this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
514 points (99.8% liked)

Mildly Interesting

22138 readers
743 users here now

This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don't spam.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

With legs built for speed and power, the Secretary bird hunts snakes by stomping them with a force of 195 Newtons, enough to kill in milliseconds.

Despite their raptor status, they hunt mostly on foot and can walk up to 30 km a day.

all 43 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] SatoruToru@sh.itjust.works 93 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] TRAHR@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 months ago

Aggretsuko!

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

I love the scene where she ax kicks her boss’s desk

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 28 points 3 months ago

Slay, queen 💅

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Divorced bird if I’ve ever seen one

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have never heard of this show. That's a hell of a link.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

it's a hell of a show. highly recommend (not even just for the married birds)

[–] rhythmisaprancer@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Haha this is the first thing I thought of. I didn't know what kind of bird she was tho. FilmCow is great.

[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago
[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago

Please don't encourage

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago
[–] Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Klear@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is that the bird's head looking left?

no its a sad face, but now I can't unsee the bird ):>

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I miss r/divorcedbirds ...

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Be the change you want to see in the world!

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Fighting/Flying

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 14 points 3 months ago

I really want to put an appropriately-sized sunhat on their head :)

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Link to the Wikipedia article. It's a featured article*, and there's a subsection that goes over how the species has recently become endangered.

[–] Cock_Inspecting_Asexual@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the IUCN listed it as vulnerable in 2016 and then endangered in 2020. "As a population, the secretarybird is mainly threatened by loss of habitat due to fragmentation by roads and development and overgrazing of grasslands by livestock." So cars and animal agriculture – both largely unnecessary in modern society – fuck the planet at a micro- and a macroscopic scale. Not surprising, but tragic nonetheless.

brb, i gotta go cry

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

The cruel and helpful birds from Flow!

[–] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's giving "distinguished middle aged woman at an art gallery"

Fuck yea, thats such a vibe

[–] Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Secretary bird doesn't want to be fed. He wants to hunt.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

I’ve had it with these motherfuckin snakes on this motherfuckin string.

He was begging her for it

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This queen should be on the anti "don't tread on me" flag.

"Please tread on me 🥴"

Gaslight, gatekeep, bird boss 💅🏾

[–] anguo@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

I feel I see people mentioning these everywhere after the movie Flow came out.

[–] protist@mander.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

Well apparently they're known to fuck up a king cobra

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Human dinosaur.

[–] Shellbeach@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago