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[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 57 points 2 months ago
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

Is that when you try to eliminate everyone named Gwen via mass murder, nominal cleansing, and lexical apartheid?

[-] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 2 months ago
[-] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago
[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

๐ŸŽถ Run forrr your liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife! ๐ŸŽถ

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿค˜

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

๐ŸŽถ Epic Guitar Solo ๐ŸŽธ ๐ŸŽถ

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

๐ŸŽถ Drumroll Using 5 Drumsets at Once ๐ŸŽถ
๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ๐Ÿช˜๐Ÿช˜๐Ÿช˜๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ›ข๏ธ

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Technically, Nicko McBrain uses ONE drum set the SIZE of five or more separate sets! Anything else would just be silly! ๐Ÿ˜

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Don't worry, the UN will protect you!

[-] x4740N@lemm.ee 44 points 2 months ago

This is a Butcherbird

Sincerely,

An Australian

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 25 points 2 months ago

North American version is in the picture: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loggerhead_shrike :)

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 36 points 2 months ago
[-] salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone 103 points 2 months ago

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.

Wikipedia

[-] inbeesee@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

The god in Hyperion is named after that bird. Great scifi classic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(Simmons_novel)

[-] dorron@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Endymion / Rise of Endymion was a great sequel too

[-] Mac@mander.xyz 7 points 2 months ago

Highly underrated.
And I get why: it's just totally and completely different but it was still enjoyable on merit.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] HaleHirsute@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Among the best sci-fi I ever read, incredible.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Also the name of the guy who ran the gang that Han Solo was in as a kid.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 18 points 2 months ago
[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Netflix and dismembering the prey I fucking impaled earlier?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Netflix?

Edit: nvm, I got it.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 31 points 2 months ago
[-] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Thats alright we are talking via text.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Actual vlad dracula shit, jesus christ

[-] puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 months ago

Thanks to its strong beak, it can tear even the strongest 3-ply toilet paper to shreds if it has been moistened beforehand.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

Hide your paper!

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago
[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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!

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I love how you just casually used SCP wiki as a reference.

[-] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I was curious if people would notice, and it seems not everyone did. ;) Maybe someone got to be the daily 5,000 for SCP.

[-] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl 13 points 2 months ago

or to attract mates.

Like a butterfly collection?

[-] Nach@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago

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. ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ

[-] thisbenzingring 11 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Hatandwatch@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

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)

[-] thisbenzingring 6 points 2 months ago

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?

[-] Hatandwatch@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Hey orcas are cute too

[-] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

โ€œOi, cunt!โ€

[-] Dabundis@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Songbirds in general can be unexpectedly vicious

[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

That's the face of a stone cold killer

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