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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 2m

Then a brilliant thought occurs: I can stay shirtless, but run. Then I will be visibly shirtless for less time. Genius!

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 3m

So -- in the sort of decision-making you can really only get from a 17 year old -- I ask her to let me off at several streets from my house. Now I have a different problem: I can either put the goose-befouled shirt back on (unappealing) and walk back, or walk back shirtless, which is Not Done.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 6m

I was very "needs must" about everything when there was a goose whose life I was trying to save. (RIP.) But now, being driven back, I realize it's around the time everyone's walking to shul, and it is, again, shabbat, so I'm really not supposed to be in a car.

I am also still not wearing a shirt.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 8m

Now here is a detail that is relevant: in those days, while never especially orthodox myself, I was growing up in Orthodox Jewish community near Emory, and it was a Saturday. So: Shabbat.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 10m

Exeunt goose, hissing to the last. The older lady, asks me where I live so she can drive me home. One the way, she tells me about her drum circle in Candler Park Atlanta and the emu who lives on the property. I seem like a nice young man, she says, and I should swing by one of these days

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 13m

When we did get there, the rehabber -- a very practical woman -- looked the goose over and said there was basically no chance of it recovering, that it had probably been hit by a car and that the damage to wing and leg was too great, so she would have to put it down

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 14m

It transpired that sitting in a rattly car with an angry goose in my lap was not much better than carrying it, especially when it became clear that my new friend didn't actually quite recall where the bird rehabber lived, so it took us a while to get there

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 16m

Finally, outside the CDC, a car pulled a wild U-turn and an older lady demanded to know what I was doing with the goose. When I told her I was trying to take it to a rescue, she scoffed and told me to hop in and we'd go to a rehabber -- "The Bird Lady" she knew instead

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 17m

I was trying to get to the rescue before it closed -- a fool's errand, given that I was on foot and it was a few miles, and even an unwell canada goose is a heavy and noncompliant bit of cargo. A cop slowed down to look at me and decided he didn't want to get involved

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 19m

Back during a summer break in high school, I tried to do this, which ended with me walking down the main street of Emory's camous with an absolutely furious canada goose wrapped my now goose-befouled shirt

Kristen Evans @paperalphabet.bsky.social · 22m

noticed a goose with a broken or damaged wing on my walk & called three different orgs about it. one of them was like, can you get it and bring it in?

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 26m

Want a deal on ebooks that'll get you in that Halloween mood? Consider: eerie historical fantasy stories of a wandering Appalachian conjure-woman in the 1900s, facing supernatural threats in an increasingly fractured and unnatural landscape

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Prime Day. PDFs of GHOST DAYS and IN THE SNOW, THE JUNGLE are on sale for just 3$ today, which means you can grab this fully illustrated short story collection AND its followup novella for just $6.

Get your Appalachian historical folklore/horror fix here!

www.asherelbein.com/store

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 34m

I'm honestly amazed that they managed to hunt them out at all! They're very smart and they breed quite fast

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 35m

I think -- considering its size, speed, and the glimpse of tusks I saw as it bolted -- it was a hell of a lot more armed than I was

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 38m

This includes, by the way, the *many* times I've been around rattlesnakes, seen bears and javelinas, and the time I was walking down a trail and encountered a bison coming the opposite way

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 39m

Believe me, the thought occurred

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 43m

Genuinely the most danger I think I've ever been in from an animal was when -- while exploring a patch of Teas forest for snakes -- a big feral hog broke cover from a hidden depression literally right under my feet

LAISSEZ LES BON QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 19h

if you have ever come across a boar in the wild unarmed (or even improperly armed) you have known mortal fear, just saying.

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1h

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harrison-kent.bsky.social @harrison-kent.bsky.social · 3h

A cute master snake (Drysdalia mastersii) 🐍 from the Ngarkat mallee, SA. This species is highly dependent on spinifex in this region. Increasing bushfire intensity and frequency thanks to climate change pose a big risk to the survival of this species in the region.

#WildOz

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 2h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 3h

The commitment to multiculturalism and mass immigration is the only reason that we as diaspora Jews are welcome anywhere you absolute twit

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4h

With all the caveats about anonymous posters, this is still staggering, a revelation of what a sliver we see reported across mainstream & alt media combined; and this itself is obviously just a sliver. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 12h

So: buy yourself a copy!

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Prime Day. PDFs of GHOST DAYS and IN THE SNOW, THE JUNGLE are on sale for just 3$ today, which means you can grab this fully illustrated short story collection AND its followup novella for just $6.

Get your Appalachian historical folklore/horror fix here!

www.asherelbein.com/store

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 12h

I'm somewhat sorry that I've been flogging my books pretty hard, but on the other hand, I worked hard on 'em and nobody is going to do it for me

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Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social · 17h

HEY

You guys should pick up these stories in anticipation of there someday being an absolute banger of a book about their heroine, badass Appalachian witch Anna O'Brien

TRUST ME you all are gonna know her name 🔥🔥🔥

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck Prime Day. PDFs of GHOST DAYS and IN THE SNOW, THE JUNGLE are on sale for just 3$ today, which means you can grab this fully illustrated short story collection AND its followup novella for just $6.

Get your Appalachian historical folklore/horror fix here!

www.asherelbein.com/store

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 12h

I don't know that this is the *most* unethical thing David Frum has ever done, but in terms of professional *journalistic* ethics? Whooo boy

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 12h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 18h

The Hipster Problem of Politics

Baptiste Lerak @baptistelerak.bsky.social · 18h

One of the great ironies of political theory is that the best way to do radical politics is to not scare the hoes, yet many radicals fetishize scaring the hoes because, well, otherwise they wouldn't be radicals!

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