Y’all are going camping together and not inviting me. This needs to stop! I want to go toooooooo!!!

  • KuroXppi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    Mao’s four pests 四害 were actually mosquito, rat, fly and owl, but the revolutionary transcribing his directive had only just learnt to write to didn’t know the hanzi for owl and wrote sparrow instead

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      Fun fact, they actually did kill some owls but it caused the dirt population in some areas to explode and caused serious ecological reprocussions