Post AqUIcV0SOAVF8CdLBw by sbourne@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AqUGlLNzKKrXzYjJaa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-26T22:01:08Z
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I think I'm not getting the worst of facebook by far, but spending just a little time there trying to reach out to people before going dark again has reminded me of ... the less lofty reasons why I left. There are so many post with images like this one, videos of "nature" and although some of the comments recognize it's a fake image just as many think it's "cute" and "nature is so beautiful!"IDK it makes me die inside a little.
(DIR) Post #AqUHHLIbBZPSzNT1dY by ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us
2025-01-26T22:06:51Z
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@futurebird My UC Santa Cruz Crown College core course covered (among many other things) the Nazi version of what was acceptable and redeemable art.This thing with the fake owls reminds me of some of what we saw in that course. Hummels.
(DIR) Post #AqUHYUKoqNnlw5gJBA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-26T22:10:00Z
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Some day no one will understand what the big deal is in the story of "the ugly duckling" because people will have repainted nature with our own notions of what would be "cuter" and how it ought to be ... missing the less glamours beauty of what is. Of course a baby swan can only be a tiny white lovely bird just smaller and cuter with anime eyes. Yeah... I really do not like this sort of thing at all.
(DIR) Post #AqUHqAAmXmzscLPlhI by drahardja@sfba.social
2025-01-26T22:13:10Z
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@futurebird That’s AI slop, isn’t it?
(DIR) Post #AqUIcV0SOAVF8CdLBw by sbourne@mastodon.social
2025-01-26T22:21:53Z
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@futurebird They make me feel very queasy. No, I didn't find it "so cute" at all.
(DIR) Post #AqUIiYPEf68rPe6vNQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-26T22:23:02Z
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@sbourne If the owls in the second photo needed to be "improved" what will they do to you and I?
(DIR) Post #AqUL4X00lyuXKQv59c by lynfox@aus.social
2025-01-26T22:49:22Z
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@futurebird Part of the new propaganda... everyone pretty, everyone identical, everyone white. Because you murder anyone who isn't. American CHRISTO-NAZIS at their worst.
(DIR) Post #AqUPqjNiRFRJRrFJfE by bergamlaimerin@muenchen.social
2025-01-26T23:42:54Z
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@futurebird Unluckily I've seen similar pictures at the fediverse, too.Two years ago I might not have recognized the fake (if it is not confronted with the second picture or certain knowledge about how young owls really look like.)Now these pictures leave only a bad taste in my brain.
(DIR) Post #AqUWh8NrKDHJm6gTY0 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-27T00:59:38Z
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@sbourne Can any bird wise person tell me why baby birds have scrabbly gray down?My guess is because they are small and need to stay warm and match the gray scrabbly sticks in their nest. But are there other reasons? Maybe shedding flight feathers and growing wouldn't be energy efficient? So a temporary puff ball of warm down is better?
(DIR) Post #AqUWsHYNZZH1Opv8Nc by cavyherd@wandering.shop
2025-01-27T01:01:33Z
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@futurebird *cough* Disney *cough*
(DIR) Post #AqUWxcW1433drMMQ9Q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-27T01:02:37Z
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@cavyherd yassified owl babies what is it coming to
(DIR) Post #AqUX3h6Aw9OVoOAbiK by davep@infosec.exchange
2025-01-27T01:03:42Z
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@futurebird @sbourne I think it's got to be for the heat retention with their high surface area to volume ratio.
(DIR) Post #AqUXYDNHV5GqbKiz3I by CStamp@mastodon.social
2025-01-27T01:09:12Z
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@futurebird @sbourne "In order to camouflage better, vulnerable baby birds will sport more drab brown and grey coloured plumage."https://www.torontowildlifecentre.com/baby-bird-or-adult/"The woolly structure of down is built up from a tangle of long, soft barbules. Within this matrix, at the microscopic level, air moves slowly. It gets caught up in all those barbules. So air warmed by a bird’s hot little body stays trapped in the down feathers, close to the skin."https://www.scienceofbirds.com/blog/the-parts-of-a-feather-and-how-feathers-work
(DIR) Post #AqUbUVUObkRxRQXWvw by boxofsnoo@social.linux.pizza
2025-01-27T01:53:20Z
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@futurebird ugh those look extremely artificial. The opposite of the beauty of nature.
(DIR) Post #AqUd0V2DvsoJFkBK9Q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-27T02:10:16Z
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@dynamic Is it that the twee cute stuff becomes more noticeable in the context of something not very cute...? Or is there a particular kind of cuteness that has a dark edge to it. I can't really trust that I'm being objective about such things. But, I'll never like anything that "fixes" things in this way.
(DIR) Post #AqUeE29wBiXNhmo6q0 by cavyherd@wandering.shop
2025-01-27T02:23:54Z
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@futurebird Why bother to lie when you can manipulate perception direclty?
(DIR) Post #AqUf9za3vvKgVHfCtM by sbourne@mastodon.social
2025-01-27T02:34:28Z
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@futurebird Not all baby birds have gray down. Red-tailed Hawk hatchlings are pure white, for instance, and are cuter than heck. They get a little dowdy-looking as the contour and flight feathers come in.
(DIR) Post #AqUgMJO0Drg9MHSdqS by sbourne@mastodon.social
2025-01-27T02:43:22Z
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@futurebird Here's a picture of 2 in a nest, probably only a day or two old. You can see part of a parent's huge brown-feathered body on the right.https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Screen-Shot-2021-05-18-at-2.20.37-PM-1280x804.png
(DIR) Post #AqUgcz6is6F1O7KRSy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-01-27T02:50:56Z
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@sbourne This is just devolving into posting cute owls but I don't really care.
(DIR) Post #AqUgkRvk6hZ4o8ki8G by sbourne@mastodon.social
2025-01-27T02:52:09Z
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@futurebird omg!!
(DIR) Post #AqUhbqmKS8NBDkoRdo by frank@f.reun.de
2025-01-27T03:01:04Z
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@futurebird @sbourne Here, on german television, Bob Ross has been broadcasted at 2 or 3 am for decades. Perfect treat when you get home reasonably wasted. 😵💫🎨
(DIR) Post #AqUieRbqaSgnz1i7pw by EricFielding@mastodon.social
2025-01-27T03:13:35Z
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@futurebird @sbourne I did not find the baby owl photo yet, but here is an adult burrowing owl.
(DIR) Post #AqUna175elT6Q525GC by Tooden@aus.social
2025-01-27T04:08:47Z
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@futurebird They put a stupid smile on Eeyore. Seriously?
(DIR) Post #AqUuS1LraOpkWN4pBw by seachanger@alaskan.social
2025-01-27T05:25:46Z
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@futurebird the age of AI animal shots on socials really freaks me out, especially because we’re typically destroying those animals even as people misrepresent them, and then use their false likenesses to manipulate other people