolly is in the bottom-right foreground with a bite taken out of it, with text to its left reading "4 delicious chances to have a gay time!"
June 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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if you know you know

(but the alt text explains it too)
A profile photograph of an adult male California Quail standing on a rock precipice. Though not perceptible through a photo, their song sounds like they're saying "Chicago!", thus the relevance to the quoted post.
June 2, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Anyone within earshot of Aberystwyth: on Monday there'll be vigil, with a speech by Na'amod (British Jews against the occupation), and all money raised will go to the Talkarum refugee camp and World Food Programme. ~39 groups are predicted to attend. The more the merrier!

🇵🇸 Free Palestine. 🇵🇸
Poster marking a vigil in support of Palestine in Aberystwyth, Wales, on Monday the 26th of May from 14:30 until 15:30. The background shows the town silhouette with bombs overhead. Beneath the town are the logos of many support groups which will be attending.
May 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Oes unrhyw un yn Gorllewin Cymru yn rhydd ar gŵyl y banc? Bydd yna araith gan Na'amod, a bydd yr holl arian yn mynd i Talkarum refugee camp a'r World Food Programme.

🇵🇸 Bydd Palesteina Rhydd. 🇵🇸
Poster sy'n nodi gwyliadwriaeth i gefnogi Palestina yn Aberystwyth, Cymru, ddydd Llun 26 Mai o 14:30 tan 15:30. Mae'r gefndir yn dangos sylwedd y dref gyda bomiau yn y goruchaf. O dan y dref mae logo llawer o grwpiau cymorth a fydd yn mynychu.
May 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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ooooo I love a good bird pun in my scientific literature

thank you Papageorgiou you funny funny lady

danaipapageorgiou.bsky.s ocial
doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.10.008
Excerpt from a letter in volume 36 of the journal "Trends in Ecology & Evolution". A highlighted portion of the excerpt reads "Birds have a wide diversity of social systems, with many species living in nested societies."
May 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Cornelius...
Costume of Cornelius Rooster, the green rooster who is the mascot of Kellogg's Corn Flakes. He stands gawking, in the A-pose, wearing a shirt which reads "Kellogg's Corn Flakes".
April 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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I trimmed it for character count, not cherrypicking.
February 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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*There has never been a single reported case of sexual abuse perpetrated by a transgender person in a bathroom.*

And yet Republicans - to the nobody's surprise - are found doing it time and again. Absolutely barbaric.

www.complex.com/life/a/amand...
"Media Matters, a non-profit organization dedicated to monitoring media for conservative misinformation, found that no actual incidents involving predatory transgender people have occurred. What stories have circulated in the press have all turned out to be false and perpetuated by hate groups." - Amanda Wicks, Complex Original.
January 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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❤️
Gloster canary standing on a perch, facing the camera. It is a small, handsome bird with a crest of feathers which look like a bowlcut. Photo credit: Maximilian100/Shutterstock
December 30, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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Bugs Bunny in a tuxedo with a rose lapel, standing besides a caption which reads "I wish all elon musk a very eat shit and die".
December 21, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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Android sticker of a chicken celebrating with a party hat, confetti, and a party blower.
November 7, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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For what it's worth from across the pond.
November 6, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #911,429! Nearly past the 1mil mark, but I'm just glad to be here
September 18, 2024 at 6:14 AM
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Sometimes you make a really great find at a community thrift store.
A lined page with jibberish text written on it using a typewriter, upon which it is laid. Several lines read "Boehm plates with British birds glazed upon them."
April 24, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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Well there's no preview so here
Screenshot of a Cambrian News headline reading "Delight as osprey lays egg". Photo shows an osprey standing and looking over a red-speckled egg with the caption "Elen and Aran are looking after the egg (Glaslyn Ospreys)"
April 23, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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It feels pathetic and petty, but I cannot stand it when a company:

- Strips away good features
- Hides worse versions of them behind a paywall
- Refuses to discuss its issues openly with users
- Lays off most of its workforce for AI
- The AI has spelling and grammar errors for a LANGUAGE APP
Screenshot of a frozen Duolingo streak of 913 days, featuring a warning that it will reset in 56 minutes. Screenshot of a Duolingo streak calendar for January showing no progress since the 8th of January. Screenshot of a Duolingo streak calendar for February.
February 23, 2024 at 11:11 PM
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Métis Learning Resources & Dictionary - Fairly straightforward but also somewhat limited, together they may be quite handy.

metismuseum.ca/michif_dictionary.php
metisnation.org/programs-and-services/education-training/metis-languages-initiatives/metis-languages-learning-resources/
Flag of the Métis people, sky blue with a large white infinity symbol across it.
January 10, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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Teaching Manual for Izhorian - Does what it says, but in Russian. I don't know enough Russian to be able to use this yet, but it's on the "External Links" section of the Ingrian Language Wikipedia page. Check out that page first.

forumnarodov47.ru/docs/posobie_p…
National flag of the Izhorians, consisting of navy bars on the left and right and a yellow midsection. Over the middle section are intricate markings in red, reminiscent of embroidery on golden silk.
January 10, 2024 at 7:39 AM
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So this came up on my feed on The Other Website, so I want to note to those who agree with this: without realising, you're serving as a footstool lifting up a system which you don't like and which doesn't like you. You can do better than that, for the sake of other people.
January 6, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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Heddiw, gadewch i ni gofio trasiedi 9/11, lle cafodd Salvador Allende etholwyd yn ddemocrataidd ei lofruddio, a chafodd y llywodraeth Popular Unity ei dymchwel mewn coup a gefnogwyd gan yr US ar ôl blynyddoedd o ddifrod gan y CIA.
Poster o Salvador Allende, y llywydd llofriddiedig Chile, y cafodd ei lywodraeth ei dymchel mewn coup gan y US yn 1973. A poster of Salvador Allende, assassinated president of Chile, whose government was overthrown in a 1973 US-backed coup d'état.
September 11, 2023 at 3:47 PM
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jîw jîw... dyna ni eto.
Golwg agos ar Rafe, fy nghymeriad twcan, fel Beanie Baby. Gan Corviforms. A close up crop of Rafe, my toucan character, in the style of a beanie baby. Drawn by Corviforms.
September 8, 2023 at 4:31 PM