roadkill freakgirl

char | 23 | botanist | i like possums

[hungwy]

What's up dude you got some time? What are you up to? I saw the status update about your new soundcloud and I gotta say music rots your brain bro gets the chemicals all unnatural back in the cave man days no one cried because there was no music or girlfriends and you would eat mammoth every day because theyre so big you cant miss with your spear and cry about it and when they invented music like singing and drumkits people started missing mammoths and getting girlfriends and writing poetry so you gotta go back to your natural state man I only bathe using bottled water necause thats stuffs from glaciers except one time I had to use Fiji and it messed up my hair texture for 4 days and I had to use tree sap to get the right stickiness back. But yeah ever since I stopped listening to music my brain chems have mellowed out and I have a very low tolerance for bird song but I really like wolf howling and cow moos since theyre just so classic you know but i cant really drink cow milk since I'm lactose intolerant after I got a minor surgery and the antibiotics destroyed my gut flora so i ate plain yogurt for half a year every day but back in the cave man days they didnt have yogurt or milk usually I think so its for the best and besides if they didnt like birds noises theyd just eat the birds, sort of like old school tiny pretzel bags you know?. But yeah music will Kill you dude at most I'll do tame impala but thats because my mom would play that at me in the womb so its sort of a primordial emotion and not really music especially on vinyl but I haven't owned a record player the last few months since I sold it to buy another pair of japanese denim jeans with that antibacterial indigo dye, recently ive only been wearing denim since I dont have to wash it since the smell of laundry detergent kinda gets me in a trance state like I swear there are like those funguses growing in some of my clothes but I think I got used to them and its kind of cute thinking that I'm warming them up but its too early to be a dad or a pet owner like thats more responsibility than anyone can handle so if the fungus dies off I'll try not to let it bother me. But don't mess with music man I swear try listening to some songs backwards you'll know what I mean, none of it will make sense

[scavengedluxury]

Salvation Army Citadel. Sheffield, June 2015.

[fus-mar-hoz]

seeing posts today on the occasion of the divergence point of 17776 being today, and getting mildly annoyed that whenever the aftermath of that divergence is mentioned, people only talk about playing yank football forever. maybe I'm too yankphobic for it but the most suggestive parts of the duology to me was every time that Jon Bois mentions something in the world that isn't yank football. It is clear that it is a global phenomenon, and the text says multiple times how even in the US the people who choose to play the infinite variations on yank football are a minority of the total population. what makes the story viably approachable is that these sentient satellites only really care about yank football. But we're talking about 15 thousand 7 hundred and fifty years after today. The best thing about 17776 is how it invites you to consider everything that isn't yank football. The bit about that group of people going down the US in strips to see literally everything an everyone could have its own 17776 written about it. There is literally the rest of the world to ponder about. Yet all you people remember about 17776 is the yank football

[glavilio]

so thank you to hungryroot for sponsoring this video as we deep dive into the obscure origin of a peasent-dish-turned-fast-food phenomenon and make the original honey busterd pickled sea fuck meal. this time on tasting history

[emtropi]

the alien when it bursts out of someone‘s chest:

[genderoutlaws]

An abandoned theater in Rochester, New York. Formerly a pornographic theater, then just a facade after the Walgreens next door gutted it to use as a warehouse. The Walgreens with it's shampoo and baby formula and half of the store locked in cages; the contradictions stare into you. You go because it is the nearest pharmacy, close in walking distance for you and your disabled loved ones.

The Walgreens shuts down and it too, is now just a vacant facade, next to a vacant facade. You stare into the large windows meant to advertise it's contents, now only showcasing absence. A wide open space with torn up floors. You think about how perfect the location could be for low income housing, for squatting, for anything other than standing as a constant reminder of the city's failures to her people. The parking lot is empty, save for the occasional cop car, to ensure no one uses the lot or the building for anything at all. The cop ensures the space will stay as useless as himself.

They add letters to the theater's marquee; a reminder and encouragement of surveillance. "If you see something, say something. In progress call 911, over and done call 311." They board up the doors, ensuring that the space will stay in it's intended form: empty, useless, an eyesore that reminds everyone of their place. The freshly boarded up door has been emblazoned with a message from those who lack.

"A man would shelter, if he could / in the nook behind this new plywood / the building, abandoned / the man is too / how I wish you'd imagine / that it were you."

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[dragongirlknot]

this is one of those videos I decided to download and save so I can find it again in case this post ever disappears

[in-candescent-ruins]

guy who has listened to 10 mountain goats songs: you have to check out cry for judas

guy who has listened to 100 mountain goats songs: you have to check out four new trees, which was never released and only leaked onto the internet in 2007 without jd’s permission, and has to be manually pitch corrected to hear properly

guy who has listened to 1000 mountain goats songs: you have to check out cry for judas

[bogleech]

Mosquitoes actually are not replaceable in any ecosystem that naturally has them and that includes replacing them with any of the non biting species because these are the traits that make them so core to food webs:

Tiny

Can use every single pool of moisture to raise generations no matter how dirty and stagnant and low in oxygen

Can fly

Males get by on just sugars

Females take protein from larger animals to manufacture thousands more eggs

All these things combined allow thst ecosystem to make huge volumes of insects from conditions barren to most other macroscopic life. You might think there are other insects that seem to make huge massive swarms out of nothing but there's really nothing that hits all the same qualities *except other insects that also suck blood.*

It's the precise combo of being able to "prey" on things millions of times larger and breed in nothing but a few drops of filthy rainwater or the moisture in a rotten log. That's the most efficient combination for anything that size to multiply that rapidly where nothing else can even survive, except of course the things that can move in because they eat them :)

[bogleech]

A lot of people ask "could they just not be itchy though?" and I regret to inform that isn't actually their doing, there's no evolutionary advantage to making you itchy. That's your own body detecting the intrusion of another creature's saliva into your skin, where it doesn't belong, and reacting with histamines.

If you've ever been bit hard enough by a cat, dog or even human you may notice a similar effect!

[kyanve]

I remember having a conversation with someone about my hummingbird banding volunteering and how the data went toward support for conservation efforts among other things.

They were all for that, and loved hummingbirds and supported it!

And made a quip about how the only thing they wanted to see extinct were mosquitoes and small biting insects/fruit flies.

40 to 60% of a hummingbird’s diet, and their main source of other nutrients, is small, soft bodied insects.

Including mosquitoes and fruit flies.

They had a massive struggle not wanting to accept that no fruit flies and mosquitoes = no hummingbirds.

[headspace-hotel]

Bluebirds also eat tons of mosquitoes!

[bogleech]

I've also added this on other big threads about this topic but I should add it here: Being INCREDIBLY OBNOXIOUS to larger animals, even when they aren't spreading any pathogens (and again, most mosquitoes don't!) actually is another vital purpose. Ecosystems need biting and stinging things to keep big, stompy, hungry beasts from getting too cozy. Mammals are the most resource-hogging animals in almost any biome but parasites can inhibit their growth a little (a good thing), discourage them from spending as much time in the same area or ward them away from whole areas to begin with. Mosquitoes in particular breed in filthy, stagnant bacteria-rich water. You know what leaves behind conditions like that? ANIMALS! Animals eating all the plants, wallowing in the mud and shitting everywhere! A herd of ungulates can turn a lush and healthy marsh into just a cesspit if nothing stops them. But it's mosquitoes that find a cesspit an appealing nursery. And then you get a cloud of mosquitoes so dense that the ungulates move on! There used to be a great BBC documentary that actually showed "mosquito season" driving a mass migration of African megafauna but the shittified search engines right now are only showing me articles about mosquito control no matter how I try to find this again, gee thanks, maybe someone else can find it? So while the "mosquitoes are bad" all the big animals leave for months. Months of the plants growing back, months of the water clearing up until it's drinkable again (and the mosquito larvae themselves are filter feeders!), months of the mosquitoes becoming food for tiny birds and lizards and arachnids and amphibians, and the beautiful wetland is back again strong enough to survive the repeat of that cycle the next year. Everything you hate in nature - the ticks, the territorial wasps, the stinging plants - are pretty much nature's immune system. Obviously this doesn't mean the big mammals are "bad" either. The cycles of destruction are themselves also something ecosystems come to rely on as a regulatory force :)

[fangs-4-fags]

rolling snake eyes is a bad thing. being a snake in the grass is a bad thing. being cold-blooded is a bad thing. the english language is so fucking hostile for snakes why do you hate us so bad

[fangs-4-fags]

NOT TO MENTION snake oil salesmen are famously sketchy. why do you hate our oils

[fangs-4-fags]

really funny character concept i will definitely be using some day: oil salesman who is a snake. introduced as a snake oil salesman

[fangs-4-fags]

he's a painfully honest and sincere oil salesman. he's not selling miracle cures he's telling you exactly what it is. and what it is, is oil. he's got olive oil coconut oil corn oil. every kind of oil you can think of

[mogwaipoet]

This game, about listing as many animals as you can, is shockingly well-considered and polished for such an apparent shitpost of a game idea

hot new brain workout

[jarfieid]

[superchat]

[throathole]

Oh thanks but what the fuck does any of that mean

[throathole]

You have to be fucking kidding me. These are all Dr Seuss words. You’re communicating with me from the Dr Seuss dimension.

[spacefroggoo]

[hbmmaster]

Who says the th in thin vs then differently?

everyone I think

[janmisali]

do you pronounce the th in thin and then differently

yes

no (I think I don't but I can't be bothered to check)

no (I actually checked and they are not different. they sound exactly the same.

[show results]

Voting ended onJan 21

[janmisali]

for the record if you picked no I expect you to prove it. it is more likely that you don't know what "pronouncing things differently" means than it is that you actually say them the same way

[janmisali]

surprising number of people in the notes saying things like "yeah they're the same, my tongue is in the same position for both of them" which is wild because I've been assuming that most people are aware that there are other muscles involved in speaking besides the tongue

[alcnfr]

Assorted Chipping Sparrows (Spizella passerina) enjoying Feeder City on this gray afternoon.