Stuck in Traffic Again

Blog [Blawg, blog] noun, verb, blogged, blogging 1. Extroaordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant 2. {Archaic} distinguished or eminant

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Max level of cuteness overloaded 😍

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What a wiggly strawberry macaroon !

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[notlikingbestgirl]

Taste closed

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Inspector, if you can’t find the murderer I suggest wrapping this up (yea)

[atamajakki]

i would watch an entire show of this

[neverabigshot]

I've never watched detective conan but have no doubt this is better than anything actually scripted

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[mokerjan]

metamorphosis

[speciesofleastconcern]

do you want to know more?

[bogleech]

It’s so sad in “bug ID groups” how often someone shows a spider they already killed “just to be safe,” like, you couldn’t scoop it into a jar until you knew? And there just AREN’T any spiders dangerous enough that you have to kill them first. There is no spider that just up and kills you with a bite. Even the world’s most venomous is only that dangerous if you have an unusual sensitivity to it or a heart condition. Nobody has died of a black widow in decades. People do the same shit with snakes and I do not get it. What do they think will happen if they fail to chop the head off every “deadly” snake they see chilling outside? It’s gonna teleport into their house and murder them? What about all the ones living in the area that they just didn’t happen to see? What’s the difference? Death penalty for daring to accidentally enter a human’s line of sight? “Wehhhhh I have kids and dogs” well maybe you should monitor them when they’re outside if you live where there might be deadly wildlife, genius

[bogleech]

I’ve politely explained the danger level of spiders to probably hundreds of people but never have I just been instablocked for it with no further explanation, that is a new one the hostility in the comments on this is unreal in places and honestly really saddening

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i want actual sources

[bogleech]

http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html

“Almost all brown recluse spider bites heal nicely in two to three months without medical treatment at all. Also the long-term medical outcome is excellent without treatment.”

https://www.poison.org/articles/2012-jun/black-widow-spiders

“Black widow spider bites can be dangerous, especially to young children and elderly people. Hospital treatment is sometimes needed, but fatal bites are rare.”

https://arthropodecology.com/2012/02/15/spiders-do-not-bite/

“Most so-called spider bites are caused by something else.”

https://www.livescience.com/37974-he-surprising-cause-of-most-spider-bites.html

“a national study found that nearly 30 percent of people with skin lesions who said they had a spider bite actually had methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. [other causes included] fleas, bedbugs, and other viral and bacterial infections”

http://spiderbytes.org/2014/02/14/what-happens-when-you-poke-prod-and-pinch-black-widow-spiders-you-might-be-surprised/

“Only when the spiders were being pinched between two fingers (with the mouthparts already positioned right up against their ‘attackers’) did biting start to become a more common, last-resort tactic”

http://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/myth-deadly-australianbrazilian-spiders

“ According to the Australian Museum, the number of human deaths from authentic spider bites of any kind in Australia since 1979 has been zero. “ (this was published before 2016) (this was published in 2016:)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/12/young-man-dies-after-spider-bite-during-australian-bushwalk/

“A 22-year-old man has died after being bitten by a poisonous redback spider … in what is believed to be the country’s first fatality from a spider in almost 40 years. “

[bogleech]

I read somewhere that the reason recluse bites can be bad is because they’re natural carriers of MRSA, is that true? 

Nope! The real truth is that we’re natural carriers of MRSA. The staph bacteria responsible for MRSA already live on basically everybody. There are various reasons they might suddenly cause a rash or a more severe infection, and might do so wherever they get into even the smallest wound. Venom suppresses immune system activity around the bite or sting site, so an envenomated wound is slightly more likely than a normal wound to get infected. The worst proven recluse bites however still only caused maybe a pea-sized scar. People find this super hard to accept, but aaaaaallllll the stories of people losing fingers and arms and huge patches of skin to a recluse spider are completely unconfirmed and probably had nothing to do with a spider at all!

[megallica]

my favorite cereal

[awkwardtypo]

as-seen-on-Tumblr, HELL IS REAL is real

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An Ohio standard, I almost miss seeing it. Maine is billboard free, mostly a good thing of course, for I don't miss seeing lions den or casinos advertised for all over the roadways.

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unpopular opinion

i hate these cookies

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Go fuck yourself, you piece of shit. You’re the reason society is crumbling. In 20 years, New York is going to be a pile of ash and dust because people like you exist. This is why I fucking hate tubmlr.

[mapsontheweb]

Number of Executions by US State Since 1976.

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Always finding more reasons to stay in Maine

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Swiss artist, Heiri Strub (1916-2014) illustration for Hans Christian Andersen’s Das Feuerzeug (The Tinderbox). 1956.

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Kent State University

[tiredtransgal]

“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”

“There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]”

Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

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Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…

[neverabigshot]

Remember when urban outfitters advertised a Kent State t-shirt with red tie-die? Awful. Our culture has signficant and very dangerous pitfalls. I will say, however, the school keeps the event in memory, they have a rememberance every year and information on campus that is accessable all year. So it’s not academia that wants us to forget, but the people who are making school more expensive and less safe. 

[yesterdaysprint]

Hopalong-Freud and Other Modern Literary Characters, Ira Wallach, 1951