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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You mean this isn’t c/lemmyshitpost?

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Its actually a plane.

[–] doenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CoffeeSoldier@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago

It's sipping.

[–] Fermion@mander.xyz 21 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I'm surprised they have negative bouyancy with all that trapped air in their feathers.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 10 points 2 hours ago

"From a perch, it walks into the water and deliberately submerges, but it cannot defy the laws of specific gravity and walk along the bottom. Undoubtedly when entering the water, it grips with its strong feet, but the method of progression beneath the surface is by swimming, using the wings effectively for "flying" under water. It holds itself down by muscular exertion, with its head well down and its body oblique, its course beneath the surface often revealed by a line of rising bubbles."

[–] Janx@piefed.social 12 points 6 hours ago

That's molten lead. Such is their dedication to fishing...

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 27 points 7 hours ago

This is what I imagine water breathing potions do

[–] Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

It yearns for the algea from long ago, it wants to return

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

Crayfish, on their way out of the water: "Wait, where ya going? We just arrived!"

[–] kubica@fedia.io 16 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago

It's a birb going fishing