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ButteryMonkey

@ ButteryMonkey @piefed.social

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  • Wetlands

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  • It always pisses me off when I hear about draining of wetlands for development..

    There are rules here that say you need to replace wetlands you destroy, but of course they never recreate what they took away. Those wetlands are WHAT they are and WHERE they are for a fucking reason. You can’t just move them and expect them to function the same way, but beyond that, they typically replace the active and stable wetlands with shitty stuff like swamps that are only replacements on paper. Swamps exist where they do because they work there. They do not exist elsewhere because they do not work there. And swamps are no substitute for marshes and floodplains and creeks and stuff. They just aren’t.

  • do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs?

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  • I have chickens, and whether or not I like the taste and smell of eggs is wildly dependent upon the eggs and preparation.

    I worked at a chicken hatchery in high school and was traumatized by what we called “poppers”, which are eggs that rot inside with the shell fully intact, wherein any contact with the shell causes it to explode. It took me over a decade to eat eggs again. And I still won’t eat anything like quiche, omelets, or even just plain scrambled eggs. I find them gross for whatever reason.

    But a sunny side up or an egg salad or something? French toast? Egg bread? Breakfast bagel bombs? Sure.

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • No it doesn’t. It just locks the screen and requires passcode. It’s the same thing that happens if you hold power and volume to bring up the emergency call or power off screen.

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • Here’s an archive link for you.

    https://archive.ph/cvFNb

    In the future, you can go to archive.ph and put in the url and it’s usually already been archived. There are some paywalls it doesn’t get through, but it handles most of them.

  • FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled

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  • Just to clarify and expand a bit: It’s 5 presses not 6, and you can do it in your pocket because it gives you a haptic feedback signal when it works, of a quick vibration in a unique pattern.

  • Peacock chair - That chair you keep seeing (in photos)

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  • I have one of these in my attic. It was my mom’s. She was a big fan of the Addams family and called it her Morticia chair (pic for why)

    It’s a pain to move because it’s so big, but really lightweight.

  • What fictional animal do you think would be the most delicious?

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  • Blob monsters, like the gelatinous cube sort not the pulsating mutation of animal flesh sort, seem tasty, like caustic jello. Just use some acid neutralizer and mmm mmm zingy delicious.

  • Tripping

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  • Ah, yeah, no I don’t have the ability to tune things out from any of my senses, unfortunately. I hear that lack is a pretty common complaint for autistic individuals, so it is what it is. I can’t relate to much of your described experience here. My memories are verbal descriptions or a vague recollection that’s immediately translated into words. No other senses get pulled into my memory or imagination. No reliving of experiences in even the most superficial of ways, which is often a blessing tbh. Probably why I’m heavy into living in the moment and for the future and don’t really care about sentimentality or tradition or whatever else people feel tied to the past about.

    For me, there is no real nothingness in my head, ever afaik. Tinnitus yes, but there are always words. Closest is I taught myself to suppress the voice when reading because it’s much faster, but my mind is still occupied by words. “Daydreaming” is just thinking through how things work or could work, or ruminating on my anxieties. Like I spent half a road trip lost in thought about how to convert parking garages into hydroponic farms when privately-owned cars are disincentivized in the future. Just a literal monologue, in my own voice, working through what it would take and whether or not it’s worth the cost and effort to do. And that’s pretty standard filler when conversations die off (any talking instantly snaps me back, though).

    My parents were kinda incredibly shit, and I was grounded from everything except books and breathing (this is much less hyperbolic than it sounds..) for literal years of my childhood, so I have strong doubts that it has anything to do with being bored. I’m sure there are ways to enhance your internal experience and extreme boredom might be one of them, but I don’t think you can outright change how it works in any meaningful way. You just got lucky like that, and that’s ok :)

    FWIW tho I do have some idea of what it’s like to have internal visuals and stuff. I took some meds ages ago, which I definitely don’t recommend anyone take ever, that made my dreams permanently super vivid and largely internally consistent. Thing is, they are typically intensely mundane but negative emotionally-charged dreams where the only real indicator that tips you off to dreaming, unless looking for indicators, is the location. Since I have no other experience with seeing things that aren’t real, I have huge issues determining if things from dreams actually happened. My current strategy is assume it was a dream and wait for someone else to mention it, which they almost never do.

  • Cats in motion by Léo Forest

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  • Looks like every picture I try to take of my cats when they aren’t asleep

    Very accurate cat energy

  • Tripping

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  • The opposite of aphantasia is hyperphantasia, if you want to look into it more :) the whole thing is a spectrum from people who see nothing to people who see things nearly as though they were real, and constantly.

    I’m on the a- end, sadly, but a very good friend of mine has hyper-, constantly seeing super vivid imagery, and we’ve had some real interesting conversations about that :)

  • Cat

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  • That’s a cool cat costume for your toddler :p

    So weird!

  • Which are you?

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  • I don’t wear socks or shoes unless absolutely necessary. Sandals are fine, but if I can opt to not wear them, I do.

    If I wear socks they are always knee socks. I can’t stand those little ankle high deals that leave a breeze up your pants leg.

  • Women filmed in secret for TikTok content - then harassed online

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  • Don’t even need it to look that bad. You can buy tiny stickers to cover that light in such a way as to near-completely hide it.

  • Eep

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  • Interesting. Now that I think of it, I don’t think I really have different personalities with different people. I don’t have that much energy. I might be more outgoing with some groups than others, but that’s a matter of volume rather than a different tune. Maybe that’s why people keep saying I’m “genuine”?

  • Weekly Discussion: How many rocks are in your home right now?

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  • The foundation of my house is made of boulders, do those count?

    I have several dozen free of metal contamination that are in my turtle tank and aquariums. I found them on hikes, at beaches, and from lots of different regions.

    I also have a bunch that have metal contamination (slag or natural deposits) which are in a jar because they kill invertebrates so can’t have them in the tanks.

    Other than that I have lava rock on top of most of my plants.

  • Good question tbh

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  • Once in a lifetime by talking heads

  • The Super Bowl Was Already Getting Political. Now Green Day Have Entered the Chat

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  • Honestly who doesn’t?

  • AI PCs aren't selling, and Microsoft's PC partners are scrambling

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  • I’ve got and that corrects to annd now most of the time, except when I’m actively trying to write the type in which case it reverts to the actual spelling. Absolutely garbage autocorrect.

    I don’t even have the AI shit. I stopped updating before 18 dropped, even tho my phone is only a couple years old, so I would never have to deal with it.

  • Good Boy in Worcester Cathedral, UK, 14th century AD

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  • Good boy clearly gets frequent pets :)