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@ladykittiican
My spiritual journey is not as aesthetic as I wish it were. I don't practice as much as I'd like. I'm often disconnected...but I love the full moon nights that I'm present enough to sit down, reflect, and direct my energy into thinking about the path I want to be on. Tonight felt productive and refreshing.
I've been better with furthering my practice these last two years. Working night shift has definitely helped me keep up with my full moon intentions. Since I'm at work I have an abbreviated ritual that has done pretty well so I figured I would share it.
I brew a cup of tea and head outside (usually sitting on the sidewalk where I can see the moon).
I set up my supplies: my travel pouch of gems, feathers and other charms, my "ritual lighter", a piece of paper and a pen. I write down my intentions for the year (which is repeated on my travel pouch) to remind myself what I want to work towards.
I also write down the specific wish for the month. I burn each and breathe deeply as I think about how I will accomplish my intentions.
Afterwards I finish my tea (retaining some in case I need to put out my fire...safety first!) and reflect. Collect the ashes and go back to work.
I would love if anyone else would share their abbreviated, everyday, or mobile practices.
So these family of herons with red crest were in the way and I had to scare the chicks off the road. But not without taking some pictures!
Can anyone tell me these species.
Those beauties are Sand Hill Cranes. ^.^
The Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius barbouri) that we found at Brooker Creek Preserve. It's the second one I've seen there and it was in the same general location (usually right off the side of the boardwalk).
The UF Herpetology Division's Online Guide to FL Snakes: Dusky Pigmy Rattlesnake
What was your college major and which deity(s) do you work with the most?
I’m really curious to see if there’s any correlation. I’ll start:
Multimedia Journalism: Hermes
Art History: Artemis, Persephone, and Hades
Religions and Cultures: Arawn
Writing: Hades
Journalism: Lilith
Journalism : Hel
History and Education: Tyr and Fenrisulfr
Gender studies (after dabbling in astrophysics) : Loki, Freyja, and Thor
English Literature: Njord, Loki, the Morrigan.
Illustration with a minor concentration in Baroque Art History (I’m qualified to wait tables :D), this round it’s Computer Science/Cybersecurity with a focus on Quantum Cryptography: Loki’s family, Odin
Sociology(with a focus in social work): Frigg, Yggdrasil, Freyja, Freyr
Graphic Deisgn: Freyja, Loki, Freyr, and Odin.
Biological and Agricultural Engineering: Cernunnos
Biology/Ecology: Cernunnos and Hecate
Backyard fisherman. :D
#CROW NO
Crow: CROW YES!
It’s actually impossible to measure how many fucks a corvid give because there is no device sensitive enough to register such a tiny amount.
science/animal side of tumblr… explain to me the birb thing
Tail Pulling is a behavior noted in many corvids. The practical application is to create a distraction that will allow the birb to make off with the target’s food. Imagine being in the lunch room and a large fellow has a Twinkie you covet. You can’t just take it from him because he’ll defend his Twinkie. But if you thwap him on the back of his neck and then dash around to snag the Twinkie while he investigates, you stand a decent chance of enjoying spongey goodness. This is basically that in birb form.
Except corvids don’t only do this as a distraction. Sometimes they seem to just being doing it to mess with other animals/birbs. But to use my lunch room analogy, there are times you might thwap someone sneakily on the back of the neck just for amusement. Primates exhibit behavior that appears to be just be annoying other animals for amusement. Given how intelligent crows are, its not unlikely that this is a manifestation of an innate desire to just fuck with someone else for the fun of it. Such as this from the link above:
THANK YOU FOR THE BIRB KNOWLEDGE
BECAUSE IT IS FUN
This speaks to me on a molecular level.
birbs just wanna have fun
Sorry to hijack a little, but to put it bluntly, corvids are also pretty BALSY. They are more than prepared to harass other huge birds of prey which could deal them a lot of damage. There’s plenty of cases of corvids ‘riding’ other birds as well. It’s often to harass the larger bird out of the area, but as @red3blog said, they quite often (in layman’s terms) enjoy fucking shit up for fun.
‘Where the hell is the seatbelt on this thing?’
I mean they deserve a medal for having such huge bird balls imo
Literally no fucks are given by corvids. Ever.
@neurodivergent-crow
I haven’t seen this post in ages but it’s my fave corvid post.
Intelligence is rooted in how much of a dick you can knowingly be.
Stop trying to justify the actions of your bad animal friends with “intelligence” and “gamee culture”. They’re mean and no longer invited to my house parties.
Not that the lack of an invitation would stop them…
A rant on “spider bites” from a spider researcher
Lately, there have been a lot of requests to identify bites. I would like to address a few things about this. Firstly, I am not, nor are any of the members (maybe with an exception or two) medical doctors so I cannot give medical advice. If you or your children are experiencing a severe reaction from a bite please seek medical attention. People have varied reactions to venom, allergies, insect saliva, etc..
With that said, there are a few things to be aware of regarding bites. It is peek bite season. Ticks, chiggers, mosquitoes, biting midges and biting flies love this time of year. Especially in CA, where we’ve had a wet year following severe drought, the wildlife is flourishing. That is good news- however, with that wildlife is also the stuff that loves to bite you.
Most bites can not be diagnosed by looking at the bite alone. This holds true for medical doctors. So, if a medical doctor is quick to say “spider bite” I can almost guarantee they have jumped the gun. Remember, doctors know about as much as the general public does about spiders.
What I lack in medical knowledge I make up for in spider behavior and evolution. All of 42,000 species of spider (with a few exceptions) are venomous. BUT the vast majority of those (very close to 100%) spiders’ venom is completely harmless to us. And even in cases where the venom has the potential to be dangerous (namely in USA the black widow and brown recluse) that potential is grossly blown out of proportion (mostly due to media hype, false information and misdiagnosis).
But my main point is this- spiders have evolved venom to eat their prey. They need it. Venom is energetically costly to make. Much in the same way you need to eat a lot of good food to produce enough energy to get through the day- so does a spider. If all you had to eat was a grape, you wouldn’t go on a marathon run because your body’s functions wouldn’t be up to par. So, they are picky with what they use venom on. Yes, they will use it in rare cases in defense, but its primary purpose is to immobilize insects so they may eat them. They did not evolve venom to bite sleeping mammals. They don’t go around and drop from trees and bite you at picnics. It is most likely that any “spider bite” is something else entirely- probably something a spider eats.
Now do spiders ever bite us? Sure. In rare cases, where they feel threatened, just like any other animal would. But just to put it into perspective- I have literally manhandled thousands of live spiders for my work. I have to agitate them, run them down a racetrack, grab them close-fisted, poke them etc. Out of all of those (poor) thousands of spiders (even including hundreds of more defensive species) I have only been bitten maybe a dozen times. Most of the time, it causes no more than localized itching or sometimes I don’t feel it at all. I actually have been bitten by the New World’s most venomous spider- the Brazilian Wandering Spider- while working in the Amazon. I was a bit nervous as I was in a very remote location and didn’t know how I’d react to the neurotoxin. But all I got was a numb thumb for 6 hours. So, even with that hefty title, and being way more venomous (and aggressive) than a black widow or brown recluse, only 2% of bites even need medical attention. And again, the only reason I was bitten in the first place was because I was provoking the animal.
So, during the spring/summer bite season- next time you see a spider say “thanks for eating all the little shits that make my picnic miserable” :)
(Copied and Pasted from buggirl’s Facebook group: Spiders/Bug Questions with the Buggirl)
Lulu the great horned owl spreads her beautiful wings!
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Just added myself to the lists. Always a safe place here. :)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - Sneak Peek (HD)
That accent... Yes please.
This little loggerhead shrike had guts! Not only did it let me get fairly close, but stared me down the entire time. Then it proceeded to catch a bug and thrash it against the fence. No wonder they're sometimes nicknamed the butcher bird. XD Neat.
When you want to cheer up your coworker but also want to draw an octopus.
(ﾉ⊙ヮ⊙)ﾉ～『✧~*I LOVE DWARVES AND ELVES*~✧』
Pfffft... hehehe
Causes of death in all the Shakespeare plays.
Stabbed takes the lead with 30, followed by 5 beheaded, 4 poisoned, and 3, in an excessive move, are stabbed AND poisoned.
Source.
tag urself i’m lack of sleep
Dismemberment then fire.
Pursued by a bear
Well, that was easy.
You just learned 8 Chinese words in the cutest way possible.
Love this!!
its actually how they come up with the chinese characters, through the actually thing itself
Saving
The Poison Garden
Established in 2005 by the Duchess of Northumberland. The garden contains over 100 deadly and hallucinogenic plants.
’I wondered why so many gardens around the world focused on the healing power of plants rather than their ability to kill… I felt that most children I knew would be more interested in hearing how a plant killed, how long it would take you to die if you ate it and how gruesome and painful the death might be.’
-The Duchess of Northumberland
I want to go!
