This song feels like the the sun on my face. Lajtha Lassu by A Hawk and a Hacksaw

Biologists and science communicators are being conscientious and thoughtful about the history of their professions. “The dumbest shit” indeed.

I think it’s always good to see such things enacted, and it’s rarely done on such a broad scale. Common names are a big bucket of chaos for joe schmoe anyway^*, so I’m all in favor of adopting anything more descriptive or in relation to field marks. I feel that the changes being broadcast so publicly will lead curious people to learn more about the history of birding, too- and hopefully lead to understanding why this sort of thing matters.

* Often broad species names, even. I’ve found that the general public has no idea of the difference between a mouse, mole, vole or shrew, and has even less of an idea that there are multiple species of all of them.

Popped in here to say FTL and was delighted to see someone had already mentioned it. Absolutely love that game.

I’m on my phone and have no clue what hell these links may unleash, but here’s the album on youtube and spotify.

…Now that I think on it, it’s been so long since I listened to the 99PI episode, I can’t even remember if they make use of or even mention the album. Apologies for my fanboy hat maybe being screwed on a little too tight! 😆

EDIT: As for their non-Wild-Ones work, I tend toward their first two albums since they’re a bit more… moody 'n dramatic than the newest one. They’re a side project of a bunch of musicians, so the discography is pretty small and easy to get through.

Aww!! I didn’t expect to see this here, I’m smiling like a big dork. I’m an utter fangirl for the band behind the music, Black Prairie, so I heard about and read the book right as it was released (and may or may not own the album on vinyl lol). Just as you said, the book is a great jumping-off point for so many topics…The segment on butterfly conservation stuck with me, for whatever reason.

After all these years I think the song “Waltz for George and Tex” is my favorite. 🪺

I LOVE their coloration at this stage. What a good find. 😄

For me it’s mostly the ease of it. I’m the type to get very bogged down by (perceived) steps, hurdles, and visual overstimulation. An illustration:

Notebook

• Find pen or pencil
• Find the page you need
• Go

Tablet/Etc

• Is it charged
• Specific pen only
• Keyboard needs pairing
• Is keyboard charged
• It wants to update now, awesome
• Turn it on, see ten unrelated apps --> forget what I’m doing
• App randomly decides it needs internet access
• Probably have to deal with syncing now
• etc etc
• (another ‘me’ problem: I get really hung up on trying to format things digitally, which takes time way from what I’m supposed to be doing)

Now, there are certainly benefits to writing things out digitally, especially when searchability is key. Any important info in any of my booklets that I might need to find later on gets typed up or entered into a spreadsheet where applicable. Not the most efficient way to do things, I suppose. 😅

In general though: I just like being able to look down and see a thing I’ve written, rather than needing to wake up a device, open a program, or otherwise fiddle with a screen, especially while multitasking.

Animals camouflaged as moss, lichen, and leaves are so magical to me; hundreds of thousands of years alongside plants, eventually mimicking them to perfection. Just the most wonderful thing there is. 🥺

Yep, I’m just barely up a slope from a…I hesitate to call it a true marsh, as I think it’s more of a low-sitting municipal water drainage area (more man-made, I guess). A few small spots in the woods retain a lot of snowmelt, though I’m unsure if they’re big enough to be truly considered vernal pools.

I’ve only ever found these guys when it’s been particularly dry for a long time, so I bet they’re visiting the logs near my garden beds for hydration (or bugs). :D

This very specific genre of riffing is just the best.

“I love NFTs: Newts Frogs n Toads”