Pink Floyd ruined my life

She/thons, 19. Obsessed with Pink Floyd, reptiles, Steven Universe, and A Clockwork Orange.

[confesspinkfloyd]

Pink Floyd is so skibidi gyatt rizz that every time I listen to The Sigma at the Gates of Ohio, I start mewing and fanum taxing uncontrollably

[snakestardraws]

Reblogging with my Strawpage because I want to pin both posts at once

[bluestem-archive]

in case you were wondering why there needs to be better animal cruelty and welfare awareness for even something as niche as pigeons:

this is an American Fantail. they’re a popular breed among older pigeon-keepers who want a ‘challenge.’ this bird is not just posing like this, it cannot move its head far from where it is in this picture. this is NOT a similar situation to Seramas (who set up to look Like That, and are overall pretty normal-looking chickens), this bird is just tragically deformed

this is a posed skeleton of an American Fantail with the breed standard drawing overlaid. i’ve seen these birds at shows. they can barely move and they jump at every noise because they cannot see what could be coming at them. they’re either skittish or completely shut down, and watching them try to get food is just heartbreaking (they have to turn sideways and swing their head down their tail to peck at their seed. i don’t know how they even manage to drink). sometimes when the try to walk to their food they nearly fall over because their tip-toes stance is what they’re like a majority of the time and their fan is heavy enough that they can barely support it with such delicate balance

the kicker is, people are fascinated by these birds. they marvel in how such a monstrosity is alive and want to try their hand at raising fantails themselves, because that’s what the experts do! these are the bird that everyone chooses to point out as a marvel of artificial selection, but anyone who has been around pigeons for any stretch of time knows that they are intelligent, social birds. they rely on nodding to communicate a large portion of their language, and guess what an American Fantail can’t do?

of the issues with animal welfare in bird breeding, the problem with American Fantails is one of the clearest ones with which to illustrate just how little some people care for animals. people breeding these birds are not beginners who don’t know better, they are people who have been raising pigeons for 10, 20, 50 years and got bored with birds who can function. the people who breed birds like the American Fantail view pigeons as disposable, as something not to care for but to shape as you want to create an extreme caricature of an animal. the Jacobin, Zitterhall, and Modena are also examples of this, but no breeder is as proud of himself for perpetuating an animal that cannot function as an American Fantail breeder

[vanshira]

I just had to look up those other three breeds just to see how messed up they were, and…

These are Jacobins. Just looking at the picture, I can’t imagine they have a whole lot of peripheral vision. Apparently their feathers in general grow so long that they have to be trimmed in order for them to breed.

This is a Zitterhall. This bird does not look okay.

This is a Modena. It looks like it’s a few steps down the road that led to the American Fantail’s abomination of a neck. I watched a couple videos of these, and they can turn their heads and straighten their necks a little, but none of the videos showed one trying to eat.

The sad part is that I saw so many pictures of perfectly lovely pigeon breeds that weren’t structurally fucked to high heaven, so it is perfectly possible to breed beautiful show pigeons without creating monstrosities with no quality of life in the process. It’s just that that’s not the choice some breeders make.

[bluestem-archive]

thank you for this (very good) addition! however, those are poor quality Jacobins. this is a show quality bird:

and this is what the standard dictates they should look like:

they are, in fact, much worse. the ones you found are closer (in terms of welfare concern) to the Saint, a breed with a more moderate mane that is descended from the Jacobin. they are nowhere near as bad as show quality Jacobins.

of all the gut punches i’ve had while trying to breed pigeons for show and do it responsibly, the worst was finding out that the most experienced and knowledgeable breeders are likely to be keeping American Fantails and/or Jacobins. they have spent decades around pigeons and still see them as nothing more than a sculpture to be manipulated as far as it will go before it breaks.

[pollo-hermano]

“data doesn’t have feelings” then what was the reason for those lethal side eyes?? huh???

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[phantomrose96]

Day 286 of quarantine I have discovered www.webstaurantstore.com

It is, I BELIEVE, a website intended to be used by restaurants for bulk ordering food and utensils. And this is bringing me such unbounded delight scrolling through and recognizing that I, a single individual, ALSO can order ridiculous obscene enormous offensive-to-all-common-sensibilities shipments of BULK FOOD, to my LITTLE LITTLE APARTMENT, for PENNIES on the dollar. I have this god given power to flood my entire living space with bulk grains and it is one single button click away from my reality.

30 POUNDS of chocolate for $100. 20 POUNDS of peas for $13?? $13!!!! I will wake up every single morning from now on knowing that a box of donuts and a sack of dried split peas heavy enough to bodily injure someone both carry equal monetary weight. 25 POUNDS OF ONION POWDER for $50. Do you understand the enormity? the accessibility? the potential here? With the single click of the button I can put myself in a position of bequeathing more than a humanly comprehensible amount of onion powder in my will. AND IT WOULD ONLY COST ME $50 TO MAKE THIS A REALITY.

But what gets me

What truly gets me

is the 50 POUND BAG OF RICE 

FOR LESS THAN $20

Do you know how much that kills me? How much I’m losing my mind? that I can order MYSELF WORTH OF RICE for something to the tune of $50? I can OUT-RANK MYSELF WITH RICE, DEMOCRATICALLY OVERRULE MYSELF WITH RICE, IN MY OWN APARTMENT for the fucking PENNIES that is $50

I’m so sorry for the normal person I’ll be after quarantine because the cabin-fever version of me I’m inhabiting right now is perhaps just uninhibited enough to follow through on this dream I’ve just discovered of out-ricing myself.

[closet-keys]

real talk though, if you had a large number of people in your community who wanted a particular food item and couldn’t afford it (for instance if you’re in a food desert and need produce or if you’re a part of a large disabled and/or overworked community who all need prepared frozen food), you could pool funds and get an order from a supply store like this.

it requires organizing for finance management, ordering, transport, and distribution, but if you build a stable mutual aid network, it’s genuinely within the realm of possibility.

[anarchopuppy]

This idea is called a buyers club (or buying club, buying coop, etc) and it’s a great time-tested method of mutual aid. And there are guides and tools for starting your own at managemy.coop

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[twosides--samecoin]

Gonna tell my kids this was Pink Floyd's The Wall

[nickyandmikey]

god 50 years ago you really could go see a trashy b-movie and it still had gorgeous cinematography, lighting and set design, fun costumes and makeup, and now a hollywood production could have 80 million dollars thrown at it only for it to look like a drawn-out tv commercial for laundry detergent

[schlimdog]

theres a dhar mann waiting in the sky

what happens next will shock you, even bring tears to your eyes

theres a dhar mann waiting in the sky

he hated on the homeless they were rich dudes in disguise

[eebie]

I just ate one

[eebie]

You can lie when you name things

[limbel]

we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write gen fics. we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write character studies and stories with no focus on romance or sex. we have to get on our knees and thank the brave soldiers in fandom who write about minor characters and friendship and family with no focus on romance or sex. i know it’s hard to care about characters in a world that seems to only revolve around ships but i see you. and i love you

[hollis-art]

O Spot, my true and valued friend

[toskarinfr]

[dogpuppy]

[vivecguccibelt]

“Bisexuals don’t belong in the LGBT community” ohhh ok I guess the B stands for ‘bitch’ and that’s where you fit in, gotcha

[rapidashrider]

I was explaining bi and trans erasure/phobia in the gay community to my mum and she was outraged and burst out “WHAT DO THEY THINK IT STANDS FOR? LESBIANS, GAYS, BICYCLES AND TRICYCLES?!” and I don’t think I’ll forget that until my dying day.

[menelaiad]

just cried so hard at this that i actually nearly threw up

[artist-in-autumn]

The David of Clubs

[artist-in-autumn]

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