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nerb

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I’m a faux curmudgeon.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Interest include reading, love to spend time with a good book. 3D printing and design. Lapidary and smithing both for jewelry and metalwork. Electronics and designing odd things that use microprocessors.
I am the servant of 1 kitty and happily married to my wife who is way smarter than me. ( She has the PHD )
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NatureMC, to Birds
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Very bad photo: I can't and especially don't want to approach. Never disturb animals with babies!
The black redstarts (Phoenicurus ochruros) above my door have youngsters (I counted 3). They come every year and I have to leave very carefully. The chicks react to my movements and open their beaks. Then my primal reflex: I would like to catch a fat insect to feed them. But no, little chirpies, I'm not your mum! I continue very calmly to clear mum's flight path.

nerb,
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@NatureMC

We have mockingbirds nesting in the passionflower vines to the side of our patio. Parents are very aggressive and will dive bomb from the rear to chase you off. They have successfully chased every other animal except the woodpeckers out of the back yard. They leave the woodpeckers alone. Lots of alarm noises but no approaching.

I wear an old floppy hat with googly eyes on the front and back so the bird does not know where to attack. They follow me all over the yard hissing, I had one draw blood when it nailed me with its beak is why I do that.

nerb,
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@NatureMC

Your babies parents seem nicer, not wired to chase away everything .

Wish ours would share.We had a fairly bad hurricane come through here 2 years ago and higher nesting spots are not plentiful since many trees went down. Mockingbirds nest lower in shrubs. They chase away any other birds who dare to try to nest in the 4 remaining trees. Apparently nothing is allowed within 300 or so feet of their nest.

We call them murderbirds. The poor kitty has not been allowed in the back yard for 2 weeks so far because they constantly attack her. She is almost 19 and the odds she could do anything to them are none. After the babies fledge I am planning on repelling them from that area from now on. They have plenty of nesting locations along the rear fence they could use. As well as tea and other shrubs that would make fine nesting locations.

That way I can go out the rear door and not be under attack.

tantramar, (edited ) to animals
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The cat, at the back door, demanding to be let inside first thing in the morning.

I don’t have a cat.

nerb,
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@tantramar You need to have a ferret do that. We opened out front door one day and a slinky critter dashed in and ran under the couch.

After I found the flashlight and looked I see what I at first thought was a possum with needle sharp teeth then remembered possums are not reddish brown. A bit more looking and we decided it was a ferret.

OK next problem, we do not own one nor remember a neighbor having one. So I was off checking to see if one of the neighbors lost one.

After walking almost a block down found the owners. They were looking all over their house for "Bruce". Who was very happy to come to papa

Apparently he ran out the door when someone opened it and after running down the street knew enough to wait by a door to be let in. Problem was we were the wrong door.

NickEast, to books
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Can I have some fleeting passions with a somewhat changeable base of continuity? Please, and thank you... 😂

@bookquote @bookstodon @bookbubble @books

nerb,
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@NickEast @bookquote @bookstodon @bookbubble @books So you are saying the future is not all it is quacked up to be?

ColinTheMathmo, to random
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Quoting:

"A follow-up with 13 of the volunteers three years later revealed that those who had used GPS the most during the intervening period experienced greater declines in their ability to navigate without GPS, strongly suggesting that GPS reliance causes diminished skills, rather than poor skills leading to greater GPS use."

-- https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2024/why-do-some-people-always-get-lost-but-others-dont

nerb,
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@ColinTheMathmo For some Aphantasia may be why. I do not have that picture in my head some of you do so I have to memorize routes.

What was funny though was years back when we were doing a diving test I was the only one who was able to successful navigate the nighttime dive course. The water was cloudy, it was dark and I was the only one who went to all markers and came back out within 5 feet of where I went in.

eclectech, to photography
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I call this piece "Waiting for the plumber to turn up"

(in that it's what I made while waiting for the plumber, not that the mossy beast has a need for plumbing expertise)

nerb,
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@eclectech I should have touched the picture right away. I spent way to long staring at it trying to figure what it was. Spider legs but wrong body shape and number of eyes. I'll blame it on the tiny cell phone screen.

jerzone, to animals
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“oh, sir. oh, sir. excuse me sir.”

I probably trained him to do this, he’ll come up to office chair a few times a day to gently, persistently tap tap tap on the side in hopes I'll scoot forward so he can jump behind me on chair. Some days he’ll lay back there, others he just thinks it's easier for me to backwards pet him (it's not).

tapping and trying to look for space to squeeze in behind me on chair, no luck yet

nerb,
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@jerzone I miss my black kitty. She would go in the kitchen and grab a grocery bag from the bag sock. Then bring it into the room and place it beside my chair and plop down on it.

nerb,
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@jerzone We are down to just one now. A bengal we were given because the previous owner could not handle it. It's a bit flighty but now that she is 18+ is slowing down. She trades or at least we think that is why she puts her favorite toy mouse or feather in the food dish.

Tail. would lay on the bag and if I did not pet her would flop back and forth like a fish and make MEH sound. She was a pound kitty as was the previous black kitty who was missing her tail so she was the stub.

jerzone, to random
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As I get older there's more and more replays of my past. Not like “Summer vacation as a kid”, more like “ok, let’s review where I've been in the past ten minutes that I could have set down the [phone/glasses/sandwich]”

nerb,
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@jerzone I lost my keys so many times. Now I have a tile on them. If I manage to find the phone I can just press a button and start the treasure search for the missing keys.

nerb,
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@jerzone They do hear better. We had a problem with people walking their dogs using our mailbox as a poop spot. Would have been fine if they picked it up but no.....

Anyway I quickly became tired of bending over so I borrowed a squirrel deterrent device from my former job. ( retired ) It emits a high frequency that ramps up and down from around 26000 hz to 32000 hz in a very directional cone. At about 10 watts so it is loud. To me it is silent. If I get in front of it my ear will start to hurt but no sound at all.

Was fun to watch people trying to drag their dogs past my mailbox.
Then the daughter and grandchild came over. Both were going what is that awful sound? Its a horrible beedoo beedoo they said. So of course we call them both lassie now.

nerb,
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@jerzone aluminum foil seems to work on our cat. We have a piece we place on the chair every night so she does not sit and throw up on it. She does not like it so the chair stays barf free.

I used to use a small ultrasonic device that you could set the range of. We would set it by the bedroom door to stop the door shaking and loud howling at 4am. That cat passed so we did not need it anymore. It would only go off if she was within 3 feet of it so the door was off limits.

Found it out in the workshop. It's called a catscram. When I did use it it would eat 9v batteries so I bought a 9v ac adapter and used that with it.

rayckeith, to random
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Inside the Election Denial Groups Planning to Disrupt November | WIRED

"But in recent weeks, these groups have held training sessions about how to organize on a hyperlocal level to monitor polling places and drop boxes, challenge voter registrations en masse, and intimidate and harass voters and election officials. And some are preparing to roll out new technology to fast-track all of these efforts: One of the groups claims they’re launching a new platform for checking voter rolls that contains billions of “data elements” on every single US citizen.

These groups could have a major impact on the 2024 election."
https://www.wired.com/story/election-denial-groups-november-2024/

nerb,
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@rayckeith

Which is why Sarasota county where I live is hell. Republicans control all levers of the government both state and local. And flynn and co. have successfully taken over the local GOP party, the school board, and are attempting to gain control of the local public hospital so they can privatize it . They have a wacko clinic up the street from me that offers what I suppose they want the hospital to offer like red light therapy.

https://www.wtphealthcare.com/

then there is stuff like this

https://issueone.org/articles/americas

nerb,
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@rayckeith What amazes me is no one seems to care that nutbags are in power here.

I guess its OK as long as they wear team red hats.

jerzone, to random
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Random YT project of the weekend. I'm guessing this guy is a woodworker, there's wood bits made to cover wood bits that are over wood bits. And caulking, so much caulking. So it wasn't surprising when he had to buy a new base trailer to handle the extra camper weight. Memorable quote, “but I won’t be adding much more weight now” and then remaining third of video is nothing but adding things. “:^)

If nothing else be sure to check water heater 53 minutes in!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9qug1rEQnM

nerb,
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@jerzone He and the neighbor down the street build the same way. My neighbor build a house boat on pontoons. When he attempted to launch it it was so heavy the pontoons were under water. It sat for a few years in his side yard and finally vanished just before the hurricane a few years back.

nedhamson1, to random
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Editorial: Florida shows how to bungle a measles outbreak – Los Angeles Times

As life-saving as the COVID-19 vaccines have been, the measles vaccine has been an even greater success story. Before the vaccine was developed in 1963, outbreaks that occurred every two to three years were killing 2.6 million people worldwide a year, most of them children. Others developed pneumonia, or suffered brain injury and deafness from measles-associated encephalitis. It’s an…

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2024/02/28/editorial-florida-shows-how-to-bungle-a-measles-outbreak-los-angeles-times/

nerb,
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@nedhamson1
Measles, mumps, chicken pox and such were common when I was young. One of my friends who had measles was gone a long time and when he came back was not the same. He went to a different school in another state so I would only see him during the summers.

I remember he had a hearing aid that looked like the Arvin transistor radio we kids dreamed of owning. With it if we shouted he would sometimes notice and turn so he could read lips.

He taught us some sign language. Only thing I remember from it is how to say shit. Unfortunately he also had severe seizures and died while I was still in junior high.

And his sister died from scarlet fever shortly after. Why anyone would want to bring back those good old days is beyond me.

georgetakei, to random

Love this ♥️

nerb,
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@georgetakei Scary how fast they get older!. My own daughter turns 45 in a week and is complaining about it. Told her I'd trade her to which she just chuckles.

I can remember so much from when she was a Little itty bitty thing.

nerb, to Cats
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Our house seems emptier today. Yesterday I took Mitzie AKA tail into the vet to have her teeth checked since she was avoiding dry cat food. When they examined her they found the underside of her tongue was cancerous. They said they could remove her tongue but her quality of life would not have been good so we opted to have her put to sleep while still under anesthesia .

No more little black kitty underfoot with her tail straight up in the air. And no more kitty in her own bed. Never knew a cat who had her own bedroom before but she definitely thought it was hers.

That was a surprise, up until 2 days ago she was fine. They said it was just starting to bother her so at least she did not suffer long.

georgetakei, to random

Tray bon!

nerb,
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@georgetakei You can do that line in all states since no straws are needed.

dannotdaniel, to HashtagGames
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We Will
We Will
BLOCK YOU

I see your and I raise you


nerb,
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@dannotdaniel

Thanks for the earworm..

Movie gif of two hands . First as fist slamming the table twice then clapping. Boom Boom Clap, Boom Boom Clap.

mike, to hiking
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More pictures

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nerb,
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@mike Palm trees in Canada? You must have a good banana belt up there! Those look like Sable palms AKA cabbage palms. I have a friend who raises and sells them to hotels up in states they have no business being in. Good business I guess as he gets to send new ones every year.

nerb, to HashtagGames
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The Glyptodon is an extinct beast with armor thick and strong,

It roamed the plains of Florida for millions of years long.

Its armored shell was like a tank protecting it from harm.

With armor like that a Smilodon should never cause alarm.

It was a gentle giant, grazing on the grass and trees.

But if threatened, it could fight back, a swing of its tail caused many a predator to flee.

Sadly they are extinct now , no more left at all.

It is remembered now only in books, museums, and things like this stupid scrawl.



georgetakei, to random

If there's a heaven, he's on the beach there.
https://www.comicsands.com/biden-pays-tribute-jimmy-buffet-2664942481.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

nerb,
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@georgetakei I'd like to have him playing in the park in Coconut Grove while people rollerscake around. the area.

supernovae, to random

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    nerb,
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    @supernovae We call those hitchhikers.

    BrianAllred, to Type1Diabetes

    Fucking hate it when my infusion site doesn't take and my basal isn't delivered for hours. Especially if the timing is around meal time, because I can't know if I'm rising because of a bad site or because I underestimated my meal's carbs. My only indicator is a radical angry mood swing that leaves me upset and embarrassed after my blood sugar finally comes down.

    It's been a fucking night.

    @diabetes

    nerb,
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    @BrianAllred @diabetes

    Interesting how differently High and Low blood sugar affects our moods and emotions. For me a very high level acts like a sedative. I'm relaxed and other than feeling like I am walking through water or gravity is turned way up all is good. If it were not for the peeing and thirst I'd probably get the best sleep ever.

    Lows on the other hand I'm jittery and anxious and easily provoked. When the wife start asking me if my sugar is low I means it am being a bit of an asshole. Or my sugar is low ;)

    nerb,
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    @BrianAllred @diabetes

    Interesting how differently High and Low blood sugar affects our moods and emotions. For me a very high level acts like a sedative. I'm relaxed and other than feeling like I am walking through water or gravity is turned way up all is good. If it were not for the peeing and thirst I'd probably get the best sleep ever.

    Lows on the other hand I'm jittery and anxious and easily provoked. When the wife start asking me if my sugar is low I means it am being a bit of an asshole. Or my sugar is low ;)

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