alrom.bsky.social
(he/him) BCN/NYC, mostly photos of birds in Central Park, or photos taken with my Yashica Mat124G.
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I always think of how fish experience being caught by herons - you're happily swimming in a pond, and suddenly a gigantic beak pierces the sky, grabs you and lifts you. You get a glimpse of a whole unknown universe existing beyond yours. And then you get swallowed whole.
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in the old times before digital cameras you had to weave a tapestry of your bird sightings and then post them on some castle wall
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Can I submit medical devices? They usually have very annoying beeps
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Adding to that, Buenaventura Durruti had this to say about Stalin and the USSR:
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That illustration is gorgeous, though!
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Eh, yo vivo en el barrio de Manhattan donde están haciendo el proyecto piloto este! Acepto entrevistas y preguntas. El otro día vi uno de los camiones nuevos vaciando un contenedor y casi me echo a llorar en la calle.
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That's the gate to the Calahorra tower that protects the entrance to the Roman bridge in Cordoba. The earlier chunks of that wall are probably 11th century.
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Oh yeah that's the best strategy, spray and pray! Usually when I try to get swallows in flight 50% of the resulting photos are completely empty of birds and the remaining 50% are blurry 😅 But once in a while I get something decent.
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Apparently you can walk on the main deck!
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A couple of days ago I saw a green heron trying and failing to eat a huge fish and it kind of traumatized me
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I get distracted every so often and it's so much harder to backtrack on a podcast than on a text!
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Hombre, igual que con los afrikaners los nazis alemanes sí que se aceptan como inmigrantes. Lo que el Vance no quiere son razas impuras 😩
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Oof I took 20 photos of a chestnut sided warbler today and somehow the only ones in focus are the warbler butt ones 😩
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Thank you, when I saw those bikes I knew what I had to do
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If the plane was going to crash I guess the 200 flies could have just opened one of the doors and flown away before hitting the ground.
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My first Artisanal Imagery-generated pictures look amateurish, but this is expected in such a new tech. Artisanal Imagery learns from its output so it will improve with time and the quality will get better!
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All 4 San Marino weebs died from COVID-19
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Los están deportando a Sudán del Sur además!
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My mom rescued a little kid drowning in a crowded shallow pool while their parents were chatting just a few feet away!
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This is not the kind of damage a future administration will be able to undo with some supportive legislation here, a big funding bill there. One cannot undo this disaster by reversing these measures any more than one can rebuild a bombed out city by stopping the bombs and restoring electrical power.
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I know that's how it is with waterfowl chicks but it's still sad ☹️ Here in NY we have the Wild Bird Fund www.wildbirdfund.org, they go above and beyond to rescue birds in situations like this!
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A ver, que a lo mejor en 2 semanas se enfada el hombre y triplica los aranceles
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I'm pretty sure the Qataris have installed a self-destruct device on the plane, we just have to ask them for the remote.
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Seeing herons eating always ends up being a traumatic experience 🫤
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This happened in my neighborhood a couple of days ago
abc7ny.com/post/manhatt...
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How's the mosquito situation at Jamaica Bay?
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Por comparar, esto es como si Ana Rosa Quintana fuera nombrada ministra de Justicia.
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Also keep in mind that the Central Park Loop is a very wide road! We're not talking about narrow trails in here, there's plenty of space for everyone.
This is what commuting by bike through Central Park looks like:
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I bike to work through Central Park and every morning I see a lot of people commuting by bike, even parents taking their kids to school on cargo ebikes!
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That's probably just the Holy Spirit
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You would imagine that being bright safety orange they would be easy to find, but somehow they manage to camouflage surprisingly well!