Buy a Shot for My Cat?

Hello, there! Me and @bozbos​’s cat, Alphonse is very sick. The life saving treatment he needs and the cost of the multi-night hospital stay comes to a little more than $10,000. We have set up a GoFundMe to help with the costs.

Consider buying him a dose of his lifesaving medicine. He will need 4 doses a day for 56 days. One day of medicine will be $85, or $21.25/dose. Even $1 would help.

If you would prefer to send money through Venmo, send me a DM and I’d happily send you my username. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and have a wonderful day.

Money Raised: 735/10,000

https://gofund.me/aef00042

Hello everyone! Apologies for the late update, it has been a busy process juggling Al’s illness with other aspects of life. Thank you all so so much for the donations, thanks to you Al is now fully better! Miraculously, a later vet visit showed that Al did not have nearly as serious a condition as previously thought, and his treatment changed to something much more reasonable in price and ease. Over the past few weeks, Al has continued to get more and more of his old energy, and he’s more loving than ever. After the long hospital stay and continued vet and lab bills, even with the cheaper medicine treatment, our bills were still quite hefty, and we are left with a large amount of debt that has made things difficult. Al is safe and healthy thanks to all of your help, and I cannot thank any of you enough. However, if anyone is still willing to donate to this campaign further to help recoup some of those funds, it would be an enormous help to me and my family.

Thank you all so much for your time and support!

sure. Why not

real

im loving this article written by som mycologists who accidentally got high as fuck on fly agaric

here’s the article

this is absolute gold please click that link

i love scientists

@gallusrostromegalus

Oh this is TAME compared to the usual relentless Unhinged Hoopla the mycologists usually get up to.

I have had the tremendous good fortune to know several mycologists, all of whom I would trust with my life and to help me hide a body should the occasion arise but not with a Ham Sandwich. A Short List of the bullshit I’ve seen the Mycologists do:

• Went out on a late-summer mushrooming expidition with some as part of a class in scientific illustration to collect samples. The scandanavians are notorious about keeping thier family mushrooming grounds a secret but in order to go up with the mycologists, we all had to be blindflded for the better part of an hour in the car as we got close, and put our hands on a copy of All The Rain Promises And More because they didn’t think the Bible was “Serious Enough” and swear to keep any educated guesses we had about where we were a secret.  
• I thought this was perhaps over-doing it a little, until Valerie (not her real name) waved me over to a patch of rather boring looking white mushrooms and told me, Quote:  
  “Now, when I was a young woman*, this was a more serious issue but should you ever find someone worthy of a slow, painful death, all you need is a sliver of these.  The first symptom is stomach cramps and by then it’s too late.  The toxin interferes with the body’s ability to translate DNA into protiens, and once it sets in, it’s irreversible.  He’ll be dead no more than five days later of liver failure.”
  “That’s fascinating Valerie. I will keep it in mind.”
  “You’re a smart G- No.  What’s the word. Thing that comes out at night**.  Anyway, I’m sure you can find your way back here.”
  
• *for context, Valerie is old enough that when she was born, women couldn’t vote.  Sometimes, fools have the hubris to ask her what she thinks of the Good Old Days and she tells them that it’s so good that divorce and women’s rights has become a thing, instead of ‘having to beat a man to death and blame it on the poor mule” to get out of a bad marriage.
• **Valerie also seems to have confused Nonbinary People with Nocturnal Animals, but she’s not wrong.
• She was also entirely correct that I figured out where the mushrooming grounds are despite the blindfold but the book oath still holds.
  
  
• Anyway, back to the Bullshit
  .
• Valerie was 97 at the time of this expidition and still hoofing it p and down the side of a mountain to identify specimens.
• The trouble with being out in the CO Mountains in late summer, and ESPECIALLY in a part of the mountains that has an awful lot of high-calorie tasty things like Chanterelles and Boltetes and Morels and Puffballs is that there are other things that enjoy all these lovely fungi as well
  
  
• like Black Bears.
• Hyperphagic and hyper-territorial Black Bears because it’s fucking october and they are trying to get fat AND laid.
• Sure enough, we’d been up there a few hours when I hear a sort of shuffling from uphill and see a rather large bear ambling purposefully in our direction.  
• He can undoubtedly smell us.  
• He does not care.
• There are Boletes to be had
• “Uh.  Valerie.” I Interrupt her lecture on how to determine the likely age and spread of the underground fungal body of Boletes so you can tell if a patch will be there next year or not. “There’s a Bear.”
  She looks up to where I am pointing less than 100 feet away and shugs. “Well it’s his house first. So long as he stays over there it’s fine.”
  “Valerie I don’t think he’s staying there.” I say, considering if I can sprint back to the van while carrying her or if I’m going to have to file a death report with the police.
• “What are you pointing at?” asks the Department Head.  She is not only Finnish, but has an actual doctorate in Mycology, and much, much more unhinged than Valerie is. 
  
• “B e A R !” I say, trying to keep my voice down while conveying the appropriate sense of urgency about the fact that a 300lb and likely half-mad with hunger carnivore is headed towards his favorite mushroom patch and we are in the way.
  
• My Department Head striaghtens up to her full 6′4″ and I swear, bristles her hair like a fucking Myazaki cartoon.
• She makes a loud, harsh barking noise at it that I now recognize as the Finnish Profanity “PERKELE!” and slaps a ponderosa to show she means business.
  
• The Bear
  
• Stands
  
• Up.
  
  
• This is very definitely a Boar Black Bear and I’m doing a quick headcount so emergency services can bring up an appropriate number of body bags.
• “Oh.” Says my Department Head. 
  
• “It’s only a little one.”
  
  
• It is at this point that I remember that she is from the North parts of Finland and she has a Polar Bear Skull in her office.
• As I am realizing this, she storms directly towards the bear, continuing to curse it in Finnish, picks up a stick in one hand and a rock in the other and throws the latter in a rather elegant curveball that only misses the bear as he realizes the Mycologists are back and ducks, before hightailing it up the mountain.
  
• “He’s only a little love, there was no need for that.” Pouts Valerie.
  
• “He would have made a good rug.” Says my Department Head.
  
• the debate on the ethics of hunting bears on foot with rocks continues until a third Mycologist, Ralph, Discovers an Elk Skull with Mushrooms blooming out of the bone.
• “Ooooh!  Ossiphages!  This is a lovely find!”  Says Valerie, and we gather around to coo over the delicate gray caps growing along the elk’s rotted browridge.
  
• the madness is contagious, apparently.
• “Do you think your conciousness is transferred to that which consumes you after death?” Ralph asks.  
• “I hope so.”  he continues like he has not just said something absurd and nightmarish. “Its so horribly noisy being an animal.  I’d live to be an ossiphage fungus.”
  
• We all nod in agreement.   Something moves in a bush and several of us pick up rocks in case the bear has decided to make a career change into carpeting.
  
  
• At one point Valerie takes a bite out of Boletus.
• “Hm.  Good Specimen.  Needs some salt and butter.”  She nodded aprovingly.
  “Weren’t you just telling me we have to do a cut test to see if they’re poisonous or not?” I ask, as she had in fact, juct finished telling me that.
  
• Valerie swallows, THEN looks down at the bite she’s taken out of it.
  
  
• “Well it didn’t turn purple so I guess i get to live today.” She smiles, serenely.
  

Anyway, Mycologists are absolutely bonkers and you should definitely go make friends with them.

Me, plunking Stinky Bastard Man’s carrier on the counter: hi he’s here for shots and a nail trim and he’ll need to be sedated

Nurse: Are you sure? We can try-

Me: he needs to be sedated

Nurse: Well, it’ll take longer-

Me: he needs to be sedated, he will try to rip your face off

Nurse: Well we’ll try without first and we’ll let you know if we need to sedate

Me, watching her carry him away: you will need to sedate him

Nurse, coming back 10 minutes later clutching her hand: so, we will need to sedate him

Me:

Originally posted by justalittletumblweed

A man with 3 caution stickers on his med file

Since this post blew up and people have asked for this villain’s record, here are some of Stinky Bastard Man’s more heinous crimes:

• Screamed so loudly with such unbridled fury the one time he wasn’t sedated at the vet that he caused a little girl in the waiting room to burst into tears
  
• Ripped an escape hole in the patio screen door in a single night
  
• Snuck into the garage overnight where he managed to pull down his massive food bag from the top shelves, ripped it open and ate so much he couldn’t/wouldn’t move when we found him in the morning  
  
• Learned how to open the laundry cabinet to sleep on the clean towels
  
• Learned how to open doors, thus allowing the dog to follow in after who then eats from the trash
  
• Bats off anything on our windowsills that gets in the way of his sitting. Current succulent casualty count: 4
• Thankfully cannot open the bedroom door due to rusty mechanisms, but managed to slip in one night when it wasn’t fully closed. Jumped down from my windowsill squarely onto my stomach, leaving me to bolt awake screaming from the blow and convinced I was under attack
  
• Tricked me into loving him forever anyway

Ripped an escape hole

in the patio screen door

in a single night

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

oh my god he’s THIS Stinky Bastard Man!!!!

she would do numbers on tumblr.com

MISSION STARTED: BURGER

(!) Acquire and eat a Burger.

MISSION UPDATED

You have acquired the Burger Status Effect. To remove it, take a Nap, or Sit in one place unmoving for an Hour

“People who say Satine didn’t commit cultural genocide are gaslighting us [satine haters]”

Buddy… for gaslighting to happen, the thing that someone is saying didn’t happen needs to have actually happened. Where is the canonical evidence that Satine committed cultural genocide. Literally where in TCW is there ANYTHING to support that idea.

Panelist @ NHL draft: the kid can skate

Me:

Just remember if you suffer from melancholy and must run away to the sea for your health that you should also wear sunscreen

why are apple users incapable of just saying "phone" "laptop" etc why is it always "my iphone my ipad my macbook" like is it a brand flexing thing or do they just not know the words? you dont hear me saying shit like "damn i misplaced my samsung again" "my acer sounds like a jet engine rn" who talks like that

I grow our own vegetables. Many hybrid and heirloom varieties are bred for flavor rather than for commercial appeal and travel. There are entire species on the allotment that you can’t easily buy in stores because of this - like salsify, a root vegetable that tastes of fish and shellfish. Our neighbours happily take it to make vegan latkes of alarming similarity to fishcakes. You cannot sell it in stores because - despite looking like a white parsnip - it turns brown when you pick it if you scrape/bruise/cut the white root in any way, or damage the delicate little hairs, for some reason, it BLEEDS RED and is very upsetting to look at.

There are whole classes of foods like this. Foods that just don’t ship well or look good on supermarket shelves. Forbidden fruits. Vegetables that bleed and taste like meat. Sorry about this

This website is one of my fav places to find interesting heirloom stuff! I ordered a bunch of seeds to try growing next year I’m really excited about! 

https://www.rareseeds.com/

@angelsaxis

I’ve gotten and plants seeds from that site, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, and they grow fantastically well for me.

I’m really looking forward to next season

Baker Creek Heirloom has good seeds but bad politics. They were going to host Cliven Bundy of the Occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Reserve who’s also pro the Capitol Riots and has made a lot of racist nastiness, although backlash made them cancel their guest list (which included other racist folks)

Good sources of heirloom seeds:

^^^

Highly recommend Native Seed/Search and Truelove. Baker Creek has an amazingly large catalog and has some very cool and rare stuff, but they are also Mennonites and as you might expect, they do have terrible politics as listed above, although they do some decent work preserving heirloom seeds from threatened communities.

An organization that does really interesting work preserving seed from threatened communities (and larger companies like baker creek often piggyback off of some of the work done by orgs like this and NS/S) is the Experimental Farm Network. They are very explicit about their (left-leaning) political views and you don’t have to worry about them being Problematic. They have lots of interesting and rare varieties and species you really cannot find anywhere else.

If you are looking for a wider selection of heirloom seed varieties, these two companies are very good resources as well, and carry many of the same things as Baker Creek. Afaik they are not expressly political beyond their general mission to preserve heirloom seeds (although southern exposure does a good job of preserving some very traditional african-American heirlooms from the Southeast US in particular).

Omg I hadn’t heard of the Experimental Farm Network and I am delighted! I am also completely thrilled to see people other than me remember that Baker Creek is a bunch of lying fash. They claimed they did not know about Cliven Bundy AFTER VISITING HIM IN JAIL. He was literally in jail for his anti-social bullshit when they first talked to him about the watermelons he and his mentor stole from Indigenous people and made their name on. They also take seeds from Indigenous communities globally and profit from them without sharing those profits with the communities they took the seeds from.

…I am blocked by them on Twitter after publicizing the Cliven Bundy crap, full disclosure, I have an actual feud with these people and their unethical practices.

I was trying to get signal in the goddamn Himalayas to argue with them about Bundy. *grumble*

I also second Native Seed/SEARCH as a great org doing great work. Some of their stuff is so desert-adapted it won’t grow for me, but I’ve had great luck with some of their bean varieties.

girl you look like you drop common loot when defeated