• Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
    hexbear
    45
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    They heard that the owls support Palestine sadness

    (The real reason is that barred owls are invasive and are pushing out the native owls. It's still pretty sad though because it's not the barred owls fault)

    • NoisyOwl [he/him]
      hexbear
      13
      3 months ago

      Oh no! I decided to use the barred owl as my mascot.

        • NoisyOwl [he/him]
          hexbear
          8
          3 months ago

          Oh, my PFP is just whatever came out of Dall-e when I told it to make me a screaming owl.

          I meant whenever I actually release a game and need an actual studio logo, the barred owl was the most obnoxiously loud owl I could find, so that's what I was planning to use

    • @SSJ2Marx
      hexbear
      7
      3 months ago

      I find it strange that we consider them invasive. If an animal flies from one part of the country to another and sets up shop, that seems like a pretty natural process that shouldn't be interfered with to me (unless maybe a huge truckload of owls was brought out West which started the whole thing I guess).

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
        hexbear
        14
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        Maybe it's more about protecting an endangered owl than the actual invasiveness. Idk, sometimes natural processes fucking sucks. Anyway, humans are a part of nature so if we help out a struggling species, is that not a natural process?

  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]
    hexbear
    31
    3 months ago

    The US sure loves their genocides. I'm hoping for a protracted owl war against the regime. Maybe Dirt_Owl can help set that in motion.

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      24
      3 months ago

      Habitat loss making it harder for native owls to compete against invasive owls, so the US solution is to start killing owls and hope for the best

        • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
          hexbear
          15
          3 months ago

          If

          The plan is to cull 90 percent of the population, so if there are one in ten misidentifications it will be a failure.

          • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
            hexbear
            7
            edit-2
            3 months ago

            It's not hard to properly identify an owl, and they typically hire really good people for that stuff. Source: my [relative] used to work for the forest service as an ornithologist.

            Also: if they accidentally kill some non invasive birds by accident, that's still less destructive than letting the invasive species crowd out the original ecosystem.

            • SpiderFarmer [he/him]
              hexbear
              6
              3 months ago

              Thank god it's not like some fish where half.the juvenile stages look the same.

            • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
              hexbear
              2
              3 months ago

              my [relative] used to work for the forest service as an ornithologist

              This sounds like a betrayal equivalent to if Jane Goodall used her skills to help exterminate a tribe of gorillas

              • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
                hexbear
                2
                edit-2
                3 months ago

                Do you know what the forest service does? They are a conservationist organization within the US government. It's one of the most unambiguously positive parts of the government.

                My relative would tag specimens of protected and endangered species of owls, note their locations, and then prevent loggers from destroying those habitats. [Relative] is a hippie environmentalist, and they literally would not have taken a job that harms animals.

                More info on the forest service PDF download

                Killing invasive species protects countless other species from extinction, so it has to be done. Those invasive species have their own habitat elsewhere, so they're not threatened, and they have to go.

  • Infamousblt [any]
    hexbear
    18
    3 months ago

    Of course the feds are in awe of comrade dirt_owl's power. This is the only thing they know, violence. Dirt_owl if you need refuge this community has your back

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    11
    3 months ago

    So like ther was this one time some mice got into some nuclear waste bags and consumed like Cobolt 60 contamination.

    The the owls got a hold of the mice and the base personnel had to track down the owls because their poo was leaving radioactive waste all over.