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jayfitz.bsky.social

Wildlife biologist 🦟 | Soccer referee, coach, and volunteer ⚽ | Dad | Slowly designing a board game about raptors 🎲 | Grower of 1 pawpaw tree 🌳 | falconry 🦅 | music 🪗 | bike infrastructure 🚲 Peterborough, ON #Ptbo

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Love bees? 🐝 Good. Love flies too. From carrots to pawpaws flies pollinate loads of flowers. My #Ptbo pawpaw tree has happy flies today. Future me with a mouthful of pawpaw fruit thanks you flies!

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I love doing this. I call it "maggoting around". For blow fly maggots (the kind that feeds on carrion), their final larval stage is the "wandering stage" to find a place to pupate. I must have come up with that term in my forensic entomology days. I ... I might be alone in calling it that.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I stayed in one of these in Tokyo after living in rural Japan. It was pretty good actually. Everything you need in a tiny space you can afford for the night.

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From an Assistant Coach last night: "Hey I remember you. You're the smiley ref!" A lot worse things I could be remembered for! #RefsNeedLoveToo

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I scored a beauty header in my soccer game last night. I don't care how old you are. That feeling is Top Notch! Timbit age, teenage, men's over-35 age, it all feels great. Whatever you love playing, keep playing it as long and as hard as you can. It makes life fun.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Glad to see speed cameras coming to #Ptbo. I hope they combine it with 2 things: 1. Cameras to photograph anyone vandalizing the speed cameras. 2. Police crackdown on unreadable licence plates.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

This looks great! -insert Red-tailed Hawk scream of excitement-

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I'm working on the Climate module for Nature right now. A statistician playtester created a simulation of 100 million games to see how the climate will move during a game. I love this kind of data! @northstargames.bsky.social @boardgamewire.bsky.social @boardgamegeek.com @danthurot.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Proud to be the outlet that got the second-least amount! (By $9 😂)

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Our electoral system sucks. Vote for the least bad option. And expect for them to fail us, as they generally do. Rinse & repeat. Wouldn't it be nice to vote with your heart and have that vote count. We need #ElectoralReform.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

BUZZING!! 🫨 Got an idea for the board game I'm designing about falconry. A design for multi-purpose cards that should be simple and fun. 🦅🎴 The U.S. situation means board game publishing is bleak. But I'm still designing it for funsies.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I've signed the petition to save these #Ptbo librarians' jobs. chng.it/tG5zqmmZnC

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“I don’t want foreigners bringing their weird traditions to my country,” says man hiding chocolate eggs to honour dead deity

submitted 38 days ago • 23 comments

There will be a Crash Analysis Studio about an Ottawa crash. Hosted by @strongtownsottawa.bsky.social. This follows the method of @strongtowns.org that looks for structural contributing factors rather than blame. You can join the hour-long session on zoom May 4. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments