Good day, friends.  This week’s bird is the gray-lined hawk, and boy, is it.  Mature birds are up to 61cm (24in) in length, weigh about 475 grams or 16.8 oz on average and are positively festooned with gray and white … Continue reading The WPT Picks a High Perch   

Still sick, still mad about it. Be nice today. Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Is Lingering

As has been periodically mentioned around here recently, various groups have called for an “economic blackout” tomorrow, Friday, February 28th, to protest corporations’ choice to roll back DEI initiatives and otherwise kowtow to if not actively abet the MAGA agenda. … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Blacks Out

Happy Wednesday. As February winds down, I wanted to give one final shout out to Black librarians. As mentioned in a previous header, the profession is 90% white, and Black librarians have often been invisible in the profession. A new … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Celebrates Black History Once More

Let’s get weird…..what are we going to spiral about today? I don’t even want to link to things because there’s just so goddamned much. My therapist said she’s been limiting her news intake. I guess I have too. Anyway, get … Continue reading Tuesday’s Politics thread is ready for the next spiral

Hi friends.  This week we’re continuing down the list of interesting looking birds I found on an ecotourism website.  Our subject is the bearded bellbird, whose distinguishing feature aside from the male’s namesake beard is that it appears to be … Continue reading The WPT is a Mood

Is it a cold? Is it allergies? Flu? The only thing I can say for sure is that it’s bullshit. Anyway here’s a song I heard earlier this week that I like, and by ‘I like’ I mean ‘made me … Continue reading The Friday PT Is 20% Politics, 80% Vaporub

Yesterday, the weather here took a turn for the cold, and the news coming out of DC (and most places really) felt extra bleak along with the weather, so I turned to an old favorite to take a break: Mr. … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread’s Got Moxie

Happy Wednesday. A couple of weeks ago I put the spotlight on a Black librarian, Bella da Costa Greene. I thought this week I’d continue that theme by highlighting about Black librarian, Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress. It probably … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Continues to Celebrate Black History

Everything is on fire. Have y’all noticed that? Is it just me? I don’t know, I have a bunch of personal crap going on, the country has a lot of crap going on, even the weather feels like it’s conspiring … Continue reading Tuesday’s Politics thread needs for things to calm down

Hi, everyone.  Our bird this week is the turquoise tanager.  I believe we covered the very literally named multicolored tanager in an earlier header.  This bird is very pretty, and I wanted to share even though I wasn’t able to … Continue reading The WPT is too Obscure for a Cute Title    

In November of 2023, a terrier mix was found wandering around in a trailer park in Houma, Louisiana, about 60 miles southwest of New Orleans. He was sent to the local animal shelter and was close to being euthanized when … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Presents: A Scrim’s Tale

The old state capitol building in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is also known as the “castle on the river” — or, according to Mark Twain, “the ugliest thing on the Mississippi.” First completed in 1850, the old state capitol saw not … Continue reading The Thursday Politics Thread Visits the Old State Capitol

[This week’s header was written by Corgizilla!] Hello, PT, it’s your sometimes poster, often lurker, and first-time header writer, Corgzilla (thanks to Cordyceps for the help posting this header). Today is Darwin Day when we celebrate birth of Charles Darwin. … Continue reading The Wednesday Politics Thread Celebrates Darwin

So Cordyceps and Kappa and Headphone Princess and Wasp had to help get the PT done last week. I have managed to clone an old post and use “classic editor.” This is for folks for whom WordPress is still being … Continue reading Tuesday’s Politics thread has figured out a workaround

Hi friends. I was sick most of this week, so please enjoy selected images of previously covered birds. I’ll be back next week with an all-new entry. Be good to each other and yourselves. Continue reading The WPT 2-8-25

With the Big Game this weekend, I thought I’d highlight an interesting, but sad, but nice fact: Out of roughly 1700 players in the NFL, Jalen Hurts (who will be starting at quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles this weekend) is … Continue reading The Friday Politics Thread Has An All-Female Management Team