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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · Nov 16

Welcome, nerds. I mostly post memes and complain about plot holes in old scifi TV shows that were filmed on a budget of $35

Star Trek Voyager rewatch: tinyurl.com/murjhrvd
TNG rewatch: tinyurl.com/bdfambp2
Babylon 5 rewatch: tinyurl.com/yc4rhwjt

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · Feb 3

I wonder if there were woke Cardassians, doomscrolling through the Dominion War

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 4h

Confession: I read every single book in The Black Stallion series when I was 10. Walter Farley doesn't have half the horse girl energy as JRR Tolkien.

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 5h

Tolkien was a horse girl:

1. All the horses in LotR have names
2. Some have elaborate backstories
3. The wizard has a ⋆˖⁺‧₊ magical ₊‧⁺˖⋆ horse
4. If we meet a horse in book one, you better believe we’re getting an update on their wellbeing in book 3

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 1d

The plot of the next Simpsons movie should be the kids at Springfield Elementary digging up a time capsule that was buried 40 years ago and realizing they're the same children who buried it because their world hasn't aged in 4 decades.

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 1d

In the criminal justice system, stargate-based offenses are considered especially heinous.

In Area 52, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Stargate SVU. These are their stories?

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 1d

Stargate: SVU

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Jörg Hillebrand @gaghyogi49.bsky.social · 3d

In my 30 years as a #StarTrek researcher, this will forever be one of my coolest finds: This screenshot from #StarTrekTNG's "Qpid" shows both 24th/25th century Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard ⬅️ and 20th/21st century thespian Sir Patrick Stewart ➡️ on screen at the same time. How, you ask? 🧵 1/6

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 2d

To be clear, I don't think this is literally true. I doubt we're doing the WHCD ever again.

Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss, seated with journalism's literati, has the awkward realization at the WH Correspondence Dinner. She and the network executive at her right arm are both dating Black Phillip. The news anchor to her left is also seeing Black Phillip. Everyone in the room is swiping right on Black Phillip.

Black Phillip from the film "The Witch," sometimes also spelled "The VVitch" because it's set in a distant past before the invention of the letter W. Black Phillip is a ebony furred goat with a sinister aura.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 2d

I've read it. There's no mattress or Satan, but I'll admit it's in the ballpark.

Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 3d

The Internet is like radiation exposure: safe only with moderate exposure. That's why everyone who runs a website eventually turns into a villain from Captain Planet.

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 3d

Movie pitch: a group of wizards plan an elaborate heist to steal all the money Lucifer keeps hidden in his mattress

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 3d

Figures that Satan would be a gold standard bro who doesn't believe in bank accounts

A Metal Detectorist Found a Bunch of Ancient Gold Coins. It Turned Out to Be ‘Devil’s Money’

Whoops.

www.popularmechanics.com

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 3d

That same argument could have been used for minstrel shows.

I really don't think there's any excuse for this in 2025 and we should shame people who do it anyway.

Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 3d

I've been reading this comic for a few years now, but I'm blocking this account in a few hours, assuming she doesn't block me first. But for future readers edification, this is Litterbox Comics.

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 3d

Imagine making a Harry Potter comic in 2025.

You're on the Internet. You know that the author is a hateful bigot. But that doesn't bother you. And you're okay with telling everyone that you're fine with transphobia.

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 3d

Comics are weird but they should be WEIRDER

Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 3d

For sure, but if exposure to dangerous waste products causes superpowers, then pigeons and rats should outnumber humans in the superpower community.

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 3d

Shout outs to the city pigeon I saw yesterday drinking from an iridescent pool of oil-slicked rainwater. I hope they remember that with great power comes great responsibility.

Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 3d

According to comic books, getting exposed to toxic/radioactive waste can give you superpowers. By that logic, Marvel and DC should be swarming with superpowered vermin. Rodent supervillains should be robbing cheese factories. A super intelligent pigeon should be in the Justice League.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 4d

I think my friend Io said it best www.etsy.com/listing/1743...

A silver foil sticker featuring a computer with a bunch of arrows in it. The text says "BULTERIAN JIHAD NOW! Send AI to hell. If you make a robot I will kill you"

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 4d

This is objectively the funniest way this franchise could end: running out of gas while flying over a cliff

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 4d

Universal isn’t sure they’ll move forward with the final ‘Fast & Furious’ film unless the budget is dropped

• There’s no approved script

• No set release date

• Most of the cast don’t have deals yet

• Studio wants the budget cut to $200M

• Last film barely turned a profit

(via WSJ)

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 4d

There are a lot of scary things going on right now but we need to talk about how Leonardo DiCaprio is gradually turning into Jack Nicholson

Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another. He looks like Jack Nicholson.

Jack Nicholson in (I think) the Witches of Eastwick. He also looks like Jack Nicholson.

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Birds Are Dinosaurs 🦢=🦖 @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 4d

This site needs a CEO who represents the values of its users. That's why the next CEO needs to be a 40 year old trans black woman whose favorite show is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 4d

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

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