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Just realised the reason there are pigeons everywhere is because they were the pre-industrial comms network. Nature’s telephone boxes.

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  1. Toby@[email protected]

    I had a history teacher who told us the term pigeon English came from trying to teach pigeons English to get news around trenches.

    There was always one person who believed his random “facts”

    February 9, 2026

  2. Chris Armstrong@armstrong

    …and it was always Toby

    February 9, 2026