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welcome to the conkey ride home for thursday, December 9th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today.

Finally, we get some truth from bird truthers. Everything you need to know about the

birds aren't real movement. Plus, New Zealand is banning tobacco completely for the upcoming generations, and Instagram is bringing back the chronological feed, kind of.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Maybe you've stumbled on the Birds Aren't Real movement before.

You've maybe seen some stickers or a t-shirt out in the world or come across one of their posts on social media.

When I first heard about it a couple of years ago, I remember being really into it.

Mostly because I thought wearing a t-shirt that said birds aren't real would be particularly funny given my last name.

I didn't really get it though. Like I read

through everything on their website and felt like they were probably joking, but on the off

chance that they weren't, I didn't really want to support them by buying and wearing a t-shirt.

I also kind of felt like I must be missing something. You know, like everyone else knew who

they were and what it was all about. I kept a tab to their website open in my browser for ages, always meaning to investigate further.

Here's some of how they described their movement on their website.

Quote,

The Birds Aren't Real Movement exists to spread awareness that the U.S. government genocided over 12 billion birds from 1959 to 2001 and replaced these birds with

surveillance drone replicas which still watch us every day. Once a preventative cause,

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