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(DIR) Post #AsDxRgXIUEBBchi14q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-19T20:53:30Z
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Sometimes I contemplate the merits of maybe having something like a "thinking license"(Via tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/despazito/777746442614865920?source=share)
(DIR) Post #AsDxdqulj0y5HqUPLM by aprilfollies@mastodon.online
2025-03-19T20:55:39Z
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@futurebird And what’s worse is that once they get these wrong models in their heads, it’s really hard to teach them otherwise.
(DIR) Post #AsDxspfedDsDlzYxGK by jasonb@sigmoid.social
2025-03-19T20:58:21Z
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@futurebird Wasn't there an episode of All in the Family where they did that to figure out the sex of the Gloria's baby?As I recall it didn't work then either.
(DIR) Post #AsDyIWvKxHx19w9TN2 by quinn@social.circl.lu
2025-03-19T21:03:00Z
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@futurebird I....Wow. The world is certainly full of things.
(DIR) Post #AsDyPxR8mMiNPmZMo4 by btuftin@social.coop
2025-03-19T21:04:19Z
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@futurebird Sexing animals is _nothing_! This lady explains how you can determine the gender of a body in an unmarked grave! "While you are standing in the center of the suspected gravesite, balance the handle of one of the rods on your index finger, hold the rod straight down. The rod will begin making a circular motion. The rod will then rotate counterclockwise for the male, and rotate clockwise for a female."http://jayhistoricalsociety.org/pioneerstories/Dowsing_for_Unmarked_Graves_by_Linda_Faye_Nelson.pdf
(DIR) Post #AsDzmDIaaJsqw2kIka by LightFIAR@med-mastodon.com
2025-03-19T21:19:32Z
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@futurebird Ha! Try that with some gender queer birds! Like white throated sparrows!https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-backyard-bird-offers-a-new-way-of-thinking-about-sexes/
(DIR) Post #AsE0OVRXZZdKDHByIS by andrewt@mathstodon.xyz
2025-03-19T21:26:27Z
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@futurebird of course you have to get a non binary person to hold the bird or else it'll throw the result off
(DIR) Post #AsE30Uhkxyympr1EOG by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
2025-03-19T21:55:48Z
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@futurebird I think the thing that hurts my brain the most is they called a con artist "scientist."
(DIR) Post #AsE50BErXZeWN3TwZs by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-19T22:18:07Z
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please I don't want to go into a new version of "the dark ages" that is more like the imagined version of the dark ages than the dark ages ever were.
(DIR) Post #AsE5pmE5mUpHr2j00e by Dervishpi@mastodon.social
2025-03-19T22:27:27Z
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@futurebird Why not get a more direct reading with dowsing rods? Haruspexy (with a trained anatomist) is guaranteed to work. ;)
(DIR) Post #AsE5v64xOfbCsGzMaO by indigoparadox@mastodon.social
2025-03-19T22:28:26Z
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@futurebird This is stupid. It's really easy to tell if your bird is a girl: she's wearing a bow. Anything wearing a bow is a girl. We learned this with Ms Pac-Man.
(DIR) Post #AsE6hA63lJ93EeQK24 by veronica@mastodon.online
2025-03-19T22:37:06Z
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@futurebird When I was a kid, my grandad told me that they hired a guy to find ground water on their property by dowsing so they could dig the well for their new house. This was back in the 50s. My grandad was skeptical, but it did actually work.When i got older, I realised that the house is on the slope of a mountain, so there is probably ground water pretty much everywhere on that property. I bet that guy they hired knew that too!
(DIR) Post #AsE6qwVt7Tsc0FAVQO by katzenberger@mastodon.de
2025-03-19T22:38:52Z
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@futurebird Same bird, same hand, same pendulum, but different result. 🤔
(DIR) Post #AsE6uSOJ3VLZjrIWsC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-19T22:39:30Z
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@katzenberger gender fluid bird obviously
(DIR) Post #AsE71ncYWQ69boSpkm by WhiteCatTamer@mastodon.online
2025-03-19T22:40:50Z
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@futurebird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_phenomenon?wprov=sfti1
(DIR) Post #AsE7J7PaC3sBuaeddo by lauxmyth@mastodon.online
2025-03-19T22:43:56Z
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@futurebird The wild bogus text does not even agree with the diagrams shown. Poor love bird is suspicious of this stupid stuff … cuz birds are smart.
(DIR) Post #AsEAWzJhO2HAirCuuW by jgamble@fosstodon.org
2025-03-19T23:20:05Z
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@futurebird And of course it's an established "technique"."Bouly claimed to be able to detect unexploded ordnance from WW1 and also to detect molecular changes in laboratory experiments. He was the founder at Lille in 1929 of the Association of the Friends of Radiesthesia (Association des Amis de la Radiesthésie)."https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiesthesia
(DIR) Post #AsECHgQnWJ9NiNMF5E by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-19T23:39:38Z
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@N3VEM @veronica Hiring a dowser to seed my random number generator and wondering why they are so mad at me.
(DIR) Post #AsECUZR6q39RmieGzw by Jon_Kramer@mastodon.social
2025-03-19T23:42:04Z
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@futurebird @N3VEM @veronica He thought you meant the Fetlife 'dowser'?
(DIR) Post #AsECjKGnVba15hrSSW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-03-19T23:44:46Z
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@Jon_Kramer @N3VEM @veronica I do not know what that is and I think I do not want to find out.
(DIR) Post #AsECt2ozEkcrs4UGKO by Jon_Kramer@mastodon.social
2025-03-19T23:46:29Z
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@futurebird @N3VEM @veronica I don't actually know if it is a thing, but sure sounds like it could be, and even if not on Fetlife, there is still rule 34. :)
(DIR) Post #AsEa2ZNVNXL0cFMfxI by argonaut@mastodon.social
2025-03-20T04:05:54Z
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@futurebird a “they’re/their/there” scan can always be a good proxy
(DIR) Post #AsG8RzYklUN0egsbfE by ghosttie@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-03-20T22:06:11Z
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@futurebird the dork ages
(DIR) Post #AsGAndJkLBplx5J7x2 by octorine@fosstodon.org
2025-03-20T22:32:31Z
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@futurebird The whole time I was reading this, I was trying to figure out what the horrible pun at the end was going to be.
(DIR) Post #AsGBG4GVk7n1daLwAq by thefathippy@mastodon.world
2025-03-20T22:37:33Z
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@futurebird As kids/teens, we used that scientific method to determine not only the sexes, but the order and number of children we would have. My great grandmother swore it worked. She was far from alone in that view. In a shocking twist, her soothsexing was incorrect.
(DIR) Post #AsGFfsnnNvFxQmUDui by Oggie@woof.group
2025-03-20T23:27:06Z
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@futurebird Complete random thing, and I am not a crazy person- this works*!*Okay, so obviously as written fuck no. But sexing a bird is -super hard - for some species, but people get really good at it creepily fast, and can't explain -why- they are good (gestalt of incredibly minor signifiers), so they will, basically, 'know' with great (85%+) reliability. The weird string thing is just subconscious expression, easy to do. The crutch of a ritual helps it to be more easily expressed.
(DIR) Post #AsGItB8wnttXwTPaKG by soejubunyip@jauntygoat.net
2025-03-21T00:03:04Z
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@futurebird the way things are going, those who get to hand out thinking licences would hand them out to their influencer friends. Scientists and researchers would be left begging. And the wrong views would get your licence revoked.
(DIR) Post #AsH4BBB86iVp6qW9fk by fishidwardrobe@social.tchncs.de
2025-03-21T08:28:18Z
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@futurebird I have an odd perspective on this: the problem is pretending that it's science.It's magic. Admit it's magic, not science, and I'm fine with it. Pretending it's science is assigning it a reputation for accuracy that it doesn't deserve. Does it really matter if we call a girl parrot "Bobby"? It does not. So using magic is fine here. As is flipping a coin.
(DIR) Post #AsHDIB6jfVD6VJsHCq by MennoWolff@ohai.social
2025-03-21T10:35:09Z
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@futurebird There's another scientific name for this type of activity: Excrementum Tauri.
(DIR) Post #AsHRgtUtg9LmU6r65w by ratel@mastodon.social
2025-03-21T13:16:30Z
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@futurebird Did that on my poop and it actually works.