Ticks would be valuable, but they're one of the few groups that genuinely gives me the ick. (Probably a result of catching Lyme off them as a kid).

But I'll be buying any book you decide to do, whatever it is!

If that's assault, I have a rock-solid case to file against my neighbor's cat. Brb getting a grand jury to indict her

My high school english teacher would have failed me if I turned in something like that.

Growing up I used to believe that if somebody was truly fucking horrible at their job they would be fired. These last few years have really proven me wrong and Bluesky mods, yourself very much included, are all shining examples of this insane phenomenon.

Good lord, that's amazing

I get this intensely nauseated feeling looking at it - often before I even realize it's AI-generated. In fact, that's become one of my methods of spotting it - if I suddenly feel like puking for no apparent reason, it's probably AI.

All you need to know is that she helped put us in this stupid timeline by not reporting important news stories, because she was sleeping with the antivaxxer who once dumped a dead bear in a park and chainsawed the head off a whale, and wanted to help him be president.

to be fair, so would most of the rest of us

We have a lot of these out here in California! Apparently the ones I usually find are still undescribed (I guess not many people work with them?) Always fun to see, even if they keep tricking me into thinking I've found myxos

She also promoted "John of God", the "faith healer" scammer who - by the time she had him on her show- had already been responsible for an unknown number of deaths and a MINIMUM of 600 rapes including that of his own daughter, sooo....

Behind the Bastards podcast did a multi-part series on all the horrible people Oprah has given us, and it's well worth the listen. I guarantee you have no idea how much truly horrendous shit her show has been responsible for

Everyone knows hair dryers are only for drying out and warming up the insides of your shoes. Using them for food prep would just be weird.