#Pecking Order

[spartandragon996]

Been having this idea for a meme while rewatching DBZA. Finally took time to make the meme.

[homeofhousechickens]

Smoothie for birds!

[stupidkinbs]

some moodboards i found in my drafts

[savage-rhi]

When your companions start drama at camp after slaying a horde of goblins and you're tired of everyone's shit:

[goldenlaquer]

please order ur ocs by bbgirlness

Yan

Teito

SPM

Hiro

Seiji

[leftminnow]

I got a little drunk the other day and was going back to get wood for a bonfire, but I got distracted by me birds. I was trying to peep the pecking order lol

From right to left we have Barb (bantam), Burr, Doc (brahmas) Rhu (bantam), Basil, Sage, Parsley, and Dill (easter eggers, who I'm 95% sure are all men and will be going to the bachelor pad soon)

I'm a little surprised that Sage and Parsley aren't the highest in the order because they seem more bold than Basil, although they could be putting him next to Rhu because he's a bit of a jerk. I'm not surprised that Burr is in charge with Doc and Barb on either side (my only confirmed ladies)

Once they start laying they're going to be slowly free ranged probably starting in the evening so they'll go back in without to much hunting them down needing to happen. Dill might become a house rooster because he's so sweet and it breaks my heart when he's bullied.

Anyways, this has been chicken hour with minnow, I'll probably post pictures of each bird soon so you can meet the gang :)

[apocalypselog]

Infodump alert

I had a nightmare last night and for some reason this means I am popping out of my social media break to get this off my chest.

We hear a lot about wolf pack dynamics and alpha beta and “that’s not how it really works”... etc etc. It is very interesting but not the point of today’s presentation.

The point is, if you want an example of an unstable “pack” hierarchy based on violence and dominance- the best example is the chicken.

NOW BEFORE YOU LAUGH, I raised chickens for many years as a kid. They are silly little bastards, fluffy and cute, but also cruel and stupid. I know how these babies work (and I’ve had to herd them through the trees back to their coop when they didn’t want to go way too many times). (As a disclaimer, it has been a few years, so I may mix something up- but the meat of this is accurate.)

Let’s take a look at a flock of chickens. Let’s assume they’ve been raised together. So, at some point this flock of silly bastards was a flock of peeping chicks. Picture perfect. Then they start getting feathers, and looking a bit ugly and gangly as they turn into teenagers. This is where the Pecking Order comes in. When they start getting to this age, the chickens start figuring out an internal hierarchy called a Pecking Order. They do this by shows of dominance that basically involved walking up to another chicken, ruffling their feathers, and seeing which one can jump the highest. I’m not joking.

Once the pecking order is established, it defines the life of the flock. Chickens at the bottom of the hierarchy get bullied. Chickens at the top get benefits. Sometimes there will be reshuffling if a chicken challenges another, but it doesn’t happen often.

The pecking order really gets vicious if you introduce new chickens to the flock. When I was a kid and bought new chickens to add to an established flock, we put the new chickens in a coop next to the regular one, so that the chickens could see each other but not interact. This was because if we put them together without giving them time to get used to each other, the new chickens would automatically go to the bottom of the pecking order. The flock might even kill the newcomers if they didn’t have time to get used to each other before figuring out the pecking order.

Tl;dr if you want an abusive pack dynamic then it’s more accurate to base it off of chickens than wolves. Nobody tell Chetney.

[pointedducks]

A panel from pecking order

[somerandomg33k]

Question for Liberals

[willcodehtmlforfood]

"Occasionally, when easyJet is unduly optimistic about the number of “no-shows”, passengers have to be offloaded. The same applies when a flight experiences a “downgauge” to a smaller aircraft than originally planned.

In such cases, European air passengers’ rights rules require the airline to seek volunteers to travel on a later flight in return for a cash payment. If sufficient volunteers cannot be found, easyJet ground staff choose people to offload against their will – but make an exception for customers of the airline’s holiday offshoot."

[tigara666]

The Agency

When I worked for the Danish agency for data supply and infrastructure, I quickly learned that they had a God complex.

They saw certain people as "less than". I was one of those people!

They saw everything in terms of a strict patriarchal hierarchy. They said (often screamed):

Everyone is not equal! Some contribute more than others!

It was always implied, that the person they said that to contributed less than themselves and was therefore less than them and should act like it. They said:

Men contribute more than women!

They believed that men are more contributing to society than women. Men are therefore "more than women". They said:

Science has proven that women can't work with IT!

They want a gender segregated workforce where men and women do not mix and do not/ can not have the same function. Women should only work in traditionally female dominated fields and should not be welcomed anywhere else. They said:

You can't just walse in here and tell us how to do our job! Who the hell do you think you are!?

The Bourgeoisie

In other words I met (was confronted by) the Danish Bourgeoisie and came face to face with all their misogyny, patriarchy, classism and their God complex. They said:

You are nothing! Act like it!

The law of jante (Never think you are someone or something) applies to those of us who are not of their class - but not to them! Especially not men! They said:

This is our house!

This is who we are led by! They are a bunch of sexist, classist bigots with a God complex, seeing themselves as Gods among serfs who are nothing!

Equality

The word that pisses them off is equality. They say:

What is the purpose of equality?

It's a trick question asked in bad faith! But it reveals how to fight them!

[scripture-pictures]

[rochenn]

it's fucking crazy to me how high-ranking obi-wan is during tcw. letting this guy spearhead an ATTACK BATTALION is like handing dwight d eisenhower a rifle and a bangalore and letting him storm the beaches of normandy himself. absolutely batshit INSANE

[stupidkinbs]

i miss having wings. i mean with all the issues with sburb it was one of the few cool things i remember happening.

flying. i vividly remember dave being scared of heights, but, y’know, despite being past him or whatever, i wasn’t. we were honestly pretty different. well, not pretty, but… like, it wasn’t anything major. we still were both raised by bro, we still lived in texas, we still liked apple juice, and we still liked rapping and shit. but there were still little differences—i preferred to stay up later than him. i liked waking up earlier than him. he had shorter hair than me and wore black-tinted shades instead of red tinted ones.

i think i went by a different name later on, but i don’t know what. i was just a bit sick of always being called “the other dave”. technically yeah but it made me not really feel like a separate person. once sburb started in our tls we branched off (although i think there were still differences before that, albeit slight ones as i said before).

the name cassius kind of resonates with me but i dont know if that was it.

[saints-who-never-existed]

[columboscreens]