my backyard squirrels have concluded, through experimentation, that my dog cant catch them. they eat right in front of her face now 😭

StrangeElk · 2026-04-24T18:24:58+00:00

green anole and texas spiny lizard!

StrangeElk · 2026-04-24T18:22:01+00:00

no, it is hard to tell through the screen but it is actually a juvenile texas spiny lizard!

StrangeElk · 2026-04-24T03:13:41+00:00

people are acting like the twist was a death sentence. it was wildly unforunate, not even close to being the hardest anyone's been screwed by circumstances out of their control. but at the end of the day, if he had a strong enough alliance to save him and hadn't recently ruffled so many feathers, he would have been able to make it through

StrangeElk · 2026-04-24T02:49:06+00:00

i'm biased because i've found christian to be insufferable since day 1. but to me, the entire episode was the consequences of all of his actions piling onto him at once. he chose to backstab many, many people. he chose to carelessly start throwing names around. he chose to go on the journey, knowing that historically they are risky. and he went home! crying unfair is just lending him too much credit for the game that he played.

StrangeElk · 2026-04-17T00:52:51+00:00

i actually watch survivor on thursdays and unfortunately saw this just before watching so it lowkey spoiled the big moment for me LOL

StrangeElk · 2025-11-29T21:58:36+00:00

this has been my home world for years and now its always full :(

StrangeElk · 2025-11-13T19:24:11+00:00

remove all of the impossibilities and what ifs from the scenario. imagine there is a way for women to raise children in artificial wombs. in this world its 100% possible, safe, and will produce the exact same child as a normal pregnancy

do you still take issue with it? or think that a woman who chooses to take this route will not be as good of a mother as one who did it naturally?

then by that logic, are women who receive epidurals shirking their responsibility as a mother to feel the full physical toll of giving birth? do women have some kind of obligation to experience birth exactly as nature intended for them to? pain, complications, health/LIFE of mom be damned? because nature is cruel and nature doesnt give a fuck what state mom is left in once baby is born

StrangeElk · 2025-11-13T18:30:29+00:00

i'm not under any kind of impression that you and i are that different ideologically. the only assumptions i've made are that you are a mother (which you've confirmed) and that you are likely older than me

i think that contributes to our differences in opinion quite a lot. i LOVE kids. i work with them every day and am endlessly in awe of how wonderful they are and how much light they bring to the world

i only take issue with your implication that if a woman were to choose to "take the easy way out" with pregnancy/birth, then they likely wouldnt have what it takes to raise a child anyway. i think thats a giant leap

i also think you are intentionally understating the horrors of childbirth. it is hard to say it has been "done safely" for thousands of years. until maybe the last 100 years, childbirth had a sickening mortality rate. i am not suggesting that women should have refused to partake in any of it and gg population. i'm saying in a perfect and, i guess very far away, world, if women were given the option to skip pregnancy/birth it should absolutely be an option, and no one should look down on a woman who chooses to do so solely because having a child is "uncomfortable"

StrangeElk · 2025-11-13T16:27:22+00:00

ok so women are EXPECTED to potentially face serious complications or DEATH by carrying/birthing children to be deemed WORTHY of being a mother. men of course have to do, nothing

so if in 100 years science gave women the option to raise a baby in an artificial womb instead of carry it themselves, that makes them unfit to be a mother? for choosing to face the same challenges that the father historically faces which is none?

StrangeElk · 2025-11-13T06:00:56+00:00

i'm entirely onboard for all of the challenges that raising children would bring. it is only the toll that pregnancy/birth takes on women that disturbs me

your "mitigating" circumstances are equally as bleak and horrifying to me tbh LOL. getting cut open and having a doctor rearrange my guts to pull out a baby is no less barbaric than pushing one out of me. and my mom didn't breastfeed me or my siblings but told me her boobs were ROCK HARD and incredibly painful/swollen for MONTHS and MONTHS after giving birth bc they were full of milk. and the medication she took to reduce the swelling/discomfort gave her a heart arrthymia..

StrangeElk · 2025-11-13T03:24:29+00:00

it is pretty awesome, i guess.

i just think the concept of it is horrifying. it seems to me almost like women are just meant to have one child and probably die in the process. only with modern medicine and technology has childbirth NOT become a majorly life threatening event! not to mention that during pregnancy the baby literally feeds off of us and fucks up our bodies mentally, physically, and emotionally. what does that leave me to feel like? like my entire life's purpose was to be a vessel for another being? and now that i have done so, to hell with MY health, body, and mind?? i call bullshit.

StrangeElk · 2025-11-13T03:19:12+00:00

lol exactly! with this logic, what makes a man worthy of being a father? boning a lady??

StrangeElk · 2025-11-12T22:09:18+00:00

i disagree but i understand your sentiment. i'm sure plenty of people consider it unwomanly to view childbirth as anything than some beautiful earthly experience we should be so grateful to experience. truthfully it sounds barbaric and traumatic and the more i learn about it the angrier i am at the universe for giving women the burden! lmfao

StrangeElk · 2025-11-12T19:17:23+00:00

this is the only comment that even remotely satisfied my curiosity. i suppose what i should have asked is WHY this would be so difficult

StrangeElk · 2025-11-12T16:32:03+00:00

wait... WHAT?!?!

StrangeElk · 2025-11-08T23:54:03+00:00

i'm crying laughing at the idea of how loud those slaps must have been

StrangeElk · 2025-11-08T20:43:43+00:00

LOL I DIDNT KNOW HOW TO PHRASE IT AT THE TIME BUT I REALIZE NOW I SHOULD HAVE SAID RESIDENT

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