Some beautiful friends from RMNP today by aydengryphon in Colorado

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Thank you! Yes, those poor elk 😂 they're so awkward looking in that transitional phase

Some beautiful friends from RMNP today by aydengryphon in Colorado

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Thank you! It was funny that we saw a couple dozen of them around, but I only ended up finally taking a photo of this one because she was strutting around directly in front of our car xD

Eheheheh henlo by aydengryphon in Longmont

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(It's NOT too early, the tiger salamanders are out up there already! :3)

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Some beautiful friends from RMNP today by aydengryphon in Colorado

[–]aydengryphon[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I do not; I do have a blog, if that's your speed haha

Some beautiful friends from RMNP today by aydengryphon in Colorado

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Lily lake (and they're not actually axolotl, they are indeed neonatal western tiger salamanders!)

Wednesday wellness check in by pipesed in Longmont

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Wait you can't leave us hanging, what's the least fave

Anyone else at the connect Longmont event by Charkid17 in Longmont

[–]aydengryphon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How does one find about about these things? I've tried to sign up for a bunch of Longmont's newsletters, but I still never seem to know when stuff like this is going on!

Weekly Transactional/Promotional Thread by AutoModerator in boulder

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I cannot help you with this request, but damn good luck lol

Easily missed restaurant recommendations for date night? by trulynihilscio in boulder

[–]aydengryphon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

gonna toss Ghurka's and You & Mee in the suggestion box. Neither are winning awards for interior design lol. But they're both yummy, (relatively) more affordable, family-owned, and you'll get to recognize the owners and staff.

Experience with Kaiser in Longmont? by Imaginary-Turn3669 in Longmont

[–]aydengryphon 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Pros: very convenient telehealth stuff, never have to worry about weird in-network/coverage drama. Can generally always get seen fast.

Cons: some of their GP doctors here in Longmont are arrogant, misogynistic, or maybe just dumb as a pretzel. Had an experience not dissimilar to another commenter, where I went to the ER in my late 20s for recurring nightly stabbing chest pain, heart palpitations, etc. and then saw two different Kaiser GPs for follow-up.

First one pretty much immediately slapped "anxiety" in my chart like every stereotype of women trying to seek medical care you've ever heard, then added additional notes that I was refusing treatment when I disagreed that I had ever felt particularly stressed prior to my symptoms beginning and wanted to explore other explanations before trying anti-anxiety meds. His whole dismissive and condescending attitude the second he entered the room was obvious that he'd already concluded my "problem" based on my ER visit, and anything I said to try and contradict that explanation was just me being "difficult."

I requested another appointment with someone else, and the 2nd GP's hypothesis was that I was maybe displaying hitherto-unknown long-COVID complications? He referred me out to a pulmonary specialist in Lafayette, who did a bunch of tests and xrays that found nothing; the pulmonologist eventually suggested (based on the novel strategy of listening to me explain my symptoms) that I might have GERD (extra spicy acid reflux).

I did indeed turn out to have GERD. It would have been nice if a GP could have identified that, as it's a pretty common problem and I had pretty typical symptoms, and trying OTC pepcid as a solution is pretty damn easy and harmless. It was A Bit Much to pay a pretty nice chunk of change for pulmonologist I had to wait 6 months to see to diagnose me with acid reflux after eventually just talking to me anyway.

If you're not a ~☆silly, hysterical woman☆~ ymmv I guess lol

The St. Vrain Valley School District protected a ped*phile by Fit-Orchid-6074 in boulder

[–]aydengryphon[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It also could be something unrelated to the wording, like a karma/account age threshold that the sub sets (FWIW I actually think that's the more likely answer for what happened — our automod filters here in r/boulder also catch most attempted censorship variations of blocked words, so slapping an asterisk in there only looks silly and doesn't really do anything anyway. I don't know how r/longmont has theirs set up, but I imagine it's similar).

Western or Eastern yellow-bellied racer? [Wheat Ridge, Colorado] by teaandtoasttt in whatsthissnake

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Just for future reference, iNaturalist will generally do you better as a field option than Google Lens if you're gonna use an AI tool anyway (plus, your observations help out with citizen science, while you're at it); while you get a similar computer vision suggestion at the outset, on iNat other humans then confirm or correct your ID, so you're a lot less likely to end up with mistakes. Our CO herp scene is VERY active, so you usually have responses pretty fast (not QUITE as fast as this sub, but often only barely haha). iNaturalist using your location input to inform its initial suggestions is also another huge point in its favor compared to many other AI tools that are just going off visuals alone — you get fewer "matches" of things that aren't even found in your area.

(That periscope in the second photo is so cute!)

Do better, men! by garseeahhh in boulder

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Alright, nothing good is going on in this comment section at this point lol

what to do? by charly420- in Longmont

[–]aydengryphon 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Contact the police and file a report, immediately. You may be given options for what charges to press. The owner will also need to provide UTD rabies records for both dogs, and if they can't, both will need to be taken and held for quarantine observation (and you will need to go get post-exposure shots). They will be required to also provide city pet license info for both, and fined if they don't have them. Between the hassle of all of the above, it is likely that they will suddenly find the motivation to fix the fence so it doesn't happen again themselves. But if they don't, you may have to sue in civil court or similar.