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Kay
@twograckles.bsky.social
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Birds, bugs, dirt, birds, paper, yarn, and birds in DC
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New tiny project: mini plant press out of samples from Ocooch Hardwoods (white oak and ash) and parts of an old backpack. I love small things.
Small, flat pieces of wood with notches cut out of two sides of each, a buckle, grey webbing, scissors, and a small bottle of tung oil.
November 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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If you see this, post your bird art.

An imagined comics version of the fable The Pitcher and the Crow for CFPB from a few years ago.

CFPB and @savecfpb.bsky.social and @nteu335.bsky.social rule!!!!
A stylized illustration of a book and its interior pages. The cover is green with a black bird flying near a glass pitcher of water and a yellow medal. Inside are comic panels showing the bird flying in a forest.
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Me sitting on Metro omw to volunteer looking for dead birds and chuckling to myself while looking at memes saved on my phone: 20 years ago I'd have had to print these out and bring them with me to do this

The images:
A crow with a cigarette in its beak and a human hand holding a lighter to it. An 80s-style portrait of a tuxedo cat with a surprised or incredulous expression with text "it's hard / to exist". Bsky post from Sévérine Cox @severine.bsky.social "interview with the vampire. 2nd round interview with the vampire. Zoom interview with the team with the vampire. We have decided to pursue another candidate but will keep you in mind if future positions open up with the vampire."
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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The boys are back in town. Three sparrows on the Union Station late shift today. (Boys = white-throated sparrows)
A scooter in the foreground, cars and two flagpoles with American flags flapping, and the Capitol building in the background, against a clear, lightening sky.
October 16, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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I love my cat, Junior Boy. I love my first cat, Ponder, and I miss her. I was scared I couldn't love another cat and that another cat wouldn't love me, but here I am with this weird and wonderful boy, who makes me laugh and keeps my feet warm at night, and who I sing to all the time.
A black cat lying on blankets with a broom hanging in the wall behind him.
October 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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I don't smoke but if I did this would be a self portrait
A hand holding a lighter to a cigarette. The cigarette is in the bill of a black bird.
October 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Five birds today, two dead yellowthroats (one hatch year) and a dead ovenbird, one live black and white warbler and one live possibly Nashville warbler. I tried to take a picture with my monocular, key word tried.
A dead bird on concrete, barely visible at the bottom of a soft sphere. The rest of the picture is black.
October 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Two birds today, a live yellowthroat and a dead warbler. Poor little things. They look like fallen leaves or trash.
A glassy building with a stunned bird lying on the ground. A tree and hotel are in the background. A dead warbler on a sidewalk shaded by trees.
September 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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I might also have been too early for the magnolia warbler collision victim :|
A building's glassy wall and entrance vestibule. There are leaves and trash on the ground, and in the lower left corner of the frame, a dead magnolia warbler. A dead ruby-throated hummingbird lying on its back on a city sidewalk.
September 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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The mushroom people who are scoffing at me:
Shrumling warrior enemy from Hollow Knight, a greyish-blue mushroom with tiny arms and legs and a concerned, yelling face, who makes a "Mah mah mah mah" sound.
September 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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White spores confirmed. Mushroom people might have scoffed at me trying to get a print from those little caps, but I'm not pretending to know anything here!

They were too young, I guess, so I'll collect some more larger caps for better prints, just because I think it's cool.
White lines on black paper, spores from the tan and light brownish mushroom cap sitting near them.
September 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Spore print incoming (ringless honey mushroom, Desarmillaria caespitosa)
Two small and one larger tan mushroom caps arranged on black paper and white paper.
September 4, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Some recently saved memes
A sculpture, possibly metal, of a stick figure cat. Below is Cyrillic text and below that the English translation "this is how my cat sees himself in the morning before I give him food". Screenshot from a TV newscast headed Quote From Man Stabbed: "What are you gonna do, stab me?" Cutout images of insects on a white background with text. "Me: mom, can we have summer bugs?" with a firefly, monarch caterpillar, periodical cicada, ladybug, butterfly. "Mom: no, we have summer bugs at home." The summer bugs at home: stinkbug, spotted lanternfly, tick, engorged tick, mosquito.
June 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Look at this adorable magnolia flower and how pretty this Virginia creeper is turning from red to green! Love love love.
A sweetbay magnolia flower. Virginia creeper on a tree. The young leaves are shiny reddish-maroon, turning bright green at their tips.
June 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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A few days ago I went for a walk to look for mushrooms, lingered too much (of course), and got caught in a downpour. Plus side, my muddy shoes were rinsed for me and I was given a reason to wash my backpack.
A firefly on a leaf. Gelatinous white jelly fungus on the side of a log. Wood ear mushrooms and moss on a log. Various mushrooms on a log.
June 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Milkweed flowers smell to me like the most magical buttercream
Close up of pink and white flowers of common milkweed.
June 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Oh! There's American mistletoe on the trees outside the White House grounds. I'll have to make it in crepe paper (what I've already made is the European variety) :3
A small clump of American mistletoe leaves held pinched and dangling in two fingers.
May 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The Washington Studio School has bluebells growing out front! There's no excuse for there NOT to be native plants everywhere in this city.
The front of the Washington Studio School, a red brick building with white columns flanking a red door, a large sign reading "Washington Studio School: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture" and plants underneath it.
March 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I also love the flowers I saw today on my walk home after volunteering
A close up of a light purple crocus flower. Apple blossoms. A snowdrop flower. Pinkish witch hazel flowers.
March 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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I just LOVE my cat SO MUCH
A black cat with white whiskers snuggling on a yellow and white pillow on a grey couch.
March 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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In two parts:
Part 1: Action Office: removed Info Office: removed MRN: 25 STATE 5632 Date/DTG: Jan 22, 2025 / 221323Z JAN 25 From: SECSTATE WASHDC Action: ALL DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR POSTS COLLECTIVE Immediate E.O: 13526 TAG: APER, AMGT Captions: SENSITIVE Subject: Return to In-Person Work 1. (U) I want to thank all of you for your service to the Nation. 2. (U) The United States will not be able to win the battle for the 21st century without a strong U.S. Department of State. Our mission is critical to achieving a strong, safe, and prosperous nation for generations to come. On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum requiring heads of all departments and agencies to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis. We must strive for 100 percent in-office attendance to further the critical mission of the Department. 3. (SBU) This ALDAC provides guidance on how the Department will terminate existing remote work and telework arrangements. New Remote Work Policy 4. (SBU) All existing telework arrangements (except situational telework) under 3 FAM 2380, 3 FAM 2360, 3 FAM 2370, 3 FAM 7760, and any similar provisions will be terminated for all employees, whether based domestically or overseas and whether Foreign Service, Civil Service, Appointment-Eligible Family Member, or Locally Employed Staff, when not contrary to local labor law, as of March 1, 2025. 5. (SBU) Existing Domestic Employee Teleworking Overseas (DETO) agreements will remain in place until the conclusion of the sponsoring employee’s assignment overseas. 6. (SBU) Those on telework arrangements are expected to return to their respective offices in person by March 1, 2025. Those on Remote Work Arrangements are expected to return to their respective offices in person by July 1, 2025. Part 2: 7. (SBU) The Bureau of Global Talent Management (GTM) will be issuing guidance separately on how Assistant Secretaries, Assistant Secretary-equivalents, and Senior Bureau Officials can request to maintain an existing Remote Work Arrangement. 8. (U) This ALDAC shall not apply to any existing Reasonable Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities, subject to 3 FAM 3670, or any other arrangement required by law or binding settlement agreement. Any new requests for telework or Remote Work Arrangements as part of Reasonable Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities that GTM anticipates approving after this ALDAC must receive approval from the Under Secretary for Management. Conforming FAM Changes 9. (SBU) Within 30 days of this ALDAC, GTM will recommend to the Under Secretary for Management conforming changes to the FAM that are necessary to take account of this new Department policy, which is effective immediately. Signature: RUBIO Drafted By: C.Needham, Michael Cleared By: GTM: Rodriguez, Catherine L: Dorosin. Joshua L:Fabry, Steven S: Holler, Daniel Approved By: M: Nagy, Tibor Released By: HR_ DGHR: Eatmon, Frederica P XMT: BASRAH, AMCONSUL: CARACAS, AMEMBASSY: CHENGDU, AMCONSUL: KABUL, AMEMBASSY; MINSK, AMEMBASSY, SANAA, AMEMBASSY: ST PETERSBURG, AMCONSUL: VLADIVOSTOK, AMCONSUL: YEKATERINBURG, AMCONSUL
January 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Fanart since there's no Pusheen gif for Chanukah afaik
December 26, 2024 at 3:34 AM
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This will never not be so cool to me. Bayberries / bayberry wax
A white dish holding greyish bayberries on the left and light green bayberry wax on the right.
December 19, 2024 at 1:55 PM
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My only Christmas traditions are spending the holiday with my cat and my pink tinsel tree with tiny mammal skull ornaments
A small pink tinsel Christmas tree with tiny mammal skull ornaments, white and gold ribbon, and twinkling lights.
December 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM