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2 years

@fesshole Fortunately for you, the genetics of eye colour are more complex than you are taught when studying for O Level biology.

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2 years

This is what has been taken from us.

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2 years

Hundreds of suspended/permabanned accounts have been brought back. @elonmusk why no Hakan Rotmwrt resurrection?

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Hens that are tricked into raising ducklings know they’re raising ducklings and teach them how to find food in water. A hen would never lead three-day old chicks into water like this.

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3 years

Egg thief (Varanus salvator)in our chicken coop.

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3 years

The dog brought home a pacu. Where on earth did she find it?

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3 years

@greentexts_bot I once walked into a newly opened fish and chip shop. I notice a portrait of the Thai king on the wall and make some comment about Thailand. Get twice what I paid for. I point out the discrepancy. "You are number one customer." Every visit they gave me double what I ordered.

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Hundreds of suspended/permabanned accounts have been brought back. @elonmusk why no Hakan Rotmwrt resurrection?

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1 year

I’d love to know, in whatever alternate reality you inhabit, how this cow is bad for the environment/climate. 100% grass fed, it eats weeds and craps fertiliser. It is an organic steward of the land. Its meat is also nutritious and delicious.

Mark Vossler, MD ☮️👨‍⚕️🌎🏳️‍🌈

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1 year

@NaomiOreskes Not eating beef is probably the easiest climate action thing for the average person to do that had no added cost, no loss of convenience, no reduction in quality of life, that doesn’t require any public policy changes to make feasible

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Our infant son has a high fever. We're first-time parents so we asked granny, both grannies. One is a traditional Karo herbalist with little formal education, the other a retired UK physician with several medical degrees. They gave almost identical advice. 1/2

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@HelenWaters27 @DuolingoStrange

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3 years

Moss forest (cloud forest) c.2,500m asl, Gaye Lues, Aceh.

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2 years

Once could be an accident, but twice is deliberate. We think we know who did it.

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2 years

Looks like Yellow has taken a blow to the head. The wife thinks someone has walloped him with a machete or piece of wood. I suspect it’s more likely to be self-inflicted: he’s very fast, very strong and very clumsy. Good chance he ran into something at 40 miles per hour.

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3 years

A couple of weeks ago my wife bumped into the guy she suspects has been stealing bananas from our orchard. She reminded him that she's descended from a notorious magician and said that whoever is stealing from us ought to be very worried. I went to check the orchard today 1/2

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3 years

@fairforall_org the dude has receipts! respect

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3 years

Karo granny's advice differed only in that herbal infusions in cold water should be applied, while UK granny said cold water alone was fine. UK granny said keep fluids up with water containing electrolytes. Karo granny prescribed coconut water. Worlds apart yet almost identical.

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3 years

This hen came to our house last night in a state of distress. She'd lost her chick. I calmed her down, took her back to her perch and, in pitch black, managed to locate her chick, catch it and place it under her wing. Feeling proud of my chicken wrangling skills.

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3 years

This idiot is laying her eggs on our roof. They roll off and fall 10’ to the ground. Betty has been eating a raw egg a day for the past few days.

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3 years

and not only has the theft stopped (for now), but a pocket knife I dropped three months ago magically reappeared in a spot I know I checked thoroughly, several times. The ancient magic is still strong. 2/2

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3 years

@UpperLowerClass I remember reporting on an investment company that raised $200m to invest in tech start-ups. They closed 18 months later having found no "suitable investments". Investors got back 90 cents on the dollar, the founders walked away with $20m.

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3 years

@Paracelsus1092 are you trying to claim this didn't happen?

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3 years

The neighbour's ducks hard at work in our paddy field. They arrive lean and leave with distended bellies full of snails.

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7 months

I read Malaysia twitter every day, and every day I thank my lucky stars that I live over the narrow strait in Indonesia, on the shaking mountain. Malaysia twitter is a hotbed of religious intolerance, racial discrimination and ethnic rivalry. Here we do our best to get along.

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@asamkiaa DON'T. SPEAK. FOR. US.

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@somnolentist Didn’t make any kind of sense. Pretty much what you’d expect from a low-IQ petty thief. Chilli plants were, according to him, from his garden 5 miles away, but he decided to kill the plants and strip them bare here for reasons. The sugarcane was stolen by his wife and kid.

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8 months

Not sure what happened here, but it looks like someone stole a load of chilli plants and hid in my cabin to pick the fruits - these chillies sell for almost $10/kg. They also stole a sugarcane to chew on while they worked. Not sure where the pillow fits into this story.

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1 year

The stupid monitor lizard has fallen into our well again.

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2 years

Three years into my new life here in a rural community in a remote part of Indonesia some things are going to plan, others are not. My plan for a constant supply of fresh fruit is partially successful. We have a good supply of pineapples and coconuts. 1/x

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2 years

@archaeoflorist

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@silumanmawas

3 years

I've just been to a funeral where fully half of the attendees, including the deceased, are called Biring.

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@silumanmawas

2 years

The wife has been watching youtube cooking videos again. Rice-cooker banana cake is a success.

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3 years

Trimming the lemongrass. Wonderful scent.

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@silumanmawas

2 years

Video my dad took on his afternoon walk. These orangutans are semi-wild - walking on the ground is very rare for wild orangutans in Sumatra.

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@silumanmawas

3 years

I'm having a go at making coconut oil. It's quite labour intensive. The first step is to make coconut milk - lots of it. 1/x

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3 years

This is a pigeon.

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3 years

Not long now.

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@silumanmawas

6 months

It seems likely that what I saw was not a Sumatran striped rabbit but a greater mousedeer (Tragulus napu).

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@silumanmawas

6 months

Pretty sure I saw a Sumatran striped rabbit (Nesolagus netscheri) in Six Acre Wood. Almost no-one has ever seen one. I didn’t get the best of looks at it - just a few seconds in poor light - but size, shape and locomotion are a perfect fit.

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@silumanmawas

3 years

First ever avocado from our garden. My wife has been urging me to chop the tree down for the past couple of years. One taste of its fruit was enough to make her change her mind. "Don't chop the tree down - this is the best avocado I've ever tasted."

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@silumanmawas

2 years

Edible tractor.

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@silumanmawas

2 years

Friendly otter. I offered it a sardine a few months ago, which it rejected, but since then it always comes to say hello when it sees me.

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@silumanmawas

3 years

Today my son, aged 11 months and one day, saw his first wild monkeys.

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@silumanmawas

2 years

@bvbfranz @stone_toss That’s a bold generalisation. Our 4 acre oil palm garden is home to many plant species, including durian, clove, candlenut, snakefruit, bamboo, arecanut, plus the many ferns and other plants that grow on the palms themselves. It’s typical of the thousands of smallholdings here.

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16 days

Good news re: the nephew’s wife: her place of work was raided in a joint operation by Cambodian police and Cambodian immigration officers. She’s now in an Immigation prison awaiting deportation. Could take a while, maybe a month or a bit more, but she’s safe and on her way home.

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3 years

Work begins on my wife's shop.

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2 years

The wife is upset with me for buying this carrot at the market this morning. Apparently it will bring bad luck. She snapped off one of the “legs” and threw it away.

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1 year

Betty is suddenly very ill. We suspect someone has poisoned her. She’s puked up a lot of liquid and isn’t shaking so much now. Hopefully she’ll pull through.

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6 months

Asam gelugur is a close relative of mangosteen. It’s too sour to eat, but when sliced and sundried it can be used in food, drink, herbal medicines and cosmetics.

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3 years

Traditional Karo baskets for collecting durians.

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Pretty sure I saw a Sumatran striped rabbit (Nesolagus netscheri) in Six Acre Wood. Almost no-one has ever seen one. I didn’t get the best of looks at it - just a few seconds in poor light - but size, shape and locomotion are a perfect fit.

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3 years

To a town an hour’s drive away to attend a wedding. This is the shirt my wife has chosen for me 😣

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2 months

Time for a long story (given the current events in the UK, although realise that these sorts of disturbances only ever happen in high summer). Back in 2004 or so a friend of mine was assaulted by two police officers. They claimed self defence. 1/x

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I happen to know for sure the UK government manipulates events to make certain parties look bad. Don’t ask me how I know (long story), but ask yourselves: who is looking bad right now and why? Who is behind the narrative?

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2 years

Orangutan in my wood right now!

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2 years

We have just 12.5 acres (5 hectares) of plantation, but I’ve seen three species of monkey, many squirrels and signs of wild boar, bear, tiger, porcupine. No doubt there are many other species, many critically endangered, that visit. I wouldn’t be surprised to see orangutans there

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3 years

My wife is (pretending to be) ashamed that her Western husband was rooting through rubbish bins in a third-world market, but I found dozens of pineapple tops. I've planted 36 today and have another two dozen or so to plant tomorrow.

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@silumanmawas

1 year

Betty is doing much better now. Still very much subdued and feeling sorry for herself, but she no longer seems at death’s door.

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1 year

Betty is suddenly very ill. We suspect someone has poisoned her. She’s puked up a lot of liquid and isn’t shaking so much now. Hopefully she’ll pull through.

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3 years

A group of about 20 kids tried to take a short-cut through our garden. I advised them they'd taken a wrong turn. They didn't listen and pressed on. Enter Betty at 30mph. Kids scattered to the wind. Funniest thing I've seen in ages. Thank you Betty.

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3 years

Two pints of wild, local honey.

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@silumanmawas

2 years

Looks like Yellow has taken a blow to the head. The wife thinks someone has walloped him with a machete or piece of wood. I suspect it’s more likely to be self-inflicted: he’s very fast, very strong and very clumsy. Good chance he ran into something at 40 miles per hour.

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1 year

The wife asked a neighbour for some kaffir lime seedlings. “I had to sit with her and gossip for two hours solid and she only gave me one seedling!”

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3 years

RIP the Colonel. Today we culled our cockerel. He'll be food for our dog for a few days. Most of our hens are his daughters and granddaughters so it's time for new genes. He was a superb cockerel, the best, but all good things must come to an end.

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1 year

Very hard to take a photo of a hungry friendly otter.

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3 years

This is the letter of the enemy in the night, the enemy in the day, I say. For my wages have not been paid by the master, says I, the enemy in the night. I will burn the tobacco, chop it small, cut it down, burn the sheds, kill people. 1/2

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@silumanmawas

3 years

This evening’s sunset.

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@silumanmawas

2 months

The nephew is heading to Cambodia to work for an internet gambling operation. Cambodians believe some people are naturally lucky and they’ve set up operations to capitalise on that luck via online gambling farms. Winners survive, losers don’t. I fear I may never see him again. 1/

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@silumanmawas

2 months

The nephew who fled abroad to seek his fortune hadn’t reported any durian sales for a while. I went to look for durians this morning and found $10 worth. Hmm, I wonder how much he’s been underreporting?

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3 years

@SpiritofPines My cousin has a job like that. She takes more holidays than anyone else I know. Her husband is an "expert" on climate change. He spends his life flying from conference to conference.

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2 years

Not everyone here lives in harmony with nature.

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@silumanmawas

3 years

Betty and I spent the past week hosting a 17.6k twitter account. Absolute highlight was getting a mild rebuke from @FlowerdewBob for not explaining in every tweet that I'm tweeting from western Indonesia, not deepest, darkest Dorset.

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@silumanmawas

3 years

Should be enough for my first attempt at drying cloves. There are plenty left in the tree but they’re difficult to get to as the tree is on a cliff and not easy (or safe) to climb.

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@silumanmawas

3 years

Dammar gum, or gum damar, is a resin obtained from various tree species in India and southeast Asia. In Sumatra the timber from these trees is highly prized for construction. The resin can be dissolved in turpentine to make varnish and is also used to make incense.

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@silumanmawas

2 years

There are many important palms (Arecales). Historically, the most important was coconut (Cocos nucifera). Known in Malay as pokok seribu guna - tree of a thousand uses. Some of the more obvious uses are listed in the picture below, but that list is far from complete. 1/n

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@silumanmawas

2 years

I’ve been meaning to do a series of threads about commelinids, a clade of flowering plants within the monocots, distinguished by having cell walls containing ferulic acid. Commelinids collectively are by far the most economically important plants in SE Asia.

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Watching my elderly parents losing their marbles is very disconcerting. I’m used to my dad being a bit vague, but also highly specific, but as they progess through their 80s their mental deterioration worries me. Random picture of Yellow for likes.

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@silumanmawas

7 months

Durian is quite closely related to cacao - in the Malvaceae (mallow) family of plants.

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@silumanmawas

2 years

A few days ago I put my back out and was in constant pain. Yesterday morning I visited a traditional healer who identified the problem from my posture and manipulated the misaligned muscle back into place in under three minutes. Was a bit sore for a day but my back is now fixed.

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3 years

Oh no, one of our ducklings is hammered. The papaya we threw out a couple of days ago must have fermented. I gave it a generous helping of rice and it's much better now.

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3 years

Does durian grow in Australia? How would you know if you are picking up fallen fruit or hoisting an echidna by its nose?

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1 year

Local kids ruining our property to try to find the billions of dollars of treasure I must have stashed somewhere because I was born on a different continent and therefore shit gold bricks. If they’re lucky they might find a king cobra nest - that’s what I consider treasure!

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@silumanmawas

2 years

Lame duck is still lame but its foster mum won’t let it fall behind. If it needs a rest she will often sit with it until it’s ready to continue. Very impressed by this hen’s character. We had planned to eat her soon, but she’s now earned a permanent spot in our flock.

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@silumanmawas

3 months

Neighbour who stole our four ducks has handed two of them back after one died. They denied any knowledge of the fourth and claimed our ducks didn’t lay a single egg in the months they’ve held them captive. They’ve been selling duck eggs on facebook. They now have their own flock.

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@silumanmawas

1 year

In hospital for the delivery of Boy #2 . Of course it’s full of stray cats and cigarette ends, and smells of wee. Our home for the next few days.

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@silumanmawas

9 months

We’ve got coconuts covered. Rice too. Eggs more or less covered. A bit of chicken or duck meat here and there. Eels and snakeheads when I can be bothered to catch them. Taro, cassava, candlenut. Malayo-Polynesian boxes all ticked. Life’s good.

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3 years

Despite trekking to the darkest depths and remotest peaks of Sumatra's vast jungles I have yet to meet an orang bunian.

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@silumanmawas

3 years

We live 100 miles from the sea. From whom did Betty steal this tuna?

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10 months

The wife’s culinary experiments can be a bit hit and miss, but this is definitely a hit. Tapai singkong - fermented cassava roots. Two days of fermentation have turned the solid, starchy roots into a light, fluffy, slightly fizzy, sweet dessert. Mildly alcoholic too.

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@silumanmawas

2 years

Rummaging through the undergrowth to gather seeds can be perilous.

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@silumanmawas

2 years

@MichaelDiVelbi1 @bvbfranz @stone_toss We try to do what we can. This handsome visitor to our other mixed plantation/wildlife buffer zone makes it all worthwhile.

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@silumanmawas

3 years

I found this coffee tree in our wood! It's covered in flower buds and even has some ripe cherries.

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@silumanmawas

1 year

Thinking about Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia. I was a frequent visitor in the 1990s and found a fantastic cafe that served the best roti canai, masala dosa and banana-leaf rice. I went back in 2012-16 and recognised all the staff from 20 years earlier. They all still worked there.

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@silumanmawas

3 years

@ZolbarSakusun Not exactly a pet, but this wild Asian water monitor lives in our garden and is completely unfazed by our presence. It doesn't even bother to hide from our dog anymore.

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2 years

It seems appropriate to start a thread on cryptids with a personal anecdote, as almost everything presented as evidence for the existence of cryptids can be classified as anecdotal, unconfirmed sightings. My story dates back to July 2010 in Sarawak, Eastern Malaysia. 1/n

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2 years

One of these days I’m going to write a long thread on cryptids. Many of you will not like what I write.

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Huge leap for hitherto non-verbal, highly neurodivergent Boy #1 . Looking through the pages of a book his granny gave him he started naming the animals - parrot, butterfly, elephef, f[r]og, monkey. He didn’t always get them right first time - eg, buffer file - but it’s encouraging

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@silumanmawas

3 years

Today is the boy's first birthday so we've ordered 20 portions of fried chicken to distribute among his relatives, 1-3 portions per household.

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@silumanmawas

3 years

In August 1996 a lightning strike caused a fire that destroyed several acres of forest near the summit of Mt Angkasan. Within weeks the area was green with orchids and mosses. Some of the trees survived - the living branches of the tree in photo 1 represent 19 years of growth.

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@silumanmawas

3 years

Remember when, in 2002, a plane carrying the children of Bashkiria's leading politicians collided with a DHL plane over Überlingen near the Swiss-Germn border, and in reposnse Bashkiria assassinated some Swiss air traffic control guy?

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1 year

I once found a snake skin on my doorstep in London. Couldn’t recognise the species so I took it to the Natural History Museum and showed it to their snake experts. Three PhDs had no idea. Took it to a petshop on the way home. “California kingsnake, mate. No doubt about it.”

paul bindweed 🌳🌞☉

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1 year

We found a dead snake at work. Can anyone identity what sort it was? About 1.75m long, about 15cm thick in the middle, small head, some blue colouring to some of its scales. Smelled of fish, but that probably due to it decomposing.

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Prime suspect just walked by our house. Yellow growled. I gave him a dirty look and his response more or less confirmed my suspicions. The way he holds (and uses) his machete, plus the size of the handle, is consistent with Yellow’s injury. 99.99% certain it was him. No, 100%

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Once could be an accident, but twice is deliberate. We think we know who did it.

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