I just nearly had a heart attack.

[stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

I just nearly had a heart attack.
A pigeon slammed into the closed window of my study, barely half a meter from me.
It's not even the first time it's happened.
It's got to be an idiot, considering the glass is so dirty there’s no way it couldn't see it...

Dear 2026, can we please stop making me jump every single day?

[ef@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano what fauna can see is not comparible to what humans can. However, hope your wish come true.

[tionisla@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano stay safe! I resorted to ignore it. I recently had a blackbird slamming into a window I was sitting next to, but it was chased by a magpie. I almost jumped off the chair. 🙈

It broke it's neck as it seemed😔

[raven@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano Jump scares belong to horror games and movies, not real life 😄

[enigmarotor@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@stefano 😱 yes, 2026 be polite and gentle, you just came here and now you’re so gross with everybody. Didn’t 2025 teach you the lesson? (No…, really???…. Oh Wait….)

[mms@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@Tionisla @stefano

A pie for maga?

[brouhaha@mastodon.social]

@stefano
Where I worked in the late 1990s, we had a glassed in walkway between two parts of the facility, and birds would hit it all the time. Our facilities person found out what to do. A photocopied image of a hawk placed every 10 feet solved the problem. It didn't even have to be anywhere near photorealistic; it was just a fairly crude outline. Possibly the high contrast of line art may have made it work better than a real image.

[nomad13@mstdn.ca]

@stefano imagine if you lived in Canada and wondered when the resident of the crank house down below was going to blow you up …😳

[seuros@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

HAHA @stefano is in mastodon, because he has Twitter phobia.

That just Melon Musk Tweeting about Bsd.cafe

[vagnretur@social.spejset.org]

@stefano Maybe someone is pinging you using IPoAC (RFC 1149)? But your firewall/window is dropping the packet.