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madeleine #6>>w>>23105d17908308293 repliesok #confession two days before they banned screenshots of people's Hinge profiles, I saw a guy in a wheelchair, and I did take a lot of screenshots of him and send it to group chats and was like oh my god look at this disabled guy who's on Hinge. Look at his sheivelled legs and giant arms. and then we wondered if his penis worked or not. So I think they did make the right call- atomlib #123>>w>>22549d17905149540 repliesA crow is bathing in the pond. Sunday: all the birds are overfed and sitting lazily in the trees, the park is full of people with cameras, and a saxophonist is playing. Today I bought peanuts in the shell. I think the crows liked them. Since they usually don't eat everything at once, but stash food away instead, in-shell peanuts are also better suited for storage. The biggest advantage is that pigeons can't open them — their beaks aren't built for it. On the other hand, crows have no trouble with the shell.
- atomlib #123>>w>>216618d1789758344I carefully put him on the ground after taking this picture, and I was holding him carefully without hurting the guy. Unfortunately, these occasional captures don't stop either this or the rest of them from attacking my peanut bag and perching on my forearms and palms. I like to think it hurts their self-esteem when I grab them like that, but they clearly have none because they are ready to play tug of war with me when I hold a peanut kernel between my fingers really tight making them put an effort into earning it. And the worst part, I go there to feed hooded crows, not these guys.atomlib #123>>w>>217118d1789758876Birds don't get rabies. In fact, we don't share any infections, viruses, or parasites with pigeons. The most annoying part that can happen is that they step into their own wet fecal matter, then perch on me with all of the consequences. Otherwise, they even never poop on me, they do it on the ground (you can easily tell by the specific tail movements). The only thing I have to do is to wash my hands (including my arms) afterwards, as well as face, and I have to wipe my smartphone with isopropyl alcohol for a good measure if I touched it during my walk.
[deleted]>>w>>218018d1789789589 atomlib #123>>w>>218118d1789789695Essentially, birds' body tempereature is too hot for rabies. It's nice actually: when they perch on your forearm, their feet are hot. I love that feeling. The peanut bandit pigeon (the banded one; you can see him on one of my pictures) growls impatiently when I don't immediately give him peanuts. I might be having him perched on my left forearm and throwing individual peanuts towards crows, and he would see that and make this jealous sound. I really like the guy, the rest aren't like that. I should probably film that, it's really cute. - atomlib #123>>w>>217218d17897589832 repliesJuly 14th, 2026. 75 grams of buckwheat noodles, 200 grams of beef marinated in teriyaki sauce, 2 small onions, 1 yellow bell pepper, 50 grams of frozen vegetable mix (green beans and kidney beans, mini carrots, baby corn, bell pepper, snap peas and green peas), butter, soy sauce, paprika, ground black pepper; 2 eggs. Borodinsky bread, salmon pâté, sausages in pastry (pigs in a blanket), cheese sauce, a tomato. A blin with sweet cottage cheese, mini roll with condensed milk, an apple, an orange. Ivan-chai (fireweed tea; fresh harvest of 2026, Chelyabinsk oblast) with ginger, milk, stevia.
- atomlib #123>>w>>216918d17897585180 repliesI could never understand people who melt over hand-feeding birds. When a flock of feral city pigeons is hungry (which is always), the cheekiest ones hop onto my forearms, eat straight from my bag of peanuts, and constantly get in the way when I'm trying to feed hooded crows. I can't shoo them away or hurt them because I don't want my corvid friends drawing any unnecessary conclusions. If I ever intentionally feed the pigeons, we play a sort of tug-of-war with peanuts: I hold the kernels between my fingers, and the pigeons try to snatch them. https://files.catbox.moe/0oyz0c.webm I noticed that one of the pigeons sitting on my forearm had a mild case of stringfoot. It happens to them fairly often, a lot of pigeons lose toes that way. I grabbed the bird and spent about five minutes trying to untangle the thread. Unfortunately, I wasn't carrying my Leatherman, which has pretty decent scissors (for a multitool, at least). I'll have to put it back in my EDC. On my way home, I was waiting at a traffic light when some random pigeon walked up to me, alone and without the rest of its flock. It gave me a few looks, seemed to recognize me, flew up, and perched on my hand. It didn't stay long once it realized I didn't have any peanuts on me. This was across Lunacharsky Street, so it was actually a little way from Kharitonovsky Garden, where I normally feed the birds.
