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View More Bird is reportedly raising $150 million at $1 billion valuationLime, Bird and Spin have to temporarily remove scooters from SF
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View More Lime, Bird and Spin have to temporarily remove scooters from SFGiant, ominous bird lands on this girl’s shoulders and it’s the most goth thing
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There are plenty of birds out there with brightly colored plumage. Then there are birds who look like they come straight out of an Edgar Allen Poe nightmare.
Twitter user @spreadterror lived up to his name and captured this particular harbinger of doom as it landed on his girlfriend (@ilovenicegrass).
As you can see, this specimen is no tropical beauty. It is ominously perched on her shoulders, like a proper omen of death ought to do.
a bird landed on my girlfriends head pic.twitter.com/RzAEMlqK2N
— 🚧 (@spreadterror) May 20, 2018
that ain’t no bird that is an omen of death https://t.co/D5kdIbfOzl
— 🦇 (@ALSTON2008) May 20, 2018 Read more…
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