That second photo could be a character in a Don Bluth movie.

A large percentage of those forests are monocultures grown for the paper, pulp, timber and cellulose industry. According to Global Forest Watch, in 2020 9% of land cover on Germany was natural forests but 15% was non-natural. It’s basically not very different from planting a field of corn.

Sadly a bunch of trees does not a forest make, especially if they’re not native. Most of the local wildlife will not be able to benefit from those trees for food, and there needs to be diversity in types of plants beyond just trees.

Whoaaaa that is really well made!! Could have mistaken it for a professionally made suit. Thanks for sharing the story, sounds like it’s served you well even if you didn’t take it outdoors much in the end.

I need to know more about this ghillie suit. What was it used for? Did it work well? On a scale of warm summer breeze to satan’s sphincter, how hot did it get when wearing the suit?

They’re also nicknamed “coco-fesses” so “coconut butts” in English. Another fun fact: It’s the largest seed in the world.

The artist Feefal is also on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/feefal

I recommend checking out Weird Explorer if you’re interested in learning about new and weird fruits.

In France some common ones are Rose, Iris, Capucine (Nasturtium), Hortense (Hydrangea), Marguerite (Daisy), Violette, Azalée (Azalea), Camélia, Fleur (Flower), Lilas (Lilac). There’s way more than that but those are the ones that come to mind.

I hope he never stopped failing

Sweet, thanks for the recs! Man if there’s a program out there that can cut down on culling time that would be amazing! It’s consistently the most painful part of the process…

I haven’t tried to be honest, I haven’t had much time to tinker around. I have a spare laptop that my work gave to me that was functioning fine but they were going to toss. Haven’t done anything with it yet so I may give it a try when I have more time on my hands.

If someone can get DXO PureRaw and Lightroom to work on Linux, I’ll switch immediately and won’t look back.

No distraction necessary, they’ll just beat the crap out of you and make you hand it over!

My favourite example of this is the willow ptarmigan: https://youtube.com/shorts/hCzPbJGFVRU

AWEBO!

Edit: The capercaillie is another great example, there are multiple videos of these guys chasing and attacking people. Here’s one: https://youtu.be/f0OM2dQ8Rvc I love them ♥️

Angry wild rodents have 0 chill. Examples:

Angry European hamster: https://youtu.be/TxAFLD5FohU

Angry Norwegian lemming: https://youtu.be/pOOzA39mMjg

Angry squirrels: https://youtu.be/KC_bR834PSE and https://youtu.be/pjDBZ8oV95o and https://youtu.be/8-PoGdK5Y1Y

Note: please don’t be an asshole and antagonize or feed wildlife like some of the people in these videos.

It takes practice and making sure it’s at the correct temperature. If I can fry eggs in stainless steel without sticking you can too friend. Follow the instructions on this page to get you started:

https://theskillfulcook.com/how-to-know-when-stainless-steel-pan-is-ready/

Knights of Guinevere

A person of taste I see.

I think animation is a bit of a different beast. Compared to live action movies, animation finds little respect among the wider populace, unless they have Disney or Pixar stamped on the cover (and mayyybe Dreamworks). Most studios are aware of this and don’t bother investing in new stuff these days because they think there’s no money in it. It’s important to show support for good animation with original stories and great characters, so studios understand they need to make more of these kinds of movies/shows. That being said, I’m not sure Sony will read this as anything more than the need to make 4 sequels, 10 seasons and a couple of spin-offs. Hopefully they get the message…

How about the statue of confederate Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest on horseback?

It’s ugly on the outside and the inside!