Someone should really do something

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• kora@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  At work, I have built a tool that creates Linux images on demand. Long story short, I decided to give them a human readable alias. Told my colleagues that image aliases are generated from a hand-picked pool of bird names, did not elaborate further

  I am looking forward to see the face of the first person to discover rough-faces-shag or cock-tailed-tyrant :^)

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  • fonix232@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Rough-faced shag? Sounds like an average Friday, innit

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• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Reminds me of when my late FIL happily announced he had seen “some great tits in the garden earlier today”

  I could not contain the giggles and was considered most immature. Everyone else was trying not to laugh as well tho.

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I used to work at a company involved in breast cancer screening, and one of the skills I learned on that job was how to say the word “breast” without giggling. It was a small startup so we had some interesting people, including a woman who, when discussing how the machine worked, would just grab one of her own breasts through her shirt and start poking it.

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  • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sounds like they need to hear a gritty fart

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Somebody is doing something and that something is naming birds awesome names.

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• finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I done had me a case of the hoary puffleg the other night, dagnabbit.

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Chupacabra is a bird?!

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• aeiou@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t forget the Pendulous Tit

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• Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, bird names in Danish (translated to english):

  Sun black (black bird)

  Ice bird (king fisher)

  Red chest

  Perl owl

  Night owl

  Blue chest

  Gray fly snapper

  White chested fly snapper

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s on the list of epstein file distractions. It’s way down there, but don’t worry, it’s on the list.

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• sik0fewl@piefed.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ackshully… https://americanornithology.org/american-ornithological-society-will-change-the-english-names-of-bird-species-named-after-people/

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  • abrake@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hope they change Say’s Phoebe just because it’s annoying to say, no one understands when you say it’s name, it’s name easily leads to confusion.

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• toeblast96@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  bogsucker

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• cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Taxonomists: hold my Astragalus tastybeeriensis

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