I’d say it should be illegal, but I know a certain demographic would take that as a challenge to their freedumbs and put Broadway spotlights in their yard. Because fuck them birds.
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Cake day: June 28th, 2023
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A botany teacher I once had would rub her hands with nettles every morning to help with her arthritis. She said the increased blood flow from the inflammation helped somehow. Reminds me of the people who get stung by bees to help with MS.
They can get “entrapped” in the light and circle a lit building endlessly. It also leads to disorientation and building collisions. And it fucks up their navigation.
https://www.fws.gov/story/threats-birds-collisions-nighttime-lighting
The caption makes me think it’s intended to look like a mushroom doing a dick pic.
As Hakase said, words mean what they are used to mean, so in this case it is either a tidbit of true information or a false, but truth-resembling fact.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid
For further explanation, the suffix “oid” is Latin (borrowed from Greek) for “in the form of” or “in the likeness of,” as in android (man-like) or asteroid (star-like), but it can also mean “pertaining to” as in myeloid cells- cells that come from bone marrow: muelos (marrow) + oid (relating to).
Didgeridoo works as well, not sure which would be better
Huh. I didn’t realize tapeworms could travel outside the digestive tract. Apparently it’s much more common with “pork tapeworm” and this poor guy is thought to have gotten in this situation by eating undercooked pork.
Found the cephalopod