I was walking up a remote wilderness path and I saw the butt end of a bear cub disappear into the brush away from me.

One thing you don’t want to do, is sneak up on a bear cub. Mamma isn’t far. It was a frightening moment.

Daisy Ridley

Because all the reasons.

I know a bit about seagulls, and I assure you….

Seagulls have absolutely no fucks to give.

> Alemi later went onto work as a psychiatrist and was admitted to the Royal College of Psychiatrists after passing the relevant exams using her fake MB ChB qualification.

So, she passed the test to be a Psychiatrist.

See the thing is animals only reproduce when they have the extra energy and drive to do so. The point here is, the sea dragons are happy enough to mate in captivity, and that is the point.

Those…. those arms are trees.

I’ve been to bethel multiple times, not much else to do there.

Edit - skiis for eyelashes?

Looks like a ‘lite brite’ set made out of old aluminum cans.

I was in Iowa for a year once. It was like being in the movie Pleasantville in some creepy ways.

Obviously there are sane people there too, mostly, but there is no shortage whatsoever of this ‘why can’t things be like they used to be’ shit too, and that does include the ugly underbelly of polite, midwest-nice, racism, It’s a fucking weird thing. They don’t say the quiet parts out loud there often unless you sit down over a cup of coffee and get them talking, and eventually it comes out. Words like ‘they’ and ‘different’. I had one lady just getting back from her church explain to me how immigrants had “lower standards of hygiene’ while appearing perfectly polite and smiling. I asked if she has ever met or seen an immigrant and she said no, but had ‘seen stories and talked with people”. She went to college in Iowa in the 70s. Nurse. Anti Vaxer, but not until Covid. Fox News. Straight out of central casting.

It’s not uncommon as a lot of rural places, and I strongly resist putting populations in boxes, but it’s infuriating to see ignorance couched in righteousness up close, and you can see how these people vote. She also blames democrats because a cup of coffee should only cost 25 cents like it used to and doesn’t think the waitress should be asking to make more money. As if the price of coffee and economic issues are caused by waitstaff wanting a raise above $3 an hour and tips measured in pennies and nickels. Pleasantville.