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Now I'm getting unsolicited advice on how to kill hornets. Glue traps (one of the sickest, indiscriminate ways to kill small animals), flamethrowers (one of the best ways to destroy my house). Hey guys (they're always guys) – I live in a forest. I can kill a hornet if it's absolutely necessary, but we get along most of the time. If one gets into the house, we catch it in a glass and release it alive. What's wrong with you people.

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The view from the window - a small town somewhere in northern Germany. A collective work (one made the can, another hung it, another scanned it). Pinhole camera from a drink can. ~10 months of exposure, pinhole ~0.3mm, foma paper. #photography #solarigraphy #mastoart .

Hornets are pretty dangerous drinking companions. One of the rules here is to always check whatever you're drinking from. It takes an ambulance about half an hour to get to our place.

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Two European (Vespa crabro) trying to get into our house. A few years ago they managed to gnaw holes in a plastic screen, we've switched to metal and it's holding so far.The good thing is that this year they found a better place for their nest, further away from the house.

On Monday my partner and I had to put down our dearest Luna. She was an 11.5yo lab and beagle mix that had been diagnosed with cancer, hemangiosarcoma, in May after her spleen burst and a splenectomy in late April. This is my first weekend without her, in an empty house (my partner is working). It's really tough. All those small sounds you may not otherwise notice are gone; no more tapping claws on the hardwood, no more collar jingle as they move, etc. She is sorely missed. But at least she's no longer in pain. Hug your animals. #dogsofmastodon #fuckcancer #hugyouranimals

NOT NOW EARTHQUAKE WE ARE HAVING A HURRICANE WAIT YOUR GODDAMN TURN

[Pointing fiercely at wildfires, riots]: AND YOU! FUCK RIGHT OFF

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to remember an ant, a colony member, a sister and a worker: Daffodil the Eastern Black Carpenter Ant. Daffodil loved to explore, she loved to escape and that's how we first got to know her, and suspecting that the same ant was escaping over and over she was given her yellow colors and her name.

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His name was Jamal Khashoggi.
He was a journalist and critic of the Saudi regime.
He was lured to the Saudi embassy in Turkey where he was murdered and dismembered.
The man on whose orders this was done now owns Newcastle United and is about to be feted by the UK government.

#nufc #MNCNEW #Sportswashing

@hannu_ikonen
I'm so sorry. I'm very fortunate not to have any pro-Trump relatives (even though pre-Trump we ran the political spectrum). But I am from a red state, and the country no less. The county where I grew up went for Trump by thirty points or so. I know how agonizing it is.

That said, in some ways it's felt vindicating to see everyone's true character. I now understand a lot of feelings of unease that I couldn't explain and blamed on myself as a kid. Turns out little me was right.

“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”

– Naomi Shulman

so if you ever wonder why the british are so Like That, remember that in the last decade we have had five prime ministers and the objectively least terrible one was the one who actually fucked a pig to get into a posh club

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This cartoon hits hard.

It hits even harder when you notice the 2007 publication date in the lower right corner.

#climate #environment #nature #COP15 #COP27 #sustainability #PredatoryDelay

Chess. A strange game. Right now the only winning move is not to play.

As the knives sharpen around the Luna-25 crash I am reminded of the time NASA crashed into Mars because the metric system was too much for American subcontractors to deal with.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Cli

A late #caturday post but still a caturday post! Whenever I leave home for too long and come back my cat ( @KittyPictures ) grips her paws around my hand in order to prevent me from ever leaving again... She's the cutest and the best :blobcathuggies: :ablobcatheart: #CatsOfMastodon

Interesting!

"I'm trying to log in to my account, and am being rick-rolled. Why?

Tusky [an Android fedi client] does not support usage by accounts on some servers because of their association with hate groups."

github.com/tuskyapp/faq/blob/m

Ok and this is Arturo. He gives a warning bray at 6:40 am and, if I haven’t emerged from the house by 7:00 sharp, a second blast that shakes the walls of the house, so that I make no mistake that certain equines are on the very verge of death by starvation. #asstodon

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