the thing with Feathers

roz | she/her | 30ish

[praxidyke]

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[vintageandroid]

i made a post like this before but I can't find it now. so. I'll just redo it.

What's the first "big news story" you remember from when you were a kid?

It's something I love to ask mixed-aged groups sometimes because I think it's really interesting to see the responses. I've gotten answers from the Olympics of [whatever year] to Watergate to more recent stuff from my niblings.

My first news thing I remember is the OJ Simpson trial. I vaguely remember watching the news with my grandparents before that, but that's the first story I remember, in part because my second grade teacher had us go play so she could watch the verdict 😂

[praxidyke]

saw a pileated woodpecker today. very large, very loud.

[8syntheticanimal8]

[praxidyke]

got an email from my electric utility that said "your bill was more than usual this month, watch this video to find out why"

and I watch the video, and an ai tts voice says "your bill was $92 higher than usual, because it was hot and you were running your ac". okay, makes sense.

then it says "your bill was also $50 lower than usual. we don't know why!"

great job guys. stupidest possible way to say my bill went up by $40

[desk-drawerr]

He eat a nemon

[livestockguardiangod]

Maremma Sheepdog serving as a penguin protection dog in Australia, source.

[yugiohz]

[praxidyke]

my ability to hold and manipulate objects with my hands has rapidly and significantly decreased. which could mean nothing.

[thomas--bombadil]

A wren dances for his mate with so much joy.

[chick-it-out]

✨️ with so much joy !!! !!! ✨️

[dawatcher]

[praxidyke]

I wouldn't even really mind ai chat bots being forced into everything if every single one of them didn't completly suck shit

[fuckass-bird-blog]

[longingforrotkehlchen]

That little runt was being annoying as hell. Luckily, dad came with a bunch of stuff and buried it so it'd shut up. Thus, peacefulness was achieved. Look at those proud parents. True story, by the way.

(Disclaimer: not a true story).

Weißstörche (white storks) im Oberen Schlossgarten, Stuttgart-Mitte.

[dexdenaart]

Mmmm tasty

[doechiisource]

The source is in me. It's not in a bottle, it's not in a label, it's not in a man in a suit, it's not in a dollar bill, it's not in a radio. It comes from me. I don't need anything outside of myself and the glory of God to lead me anywhere in my career, and once I did that I was like - I'm gonna to write a mixtape, it's gonna be fantastic, I'm going to tell my story the way I want to tell it. I don't care about hits! Shut up! And I made the mixtape.

[sapphling]

every time that one chappel roan song comes on i get pissed off at the line "i don't care if you're a stoner" as if being a stoner is just something to love a woman in spite of. as if being a stoner isn't one of the most beautiful things a woman can do