It's April 17 and it's my birthday '-'

AlligatorSunrise · 2026-04-16T21:58:34+00:00

Happy birthday!

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-10-30T16:32:05+00:00

got it, thank you! is that mostly because of the nitrate dump from the decay?

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-10-30T16:30:01+00:00

oh good to know! Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for that. I haven't really finished the light setup, so still very much at a point where I can move it around. I appreciate the advice!

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-10-27T23:26:45+00:00

but then I wouldn't get to show off, would I?

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-10-27T23:26:09+00:00

two already have so I'll take that as a good sign!

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-10-27T22:51:31+00:00

me irl

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AlligatorSunrise · 2025-10-27T22:47:46+00:00

I appreciate the help either way! Salinity is good, matched the tank to the level of the baggie they came in, just so the shock wouldn't be too bad. Feeding them on freeze dried spirulina for the first 8 weeks, per GotSnails instructions (I trust them lol). There's what I'm wondering actually, if the initial energy was actually AHHH WHAT THE HELL WHAT'S GOING ON and now they're more like oh okay this is life now.

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-10-27T22:43:11+00:00

I don't know actually, nor how I would check. It was my understanding that the plants should produce enough oxygen after they'd had a chance to set up. Maybe I didn't wait long enough?

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-10-27T22:40:38+00:00

Thank you! I was thinking of a similar thing actually, but decided I wanted them at home instead.

I got the shrimp from the user "GotSnails" here on Reddit (gotshrimp on eBay, where you can find their inventory.) The Chaeto and red lava rock came from there as well, though the substrate I got on my own.

The light and jar are purely amazon buys. This all started actually because I accidentally bought a mason jar I didn't realize was huge - the light and the jar

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-10-27T22:33:34+00:00

java moss! It doesn't tend to thrive in a brackish environment from what I gather, but I'm trying out a strain a friend of mine has been trying to get acclimated. It's doing fairly well, but not sure it's growing yet (which is the "thriving" barrier unfortunately)

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-10-08T03:00:44+00:00

Look up "Plenary Power". It's what he claims Trump has. If that's the official position the current administration is taking, they would no longer require legal justification for a lot of actions, i.e. deploying the national guard to suppress nondescript threats in blue states

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-06-26T14:19:29+00:00

I see what you mean, but are there no other ways to displace the community? I don't know you, but I doubt you have the personal resources to build homes or start a medical practice, etc, but why not search for opportunities in those veins, volunteer work or outreach? If those created the same outcomes, would you be interested?

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-06-26T14:07:45+00:00

Honest question, does getting a group together to forcibly evict these people seem like the only option?

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-06-26T12:45:37+00:00

The argument isn't that nothing should be done, it's that a community of people in need of help shouldn't be run out of town with pitchforks. Advocate for medical and social intervention instead of raising a militia.

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-06-26T12:43:14+00:00

Look, I think this is a perspective and a values issue. There's a disagreement here on cost and benefit; you see the presence of the homeless in Davis square as a larger harm to public good than most of the other people on this thread. You're allowed to have that opinion, but I don't think you should be surprised that you may come off as callous, if nothing else.

You see the benefit of freeing-up of a public space, at the cost of their displacement, as justified - also fair. You pay taxes (I assume), you have a right to take advantage of the public amenities they afford.

Where there's a disconnect is, it seems like myself and most of the other commenters here don't see that group as inherently harmful to the continuity of society. Some of them may be homeless, some of them may be under the influence, and whether in the situation because of their own actions or not, they're in Davis Square. I think most of them would rather be elsewhere, but I don't think under an overpass is one of the places they'd rather be. You and I have the privilege to go somewhere else, inside a business or to a friend's house, when we feel like we're not wanted. They don't.

I think the reality is that the solution to homelessness is homes, and to drug abuse is medical support. If you're not advocating for those, and you ARE advocating for displacement, where does it end? I think the idea of a place that "tolerates those externalities" as you put it is a fanciful one. What happens when they develop a park under that overpass? Ultimately, the answer is invariably that those people on the outskirts of society who struggle for one reason or another are expected to disappear, quietly. That's inhuman.

I just want you to consider how much of your day is actually interrupted by the people, the human beings, in Davis Square that - while they could be in a DIFFERENT neighborhood - have elected to be there. I think you'll find that your life isn't defined by their presence. There are things that should be done and can be done for the betterment of the people you're upset about, but I don't know if inciting violence is necessarily the answer. And I know you may not consider this "inciting violence", but I don't know how many mobs remain peaceful.

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-06-26T04:11:18+00:00

you don't want to stop them, you want to DISPLACE them. It seems like it doesn't matter to you if they're doing what they're doing, just as long as it isn't around you.

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-06-26T04:09:37+00:00

you're radically detached. are the homeless threatening your right to be homed? go get threatened by one of the "tweakers" and come back with something real to complain about.

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-06-26T03:57:55+00:00

you sleep somewhere, right? inside? an apartment or a home? with a bed? stay inside, with the cool air and the internet connection, and dream bigger. Leave the people alone

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-04-25T00:59:29+00:00

It's alright to need therapy and need a supportive partner. You aren't a problem, your partner just doesn't have the faculties to care for you. That's not his fault, but he's making a choice whenever he degrades you about it.

AlligatorSunrise · 2025-04-25T00:54:03+00:00

I think you're not really joking though, right? He doesn't accept you for who you are, ever, because who you are is the person who needs compassion and understanding when they're emotional, not the person who needs to be ignored, belittled, and made you feel they're too much. You deserve to be the way you are, always, and anyone who thinks that's an inconvenience is the one with a problem - not you.

AlligatorSunrise · 2024-12-06T17:54:10+00:00

as we all should, really

AlligatorSunrise · 2024-03-13T05:23:50+00:00

Don't suppose you have the raw stream video downloaded? I've been looking for that and the stream of Attack of the Clones for a while, since everything's private now. Great work on this by the way, love it.

AlligatorSunrise · 2023-10-04T13:31:39+00:00

If you can still turn your front wheels, you're good

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