unsolved murder mysteries on youtube be like “the police trampled all over the crime scene, making sure to move all the bodies and throw away the knife that was used as the murder weapon. when they questioned the only suspect, mr aym de killer, he recalled every single detail of the crime and said his favorite knife went missing. he fled the country the next day and wrote a letter to his wife saying ‘i definitely did it’. the police decided that this was irrelevant. no arrests were ever made, and this mystery will forever remain unsolved for the rest of time.’
you say “weeds” I say “widespread non-native edible plant and early-blooming pollinator resource that is not considered invasive because it behaves politely and does not cause deleterious ecological consequences”
I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, “WAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!” before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. I’m sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadn’t previously considered.
Sort of relatedly I once had professor who was deaf, but she had learned to read lips and speak so she could communicate easily with hearing people who didn’t know sign language. One day she had gotten off topic and was talking a little about her personal life, so that one of the students said “Oh, I know, I grew up in Brooklyn too.”
She stared at him for a long time and then said “How do you know I’m from Brooklyn?”
And he said “You have a Brooklyn accent.”
She said “I do?” and the whole class nodded, and then she burst out laughing and said “I had no idea! The school where I learned to speak was in Brooklyn. I learned by moving my mouth and tongue the way my teachers did. So I guess it makes sense that I have their accent, I just never thought about it.”
My moms a sign language interpreter, and she’s signed with people from all over the US. According to her, when she signs with people from the south they sign with a “drawl.” They have slower hand movements and exaggerate certain parts of the sign. People from the Midwest sign very fast and people from the south sign very slow.
So we were at a restaurant once and my mom started interpreting for someone who was trying to order and she was like “oh you’re from the south!”
And they were like “how did you know that?”
And she said “you sign with a drawl.” And they were really surprised that it came through that much.
It’s really interesting that even when not speaking verbally accents and heritage come through.
is the Devil’s Tramping Ground like. a widely known thing outside of North Carolina? b/c it’s funny as fuck, it’s this circle of dirt that supposedly nothing will grow in and it’s b/c the devil stomps around there or whatever. allegedly ppl have tried camping there and woke up miles away
it’s literally just a patch of dirt that ppl are scared of. that being said, i would not go there if asked b/c while i am not superstitious, i am a little stitious
*Tamp Tamp*
The Devil: ah I see you’ve noticed me tamping down the soft earth
In South America there is a thing called a Devil’s Garden - a place where only one kind of plant grows and that’s it. We were stumped for a long time, because it wasn’t just one species of plant, there were devil gardens of several different species. Monocultures not caused by humans are eerie, and the indigenous people of the Amazon were just as freaked out by it as the colonists later on.
As it turns out, it’s the work of the lemon ant, Myrmelachista schumanni. They purposely cultivate these monocultures of plants as they are ideal for the ants to eat and make nests in. They do this by gnawing a hole in any other plant they come across and then injecting formic acid into it to kill it.
Some Devil’s Gardens are 800 years old and can contain 600 trees, and house 3 million ants with 15,000 queens. And they slowly expand over time.
Anyways, have you tried checking for ants?
Would be nuts if the people waking up miles away were just carried away by thousands of ants lol
