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Choosing to believe there is an S in today’s spelling bee because the NYT is celebrating something we do not yet know to be confirmed

b, watching the wonderfully weird world of gumball: i like mr. small bc he's a quaker like us.

us: what?? there's a quaker character?? how do you know he's a quaker?

b: he wears a rainbow shirt. duh.

Ten years of marriage with my beautiful wife!!! When I was buying these roses our 7yo asked “will you and Mama dance together since it’s your anniversary and you’re in love?”

I actually saw many much cooler mushrooms but the Joro spiders have returned and I walked into like nine webs and it was bad and I hated it

I'M ACHAOS CRAFTER. I usually have several WIPs going at once. Sewing, knitting, crochet, and usually multiples of each. What I work on depends on what I need from the making experience.

What I need from making changes from day to day. Physically, a repetitive stress injury or other pain flare-up might mean I can't knit, but I can sew. Or vice versa. Mentally, sometimes I need a challenge to take my mind off things, and want to crochet a lace with several different stitches. Sometimes I need to zone out and just fall into rows of knit stitches.

My sensory needs change, too. Sometimes my hands want to touch wool, other times they want to work with cotton. I might leave a project for months before it becomes what I need again. But having multiple projects means I'll always have something to work on.

Make what makes you feel good.

If I post these now, maybe l remember to do a longer thread on disability and crafting next week 🪡🧵

Mushroom hunting was much more involved than usual this morning as it involved actual hunting

Picture of the window facing my balcony; there is a chart in black permanent market for tallying types of birds)

New chart looking very straight and orderly (tips for people who aren’t teachers: you can use permanent marker anywhere you use dry erase markers, and it will erase if you use rubbing alcohol or even just scribble dry erase marker over it)

Picture of one of my feeders, a small cedar house shaped thing with two glass windows

This past week, still very imprecise & unscientific:
26 house finches
3 northern cardinals
1 blue gray gnatcatcher
3 goldfinches
15 brown headed nuthatches
11 white breasted nuthatches
1 Carolina wren
1 eastern towhee
8 chipping sparrows
1 song sparrow
1 great crested fly catcher
2 cowbirds

This Trans Couple Bought a House in the '90s. It Became a Home for Unhoused Youth Sylvia Rivera was living in Brooklyn's Transy House when she died in 2002.

new @teenvogue.com in our Overlooked History series:

in 1995 Rusty Mae Moore and Chelsea Goodwin bought a house together in Park Slope, inspired by the 1970s S.T.A.R. House.

Transy House became a shelter for trans people for 13 years. Sylvia Rivera lived there at the time of her death in 2002.

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results.

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I told you guys

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

I just like how freaky mushrooms are

Pollinator is such a chill ass job. I hope I’m a pollinator in my next life

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The bird tracker on the window is less easy to see this week, sorry, I used blue permanent ink to make it a week long chart mostly because kiddo really wanted to participate. He’s now able to identify a house finch and a cardinal!

A graphic that says QUEER PEOPLE ARE MAGIC

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6/13
21 house finches. These little jerks think they own the place. Give me rent money
1 white breasted nuthatch
4 chipping sparrow
5 brown headed nuthatch (incl the one that was ?? before — it has avian keratin disorder so its beak is very long)

6/12
9 house finch
4 chipping sparrow
1 eastern towhee (juvenile that had a hard time flying up to our second story balcony)
1 blue gray gnatcatcher
1 cardinal
1 ?? (Tbc)

Four days of very unscientific bird tracking:

6/10
1 chipping sparrow
1 eastern bluebird
1 blue gray gnatcatcher
4 house finch
1 eastern towhee
2 Carolina wren

6/11
3 house finch
1 chipping sparrow
2 goldfinch
1 cardinal
1 blue gray gnatcatcher

Hard to see but I started tallying birds on the window this week and I’ve learned that house finches are so cute but god they’re fucking jerks. They’ve been divebombing my little friend all morning and they fully chased the goldfinches away

This little guy started visiting yesterday and i had the hardest time id-ing him because of the beak and I realized this morning he’s a brown headed nuthatch (classic squeaky toy call) with a beak deformity. I love him