I can't give you much advice since it looks like you've deleted your controversial posts on this account. What is there doesn't seem any worse than half the people I see posting daily here.
Edit: plus do you want to mask yourself to fit in, or is it better to be yourself and find a place you fit in naturally?
In general, the rules of the Lemmyverse confuse me.
We're a loose confederation of servers, so there's not going to be any overseeing group keeping everyone accountable to a general set of rules. If that is a bug or a feature to you is going to impact your enjoyment, unless you continue to have multiple accounts.
I only really have some others for when there are server issues or the handful of times I feel like checking in on something defeated from World, so it doesn't bother me often.
Can't you just make another user profile on Hexbear?
Mmm, if they left the food out to attract some other critters they could indirectly eat healthily thanks to it. They'd be mad at you for making them wait though instead of just feeding them owl food. Eating American Chinese food would not make them happy. Have you ever tried using chopsticks with your toes?! 😜
Thankfully I've only been in the building once so far when a skunk decided to blast us. The skunk baby was usually sweet and easygoing, but he sprayed 3 or 4 times in the clinic in a week.
It turned out the one pair of gloves (the orange ones) would freak it out and it would blast whomever was going to grab it. At least it was so small it barely had any booty juice, but skunk smell indoors is no joke. 🤢
No smallish creature is safe. Foxes, turkeys, bats, fish, scorpions, snakes, other owls. You name it and it's around owl size or smaller, an owls will eat it.
Skunk spray isn't great for their eyes though. Here is an owl in with skunk sprayed eyes.
It can cause irritation or ulceration, and then animals will rub at their eyes, potentially causing further physical damage.
I wouldn't mind if Lordi came to the US again. I got to see them once, but some drunk guy kept bumping into me the whole time so it was pretty distracting.
I like them best at the falling apart stage, so I bite the cookie, take a sip of milk, let them mingle, and then swallow. Delicious cookie cement, but no mess.
Kinda sounds gross to type out, but visually quite discrete.
I stumbled on someone's Fediverse stat tracker the other day and I saw this username was like the 27th top poster/commenter and it blew my mind! I feel my main subject matter is so niche. For someone who came here to lurk silently and not participate, I've really missed the goalpost! 😜
I'm honestly happy to have gotten to casually know so many of you. This place largely takes me back to the internet of 20-ish years ago. I wish we could get some cooler heads in the news/politics stuff, and the tensions between World and DB0 have been bumming me out lately, but otherwise most people here are top notch.
Good, I'm glad it is nothing serious. The bad pics I have seen look greatly unpleasant!
I am not the best at drinking the amount I'm supposed to either. It sounds like so much. I am guessing the hydration both keeps the pockets supple, so things fall out on their own, and the act of drinking is a natural flushing of them.
This isn't the topic I thought I'd be exploring today, but it has reminded me to check my tongue and tonsils, and I just like learning about stuff in general, so it's all good fun for me.
They are pockets, unfortunately. I actually just skimmed a reddit thread and someone mentioned a tonsil stone vacuum! I checked Amazon, and they seem to have a plethora of specialized tools. The battery-operated vacuum mentioned, what is essentially a straw on a bulb syringe for a manual vacuum, and specialized tonsil stone picks. Just search up tonsil stone remover and you may find something that looks tolerable.
If it's a persistent problem or something painful, it may be worth it to see an ENT to see if you should have your tonsils removed or if they can offer a solution that works. Things like mouth breathing, post nasal drip, and not staying hydrated can worsen accumulation of stones, so treating any of those conditions could also alleviate some of it.
It's really satisfying to both learn about our local wildlife, and also to see so many caring people all in one place while it feels like the world is going to hell. It has really made me appreciate my community and local environment.
The owls are beautiful and amazing, but they are also kinda the biggest a-hole cats you've ever met. The hawks and corvids are more "fun" since they are often curious and a bit more interactive with me in positive ways. We also have a wild bald eagle right now in addition to our ambassador bald eagle, and they are just undeniably impressive creatures to see up close. I'm also constantly surprised to see animals come in that I didn't even know lived in this part of the country. We had a Brown Thrasher, which is apparently called the Eastern Roadrunner because it runs around a lot on the ground. We also sometimes get minks and beavers from the very southern part of our county. With us being mainly suburban, I don't think of these guys still being so close to us. And there's tons of more somewhat ordinary animals like kinds of frogs and turtles I've never previously learned about.
This is a Diamondback Terrapin that prefers our one sink to the turtle tanks, so they called her Sadie Sink. The photo doesn't do her justice! The patterns on her skin and shell are so amazing!
Gargling can help prevent them or flush really tiny ones, but I have trouble gargling without choking and swallowing...double yuck.
You can use a syringe/water flosser set veeeery low to flush the tonsil pockets, or you can poke them out with a cotton swab or other soft poking device that you are unlikely to swallow if you gag yourself.
I don't find any of the methods really fun, but the few times I've done it, I thankfully have found very little in there, so I don't do it often.
You can get good pictures/videos easily on how to do it, but I don't even like looking at them, too big a tryptophobia and slimy germiness combo for me. It's pretty simple and quick though once you find a way that you can tolerate. The manual syringe or one of those bulbs for flushing your ears is what's I'd recommend for the best balance of control and effectiveness with least discomfort.
Templates to make my wood cutouts and to give the painter references.
Finished cutouts
Plushies next to their respective cutouts. The small Screech is larger, so she will be weighted as a female, and the Great Horned is a little small, so he'll be weighted to be a male.
First 4 painted by our artist. Exceeded my expectations!
I can't give you much advice since it looks like you've deleted your controversial posts on this account. What is there doesn't seem any worse than half the people I see posting daily here.
Edit: plus do you want to mask yourself to fit in, or is it better to be yourself and find a place you fit in naturally?