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It's inktober time of year again! Going to be animating every day for the 4th year in a row. ✨

Day 01: Dream

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Imagine breaking tree law before paying your workers more :)

Also, there’s a lawyer on Twitter who pointed out that because the trees in question were ficus trees and there are dozens of species of birds (a not-insignificant number of which are endangered or near-endangered species, if I’m not mistaken) that make their nests in ficuses, and that Universal probably didn’t think to look for any nests or birds before they started illegally pruning the trees, they may have also violated the Migratory Birds Treaty Act, which is a federal law, under which they could likely be charged with at least several misdemeanors and possibly even several felonies—namely, disturbing nests and causing damage to live birds, if there were any in the trees at the time—for destroying these birds’ habitats in the process of attempting to break strikers’ resolve. The real kicker? A lot of these crimes under the MBTA are charged per bird that they caused harm to. Given how many ficuses there were along that sidewalk that they illegally pruned and how many species of birds are known to nest in ficuses, the odds that Universal somehow managed to not harm or disrupt any of them are, statistically speaking, incredibly slim.

TL;DR—Universal Studios definitely violated tree laws, which is bad enough for them, and it’s entirely likely that they also violated bird laws in the process, which will really get them into some trouble if the right people go digging.

P.S.—I found the Twitter thread I was talking about again so I could provide a link to it on this post; however, thanks to Muskrat Man running the Bird App into the ground, the original tweeter has aggregators blocked, so in case that link doesn’t work, here’s a link to the TikTok she posted about it which contains the same info!

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some of you can only conceptualize men respecting women as "he gets pegged" and I need you to sit down and think for as long as you need until you figure out why you might think that way. and after that you can either change or you can die