I’m lucky that my region has so few venomous snakes, so very rarely do I ever have to worry. I get to see rat snakes and big fat water snakes, and two kinds of garter snakes when I’m out on local trails. They’re usually sunning themselves and freak out when I startle them. I saw a copperhead one time and it was obviously cross with me.

That being said, if something snaked at me in a rectilinear fashion I’d probably shit my pants.

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USGS maintains some cool ones, and has a youtube page for when something rare happens at Mauna Kea or wherever.

Scripps Institute has a bunch. The underwater camera at their pier in La Jolla, CA, is pretty active.

The rare American minotaur, regretting last night’s decisions.

*wizard. Not witch. Wizards are exclusively male apparently.

That sounds like it should be from a Tom Lehrer song.

:<

😭

Sometimes a thing can be different, but reflect the same ideas.

I’m not having this fight with you. Either you can acknowledge that there are parallels or you can’t.

There wasn’t an interstate list yet. The main laws went into effect in 1996.

By the measure of fascist rhetoric.

I think they’re saying Trump is a nazi because all the fascist rhetoric that keeps coming out of him and his associates. The rally was just… extra spectacle.

Probably.

Steal it. Post it in comments that need a reminder. Spread it around.

102 people died daily in 2016 in motor vehicle accidents.

Local authorities waiting for a full tox panel before announcing cause of death, or reversing, or dithering, is no cause for alarm

Consumer protection laws are No Joke.

We’re pretty safe on Halloween, all things considered.

I’m sorry. That’s hateful. I don’t understand why people take so much enjoyment in manipulating and lying to children.

This guy has done years of research, going through decades of local news, to find mention of Halloween candy incidents. While there is always room for error, suspicious deaths are generally reported at the local level, and the available data support the findings that nobody is out there poisoning children on Halloween.

They die by violence, by accident, by misadventure. Not by eating a piece of candy with a slightly defective wrapper.