Ben Plume

@pittbaster.bsky.social

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I like nature, sci-fi, books, and being Dad. Live in the Maryland DC suburbs with a pretty cool spouse. Admittedly tired.

A Star Trek TOS Title Card. The Enterprise orbits a blue planet. Yellow text reads “Spock’s Ass.”
A small brown bird on a roadside in front of a pile of snow. (Lapland Longspur)
A list of dates January 1 through January 31 with the corresponding bird next to each date. In order the birds are: American Coot, Brown Creeper, Western Kingbird, American Black Duck, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Common Merganser, Pine Warbler, Cooper’s Hawk, Winter Wren, Red-flanked Bluetail, Bald Eagle, Fox Sparrow, Eastern Screech-Owl, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Belted Kingfisher, Hooded Merganser, Merlin, Orange-crowned Warbler, Red-headed Woodpecker, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Purple Finch, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Great Blue Heron, Great Cormorant, Pileated Woodpecker, Dark-eyed Junco, Red-shouldered Hawk, White-throated Sparrow, Red-tailed Hawk, Tundra Swan, and Turkey Vulture
Video shows a male harlequin duck swimming and preening its neck feathers.
The same tree as the OP, with the same bird in almost the same spot, but *very* well-camouflaged.
A yellow-bellied sapsucker in a y-branch near the top of a small tree.
A gray LEGO construction reminiscent of a walker from Star Wars sits on a white dresser in front of a stack of picture books
Screen shot of Macedo’s BlueSky Profile with “trying to seek truth” replaced by “manufacturing truth for personal gain.”
Square Purple background with a fountain pen at the left. Black calligraphy text reads “Write an erotic story in only three words.”
A screenshot of Google maps showing the East Potomac Golf Links and East Potomac Park across one branch of the Potomac River from Hell’s Kitchen
Inflatable Squidward and Patrick from SpongeBob standing at 7th St NW in DC. A scattering of protesters in street clothes are milling around.
A man on stilts dressed as Donald Trump with a “traitor” sign around his neck is leaning on a pole. In the background, members of the National Guard smile wistfully. Near the entrance to the Archives/Navy Memorial DC Metro Station.
Meme with skeleton lifting a barbell, gray on a black background. White text reads “My body is a machine that turns the Constitution into fables and fairy dust.”
“Captain Maryland,” a local cosplayer, helps protestors cross a busy street. His outfit is a Maryland flag motif with a shield and white boots. He has an Old Bay holster and a large crab mallet. He is holding it out to signal turning vehicles to allow protestors to cross.
A group of protesters line a large road near DC. Several passing cars.
Screenshot of a comment on the policy in question. Comment reads: “This proposed policy is a thinly-veiled attempt to formalize a fascist loyalty test and has no place in our Federal government. It would undermine the abilities of all agencies to perform their missions effectively. This is not news to the crafters of the policy, who deliberately designed it to have such an effect, but the public record needs to reflect this.”
A brick sitting on a pile of shells, with the text “Friends of Ft. Desoto” and subheading www.bricksrus.com
A child lying on a cape red floor with a plastic basket on his head. He is covered in a pile of Halloween-themed children’s books.
License plate appearing to begin with a 3 and end with 55
I cannot remember what a podcast is, but I find myself compelled to grant you access to some. I’m told it’s from the “Friends of DeSoto, yet I do not know who that is.
Image from “effin birds.” A cormorant next to the text “our expectations for you were low, but holy fuck”
Screenshot from the linked article - two paragraphs. The first calls attention to “Presidential finger-pointing” at DEI and helicopter mistakes. The second encourages a wait for the NTSB investigation.
A row of children’s books on a carpeted floor lined up from a door.
A large orange caterpillar with fuzzy white eggs attached to its back. The eggs are bad news for the caterpillar.
A brown and orange skipper (butterfly) on a newly-opened flower with greenish petals.
A brown spider with an egg sac on decaying wood.
Two butterflies (one orange and black and one yellow with black stripes) taking nectar from purple flowers.
Robin parents feeding worms to three babies in their nest.
A small green bee sitting on yellow plastic.
Two birds on a stone wall over a body of water
A brown bird in foraging in the dirt adjacent to lawn.
A black and yellow butterfly pictured from below. White ball-shaped flowers are in the foreground with green leaves in the background.
A flower stalk with many small purple orchid-like flowers. Other plants provide a background in varying shades of green.
A small green bug (a planthopper) with veiny wings and a white eye clings to some cabled cords.
A single blue morning glory flower centered in frame. Its vine is climbing a brown pole and it has many pointy tri-lobed leaves that resemble ivy but with a softer texture.
A toddler wearing an orange shirt, striped pants, and water shoes touches some yellow flowers (black-eyed Susans). He is standing in the grass and holding a water play toy in his right hand. There is a hanging basket of flowers in the upper right.
White daisy-like flowers with yellow centers and a pink tint to some of the petals
A small tree with many pink blossoms. Behind it is a chain-link fence and to the right is a black ornamented garden fence.
A red bell-shaped flower with yellow stamens and pistils in close-up foreground. Background out of focus and includes green leaves.
A brown dog (dachshund mix) sitting on a tree stump behind a mix of flowers planted in a hole in the stump.
Image of flowers in front of a chain-link fence. Morning glories and petunias on the left, milkweeds on the right, small yellow flowers (partridge pea) in the front middle, asters in the back middle, and taller green plants (green coneflowers not yet in bloom) in the back left.
Blue morning glories in bloom with leaves, vines, and unopened buds visible
An American bison standing on a prairie.
Four Canada geese (goslings) in a pile on gravel.
Bloodroot - a white flower with water droplets on petals against a background of leaf litter.
Monarch butterfly taking nectar from orange zinnia flower