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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

Trees going through puberty be like:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Absolutely nuts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

"Preparing a woodpecker for winter" 😂😂😂

[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 hours ago

For fucks sake, put a fucking NSFW tag on this shit. I hated it, but for other people it could even be worse.

Your post is bad, and you should feel bad.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Shower heads must be a nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago

Well i certainly know i do now.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would love to have a wood pecker as a pet, but the last thing I need in my financial situation is another bill.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago

This is why I got chickens instead of ducks.

[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Like most phobias I think most people experience discomfort with this imagery but to really have a phobia it needs to be an unreasonable level of anxiety I think.

IDK why we have a hard wired aversion to these. It might be a vestigial response to some kind of predator or danger which is no longer relevant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

I think it signals severe ailment, like blisters, pox diseases, etc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It looks like spider eggs and eyes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Were you to wake up one day with something like this in the skin of your leg (it can happen), I think you would realize why it can become a phobia 🤣 Also, I hope that never happens!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think that it disgusts me and makes me extremely uncomfortable. I would avoid it at all costs and I would probably freak out if I wound up unknowingly close to it. It is a weird type of fear. I can't explain why but my body will insist I stay far the hell away.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These kinds of pictures remind me of some type of weird infection

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Gives me feeling of burning the sickness out!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Oh, you talking about bot flies?

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago

i guess woodpeckers don't get trypophobia

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Shouldn't this be: A Woodpecker Preparing for Winter? The order of words a in sentence, difference makes.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, sounds like a title to a recipe 😆

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I stuff my woodpecker's holes full of acorns before I gobble it up. Doesn't everyone?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Perhaps it's translated from another language. The whole thing seems a little stilted, so maybe.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

CMV: Trypophobia should be tagged as NSFW.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

It's not a phobia, it's just gross. Everybody thinks it looks gross.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Genuine questions for the purpose of discussion: should photos of spiders also be marked as NSFW for arachnophobia? What other phobias should and shouldn't be considered in this?

I do not have any genuine phobias, so I concede that I'm speaking out of my limited knowledge coming only from years of solo and group therapy for other issues, but NSFW tags are intended to block images that you wouldn't want your boss (or mom, or general public) to see you looking at due to them being sexual or otherwise inappropriate. There are a lot of things that are going to trigger phobias and other very difficult feelings for a lot of people, but I don't think it's feasible to ask that everyone accommodate all possibilities when posting images or sharing stories. I think it's a positive thing to tag content warnings in bodies of text, for example, and at the same time I think that a person that can have an extreme reaction to what is otherwise an innocuous image due to a personal issue needs to take responsibility for it.

I hope this doesn't come across as minimizing the very real struggles that people with phobias have to deal with on a daily basis, and as a whole I support making public spaces more accessible.

ETA: my understanding of a phobia is having an irrational fear so severe that it causes very real and disruptive anxiety and panic upon being exposed to the phobia. If seeing an image like this causes you discomfort or unease, but doesn't really affect you severely or impact your life negatively, is that really a phobia?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I think trypophobia is a "meme" phobia on the internet.

Like how everyone says "oh that's my OCD". It's not really OCD (and it's somewhat demeaning to people that do really have OCD), they're just picky/finicky/particular.

Same with trypophobia. It may be a crippling phobia to a small amount of people, but it's unsettling at most to a lot of people. Like that. Lots of people don't have a serious phobia around a bunch of holes (some people do, I'm not saying it's not real)...it just makes them feel really uncomfortable in a weird and almost indescribable way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Fun fact: Caulrophobia (fear of clowns) is way more common than arachnophobia (according to a quick glance at wikipedia), if we ignore how serious a reaction usually is in deciding what to cw, we better be ready to hide all Balatro screenshots.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I definitely think content warnings (not specifically "NSFW") are ideal for this. Sure, the line between what should and shouldn't be content-warned is blurry, and you don't need to go through every highly-specific issue someone might have with your post, but things like tripophobia (or arachnophobia) are pretty widely known so it makes sense to warn about it imo. Especially for image posts since you can't really just "not look at it" if it pops up in your feed.

And whether or not the warning is precisely about a "phobia" isn't relevant imo. It's just a nice thing to do, as it avoids causing others to feel suddenly itchy and uncomfortable for several minutes.

So no, I wouldn't tag spider images as NSFW, but I'd definitely add a "CW: spider" if Lemmy supported it 🙂

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

We have AI which is good at image recognition. Just use this little schmuck to add tags to posts and allow users to filter tags. Would also helo with Trump/Elon filtering etc.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Acorn: this hole is meant for me!

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is amazing. I have a question though: How come only the author woodpecker can remove the acorns but not other woodpeckers? What kind of ID tech are these guys using?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

They jam the acorn in hard enough that you have to break the acorn to get it out. If they put it in too small a hole, though, it breaks and rots. Too big a hole and they get taken.

EDIT: clearly didn't read closely enough. PBS says that woodpecker families run security on their stashes. So they basically just attack anybody who tries stealing. So I guess the ID tech is 'eyes'.

[–] embed_me 18 points 1 day ago

'patrols and batons' classic

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not only did you just repeat the information already given in the original post, but you didn’t even address the guys question you’re responding to.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Woops, you right. Didn't read carefully enough. I'll add the answer in an edit.

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[–] riskable 55 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Since they don't have fingerprints they ID the pecker.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

This hole is mine!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago
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