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I could say i'm a bit lost

@palebasementmiracle

Any pronouns, non binary, 24 years old
Don't be a hater.
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laptop husbandry tip: the fans spinning up just means its EXCITED, not DISTRESSED. this is a COMMON MISCONCEPTION and it does not need to go to the vet

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my boy is so excited

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my boy is so healthy and h appy

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the idea that your friends won't like you if you're too weird is wrong for example one time I told a friend whenever I was losing my mind I laid down on the floor under my desk and stared at it until I was better and next time she visited me she taped a bag of salami snacks to the underside of my desk with a message saying "going insane all by yourself, handsome?" which I only saw months later when I had a breakdown. that's friendship.

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this post has been left to rot

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I looooove ignoring a character's death in the media I like, like what do you mean they're dead no they aren't they are alive and I'm having a cup of tea with them right now :] no I'm not in denial shut up shut up shutupshutupshut

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I feel like the legal institution of adoption is unreasonably limited by restricting it to parent-child relationships. If me and some random asshole want to legally be second cousins, I think we should just be able to do that.

This concept is hilarious. Yes we're now cousins but there's no aunts/uncles/parents connecting us. Cut out the middle man completely. We're just family but not directly related ya know?

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You understand me precisely.

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For everybody saying "well ACTUALLY you can just decide to call whoever you want your uncle/cousin/whatever", this isn't about kinship – it's about bureaucracy. I want to cause problems on purpose.

Why do wild opossums look like this?

And 'pet' opossums look like this?

It's because people don't know how to keep them. Wild opossums have incredibly varied diets with everything from mice to bugs to mushrooms to berries, and they're always on the move.

When people have a "pet" opossum, they have to have picked it up as a baby and habituated it to humans, and now they treat it like a house pet. Many of them are fed trash diets of dog food, raw meat scraps, and processed meat like hot dogs or hamburger. The lack of calcium at an early age leads to metabolic bone disease, which bows the long bones of the limbs and weakens their bodies. So they can't climb anymore and don't walk or run nearly as much. Combined with a poor diet, they gain weight quickly.

Many ambassador animals in rehab centers and zoos can develop the same problem. Especially rehab centers, a lot of captive Virginia Opossums are surrenders from people who realized keeping them is illegal, but the MBD has already started. Even with a better diet, they can become overweight really easily. It was such a struggle to keep the opossum I worked with at a healthy weight because something as simple as too much fruit in her diet would start pushing her weight up again. Even then, I don't think we ever managed to get her to a "normal" range.

They look buggy eyed because what looks like the "whites" in that last picture is a sign of fat deposits in their face and around their eyes.