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[–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 12 points 17 hours ago

Sneak snake

[–] lookitsjustin@lemmy.ca 25 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)
[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Snakes: I am going to evolve to have perfect camouflage so I am undetectable by all.

Also snakes: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING YOU STEPPED ON ME ARE YOU BLIND

[–] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Wow, you live somewhere that looks cool as fuck from inner city England. Should probably wear high boots when you're out for a walk tho. Safe and sexy.

[–] janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Regular snakes are pretty dope too, but enjoy the lifestyle.

[–] slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works 91 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

First thing I noticed was the cactus that is wanking one out behind the bushes there

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

Fun Fact: Pervy Cactuars are indigenous to Southern Arizona!

[–] dogdeanafternoon@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

I absolutely cannot explain why, but at first glance I keep seeing an elephant.

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 111 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fun fact:

Snake venoms are generally classified into four main functional types: neurotoxic (attacking the nervous system), hemotoxic (disrupting blood clotting and destroying red blood cells), cytotoxic (destroying local cells and tissues), and myotoxic (causing rapid muscle breakdown).
https://a-z-animals.com/animals/snake/snake-facts/4-types-of-snake-venom/

[–] the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes, I want to subscribe to Snake Facts

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Try here.

@anon6789@lemmy.world's been doing a killer job with it. 🙂

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I love my slithery friends! Met a chonky python at the zoo yesterday and got to give him pets. Even came home at night to a wiggly garter snake on the welcome mat. Glad I saw him in the shadows, I'd have felt terrible if I hurt it.

I'd be happy to include some more snakes. They could always use positive coverage.

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago

This is why I stay on the walking paths in my neighborhood. They're supposed to be here in NM, too, but I've never seen one where I live. I don't want to meet one. Where I am it's sagebrush and sand, maybe they're closer to the mountain where the ground rocky like in this picture.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago

Oh. I thought you were talking about the masturbating cactus.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I would not have seen that, before it was to late.

[–] colourlesspony@pawb.social 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They would probably rattle before you too got close.

[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Me with my headphones in, on my last day on Earth… 😬

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 34 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Wear tall boots if you're hiking in rattlesnake territory

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[–] linguinus@lemmy.zip 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

It was the second one that got me!

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

I can't tell if this was a joke, because I couldn't find a second one! I'd be doomed lol.

[–] ahkian@thelemmy.club 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You have to respect that rattlesnake warn you before biting. It’s very polite.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 16 hours ago

Well, actually unfortunately generations of poaching have selected for rattlesnakes that don’t rattle before they strike. It’s like a big problem and stuff :(

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[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

I'd love some augmented reality glasses that do only like vector graphics to outline things or project text over reality, with advanced cameras to measure and map things. I bet you could see tons of interesting things in nature that you wouldn't notice.

Of course you can also just train yourself to see more!

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

Not so fun fact, because people out right killed every venomous snake they could see or hear, the venomous snakes evolved to be quieter over time.

[–] mongooseofrevenge@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Me trying to see the "little guy"

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[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hate it when cacti suddenly jack off at me

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I was watching a nature documentary last week. Rattlesnakes are some kinky motherfuckers. When the male approached the female to mate, the first thing she did was smack his head around with her tail. Then when it was time for copulation, she wrapped her tail around the male's penis and dragged him by it to their mating spot.

I once dated a guy who was an extreme sub, who really wanted me to put him in a dog cage while I went off to work (I didn't do it, I wasn't ready for that level of kink at the time.) I think he would've been down for a rattlesnake-style mating ritual.

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Clears throat awkwardly Are you... uh... seeing anyone now?

[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You miss 100% of shots you dont take

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

An unfortunately common justification for harassing people :/

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

True. Now I've got anxiety over if I've displayed that in a light-hearted enough manner.

But anxiety is why people don't meet other people or establish reasonable connections. What are you about, friend?

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah... it's perhaps down to a difference in experience giving us very different perspectives on the same thing.

I see the "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take" line repeated all the time, and it's become extremely popular with the Man-O-Sphere chuds like Andrew Tate. While it was just a somewhat tired meme, it's rapidly turned into a genuine guiding philosophy that people live by, and it plays very easily into the conservative "an indication of sexuality is an invitation to sexualize" mindset. It's become the same thing as 4chan's "Tits or GTFO", but phrased in a less expressly offensive way.

There's been plenty of discussion about the lack of 3rd spaces and it's impact on society, so I do understand that people feel motivated to seize the opportunity for interactions when those rare chances present themselves, but it's an impulse that's really making it exhausting to exist in those few shared spaces we do still have.

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

[...the conservative “an indication of sexuality is an invitation to sexualize”] - Ew, and I totally understand.

[4chan’s “Tits or GTFO”] - Ew. Again, I totally understand.

I meant well. Hopefully I haven't caused offense. I just wanted to juxtapose the conversation with a casual absurdity.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

No offense here, at least! It's just one of those ones that's common to the point you don't even think about it until someone brings it up.

[–] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I think this articulation will change - to an extent - how I communicate in the future, so thank you for this. I'm still going to be a dumb dog on the internet, but I always want to be a kind one.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 6 points 22 hours ago

Well if he didn't want to get stepped on, he shouldn't have been looking so much like a rock while hanging out among all those other rocks!

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have one or two of these come to hang out near my house each year so I just load them into a garbage can and take them to the north forty so they don't bite my dogs.

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