No worries. Keep enjoying the owls!

If you haven’t voted in the current Owl of the Year poll, be sure to do that.

Ah. I wasn’t sure what was going on as I didn’t recall seeing your name before, and we are typically very chill here, so I just see some stranger yelling at me and I was very confused.

As long as we’re good, I’m fine. If you can’t because you liked the pic and wanted to participate, that’s all I wanted.

Thank you for taking the time to write that out for me. Between this and absGeekNZ’s reply to another person, I feel I really learned a lot.

As someone who basically knows nothing about this but what is in the article, the Maori sound like they have the right idea to me.

The Maori version of the original treaty seems very generous and would make sense to most people how it was written. How anyone would believe the British version was legitimate unless it was signed under coercion or misrepresentation makes zero sense.

Despite the bill being highly likely to fail, many believe that just by allowing the bill to be tabled in Parliament, the coalition government has ignited dangerous social division.

That they are protesting even though the new bill is unlikely to pass seems very smart, given what is going on in other parts of the world and how manipulation by governments works in history. By entertaining it as any form of reasonable proposal, it gives it credence, no matter how small, and each time it is suggested, it will be normalized a bit more, and they will pick up another supporter here and there until they can pass it.

I enjoyed it as both an opportunity for a laugh and for education! A double dose of owl moments from one comment!

Moments like this always get me torn. Part of me wants to let the joke go, because it’s funny, but the other part that knows a bird don’t burp finds that fact equally as interesting as the joke is funny. 😅

Part of me, as the one hunting for images to share, wishes for new owls all the time, but the personal part of me understands why this person takes so many pics of Hugo!

Hehe I like it!

They are probably my favorite pocket sized owl!

It’s such a cute cross little face!

From my understanding, 14th amendment protections are still being battled over in the courts. Many have sided in favor or sexual orientation or gender being something that should be considered in equal protection of the laws, but some have not, so this will probably be coming to the Supreme Court, especially if the majority in charge of everything see it as an advantageous time to do so.

Agenda 47, the immediate plans for implementing Project 2025, has eliminating gender affirming care as a key priority. More money was spent on anti-trans campaigning than on many other topics combined this election cycle.

In theory, the laws of individual states protecting LGBT people would still apply, but other parts of Agenda 47 call for economically hammering states that try to go against expanded executive power, sounding similar to how the national drinking age was raised by withholding funding for highways.

I think there is a time bomb on these protections right now, and I would be hesitant to count on them for very long. I feel like writing all this makes me sound alarmist, but that is how I feel based on what they’ve been saying and running on these last 8+ years. My best friends are gay, but also public educators. They’re Republican leaning centrists, and don’t seem to be concerned, so I may be off base, but I tend to trust people when they come out in the open as bad people without shame.

Is there something whooshing past me or did you not read the post? 🤔

I’m not sure if anyone has cursed in the comments here before either.

You guys are all so nice! ☺️

It wouldn’t work without all of you being such a great audience! I’m very thankful we all get to have fun together.

Naw, that’s what the small owls are great for. We all have the one corner that isn’t quite square, so nothing quite fits there properly.

That’s where a Little Owl or Pygmy Owl really comes in handy! Just slap one of 2 in there, it fits great, and now that corner of the barn is as properly owled as the others!