It can move the wing, but it droops down & sometimes shakes (I think the bird might be using it too much). I might try yet another kind of bandage and pray that they don’t get their feet caught up in it when I wrap the wing to the body.

Thank you for your kindness. I’m trying to do the right thing, but it’s difficult when I have to do things “legally”.

Obviously it’s an awful idea to let just anyone try to help wild animals, but I have a bit of experience with wildlife care & have an exotic animal of my own that requires special care. I can’t say I’m the best person to do this, but I at least know what to provide & how not to act around a wild animal. Ideally though, yes, they should absolutely go to an experienced rehabber, if one can be found.

The green is reflecting from the roof color of the structure they are underneath! They seem to be black and/or extremely dark brown that looks black.

No, the green is reflecting from the roof of the structure!

The eyes were also throwing me off because they’re darker than adult grackles I see.

I have to re-buy games I already own? 🫠

1994 - 1996 and beyond. Originally played on Win98, currently on Win10. Trying out several different CDROMS, but I’ve been testing out an old “Learning in Toyland” CD, but I also have an old “Yukon Trail” CD I’m trying to boot up.

I’ve tried DOSBOX, but I keep getting messages like “requires Windows” or whatnot. Like HOE, I HAVE WINDOWS AND IT DON’T EVEN WORK

It’s a [hug] emote.

🫂

There is a singular niche community that I involve myself with where I pop in and make highly desired items to give away for free.

It makes me feel like people care about me for a while. For now, that’s good enough for me.

We love us some garters! Kid loves snakes and is studying before he gets one for himself one day. Thank you!

I put that in the post body. The kid got a lecture about handling strange wildlife.

We have one venomous snake in Michigan, I believe.

I thought that might be it!

Think there’s only one venomous snake in Michigan, and it didn’t look like that, so I figured it was safe. But you never know! Gotta be safe, yeah?

Thank you!

Money and good health insurance. Seriously, it would help me out so dang much.

I have pretty bad PTSD, which has made it near impossible to make real, human connections. If I could get out of my own head, I feel like my life might be able to improve.

I have a house of my own, though. I feel like having your own space contributes a lot to self-improvement and peace, tbh. I am extremely fortunate.

I hope this fucking clown-house leads to laws being passed protecting workers from this kind of shit in the future.

For real, this deep-fried dumpster fuck needs to leave the planet.

I’m shocked at how many of y’all work in tech/computers.

I probably shouldn’t be, but I am.

I equate it to trying to hold a rational, reasonable conversation with a guy screaming on a street corner: not going to happen.

Walk on by and go about your day.

Little Big Adventure 2 / Twinsen’s Odyssey

Man, I love that game, but it has some things I’d love to see improved by a remaster.

That’s really cute, actually. What a nice little community activity!

If i could weigh in here, I’ve been on meds for my ADHD for about 9 years now. I’ve had it since I was tiny, but I started getting medicated as an adult (my parents were anti-meds growing up).

The goal of medication is not to have you do everything: it’s to get you to be able to do something. Without medication, I could lie in bed all day and my brain will literally not allow me to get up. I feel so trapped in my own body, begging my brain to allow me to do what I need to do in order to live. It only responds to tasks that provide instant dopamine (and sometimes not even that). Showering? Nope. Getting up? No way. Getting groceries? Forget it.

I could literally eat until I throw up, though. Because food = dopamine source.

This is not a matter of laziness, either, a common hand-waving explanation to dismiss ADHD. It is a neurological disorder– a disorder of the brain that I cannot control.

Being medicated bridges the gap and allows me to do tasks without fighting with my brain for control. It definitely doesn’t help with multi-tasking, at least for me. You need to train your brain to work with the meds, so you don’t start hyperfocusing on the the wrong task. It’s a tricky line to walk, and some people just thinking “taking meds = fix problem!” Ahhh… no. I wish.

Truth is, I’ve tried many medications that just did work. One made me angry & aggressive (I am the most chill person, so this was terrifying), one caused depression, paranoia, amd visual hallucinations (horrifying), and my current is what I want to stick with. It’s worked SO well, and I need to be aware of my diet, vitamins, hydration,  and exercise habits (among other things) in tandem in order to have it work the way it’s supposed to.

There’s such a stigma against ADHD meds, it makes me angry to see the idiotic “it’s just legal meth” argument.

…this post is a classic ADHD rant dump. AMA lol

What absolutely sucks about this is that I had carefully curated my subscriptions on RIF in order not to exacerbate my dumb mental health issues.

Hell, I’ve read angry posts about people in recovery from addiction and alcohol saying how they keep seeing ads for beer or gambling and things like that.

It’s horrifying!!