just another shitposter

June/Juniper (not that one) | 26| if this flag offends you, I'll help you pack 🏳️‍⚧️ | she/her | don't ask me about Xenoblade Chronicles X

[asksloyxp]

Maybe if I just work harder, this empty cup will pour again

[shinyrock6498]

Maybe the cup needs a bit of time to rest and refill?

[asksloyxp]

Maybe the cup needs to lock the fuck in???

[appleseason]

[yesterdaysprint]

The San Francisco Examiner, California, February 25, 1935

[flaneuriste]

Sometimes I think humankind hasn’t changed at all. 

[drcrowdpleaser]

WHAT IS “DOES”?

[helpimsotired]

Justin McElroy talking about accessibility in live theatre (June 9, 2019)

[formichi]

[quasi-normalcy]

“Art is happening everywhere all of the time” but an awful lot of it seems to only ever happen in New York and London, doesn’t it?

[segamascott]

first scrolled past like why did they use a picture of the dalai lama

[straycatj]

ふぎゅ

Hggggg

[straycatj]

じゃまとは

What's the bothering?

[fawfulydoo]

bird up

[fawfulydoo]

since this post went double platinum (no pun intended) and you all require more real bird chatot, have some more

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[pangur-and-grim]

sorry but the scene where eggman grabs his henchman by the inner mouth made me blush

[pangur-and-grim]

like they didn't need to do this

[eerieiri]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

under US law, it's illegal for anyone who's not a member of a recognised native tribe to own an eagle feather. the penalty is a $100,000 fine.

14 years ago when I had recently moved to Alaska, I went hiking with an Aleut friend, and she pointed to a feather lying on the ground and said "hey that's a bald eagle tail feather, you should grab it!" and I was like "uhh I'm very white and that's very illegal" and she went "they're fuckin everywhere up here man. I have 20." so she grabs it off the ground and hands it to me and says "there, now it's a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person."

and I'm like, okay, cool, I guess this is how we do things in Alaska. nice.

so I keep this bald eagle tail feather around for years. display it in my home among other cherished memorabilia from places I've lived and visited, etc.

on a whim, I have just now looked it up. there is no exemption to that law for a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person. the last 7 years I lived in the US, I was technically a bald eagle poacher.

probably a good thing I don't intend to move back there anytime soon. I wonder what the statute of limitations is on bird crimes.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

@freedomisscaryshit I'm fucking dying I think you forgot the word "feathers" in your tags?? or do you just wish you could grab whole ass eagles that land in your yard??

[emotional-support-husband]

As an Indigenous person, it continues to astound me that there are such strict laws (written by White people) in our name, laws against...picking up things just found on the ground. Like, stop pretending this is "for" us. We don't want this.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

so, for clarity, that's not what this is. the law against possessing feathers is an anti-poaching measure, derived from a North American treaty protecting certain migratory bird species from hunting. that treaty has an exemption for indigenous people to allow tribes that use eagle feathers in ceremonial or religious practices to continue doing so.

[chekhovs-raygun]

i used to collect feathers (illegally) as a teenager and the thing is that it's incredibly important for feathers from wild birds to be illegal to possess because it ensures that they never become fashionable to wear. the reason we passed the migratory bird act was because the american and european fashion industry was driving species to extinction in a timespan of years. not just decades. the ecological devastation of exporting birds for hats was absolutely insane and people were watching wetlands and forests and meadows just empty out in realtime. look at the wikipedia article for the plume trade.

the law against 'picking feathers up off the ground' means that you can't go shoot an eagle then sell the feathers on etsy by saying you 'just found them'. you can't own them no matter where they came from, which makes sure that they're not going to come from any birds killed and then secretly disposed of.

these laws, as harsh and ridiculous as they seem, saved flamingos, spoonbills, egrets, and all kinds of hawks and eagles from extinction. the minute these laws weaken and people can make money off killing them again, they're fucked.

[lizardlicks]

this is one of those "no actually this regulation exists for a reason" laws much like work place safety and building fire codes (that Republicans keep trying to roll back) and is written in blood just like them as well. it's just not human blood this time, and the fact that people actually cared enough about long term future over short term profit to get it put in place is nothing short of astonishing. That it didn't get put in place in time to save several species is heart breaking.

[hapalopus]

And yes, it's still needed today, despite no one wearing hats. People will go to crazy lengths to acquire rare feathers

Dead Exotic Bird Thief | Field Ethos

By Andrew Court In 2009, a college kid named Edwin Rist broke into the British Natural History museum…

[internetslug]

[kinuko]

[pangur-and-grim]

I hope the neighbours don’t mind him watching

[pangur-and-grim]

I hope the sun and the sky don’t mind him watching

[thursday-paradise]

[pjackk]

not the intrusive toughts telling me i need Candy and Wiskey!!🤣🤣🤪

[adequately]

つぎはぎ恐竜

[grox]

Ezcuse me ladies everything you just said about wile e coyote being a cocksucking faggot and being passed around at college parties and sucking his husbands cock and cruising at home depot has been echoed and amplified out your open ground floor window to our leasing office where we are discussing not renew8ng your lease when its up and we all have heard everything you just said