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hookem2010

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  1. Ironclad Beetle. They can supposedly survive being run over and going a month without food or water. Another member of their genus is used as living jewelry in the Yucatan.
  2. 'Tis the season for creepy shit. As I was scrolling through my snake pictures, I realized I have collected quite a few arachnid photos as well. Jumping spiders in particular are super cool and really seem to check you out. About time to invest in a macro camera lens. Pictured below are a very large wolf spider, banded fishing spider, yellow garden spider feeding, bold jumping spider and two other jumping spiders I can't ID.
  3. Following up on a previous post, Fox News anchor promotes Covid vaccine, gets death threats from viewers. I am fortunately not subjected to Fox News anymore now that I don't spend time in Texas doctor's lounges, so I don't know what he's like on a daily basis, but Cavuto at least has several instances of demonstrating that he is a sane human. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/27/1049664531/fox-anchor-neil-cavuto-covid-19-vaccine-death-threats?utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews
  4. Collection from Hamilton pool the last several months (using zoomed in phone up to binoculars). Water moccasin ×2, diamondback water snake, blotched water snake, rough green snake and red-striped ribbon snake. I've stepped right over a juvenile water moccasin, and the adults are constantly by the pool, entirely ignoring visitors. Those things "aggressive" reputation is bullshit.
  5. A story in 3 parts. I don't think Donnie has forgiven us for Mango'ing up his golden years.
  6. Covers of the books mentioned above
  7. Bunch of Native American books popping up recently. I've read a bunch of them, and agree that Empire of the Summer Moon was perhaps the best. I recently read 'The Earth is Weeping', which essentially was a summary of all the Indian wars I had read about previously, but consolidated and abridged a bit. Great way to learn about all the western tribes (and how they were routinely, and predictably fucked by the US Govt). The Ice at the End of the World was a great book about Greenland, spanning epic Scandinavian explorers to the present-day scientists giving us a front-row preview of how and why climate change is going to fuck our shit up. Great combination of non-fiction adventure and science. I'm currently reading 'Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art'. It gets a bit dry when talking about stone technology, but the information archaeologists are able to tease out of shattered bones, chipped rocks and ash deposits on rock walls is crazy. I also learned about Bruniquel Cave for the first time. It kind of looks like a Paleolithic Thujone creation, but imagining hominids nearly 10,000 GENERATIONS ago creating something that is clearly symbolic and not simply functional blows my mind. I would love to go back and observe the world 50,000-100,000 years ago, as the Neanderthal, human and insane ice age world collided.
  8. I feel like this is as good a place as any to discuss the biodiversity crisis, as it often overlaps with climate change, although not in this instance. https://www.npr.org/2021/10/22/1048336907/elephants-tuskless-ivory-poaching-africa
  9. It's not really an all-or-none proposition. Even if we don't cap warming at 1.5 degrees C (we won't), it certainly doesn't mean we shouldn't try to prevent 3+ degrees of warming.
  10. Can someone else marry Bezos, take more of his billions, and donate it? We need many more MacKenzie Scott's, since DC clearly isn't going to get it done.
  11. Just stopping by to say Fuck Joe Manchin. The fact that a man who owns coal companies is able to dictate our response to the climate crisis is a fucking travesty. Carbon sequestration ain't gonna do shit for us any time soon, if ever. Go enjoy the fall weather tomorrow. Who knows how many days like it we will have in the coming years.
  12. hookem2010

    OU @ KSU Fox

    This game is great. Either OU loses or we get to beat a top 5 team next week. I love that the KSU curse has been transferred to the sooners.
  13. I missed that one, but already seen too many of those this year.
  14. When they go go to the aerial view on the Oregon-Stanford game, it feels like I'm watching a game filmed in 2001. Looks so shitty
  15. That's true, and it's unsettling. Iowa should win 7-9 games every year, with a final ranking of 15-25, just like the Atlanta Hawks should always lose in round 1 of the playoffs. I feel weird when these things don't happen.
  16. I remember the first time I had to tell someone they were going to lose a limb. Certainly do not remember the last one. (These were due to chronic, controllable illness, not trauma. That would fucking suck.)
  17. My sense of time is all fucked up now. Things that happened the first year of the pandemic seem like years ago. Notable trips or big social events seem like they were a year or two more recent than they actually were. I also feel like I should still be 31 and not 33.
  18. Yikes, that is a tough dude.
  19. In somewhat related news... https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/us/extinct-animals-2021-list-scn-trnd/index.html Most of these species have generally been assumed to have been extinct for a few decades now. CenTex makes the list with a fish. Hawaii's remaining native birds are pretty much fucked thanks to avian malaria, and warming temperatures allowing those mosquitoes to move to higher elevations. It's going to be really surreal watching creatures I've seen vanish entirely during my lifetime.
  20. The massive human suffering is going to be horrible. It also really sucks to lose the things that provide joy. As someone who likes to spend leisure time, hiking, camping and wildlife watching/birding, my favorite activities are going to become a shadow of what they currently are in the not-so-distant future. Fuck...
  21. I just read The Uninhabitable Earth mentioned in the article, as well as The Ice at the End of the World. The latter at least began with tales of Scandinavian and Native badasses making incredible journeys into the interior of the Greenland ice sheet before getting into how fucked we are. Even since I was a kid, I was concerned about the state of the natural world, but some time in the last couple of years, the bleak reality has hit me. The world is only going to become a more difficult, less beautiful place to live for likely all remaining generations of people. We can make it less bad (if climate denying fuckers would get out of the fucking way), but that's the best we can hope for now. Not a pleasant realization as someone with potentially several decades of life ahead of me. Happy Tuesday, everyone!
  22. I had a guest at the park yesterday strike up conversation with me. 50ish year-old white dude in an American muscle shirt with cutoff sleeves. He was being very friendly and asking a lot of questions. He found out that I used to work in medicine, then immediately hit me with "What do you think about HCQ and Ivermectin?" By this time, his wife was interested in the discussion as well. I was so taken aback that he would want to steer the conversation this direction that I instinctively answered immediately and honestly that I didn't think much of them for this illness and that everyone should just get the vaccine. He went on to say that he didn't feel like much was being done to help those who were very sick, to which I responded that hospitals are overwhelmed right now and it's difficult to treat people who are that sick. Shockingly, they were not as eager to talk to me after that and left for another area of the park. The Covid denial shit was bad enough when I was still seeing patients last December. I can't imagine dealing with this shit on a daily basis with the idiots of the north Texas extras, much less still living in sub-40% vaccinated Wise county.
  23. DeMangoion Dobershown thinks the wait for even an 11 AM kick is interminable.
  24. I remember being a 160-pound freshman. Didn't score that much though
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