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ITS JUST ONE OF THOSE DAYS

WHWRE YOURE SO GLAD TO WAKE UP

EVERYTHING IS LOVED EVERYBODY HUGS

one time i went to a cafe and i was wearing a green shirt and brown trousers and the barista looked at me and said awww i love your outfit its giving......... [long pause] tree ^_^

Not only that but the so called feminists that write it. Feminism is about equality, just because you have been hurt does not give you the right to hurt others. If we are constantly saying that men are trash and women are powerful then we are just making a new problem. We can't call for equality then raise our gender so high above the other. That's not equality and no real feminist wants that because real feminism is about equality. Equal pay, equal opportunity, equal respect. The "men are trash" mindset is bullshit that set our society farther back with every bogus post.

Hey so “all men are trash” posts help terfs

I’ll explain if one of you want

So I was told that Human Planet had a segment about pigeons in the Cities episode that I might be interested in and I was honestly so underwhelmed. I haven’t finished the episode so maybe there’s more pigeon stuff but I feel like all I saw was more Birds Of Prey Are The Only Cool And Acceptable Birds and pigeons are Trespassers In Our Urban World Who Shit On Everything And Are Useless On Top Of It. Which isn’t true and I’m so tired of this being framed as some horrible burden that humanity must face. Pigeons are the victims here, not us. 

Hate of pigeons didn’t start until the 20th Century. Before that was about 9,900 years of loving them. The rock pigeon was domesticated 10,000 years ago and not only that, we took them freaking everywhere. Pigeons were the first domesticated bird and they were an all-around animal even though they were later bred into more specialised varieties. They were small but had a high feed conversion rate, in other words it didn’t cost a whole lot of money or space to keep and they provided a steady and reliable source of protein as eggs or meat. They home, so you could take them with you and then release them from wherever you were and they’d pretty reliably make their way back. Pigeons are actually among the fastest flyers and they can home over some incredible distances (what fantastic navigators!). They were an incredibly important line of communication for multiple civilisations in human history. You know the first ever Olympics? Pigeons were delivering that news around the Known World at the time. Also, their ability to breed any time of year regardless of temperature or photoperiod? That was us, we did that to them, back when people who couldn’t afford fancier animals could keep a pair or two for meat/eggs. 

Rooftop pigeon keeping isn’t new, it’s been around for centuries and is/was important to a whole variety of cultures. Pigeons live with us in cities because we put them there, we made them into city birds. I get that there are problems with bird droppings and there’s implications for too-large flocks. By all means those are things we should look to control, but you don’t need to hate pigeons with every fibre of your being. You don’t need to despise them or brush them off as stupid (they have been intelligence tested extensively as laboratory animals because guess what other setting they’re pretty well-adapted to? LABORATORIES!) because they aren’t stupid. They’re soft intelligent creatures and I don’t have time to list everything I love about pigeons again. You don’t need to aggressively fight them or have a deep desire to kill them at all. It’s so unnecessary, especially if you realise that the majority of reasons pigeons are so ubiquitous is a direct result of human interference.

We haven’t always hated pigeons though, Darwin’s pigeon chapter in The Origin of Species took so much of the spotlight that publishers at the time wanted him to make the book ONLY about pigeons and to hell with the rest because Victorian’s were obsessed with pigeons (as much as I would enjoy a book solely on pigeons, it’s probably best that he didn’t listen).  My point is, for millenia, we loved pigeons. We loved them so much we took them everywhere with us and shaped them into a bird very well adapted for living alongside us.

It’s only been very recently that we decided we hated them, that we decided to blame them for ruining our cities. The language we use to describe pigeons is pretty awful. But it wasn’t always, and I wish we remembered that. I wish we would stop blaming them for being what we made them, what they are, and spent more time actually tackling the problems our cities face.  

I just have a lot of feelings about how complex and multidimensional hating pigeons actually is

It's Claudia willingly letting Madeline read her diaries vs. Lestat and the coven stealing them and using the contents against her. It's Louis being turned while being in a state of distress vs. Madeline having time to think about her decision. It's Madeline having a choice at all vs. Claudia getting turned without her consent. Even the scene where Claudia kills in front of Madeline for the first time, while similar to Lestat and louis in the church, it's different. Claudia doesn't immediately go into asking Madeline to be her companion. She gently tells her she'll clean up the mess and they talk after. Madeline could have run at any time between that and them going to the apartment, but she doesn't. Unlike the other relationships we see, they had a good foundation. They broke the cycle.

I think it’s funny when fans are shocked people saw mcr in 2005 for $20… like yeah you too can go see a future world famous band at a local venue for $20 right now

This is useful for all times of the year, be safe and cautious with your pets they deserve it!

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