Held Responsible For The Assassination Of A Prominent Diplomat In The Ongoing Negotiations Between Blue

Held responsible for the assassination of a prominent diplomat in the ongoing negotiations between Blue Flycatchers and humans, Kelli Cyornis is currently serving a life sentence at the Hua Mei Ornithopenitentiary. In an attempt to understand I asked him why he would commit such a murder, one that deeply wounded the peace treaty. “████ you, milkmeat. You destroy our land and have the gall to demand answers. Rot.”

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For years diplomatic relations between humankind and the Araçari peoples have been stymied time and again as phrases intended to convey the pleasantness of the weather or beauty of the Araçaran territories inspired immediately negative and often violent response. Thus, it may come as no surprise that comparative ornitholinguiphonologists have discovered the ‘rosetta stone’ of the Araçaran, Tupi, and Portuguese languages was in fact created by a foul-mouthed prankster. Above, a Collared Araçari at the 2010 Accord is aghast at the suggestion her spouse... well, it was bad, trust me.

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real talk though

as a queer latina this orlando shooting has me all fucked up

whenever my ex tried to reassure me about this sort of thing, he would characterize it as a sociological extinction burst. if you don’t want to read through that link, you know how when you’re trying to kick a habit and you do well for a while and then all of a sudden you find yourself wide awake at three in the morning with half a tub of ice cream eaten and fairly well on your way to breaking the guinness record for number of cigarettes smoked simultaneously? that’s an extinction burst, where your body does a last-ditch effort to get you back to doing something you were trying to quit.

i want to believe him. desperately, i want him to be correct and that we as a society just need to push a bit to get through this and we’ll be safe forever.

96 hours before I came out to my mother, Tamara Dominguez was murdered in a church parking lot. She was thrown out of a truck and run over multiple times. Precisely 24 hours after my first dose of HRT, Zella Ziona was shot in the head barely twenty-five miles away from my home. Every other week there is news of yet another murder, another fatal beating, another life ended. and now? five score dead and wounded because we are seen as undeserving of our lives.

i’m fucking terrified. i stay indoors whenever i feel dysphoric, because what if the wrong person sees the same thing i do and i wind up dead in a gutter. i carry these deaths with me because it feels like they will be forgotten, but i’m not strong enough. and i feel like a failure, because the only fitting tribute to lives cut brutally short is to live your own without fear and be the glory they were denied. but all i can find anymore is a hollowness, an empty space where even the fury that has been my guardian throughout life has burnt out. i’m not sure i can even mourn anymore, the flood of death has been so constant for so goddamned long. at what point is enough enough? at what point do we as a society throw out the cigarettes entirely?

and the worst part is, i can’t even give blood in solidarity

Perennial hoodlums, Red-winged Blackbirds have finally broken the Law of Gravity. While it is easy enough to simply grip tightly to their perches from now on in order to prevent slowly drifting away, this remains quite an inconvenience for daily flight as these playful scamps need a crash course in orbital mechanics in order to navigate. Above, a Red-winged Blackbird crawls down a Cattail in order to reach water.

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Large corvids and parrots possess the largest avian brains, harboring the highest absolute numbers of neurons (Fig. 1 D and E and Fig. S4C). Their total numbers of neurons are comparable to those of small monkeys or much larger ungulates (Fig. S5).

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/06/07/1517131113.full

the whole paper is a trip, read it if you’re interested in comparative neurobiology with a focus on avian brain structure. tl:dr is: bird cells are smaller than mammalian cells, and as a consequence can pack in twice to four times as many neurons in the same space. bonus: as avian brains scale up they preferentially devote space to the telencephalon with three times as many neurons proportionally in the pallium as compared against humans and holy fuuuuuuuuuck this is the dopest shit read it read it read it

Moz Crithagra is the mastermind of the Midwinter Coup, an event which nearly led her country to ruin. With the stated goal of responsible stewardship “of birds, by birds, and for birds,” Crigathra’s reign was marked by mass executions of ideological opposition and pogroms of humans unseen since the rule of Jacobin Cuckoos. She is currently serving several hundred life sentences (both concurrent and consecutive) and is ineligible for parole at Hua Mei Ornithopenitentiary.

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