#rockchuck

[limbobilbo]

[sparkylurkdragon]

So, in the United States woodchucks are mostly only found in the eastern states, though in the north their range extends throughout Canada and into Alaska. The Western US doesn't really have them. Instead, we have the venerable yellow-bellied marmot, also known as the rockchuck.

(Image of a rockchuck via Wikipedia)

how much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

They can and do, in order to organize dense forest understory, piles of accumulated desert plants or even human-made woodpiles into defensible burrows to raise their kits in and hibernate over winter. The amount of wood a woochuck can chuck is limited more by the amount of wood available for it to chuck, rather than the woodchuck's ability to chuck that wood and I have seen some fairly impressive landscaping by them before. The one in my Uncle Bobby's yard in ohio has easily chucked over 500lbs of wood in one season in order to make the slash pile into his family fortress.

[yifftwiceplz]

How much rock would a rockchuck chuck if a rockchuck couldn't chuck wood but really wanted to and was really envious of woodchucks.

a tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. said two to the tutor "is it harder to toot? or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

[ker-bee]

Pickin off rockchucks.

[bones-n-bookles]

Plate LXX of Lives of Game Animals by Ernest Thompson Seton in the coyote chapter of Volume 1 part 2

Scatology of Certain Candidate

The first page shows two sets of wolf scat (1/2 size), one set of coyote scat (1/2 size), two sets of kit fox scat (2/3 size), one set of grey fox scat (1/2 size), and three sets of red fox scat (two at 1/2 size and one at 1/4 size) drawn by E T Seton. The first wolf scat has a claw scratch next to it.

The second page contains the notes on the drawings:

"All but 4, 5, and 9 are about half natural size.

1. Wolf, very large. Banks of Athabaska River, Oct. 19, 1907. Chiefly of Rabbit fur. The scratch mark or signature was very plain.

2. Wolf. Algonquin Park, Ontario, Aug. 18, 1922. A solid mass of Deer hair.

3. Coyote. Philadelphia Zoo, Feb 7, 1924.

4. Kit-fox. Philadelphia Zoo, Feb 7, 1924.

5. Kit-fox. Philadelphia Zoo, Feb 7, 1924.

6. Gray-fox. Philadelphia Zoo, Feb 7, 1924.

7. Red-fox. Quebec, 40 miles east of Kippewa, Sept. 5, 1905. Composed almost entirely of Mouse fur, with some of Redsquirrel and Chipmunk.

8. Red-fox. Yellowstone Park, July 5, 1897. Chiefly of soft, dark fine fur, probably from Yellow Rockchuck.

9. English Red-fox. Essex, England, Jan. 21, 190y. Noted chiefly on account of the unmistakeable claw-mark signature."

[archive-of-doctor-ue]

When people say rockchuck is a Nazi, we aren't being hyperbolic.

courting antisemitism

so i recently decided to take a look at the latest stonetoss comics (probably because i love suffering). and while i was expecting some content on the israel palestine conflict, what i did not expect was how... standard it seemed. well, most of it at least, but i'll get to that in a second.

for context, if you don't know what stonetoss is, it's a (poorly drawn) webcomic known for having radical alt-right views - meaning it's incredibly racist, homophobic, transphobic, islamophobic, antisemitic. all that fun stuff.

so while i was expecting to see bad stuff, one of the first things i saw on the topic of israel was this:

terrible art aside, this comic is making a point that i usually see in left wing circles: that israel is pinkwashing genocide.

curious if there was more like this, i kept looking, and the comic right before that one was this:

again, this makes points that i usually see in left wing circles. that american healthcare is crazy expensive, that canada tells poor people to commit suicide, and that israel is bombing hospitals.

why does stonetoss, this well known alt-right nutjob, now seem to be bringing up left-wing talking points?

curious, i kept going deeper:

well this is... odd. clearly, stonetoss is trying to say that israel is on another level of bad, even worse than russia, iran, and north korea. i can possibly see someone on the left making the argument that the russian invasion of ukraine isn't as bad as what israel is doing in gaza, or that at least north korea isn't invading any other countries, but... iran??? the country that has a police force designed to enforce religious law, and gets away with murdering women who do not properly cover their hair? the country that props up paramilitary groups in countries all over the middle east, including lebanon, yemen, and yes, palestine?? that's completely ridiculous

but, given how much more israel is in the news nowadays than any of these other countries, i could see why someone would buy this

and now, we're starting to get to the crux of what stonetoss is trying to do. when someone sees this, they might be inclined to agree with it. they might begin to think that israel is the worst country on the planet

and that might not seem so bad at first. but the more you hate israel, especially irrationally, the more you feel allowed to dehumanize those who support it. the more you might be willing to agree with this comic, which came out two days prior to the one above

this comic says that jews, as a whole have no desire to exist with other people. it is blatantly antisemitic

i'm sure you could imagine some young leftist who sees the comics above this one and thinks, "this guy makes some good points". and then, when they get to this one, they might realize that this is antisemitism

or, they may not.

and that would start them down the road to becoming an antisemite.

this is what stonetoss and other alt-right nutjobs are hoping to achieve. to take left wing fury at israel, and direct it at jews.

we saw it with those neo-nazis at the palestine rally, and we're seeing it again here.

and if you've found yourself agreeing with what stonetoss has said so far, i would like you to see the last comic stonetoss put out before october 7th:

this horrifically racist comic is in reference to an environmental activist who was murdered by a black man in early october. this blatantly racist garbage is the kind of stuff stonetoss usually puts out.

but as soon as october 7th happened? these were his next two comics:

stonetoss completely changed the comic's tone as soon as the current crisis started. why?

to get as many people as possible to get on board with hating jews.

and i know many of you might be thinking that "well, everyone knows that stonetoss is racist garbage. nobody is going to fall for this"

except, as we saw with the neo-nazis at the rally for palestine, it's not always that obvious who the antisemites are and who is just rallying for peace. they are often a lot better at disguising it than stonetoss is.

AND EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE AWARE OF THAT

EVERYONE, no matter HOW much experience you have, can fall victim to propoganda. EVERYONE needs to be aware of what people around them are saying, and able to pick out hateful rhetoric, because even the stuff that is just kind of toeing the line of what's hateful is still putting your foot in the door

be cautious, everyone. and stomp out hate where you see it.

[sumbluespruce]

Under a watchful eye

7-18

[coldboremiracle]

Coming soon to a youtube video near you: “When Pigs Fly”. A short film showing the sudden growth of pink wings and ensuing flight, breaking the binds of physics. Stay tuned. #coldboremiracle #freelancesharpshooter #varmint #varminting #varminthunting #majorleaguechuckers #marmot #rockchuck #whistlepig #launch 🐷✈️ (at Rocky Mountains)

[lurkdragonstuff]

I saw a rockchuck (aka yellow-bellied marmot, Marmota flaviventris) while I was on my way to a second interview the other day. It galumphed across the road and made me go “what the fuck is that - is that a mustelid of some kind? Raccoon maybe?”

Nope, just a big ol’ ground squirrel. It ducked under that building there before I could get a good picture of its face, but rockchucks are the only things that look even remotely like that around here, and I did see a distinctive set of Rodent Chompers when it looked around at me.

[recoiloperated]

I mean, if you're going long action Magnum- why not get a .243 super Rockchucker ultra Magnum? Nothing says "I love you" like a 77 grain barns TSX at 4625fps

[jennysgotcha]

How much rock would a rock chuck chuck if a rock chuck could chuck rocks? I captured this cutie watching over his vast territory of Steptoe Butte. #steptoebutte #steptoe #rockchuck #butte #rodent #mermot #washingtonbeauty #washingtonstate #outdoorphotography #upperleftusa #getoutside #pnw #natgeo #coolpicture #beautiful #landscape #greatoutdoors #landscapephotography #nature #outdoor #travel #explore #greatoutdoors #upperleft #photography #earthpix #nikon #sony #wonderlustcollective (at Steptoe Butte) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByGO5Vrpo_Q/?igshid=bqxth1kcmbsy

[despacitobandito]

A weird dream I had last night

So I had an odd dream last night and there was more to it, I just can't remember. Basically what happened was that I was at the SCP Foundation and I'm pretty sure I was an anomaly. I was just vibing with Dr. Clef in a lab, and Bright and Kondraki might have been there? I can't remember, but I think that seems about right.

Anyways, a rockchuck (which is a marmot, that's the slang used where I live for them) came out of the floor (keep in mind, we're in a lab still) and everyone gets angry including me. We're all yelling at it, then Clef pulls a madlad move and tries to straight up fucking shoot it with his shotgun.

All the while, even when Clef is doing Doom Slayer on the rockchuck's ass and we're yelling at it, I'm just chilling on a fuzzy blue couch.

It was really weird. Guess my hate of rockchucks is manifesting in my dreams now too.

[freetheshit-outofyou]

Man today was a shit sandwich until the sun set. At that point the kind lady next door who lost her husband last month came over, I thought it was help to move or get stuff for here, no problem. NOPE! She tells be her husband would like to me have some things of his, I was struck speechless and she would not take no as an answer. A full RCBS Rockchucker, dies for .380 and .357/.38spc, a Lee powder throw, a Lee and RCBS scale sets, and some other miscellaneous reloading items. I already have a full RCBS set up that I have been using for decades, so I am not sure what I will do with that one. There was also several hundred .380, 500+ .357 mag, more than 1100 .38 spc (I stopped counting at 1,100.), .308, 3030, old .22LR and a pile of firearms parts. I have never done enough side work for this nice woman to deserve all this. I tried to pay her, she refused, like my Ma' always says "Pick you battles, but remember you'll never win one against a determined woman." I thanked her as kindly as I could, it still felt weak and shallow.

[ker-bee]

Looking for rockchucks, prime sniper spot.

[mw1997photography]

[bulletsboardsandbooze]

I miss reloading. It's the only thing I haven't been able to continue doing since the baby was born and we moved into this new place. Maybe once we move again I will be able to put the bench back together.