clare

wtf gay little gnome

how it feels lately

happy saint patrick's day why don't you give me a big ole kiss

one oscar after another

@molotovbeer i'm sorry i live in California so sometimes i forget

@sadderlizards clare it is a winter storm outside

this is URGENT you must get outside and frolic RIGHT NOW!

Juvenile Black-Crowned Night Heron

hey do you have games on your phone

don’t forget to meet me in my dreams tonight ok

the world is so big and yet you are so tiny

@aadityad9 i saw one flying solo over my backyard today!

My, my, can I count that high?

if you wanna do this:

the action button on my iPhone 15 is set to open up the Merlin Bird ID app. in this way, i suspect i am the only one using the action button correctly ,

@Xirenec_ i like that Merlin is run by Cornell’s Ornithology lab, so your data and logging helps researchers track bird populations, at risk species, etc. Also it has the Life List feature which is of great importance to me :)

@sadderlizards Any advantages of it over BirdNet? That one even records immediately without any tricks

in the shortcuts app press + to create a shortcut -> add action to “Open URLs” -> use URL merlinbirdid://record and press done (this will open the app and make it record at the same time). Then go to Action Button in settings and swipe until you see Shortcuts option. set the button to the bird shortcut :) Also you can place that same shortcut as a widget or button in the drop down menu . be sure to give it the bird icon too ♡

@sadderlizards How do you do this? I’m trying to get my priorities in order

@sickbl4d3z yes!! make a shortcut to open Web and go to Link! use the link merlinbirdid://record , which will trigger the app to open and record

@sadderlizards How do you do this do you need to make a shortcut first?

welcome to trinket town

Violet-green swallow, taken on my subpar 13-year-old camera

yeah buddy i'm watching you

remember you are microplastics, and to microplastics you shall return

it is an interesting (painful) time to work in education right now that's for sure

Students who no longer read books for fun (or in classes) do the bulk of their daily reading online. The prevalence of AI-generated text in journalistic writing, IG captions, headlines, and long-form posts has already skewed students' perceptions of what "good writing" looks like. Increased exposure to generated text creates a uniformity in student writing (and therefore in thinking) that reproduces the bland homogeneity of LLM structure and style. Even my most anti-AI students will submit handwritten, in-class work with the fundamentally cheesy "it's not just X -- it's Y" format. "This highlights the enduring legacy of AI slop." The American HS way of teaching students how to write -- using only prescriptivist, five-paragraph essay formats that avoid the first-person -- paved the way for this. Worse still is that students increasingly struggle to read human texts, preferring the AI text due to its simplicity and familiarity. Writing courses have always included reading comprehension lessons, but these lesson plans now involve teaching my students how to re-engage with human-written work.