I tried getting them with this by asking if they could smell them and all I got was “it’s 50/50 because of my allergies”

The only good news about it being massive is that if the wind blows a little too hard it’ll crack in half!

Image of a large Bradford pear tree that has a large limb broken from the trunk

I absolutely hate Bradford pears but people in the south LOVE planting them. Damn fools, I say!

I have friends that apparently can’t even smell them 🫩

Paper Wasps ✔️ Yellowjackets ❌

A paper wasp keeps trying to make a nest in my doorway and we look at each other every time I open the door. Since they’re not aggressive they don’t do anything unless you actively are messing with them (and sometimes even then they don’t attack!)

Anyways, it flies away and I remove the beginnings of the nest every time. Then it comes back overnight and makes another one in the exact same spot. It’s a little game I play with the wasp at this point

Depending on your location it can actually be geolocated into your specific city block, I geolocated an online friend’s IP just for the hell of it (I already knew where they lived) and it spit back out the city block they lived in as well as a lot of other very identifiable information

Also, if you can ping devices on that network using that IP you can also use that as a way to easily identify users. That’s if they have anything that isn’t firewalled, obviously, but the point stands!

Wow, I knew I had eastern fence lizards around my house (I’m in TN), but I never would’ve guessed the western variety is named exactly the same! I wonder if the eastern variety has similar results

Side tangent, looking up a picture of eastern fence lizard seems to also show results for western fence lizards TITLED as eastern fence lizards since according to google the primary difference between them is the color the males have on their belly (blue being western, green being eastern)

Man with incredibly long arm demonstrates the difference between human and gorilla form

“what part of the cell is the red arrow pointing at?”

Well, I’ve got a 50/50 shot if I exclude “B. Hair” and “D. Eyeball”

Vegetative electron microscopes!

Clown pointing at me, a dozen of eggs, even numbers, states of matter

It’s no wonder why this song is so catchy!

I’m conflicted because I love cars and how they work (including EVs!!!) but also don’t entirely love how loud they can be.

I got a GR Corolla which has a little tiny 3 cylinder engine, but it’s so loud on cold starts. Luckily I live in the woods, because I would feel so bad cold starting it in a neighborhood.

I’m conflicted because I love my car, but can also appreciate how cars just don’t have to be so loud that they give you temporary deafness as they drive by. Unfortunately with internal combustion, louder generally equals better flow in the exhaust which equals more power.

I could gladly listen to a song 5000 times, but when Spotify stops shuffling my playlist and plays the same 15 songs on repeat every day for a month I start to notice and get a little bothered! Don’t get me started on enhanced shuffle, either

My Internet is so slow right now that this picture took like 20 seconds to finally appear

The chortle when I finally saw it was absolutely worth it

The dunklesaurus

At first I was confused because Tennessee is a lot of mountains, so them getting covered with water was surprising

Then I saw Italy

I had a yellow jacket fly out of the blue then land on my heel and sting me for absolutely no reason! There wasn’t even a nest nearby!

Then a week later another yellow jacket landed on my arm and stung me right under my watch band

Pretty rude if you ask me

Actually Frankenstein was the incense scent

“we found your fingerprints on the body”

Yeah I may have reached my hand inside and felt around a little my bad

Hey! As a person who used to use reddit but got tired of how terrible it was then moved to the first Lemmy instance I could find, I… Agree? I’m not really sure.

I can kill a mosquito by clapping my hands

The pig would probably think I’m petting it or something

Edit: for the record I mean no ill will, I just thought it was funny to say because well, mosquitos are tiny!