So apparently blatant bald-faced lying about text that appears right next to the reply is acceptable behavior from a "senior research fellow" at one of the top universities in our country?

Pink Flamingo
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/pink-flamingo-jan-matson.html

A textured oil painting of a pink Flamingo. This pretty tropical bird was painted mostly with a palette knife giving a luscious feathery look.

Found this post from the bird site via reddit. Constructed the right URL on bird.makeup, searched for it, and whabam, there it is.

https://bird.makeup/users/hockey_robinson/statuses/1890477394814804080

bird.makeup is da bomb. Finally put my money where my mouth is and supported on Patreon. Thanks @vincent for being awesome.

Thornbill birds and Jacaranda
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/thornbill-birds-and-jacaranda-jan-matson.html

Two little brown Thornbill birds are perched on Jacaranda branches.

Magpie, bird of good fortune
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/magpie-bird-of-good-fortune-3-jan-matson.html

In China magpies are an omen of good fortune!

Die #Amseln lieben die Beeren des #Efeus, aber sie sind im rankenden Grün gar nicht so leicht zu entdecken. #Garten #birdsite

What do you do if someone won't buy your product? If you are Elon Musk, you sue them, of course. What a moron.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5283271/elon-musk-lawsuit-advertisers-boycott-new?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Does anyone remember that #Birdsite emoji we had here, the one with the bird on fire? Can't seem to find it in my app or on the website. Anyone else? #Twitter #SocialMemdia #Mastodon cc: @Gargron

Pair of tiny native Australian Spotted Pardalote Birds.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/pair-of-native-australian-spotted-pardalote-birds-jan-matson.html

Long overdue (ashamedly so), but I'm deleting my tweets and accounts. Steadfast in the decision, but it's still a little bittersweet. FB/IG on deck.
#birdsite #socialNetworks

Pink and Blue a Budgie's World
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/pink-and-blue-a-budgies-world-jan-matson.html

Oil painting of a vibrant blue budgerigar.

Woke up to a surge of followers over at #BlueSky, which can only mean one thing - the fascist who runs #Twitter did a predictable #fascist thing.

Hate that it took a fascist gaining power before some people would leave the #birdsite

Not mentioned in the article (https://www.friendsjournal.org/friends-journal-other-quaker-groups-withdraw-from-x/): the #Quakers have a #Mastodon server at https://quakers.social. @friendsjournal, @pendlehillusa, and many other accounts are active there. #Quaker #Religion #Spiritualtiy #Birdsite #SocialMedia cc: @SDiMenichi @admin @david

"More than 60 German and Austrian academic organizations say they will leave the messaging platform X owned by Elon Musk. The German government has also voiced fears that the platform is warping political discourse...saying its algorithms were opposed to a discourse based on scientific and democratic integrity."

https://www.dw.com/en/german-institutions-depart-x-a-day-after-musks-weidel-talk/a-71266331

Have more followers here + #Bluesky combined than I ever did back at #Twitter #Birdsite.

Get way more engagement here, on average, than I did there too.

I also found on the archive I downloaded from the #birdsite these cool pictures of a double #rainbow. I must have taken them around 2016-2017. I was lucky to be in a good position, while the sun was low on the horizon short after it rained. #nature