• can@sh.itjust.works
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      I still think it’s beautiful. Just listen to songs they’ve made in pursuit of getting some.

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      Imagine you walk through a wood and record the sounds, play it back later at 300 times slower, hearing trees cumming and ejaculating over you while you were standing there… You’ll never walk through the woods again …

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      Can’t wait for this exact webcomic to be made by a bird that’s seen how we act on TikTok

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    That’s because at some point in your life you realise that birds are just tiny dinosaurs.

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      Merlin is amazing. I heard birds outside my new apartment and thought of them as nice background noise. Within days of installing Merlin, I could tell sparrows, cardinals and robins apart without seeing them. Whenever I heard a new bird, I’d grab my phone and open Merlin.

      One day it sounded like a robin and a cardinal were having and argument while both simultaneously having a stroke. Merlin figured out it was a catbird, a relative of the mockingbird that learns the songs of other birds then strings pieces of them together in a disorganized song to impress the ladies. Basically, the male catbird who can sing the weirdest songs using the most species signals that he has “been around” for enough seasons to learn all those songs and therefore must have good genes the females want to pass on. It’s mind blowing to learn all this about things that are going on outside your window.

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        It’s pretty great, there’s also Cornell’s companion citizen science app called eBird that you can use to count birds around you which is useful to ornithologists to track bird population density and migration patterns!

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      I know it’s the entire point, and “lol u mad,” etc., but boy do I hate this meme.

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        What can I say? I am a creature of the interwebs. BTW, I saw someone wearing this on a T shirt recently.

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          I don’t begrudge anybody taking weird stances for the troll of it… But i think back to how the flat earth movement started out the same way. Now it’s populated with a bunch of psychos killing themselves in homemade rockets, talking about how nasa is a conspiracy…

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            “The hole in the soul.” Plenty of people have a need to escape reality. Some people look to drugs or alcohol or sex or gambling. Others find their happiness in a belief that makes them smarter and braver than anyone else.

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            Yeah, exactly. This is why I get annoyed when people say it’s “harmless fun” when talking about homeopathy, or astrology or whatever. All pseudoscience is dangerous to society for the exact reason you just laid out. It promotes magical thinking over critical thinking, and next thing you know, you’ve got people buying 100% into shit that has been continuously disproven over and over for hundreds of years.

            Every adult human should be required to read, A Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan. He does a much better job than I ever could at explaining why this is an issue.

            The “Invisible Dragon in my Garage” is one of my favorite essays in the book, and played a huge role in influencing how I went about questioning, and ultimately leaving, the faith I was raised in. You can find the entirety of that essay if you search his name and the title of the essay. It’s not very long, but boy did he have a way of putting things into words that could just make things click.

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    Very relatable. I started leaving food for some local magpies about a year ago, and now they wake me up every morning at 6.

    I once had a problem when suddenly some tits arrived and started stealing all the food. A huge magpie would take like one hazelnut and be on its way, while these small fuckers would eat like pigs, and then hide what was left. They’d take the nuts and shove them somewhere between the flowers on my balcony. Tough the magpies too have often burried nuts in the soil below the flowers, only to dig them out again.

    And it was so cool to watch some sparrow coming and going a dozen times to pull out some weeds that have been growing (I left the pots with the flowers outside over winter, the flowers died and weeds started to grow), and then carry them to a hole in a wall where a brick is missing which presumably is the nest.

    But it was so so cool when I got woken up a few days in succession to a silhouette of a majestic crow standing on my balcony (my bed looks directly through the balcony window facing north-east). Crows are so cool, and magpies are really beatutiful, though extremely skittish.

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      One thing I do miss about Reddit is r/crowbro where people who feed crows post pictures of the gifts crows leave for them. It was one bright spot in the sea of shit that is Reddit. Birds are utterly fascinating.

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        It’s actually what motivated me to start hahaha. I wanted a gift from my corvid friends, but my corvid friends run the hell away if they even catch a glimpse of me in the corner of the room through a window. I guess because it’s a small balcony instead of a large, open and safe space. Even though I gave up on the idea and now feed them for no other reason than to feed them, I wish they would at least be chill with my existence. I’m fairly certain they think nuts grow out of flower pots.

        But damn they look cool.

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          I love it!

          Apparently the trick to crow gifts is to try to get them to see you dropping the food? Like even at a distance.

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      That’s cool.

      I have these three ravens who like to hang out in my backyard every morning and walk around looking for stuff. They’re pretty chill and don’t give me too hard if a time. I think they like the compost pile with bugs, and we leave some water out for them.

      But holy shit when they throw a house party and on Saturday afternoon you realize you’ve got a dozen crows on your roof making a racket, does it ever get noisy!

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      The neighbours hand raised this abandoned baby starling a few years ago, so it had decided everyone in the neighbourhood was his best friend too, and used to visit me, sit on top of my head and sing, demand bugs and berries, and tease our dog. It got so I could pick its voice out in the tree, and would come and sit on the kitchen window and yell at us to come outside.

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    My cousin at 31 years old said this weekend, “I know I’m getting old because I was sitting on a swing at a friends and thought to myself ‘This would be a great spot to watch birds from’.”

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    My wife got me birds of Europe last year because I once mentioned it’s a neat book (my parents have it). Next thing I know I buy some binoculars for birdwatching and started tracking the birds that visit my garden. It’s not a spectacular list but I am proud of it because I used the book to identify the birds and got it confirmed with birdnet. The list: house sparrow, blackbird, goldfinch, swift, common house martin, common linnet, greenfinch and blue tits. Edit: and wood doves