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Posts posted by hookem2010
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Oklahoma to require high schoolers to learn about "discrepancies" in the 2020 election. Texas should follow suit here shortly, I'm sure.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5384282/oklahoma-education-standards-2020-election
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Democrats need to use this. I mean Baraka specifically, but all the rest as well. Go put yourself in position to get arrested for some bullshit, then when they are forced to release you, hammer them.
If they arrested one of the best modern mouthpieces for the Dems, like Crockett or AOC, or Bernie's ancient ass, I've got to think that would really rile a lot of people up.
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4 minutes ago, WBT said:
I saw a blackthroated blue down at Quintana 2 weeks ago which was a new lifer for me. It didn't come out in the open and pose so this was the best of my crappy pics.
I've only seen 1 indigo bunting as the most interesting migrant at my feeders this year. Usually I'll see some grosbeaks and/or a summer tanager.
The Mississippi kites returned to my neighborhood this week, which I always look forward to.
Migration has been weird this year, in the Austin area anyway. Black-throated blue warbler is a fantastic bird.
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46 minutes ago, Zwylde said:
So there has been some official Flamingo sightings in Jones Bay/West Bay Galveston near Harbor Walk posted on Facebook last week and sure enough driving home one afternoon this week one of them flew right over me on 45 flying from East to West towards Jones Bay. Yes, I am sure they were not Spoonbills. The wife showed me the facebook post as I said "they are obviously spoonbills" then after looking at the pics said "well I'll be damned, they are def not spoonbills". Apparently the few flamingos that showed up on Bolivar in 2023 may have stuck around since then. I'll probably be out in the boat this weekend so I'll try to find them and take some pics.
That's awesome! I saw that a small flock reported recently down there and a lone bird has been hanging out in Port A for a while now. A ton showed up all over the place after one of the recent hurricanes and some seem to have hung out, or at least returned regularly. I need t8 make an excuse to go see them.
Nice ID on the scoter. Even on the coast they're not all that common.
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2 minutes ago, Pancho said:
Which one of you is actually eating at these trump burger places?
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Migration FINALLY picking up, just as it's supposed to wind down. I had a nice 9-warbler morning, including golden-winged, bay-breasted and multiple blackburnian. Also turned up my county-first Ash-throated flycatcher, which are tough to come by east of 35.
Just another week or two, and everything will have passed through, and we will all be attempting to stave off heat stroke.
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Like you actually know any of that, scalpel jockey!
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10 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:
At least others can learn from our mistakes.
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On 5/2/2025 at 12:06 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:
Currently posted outside the ER of Dell Children's. We are fucking evil.
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3 minutes ago, LCHorn said:
You’ve read one article but haven’t read the book and your conclusion is that the author sucks and that its arguments are flawed?
Hey man, I've got two young kids under 3 who don't sleep and I'm studying for a board exam. Reading an entire article is a big deal for me right now and this is where I come to share my big-brained conclusions. I'm not reading that entire book right now but I'll try to educate myself further about Klein.
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10 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
Speaking as someone who finds Ezra Klein to be among the most tedious media figures of our age, hearing lefties who don’t know who Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are and haven’t read the book explain why it’s wrong totally validate my opinion that they are absolutely right.
David Sirota and a bunch of other toxic recidivist losers hate it? I think we’re on to something.I may not know every liberal podcaster/author/journalist, but I do know that David Sirota hates literally everything.
And I've heard his name, but not much of what he has to say until he started popping up everywhere recently.
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Someone had mentioned recently that they didn't have Rolling Stone as the journalistic entity with the greatest integrity and strongest reporting during Trump 2.0, but damn if it ain't true.
I don't know much about this Klein guy, other than hearing some NPR host embarrassingly gush over his ideas during an interview, but it seems like he might suck. Haven't heard the Pod Save interview, but it's disappointing that NPR and Jon Stewart apparently didn't poke any holes in their book's flawed arguments.
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3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:
Ok, see…that’s one of the billion reasons I hate AI. The correct answer is “they couldn’t, because Neanderthals lived exclusively in the old world, and turkeys are from the new world/western hemisphere.” It can’t think more than one layer deep.This is the natural history knowledge 98% of people lack, and probably why AI is so fucking dumb about it, and anything else requiring specialized knowledge. Great call-out.
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These have all been along the trail between Kenney Fort and Redbud.
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Radar now predicts nothing for my house.
Just now, InkaUtexas said:So like being married?
We had our 2nd not too long ago so this hits extra close to home.
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7 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:
Just want to say I appreciate your posts here, as most of us don’t contribute much. Birding is interesting as hell and I’m not that good at it, but I love to see people who are. You know my main thing is backpacking, but I love seeing this thread bumped.
Thanks, man. Nature has always been my jam, and after school, I thought backpacking was going to be my thing. I was obsessed with looking at the map of wilderness areas once I learned about them, got some tent camping in with my now wife, and had a trip planned to the Pecos Wilderness, before it ended up falling on the same week as her grad school interview. Between school and now kids, I've only ever squeezed in a weekend of backpacking in Lassen. But as I was learning what Houston didn't have to offer in terms of hiking and megafauna, I discovered how insanely diverse birdlife was, even within city limits. Despite being stuck in the suburbs, birding gives me the connection to nature, and especially seasons, that I otherwise wouldn't feel without traveling somewhere more wild.
I've now been at it for 9 years and recorded 531 species, mostly staying fairly local, or at least domestic. Hopefully that changes as the kids get older, but it has definitely helped keep me sane this last decade.
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This picture of military macaws was taken in Big Bend NP this week. Unbelievable sighting of a species only reported in the US once before (AZ following a hurricane in '92, and not "accepted" as likely wild).
While provenance will be debated, the birds apparently have a "wild" appearance (no broken flight feathers and I guess appropriate bill wear?)
The nearest established population is a couple hundred miles south into Mexico. Not too far for a species that can range a decent distance while searching for food, but that is a lot of desert to cross to make it to BBNP. Regardless, I can't imagine encountering these birds in the US.
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Dog Killer, Kristi Noem
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Posted · Edited by hookem2010
I know it has been said a million times, but the creators of this Matrix are clearly testing how absurd a reality our minds can be made to believe.