cherry's room

good riddance to the tridactyl mummies + birds i can't find

weather: ☀️ at least there's a breeze
critters: doves and frogs

dr. miano made a video the other day about recent archaeological hoaxes, and the longest sections (timestamped) cover the "tridactyl" "alien" "mummies" and associated "artifacts." (please imagine scornful air quotes and eye rolling.) tl;dw--some guys did some taxidermy on real human remains and tried to pass them off as aliens. these hoaxes were brought to the floor of mexico's congress and treated bizarrely seriously by many non-scientists at the time, despite looking like this. as usual, tabloidism drowned out the actual scientists pointing out the obvious.

then the story receded from public consciousness because that's what happens to nothingburgers when the funding dries up. until dr. miano dredged them from my memory, i'd completely forgotten both the "mummies" and the contempt i felt when i saw their media coverage at the time. there is no high-road way to say this: any adult who was taken in by these hoaxers should be treated as concussed. because the "mummies" look like this. (that's how you look when you're in a k-hole, btw.)

does some responsibility lay with those in power? the evil entities commanding tabloids' marketing departments, the education systems that don't educate, the governments that jumped the gun in a bid for distraction, the social media websites too large to police misinfo? always, but look at it. LOOK AT IT. it's like a flensed piñata. anyone who sincerely believed this was an alien shouldn't be allowed to drive.

anyway, birds that yell at me but won't fucking show themselves:

i know you bitches are out there. i can hear you with my ears but one day i'm gonna see you with my eyes