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Northern Bald Ibis or Hermit Ibis or Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita), family Threskiornithidae, order Pelicaniformes, Morocco

ENDANGERED.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

Grace is living on a planet of toddler sized rocks with twice his strength. If at ANY point he forgets to look where he’s going he is Going Trip Over An Ambassador. Unstoppable force vs. immovable object except Grace is very much stoppable.

Eridians either get used to talking to his shins, craning on their tippy toes to get a good look at his face, or begin forcing him to sit criss-cross applesauce for literally any important meeting. Picture him joining the Erid equivalent of a UN press conference and having to curl up his awkward water body and hug his knees for the whole thing.

He can conceivably be picked up by an alien the size of a hard helmet against his will. He’s surrounded by space roombas with perfect memories and attention spans shorter than his San Francisco classroom who can’t believe he’s incapable of solving complex math in three seconds. He has step stools around his house for them to climb so he can feel like he’s “looking them in the eye” even though Eridians think that’s stupid since they lack both eyes and directional perception.

the idea that a human who has a job and uses their paycheck to buy groceries at the supermarket is an empowered independent agent and a human who gets UBI and uses that money to buy groceries at the supermarket is tragically dependent fundamentally assumes that economies are things that just, like, happen, rather than a vast edifice of human cooperation that results in the existence of money, people willing to pay you it in exchange for labour that can be any number of levels removed from basic sustenance, people who grow food, people who transport the food between where it's grown and where you buy it, people who store it in adequate conditions, people who check it is safe to eat...