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Because your life doesn’t have enough bears in it.

#grizzly bears #black bears #detroit zoo

The Reptile House at the Detroit Zoo

I see this hide being sold in a lot of pet stores and want to tell you a cautionary tale about it.

Yesterday, our yellow rat snake got herself stuck in the nose hole, mostly because of the little nub you see there. She nosed her way in there because the hole presents as deceptively larger than it is and wound up hurting herself on that little nub trying to work herself free.

We managed to get her out with a considerable amount of Vaseline, but there was some bruising and we were concerned there might be internal bleeding, After a 2 hour round trip to the nearest snake vet, Garza checked out fine, just a bit of scale damage. We were lucky. tl;dr - this hide is dangerous for any snake unless it’s super tiny. Don’t keep it in your baby’s tank once they’ve outgrown it. Even better, don’t buy it if they’re eventually going to outgrow it.

#reptiblr #snake danger #pet snakes

Bear + Cherry Pucker

Me: Honey, why is the TV on?

Bear: I was gonna watch Star Trek, like an hour ago.

Me: How did that work out for you?

Bear: LESLIE ODOM JR'S FACE.

#drunk bear list

Konami code

#soymilk #chicago

Burnt cross This cross took some damage from a large forest fire in 2009. It still stands as strong as ever.

#camp buckhorn #colorado

It's Spock the snake! (And also actual Spock)

This cool as fuck Mastodon skeleton is housed in a Travel center in Wyoming near the Colorado border.

#travel

They were exactly right. We were somewhere in Wyoming, but seriously, not a clue where.

#Fat Dogs #You Are Nowhere #Wyoming

azachofalltrades

Sign I got at a protest last night goes up in front of my house at 2pm ET on July 11. Let’s see how long it takes to get stolen or defaced.

azachofalltrades

July 15th and it’s still there. Honestly, it’s lasted longer than I expected. A nice woman even knocked on my door to ask where she could get one.

#black lives matter

Sign I got at a protest last night goes up in front of my house at 2pm ET on July 11. Let’s see how long it takes to get stolen or defaced.

#black lives matter #blm

wilwheaton

Hypothetically, what would you do if you lived in a swing state, and you desperately don't want to vote for Hillary, but also definitely don't want a Trump presidency?

In that case, I look at the consequences of each outcome, and I vote against the one that I believe is worse.

In that case, I look at Clinton as slightly regressive but mostly status quo, and I look at Trump as an absolute catastrophe at every level.

In this hypothetical case, I would vote for Clinton, because I want the swing state to NOT go to Trump.

Non-hypothetically: while I’m not enthusiastic about Hillary Clinton as president, I know that my real choice will be between her and Trump. In that case, I not only want Trump to lose, I want him to lose in an historic, humiliating, record-breaking landslide, and I want him to take as much of the Republican party down with him as possible.

Today was the day I would write poems and drink wine I got the wine part

#haiku #poetry