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peachfront

@peachfront@toot.community

Senior parrots, birds, birding, rock swaps, crystals & stone-cutting. Sometimes I write funny dialogue for the birds in your photographs. I read books, & I vote!

Formerly known as Peachfront on Twitter & Instagram, & Amethyst Qu on Medium.

Haven't owned peachfront.com domain in years but you may find my old trip reports at peachfront.diaryland.com.

Pro Tip: Diaryland does not have any www's.

#birds #crystals #photography #fedi22 #books #writing #selfpublishing #birding #nature

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peachfront, to Birds
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Not the best photo I took today in a technical sense but the best for personal reasons... I haven't documented Brown-headed Nuthatches in the yard since we lost the last of our oaks in Hurricane Katrina 19 years ago!

peachfront, to Birds
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Didn't realize I captured a photo of this lifer...

Quail-Plover

peachfront, to Birds
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Today's centered on two fledgling House Sparrows I saw placed in a dark corner by their mom before she left them...

"Lil bro, I got a bad feeling here. Mama ain't coming back."
"How'm I the lil bro? We the same size."
"Point is, we gotta get our own food now."
"Oh, wonderful, just how I wanted to wake up today."

(They did eventually go to the feeders on their own.)

DontStopAsking, to random
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Same news, two different stories.
The New-York-Times
plays the game well of twisting a positive into a negative.

peachfront,
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@DontStopAsking

the Times has chosen fascism, there's no real secret about it, they haven't been credible as a "news source" for a long time now

peachfront, to Birds
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It drizzle, and this is unfair to Red-headed Woodpeckers...

w7voa, to random
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Police shot and killed a student in Wisconsin after receiving a report of someone with a weapon while class was in session.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2024/05/01/police-kill-mount-horeb-student-to-prevent-school-shooting/73533915007/

peachfront,
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@w7voa

they killed a middle school student so kid is what-- a 12 year old? 13?-- "after receiving a report???"

"they say" is a phrase that makes me think the reporter can't verify there was any f'n gun or maybe it was a cell phone or a bag of Skittles, who knows

"The student was killed before he could enter the school" so the part about bringing a weapon into a class in session was pretty obviously a lie

was this swatting or what was it?

i got questions, maybe you do too!

pvonhellermannn, to random
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There is a thunderstorm here in Eastbourne just now unlike any I have ever experienced. The lightning is so bright it fills the whole room, with blinds down! The whole sky lit up again and again and again. It’s scary and i am scared of what is yet to come (climate change wise).

peachfront,
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@pvonhellermannn

hugs

i always forget this phenomenon (common on the Gulf Coast) seems strange & violent elsewhere

main thing is to turn off items that might be harmed by a power surge like the AC -- or your computers if they're not already on surge protection

i enjoy the light show but when the sound is truly shattering, that's when it gets to me...

carpingdiem, to Birds
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The Cooper's hawk dropped by at lunchtime, looking for a bird to lunch on, erm, with. It didn't find any and left straightaway.

peachfront,
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@carpingdiem

"you can't prove your assertion, maybe i was just examining the view..."

peachfront, to Birds
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This female Downy Woodpecker looks a bit tense, but it's because she's waiting on this branch for her turn at the suet feeder, and I think she's concerned about bigger liner-breakers coming along like the irritable Mockingbird that semi-regularly knocks her off...

peachfront, to Birds
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"i see you but i don't think i like you"-- Inspector Blue Jay

#bird #birds #birding #GardenBirds #BirdPhotography #Photograph

18+ _L1vY_, to random
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Martin Pengelly discusses 's book in which she admits to the animal killings we've just heard about.

What I'm wondering is, do we have any statements from the construction crew that witnessed this?

peachfront,
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@_L1vY_

i don't know but they too are a disgrace to humanity if they didn't at least TRY to report the animal cruelty to the police

she should have been arrested for her crimes then & there...

Green_Footballs, to random
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Listening to that exchange with Trump’s lawyer about the crimes a president should be able to commit with total immunity, and he says MURDER and COUPS could be “official acts” and warrant immunity even after leaving office, and I’m getting that stuck in a really bad timeline feeling again.

peachfront,
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@cynblogger @Green_Footballs

we need a criminal justice system that arrests bribe-takers even if they're a judge, doesn't seem like so much to ask

impeachments almost never happen, arrests happen frequently... there is a whole mechanism, hell, there's a whole police state

i'm tired of the double standard

we actually do have laws, they're simply not enforced against these people

GottaLaff, to Arizona
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💥 Via Kyle Griffin:

:

AG Kris Mayes announces the State Grand Jury has returned indictments in the state's 2020 fake electors scheme.

The following individuals are named as defendants, per the AG: Kelli Ward, Tyler Bowyer, Nancy Cottle, Jacob Hoffman, Anthony Kern, James Lamon, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Lorraine Pellegrino, Gregory Safsten, and Michael Ward.

Charges include fraud, forgery, and conspiracy – class 2, 4, and 5 felonies.

peachfront,
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@GottaLaff

yay more opportunities to mix 🍿 and 🍾

mybirdcards, to Birds
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🌎 Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) | | 🦜

peachfront,
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@mybirdcards

"there's a Little Blue Heron too, they ignored my suggestion to name that guy Not-so-great Blue Heron"-- Great Blue Heron

peachfront, to Birds
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mighty hunter

striated heron

#bird #birds #birding #heron #BirdPhotography #EarthDay #Photography

GottaLaff, to legal
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1/…🧵

Via Klasfeld:

Expected first:

The judge may issue his Sandoval rulings, determining what prior bad acts prosecutors can confront Trump with if he testifies.

A key question: "What's fair game?"

peachfront,
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@HistoPol @GottaLaff

(NFL)

great minds think alike!!!

peachfront,
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@msbellows @GottaLaff

i'm gonna say no overpayment of income is due to Cohen

income from criminal activity is still taxable at the regular rates for earned income

US tax law is weird...

Krisss, to art Dutch
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Wagtail Bird
By Kono Bairei (1844-1895)

peachfront,
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@Krisss

i really like this colorway... as well as the Wagtail!!!

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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Fighting an invisible illness: The curse of Long COVID. By Milanda Rout

"Exhaustion, erratic heartbeat, brain fog, pain: women aged 31 to 45 are contracting Long COVID in greater numbers than any other part of the population. Why?"

#LongCOVID @auscovid19

https://archive.md/Nvcej#selection-339.10-343.23

peachfront,
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@ABScientist @Tooden @neutron_chick @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

yeah the headline is misleading & unhelpful

if it's a "women's issue," it can be shoved aside by a misogynist society that doesn't care if we can work or not

55-45% women vs men seems like the kind of gap explained by the different social pressures on men to keep working until they drop & not to acknowledge weakness...

peachfront,
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@Tooden @ABScientist @neutron_chick @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19

it's so hard to watch this unfold in real time when it's someone close to you who is badly injured by this virus & this society

mike, to random
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I fear history is repeating itself in such obvious ways. Fascism is rising and Ukraine is Spain in 1938. The Ukraine on its current trajectory will lose the war. The US will most certainly defer aid decisions until after the election which will most likely be too late.
Iran has effectively become a Russian vassal, providing drones and ammunition to the Russian war effort, while also opening up a second front for the US to worry about. We're in deep geopolitical trouble. Happy Wednesday.

peachfront,
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@mike

history doesn't rhyme, it literally does repeat itself over & over because oligarchs, fascists, monarchs, whatever they're calling themselves this year... they are sociopaths who will never change

GottaLaff, to random
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Someone apparently blocked me for asking them 2x to read my whole thread (total of 2 posts) before twice responding inaccurately after only reading the first one.

I really don’t get it.

peachfront,
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@GottaLaff

being blocked isn't necessarily about you, it can be about the blocker knowing themselves & knowing they have a tendency to spiral into gloom when defending a debating point

no idea if that was the case this time but could be if it was a mismatch not of core beliefs but of personality/innate nature

people can't easily change from pessimistic to wait & see, or from reactive/defensive to relaxed/open/wait & see

there'd be no disease called anxiety if that was easy

peachfront, to outdoors
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indivisibleteam, to random
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Republicans keep praising Medicare Advantage (the privatized option for Medicare), but doctors and hospitals are raising alarms about denied claims and reduced payments. These predatory Medicare Advantage plans leave already vulnerable patients with more cruel choices, and Congress must take action. Email your representative and tell them to support the Save Medicare Act. https://act.indivisible.org/sign/ask-your-representative-support-save-medicare-act?source=mastodon&medium=directpost

peachfront,
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@indivisibleteam

it takes away your freedom of travel as an older person since you have the same out of network nonsense as any other private health insurance

regular Medicare means you can see any doctor in the US who takes Medicare so when you're old and unable to work, at least you can travel a bit & see something of the country before you go

they want to take EVERYTHING away from us, every small bit of happiness, & leave us with nothing & no hope

GottaLaff, to random
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lol

peachfront,
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@GottaLaff @lolgop

maybe he's sedated

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