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  Since folks encouraged me, here’s a favorite hummingbird picture (from nearly four years ago.) #birds

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  Parc Jarry

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  I’m repeating myself, but I can’t help it. #BloomScrolling

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  Monarch on takeoff! #butterfly

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  It was a day for butterflies at the gardens. First, a swallowtail. #butterfly

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  Sea creature, visiting alien, or something altogether different? #BloomScrolling

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  Coopers Hawk fledgling, its eyes still blue! #birds

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  New carved eraser stamp: Trillium. Download it for your projects as a png, svg, dxf, or eps file. https://artbits.fogbound.net/Carved_Eraser_Stamps/Trillium/

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  Here's a phrase probably never before committed to paper or keyboard: "weird, I must have Berenstain Bear-ed d'Iberville." Somehow, I was certain the Montreal street, metro station, and the eponymous French colonist/soldier/merchant were all "d'Ilberville".

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  People often* ask me how my toots here are so perfectly baked and browned. Here I reveal my secret. #toot (* nobody has ever asked me this)

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  Fungal Friday

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  Grumpy to be awake. #cute

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  Memorial from Red Dress Day (May 5th) at the botanical garden, inspired by Jaime Black’s "REDress Project."

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  Just witnessed an absolute legend - she got on the metro at Jean-Talon with two loaves of sliced bread, sat down, put on a pair of dark sunglasses, and consumed both loaves before we even got to Laurier.

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  Magnolia trees at the Jardin Botanique are just getting to peak bloom. Depending on the rain, next week will probably be the pinnacle. #Montreal #BloomScrolling

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  A gentle rain of petals #BloomScrolling

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  Barred owls. Super-high-ISO, 300mm handheld at twilight. It's a miracle of technology that there's any image here at all! #birds

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  I was in a real crunch, and I was weak. I used AI to generate the documentation for an API I'd just written. And I was pressed for time, so I only looked over it briefly before sending it out. Now I get to implement all the endpoints and parameters it "hallucinated." Time saved on documentation: 1~2 hours. Time lost to implementing and testing spurious features: 4~6 hours. #LessonLearned

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  Any Quebecers have opinions on where to take a weekend getaway in Estrie?Thoughts on Sutton or Au Diable Vert? Any other recommendations? Merci!

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  Circumstances have kept me indoors for a few days. Stepped out briefly today, only to encounter a boulangerie burglar.

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  New neighborhood has Peruvian, Mexican, Cuban, Algerian, and Vietnamese restaurants, all on the same block! I ordered last night’s dinner (Cuban-style onion pizza) in broken French, Spanish, and English.

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  Roiling skies.

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  Well, it looks like it’s attack season on the servers. So much for getting a decent night’s sleep.

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  A European Starling just few into the office’s plate-glass window at full speed, chased by a crow. The crow was approaching the inert bird, and I went out and scared it off. After about 15 minutes, the starling recovered enough to fly away. I’m not sure what was going on. Was the crow intentionally chasing the starling into the building as a means of predation? The windows are tinted, and look very solid from outside (not reflecting the sky).

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  Woodpeckers drinking at the leaky sprinkler. Descanso gardens, La Cañada, 11 April 2026.

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  Hummingbird in front of nearly full moon. #birds

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  Young orange-crowned warbler is feeling a bit peckish.

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  They told me it was going to be a cat scan, but they lied. It was a big noisy machine! No cats, not even a kitten 😾

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  Problem: sink leaks Solution: replace 5¢ washer Problem: nobody sells replacement washer, even online Solution: buy $13 replacement cartridge at old-school plumbing supply store (or buy it at big box for $22) Problem: that’s still a fucking waste Solution: ?

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  Awake, but at what cost?