Bird

Celtic/Gaulish/Spokane (non-citizen). PhD. Ornithologist. Educator. United with @sippinsiren in life, love, and @highdesertdykes adventures.

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@yumcoconutmilk As a neurodiverse person who can’t handle screaming babies in close spaces (including my own), I travel with headphones or earbuds. It’s on me to know I might end up somewhere overstimulating and remedy that for myself.

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@savvybones Learning our languages is so important!

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@apihtawikosisan Idk if there is a term, but I have seen it, particularly in the queer community, and I am not a fan.

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@_dariussimpson Your head is a forest full of songbirds.

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@beccaleat Idk, but he shared a tweet where someone said “food desserts” as if they’re bad and I can’t stop laughing. Ideally desserts are always food. Food deserts are much less funny.

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@jamesingtonx @sistersinead @stupidassdykee Honestly, I am super not conservative and am VERY uncomfortable when asked to share my pronouns. I have a complex relationship with pronouns, gender, etc. and don’t feel like everyone needs to know that. So I just end up saying “any” when forced to.

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@OrientEngland @annoyedslut @SerenePhoenix @heeeyyyowassupp @deadsbirth Every woman I know who has spent time in bars/clubs has had to give a fake number to a dude to get him to leave her alone. Maybe you under estimate men….

[Sarah @Henryz_mom]

The ocean floor of the Pacific Ocean will likely be mined for metals needed for EV batteries. This is an ecosystem with species we haven't yet classified, one that we hardly understand. EV's are not a climate solution. They are a symptom of our addiction to cars and car culture.

[Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese (Yunpovi) @yunpovi]

For everyone whose been asking about Indian tribes being safe havens for abortion care after #Dobbs, #SCOTUS just made sure they can’t be in this #CastroHuerta opinion.

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@JeremyTColes @emily_allyce In Oregon, vacation rentals are a huge part of our housing shortage.

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@lolacoaster When my now 15 yr old dog was teething as a pup I thought she broke her jaw. I took her to the vet where they had to give her pain killers before examining her clearly injured jaw. Turns out she was cutting a molar and is a major drama queen.

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@MemphisFor @sambrad90 @singingsox Compounding interest means many borrowers who took out less than $100,000 now owe more than $100,000. And many of us went to state schools. Do you not understand how expensive college is? Or how much predatory landlords charge for rent in college towns?

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@jessicadroeger @ajsarts @singingsox No. Some of us were told by the feds that loans were all they would offer us (despite coming from a poor undereducated family, having a 4.0 gpa, and excellent SAT scores).

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@larofelix @singingsox Not in OR. And, I grew up super poor but my dad owned his business. So the government didn’t want to give me grants/scholarships because “he could just sell his business to pay for my education.” Never mind my three younger sisters.

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@SineQuaN0nUSA @singingsox @chicago21222 When I took out my student loans I was told college degree holders make enough to pay off loans, and at 18 didn’t understand that the interest would compound on itself. Turns out poor kids often become poor adults, particularly in this economy. I owe way more than I took out now.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

On the day of a mass shooting and weeks after news of Roe, Democratic Party leadership rallied for a pro-NRA, anti-choice incumbent under investigation in a close primary. Robocalls, fundraisers, all of it.

Accountability isn’t partisan. This was an utter failure of leadership.

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@takimilxwe Maybe, but electric also runs on coal in lots of the country so it’s not really much better for the environment.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

.@elonmusk is the prime example of why unfettered capitalism is a danger to this country and the planet as a whole. He’s not a genius, he’s the product of generational wealth and a rigged system that sees billionaires as somehow more important than the average person—they aren’t.

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@jeremy_akers @runningfootman @theslowfactory Destroying ecosystems in the name of giant solar farms is NOT more sustainable.

[Bird @queerbirdnerd]

@mariofrade @theslowfactory Soooo create a new “green” car that destroys the lives of POC, including sacred sites, because somehow forcing BIPOC people to continue to bear this burden is a “compromise?”