I got a bed buddy tonight. Ahna #catsofmastodon
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mastodon 4.7.2Wildlife photographer, writer, artist, herpetologist, and naturalist. Ex wildlife rescuer. Hobby composer and cat daddy. Currently longcovid. Rarely serious until it's deadly. Photos here.https://500px.com/lhgmk2
Photos here be mine, unless retoots. I guess that was glaringly obvious. Any online request leads to an instablock. No alt text Karen's will be tolerated. Don't feed the AI.Ableism begins with a lack of introspection and continues with ill-considered expectations of others.
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Kinda been supporting the sheep that aren't mine on the sly during the drought, and now one is trying to be my friend. I'd be a useless sheep farmer, not on the sheep condition front, as an ex animal rescuer my sheep would be glorious, its a fairly remedial task compared to getting iguana to 20 years old, and weirdly over the years for someone who specialised in wildlife and exotics, the sheep, cow, horse and goat experience has stacked up, but I couldn't eat that one.I was the same after i raised deer., used to love venison. Guess I'd have to buy a loom or sonething Win the lottery and have decorative sheep do my weeding. They have been terrific at drought weeding tbh.😂
aww lookit face. 😁 #SheepOfMastodon
Peter Cullen, the legendary voice actor and heart and soul of Optimus Prime has died.
Frankly, this is an appaling week for losing our childhood favourites. He died Wednesday. The death announcements at this point are being staggered so nobody gets overshadowed. in a few weeks, That's Hayden, Dolly, Tim, and Peter.
its easy for voice actors to be underappreciated, but let us make no bones about it., for millions of us Peters voice on Optimus Prime's lips was a safe and aspirant version of a compassionate leader. Hasbro tried to kill Prime off in 87. He survived until 2026. RIP Peter.
Dolly Parton has died age 80. The singer that saved lives.
i got stung on the ear by a bee in the middle of the night. it was in my hair as i rolled over. can confirm, on ear much worse than finger, and its still hurting. I love bees, but never sleep with them.
Well i may not be going out, but nature came to me in the night. A stunning and very large poplar hawkmoth #macrophotography #moths
Thundery with showers in the cotswolds, heard one bolt of lightning close. Rainfall here has been terribly low while others got rain, not really more than two hours normal rain in over 100 days, so this is surprisingly welcome. Theres a lot of energy up there. #UKweather.
Finally. A hundred days without decent rain, got an hour downpour #UKweather
Its a thundery day, I'm utterly miserable, i might throw a toilet roll at the screen for old times sake.
Tim Curry died yesterday too, didn't find out till today. Been on the cards a whille, i know, but still sad. I'm sure on mastodon i wasn't the only person he meant a lot to.
An admirable fearlessness. From Rocky, to Legend, to Clue, to Congo, to the Hunt for red october and much more besides, he brought the fun, a clown to be feared, and the finest possible Darkness
I'm sure mother night will fold her dark arms about him, and protect him 😘
Cant get over there being drought and about ten active wildfires in wales, all those millenia ago when I was college age and stuck there for two years it rained on me every day. literally.
speckled bush crickets #macrophotography
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I got broad shoulders, high pain tolerance, I was a grumpy surly bastard years before COVID, few expectations of good things. but that. That no peace.
It's getting to me. That and people pretending the pandemic is over. Knowing how fucking characterless they are. When I can't even fucking nap in peace without biological assault.
Art.once part of my personality, that ability reduced too. That's horrible to lose. Longcovid is a sequence of unfair taxes.
When you speak. I hear you.
Welp, We've had our national emergency broadcast alert about not having a bbq through the electric telephone. I do hope corporate execs received one about not starting a datacentre or expecting shareholder compensation when the licence on their water company expires ,or prosecuting arsonists hired by equity firms and property developers, or how about no more north sea drilling or sending arms to genocidal states that blow up entire oil fields. Or power companies about not taking the piss, or billionaires having private planes and superyachts.
Fucking pointless noise. Alert me when youve doubled the reservoir capicity of the UK, and sieved the turds out of the ocean, jerkoff.
I'm having fucking lasagne.i've already not been setting fire to the countryside over 50 years. That must be why they sent me two fucking alerts. Burnham you corporate fuckpuppet, go do something real.
There wont be any photos for a couple of days. been too hot for too long, cfs mcas and heat is too much. i try to do a little every day, but now i must rest while its marginally cooler. Still got a big back catalogue on here, if you hit the media tab, and if you want, just look through some and tell me your favourites. its not so much a case uf needing feedback, but on limited energy, im happy with a hint on what youd like to see more of.
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To those still genuinely sentient reading this. Who can listen.
Thanks for being there. I wouldn't want to be the last sane man on earth.
Ever notice it's the sick that do the most for other sick people?
Well, that's got to be the most solidly hot day in britain since it was possible for it to be referred to geologically as britain, and the dragonflies could chew your head off. Thats looking like its going over twelve hours at over 30c, peak of 34c,
Two different opinions on the heat, Ahna hates it and therefore everything. Dude has eaten six assorted bugs and is happy. #catsofmastodon
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I've been masked since the exes father and the stepfathers father died and the nature of the virus has been known. Basically five years, when remotely near people. I spend 95% of my life completely alone. To guarantee I survive for my beloved cats, who have been completely shielded. Doctors have not only been mostly useless, but also a risk. Treachery
Long COVID has utterly ruined my life. My loves keep me alive. I've wanted to give up a thousand times. I should donate my penis to science.
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Apologies for the TMI, my middle name should be Frank. But nothing leads to denial like pearl clutching, and why should I be the only one dealing with how awful goodness is?
I shall now hobble away against the wind. Somebody light the lighter fluid hero insignia on the ground for me. I can't afford to lose a Zippo and I'm not bending down. Nobody wants to see or hear that.
😉
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My emotional status is best described as " A bit fucking volatile" and I actively have to avoid people that make me angry because I can no longer guarantee I won't beat them to death like a chimpanzee that slept on its neck and arms last night. My kidneys and liver are those of an eighty year old drunk, which is irritating, because I seldom drink and cook real good.
I'm no longer worried about giving up smoking, cos if cancer wants me dead it's gonna have to hurry the fuck up to compete.
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...numb arms every morning, palpitations and fast heart rates for months on end, partial loss of fine motor controls in my throat, my asshole, and worst of all in my hands, which now manifests as carpal tunnel so severe I've lost my ability to draw and randomly fling coffee cups I'm aiming for. I also have some cognitive issues, mostly about object recognition, I can lose shit that's right in front of my face. My entire renal system has taken damage. My cytokine response has NEVER normalised.
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Because that little tyrant still works just fine. 😂
I still take a mean photo, which is remarkable, because shit is a blur, and spend my life now loving cats, being a voice of reason for everyone with a melted frontal lobe, because mines still working, and making life difficult for nazis and the Epstein class. I hypocritically lust after mangusta and feadship super yachts. I can afford basic groceries at most.
Basically I'm a frontal lobe with a cock.
Any takers? 😂
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All of this completely sucks, but the one that really gets me, is the subtle one. A combo. I have cfs, the one thing you'd like to do is sleep. Nap. But because COVID neurologically damaged my throat, I get a version of sleep apnea. I like having a voice that sounds like Optimus prime, but waking with a splitting headache like some bastard has been strangling you in your sleep is not fun. Nor are dreams with bowel pain from trapped wind.
It's getting to PTSD levels. The no peace, ever, thing.
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She probably thought it was because I smoke brunels steamship tobacco or something, because I smoke. That's me, with stabbing leg pain, concentration issues, who wants to sleep so badly I could consider suicide a viable option. Fixing her stuff.
Taking shit from someone who was probably squeezing shit into their strides as we spoke. As I nearly die to help.
That's humans. That's who the fuck they are. Broken narratives. Passing for identity. The shit we have taken from veils of nothing. Dogma.
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Oh, and some days I can barely fucking see, and others I can see without glasses. I also suffer maldigestion irrelevant of what it is I'm eating, and I seem to have acne. I'm over fucking fifty. I can't burp lying down. I cherish the days I can fart. I feel pregnant which really takes the piss cos I haven't had even a lousy fuck for 15 years. I occasionally get a purple foot. My legs hurt pretty much at random. Like being hit on the bone with a hammer on a cold day
well. the roses have looked better, but here are some. #bloomscrolling
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It's funny isn't it. The older you get, you realise only the afflicted ever really listen.
At least until that premature altheimers gets em, then they pretty much talk shit and crap their pants. Yup, got one of those in the extended family too.
This month, a woman who shits herself , for whom I had installed a camera system, fixed the WiFi of, and listened to the gibberish of while trying to concentrate for three hours, said I smelled of smoke. Actually because I cleaned my wood burner.
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@Dodo_sipping@cupoftea.social Exactly. There's no reasonable remaining doubt. This is climate chsnge fully underway.
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@Dodo_sipping@cupoftea.social Then if the atlantic current breaks, think we'll get summer this hot, but the winters will regularly reach minus twenty or colder with massive snow for two months. There wont be crop farming any more. Add the staggering increase in heat, and the sheer duration of heat, the dysregulated rainfall, farming will be fighting midsummer desertification from may to august, to a point of industry wide failure in five years, if the mid atlantic curent shifts or stops as estimated in 30 years or less, britain will be desert for four months, frozen solid for two with snow drifts like china, sweden, or canada get. snow will be our biggest water source.Most crops unviable, able to farm only lean grass livestock. Depopulation inevitable.
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@LauraleeDukeshire@mstdn.ca well gotta laugh. It's that or start playing with high explosives.
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@secretsloth@mastodon.art you're right, it is actual daily body horror, and you don't need to watch videodrome or existenz to get it.
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@oftencalledcathy@mastodon.ie yeah I hate everyone. I went forty seven years of my life always suspecting but never knowing the nature of my fellow man. But boy do I now. Do I ever. They're weak. Appallingly so. The emotional immaturity is a disease. I guess all the religion should have tipped me off.
I may be a bag of malfunctioning meat, but my iron will is a confirmed level 100. I used to get imposter syndrome. I laugh at the notion now.
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@mariusor@metalhead.club just nasofed, norizite etc, use a hypochlorous solution when I get back in. My masking is pretty serious anyway so I don't go overkill on sprays. Most of my life I'm alone and needing sudofed to breathe anyway. Longcovid made me allergic to just about the whole planet and we have Alder trees nearby and they kick the hell out of me, so there's always something that also annoys covid in my face anyway.
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@sinvega@mas.to Hell yeah. If I met a doctor who was as good as I was an exotics rescuer I'd be leading a mostly normal life by now. But untreated for the primary condition as I am, my organs unable to sustain the damage that results... Well, I'm pretty fucking angry.
A biological health of fifty to eighty in five years. Due to medical and governmental incompetence, and a society that has the personality of an ass covering illiterate fucking arsehole.
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@secretsloth@mastodon.art These people are just not our brightest and best any more. Hanging on, biding time, resisting industrial sabotage minimally, decimated by disease, in offices that are under ventilated, overworked, acting as little more than a malfunctioning gateway to the diagnosis, therapy and drugs we really do need, and getting it wrong more often than not, their working life no longer allows them the mental space to get it right.
A form of denialism is the outcome.
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@secretsloth@mastodon.art ...and now we've been taking metabolic damage so long, we are starting to die off and get permanent life altering organ damage, renal, circulatory, and neurological. Five years waiting for the study of metabolism to catch up with COVID infections, create a pathology, a therapy, a treatment regime, and to get realistic about medication.
It's a total procedural failure.
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@secretsloth@mastodon.art There's reasons for this, the useless wellness community is a threat lurking within all privatised healthcare, useless protofascist shitheads with their nonce adjacent RFK style looks based exercise outlook and fuckwit diet strategies, the pharmaceutical companies mass profiteering on inhalers, but also, I think we have to face facts. That standard doctor training is pretty fucking basic, without being a specialist in metabolic disorders, they're almost no use.
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@secretsloth@mastodon.art Honestly, it's like asking a milkman to make you a range of two dozen single malts and I'm tired of it. They'll deny you inhalers and antihistamines, and put you on statins instead. It's ludicrous. In fact it's lethal. Sure, we seem like we're aging prematurely, but they treat that like we've aged, rather than deal with the metabolic disruption, and that reminds me how primitive most GPs and medical training is. Five years and still no clue.
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@Dodo_sipping@cupoftea.social its crazy, we've got over sixty million people living in the UK, in thirty years the land mass will genuinely be able to support maybe a third of that, tops. its going to be the worst disaster in our history. since Neanderthals walked the earth. My advice for anyone under fifty years old, especially those who are teenage now, . Emigrate or go survivalist. unless there's a total infrastructure and housing and farming change, unheralded scale, british society simply isnt going to make it. Aim to build a home entirely elsewhere. Tgere will be zero affirdable climate proof housing here. This is an uncharted range of temperatures to endure. Neoliberalism, capitalism, and conservatism not only need to die, they need to be utterly replaced in s handful of years. within the decade, preferably faster.
The rebuild we need, the capacity to store snow melt to that degree in one nation, its never been done.
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@secretsloth@mastodon.art Could be it's spreading in the USA fastest ( shocker there 🙄) having made its original mutation in South Africa, seems to have primary symptoms of contraction of severe sinus infection, affects the eyes a lot, optic nerve pain, blocked tear ducts etc, combined with high metabolic drain and fatigue. Just average symptoms, as you know COVID can mess with people a dozen ways.
My swamp cooler just melted a three litre bottle of ice in an hour and a half. this is gonna be a long day. 🙄 People been talking shit sbout te wet bulb effect for days, but today is the day you might experience it at danger levels, make sure the skin on your bsck can breathe. be careful sitting on vinyl synthetics. check evaporation rate to see if water spray cooling can work for you.. few drops on a room temperature surface. if its gone in 15-30 minutes youre good to cool with water. loose clothes or get naked.
To channel Rick Mayall. I'm typing this in just my pants. woof!
well in Gloucestershire we had Exactly 30 seconds of rain. Any sign of the London area downpour yet? #ukweather
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@secretsloth@mastodon.art I think this one is a bit rough for leaving people with secondary eye infections. Gonna be a good year if you've got shares in optravine. Could be using it for weeks after to clear mild fungus. 🧟♂️