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Catoblepas @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Firefly species may blink out as US seeks to list it as endangered for first time
  • Filling your lawn with native plants and making it friendlier to fireflies will go a lot further than buying fireflies to live in an area where they have no habitat to reproduce. If you build rewild it, they will come!

    While you might not want to completely eliminate your lawn, [email protected] is a good resource for ideas on how to rework your lawn to benefit your local wildlife.

  • TIL mass fatality causing "humam stampedes" and "hysterical masses" are myths which shift responsibility from organisers for fatal crowd incidents which "invariably" result from poor organisation
  • I’ve felt the latter at a huge, extremely crowded parade and it was the scariest shit I’ve ever felt. Waves is the right word, because it was like being in a wave pool made of people. Fortunately nothing serious happened, but I have never noped the fuck out of anywhere that fast as soon as we were able to.

  • UFO
  • Really wanting to post this in reply to the guy on my Nextdoor neighborhood who is always posting about UFOs when we live near an active airport and can easily see launches from a nearby AFB, lol

  • After all, how far inland could a hurricane go?
  • Move where? Are you suggesting we just abandon everywhere within hundreds of miles of the coast? People living hundreds of miles inland and not in a flood plain are affected by this as well. Look at an elevation map of North Carolina, and then tell me which side you think would be safer to be on: the side with mountains, or the low lying side by the ocean?

    Because it was the western part of NC that got fucking wrecked. Suggesting that people should have foreseen this as inevitable when they chose to be born into communities that have been in the same place for literally hundreds of years without experiencing floods on this level is unrealistic, as is expecting people to just up and move with money they may not have to places where they have no community.

    Expecting that we can just offload the price of climate disasters on those affected by going "oh well you should have just lived somewhere else" isn't just inhumane, it's ostrich head in sand behavior. Your community isn't safe from climate change, either. You better hope people haven't run out of empathy by the time you or your family need help.

  • After all, how far inland could a hurricane go?
  • “A” town didn’t flood, there’s wreckage across the entire southeast. It’s not because people in the south are too stupid to know where to build, it’s because climate change is making hurricanes stronger further inland, resulting in century and thousand year floods happening.

  • Microblog Memes @lemmy.world Catoblepas @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    After all, how far inland could a hurricane go?

    Source: https://bsky.app/profile/karidru.bsky.social/post/3l5bxb3ze4j2m

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    What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu?
  • For me, hourly movement reminders and medication reminders without having to constantly keep my phone in my pocket has been a godsend. Keeping track of my heart rate (especially while asleep) has also been great for being more aware of when my PTSD symptoms are acting up. I’m also never going back to a sound based alarm instead of a vibrating one, no idea if regular watches have that now too or not.

  • Helene refuses to be CANCELLED by WOKE state of Florida
  • The right also covers for pedos and rapists in their ranks, I’m not taking any lessons about how to behave from them. Anyone who sees a town in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, etc under water or destroyed by tornadoes and thinks “oh boy, time to let people die to punish Republicans!” is an outright freak.

  • Helene refuses to be CANCELLED by WOKE state of Florida
  • Why are you advocating for letting people in states with heavy amounts of voter suppression just die when disasters happen and they don’t have the means to replace the response from the federal government? Like, what do you think is going to happen when resources don’t show up? This isn’t hypothetical, this would kill people. The reason it was bad when Trump did it isn’t because he’s a Republican, it was bad when Trump did it because it’s a hideous, heinous way to respond to human suffering.

  • Embroidery by Dana Weiser at the Sturt Haaga Gallery (more in post)

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    bun sighted

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    Waxwing vs X-wing

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    Microblog Memes @lemmy.world Catoblepas @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Hunter

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    YSK: some common medications can make you more susceptible to heat exhaustion and heat stroke

    Some of the medications include:

    • Antidepressants
    • Antihistamines
    • Stimulants
    • Beta blockers
    • Diuretics
    • ACE inhibitors
    • Thyroid medication
    • Antipsychotics

    Be sure to pay extra attention to any symptoms of heat exhaustion, stay hydrated, and in a cool area indoors when possible during heat waves.

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    Spotted by the bus stop

    Hello, likely other trans person who passed by this spot 👋

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    Purple swamp rule

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    This might be the worst bus stop I've encountered

    Street view from Google Maps:

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    What's the most extravagant thing you've bought for your pet, and do you regret it?

    Inspired by watching my cat lay on her 6' (2 m) tall cat tower and sleep like a baby. Zero regrets, even if it makes us look like insane cat people for having a giant cat tower right in our living room. She lives here, she gets furniture too!

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    No puppies were harmed in this analogy

    Alt text: a post from @lolennui.bsky.social that says: Once my German friend asked what creative people do without arts grants and other support in the US and I felt like a parent trying to explain to their kid that the puppies can die sometimes

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    And they were ROOMMATES!

    Alt text: a post by mephistopheles that says: the wrath of khan is like really insane bc khan is like 'im going to make kirk suffer the way i suffered when my wife died' and then he kills spock

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    I finish so many little tasks this way

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17658187

    > me_irl

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    Weed and furry rule

    Alt text: a one panel comic drawn in the style of The Onion’s Stan Kelley that says “shelter from the storm”; three rain clouds that say “resurgent fascism”, “irreversible climate change”, and “impending economic collapse” are raining on a furry character, who is cheerfully whistling because they have an umbrella labeled “weed and furry porn” that is keeping them dry. Similar to The Onion comics, a smaller character representing the artist is in the corner, saying “weather proof.” The artist is CritterDome

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    Early Morning - Eileen Mayo (1981)

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    newrepublic.com The Real Targets of Project 2025’s War on Porn

    It’s not just about people watching porn. It’s drag queens, trans people, LGBTQ library books, and more.

    The Real Targets of Project 2025’s War on Porn
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    Lestat rule

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    TIL of axanthism, a condition that makes animals that are normally green appear blue due to a lack of yellow pigment

    Photo credit: Matt Minnich

    archive.org link to a news story with more info.

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    July 5th air quality rule

    Image description: an AQI scale that shows “173 - Unhealthy. Air quality index is 173, which is worse than yesterday at about this time.”

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    Block rule

    Image transcription: a post from @xed.bsky.social that says: "i never block anyone" is the social media equivalent of taking floor drugs

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