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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:

@Melody@squawk.social
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:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper.
🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks.

:BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers@squawk.social. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space.

私は日本語を勉強しています。

PFP by @roxy

287 Followers
320 Following
16 Posts
Joined April 07, 2023
Species:
Elepaio
Age:
30s
XMPP/Jabber:
Melody@Macaw.Me
Pronouns:
Bird / She

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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · May 25, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social

There's something special to having a lot of the management worried about how the two months I'm missing will go for them. We've trained up all the folk we could, figured out a couple successors to pass things off to, got the area started a new workflow that I'd been working on making reality for years, and now we don't get to see how it handles in implementation. Guess this forces me to learn to be wings-off of my work.
The real reason they're worried is I have one of the biggest slices of the job, and no one (nor several someones) there can easily fill what we do. They'll be fine, the place existed before me and will after we leave someday too.

But also, since I started working jobs 20ish years ago, I've never been free from work for more than two weeks. Two months of not working is going to be heccing weird.

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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · May 25, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social

Just a couple days until surgery! Which is good because the new supplier of spiro my pharmacy uses seems to be far less effective at its job than the previous supplier. I'll be glad to not need that any longer!

Got one more pre-op appointment tomorrow, but everything they've asked for is done and approved so shouldn't be any last-second issues.

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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · May 25, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social

I swear to chirp the next person I see complain about the shitty ways the Bluesky community is to trans folk / furries / kinks /whatever (and not in a "I'm glad the Fediverse isn't like that" kind of way) I'm gonna start getting the block hammer out.

If the community's way to handle things is rightfully bothering you, then why are you spending time in that garbage dump and dragging the rotten remains over to here? Bringing it up in the community that has nothing to do with it fixes nothing and just drags shitty opinions over that're best left in the cesspool that's algorithm-hell social media.

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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · May 22, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social

🐁 - Feathers, why do you keep putting the hottest hot sauces on our breakfast?
:BirbHele: - You really like coming up with new names for me, don't you?
🐁- Why must I suffer reaper pepper?
:BirbHele: - It's delicious!

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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · May 17, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social

Incredible timing at deciding I need a pocket watch (no electronics allowed in an area I work) - Turns out Swatch released a new one this weekend, and it's significantly cheaper than the others I'd been contemplating.

Now I just have to wait for the initial rush to die down so I can snag one!

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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · May 12, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social

Had to do a cognitive test for giving consent to my surgery coming up at the end of the month. Just need to survive a few more long weeks at work!

I can also now confirm I'm at least as "smart" as the current president of the United States.

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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · May 05, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social
Replying to @KolaMagpie@this.mouse.rocks
@KolaMagpie@this.mouse.rocks The number of times I've tried playing new to me games or games I'm not too experienced at with friends, only to immediately have the asks I made be totally ignored... And every time I forget that I said I'm not doing it anymore I get immediately reminded. It gets tiring. X.x
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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · May 04, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social
Replying to @EricMalves@squawk.social
@EricMalves@squawk.social That's neat! Though I'd still have to buy a new monitor for that, all of mine are 60hz. The only 240hz screen is the TV on the other side of the room.
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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · May 04, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social
Replying to @EricMalves@squawk.social
@EricMalves@squawk.social I keep eyeing the 3D monitor from Samsung because I want 3D screens so bad. I just don't $2,000 want it.
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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · Apr 29, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social
Replying to @Melezioh@mstdn.games
@Melezioh@mstdn.games A lot of folk enjoy keeping things very binary - good or bad, no middle grays of less bad or more good. It must be nice being able to to just throw out everything because of one issue, and not recognizing that people's political opinions are usually a spectrum that sometimes aligns with one's own. I'd love for actual 3rd parties to stand a real chance at winning national elections, it'd make things so much better. But that's not the reality we live in here in the US. Gotta build these groups up from local- and state-level elections so that they can actually step in, but that's decades away. And we don't really have decades to go "slow backsliding on rights is the exact same as watching them fall off a cliff". One takes years to build back up to where we were, the other takes generations.
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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · Apr 21, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social

Had a fun dream last night being a shape-shifting fox! And that makes the work day much better by default, even if I don't get to keep the shape-shifting power.

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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · Apr 16, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social
Replying to @Arios@meow.social
@Arios @chirpbirb I believe it! I've been thinking about putting up my own website but I really don't want to deal with all the scapers exploding hosting costs, especially since it'd be hosting photography.
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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · Apr 16, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social
Replying to @Arios@meow.social
@Arios @chirpbirb Every time I see Anubis I immediately give up on whatever I was going to see. It doesn't play well with my stuff for some reason, and I haven't felt enough of a need to figure out what settings I'm using that make it suffering.
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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · Apr 01, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social
Replying to @EricMalves@squawk.social
@EricMalves@squawk.social I'm going to swap to this for my AI needs!
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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · Apr 01, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social
Replying to @Berto@woof.tech
@Berto Definitely Animal Art Crimes, since they're based in Denver. They've got a couple murals and stuff too if you poke around enough.
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Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian: @Melody@squawk.social · Mar 10, 2026
Melody :BirbHele: 鳥 :therian:
@Melody@squawk.social

:BirbHele: I'm Melody, a Hawaiʻi ʻelepaio, currently nesting in Colorado, USA! Therian, Furry, Chirper. 🐭 And I'm Cookie! A mouse that's figuring herself out and sometimes squeaks. :BirbHele: I'm also an adventurer, photographer, big into video games and repairing/modding old consoles, hiking, and whatever else I can get my wings on. Married to the wonderful @kenna_puppers. Professionally I build stuff that goes into space. 私は日本語を勉強しています。 PFP by @roxy

squawk.social
Replying to @KinkyKobolds@meow.social
@KinkyKobolds@meow.social @glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place @magpi@meow.social Already on my wishlist! But very important to share it!
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