This is worth delurking for.

A ficus-lover on the forums for iNaturalist (where people crowdsource identifications of nature pics) is clearly brain-poisoned by LW or their ilk, and perforce doesn’t understand why the bug-loving iNat crew don’t agree that

inaturalist should be a market, so that our preferences, as revealed through our donations, directly influence the supply of observations and ids.

Personally, I have spent enough time on iNat that I can identify a Rat when I see one.

I can’t capture the glory of this in a few pull quotations; you’ll have to go there to see the batshit.

(h/t hawkpartys @ tumblr)

  • @Mr_Blott@feddit.uk
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    -122 days ago

    I just stumbled on this post on my “all” feed. I don’t know which is more confusing and deranged, your post or the mentally ill person with the broken shift key you linked to

    What the fuck are you talking about and why are you bothered about it?

    • @Soyweiser
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      172 days ago

      I just stumbled on this post on my “all” feed.

      You are the problem here.

    • Mii
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      142 days ago

      You lost, buddy? Points at the sidebar.

    • @selfMA
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      122 days ago

      fuck along now

      • @selfMA
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        192 days ago

        also, could you imagine being this fucking embarrassing? “a post I didn’t immediately understand appeared on my screen so instead of looking any of the words up I decided to be a gigantic fucking asshole instead” did you expect applause for coming in here and shitting on the carpet?

        • @froztbyte
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          I swear all those fuckers are like “I was 4 rooms over but just heard the word ‘paprika’ being screamed from someone over this way. time for you to hear all about my bowel issues, in detail! you wouldn’t believe what happens if I smell onions”, but at a conference as a lightning talk to the main hall

        • @sc_griffith
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          I really don’t get it. they see something they don’t understand and immediately start writhing on their keyboards in rage. “what the FUCK is THIS”

        • @Soyweiser
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          72 days ago

          This is what happen to that woman who got her phd, got phd, shitheads didnt get the technical terms on the title of her paper, didnt understand it what it was about so they threw it into the rightwing sexism culture war machine. So she got a lot of harassment (at least this also broke harassment containment so later she also got a lot of positive reactions). All feeds/weak bubble social media is a mistake.

    • @istewart
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      61 day ago

      Mr. Blott is what Mr. Bean became when all his old movies started paying streaming royalties

      • @froztbyte
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        31 day ago

        I actually had to doublecheck context on this but rofldamn this is savage

        brava

  • flavia
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    58 hours ago

    an expert by the name of D [name withheld for privacy]

    One paragraph later…

    and send it to hodel

    One google later…

    Donald Hodel, environmental horticulture advisor

    facepalm

  • @Amoeba_Girl
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    Hi Deborah what’s up wait so what the fuck, am I getting this right: this person found a new ficus, potentially, and is in contact with a ficus expert who’ll get back to them in a few weeks. The person can’t accept this insignificant delay because??? (is there a lot of pressing demand for advances in ficus taxonomy?) so they write this bizarre screed about … about huh … how the invisible hand of the market should drive ficus research? You know, like bees, or Batman? For some reason? Because having to wait a few weeks is the same as being left to drown?

    Someone’s on a lot of adderall.