Tyto Cardinalis

23 | Autistic/Plural | Mixed White/Indigenous | they/he | Bird Enthusiast | Writer | Artist | Occasional Cosmic Witch | art account: elven-nightmares | pfp: onioned | banner: drawsmaddy

[trans-cyberian-orchestra]

Art Fight

An art gifting game

Come get me I have some Blorbos

Mostly Ttrpg guys but some blorbos nonetheless

[orbiten]

PAUL MCGANN as the EIGHTH DOCTOR

[birbei]

Painted Bunting’s painting date! For Avian August.

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[snailkites]

Crested Caracara being allopreened by two Black Vultures! This is such an interesting behavior and one that's typically one-way (preening by vultures to caracara). Here you can see the caracara either attempting to reciprocate but getting rebuffed by both vultures, or telling them to stop for now.

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[teaboot]

Black Vulture couple locate Crested Caracara bisexual unicorn across the bar in a rare W for all parties

[nocturnal-stims]

🪶 ferrarigophoto on IG

[nocturnal-stims]

An Anna's hummingbird showing off his iridescent plumage. His feathers shift from brilliant magenta to muted gray as sunlight strikes them at just the right angle.

On a nanoscale, each feather is composed of ordered layers of keratin and air pockets that interfere with visible light, selectively amplifying the red-purple wavelength spectrum (depending on the viewing angle).

🪶 Discover Earth on IG

[penny-anna]

Hello friends we need to talk about this twitter account:

You might know him from a thread where he was getting wowed by free appetisers in a Mexican restaurant.

Firstly: He is doing a bit pretending to be a wandering samurai. It's a joke and his posts are all made up. This is very obvious if you actually look at his account and website:

He does purport to be Japanese but based on some of the other content he posts there's reason to believe he's British.

Which brings me to my second point: his Samurai content is interspersed with posts like this:

And this:

He is not cute or funny. Stop platforming him.

[sprachgefuehle]

I just got the funniest caution message at the beginning of a Wikipedia article

[sprachgefuehle]

[sprachgefuehle]

Yeah.

[monstermoviedean]

truly no video game moment will ever surpass the part in portal 2 where glados says "well, this is the part where he kills us" and wheatley says "hello, this is the part where i kill you" and you unlock the achievement titled "the part where he kills you" (description: this is that part) and the chapter title appears on the screen and reads: chapter nine: the part where he kills you

[thesingingbullfrog]

Always exciting to get a chance to photograph Brown Thrashers. I was really excited to see this juvenile with one of it's parents. The juvenile, in the front, has blue eyes, as it ages they will turn the bright yellow of the adults.

[wordybee]

okay, I mean, yeah, you can make that shape if you want I guess.

[birds-in-posts]

Boat-tailed grackle (Quiscalus major)

[presidentdragon]

"that time of the month" "monthly visitor" "feminine hygiene products" GRRAH!!! SHUT UP SHUT UP!!! PERIOD!! MENSTRUATION!!!! TAMPONS!!! PADS!! MENOPAUSE!!!!!!!!!!!

[tyke-dyke]

VAGINA!!!!

[presidentdragon]

[lastoneout]

[willgrahamscock]

⚠︎ ! your body has kept the score.

[willgrahamscock]

⚠︎ ! hospital ⚠︎ !

[number1wifemisser]

Jonny is the FAKEST idgafer I don’t care what anyone says that man broke down CRYING after the band broke up and nastya left before he died to me

[charlesoberonn]

America has a weird relationship with cults where they’re terrified of small cults (or organizations they think are cults) but completely normalized massive cults that hurt many more people (eg: LDS Church, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Amish, Scientology, most Megachurches)

[charlesoberonn]

To anybody asking if the Amish are a cult, the answer is yes, very much so.

They’re a high control group that isolate you from society. The cult decides how you dress, how you behave, who you marry and how. They control what you know, blocking all information from the outside world. They control how you feel and what you’re allowed to think with threats of both social and supernatural harm. They’re a cult.

[charlesoberonn]

The best method to determine if a group is a cult, in my opinion, is Steven Hassan’s (cult expert and former cult member himself) BITE model.

BITE stands for Behavior Control, Information Control, Thought Control, and Emotional Control.

The more points a group “scores” on the model, the more of a cult it is.

I think this model is the best one for several reasons:

It’s more nuanced than “cult” or “not cult” and doesn’t make false equivalences between groups

It’s versatile, applying to groups big and small, and cults of all kinds, religious, political, financial, etc.

It focuses on what’s important, which is what the cult does to its members, and those members’ experiences, and not on irrelevant details like how uncommon their doctrines are or whether they have a charismatic leader

[charlesoberonn]

This is a great example of Thought Control used by cults whenever they’re confronted with criticism.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

#you might notice that there are a lot of similarities between cult techniques and those of abusive partners#and that is an important thing to be aware of

yah that goes in the post

[charlesoberonn]

The creator of the BITE Model considers abusive relationships to be two-person cults.

[forgotn1]

It’s important to note that almost every sect of evangelical christianity in the US today fails the BITE Model.

[alp-crispy]

This was the post that lead to breaking my JW mindset. Been a while since I seen it.

[charlesoberonn]

I’m glad I could help in your deconstruction, if only a little bit. I wish you all the luck in your journey moving forward.

[tuulikki]

And to highlight a key aspect of the “two-person cult” dynamic:

Not all high-control groups are religious. Secular cults exist.

I’d strongly recommend reading this brief bio of Janja Lalich. She’s a deprogramming therapist, but she’s also a cult survivor from a political cult.

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

high control groups can also form in friend groups and online! any social group can theoretically be a high control enviroment that’s abusive. any group can be a cult if someone uses that group to control and abuse others.

[michaelnordeman]

Eurasian bullfinch/Pyrrhula pyrrhula/domherre. Värmland, Sweden (2 August 2025).

[longingforrotkehlchen]

Something very weird is happening to the starlings right now: they are getting spotted.

Stare (starlings) im Akademiegarten im Oberen Schlossgarten, Stuttgart-Mitte.