Tsuro is always our go-to short game for when folks are getting to game night and getting into the mood. We also like to play Uno at the end of the night when our brains are fried or Jackbox.

Neverwinter Nights and Roller Coaster Tycoon when I was a little kid. I watched my dad play Neverwinter and had to indulge in my own tiny fantasy to play as a “dragon.” Still at it.

I always go for a druid-type in games (I have a druid of the coast in a 5e game and now a moon druid in BG3) and I too am frustrated that I can’t really do spells while Bear. But it’s okay, because I am Bear.

Consider your possible “cures” in the same way humans “cure” their blindness. If your dragon has cataracts, surgery could be an option if you could find a vet willing, able, and trained to do it. But if this is a natural degredation from age, there is no “cure.”

Oh yeah, camouflage for different purposes on different parts of the snake. Definitely a neat one to find.

Since roadside hawk is an actual species in Latin America, I might stick with calling our red-shouldered hawks by their own common name, even if they do tend to be on the roadside a lot! I was excited for a moment since I hadn’t heard of a rare raptor in Florida.

But they’re preventing that with this legislation.

/s, Florida is pulling so much shit right now too.

It was a battle between my queer identity and my biologist identity. For regular browsing and posting, science won out. But I have an account with blajah.zone too to discuss the queer agenda.

I consider myself a people, and I prefer my body jewelry to be gold if I can afford it. A few pieces are gold-colored anodized titanium (which are fading), but very prominent pieces are solid gold. I like yellow gold, not rose gold. I actually think titanium/“silver” looks more tacky than gold.

But that’s just for pieces of jewelry that go into my body. For bracelets and such, I prefer brass, leather, and shades of brown. I don’t wear necklaces.

Gold cars are disgusting though.

Wow, that’s impressive! I’m a hiker too, but I don’t have the time to do that much hiking. Besides, I’m also looking for birds and other wildlife, so my 5 miles can take nearly 4 to 5 hours, hah.

I too use peanut oil for cooking nearly everything. So cheap.

I’ve only just started weighing again. My “big loss” was in 2019, and while I couldn’t maintain my lowest weight, I’ve largely maintained and even built muscle to stay within my healthy range. I’ve tipped up in the last year after some medical changes and muscle building. There are still bits of me that I’d prefer looked different. CICO worked for a time, but I hate it, so I’m falling back to fasting when possible (which I’ve basically always done anyway). Just gotta be conscious of the snacks, especially those my new work keeps trying to feed me!

I wonder if this would work for my feeders, how clever! They’re such a menace.

Same with me and Catan. I generally do not like resource-hoarding “competitive” games anyway, and Catan did not help that.

I definitely have my fair share of close crops, especially herps! I also posted a close crop (because it was just that close) of a brown-capped rosy finch to the wildlife photography community today too.

I like to leave some habitat because I find it adds interest and complexity to a photo. Plus, sometimes the birb no longer appears smol if so focused in the photo! I’ve gotten more comfortable with even more distant shots of birbs, too–sometimes I can make raptors look illegally smol.

Many of my friends are biologists themselves, but not all are as well-verse in birds, so I’m definitely the bird guy there. Or wildlife guy, as in the case of my family. Kinda why I started bird ID and snake ID communities here when I didn’t see them (not sure how to link to them on mobile).

I like to post pictures to get the community more active, but I’m also down for discussion.

Laat year, I was a teaching assistant for a study abroad course to Honduras. One of our stops was PANACAM, one of the best national parks in the country (I spent about ten days there this year, such a beautiful location). We only had half a day there. The class happened to contain only women, and the day we visited, we learned of the US Supreme Court’s decision regarding abortion access. Demoralized, I led a group to a bird tower in the forest in our remaining time. They were largely uninterested in birding, but they were into the more charismatic species. In the span of an hour on that tower, we only recorded ten species, but the experience was quite exceptional. I located three king vultures far in the sky and was able to show them to the students. A dozen or so swallow-tailed kites swooped around the tower. I photographed a dark morph short-tailed hawk with a lizard in its bill across two passes (a publication I’m working on). The students located a keel-billed toucan before I did. And best (for them) of all, a white-nosed coati decided to pop up in the leaves just 20 feet from us.

I love birding, but I really love getting others into it and making cool observations with them. It was a memerable day for sure.

The gain and then subsequent slashing of human rights based on fascist beliefs and lack of representation (and possibly over representation by fringe groups that capture the news cycle). Across the world, populism and fascism is gaining in popularity - again. It felt like we’d gotten past this point for a minute.

They have “teeth” in the same way some birds have “teeth.” For tortoises, there are some pointy bits on the beak that function similar to our teeth, but they do not fall out like ours often do. It’s just for pulling leaves off of plants in arid environments. Again, some birds have “teeth” almost like this, but they function more like filters for birds that sort through mud and water to find food.