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For all your owl related needs!

  • Why and how do you lemmyscroll(or fedi-interact in general)?

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  • I use Summit on mobile because the dev included all my feature requests, so it's an app built for me, at least for the features I use. They're a very active developer, and it will hopefully stick around for a long time. On a real computer, I just use the plain website. I do most of my stuff on mobile so I can save drafts. I prep most of my posts ahead of time and I tend to write long things.

    I've stuck with lemmy.world because they're big. I don't want my stuff to just up and disappear one day. I've got a lot invested here, content wise, and the .world admin have been really nice to me in the handful of times I've interacted with them and they've supported me in my real life activities pertaining to wildlife.

    I'm primarily here to post owl related educational content and animal rehab stories. It started out of curiosity and now thanks to regularly posting here, I became a rehab volunteer last year.

    I'll also post to news and politics posts if I feel I have something useful to add, but with world events getting worse, those communities get a bit too angry sometimes and I stay out.

    When I don't have owl questions to answer, I scroll by Top 6 Hours so there's a chance people will still reply to my comments. I ignore the ragebait and find I still get juuuust enough content I don't feel oversaturated.

  • Peregrine falcons drawing crowds to church towers and buildings

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  • Always happy to see raptor numbers increasing!

    It seems England is starting to address the issues with rodenticide, and having people get excited over seeing raptors return is the perfect way to continue these positive trends.

    Peregrines are beautiful little birds, and the fastest thing alive!

  • For Americans who still use cash, what's the highest bill denomination you commonly use?

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  • It is her sole occupation so it does need to cover everything! Support the arts, people!

  • For Americans who still use cash, what's the highest bill denomination you commonly use?

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  • She is good, but it's for like 2 or 3 months, not each lesson 😄

  • For Americans who still use cash, what's the highest bill denomination you commonly use?

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  • I don't use much cash, so I end up with 20s from the ATM when I do need cash. When I receive cash it's usually other people's ATM 20s or hundreds they can't get rid of. I hang on to the hundreds until it's time to pay my piano teacher.

  • Animals @lemmy.world
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    The Lunch Thief

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    Rufous-bellied Niltava

  • Animals @lemmy.world
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    A Precious Porcupette

  • Animals @lemmy.world
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    Snack Time for Baby Pangolin

  • How are you doing?

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  • I've got an exciting week going on.

    Got to work with some great animals today. I gave a baby squirrel a bubble bath. I fed and cleaned a diamondback terrapin. Got to feed 3 young owls and a Red-shouldered hawk.

    Afterwards I went out for a belated birthday lunch with my favorite clinic coworker. She got super sick on her real birthday, so I took her out for lunch today. We don't normally get too much time to talk at the clinic, so we ended up having out for 4 hours.

    Came home and replaced my ancient router. Got a Flint 2 and flashed it with OpenWRT. My old one lasted me 10 years when I looked it up, so I got my money's worth out of that one. I've been having to reset it every day or so.

    Made homemade curry udon (made the noodles and curry from scratch). Super tasty. I love the texture of homemade noodles.

    Going for a quick getaway for 3 days. I usually plan trips, but the wife is spearheading this one, so I'm curious to see what she has planned.

    I got 3 new CPAP masks coming to try. Very exciting! 😄 Trying to improve my nasal breathing and mask leak is driving my nuts with my full face mask.

    And then next weekend is the clinic's open house event. I have 2 tables I'm running. My owl table will have life sized replicas of all 8 owls of our state. I made plushies of the 2 most common owls. They are approximately life sized premade plushies I got, and I opened them up and stuffed them with beans to bring them to their correct weights. People can hold them since they can't touch our animals. I'm also doing a table on DIY animal houses for people's yards. It's going to be a stressful fun, as it's freaking with privacy 2000 strangers, but I love teaching people about our wild pals, and it will raise a heap of money for our center.

    So a lot going on, but all things I actually enjoy for the most part. I've been having a fairly difficult year, so I'm really looking forward to a big block of fun.

  • Animals @lemmy.world
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    Dipper and Mabel, Leucistic Whitetail Deer

  • What are your favorite fun facts about animals?

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  • That's why that's just fantasy 😄

  • What are your favorite fun facts about animals?

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  • You can see a good portion of the back of many owls' eyes if you look in their ears.

  • What are your favorite fun facts about animals?

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  • And one arm is used especially for octopus sexy time. (hectocotylus)

  • Let's both take a look

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  • i think patients have to advocate for themselves, otherwise they will leave in under 5minutes if you dont say anything.

    This feels like the best advice moving forward. As long as I keep talking, the docs seem to listen, but as soon as I run out of questions, session is over!

  • Animals @lemmy.world
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    Fox Receives Hydrotherapy

  • Animals @lemmy.world
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    The Squirrel King (rare phenomenon, all squirrels currently safe)

  • Let's both take a look

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  • My doctors are nice for the most part, but do seem much more rushed than years ago. All our medical facilities have been consolidated under 2 huge regional hospitals, so we have a duopoly at this point, so we get what we get.

    My wife started working at one a year before they got bought out (they were our last independent provider) and there were many immediate changes to do more with less.

    It's somewhat efficient, as my visits now seem to go, "how are you feeling and what do you want from me?", which if I know is ok, but if I just know I'm sick, I feel I either get a blanket of tests to do a shotgun approach on diagnosis, or I get given a medicine with not always as much time to go over pros, cons, or basic questions as I'd like. It feels much less personal and closer and closer to just doing telehealth, which again is fine for when I know what is wrong and what I need, but losing that difference is disappointing to me.

    Many of my docs seem disappointed as well, since the turnover is huge, especially back a few decades. I used to have the same doctors my whole life until maybe the last decade, and now I'm lucky to see the same person for a second year.

  • Federal judge dismisses human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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  • I wonder how much of that 1.8 billion weaponized legal persecution fund they're gonna give him!

    *Crickets *

  • What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot.

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  • I was just reading about this earlier this week in writing a post on how rat poison kills animals beyond the intended rodents and how/why it is treated with vitamin K. Rat poisons block the liver from metabolizing the Vitamin K into blood clotting agents. So it sounds like these babies are going through the same experience as something that's gotten a fatal dose of rat poison. We at least should have the intelligence to get the readily available cure. Such as shame...

  • Does anyone else feel irritated when deeply religious people connect everything with god?

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  • That's their loss. I'd laugh. 😄

  • Venison chili & cornbread

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  • And $4/lb feels like a screaming deal right now for some free-range, grass fed, cruelty free (compared to factory farmed meat) protein.

    I grew up on near as much deer meat as I did beef, so I do miss it when I don't have any around.

  • Does anyone else feel irritated when deeply religious people connect everything with god?

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  • I assume most folks using that expression are not using it in a deep spiritual manner, so it probably does. Saying it also usually makes people feel at least a smidge better after venting those feelings, so you may inadvertently also be a little more blessed. 😇

  • Venison chili & cornbread

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  • I never thought about unclaimed deer! I will have to remember this tip next time I have an unsuccessful hunting trip...

  • Does anyone else feel irritated when deeply religious people connect everything with god?

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  • Bless you is a great example. I don't think most people say things like bless you or God gave you the strength to be literally religious, they're just a spiritual person's way of being polite.

  • Does anyone else feel irritated when deeply religious people connect everything with god?

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  • I was just working on a post sharing some pics by one of my favorite photographers and wrote a little something along these lines.

    They praised God for the opportunity to get these very unique photos. While I'm not religious, and to me, the photographer did all the work following this bird forever, through long hours of darkness and cold, waiting patiently day after day, honing his craft.

    And that is a good enough reason for praise from me. But he felt a blessing from outside, and I can appreciate that for him. Did he think providence put him and this bird together? I don't know if it went that deep. Maybe he was just glad this animal existed, and he is here to experience it, and this moment could have randomly happened for anyone, but instead it happened to him.

    Whatever the reason, his beliefs led him to experiencing something amazing. I could just call that inspiration, while he attributes it to his beliefs. Does it make a difference to either of us what the other believes? Nah.

    If people aren't proselytizing at me, they can believe in what they please. When most people say they were glad God gave you the strength to do something, they're just being happy for you from their perspective. They probably have no idea what your beliefs are, that's just their default and the words that come to their mind to congratulate you. You should kindly take their words with the intention they were spoken with, not necessarily a literal meaning. Jumping to being offended just makes conflict where there wasn't any, and that would make you the disrespectful one most likely.

  • aww @lemmy.world
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    Sweet Dreams

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    Issues Editing (Solved!)

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    Post not displaying

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    Got a Major Score on Leftover Bagels!

  • Tan Eggs @lemmy.ca
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    The Pygmy Rabbit

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How are you preparing your family for the inevitable, life insurance/will/etc?

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    App crashing when deleting drafts

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    Image Edit screen padding

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    Comment bug

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Favorite Article of Clothing?

  • News @lemmy.world
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    How decline of Indian vultures led to 500,000 human deaths

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c28e2pvzn3lo
  • cute dogs, cats, and other animals @lemmy.ml
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    Feeling hoot, might d-owl-ete later