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All my favorite internet forums held on by being small and having solid rules and moderation,

Me too. I don't understand why some people (mostly lemmy.world) are so eager to recruit as much of reddit as possible to join. Smaller is better.

I think they might be referring to the CSAM attack. Someone apparently flooded lemmy.world with CSAM images and a lot of people inadvertently saw them.

I think we're safe on Beehaw but I'm not opening any inline image links I see on the fediverse just in case.

Until I started to see stories like that I thought about fungi in terms of death/not death, and didn't realize the life-changing injury part in between.

Your poor friend. To be fair I can't travel anyway for health reasons, but multiple organ failure still seems worse.

Thanks, interesting. I'm glad America gives everyone dialysis too. I live in a country with universal healthcare, so I sort of skimmed over the cost aspect because that wouldn't be an issue here.

It is more the physical, quality-of-life-ruining aspects that give me the horror. I read an article once where a family of 4 all had severe permanent kidney damage from eating the wrong mushrooms.

I don't think it was meant to be reassuring. @rayyyy@kbin.social is right, don't mess around with fungi. You can get irreversible kidney damage.

Then there's the permanent kidney failure...

All my fun facts are 100% real! Footage of short tailed bat walking around on the ground.

Wikipedia entry on Bat Fly .

Department of Conservation bat blog about the flies, with pictures.

Hmm this bat is so cute I might go post it on an ecology community now. :-)

Thanks for this article, it's very cool!

Yes I am still grieving my dead, and grief can make it harder to connect with others I think.

Your one day a week is a good idea, I think I'll copy it.

What I really want yo do is to be more creative community member again instead of a passive content consumer. Not sure what form that will take yet.

I really need a photoshop-like app on my phone for things like this.

Want a another fun fact? The bats evolved to spend a lot of time just walking around on the ground.

And, there's a special species of fly that lost the ability to actually fly, and for transport it rides around on the backs of the short tailed bats.

Edit: links in next comment.

Long tailed bat and short tailed bat.

We used to have 3 but the bigger version of short tailed bats died out.

I have tried that so many times with different cats and it does not work. None of them care.

I think maybe you have to be in a country that has snakes?

How very dare you. Two tiny bats!

Fun fact: Australia and New Zealand are 2,516 miles apart, and don't share much of the same wildlife.

The Indigenous people of Aotearoa make up 16% of the population so they are demographically a much larger political and social force than in the US or Australia.

I've posted several articles about links between various Indigenous cultural traditions and ecological conservation over at !conservative@kbin.social if you're interested.

I understand the concern you feel - and I agree that public support for invasive interventions can be inflamed (or in some cases, downright manufactured) by news media.

I think you're right to be wary of encouraging support, and we in the west as a whole should resist buying into or perpetuating those kinds of discourses.

In this case, I don't think that's what this article, or the partner journalists, or the underlying study, are intending, though. This is a "world news" section so by its very nature it is mostly about things outside our remit. (I acknowledge that this is easier for me to say as someone in a small nation that did not join the coalition to invade Afghanistan. If I were in a country with huge global political power it would probably feel a bit glib to just say "we" are not in charge).

I have had this feeling too recently. One thing I did which has helped me is to unsubscribe from most news/politics except here at Beehaw.

I'm a dinosaur so I fondly remember slashdot and the old "scoop" sites. I like information density too.

I think kbin is written in php which is interesting. I like the "feel" of it the best. But I get the impression it has even fewer mod tools than lemmy.

So jealous of the amount of Raita you could be eating right now.

I would try to make biryani as my raita delivery vehicle.