Lanius exclamation

Just a Bird Dad doing their Bird Dadliest Best to get by. My header is a photo of security footage of me looking at a dead dove. Respect the MBTA

[shrikestrike]

for no one's benefit but my own: golden kamuy characters as birds.

feel free to chime in with your opinions but know that the reasoning behind it all is impeccable and i am god

cassowary sugimoto

large-billed crow asirpa

mountain hawk-eagle tanigaki

peregrine falcon ogata

mute swan tsurumi

yellow-crowned amazon parrot usami

red crowned crane hijikata

rooster ushiyama

swiftlet anji

bull-headed shrike henmi

domestic goose gone feral tsukishima

green pheasant koito

great cormorant boutaro

white rock dove yuusaku

black-billed capercaille kiroranke

what the hell is shiraishi. a bird that's maneuverable like a swallow? a far-faring seabird because he fucks off in the end? a starling because he kinda pissed off a lot of people?

i accept vasily's merchandise assigned birdsona of eurasian wren. it's cute.

[boobookittenartblog]

Yi Qi Breeding Season

artwork by StievenVDP

[insomniac-arrest]

I wish AI would stop making so many animal story posts. I LOVE animals and they are ruining the loving-animals ecosystem. And also the real ecosystem

[insomniac-arrest]

The truffle hunting cat is AI, I’m so sorry guys

[gingerkingfisher]

Fuck AI, look at my handsomest boy instead, he helps me in the garden by digging holes next to where I am digging. He is not helping at all, but I appreciate his spirit, we are bonding.

[zooophagous]

Extinction. Digital.

Featuring animals killed off by humanity. Quagga, Thylacine, Asiatic cheetah, Passenger pigeon, Carolina parakeet and Caspian tiger. When coming up with a list of animals to include I ended up with over twenty of them, and had to pare it down considerably. I'll likely revisit this in future versions to include more. Especially more of the birds.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Yesterday I gave my chickens leftover scraps (a treat for them, most days they get pellet food and what they forage in the yard) and one chicken ran up all excited and then stopped and looked at the scraps and just stood there and I was like "oh you don't want veggie scraps today? Are we picky today?" but then I saw her friend chicken run up and when she got there they ate scraps together.

She was waiting for her friend <3

[aukkenopsia]

birdfolks

[gertritude-art]

(stares at you)

[gertritude-art]

This is what she looks like now! Her very normal stare warms one's heart.

[katmaibearfan]

timmy the trout continues to be a camera hog

[shrikestrike]

what am *i* gonna do on a submarine??

[shrikestrike]

having a pretty good wank--good vibes good material--but trying to suppress the village people "in the navy" from playing nonstop in the back of my mind like cmon man

[beastliness]

more people need to give themselves permission to write and draw pornography

[beastliness]

it is virtuous and necessary that you write, draw, and distribute pornography

[radfemart]

can we start with not conflating "erotic/sexual art or writing" with pornography

[beastliness]

no lmao

[ms-demeanor]

Everyone: Californians are such whimps about the weather. "Oh no there's half an inch of rain, whatever shall i do?"

Also everyone: When there's a hurricane you should never drive through water more than six inches deep, water that's a high as your ankle is enough to sweep you away.

Every major street in southern California when there's half an inch of rain: I used to be a dry riverbed in a desert, but today I am a river again :)

[ms-demeanor]

This isn't even bad, it's just an entire lane turned into a Slip & Slide for about half a mile.

"Don't you people have storm drains?"

Yes.

They're why the slip & slide isn't over the curb here.

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

Reviving this meme from when Australians and the British were complaining about our weather and not being taken seriously. I absolutely feel you, best of luck with your rough weather

[seeraphina]

1am visions 🧠⚡

[medievaljournalist]

idgaf about palace intrigue just let me chill

[yudrilsthira]

can you at least not eat poisoned food when you have been told in advance its poisoned

[medievaljournalist]

juat let mw chj

[enki2]

[transcyberism]

ok but this unironically works. talk about how the working class is exploited and you can basically sell full-on marxism to your average republican if you do it right. all you have to do is avoid the words "Marx," "capitalism," "socialism," "communism," "means of production," etc - just use synonyms. say "big business" or "corporate shareholder interests" instead of "capitalists." say "a government that prioritizes the needs of the working people" instead of "socialism." it WORKS. I've DONE it. the hardest sell are usually things like social and racial equity, welfare, things like that, because people have been primed with the racist/classist idea that those things are somehow unfair - but you can get your foot in the door to getting them to buy into those too if you start with class issues. read up on your theory, make sure you REALLY understand your own ideology, because that will enable you to reword it and successfully sell it.

[a-ginger-in-black]

In my experience, you can often help sell 'welfare' stuff by appealing to self-interest with a touch of Aren't We Great.

Disability benefits: "I mean, sure, there are probably some sad sacks who are gaming the system, there always are, but hell, with the amount of taxes we pay, the government can afford a few freeloaders, right? I'd rather pay for a couple people who don't really need it than not have the system at all for if I need it, or my kids do, or whatever. I mean shit happens. What if some asshole drunk driver puts me in the hospital and it takes me a year to get back on my feet? Or Heaven forbid something permanent happens. I'll sure be glad that I can get disability then, won't I?"

UBI: "I dunno, the kind of guy who'll just sit on the couch playing Call of Duty all day if he doesn't have to work, I kinda don't want him on my job site anyway. That type is just taking up a place that you could fill with someone who'll actually get the job done, you know? You end up short-handed even though you technically have enough people because everyone else has to pick up his slack. And it'd mean that if your boss is a dick you can tell him to shove it and not worry your kids are gonna go hungry while you find a better place. We can sure as hell afford it."

Racial equity: "I've got a lot more in common with a Black guy who's just trying to get the job done than I do with some rich white asshole who thinks the sun shines out of his ass because of how much money mommy and daddy have."

[vintar]

there's this one gay porn studio i'm subscribed to email updates for just because i am never prepared for what each email contains

pretentious gay sluts i am very fond of you

[hypokeimena]

image descriptions: screenshot of text from those emails. image one: Shot in an actual French castle, an NPC (non-player character) is trapped in a loop - until he's asked a simple but profound question: (italics) What do you really want? (/end italics)

image two: We filmed this scene because NPCs are a metaphor for the routines and loops that quietly limit our lives and stunt our growth. So often, we move through desire on autopilot - jerking off, hooking up, watching porn - without ever stopping to ask what we actually want, or whether our habits are truly getting us there /end description

[jetix]

Papercraft beetle, 2017-03-04