Gwenocwide :3
Is that when you try to eliminate everyone named Gwen via mass murder, nominal cleansing, and lexical apartheid?
oh fuck
Run for the hills!
🎶 Run forrr your liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife! 🎶
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🎶 Epic Guitar Solo 🎸 🎶
🎶 Drumroll Using 5 Drumsets at Once 🎶
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Don’t worry, the UN will protect you!
North American version is in the picture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggerhead_shrike :)
What do they do!?
some shrikes are also known as butcherbirds because of the habit, particularly of males, of impaling prey onto plant spines within their territories. These larders have multiple functions, attracting females and serving as food stores.
The god in Hyperion is named after that bird. Great scifi classic.
Endymion / Rise of Endymion was a great sequel too
Highly underrated.
And I get why: it’s just totally and completely different but it was still enjoyable on merit.I thought it was even better than the first series. There’s so many neat and unique concepts going on in that book. From the ultra-fast ship that decimates its passengers and then rebuilds them, to the concepts related to the philosophy of Pierre Tielhard DeChardin, it’s a wonderfully thought provoking series all around. The AI and their machinations in that series is the best AI storyline I’ve ever read.
One of the serial killers in Hannibal as well.
Also the name of the guy who ran the gang that Han Solo was in as a kid.
Among the best sci-fi I ever read, incredible.
Oh…
Netflix and dismembering the prey I fucking impaled earlier?
Netflix?
Edit: nvm, I got it.
Unspeakable horrors.
Thats alright we are talking via text.
Actual vlad dracula shit, jesus christ
Thanks to its strong beak, it can tear even the strongest 3-ply toilet paper to shreds if it has been moistened beforehand.
Hide your paper!
I love how you just casually used SCP wiki as a reference.
I was curious if people would notice, and it seems not everyone did. ;) Maybe someone got to be the daily 5,000 for SCP.
Very metal
Oh damn! I thought they only did it with bugs. How TF did that tiny little bird capture and kill a rodent as big as it is? The bird doesn’t even have any talons!
There’s birds native to australia that have the same horrific habit and theyre equally adorable. They also have one of my favourite birdsongs
Butcherbirds are insect eaters for the most part, but will also feed on small lizards and other vertebrates. They get their name from their habit of impaling captured prey on a thorn, tree fork, or crevice. This “larder” is used to support the victim while it is being eaten, to store prey for later consumption, or to attract mates.
or to attract mates.
Like a butterfly collection?
Hearing this made me sad that I don’t get to hear most of the north American song birds. IIRC they were either shot or out competed by European species like starlings or sparrows. 😟
The robins, song sparrow, and chickadee are alive and well in my part of the PNW. Mostly the noise of modern life drowns them out, so you have to know when and where to find them. Song sparrow are super cute and have a great song. I have a couple pairs that live near me. One in my front yard and one in the back. They call back and forth most of the day. It’s wonderful
I love a scifi series called the Hyperion Cantos that has a supernatural creature called the Shrike that impales people on a “time tree” to steal their Entropy. It’s not at all adorable though.
(major death of the author tho, and the 3rd/4th book get pretty problematic)
I only got through the original Hyperion, it had great ideas but boring as hell execution. Anyways I always wanted to know, is the Shrike traveling in time backwards? Isn’t it’s destiny in the past?
Kind of? I think it mostly lives outside of time iirc, but it’s been some…time, since I digested it all. It definitely originated in the future though, you find out in the Endymion books.
It has one mission: to make the human target that is the greatest foe of the machines to show up and kill him/her. And the way is hurting humans in that particular way.
Hey orcas are cute too
“Oi, cunt!”
Songbirds in general can be unexpectedly vicious
That’s the face of a stone cold killer
