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This Blog Is Closing April 2024

I planned on leaving tinysaurus-rex.tumblr.com up despite my inactivity after Rex's passing, but with recent developments regarding the decisions made by the CEO and overall direction of Tumblr, I'm deleting this blog. If you've got any favorite pictures of the late queen or my flock, save them! Keep them for yourself and share them with your friends. Look at them when you're feeling down. This blog will be deleted at the start of April, 8 years after my darling Rex first came into my life.

#rex #pigeon

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I know I already made a post about this. But ICWA is LITERALLY being challenged by a white couple that wants to adopt indigenous children to erase their culture and Christianize them. The tribe, whom has a say in who can take their children, is like "Nah, we don't want our youth Christianized like you tride last time"

And the lawyer that's helping the white couple try to overturn ICWA (so that they can erase the cultures of indigenous children) is doing it pro-bono (which means he's not charging the couple anything).

AND that lawyer is a big time lawyer whose clients are usually oil and gas industries. He's literally fighting for indigenous children to be ripped from their tribes and culture so there's less indigenous people to protest big oil destroying their sacred land.

-fae

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The Supreme Court is to make a ruling that will change the course of the Indian Child Welfare Act, known as ICWA.

Resd more about it here:

video source:

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I haven’t yet seen a tumblr post with these resources so I am making my own and hoping it shows up in the tags. I ASK EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS TO PLEASE REBLOG THIS.

THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT (ICWA) IS UNDER ATTACK. AND WE NEED HELP TO PROTECT IT USING THE RESOURCES BELOW.

I am not going to go into heavy detail on the bill, on its history, anything like that, the resources have a lot of information, but as a little bit of background:

It is a bill passed that forbids Native children from being adopted by non-Native families. This is for a good fucking reason, there have been historically large scoops of children taken from their Native families, at a much higher rate than white children (see the 60s scoop in Canada). These children are often abused in these homes, and their entire culture is taken from them (many end up not even knowing what tribe/nation they came from), hence the point of why they were taken in the first place (forced assimilation). Now, this does still happen through the foster care system, but this has protected in the case of adoption. It makes it that only Native families can adopt Native children.

White people hate this and have been smearing it for years (think of the whole Lexi Choctaw/Alexandria P. situation, which was so fucked how they used that little girl). Now, the state governments of Texas, Louisiana, and Indiana have taken it to the Supreme Court to be ruled unconstitutional. This case is called Haaland v. Brackeen. Because white people … really want to steal Native children. This is being heard by the court, oral arguments start WEDNESDAY. ICWA could be overturned in the matter of weeks or even days.

PLEASE USE ALL OF THESE TO PROTECT ICWA:

Petition that will involve you sending messages to your Congressional leaders through their text automated system, only available to those in the US (BUT NOTE YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A CITIZEN, OR ELIGIBLE TO VOTE TO SIGN, JUST NEED TO BE IN THE US):

https://resist.bot/petitions/PCCPGW 

Petition to send a message to President Biden and leaders at the Department of Justice, this does have a place to put in your country so seems like it may be available for those outside of the US but I am unsure (consider also donating to the Lakota People’s Law Project if you are able to):

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/protect-icwa

Petition to be sent to the Attorney General and Secretary of the Department of the Interior, since it is through change.org it likely can be signed from outside of the US:

https://www.change.org/p/protect-the-indian-child-welfare-act

PLEASE SIGN AS MANY AS YOU ARE ABLE TO. PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU SEE THIS. PLEASE HELP US PROTECT ICWA.

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You will see an uptick in high white birds in the coming generations.

a work in progress! 

I’ve been wanting to draw the pigeons in my neighbourhood for a while. the colours of their flock have shifted a bit over the years - a ton used to have pure white heads, probably due to an escaped purebred who sired a bunch of kids but now I’m seeing less of those, and more white flight feathers.

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proud of u 🎊🏆🐓🎊

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Two years.

#rex

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Just having a normal one. Stuck in traffic with a pigeon in my car.

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Looking for Voiceover help!

Would anyone like to help me by contributing their voice to a project of mine? I’m building a video from the phenocam project I’ve been working on, and I’d love some audio narration from other people to help make it nice.

If you can record audio via your phone or computer and would like to help, I would love to use your voice and credit it in the video! Please fill out the survey and upload your recording if you want to participate!

https://forms.gle/H7USkvZeGB7Lh8QS8

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March 9th, 2021 ACAB

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Blissed out Mugwort!

Happy cuddly baby boy!

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https://discord.gg/pbUfCWchEe

Hey everyone, if you're looking for a place to vibe with others who love pigeons and chat about them, check out our brand spanking new Companion Pigeon Chat server!

#discord #pigeons #pet pigeons #pigeon advocation #pigeon #bataar #gif

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I would argue that the top and bottom pic are equally true. Source: one of my pigeons regularly takes a bath in the poop puddle despite having a perfectly clean bath dish, another one inflates her crop so much that she can't see where she's going and falls behind the dresser, I've been pooped on so many times and have had yet to get sick, and my pigeon recognizes that if she walks on my keyboard while I leave discord open I will see that she's typing random stuff in general and return to my room to praise her for being so adorable.

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It's winter still.

#zarzamora #turkey

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deflation

#bataar #pigeon

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~Be a Flamingo in a flock of Pigeons…and you’ll fit right in!~

I disliked the expression ‘be a flamingo in a flock of pigeons’ as a means to encourage people to be ‘unique’ and stand out.  Personally I think it’s quite insulting to pigeons, and shows that the average person hasn’t had a proper look at a pigeon, or don’t know that fancy and exotic pigeon/dove breeds exist.  Species like the Bleeding Heart, the Victoria Crown and Jambu Fruit dove are all gorgeous and flamboyant examples of the Columbidae species, and easy challengers to the flamingo. 

So I wanted to do a quick little drawing just showing off some of these lovely birds…and a smug flamingo ;)

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Some quick practice with water color. Not bad for my first time playing with these brushes. Tatertot is @ordinaryredtail‘s bird