happybadger [he/him]

With every snake I’ve handled, maybe a dozen species of domestic pets and wild ones, they’ve always been more afraid of me than I am of them. Even the rattlesnakes on hiking trails. One small part of their body is a defensive weapon while I have four limbs and tools. They can’t see well, they’re pretty dumb, and their mouth might not even be large enough to bite me.

They don’t really have mammalian affection but snakes do seek warmth. My chainlink kingsnake was almost 2m long and he wanted nothing more than to hold onto me while I did things. He could have constricted but I wasn’t posing a threat and he was fed regularly on a predictable schedule. On feeding and shedding days I didn’t handle him to minimise that conflict. The reward of having that pet was peaceful coexistence with something I have a mild phobia of and being able to see the behaviours that humanise it. They’re all the fun of an aquarium but you can hold the fish.

Meanwhile my dog: :ecoterrorist:

Ontologically silly-ass

I take pride in poisonin’ myself and my family as much as I poison my land and biosphere.

Do not, my friends, become addicted to genocide. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.

I remember in my fire training being told that it was essentially like dish soap. You’d suffocate if you were in a big cloud of it but actually handling it was so benign that we’d spray it down stormdrains and let kids play in it on family days.

Unlimited Luigi on every 3M employee.

Andor is probably the last Stars War that I’ll watch unless they come out with another one that learns from it. DS9 took Star Treks seriously and the result was a show that has relevant ideas 30 years later. Until Andor, none of the Stars Wars I’ve seen have taken the universe seriously. They’ve expanded on it in unnecessary detail and obsessed over that detail, but intellectually they’ve all felt flat and liberal. Andor spends three episodes showing the Death Star through Foucault and you get one brief shot of it after a full film-length of watching how a gear is made using slave labour. That dialectical materialist analysis of the empire is so much more interesting than any battle or Jedi scene across the whole canon.

What’s your excuse for being this stupid?

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the only candidate who didn’t defend paedophiles

An ex wanted to break up because she was still in love with her ex. Her ex is in prison for decades after going on a rampage against homeless people and critically wounding at least a few. Live happybadger reaction:

seed the habitat that attracts protected native species. In my seed bombs I always include our protected state wildflower and whatever the most productive pollinator plants for that setting are. The more bird species you support, the closer that space comes to being designated a bird sanctuary.

I knew a facebook mod who worked in San Francisco. They made $20/hr in like 2018, not enough to live on in most small cities. Every day they’d be rotated through different queues based on the type of content. A full day of sitting there in the animal abuse queue having to watch thousands of psychopathic videos to find the fraction which violate the terms of service. The next day they’d have to watch 8 hours of cartel executions or war footage or child abuse or Nazi propaganda. Their coworkers would openly use drugs throughout their shift to cope and their level of PTSD from it was comparable to mine working in paramedicine. It’s an absolutely demonic job.

For what it’s worth, they and other livestock love mycelium from culinary species like Pleurotus ostreatus. The substrate is healthy myceliated straw/grain with the complex carbs predigested by the fungi and it has immune system benefits for them: https://openagriculturejournal.com/contents/volumes/V17/e187433152305260/e187433152305260.pdf

My ideal homestead revolves around multi-tiered green recycling using them. The fungi break down the garden waste that the chickens won’t eat, the unproductive mushroom colonies go to the chickens and pigeon towers, the manure and eggshells go into the vermicomposter and garden. Those mushroom colonies are a major cash crop with a myriad of health benefits depending on what you’re growing.

I can’t tell if this manmade horror beyond my comprehension is more of a Warhammer 40k space marine or a Trench Crusade monster.

the person spraying drinking water and carcinogens on their lawn so they can spray piss on it and make green concrete and look like a psychopath to their neighbours

the person allowing dandelions to bring deep soil nutrients to the surface and clover to fix nitrogen in their biodiverse native lawn with natural rain capture features

Art of the deal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_Woman

Deer Woman, sometimes known as the Deer Lady, is a spirit in Native American mythology whose associations and qualities vary, depending on situation and relationships. Generally, however, to men who have harmed women and children, she is vengeful and murderous and known to lure these men to their deaths. She appears as either a beautiful young woman with deer feet or as a deer.

Do NOT trust the flavourdeer. The flavourdeer LIES.