#this is our nerd

[iveneverdoneanythingwrong]

#kinnporsche #kpts #kinnporsche memes #kpts memes #kinnporsche textpost #kpts textpost #my memes #arm kinnporsche #this is our nerd #we win

[montereybayaquarium]

The four stages of becoming a birder:

🪹Nestling Phase: You start with a casual interest, peeking out of your cozy comfort zone to notice the birds around you.

🐤Fledgling Feats: You spread your wings, equipped with binoculars and guidebooks, ready to explore new habitats and spot diverse species.

🐦‍⬛Perching Proficiency: Your skills sharpen as you learn to identify birds by their calls, habits, and plumage, and feel a sense of accomplishment with each new sighting.

🦅Masterful Migration: Finally, you soar confidently, traversing landscapes near and far, sharing your passion with others. In the end, the true joy of birding lies in the journey itself—every chirp, flutter, and waddle along the way.

Happy National Go Birding Day!

#monterey bay aquarium #bird nerds 4 life #we always tern up for birdwatching #time to spread our wings and fly #nothing was purchased for this video we legitimately own all the bird stuff #ListenBirdingReallySneaksUpOnYouInYourThirties

[juusbox]

first impressions

#sorry gale #jun will listen to you nerd out but the price is that you're talking to his last remaining braincell #every vampire/spawn keeps a diary #that’s the law #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 fanart #bg3 memes #bg3 astarion #bg3 tav #bg3 gale #astarion #dark urge #our small army of stars

[bbyteach]

Uhhh sooooo NYC 80’s punk scene AU where ed used to play in bands when younger but not anymore & runs a popular venue and is totally burned out on the scene. Until a blonde weirdo wearing pastels started coming to shows there and he had to understand what is going on with this guy?? And the guy wants to learn more about this world and Ed confused but ends up having more fun than he has in ages??

#ofmd #blackbonnet #our flag means death #edward teach #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd season 2 #my draws #ofmd au #I rushed the first one to hammer it out bc last drawing of the year babyyyyy #one of Ed’s old bands was called ‘here comes the kraken’ #anyway he’s burned out on The Grind and all the bad bs in punk spaces overall #he’s not too cool to get flowers now in fact he welcomes the occasion okay #and uh. happy new year #oh and the venue is queen Anne’s revenge bc he’s a pirate history nerd maybe idk #punks and pirates seem like they are kindred spirits #for vastly different goals but… you know

[mermaidlighthouse]

Can’t get over the absolute dramatics of Stede *when I plan my own fake death fuckery I have to include me calming a jungle cat before being run over by a carriage and having a pianoforte dropped on me* Bonnet and Edward *I will change under water to be able to emerge on a fuckin beach fully donned in my Blackbeard leathers and boots to begin my murder quest to find the love of my life* Teach

#if there was ever a time someone questioned their compatibility I will point to these moments #I hate that these nerds have me in an absolute chokehold (lie) #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #ed x stede #stede bonnet #the gentleman pirate #edward teach #ed teach #blackbeard #our flag means death #ofmd season 2 #ofmd s2 #ofmd

[pigeon-princess]

Anya has been an incredible new edition to the strahd party dynamic and I think we're reaching peak levels of chaos

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #dnd character #curse of strahd #ravenloft #my art #pigeon princess #dnd art #dungeons & dragons #viktor vallakovich #victor vallakovich #Silas #Silas shaw #the nerds are getting fucking owned #THIS WAS A REAL QUOTE FROM OUR GAME AND IT KILLED US AT THE TABLE

[moch1rice]

*kabedons u cutely*

#it was a mistake revealing gangle was a nerd #now we can push all our indulgent thoughts onto her #gangle is me #im gangle #anyways school au #the amazing digital circus #tadc fanart #tadc pomni #tadc ragatha #ragapom #buttonblossom #mochart

[bbygirl-paul]

can i just say i love how anytime paul uses his nerd brain to seem like he has preconceived knowledge of how the desert works everyone else is soooo impressed but the one time he tries it on chani with the "🤓☝️ um actually sandwalking is-" she just kills him with her eyes until he shuts the fuck up

#she's the only one who sees him for what he is: a nerd #stilgar: HE KNOWS OUR WAYS #chani: he read one book please chill #chani #chani kynes #paul atreides #paul #dune 2 #dune #dune part 2 #dune part two

[reasonsforhope]

Humans are so cute. They think they can outsmart birds. They place nasty metal spikes on rooftops and ledges to prevent birds from nesting there.

It’s a classic human trick known in urban design as “evil architecture”: designing a place in a way that’s meant to deter others. Think of the city benches you see segmented by bars to stop homeless people sleeping there.

But birds are genius rebels. Not only are they undeterred by evil architecture, they actually use it to their advantage, according to a new Dutch study published in the journal Deinsea.

Crows and magpies, it turns out, are learning to rip strips of anti-bird spikes off of buildings and use them to build their nests. It’s an incredible addition to the growing body of evidence about the intelligence of birds, so wrongly maligned as stupid that “bird-brained” is still commonly used as an insult...

Magpies also use anti-bird spikes for their nests. In 2021, a hospital patient in Antwerp, Belgium, looked out the window and noticed a huge magpie’s nest in a tree in the courtyard. Biologist Auke-Florian Hiemstra of Leiden-based Naturalis Biodiversity Center, one of the study’s authors, went to collect the nest and found that it was made out of 50 meters of anti-bird strips, containing no fewer than 1,500 metal spikes.

Hiemstra describes the magpie nest as “an impregnable fortress.”

Pictured: A huge magpie nest made out of 1,500 metal spikes.

Magpies are known to build roofs over their nests to prevent other birds from stealing their eggs and young. Usually, they scrounge around in nature for thorny plants or spiky branches to form the roof. But city birds don’t need to search for the perfect branch — they can just use the anti-bird spikes that humans have so kindly put at their disposal.

“The magpies appear to be using the pins exactly the same way we do: to keep other birds away from their nest,” Hiemstra said.

Another urban magpie nest, this one from Scotland, really shows off the roof-building tactic:

Pictured: A nest from Scotland shows how urban magpies are using anti-bird spikes to construct a roof meant to protect their young and eggs from predators.

Birds had already been spotted using upward-pointing anti-bird spikes as foundations for nests. In 2016, the so-called Parkdale Pigeon became Twitter-famous for refusing to give up when humans removed her first nest and installed spikes on her chosen nesting site, the top of an LCD monitor on a subway platform in Melbourne. The avian architect rebelled and built an even better home there, using the spikes as a foundation to hold her nest more securely in place.

...Hiemstra’s study is the first to show that birds, adapting to city life, are learning to seek out and use our anti-bird spikes as their nesting material. Pretty badass, right?

The genius of birds — and other animals we underestimate

It’s a well-established fact that many bird species are highly intelligent. Members of the corvid family, which includes crows and magpies, are especially renowned for their smarts. Crows can solve complex puzzles, while magpies can pass the “mirror test” — the classic test that scientists use to determine if a species is self-aware.

Studies show that some birds have evolved cognitive skills similar to our own: They have amazing memories, remembering for months the thousands of different hiding places where they’ve stashed seeds, and they use their own experiences to predict the behavior of other birds, suggesting they’ve got some theory of mind.

And, as author Jennifer Ackerman details in The Genius of Birds, birds are brilliant at using tools. Black palm cockatoos use twigs as drumsticks, tapping out a beat on a tree trunk to get a female’s attention. Jays use sticks as spears to attack other birds...

Birds have also been known to use human tools to their advantage. When carrion crows want to crack a walnut, for example, they position the nut on a busy road, wait for a passing car to crush the shell, then swoop down to collect the nut and eat it. This behavior has been recorded several times in Japanese crows.

But what’s unique about Hiemstra’s study is that it shows birds using human tools, specifically designed to thwart birds’ plans, in order to thwart our plans instead. We humans try to keep birds away with spikes, and the birds — ingenious rebels that they are — retort: Thanks, humans!

-via Vox, July 26, 2023

#birds are literally learning how to better live/survive alongside us #this is like. actually kind of remarkable. and the technique is spreading including to other species. #is this hopepunk? it kinda feels like hopepunk to me. #animals are literally learning how to use our attempts to get rid of them against us #that's kind of amazing #and also VERY encouraging re: life's innate resilience #crows #magpie #corvid #crow #bird #bird nest #bird nerd #bird news #adaptation #urban animals #ornithology #climate adaptation #kinda #good news #hope #hope posting #hopepunk #animal intelligence #wildlife #animals are awesome

[jwaj3]

I think Con O’Neill should release a full version of him singing La Vie en Rose, you know, as a treat

#local nerd #ofmd #izzy hands #izzy ofmd #israel hands #our flag means death #our flag means death season two #our flag means death spoilers #our flag means gay #con o'neill #la vie en rose

[puppetmaster13u]

Another Prompt in Memes?! Yes.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #memes #Knighthood #knighthood ship #Let Jason be a literal Reaper type ghost #Danny is not ghost king but Fright Knight got attached & shall protect his Core as he heals #This can be de aged Danny if you want or not lol #Ghosts deserve to be eldritch #Undead deserve to be eldritch #Crime Alley: Ah yes Undead Punk & Eldritch Knight gotta be my fav genders #Batclan: Please we just want information about the person who dropped off a dufflebag of heads at the GCPD- #Crime Alley: I'm sorry we can't hear you over the sound of our favorite show going live here #Crime Alley is watching their disaster cryptids while munching popcorn like it's their fav sitcom or something lol #Jason deserves to be able to spar with his Allblades #halfa jason todd #star core jason #shadow core fright knight #Space Core Danny #Pfft that can lead to misunderstandings lmao #Stars + shadowy darkness = space lmao #Let Jason be feral- let FK go a lil feral too #Fright Kerian Knight #Also lets be honest they're probably both nerds #And they both bake #LET THEM BAKE TOGETHER #knighthood

[dykealloy]

small aside but y'know how luffy's stupidity is usually met with physical abuse of some kind? anyway. here's law's worst in response to luffy being manipulated by his arch nemesis

#i cannot emphasize enough the gentleness of this smoosh #utterly infuriating how cold/sharp law is on the outside vs. how begrudgingly soft he is with his allies (friends) #scary dude with a resting bitch face that everyone assumes fucking hates their guts because his default is snarky and sarcastic #but his friends are like oh yeah that's law he's our loser princess nerd who hasn't slept properly in 15 years we love him <3 #also cant get over law's cora themed feathered neckpiece/sweater here like truly looks that scream homosexual #one piece #op #cj's op watch-through #trafalgar law #monkey d. luffy #donquixote doflamingo #lawlu #lulaw

[mcapriglione-art]

ah yes, my favorite ship dynamic

#art #meme #my art #im the one yellling buggy and the nerd is my gf #she found a colorful leaf hopper in our backyard yesterday and nerded out about it jdsfakasfjkl

[keirashark]

LMAOOOO GOOD FOR HIM, NEURODIVERGENT NERDS RISE UP

#shadow wizard money gang #we love casting spells #and figuring out key parts of our identity through nerd shit #dimension 20 #collegehumor #dnd #dungeons and dragons #d20 #acofaf #a court of fey and flowers #Omar #omar najam #andhera #Prince andhera

[thatsbelievable]

I love you nerds.

#thank you for reading our nonsense #be good to yourselves and each other #p.s. I couldn’t mean ‘nerds’ with more respect

[ofswordsandpens]

I'm sincerely very happy for anyone who is enjoying the show but every time I see takes that the show has improved the book characterizations or that the book characters are underdeveloped in comparison to the show...

#our experiences are very different lmao #pjo show crit #sure the show isn't completely out yet #but id argue that the characters (namely the trio) seem way more developed and well-rounded in the book by this point in time (episode 4) #and look im not saying every change the show has made is bad #but by and far there has yet to be a change to characterization that feels like an IMPROVEMENT from the source material lmao #the closest contender I'd say is show Percy does seem a tad angrier than book Percy #but again I wouldn't call that an improvement... its just different and I think that /change/ works because it feels like the same essence #but even that has had some issues because I feel like the show has inadvertently cut down some of Percy's canon book empathy here and there #I think the show has nailed Annabeth's pride and intelligence and her warped worship of her mother #... but they've also made her hyper competent to the point that she's not making half of the mistakes she did in the book #which ISNT good because book annabeth is smart but she isn't infallible #its a big point that she has the theoretical intelligence but none of the real world experience/application #she gets tricked by medusa and goes to visit the Arch just cause she loves architecture and that's okay!! she's twelve and a nerd! #I also dont like that they've cut/toned down her little crush on Luke #actually they've not even showcased the familial bond between annabeth and Luke either in the show so like lmao #and then grover #by now grover's fear of failure and repeating this past mistakes and wanting a license has already been acknowledged in the books at least #in the show?? not so much #and his canon book suspicions and wariness of medusa... were given to annabeth #like medusa in the book was Grover's moment to shine cause his instincts were right! #and in the book fight he even very intentionally attacked medusa #but his highlights there were cut completely in the show #and finally sally #...idk who that is in the show but that's NOT my sally jackson #percy jackson #mine