#doing business in texas

[galacticnova3]

@onenicebugperday Bit of an unfortunate update, but not without hope.

A week ago as of posting this, Green Bean Casserole had a pretty severe mismolt. I think they fell and got stuck behind their favorite stick in an awkward position after leaving the exuviae. I only found and assisted them the next morning, but by then their exoskeleton had already hardened up. Thankfully all of their limbs are intact and functional, but, well... The situation is far from ideal, as you’ll see.

At first I was pretty worried they wouldn’t make it; they seemed to be struggling to move around due to the deformity, falling when climbing and generally looking wobbly. I moved them to a different terrarium set up for my flat headed snake Absinthe, both because of the softer substrate and the lack of skinks that might be bold and attempt to take advantage of a weakened mantis. I wasn’t even sure if food would be able to pass through their system, and they had no interest in prey at all, which wasn’t a good sign. However, with some adjustments to the layout of the temporary terrarium I moved them to, they did climb and manage to hang from the lid with some effort. GBC seemed like they were a fighter, and the day after the bad molt they accepted and ate a grasshopper, so I decided to see if I could get them to their next molt and hopefully allow them to recover.

They’ve since adapted to their new shape, and I’ve moved them back to their usual terrarium for easier monitoring and better sun access. They’re climbing and hanging without falling, eating well, and drinking water droplets from the screen lid when I water the terrarium. I’d say they’re about as close to thriving as they could be in this situation! Here’s how they’re looking today. Ignore the escapee grasshopper in the background, its jailbreak was short lived…

I do feel a bit mean for making this comparison, but…

There’s a bit of a resemblance, isn’t there?

[quisters]

Obsessed with Outlaw arming Texas with sci-fi future tech

[lilybug-02]

You know it's bad when the TEXAS legislative agrees to ban "displays of inclusivity" in higher education.

I have to edit my emails to not include the word "inclusive" for my Art Club so that our University accepts it. Apparently one of our Women Organizations on campus was disbanned for this specific reason???

I am pissed.

[mercurialsmile]

so I'm gonna tell yall what we ain't about to do.

this year, we aint gonna make fun of people in the south trapped in any ice storms or bad weather that may occur. we aint about to make jokes about how southerners cant drive in ice and snow (altho it is true i dont need any northerners being an ass about it)

I will reiterate what I said a couple of years ago: the roads in the south are not made to handle ice. they are not built to handle snow. we do not have snow chains down here, at least not typically.

I dunno about other states, but we all know jack shit has been done about the Texas grid. If the power somehow fails again, we aint gonna make fun of us who have no power. we aint gonna be an ass about any rolling black outs. we aint gonna tell southerners they deserve to freeze to death just because we happen to live in the south or a red state.

[ratislatis]

I need everyone to know that when I heard the first note to s2 ep21. I was like "oh my fucking god are they actually playing mcr on this podcast" forgetting that they always do covers??

and then scary marlowe's voice sailed through my car speakers

and I fucking SCREAMED

besties I screamed for THREE straight minutes I was in HYSTERICS. can you imagine being one of those other cars on the highway and just seeing this scrawny teenage girl with possum memorabilia all over the place. and her jaw is just on the floor. and you can't hear anything but you can physically see that she is expending all the air in her lungs

she is yelling "NO WAY. NO FUCKING WAY" with dumbfounded hilarity unparalleled by god

[candycryptids]

Love doing a month of prompts FR tho it really makes me think about the character I’m focusing on AND. It usually gets me limbered up to try new techniques and styles in posing and (light) editing (outside of shaders, which is a whole other animal I’m always wrestling)

[muggle-born-princess]

I can't fucking wait to finish S5 and watch Awakening so I can get away from this bullshit show.

[drawmaeve]

why does procreate feel like im fingerpainting all the time? im constantly making the brushes smaller, feels like i have no control... ive tried adjusting pressure sensitivity but it feels like that doesnt change anything? h e l p I really want this to work cause i want to be able to sit outside of my workstation and draw to promote that good good work life balance, but man. it feels like an etch-e-sketch in my hands.

[army-of-bee-assassins]

i got my clinic schedule!!!!! somehow i have two aphasia clients again, despite having already had aphasia clients last semester and having completed all my adult hours already. i guess they just needed someone to fit in there. i don't mind too much tbh! it's a different supervisor and he's really cool (tho extremely scatterbrained lmao). and aphasia is pretty interesting. what i'm really excited about tho is that i will also be doing literacy (dyslexia) diagnostics and early intervention/parent coaching! both with supervisors that i like. and the last one is a language client (presumably a young child) at the ass crack of dawn on thursdays lol. i am more reserved about this supervisor but i do hear that she's good to work with. she apparently just requires a lot of prep which i fucking suck at so that'll be a learning curve. anyway, altogether it's five clients and one diagnostic. i have three classes (one each mon-weds), and then i'll work afternoons tues/thurs and all day friday. it's gonna be busy but hopefully not too bad! i'm excited about it right now, at least

[diabeticgirl4]

I'm watching queer eye and like. most times I can understand the fab5 and why they need to change/fix this person and the ways whatever they're teaching will help, but like. they're teaching etiquette to this total country rancher guy bc he wants to find a girl and settle down and he never learned that type of stuff and yeah manners and basic etiquette is important but rn they're focusing so much on dining and the amount of forks!! and no you can't dip your bread in soup you gotta tear a small piece and drop it in!! and you're absolutely terrible if you set your spoon on the table!!

idk man I'm super not vibing w this ep

[galariangengar]

💭

[platypusisnotonfire]

Texas has been trying to secede from the union since at least when I was seven and lived there half a year and they were collecting bricks in my neighborhood to build the Great Wall of Texas

I remember thinking very clearly “please wait till I can leave I don’t want to be on this side of that wall”

I am almost certain this violates some kind of interstate law. You have to be able to travel between states without documents or impediment.

Iirc it's included in the Privileges and Immunities clause of the Constitution (I'd have to check, it's been about a decade since my last ConLaw class)

This might cause an actual Constitutional crisis. That's actually kind of a big deal.

[moonlitrosecrafts]

So what is the deal with people not wanting to pay sales tax? Sales tax pays for schools and stuff. Your vendor has to pay sales tax regardless. just because you don't want to doesn't mean that there arent some of us fall on the line of lawful good and neutral good and have the fear of prosecution related to taxes because of family members and just want to throw the paper work at peeps at the comptroller and IRS like they were the hounds of hell because if I keep track of everything this first tax year and a trustworthy CPA says cetlrtains things I don't need to keep then I won't keep track of it next year.

But this year, having to pay taxes to state comptroller is an acomplishment!

[tunacharm]

oh fuck the hyperfixation is starting to become politics

[psychoticwillgraham]

nearly started an oven fire bc the pizza pan I used has holes in it and nobody told me that olive oil can spark in the oven and potentially cause a fire :) apparently I was supposed to just Know that :))

[vaguenotions]

I really hate feeling irrational and upset over food. One of the worst things to be upset about. It feels SO fucking stupid.