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Mary here, figuring out what's next. I post about birds, knitting, conservation, politics, housing justice, and things that make me laugh

David Sibley's illustration of an Allen's Hummingbird tail - the last two outer tail feathers on each side are unexpectedly skinny, like pin feathers. The two tail feathers left and right of the center are pointy, like a willow leaf, not notched at the tips as they would be on a Rufous hummingbird. Compare OP's photos to see the difference - notched feathers left and right of center with normal-shaped outer tail feathers

A screen capture of a post by someone we were discussing showing how the account name was capitalized on Twitter

Photo of the cover of Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann from a knitting blog - a little bit of knitting in progress is visible at the upper corner

A 3-4cm black weevil with white and black patterning on the abdomen walks on a grey sand path

A large amount of dirt path with a small amount of black and white patterned weevil

Sceeenshot of a google maps street view showing the building from
the Chronicle video from a vantage point on highway 237

This is an iPhone screenshot showing a post by Jason Chavez (jchavezmpls.bsky.social), quote posting his earlier post about a Gofundme campaign for 2-year-old Chloe. The quote post from one day ago reads: Ward 9 neighbors! This happened in our hood. Please spread this link and help our neighbors out. (broken heart emoji)

The original post reads: Help bring 2-Year-old Chloe and Her Father Home. They were kidnapped today South Minneapolis. With the permission of the mother, we are reaching out to raise funds for lawyers fee's, food, bond requests, rent, food, livability, & resources to keep this family together.

gofundme/6295b51b3

below the text is an image of the Gofundme page, showing a smiling toddler in a pale pink fuzzy coat. The fundraiser goal is set at $50,000.

Alice with a long neck

Three search results responding to the search "ICE violence" from Google on January 8th 2025. The page titles are:
- Before ICE shooting, immigration agents repeatedly used deadly...
- Deadly Minneapolis encounter is the 9th ICE shooting since September
- Opinion | New ICE lead bring more violence, no accountability

POV: a white woman sitting in the floor trying on two different hand knitted socks at once. Feet are stretched out forward from the picture plane with hand knit socks on both feet and the second socks of each pair in between the feet. Sock colors are denim and brown in an ikat pattern on the left, blue with flashes of yellow and red orange on the right.

A tabby cat with a white nose, chest and paws sits next to a tall red conical Christmas tree made of small red balls like cherries. She has scrunched up the red, green, and white patterned cloth on the table and is looking at you with lovey eyes.

A blue-grey hat with a repeated flower motif lies on a red placemat. The work is still on the circular needle, with the leaves and a full set of petals already knitted. The flower pattern is rusty red, yellow, and blue green. The hat is at least half finished.

Cover of a book titled "The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved" by P.V. Glob

A chart of time spent per day in various activities that included child care as a secondary activity, as reported by adults with children under age 13 in the house. Activities are listed by decreasing amount of time spent, starting with Leisure and sports at 1.9 hours, and moving down to name Household activities, eating and drinking, other activities, work and work-related activities, purchasing goods and services, and personal care activities at 0.3 hours per day.

A graph of the number of minutes millennial fathers spend on childcare, 2015 to 2023. Time spent daily goes up from 254 minutes per day to 271

Knitted pieces of a grey stuffed horse with black hooves : the head / body blob is at the top of the photo and below it are three unrolled rectangular pieces of knitting which are horse legs ready to be rolled up and one rolled up leg ready to be sewn into a cylinder

Darth Vader appears on a blue background interior to a space ship saying "I am altering the bargain. Pray I do not alter it any further."

Knitting in progress on a patio table in front of a laptop. A 4" plastic baby doll wearing a wearing a denim blue knitted jacket and brown pants sits behind the sample knitted green t-shirt and a grey and orange striped shirt on the needles.

"Sure, Jan" meme

Transgender and non-binary people have existed for all of recorded human history: every civilization, every country, every culture, every race, every ethnicity, every religion, every political system, every class, every profession, open and closeted, every year, every month, every day.

If you are trans or non-binary, you are part of a great and proud lineage, stretching all around the globe, all the way back to antiquity.

You should feel what you feel on any given day, but never let any government or any authority or anyone make you believe you're unnatural and undeserving of all the beauty life has to offer.

Never forget there is nothing more frightening to the inauthentic than living, breathing, loving proof of the unapologetically authentic.

Love yourself for who you are, give thanks for those who came before and taught us to love ourselves as we are, and remember that your existence is an ongoing catalyst for the liberation of all those around you, trans and non-trans, who are forced to be what they are not.

You are a miracle of the human spirit.

four days of weather forecast images showing a band of storms in the midwest that doesn't move April 2, 3, 4, 5 2025

Publicity image of Lisa Lisa who sang "I wonder if I take you home" in 1985 . She is wearing tiered magenta pink earrings, nude lipstick, strong eyebrows, deeply swooping bangs, dark eye liner, and a silky pink headband, as is right and proper for the 80's diva that she is

Nelson from the Simpsons points while saying "Haha"

A deeply rendered greyscale drawing of Zeen Chin, a character from the Kingdom of Death, waking out of a foggy area wearing an eyeless face shield, a cloak with dramatic points behind the head, and furry goat leg pants. Parts of the garment appear to be made from human body parts, including faces at the shoulders and knees and clasped bony arms around the waist. I don't think you want this person answering your apartment maintenance calls.

composite image of starry night sky with 18 bright white streaks representing satellites crossing the field of view during the exposure - it's pretty hard to see the star field behind so many streaks

Tiny knitted shapes in pink, grey, and white, laid out on a kitchen table, ready to be assembled into 2" tall farm animals. The first tiny knitted pig is finished, the tiny knitted sheep is partially assembled, and the second knitted pig is laid out in parts. There is a 5" baby doll in a pink dress and farm apron in the background

A knitting project in progress: a 5" white baby doll dressed in a nearly-complete set of knitted grey overalls and a knitted green tshirt. Baby sits on a table with knitting tools around her - some double pointed needles, a needle gauge, a small packet of embroidery yarn.

Olive green knitted tube with cables in progress with the wooden knitting needles and ball of yarn - it will be a knitted Christmas tree