Stanton
@stanton.bsky.social
Amateur artist living currently living in Oregon.
Not "probably encouraged," "threatened"
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Not "probably encouraged," "threatened"
That's why they signed up in the first place
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
That's why they signed up in the first place
Why not? European holly grows in forests filled with the host trees of Old World mistletoes (Viscum sp.), and American holly is occasionally attacked by American mistletoe (Phoradendron sp)
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Why not? European holly grows in forests filled with the host trees of Old World mistletoes (Viscum sp.), and American holly is occasionally attacked by American mistletoe (Phoradendron sp)
At first, I thought that mistletoes were one big family of weird and festive parasites, either Loranthaceae or Viscaceae, but apparently, they've been split up, and the European mistletoe and its close relatives, Viscum of Viscaceae, have been shuffled in with the sandalwoods of Santalaceae
December 1, 2025 at 5:32 AM
At first, I thought that mistletoes were one big family of weird and festive parasites, either Loranthaceae or Viscaceae, but apparently, they've been split up, and the European mistletoe and its close relatives, Viscum of Viscaceae, have been shuffled in with the sandalwoods of Santalaceae
Several different species of trees and plants have this defensive response to browsers
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Several different species of trees and plants have this defensive response to browsers
Also, don't confuse the cactus mistletoe, Tristerix aphyllus, which is an endoparasite of cacti, with the unrelated mistletoe cacti, Rhipsalis sp., whose epiphytic habitus is reminiscent of mistletoes.
December 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Also, don't confuse the cactus mistletoe, Tristerix aphyllus, which is an endoparasite of cacti, with the unrelated mistletoe cacti, Rhipsalis sp., whose epiphytic habitus is reminiscent of mistletoes.
Now this would be common sense advice.
December 1, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Now this would be common sense advice.
What I'm trying to say is that your advice is terrible and comes from a place of FUCKING DEADLY ignorance very similar to the morons defending the idea of AI recommending people with eating disorders to "go on a diet and weigh themselves frequently."
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
What I'm trying to say is that your advice is terrible and comes from a place of FUCKING DEADLY ignorance very similar to the morons defending the idea of AI recommending people with eating disorders to "go on a diet and weigh themselves frequently."
In the 1993 movie "The Program," there was a scene where the characters lie in a line in the middle of a busy road, leading people watching it to imitate that scene, thereby getting them killed, then leading that scene to be cut from the movie.
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM
In the 1993 movie "The Program," there was a scene where the characters lie in a line in the middle of a busy road, leading people watching it to imitate that scene, thereby getting them killed, then leading that scene to be cut from the movie.
They should posthumously beat each other with sacks filled with angry rats as punishment for not loving their godawful uterine gremlins enough to teach them how to be human, but that's just my own personal recommendation.
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
They should posthumously beat each other with sacks filled with angry rats as punishment for not loving their godawful uterine gremlins enough to teach them how to be human, but that's just my own personal recommendation.
Or, if you want someone more thorough....
a cartoon of a man in a room with the words yu mo gwai gui fai di zao above him
ALT: a cartoon of a man in a room with the words yu mo gwai gui fai di zao above him
media.tenor.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Or, if you want someone more thorough....
Is that why you've opened up twenty different search engines for Anthony Varrecchia?
November 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Is that why you've opened up twenty different search engines for Anthony Varrecchia?
376 pounds of pancake makeup, spray-on bronzer and colon-enhanced body odor does not turn to dust.
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
376 pounds of pancake makeup, spray-on bronzer and colon-enhanced body odor does not turn to dust.
This is what we expect from a drunken rapist whose idea of "the Warrior Ethos" is to be a marauding rapist with guns for hands.
November 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
This is what we expect from a drunken rapist whose idea of "the Warrior Ethos" is to be a marauding rapist with guns for hands.
These are the descendants of the same yellow reporters who spun "cells use hydrogen sulfide to signal the start of cell apoptosis" as "SCIENTISTS DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT SNIFFING FARTS CURES CANCER"
November 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
These are the descendants of the same yellow reporters who spun "cells use hydrogen sulfide to signal the start of cell apoptosis" as "SCIENTISTS DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT SNIFFING FARTS CURES CANCER"
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I'm biased bc my mom cowrote it but I love Cooking Up A Storm, the times-picayune's recipe book compiled from people who wrote into the newspaper to help them find recipes they lost after Hurricane Katrina through archival research or crowdsourcing
November 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I'm biased bc my mom cowrote it but I love Cooking Up A Storm, the times-picayune's recipe book compiled from people who wrote into the newspaper to help them find recipes they lost after Hurricane Katrina through archival research or crowdsourcing
Boo on that, and your partner is very kind
November 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Boo on that, and your partner is very kind
I hope he makes a full recovery
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I hope he makes a full recovery
From what I can tell, some people not only want to be dickish gadflies, but also want to be showered with praise and gold for being dickish gadflies.
November 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
From what I can tell, some people not only want to be dickish gadflies, but also want to be showered with praise and gold for being dickish gadflies.
The worse part about that is that aforementioned people think their opinion is worth bajillion times its weight in gold despite not weighing a thing.
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
The worse part about that is that aforementioned people think their opinion is worth bajillion times its weight in gold despite not weighing a thing.
There was that phase I tried using AI as an emetic, but I find munching on poinsettias to be less harsh on my GI tract.
November 29, 2025 at 10:29 PM
There was that phase I tried using AI as an emetic, but I find munching on poinsettias to be less harsh on my GI tract.
Though, never to be confused with the everdreaded "Purple Nurples"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJCC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJCC...
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November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Though, never to be confused with the everdreaded "Purple Nurples"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJCC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJCC...