depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.socialList of discontinued merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)3/10/25, 11:52 pm·295 reposts·1.4K likes
hobgoblin13.bsky.social@hobgoblin13.bsky.social3 Oct 2025Pigeon raising should 100% still be a badge121
Brianna Chesser@chessercat.bsky.social4 Oct 2025Dear Senator Grassley, I never thought this would happen to me, but15
Amethyst 🦝 jan Amema@amema003.bsky.social31 JanThis is what Isabella Garcia Shapiro gets patches for to this very day
the dumbest boy alive@typicaliconoclast.bsky.social4 Oct 2025disappointed to see “beefarming” meant “bee farming” and not “beef arming”3170
MLEA Prez@mlea-prez.bsky.social4 Oct 2025Obligatory: youtu.be/FQMbXvn2RNI?...youtu.beCows With Guns - The Original AnimationYouTube video by Thermosion2123
Andrew J. Plant 🇨🇦@andrewjplant.bsky.social4 Oct 2025I think they were too hard on invention which managed to produce ten federal patents in six years.138
Brianna Chesser@chessercat.bsky.social4 Oct 2025That’s pretty impressive for a bunch of schoolboys in any time, much less a time when most people didn’t even go to high school, much less college.20
Dimlan@dimlan.bsky.social4 Oct 2025Following an animal around and inventing a thing are equal skills2
tek@teknobarf.bsky.social3 Oct 2025I got the stalking/tracking merit badge when it came back in 2010! Made several casts of animal tracks for it.256
depths of wikipedia@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social4 Oct 2025how does it feel to be a certified stalker!77
Mr. Wikipediovich@wikipediaaddict.bsky.social4 Oct 2025Pigeon Raising was actually mentioned in one of the more modern BSA handbooks, specifically in a passage talking about discontinued merit badges. (Source: I was a Boy Scout in middle school)2
Sara@talkofforever.bsky.social4 Oct 2025The world if Boy Scouts had never discontinued the Invention badge 🫤11
🏳️🌈Real🛠️Time🧙💛🤍💜🖤@realtime.crt.video4 Oct 2025amazing that composite materials continues to stick around
Anne Ominous@anneominous.thephoenixsaga.com4 Oct 2025Now, it's only the scout masters that do stalking prior to teaching the boys about their nut culture.2
Ellen Andersen@ellenandersen.bsky.social4 Oct 2025Kinda interested to know what the 10 patented inventions were…17
Deacon Blues Clues@deaconbluesclues.bsky.social4 Oct 2025laughing my ass off until I got to pigeon raising and then just made a sad little "oh"1
Brianna Chesser@chessercat.bsky.social4 Oct 2025Like Americans need a badge for that. It’s our birthright!7
you love the desert ΘΔ&@kzinssiebroiler.bsky.social4 Oct 2025something terrible must have happened here19
Sippy Would Rather Eat Shit (Buh bye!)@sippycuppsycho.northsky.social4 Oct 2025Yea, the Colt Model 1911 came out.3
Jonesy @therealbk.bsky.social3 Oct 2025who decided to be a giant stick in the mud in 1952? brutal year for stalkers, citrus culturers, taxidermists, and cement heads51127
boredompeejeterson.bsky.social@boredompeejeterson.bsky.social4 Oct 2025Idk but combined they make a decent support mobster4
STEMthebleeding@stemthebleeding.bsky.social4 Oct 2025The "Under God" crowd got control of the government at about the same time.4
Annie@anniew.bsky.social4 Oct 2025Come on, one of those citrus boys might have been behind this attraction...3
Sean H@tlanta-sean.bsky.social3 Oct 2025Man if I was a scout today and received a patent but didn’t get a merit badge I’d be pissed.164
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org3 Oct 2025im an eagle scout (current) - should i patent the invention merit badge, then use my leverage for something something?1127
Sippy Would Rather Eat Shit (Buh bye!)@sippycuppsycho.northsky.social4 Oct 2025To be fair, six years isn't that long to work on a patent, so it's understandable a low number of "boys" met the requirements.
Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli@banditelli.org3 Oct 2025Damn I was in boy scouts in 95 i could have snagged a consumer buying before it was kicked to the curb!6
Vivian (GHOST! SPOOKY 👻🎃)@lilianauwu.bsky.social4 Oct 2025@jnpojuwan.bsky.social that last one is literally you1