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i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

do not taste plants if you don't know what they are

do not identify a fruit as edible just because it tastes sweet

hope you didn't eat any fucking seeds, bro

I saw the photo in my feed and went ohh, dude, no, we do not handle yellow rocks with our bare hands until we know for sure what they are. And I know that orange...

In comments, they continue:

and that's where I started cussing at the computer monitor. But someone else had got there first:

Well, folks, they didn't just do it, they knocked it outta the damn park. @qwertynerd97 did all the coding, @ospreyonthemoon created the line art, and worked on coloring the sprites with @xayazia and @mothzarellaman. And look at this beast!

We started this project March 15th, 2025, and it was finished and open for beta testing starting April 1st, 2026. A year of coding, arting, and rooting around for references and genetics info. A year of collaboration. A year of work and excitement and watching this thing come together!! I didn't want it to be lost to April Fool's Day, because it's actually real!!

We could use some outside help, though. I'm hoping to get people to come USE it, to click all the buttons and see what happens, to see if anything that SHOULD NOT happen does happen. We found what we hope are the majority of the bugs yesterday, but before I hand it over to breeders who will use it to make decisions about their birds, I'd like to see how it handles more people touching it at once, and see if anyone clicking weird combos can do something accidentally.

If you DO get anything weird, please reblog this to add that info (so others can see what's already been reported, too) or PM me with your browser, a description, and a photo if possible, and I'll put it in the issues notes.