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anyways backyard social experiments with the house sparrows continue

sparrow coliseum feeder does a good job at stopping them from emptying the damn thing in 12 hours flat, and has now been moving to a different window away from where i, personally, do my bird watching

in the meantime ive switched to a metal feeder that can be filled with nyjer (small seed which finches love) and sunflower seed. the sparrows here are notoriously un-picky, and though this isnt their favourite feeder to use, some of them have become fiends for sunflower (one female in particular). this feeder now hangs on my railing, about two meters(!!) away from where i sit out of sight.

i dont care how much they use it when im not bird watching because it takes a long ass time to empty. BUT if im bird watching, ill shoo them away (usually i toss a lil bit of their favourite on the ground) cus this is the feeder that's going to attract some new guys.

Which it has! and those guys dont mind flocking with the house sparrows, but thing is the house sparrows are bigger and bulkier than these guys, and when they get overzealous they end up spooking them.

this is where the house sparrows having been here all winter works against them because ive been off and on a bit of a bastard to them. if they see me looking, they'll give me a respectful berth. they also know where my hiding spot by the feeder is. so all it takes to shoo them away is a pointed look, which minimally disrupts the incoming mirgrators.

that said, i don't mind them using it if they're being polite! as in, not mobbing it and (intentional or not) chasing off other birds. usually this leads to the flock splitting, and fewer house sparrows will sit at the feeder.

AND ALSO. so typically, house sparrows feed by sitting and chowing down (on the ground). but now these guys have started (mimicking the chickadees?), where theyll pop in, grab a seed, then fly off to eat it, which is far from their preferred habit.

i just love how adaptable they are.

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honestly i dont mind falin being really skinny as a chimera because like. it makes sense. girl just got revived from being nothing but bones, and then proceeds to have nothing proper to eat beyond the meal they made her afterwards. she's not gonna plump up again until she's settled and happy with three meals a day!

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i made a blog for this setting btw! its @3surience uwu

having a normal one today

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it actually even works on my cats. myofascial release is just sorcery i think

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Every day I'm like "surely this symptom cannot be alleviated by massagies" and every fucking day I'm putting on the clown makeup

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like to anyone who's been paying any attention to me talking about this stuff i need you to know that I've been deeply skeptical since day one. NOTHING has worked to decrease the pain i live with on a daily basis, not stretches not exercise not physio not painkillers not antidepressants not heating not chilling not fixing my diet not fixing my sleep not strengthening. many of these helped on a minor level, or improved aspects around the pain such as my mood and ability to cope but none of that improved it and overall i was on a trajectory of getting worse.

so take that history and introduce myofascial release, i humoured it like i humoured all of these techniques because i have nothing better to do with my time than research what the fuck is wrong with me because no one the fuck else knew.

and it just...works. and then it kept on working. and suddenly all of these pain patterns in the diagrams were looking extremely familiar. and surely im not placebo-ing myself into better health because it doesn't just work on me, it works on Everyone Else Too.

and that's why this specific topic makes me chew-on-drywall levels of insane. it's truly one of the few things that literally everyone can benefit from and the only time I've ever seen it talked about in depth is in the targetted ass textbooks that i picked up that specifically talk about the subject. I've brought this up to every single healthcare professional I've encountered and at best they have the vaguest idea of the concept. and its not like this research HASN'T been available, some of the stuff I'm reading is decades old and still extremely applicable.

like it boggles my mind that we haven't taught this to our family doctors, or even our physiotherapists! the sheer array of symptoms myofascial release can alleviate is so bonkers, and the treatment is so non-invasive and safe, that it could effectively be one of the first considerations when treating just about any of the most common aches and pains, and yet!!! and yet!!!!! fucking nobody knows about it!!!!!

Every day I'm like "surely this symptom cannot be alleviated by massagies" and every fucking day I'm putting on the clown makeup

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Every day I'm like "surely this symptom cannot be alleviated by massagies" and every fucking day I'm putting on the clown makeup

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having a normal one today

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having a normal one today

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i love when my cats try to do a crime right in front and its like you fucking idiot. ive got theory of mind i know EXACTLY what you're gonna do.

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Gonna also put this on my main go check out this author

i just found this fantastic guide made by a fantasy author for creating a realistic planet, but which doesn't go into the math or the teeny tiny details while still being like. exactly all the information that im looking for

check them out you won't be disappointed!!

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PSA: the guardian is not working on a hit piece on diy hrt, and claims they are are misinformation

on the 18th, this post appeared on 4chan's /lgbt/ (slurs in thread: link). a screenshot was posted to reddit, then to tumblr. you've probably seen it:

today, the 23rd, another screenshot popped up on various discord servers, then was reposted variously to twitter. it shows a supposed email from guardian journalist and notorious TERF Susanna Rustin, claiming as the original 4chan post does.

it's now been shared around, and it's with good intentions. the message is useful: don't share your personal information or medical data with journalists, especially ones that happen to be TERFs.

but the post does this through misinformation and fearmongering. i'm still waiting on my response by email from Rustin, but she's reiterated twice (once, twice) that she did not write the email and is not working on such a story. on the 19th, i talked to other guardian newsroom journalists, who said they also did not know of a story's existence.

the moral of the story: this is misinformation, and it's dangerous. it spreads a fine message here, but it does it through spreading anxiety and terror.

you can follow along with this post on my parallel thread on twitter. also calling on @wakewithgiggli to delete their original post!

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well it's definitely true of the opposite

fascinatingly the myofascial muscle pain i feel does not respond well, if at all, to the opiate medication i was given. it really was like nothing had happened, because it took care of the surgery pain just fine, it was just normal aches.

i dont really know what to make of that information.

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fascinatingly the myofascial muscle pain i feel does not respond well, if at all, to the opiate medication i was given. it really was like nothing had happened, because it took care of the surgery pain just fine, it was just normal aches.

i dont really know what to make of that information.