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Abandoned mine, Slovakia

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Doryu-2: Pistol Camera for Japanese Police

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Could you talk about the feral parrots in L.A.?

Feral Parrots in L.A.

I believe that there are 5 species of feral parrot in LA, and a few more in the greater LA area. There are differing versions of how these 5 species were released... possibly just pet releases from peoples homes/private collections, accidental release from an institution (possibly the Van Nuys Busch Gardens in the 70s), or a possible accidental release from crates at the airport.

There are other species found in SoCal and in other parts of California. There is not much good data on how these non-native parrots are effecting local eco-systems and other birds.

Resources:

The Wild Parrots of Southern California - CaliforniaParrots.com

Feral Mexican parrots thrive on exotic L.A. landscaping - Los Angeles Times

Free-Flying Los Angeles Parrot Project | The Moore Lab of Zoology | Occidental College

Los Angeles parrots - where did they come from and are they bad for the environment?

Red-crowned Amazon (Amazona viridigenalis), family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, native to eastern Mexico

ENDANGERED.

photograph by Roger Moore

Lilac-crowned Amazon (Amazona finschi), family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, found in western Mexico

photograph by Jav Alvarez

Red-masked Parakeet (Psittacara erythrogenys), family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, native to Ecuador and Peru

photograph by Luke Tiller/Pasadena Audubon Society

Mitred Parakeet (Psittacara mitratus), family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, native to western South America

photograph via: CaliforniaParrots.com

Yellow-chevroned Parakeet (Brotogeris chiriri), family Psittacidae, order Psittaciformes, native to South America

Photograph by Lauro Sirgado 

Other species in the area include Yellow-headed Amazon and Nanday Parakeet.

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Andre François

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Sonoran Desert Tortoises (Gopherus morafkai), family Testudinidae, Saguaro National Park, AZ, USA

Vulnerable

This species was separated from the Desert Tortoise, G. agassizii, in 2011, based on genetic evidence. The population of “Desert Tortoises” found east of the Colorado River are now Sonoran Desert Tortoises, and those west of the river are G. agassizii.

photographs: USFWS,: Andrew Pernick, US Bureau of Reclamation, K. Kristina Drake, USGS

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Dino Buzzati

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Young people have GOT to stop talking about conservatives like they're scary menacing monsters. Yes the policies they back are horrifically destructive but that's entirely because of how individually stupid, fearful, emotionally stunted, weak willed and catastrophically gullible they are. That all is what made them become right wing to begin with. Just the most easily manipulated zombie sheep on earth.

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One of my favorite thing I’ve learned about animals studies is that you should avoid using colorful leg bands when you’re banding birds because you can accidentally completely skew the data because female birds prefer males with colorful bands

Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double

So like you can completely frick up the natural reproduction of a group of birds by giving a guy a bracelet so stylish that females CANNOT resist him

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I think this is a worse loss than 2016, in a lot of ways, but one of them being how much they spent 4 years gutting the opposition to Trump in advance, nevermind not planning for the possibility of him or a horror like him/Vance/whoever. They...

...can't say defund because the #Resistance loves cops so much they just ran one (and Eric Adams in New York, wonder how that's going, probably great, no questions). They spent 4 years french-kissing the cops in every speech.

...can't say #abolish-ICE because they just ran on turbo-charging ICE and how mad they were that Ol' Donnie Trump wouldn't let them do Epic Liberal Deportations.

... are working today and tomorrow to stop you from saying Trans Lives Matters because they're trying to blame losing the election on "women in sports". After all that talk about "protecting the vulnerable" -- it turns out, nah, it's "fuck them gals" hours at DNC headquarters. Who saw that coming??? Everyone!

...can't say anything real about an economy rigged against people because that's unfair to the Good Billionaires they had speak at their convention, Kamala's brother-in-law who is the attorney for fucking Uber, poor number one democrat Mark Cuban. They ran on “we’re going to memory hole lina khan, promise, pinky swear.”

...can't say "medicare for all" because they elected Joe Biden on a "actually you love your employer-provided healthcare too much to get rid of it." We already saw Obama working the phones like it was the jerry lewis telethon to stop health care in 2020, the party and media called the bernie supporters toxic misogynists for wanting it four years ago— they going to pull that football away again? Bye bye health care!

...can't say anything about the climate because the #Resistance is fucking pro-fracking now, great stuff, A+ work. "We're going to listen to the science. Not that science. Not that, either." The science that lets us Do Business.

...can say something to young people if they don't run away from you after you had your thug goons beat the hell out of them all year on every college campus in the contiguous United States???

The homelessness crisis-- Gavin Newsom is somewhere sneaking through the shadows of a homeless encampment with a scythe he intends to use to cut down the disenfranchised, like in some kind of Hellworld version of a Hideo Kojima game. California democrats have made clear their only vision is "kill them, please". No one's resisting shit.

... sure can't say anything about our foreign policy because they're covered in fucking blood, drenched in it, bombs for everyone, wars everywhere, go go go, and all their sicko voters were willing to lick the blood of the innocent right out of Lynne Cheney's pussy if it meant owning the Repubs by 0.0001% (which they couldn't even deliver).

What is left??? Who's left to resist any of this shit that you don't look at and go "you make me want to vomit?" AOC's too busy "working tirelessly for a ceasefire" (aka writing "please do ceasefire" in fine print on her fucking Met Ball gown). Bernie, god bless em, was too much of an ally to these fucking losrs, too slow on Gaza. What's left to rally people around? "A vague sense of democracy being a good thing, brought to you by genocidaires" wasn't much on Nov. 5.

2016 didn't have this level of "there's no one coming to save you" to it. I’ll be fine but I do sometimes feel sorry for young people having to grow up with this.

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A lot of people voted for a regime that kept constant horrors going for more than a year, voted for people who enabled atrocity after atrocity, and it’s looking like they got nothing for it, all of sweet dick, except knowing they stained their souls for the rest of their lives for no tangible benefit, for nothing, nothing. In the old days when people sold their souls, they at least learned how to fiddle— this time, no fiddles, nothing, bupkis. At least learn to fiddle!!! (x)

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Matt Christman in 2016 (X)

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its almost as if trumps loss in 2020 was in-fact a bellwether for the continued rise of neo-fascism... its almost like, just maybe, when a liberal party responds to reactionary ideologies with centrism and militant nationalism it doesn't exactly offer a counter to fascism but instead offers nutritive soil for its roots to grow... you could almost argue that a state that extracts its power from violent exploitation will inevitably fall to fascism... perhaps, just maybe, this is the inherent trajectory of a nation built on genocide... weird...

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Halloween at Radio Shack, 1980.

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Nicholas Préaud Architecture

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These pictures are killing me