kelpmonster.bsky.social
coastal urban ecologist, wildlife-gardening
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Oh great. Another reason to adore SeaWolf. đ
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You forgot the west coast earthquakes!
Plus a really few lovely not-dead-yet volcanoes âŚ
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Monarda = cheery!
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kyute snek
lines make it very hard to track a specific spot to grab - you aim for a stripe and before your hand gets there, the bit of stripe that seems to be stationary just ⌠tapers to a tiny tailtip and disappears
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If you hate summer weather, it might be true?
Fog, fog, cold fog, low clouds & drizzle, fog âŚ
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Yeah, even cow tools are too dangerous in the hands* of sea otters.
*Yes.
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đ¤Ł
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Can he go every day?
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Yeah, OBJECTS harder than a scrubbie pad are Not Allowed in with the sea otters.
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Nobody lost any fingers (while I worked there).
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Staff & vols dove in the âDomeâ tank every day *with sharks*, and not even the visitors worried about the dogfish hurting anyone.
But once in a while someone had to get into the (rather deep) otter tank.
Very rarely, *with* the otters still in there.
We always asked afterwards: âAre you OK?!â
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I worked at an aquarium. Otters with fist-sized *rocks* cause enough problems. Otters with a combination chisel, pry bar, and screw-remover would wreak just outlandishly terrifying â and unpredictable â mayhem.
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Depends on *how* you fed a stingray - do you still have all your fingers?
(Not that it could steal it from you, with those little grinder-y teeth. But theyâre quite good at hoovering up stray pieces of other animals âŚ)
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This is EXACTLY what I keep tryna tell the non-scuba-divers who ask me about sharks!
them: âHave you ever seen a shark?â
me: âNope! I donât think so. But hundreds of them have seen me!â
⌠and my ppl, most of them were dogfish. Seeing them would have made the day way more pleasant.
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If you have any vertical terrain around, âmore scenicâ always means âsteeper.â
Steeper is dangerous-er.
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Washington Trails Association over here in the PNW!
(Including that most deadly national park, the North Cascades NP.)
www.wta.org/go-outside
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Not gleeful. Just trying to show how BAD an idea this is.
With the most likely or the most horrible examples our black-humored little minds can come up with.
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Hey, that cliff right there â itâs durable! And itâs a *much* faster way down âŚ
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Or sent them glissading down Aasgard Pass in the Enchantments in WA.
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Exactly
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When route-finding, AI never takes the bergschrund into consideration.
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â ⌠in early Aprilâ
(when the rotting winter snowpack has sagged and split into a deep crevasse across the width of the pass, and a river of meltwater screams along underneath it - perforce, anything that falls in, the current shoves right underneath the lower snowpack - unreachable till maybe June)
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⌠or âglissade down Aasgard Passâ
(even though the more dangerous route past that one ridge is the one that looks better from above)
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Considering that âshorterâ and âmore scenicâ routes both require *steeper* routes â what taf does AllTrails THINK will happen?!
âShortestâ = âstep off this cliff right above base campâ, doesnât it?
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ty for sharing that
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And here I thought they were in danger from âlawâ âenforcementâ due to asking him ânastyâ (=substantive) questions.
But maybe thatâs a different set of reporters?
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âźď¸ I have found my people!!!
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soooooooo disappointing!
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Iâm stealing âunearned luxury.â I recently got a 2nd passport; I can now 𤯠live & work in a large number of high-income countries, and freely travel almost anywhere.
Why taf?! is that not true for *everybody*?!
Unearned luxury indeed, until free travel actually functions as the human right it is.
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But obeying will not save you. Giving in makes them demand you submit MORE.
No amount of knuckling under is *enough*, and as soon as youâve given up all you can â youâre âdisloyalâ & your âbetrayalâ will earn you worse punishment.
Hiding only postpones the decision.
Resisting is the only option.
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Bastille Day is coming up soon too! July 14.
Just sayinâ.
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peteturner your reply is so perfect I donât even wish I could still edit.
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𤌠Absolutely
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đŤđˇ Yâknow, Bastille Day is coming up real soon here.
Celebrate!
(July 14)
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I had the biggest crush on Hans Blixen.
(Still do.)
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And yes, they kept irrepressibly burbling the same idiot lie even after all the nuke-sec ppl investigated & found nothing & reported it, LOUDLY.
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Came here to say âď¸ this.
It was a blatant, STUPIDLY transparent, obvious lie, all along.
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⌠and being ahead of Sweden took real dedication & hard work!
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This newspaper prints lies:
dude has never focused on ANYTHING outside his own skin in all of recorded history.
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âBecause if I canât harass them, Iâm gonna cut off their finsâ thatâs what they sound like
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But they are completely uninterested in managing & curing cancer, either.
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I donât think the Swedish Academy checks your school grades, though
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Our entirely Croatian exchange student Ivno was transmogrified by high school classmates into the most Victorian-English/ pseudo-Saxon name ever - âIvanhoeâ.
The very Slavic last name got a similarly extreme makeover to âYorkâ.
(Iâve been rolling my eyes for _decades_.)
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bsky.app/profile/jets...
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Jamelle, as usual, brings the 1-paragraph analysis with 20,000 times the insight and accuracy of the 3 alleged thinkers upthread
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⌠a well-deserved medal.
Hey, we can all give the a medal!
Dear Dispatcher, here: đď¸
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Hey! Weâve finally found the leader of Antifa!