• Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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    5 days ago

    Scrolling through the all feed and didn’t realize this was on a birding sub, and I really thought it was going to end with a joke about killing some rare bird species.

    I like this version so much better, it’s so wholesome and makes me want to get into birding

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      4 days ago

      Do iiiitttt!! You don’t need expensive equipment, a decent pair of 8×42 binoculars is enough to get started (I like Bushnell’s). It’s a great way to spend time in nature and it can make such a difference for your mental health. That is, until you run into your first nemesis bird. Then there’s only rage…

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          Basically a bird you’ve been trying to see multiple times but it’s eluded you so far. Other useful terms:

          • Lifer: A specific species of bird you’ve seen for the first time ever
          • Jizz: The bird’s ‘vibe’, if you will. Sometimes you can’t see or hear a bird well enough but you can tell what it is by a combination of factors like the way it flies/moves, its behaviour, location, etc. That’s jizz.
          • Little Brown Jobs/Birds (LBJ/Bs): Lots of birds are small, brown and look very alike. It’s hell to tell some of them apart.
          • Windfucker: this isn’t an actual useful term, it’s the old english name for a kestrel. I just find it very funny.

          Edited to format

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      4 days ago

      i thought it’d be a joke about getting told to go to an abandoned farm & not getting kidnapped, with the punchline being “i would not survive a horror movie”